From: Willard McCarty Subject: mind no mind Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:50:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 1 (1) The latest TLS, for 16 May 1998, is a particularly interesting issue from our perspective. The theme is psychology. The cover is graced, if that's the word, with a digital image from the Internet, apparently of Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult who went to the space-ship traveling behind Hale-Bopp. The items of particular interest for us, other than the origins of the digital image, are reviews by (1) Jerry Fodor, of Jeffrey L. Elman, et al., Rethinking Innateness, (2) Daniel C. Dennett, of Andy Clark, Being There: Putting brain, body, and the world together again, (3) Mark S. Micale, of Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical epidemics and modern culture. Other things as well, but those three are the main ones. Fodor, in his typical style, demolishes the dodges of Rethinking Innateness in particular and the purely empirical approach to knowledge in general. "Whether mental content can be reduced to experiential content is what the present argument in cognitive science is really about." He finds the empiricist programme hidden in the connectionist approach, and in that programme nothing but failure. What I find interesting is driving in the other direction -- beginning with the empirical data, then trying to get to what one knows about e.g. poetry, asking how, and spotting the interesting failures of empirical analysis. Dennett gives high marks to Andy Clark's book, "a unified, judicious vision of the progress that has actually been made [in cognitive science], a survey of the state of play today that [captures] what is powerful and promising in these new ideas without succumbing to the hype." Required reading, it seems. Showalter's book has already been mentioned here in the context of how electronic communication has aided the spread of hysterical diseases, from scares about computer viruses to maladies of the mind and flesh. This book should outrage many people because it presumes to question the scientific nature of how medical science conducts itself, pointing out how a sense of personal frustration can translate into recognition of a new disease, thence to a new medical subspeciality with all the trappings. "These are acutely communicable diseases. As a result, vulnerable and impressionable viewers exposed to the illness model engage in a kind of psychogenic self-fashioning. The mental-health establishment, responding to what it sees as a new psychopathology (and an emerging patient population), adds the diagnosis to its list of official diagnoses.... The Internet instantaneously disseminates information across the world. (The World Wide Web lists dozens of on-line publications and organizations for survivors of psychological traumata.)...." It should be noted that Showalter does not deny that people genuinely suffer, rather she turns a strong light on how they get sick. The Internet plays a role! 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: Christian HENRIOT Subject: Re: 11.0043 Sexuality and Culture Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:44:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 2 (2) Merci. C'est en effet dans mes cordes! Et j'ai un papier qui est pret. Ton message tombe à pic. Bien cordialement Christian --------------------------------------------------------- Christian HENRIOT Directeur Institut d'Asie Orientale Maison Rhone-Alpes des Sciences de l'Homme 14, Avenue Berthelot 69363 LYON cedex 07 --------------------------------------------------------- Tel : 72 72 65 40 Fax : 72 72 64 90 e-mail : Christian.Henriot@mrash.fr --------------------------------------------------------- Plus d'informations sur l'I.A.O. sur : http://web.mrash.fr More on the Institut d'Asie orientale at : http://web.mrash.fr --------------------------------------------------------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: possible hiatus Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:52:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 3 (3) Dear Colleagues: I am about to depart for N. America, eventually to attend the ACH/ALLC in Kingston, as a result of which there may be some delays in the publication of Humanist. I'll be connected in one way or another in my ports of call, but the connections will be at the convenience of friends and family, not at my own. Apologies for any inconvenience. 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 Crompton-Roberts Subject: British Library catalogue on the web Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 11:32:07 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 4 (4) I received this announcement which, I imagine, would be of interest to many subscribers to _Humanist_. Francois C-R ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- The British Library's on-line catalogue is now, as of today, available on the WWW at http://opac97.bl.uk/ You can search for books and periodicals in a variety of ways. There's also plenty of information about the collections. You can order photocopies of periodical articles on line, but you will have to pay. Portico (http://portico.bl.uk/), the BL's information server, gives lots of information about the BL, its collections, services etc. Gabriel (http://portico.bl.uk/gabriel/en/welcome.html) gives access to Europe's national libraries. Liz Mailer, Arts Librarian, Library, Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London), Mile End Road, London E1 4NS Tel: 0171-775-3327 From: "Michael P. Orth (Michael Orth)" Subject: Re: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:20:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 5 (5) You done good. Keep it going. The Kraken===============end of file=================/;->? [Many thanks to those who just thought this. I noted that along with Orth's kind message today were half a dozen successful resignations from Humanist -- a flurry for this sort of thing.... :-( In any case, my hat's off to the many who have helped, prodded, inspired, complained, nagged, and humoured us along. --WM] From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Re:The Virtual Macbeth Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 14:16:09 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 6 (6) ++++++++++++++++++ The Virtual Macbeth ++++++++++++++++++ If this activity is of interest to you or your colleagues, please visit http://www.wordcruncher.com for additional information: WordCruncher Publishing Technologies and Mike LoMonico, a nationally renowned expert in using electronic tools to teach Shakespeare, are teaming up to provide students from throughout the United States with a unique opportunity. By using an electronic version of Macbeth in combination with WordCruncher, our proprietary text retrieval and analysis program, we help students craft discovery strategies of their own design, and enable them to explore Shakespeare's language in ways that are simply impossible without the computer. The techniques we use were pioneered and tested at The Folger Shakespeare Library, and we are confident that both teachers and students will find this approach to be an enjoyable, thought provoking activity that lends a new dimension to education and learning. The course takes place between May 12th and May 26th, and entails several exercises:=20 Lesson 1, Part 1 - Thou Marvel'st at My Words: Helps students understand what archaic words mean and how they are used.=20 Lesson 1, Part 2 - Thou Marvel'st at My Words (con't): Helps students understand that modern words have archaic meanings. Lesson 2 - The Like to You - Helps students understand how Shakespeare used simile. Lesson 3 - Look to the Lady ^=D6 Helps students understand how Shakespeare approached the ideas of women, wives, and motherhood in Macbeth. Lesson 4 - 'Tis Time, 'Tis Time ^=D6 Teaches students about the concept of "time" in Macbeth. If you, your class or a few of your students would like to participate in or audit the Virtual Macbeth, please send us an e-mail message to johnston@wordcruncher.com and we will forward=20 instructions on how to prepare, what kind of computer you will need, and so on.=20 Details on the first assignment will be posted on Monday, May 12th at 7:00 am, eastern standard time (US). We will have a chat forum up all the time, so that students from across the country (and even the world) will be able to participate. We will be posting additional information as this week (May 5-9) proceeds, so please check back often.=20 There is no charge for participation in this course. James W. Johnston WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. johnston@wordcruncher.com http://www.wordcruncher.com P.S. Please cross post as deemed appropriate. From: James O'Donnell Subject: Arachnet? Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 08:01:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 7 (7) Happy birthday, Humanist. I address here the old timers among you, from the days when there were giants on the earth, Kessler and Paramskas and Brown and Flanagan, to say nothing of Sire Willard the Prime Mover. One of Humanist's spinoffs somewhere around 1990 was ARACHNET, a separate list for discussion of scholarly publishing, a sort of meta-list for talking *about* things like Humanist but e-journals as well. I'm on a small self-assigned mission to track down that list and its archives, if they exist, to recover a sense of what people thought possible and desirable back at the dawn of recorded history, this at a moment when a list I co-moderate, NewJour, reports over 3700 existing e-journals and we know that we are scrambling just to keep from falling further behind in reporting them. An Alta Vista search on Arachnet shows mainly that Willard was once again prescient, and that the *word* "arachnet" is a coinage that has been made repeatedly and for many and diverse purposes lately, but I do not find that it leads to anything from the old list. Willard reminds me that Diane Kovacs took it up when he had to let it go, but she seems no longer associated with Kent State, and there are too many homonyms in Yahoo People Search. Humanists, aux secours! Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Judy Subject: Teaching the MLA International Bibliography Date: Mon, 07 Apr 97 13:25:13 PDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 8 (8) Last Opportunity to Respond to the Survey on Teaching the MLA ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- 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: James O'Donnell Subject: the oldest University WWW site ever Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 23:00:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 9 (9) Recommended reading: http://www.upenn.edu/AR/1830/index.html Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 21:26:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 10 (10) Extracted from the Guardian Online this week (see <http://online.guardian.co.uk/> for many of these items): (1) Adrian Mars, "Keys to the plague", on viruses, their makers, etc. Having myself passed on news of bogus viruses, I was particularly caught by the brief discussion of these. "Alan Solomon, founder of the anti-virus company bearing his name, notes that a 'considerable amount of harm is in fact caused by over-reacting to both real viruses and false alarms. An Australian bank, for example, using now unavailable anti-virus software, reacted to a virus warning that later turned out to be a false alarm. They shut down their entire foreign exchange dealing system for 24 hours at a cost of around 3 [million pounds]." To what degree, I wonder, does this happen with supposed biological diseases and health threats generally? Improved communications systems, as we have noted here before, make raising a scare (for ill as well as for good) increasingly easier. In the end do we really want faster and easier communications systems? Do we have a choice? (2) Tim Radford, "The coil can't help it", on an artifical giant Anaconda, 40 feet long, constructed for the forthcoming horror movie, Anaconda. The creature has 140 vertebrate joints hydraulically controlled within the body, with a computer system that is essentially a processor for each joint to control the movements. Students of automata will take notice. Is anyone watching the match between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue? Is there a web site for the match? (3) The Albert Einstein Archives, bequeathed to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which has begun to construct a site to display them, at <http://www2.huji.ac.il/~jnul/einstein/>. (4) Converse, a program written by the London software house Intelligent Research, just won the Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence for out-talking, in a Turing Test, contenders from the US, Canada, and Australia! See George McMurdo, "Stone age babies in cyberspace", <http://www.qmced.ac.uk/cis/staff/cimmu/jisew/ewv22n1/default.htm>, on "Emulating a Turing Machine". 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: unfair use: copyright and spamming Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 19:44:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 11 (11) Willard, Geoffrey Rockwell quotes from Cyberpromo's page and suggestes we might rethink how we sign WWW pages [deleted quotation] Now I ask the legal beagles among us would not copying (witout permission) someone's e-mail address from a site constitute an infringement of copyright? Seems like something the Electronic Frontier Foundation might want to mull over in the safeguarding of citizen privacy. But then by analogy with the telephone directory, the question might arise as to whether an e-mail address belongs to the user or the servicer provider. Whatever the case, the conjunction of public display and private profit use of e-mail addresses is most likely subject to the same provisions that protect telephone subscribers from certain types of automated telemarketing (all this depending upon where one lives on the planet). It will be interesting to see how the case law and he ethical (self) regulation of the industry develops on a global scale. I wonder how far the trick of posting a fee schedule for any would-be harvesters collecting an address from one's WWW site could be pushed. After all magazines and newspapers sell their subscription lists for a handsome return. If the bot or agent cannot read the contract is the bot user still liable for the charges? Gives computer literacy a new meaning... Finally, the spamming issue poses, for some jurisdictions, the inverse of a freedom of assembly. In the digital world the right not to be associated with a group in database may be as fundamental as the obligation to be recorded as a subject of the state in census records and voting lists. It is a question of guaranteeing a modicum of civil society for the all moral persons be they individuals or corporate bodies. In the pursuit of privacy in public, decorum rules as it does in all true good commerce -- Francois -------- Any harvesting of this e-mail address subject to payment in Cuban currency. From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 11.0003 spamming & how to avoid it Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 09:55:52 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 12 (12) Geoffrey Rockwell wrote a well researched note about fighting spamming. I would just like to add some ideas. If you look at the full headers in a spam message, you can at least find which was the last host that sent this to your own mail host. So one can send a message to their postmaster informing him or her that they are helping a spammer. There are also some spammers that have *real* URLs to their sites as part of the message. Do a traceroute on those URLs and send a message to the postmasters closest to it. As for filtering, I have set Eudora up so that if "cyberpromo" is mentioned in any part of the header, the message is automatically rdirected to "abuse@cyberpromo.com". espen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Espen S. Ore Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no University of Bergen Tel: +47 55 58 28 65 alt. tel: +47 91390748 Fax: +47 55 58 94 70 From: mathew Subject: Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 10:25:55 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 13 (13) At 19:42 -0400 on 1997-05-07 Larry Taylor wrote: [deleted quotation] Many spammers put in this information as a means of obtaining confirmation that e-mail addresses are active. Others put in bogus "remove" information to try and mollify people who would otherwise complain. In particular, I tried this approach with one spammer, submitting all my e-mail addresses for removal, and simply got four times as much spam. The only thing that actually works is complaining to the ISP providing the spammer with service. I set up an auto-forwarder to bounce every piece of spam from the aforementioned individual, and I got an apology and he removed me a week later. In general, having each spammer run a separate "remove" offer is useless as a means of avoiding spam, as new sources pop up every day. CyberPromo recently managed to sign an account with WorldNet, by duping a salesman in their office in NY. When UUnet found out about it, they tore up the contract and said that they would not have any dealings with CyberPromo, now or in the future. mathew -- "It's fixed in R4." From: Bill Schultz Subject: Re: spamming & how to avoid it Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 23:57:28 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 14 (14) [snip] [deleted quotation] Direct_Marketing/Direct_Email/Cyber_Promotions/Consumer_Opinion/. This morning's Los Angeles Times carried two articles about Cyber Promo. [LAT -- I found them at <http://www.latimes.com/. I had to use their site search to find them.] 1. Earthlink Networks, Inc. received an injunction against Cyber Promo using its servers to distribute junk e-mail to ANYONE. Apparently Cyber Promo was spamming through the SMTP server at Earthlink. 2. Cyber Promo settled a similar suit brought by Compuserve. Cyber Promo agreed not to send any more junk e-mail to Compuserve and to purchase advertising through the "normal" Compuserve offerings if it wanted to offset its judgment of $65,000 payable to Compuserve. Hopefully the larger ISPs will continue to prosecute jerks like Cyber Promo. My hat is off to both Compuserve and Earthlink for making it expensive for those jerks to keep it up..... -- Bill Schultz JOIN THE AGNOSTIC CHURCH: | agnostic@crl.com pope@agnostic.org http://www.agnostic.org/ | bill@freethought.org http://www.freethought.org/org/singles/ | Internet Infidel: http://www.infidels.org/ ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- From: "F. Heberlein" Subject: Re: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 00:05:00 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 15 (15) Vielleicht erlaubt dieses Datum einmal, von der Benutzung der lingua franca von HUMANIST abzusehen - denn Empfindungen, ob unfreundliche oder, wie hier freundliche und dankbare, lassen sich im eigenen exotischen Dialekt allemal besser ausdruecken: Als ich im Spaetherbst 1987 zufaellig von der Existenz von Humanist erfuhr und darum bat, in die Subskribentenliste aufgenommen zu werden, hatte ich keine Ahnung, was das schliesslich fuer mich bedeuten sollte. Heute muss ich feststellen, dass Humanist fuer mich das Tor zu einer neuen Welt aufgetan hat und das er?/es? meinen Horizont in unschaetzbarer Weise erweitert hat. Es sind spezialisierte Mailing-Listen nachgewachsen, viel davon von exzellenter Qualitaet wie "Linguist", aber keine von denen, die ich kenne, hat die universelle Spannweite und Tiefe von Humanist. Ich erinnere mich noch, dass vor etlichen Jahren die Frage auftauchte, ob angesichts der Tatsache, dass "Humanist has lost somehting of ist initial vividness" (so aehnlich lautete die Formulierung, die Liste nicht eingestellt werden sollte; gottlob stellte sich heraus, dass die Fragestellung falsch war: die Existenz vieler loci ist kein Ersatz fuer eine globale Theorie der inventio. Herzlichen Glueckwunsch an den Gruender und Herausgeber - und vor allem: herzlichen Dank. Fritz Heberlein From: Schumacher Johann Subject: congratulations Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 12:47:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 16 (16) Cher Colle\gue, Dear Willard, toutes mes felictations a l'occasion du dizieme anniversaire de HUMANIST. Vous avez ete et, j'espere, serez encore longtemps un moderateur remarquable. Je ne sais plus tres bien depuis quand je suis abonne a HUMANIST mais je crois me souvenir que je l'etais deja lorsque je suis venu a TORONTO en 1989 pour le ACH/ALLC meeting ou j'ai pu vous rencontrer et ou vous avez tout fait pour que je reusisse a etablir une connexion a distance sur l'ordinateur de Louvain-la-Neuve. La communaute des personnes interessees en "Humanities and computing" existait bien, deja a\ cette epoque, et elle continue d'exister aujourd'hui. Je partage entierement votre suggestion relative a la formation d'une generation suivante; bien souvent, en effet, tout un pan de recherche s'ecroule au depart ou a la mort de son promoteur. Je felicite chaleureusement le moderateur que vous etes et il me plairait beaucoup de recevoir, chez moi, le colle\gue que vous etes des votre prochain detour a Louvain-la-Neuve. Un grand Bonjour de Belgique Jean Schumacher From: Dennis Cintra Leite Subject: RE: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:36:48 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 17 (17) Keep up the good work and good cheer! dennis cintra leite py2-etn the sao paulo school of management (eaesp/fgv) dennis@eaesp.fgvsp.br From: Gloria McMillan Subject: RE: 11.0008 birthday wishes Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 14:46:45 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 18 (18) [deleted quotation] I'm still here. Keep up the good work! Gloria *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* gmcmillan@east.pima.edu http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: Diversity University MOO TELNET>128.18.101.106 8888 login as: co guest Type: @go #2673 From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 11.0001 now we are 10 Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 01:32:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 19 (19) For nostalgia sake, I checked my archive of OFFLINE columns to see when HUMANIST first appeared. Apparently I became acquainted with the new opportunity in the summer of 1987, since the following note is included in OFFLINE 15, dated September 1987: Another type of information exchange is the new HUMANIST group coordinated by Willard McCarty at Toronto for persons on electronic networks. A query or comment sent to the HUMANIST BITNET address immediately goes out to the HUMANIST participants, any of whom might choose to respond directly to the originator, or more generally to the network. It is all without specific charge to the user, as a service of the Toronto Humanities Computing Centre, for those fortunate enough to be on BITNET or a compatible network. Contact MCCARTY@UTOREPAS. This is a valuable complement to the monthly BITNET ONLINE NOTES edited by John Abercrombie, director of CCAT. The same issue announces the plans for the Humanities Computing Yearbook, among other things. Memories, memories. Congratulations to HUMANIST for its decade of service and transformation, and to Willard for his longsuffering vision. "All without specific charge to the user." Thanks! Bob Kraft, UPenn From: Gregory Crane Subject: Renaissance source materials Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 19:45:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 20 (20) A New Library of Renaissance Source Materials Preliminary Notice: May 9, 1997 Send comments to: shake@perseus.tufts.edu PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REPOST WHERE APPROPRIATE For an HTML version of this announcement and the preliminary list of source materials, see: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/sources.html The Perseus Project has spent the last ten years developing a digital library of ancient materials. In the past year, we have begun to work on Latin and English texts as well. We are currently in the process of putting all of the work of Marlowe onto the WWW. Given our familiarity with Latin and nonstandardized English spelling, we are looking to work more generally on English Renaissance source materials. We are planning to create a large WWW database of sources that will include Holinshed, North's Plutarch and other texts, such as those that appear in Geoffrey Bullough's eight volume collection of Shakespeare's sources. This database will include classical and Renaissance contemporary sources, as well as Renaissance resources, such as critical books or essays (i.e. George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie). A number of key sources for this period have been entered. Our goal will be to extend what has been done and to begin systematic entry of a wide range of texts. Please help us to develop the following wish-list of texts. We have broken down the list into subsets, but feel free to offer suggestions that do not appear to fit under any one of our headings. We would not, for instance, be limited to Shakespeare's sources alone. What textual resources would you like to see made available on-line that we have not included here? If the source is particularly obscure, let us know in a word why it is significant. Please write us with your suggestions [shake@perseus.tufts.edu]. The list itself is available at: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/sources.html From: John Bradley Subject: Designing a scanning service Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 11:37:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 21 (21) I have been asked to develop a technical specification for a scanning service which would be principally used by the Humanities community here at King's College, London. This service would supplement a walk-in-and-use scanning facility which is developing here. I am assuming that OCR would be the main focus, with perhaps some image scanning services available. Operator supported image scanning is perhaps unnecessary except when the highest quality of results are needed. For high quality results one needs a high powered computer, high quality image software, a powerful scanner, and an operator trained in issues of image quality and manipulation. For text OCR scanning I expect (particularly given the current state of the field), one has more modest goals and requrements: a mainstream PC or Mac (there seems to be a larger range of specialized OCR software products for the PC), a mainstream scanner (perhaps with a sheet feeder), software and a trained operator. I'd be very pleased to talk to those of you who currently run such a service for your views. I'd be interested in your thoughts on: (a) the nature of the materials that one actually is asked to scan. Is there much need for operator supported image scanning? For OCR what materials are currently practical? (b) the suitability of current software to deal with these materials. It seems to me that the mainstream development in OCR software these days is taking it in directions that add features that are not of much interest to humanities scholarship. New features or enhancements that would be useful (such as improvements in training strategies to allow for the scanning of a range of writing systems) are not being developed. (c) what type of hardware would most likely be appropriate. There is some tension between the needs for operator-assisted image scanning and OCR. Is my model of what machine and peripherals are needed for OCR correct? How about operator skills? My sense is that any discussion on this needn't be carried out directly on HUMANIST, but I'd propose rather that anyone with comments could send them to me directly and if there is an expressed interest on HUMANIST, I can post a summary of these back in a week or so. Best wishes. ... john bradley ---------------------- John.Bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0009 Arachnet? MLA Bibliography? Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 11:52:33 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 22 (22) yes, I had joined arachnet at the time (1991-1993), and I HAVE some archival material backed-up. If you are interested, I shall be pleased to let you have what my recording mania has saved [hope the tape does not fail...] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: James O'Donnell Subject: NewJour Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 20:19:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 23 (23) My mention on this list last night of NewJour, the list co-moderated by myself and by Ann Okerson of the Yale University Library, which reports news of new electronic journals, prompted one reader to write to me to ask for subscription instructions. They follow, along with the address of the web site on which the 3700+ currently listed items can be searched, browsed, and marveled at. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu NewJour To subscribe to NewJour (the on-line reporting service for new ventures in networked electronic journals), send e-mail to: majordomo@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Put nothing on the Subject: line and in the message space type *only*: subscribe NewJour DO NOT put your name or address in the message: majordomo prefers to extract them from the header and in case of even a small disparity will reject the message. The list is a busy one. If you prefer to reduce the number of messages, you may prefer to subscribe to the "digest" option, which sends one message (usually before dawn) with a whole day's messages gathered together under on header. To subscribe to that list, proceed as above but say: subscribe NewJour-Digest If you are already a subscriber and wish to change options, then your message should read: unsubscribe Newjour subscribe NewJour-Digest The archive (searchable by title or full text) for all past NewJour messages is available at http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour, thanks to the generosity of James Jacobs of the library of the University of California at San Diego. For list business, please write to nj@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. Editorial questions may go to newjour@ccat.sas.upenn.edu or to ann@a.cni.org (Ann Okerson, Yale University). From: Larry Taylor Subject: Deep Blue IBM site; Re: 11.0007 online Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:02:37 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 24 (24) WM asks, Is anyone [deleted quotation] Heavily promoted by sponsor IBM: <http://www.chess.ibm.com/home/html/b.html> And "blue" is as in IBM.. You can watch a replay of every move in Java. LAT From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Re: 11.0007 online Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 17:27:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 25 (25) [deleted quotation] http://www.chess.ibm.com/ and there is also coverage in the on-line edition of the New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/partners/microsites/chess/ Lorna From: Willard McCarty Subject: WELL Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 20:32:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 26 (26) In the May edition of Wired magazine is a fascinating account of the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link), in Katie Hafner, "The Epic Saga of The Well: The World's Most Influential Online Community". According to a notice on the corresponding Web page, <http://wwww.wired.com/wired/5.05/well/>, the full-text of this article will be available 20 May. Fascinating reading. The WELL was the creation (in 1985, two years before Humanist) of two visionaries, Larry Brilliant and Stuart Brand, the fons et origo of The Whole Earth Catalog and similar works. Very Californian, and specifically San Franciscan. What's most remarkable about the WELL, I suppose, is the degree of emotional and imaginative intensity and commitment it evoked. "The Well is, after all, a boiled-down, concentrated essence of what people love and hate about the Net: community and intelligent discourse on the one hand, wackos, poseurs, and flamers on the other.... [E]ven if The Well itself should disappear, its mystique will continue to exist in the minds of people searching for a reason to venture into cyberspace. Forty years from now, The Well may be remembered only dimly, or not at all. But it will have left behind a lasting imprint on our culture, as we will be left with the lush promises it whispered into our ear." It hardly reached us in Toronto, which is not all that far from the U.S., or at least it hardly reached me, and I wonder if the imprint Hafner talks about isn't rather hard to see beyond the borders of that great country. The glimpse of Eden (if I may wax biblically mythological for a moment) is certainly something we all can understand, and have seen in various ways, even on Humanist, in these early days of computer-mediated communication. I cannot help but wonder if, as in so many other things, this most important glimpse will not get increasingly harder to discern as our medium enters every more deeply into ordinary life. The trick is, I suppose, not to forget. .... Such is our hold on the future -- Eight days, eight years, or eight decades, a handful of air accumulating in the palm, grasped from the window of a moving car, is all we have, a stretch of time we cram into our hungry mouths as if it were something solid: as if enough of it could be good food... (Alastair Elliot, "Looking Out") Electronic communications are not quite yet the stuff of everyone's daily life, however, and certainly not in every household in my neighbourhood. Just today I was discussing with a colleague the rather odd sensation I have had repeatedly, here and in Toronto, after spending early mornings online, writing to friends and colleagues around the world, fiddling with the Web, and so forth, suddenly to emerge onto the streets of my city like a being from another world, among people who have no idea whatever where I've been, though virtually, and what I've been doing. Did people feel like this in the early days of the telephone? And what now do we make of the rage for the cellular phone, which in London has reached the proportions of a plague, turning us all into performers and evesdroppers. 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: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 11.0007 online Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 18:14:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 27 (27) [deleted quotation] Chack out John Katz's article on the Elaine Showalter book _Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media_ <http://www.netizen.com/netizen/97/18/katz2a.html> then chck out the book own Web page at <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/features/hystories/hystoriesfeature.html>. Part of the Web page blurb is below. It seems very much relevent to the topic at hand. Quoted material: This provocative book charts the surprising persistence of a cultural epidemic. Tales of alien abduction, chronic fatigue, Gulf War syndrome, and the resurgence of repressed memories in psychotherapy are but some indications that we live in an age of hysterias. As Elaine Showalter demonstrates, the triumphs of the therapeutic society have not been able to prevent the appearance of hysterical disorders, imaginary illnesses, rumor panics, and pseudomemories that mark the end of the millennium, and which pose a threat to those very virtues--reason, courage, skepticism--we need most. Like the witch-hunts of the 1690s or the hypnotic cures of the 1890s, the hysterical syndromes of the 1990s reflect the fears and anxieties of a culture on the edge of change. Showalter connects contemporary syndromes to earlier times and settings, showing that hysterias mutate and are re-named; under the right circumstances, everyone is susceptible. Today hysterical epidemics are not spread by viruses or vapors but by stories, narratives Showalter calls hystories that are created "in the interaction of troubled patients and sympathetic therapists ... circulated through self-help books, articles in newspapers and magazines, TV talk shows, popular films, the Internet, even literary criticism." -end quoted material. [deleted quotation] Try <http://www.chess.ibm.com/home/html/b.html> -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> ________________________________________________ From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0011 and we'll stay 10 forever and ever? Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 23:31:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 28 (28) Colgo l'occasione per unirmi alle felicitazioni: humanist essenziale per ognuno che si interessa all'informatica umanistica. anche tempo che l'interesse internazionale di humanist si concreti, come ora succede, nell'uso di una pluralit di linguaggi, a costo di perdere il significato di qualche intervento. Ad maiora! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Elisabeth.Burr@unidui.uni-duisburg.de Subject: birthday Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:30:55 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 29 (29) Happy birthday and thanks for the good work. Humanist means a lot to me. I've learnt such so much through it and I am glad to be a member of this comunity Elisabeth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de From: Willard McCarty Subject: Deep Blue and human intelligence Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 07:56:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 30 (30) This from the Deep Blue FAQ. Note in particular Kasparov's statement, "Chess gives us a chance to compare brute force with our abilities." Also the commentator's remark that "Kasparov isn't playing a computer, he's playing the ghosts of grandmasters past. That Deep Blue can organize such a storehouse of knowledge -- and apply it on the fly to the ever-changing complexities on the chessboard -- is what makes this particular heap of silicon an arrow pointing to the future." "Does Deep Blue use artificial intelligence? The short answer is "no." Earlier computer designs that tried to mimic human thinking weren't very good at it. No formula exists for intuition. So Deep Blue's designers have gone "back to the future." Deep Blue relies more on computational power and a simpler search and evaluation function. The long answer is "no." "Artificial Intelligence" is more successful in science fiction than it is here on earth, and you don't have to be Isaac Asimov to know why it's hard to design a machine to mimic a process we don't understand very well to begin with. How we think is a question without an answer. Deep Blue could never be a HAL-2000 if it tried. Nor would it occur to Deep Blue to "try." "If you go back to HAL in 1968," says Deep Blue development team member Joe Hoane, "2001 came out and a lot of people were introduced to the idea that well, you could have a relationship with a computer. HAL in the movie had a personality and, in 1968, people started to realize that computers are getting interesting, that maybe we've reached another milestone where computers are getting really interesting... solving really interesting problems that we couldn't otherwise solve." Deep Blue's strengths are the strengths of a machine. It has more chess information to work with than most computers and all but a few chess masters. It never forgets or gets distracted. And its orders of magnitude are better at processing the information at hand than anything yet devised for the purpose. "There is no psychology at work" in Deep Blue, says IBM research scientist Murray Campbell. Nor does Deep Blue "learn" its opponent as it plays. Instead, it operates much like a turbocharged "expert system," drawing on vast resources of stored information (For example, a database of opening games played by grandmasters over the last 100 years) and then calculating the most appropriate response to an opponent's move. Deep Blue is stunningly effective at solving chess problems, but it is less "intelligent" than the stupidest person. It doesn't think, it reacts. And that's where Garry Kasparov sees his advantage. Speaking of an earlier IBM chess computer, which he defeated in 1989, Kasparov said, "Chess gives us a chance to compare brute force with our abilities." Deep Blue applies brute force aplenty, but the "intelligence" is the old-fashioned kind. Think about the 100 years of grandmaster games. Kasparov isn't playing a computer, he's playing the ghosts of grandmasters past. That Deep Blue can organize such a storehouse of knowledge -- and apply it on the fly to the ever-changing complexities on the chessboard -- is what makes this particular heap of silicon an arrow pointing to the future. The worlds of science and enterprise are full of problems with so many variables they can't be solved in real time. A system like Deep Blue that can accelerate solutions by powers of 10 is going to make a difference far beyond the chessboard. (And P.S. - That so much of Deep Blue's innards are "general-purpose" industry-standard hardware is good news to any organization faced with a 7-figure problem on a 6-figure budget.) The way that the PowerPC chips inside Deep Blue work in parallel to break down and solve a chess-board problem is a pretty good analog for the way many scientists, working independently, advance our total understanding of the universe, or genetics... Or the way business people confront the complexities of, say, running an airline. Figuring THE best way to schedule 570 planes of 25 different types to 150 destinations for best passenger revenue and most efficient fueling, maintenance, crew deployment, and turnaround servicing is a towering problem. On that scale, the difference between a pretty good solution and the best solution is measured in billions. The shifting complexities of the chessboard are the airline problem in miniature. For computer scientists, chess is a laboratory benchmark. Back in computing's Jurassic age, in 1950, Claude Shannon, the chief architect of information theory, put it this way: "The chess-playing problem is sharply defined, both in the allowed operations and in the ultimate goal. It is neither so simple as to be trivial, nor too difficult for satisfactory solution." Satisfactory solutions - to problems far beyond the chessboard - are closer than ever before as a result of the research that has gone into the Deep Blue system. And who knows? As more possibilities open before us, some of those science fiction predictions may come true. But it won't be because of any artificial intelligence. It will be because systems like Deep Blue helped us make better use of the real thing. (Quoted with thanks from <http://www.chess.ibm.com/meet/html/d.3.3a.html>) Compare Herbert Simon in the online NY Times article, Bruce Weber, "A Mean Chess-Playing Computer Tears at the Meaning of Thought", <http://www.nytimes.com/partners/microsites/chess/archive8.html>. Having designed a program to emulate the human thinking of a grandmaster, "today he says he did not understand it would be brute force as opposed to selectivity that would bring a chess computer to an equal footing with men and women. But that does not diminish the accomplishment of Deep Blue, he said, which with its powerful amalgam of brute force and selectivity, is not unlike what humans do, if different in the ratio of its elements...." John Searle disagrees: '"From a purely mathematical point of view... chess is a trivial game because there's perfect information about it. For any given position there's an optimal move; it's solvable. It's not like football or war. It's a great game for us because our minds can't see the solution, but the fact that we will build machines that can do it better than we can is no more important than the fact that we can build pocket calculators that can add and subtract better than we can." Paul Saffo (Institute for the Future, Menlo Park, Calif.): "People who fear machines don't need to lose any sleep just yet.... To me, the match was interesting as a cultural event. Chess, whereas it's a difficult problem to solve for computer scientists, is just a constrained formal problem. O.K., a computer beat a grandmaster, but computers aren't any smarter than they were the day before. The question I'd ask, now that this Rubicon has been passed, is What's the new arbitrary measure? Maybe it's a computer that plays go... or a computer that can fill in an I.R.S. form without getting an audit." All this would seem to me to imply that in applied computing our efforts are best directed at the development of digital resources (such as the massive database of chess moves) rather than clever algorithms, i.e. that the best situation is one in which trivial operations are repetitively applied to sophisticated data. This in turn suggests that the future is in good markup. 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: Ian Lancashire Subject: do we edit for computers to read? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 13:28:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 31 (31) Recently at a meeting of an editorial advisory committee, an earnest colleague stated that we must edit etexts so that a computer can read them. I think we should edit etexts so that people can read them. E.g., (what may have risen rise to the remark), if a poet numbers stanzas with roman numerials, are editors of etexts obliged to convert them to arabic form? or should the writers of software be obliged to make software that can read roman numerals, as people can? Pre-computing editors "tagged" texts in many ways--by assigning line numbers, variant readings, commentary, titles, etc. Should we not ask for browsing software that recognizes human tagging conventions, rather than require humans to recast such "tags" in a "computer-readable" form? Ian Lancashire University of Toronto E-mail: ian@chass.utoronto.ca URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/index.html From: "by way of Willard McCarty " Subject: Deadline for Applications to NEH (Preservation and Access) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 18:10:16 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 32 (32) The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a grant-making agency of the U.S. federal government that support projects in the humanities. Eligible applicants are: U.S. nonprofit associations, institutions, and organizations, as well as U.S. citizens and foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the United States for a period of at least the three years immediately preceding the submission of the application. NEH's Division of Preservation and Access supports projects that will create, preserve and increase the availability of resources important for research, education, and public programming in the humanities. Support may be sought to preserve the intellectual content and aid bibliographic control of collections; to compile bibliographies, descriptive catalogs, and guides to cultural holdings; to create dictionaries, encyclopedias, databases, and other types of research tools and reference works; and to stabilize material culture collections through the appropriate housing and storing of objects, improved environmental control, and the installation of security, lighting, and fire-prevention systems. Applications may also be submitted for national and regional education and training projects, regional preservation field service programs, and research and demonstration projects that are intended to enhance institutional practice and the use of technology for preservation and access. Projects may encompass collections of books, journals, newspapers, manuscript and archival materials, maps, still and moving images, sound recordings, and objects of material culture held by libraries, archives, museums, historical organizations, and other repositories. The Division has a single, annual DEADLINE for applications, JULY 1. Final decisions will be announced the following March. Guidelines and instructions can be downloaded from the NEH Web site: <http://www.neh.fed.us/html/guidelin/preserva.html> A list of recent awards is also available at that site under "What's New". To obtain a print version of the Guidelines or to address a question to the NEH staff, e-mail us at . Postal address: Division of Preservation and Access NEH, Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 220506 Telephone: 202/606-8570 FAX: 202/606-8639 From: Mick Doherty Subject: Last Call: Kairos 2.2 CFH Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:22:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 33 (33) The deadline for inquiries regarding submissions for the next issue of _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ is Thursday, May 15. Please refer to the attached Call For Hypertexts for further details. Apologies for the cross-postings! __________________________ 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 writing 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 2.2 ******** 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: Larry Taylor Subject: Re: 11.0017 Deep Blue and human intelligence Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:14:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 34 (34) ... [deleted quotation].... [deleted quotation] The short response is, "Ridiculous. Of course it's A.I. There have been few problems more directly identified with A.I. since the fifties than playing chess. Now that "we" -- ich bin ein A.I. researcher! -- have WON, don't take it away from us!" Prediction made about 1957: Unless they are excluded from competition, a computer will be the world champion in chess within ten years (it may have been Simon. My books are still packed, and I can't easily look it up). A.I. has endured years of disappointment, booms and busts, the early chess programs being horrible players, but gradually improving. We have known all along that a fast enough computer would achieve any given level of chess expertise. Earlier computer designs that [deleted quotation] We knew it could work. I wish I could say I knew that that particular line of investigation would be better than the others, but many could have guessed. [deleted quotation] ... true enough ... and [deleted quotation]....[more about HAL] Modeling of human thought is only one goal of Artificial Intelligence. Engineering problems with complicated domains -- as it is with chess -- is another important goal, which "we" have just won big. Let's give the little machine a round of applause. [deleted quotation] Repeat after me: Since May 11, 1997, a computer is the best chess player in the universe. It can't talk, think about anything other than chess, or tie its shoes, but it is better at what it was engineered to do than ANY HUMAN ALIVE. To say this achievement is not artificial intelligence, but it relies on different principles than humans use, is like saying that the Wright brothers' airplane did not achieve artificial flight because it wasn't very much like a bird. [deleted quotation] This seems to contradict the assertion above that Deep Blue does not use artificial intelligence. What the writer means here is not clear to me, but he or she seems to say that natural intelligence is involved, which makes no sense. I think that we should agree that Deep Blue's triumph is a feat of engineering, and has little to do with A.I.'s pretensions to psychology. Think about the 100 years of [deleted quotation] .... hardware notes... [deleted quotation] THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! (American baseball, c. 1951) Particularly significant was Kasparov's whining after his loss, which showed that his ego has been crushed. LAT From: Selmer Bringsjord Subject: Deep Blue vs. Kasparov Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 18:09:55 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 35 (35) Hi. My paper on Deep Blue vs. Kasparov for the upcoming annual meeting of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence is available on the web through that organization, and also directly from my space (postscript): http://www.rpi.edu/~brings/BLUE/ from here the paper is kasparov.ps Title: "Chess Isn't Tough Enough: Better Games for Mind-Machine Competition" Yrs, //Selmer From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 11.0018 editing for computers? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:42:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 36 (36) Ian Lancashire wrote: [deleted quotation] Do people read etexts? The main advantage of machine-readable texts is that they are, well, machine readable. But this is not your point, is it? --snip-- [deleted quotation] You're right to insist that we should have higher expectations for text-analysis software, but whence is this to come? Does any software presently available even read line numbers like people do? How does such software know that an italicized word is foreign word, a book title, or a case of emphasis? I'm afraid this is asking too much of present technology. Could we not simply insist on browsers which display or not heavily marked-up texts? -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> From: John Roper Subject: Re: 11.0018 editing for computers? Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 10:03:47 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 37 (37) I wholeheartedly agree with Ian that etexts or any other form of text should be in a form that people can read. I would go further and say that the structure and implied meaning of a poem or a piece of text should be preserved as the author intended. It may be inconvenient (or currently impossible) for an editing package to cope with Roman numerals, Cyrillic text, etc. but it just means that 'we' have to develop better tools. My experience goes back to the days of a single upper case alphabet and simple numerals. We had to compromise then, but I feel it is a pity that we still have to compromise to the degree we have to. But who can find the time and effort to manufacture a solution? Who can even specify the solution? John Roper On Sat, 10 May 1997 19:06:36 +0100 (BST) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: ================================================= John P.G. Roper, Director, Computing Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, England. Tel. +44(0) 1603 592382 Fax. +44(0) 1603 593467 Email: j.roper@uea.ac.uk From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 11.0018 editing for computers? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 08:27:48 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 38 (38) Non capisco perch, trattando di simili argomenti, si debba ricorrere a metafore, pi o meno pertinenti, e comunque adatte al cosiddetto vasto pubblico, e non a professionisti quali si suppone siano i corrispondenti di Humanist. Non ho mai visto un computer che legge o che scrive; ho solo visto stream di bit che vanno e vengono, ed i bit non sono "romani" n "arabi". Se poi si vuole porre la questione della codifica, si tratta semplicemente di stabilire (dal momento che la codifica sempre interpretativa, come hanno spesso sottolineato Sperberg e McQueen ;-) se si interpreta la forma materiale di una lista o il suo valore logico, eccetera; e si tratta di dichiararlo con precisione. Le conseguenze saranno tratte dagli utenti. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Willard McCarty Subject: editing for whom? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:00:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 39 (39) In Humanist 11.18, Ian Lancashire asks for whom we should be editing (or, more broadly, preparing) texts -- for computers or for humans? An interesting question. What makes it especially so is the silent assumption that these two classes of entities are completely different. Of course they are different, but.... the computer is the product of the human imagination, a cultural artefact, which as a kind of automaton has a very long human-centred history indeed, and has a great deal to tell us about ourselves. In the preparation of my own text, I find that all the important computing happens in my head, in response to the requirements of the machine, which in turn is a response to a large set of very human requirements. In other words, yes, wetware and hardware are different, but that makes their identity meaningful, and vice versa. Many of us, including Ian, earned our stripes fighting against technocentrics who told us, in essence, to alter the nature of what we wanted to do so that existing hardware and software could process our data. Like get rid of accented characters, or Roman numerals, or whatever. Infuriating, and clearly wrong, and a great impetus for the foundation of more than one humanities computing centre. As progress has borne its fruits, however, the fundamental limitations of computing have for us emerged out of the general mass of technical infelicities and cast fascinating light on our scholarly problems. Is this not where humanities computing itself emerges out of step'n'fetchit support to become something worth pursuing in its own right, for the collegial support of everyone? Then there's the question of whether e-texts should be read by people at all, or whether they should be tagged so that however one wants to see them for reading, software can generate the appropriate version. But since there are Humanists here who know much more about this part of the topic than I do, I'll stop here and wait for one of them to carry it forward. 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: Willard McCarty Subject: bloopers and memory Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 16:39:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 40 (40) Rumour (from the discussion group Ficino) has it that Lewis Lapham's article on student bloopers in the April issue of Harper's Magazine, "The Spanish Armadillo", contains a good discussion of the effects of technology on cultural memory. Perhaps someone here who happens to have this issue to hand might be moved to report on Lapham's analysis? 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: Claire Warwick Subject: proposed hypertext course Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:27:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 41 (41) I work for the English Faculty at Oxford, and Dr Stuart Lee (Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing) and I are hoping to run a course on electronic text and hypertext in theory and practice. We are at the very early stages of planning at present, but the Faculty has some questions about the proposed course, and not having run a course of this type yet, we can't answer them from our own experience. We are aware of a few similar types of courses being run at present, but there must be some others that we haven't heard of. So we wondered if the members of Humanist who have run such a course would be willing to share some of their insights with us. We envisage that the course would consist of lectures on theoretical issues, as well as classes on the practical side of producing HTML, text analysis and hypertext design. Students would then be assessed on a project produced in hypertext accompanied by a paper detailing the rationale behind the production of their site. This plan gives rise to a number of questions with which we'd like some help. Firstly, how should we go about assessing student projects, especially those in hypertext? Does anyone have any guidelines that they might pass on to us? At the moment the students doing the equivalent paper to the one we propose submit essays of 6,000 words. How much hypertext would you feel is equivalent, given that we will also want them to produce a written essay about the rationale behind their site? How should we ensure that students reach similar academic standards to those doing more 'conventional' paper-based work? Has anyone experienced any particular problems with ensuring that there is no plagiarism? If so, how were they solved? Any help that anyone can provide on these matters, or any that we haven't thought of, would be very welcome. Claire Warwick and Stuart Lee Faculty of English and Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University **************************************************************************** Dr Claire Warwick phone 01865 273280 Resource Development Officer Fax 01865 273275 British National Corpus Oxford University Computing Services email BNC: natcorp@oucs.ox.ac.uk 13 Banbury Road claire.warwick@oucs.ox.ac.uk Oxford OX2 6NN http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc From: Willard McCarty Subject: CIEC Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 12:04:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 42 (42) The U.S. Supreme Court is due to hand down its decision on the infamous Communications Decency Act in June or July of this year. Meanwhile, information about the hearings on 19 March of this year are available from the Web site of the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC), "a broad group of Internet users, library groups, publishers, online service providers, and civil liberties groups", <http://www.ciec.org/>. Further pointers and comments 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 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/ruhc/wlm/ From: Mick Doherty Subject: Monday MOO: Tic-Toc Goes the Tenure Clock **C-FEST 5/12** Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 09:21:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 43 (43) "If it works, it's obsolete." -- Marshall McLuhan Monday @ 7:00 PM CDT (8:00 PM EDT) in LinguaMOO C-Fest: Summer Session #1 Come @join us in MOOspace as several members of the forthcoming "TicToc" (Teaching in Cyberspace Through Online Courses) Symposium hosted by the University of Illinois-Chicago gather to discuss issues surrounding the electronic-izing of the writing curriculum and the the realities of professional recognition. Fore more about TicToc, visit <http://www.uic.edu/depts/engl/projects/tictoc/main.htm> Our discussion this week will begin with the ideas outlined by TicToc consultants Joe Amato and Mick Doherty available at <http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/tictoc/> ... if you can read these documents ahead of time, that'd be great, but if not, come anyway and shoot from the hip! Additional texts from TicTockers such as Cynthia Haynes, Jan Holmevik, and Eric Crump will also be introduced during this C-Fest session as we pursue authoring ... "The Technorhetorician's Bill of Rights." *************************************************************** The Latest Installment in the 1997 C-FEST MEETING SERIES at LINGUA MOO "Delivering Ourselves to/in the Academy" ..Be part of a C-FEST Event and share in the drafting of our Statements In the C-FEST Forum at LINGUA MOO [telnet to: lingua.utdallas.edu 8888] or [WWW: http://lingua.utdallas.edu] LOGS ARE AVAILABLE FROM OUR PREVIOUS SESSIONS: Spring Session 1: "Asking the Big Questions" Wednesday, April 2nd, 7pm CST (8pm EST) Hosted by Mick Doherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Spring Session 2: "Models of Evaluative Tools and Technology" Thursday, April 10th, 7pm CST (8pm EDT) Hosted by Dr. Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University Spring Session 3: Writer's Workshop: Building "Story Spaces" Tuesday, April 15th, 8pm CST (9pm EDT) Hosted by Dr. Susan Lang, Southern Illinois University Spring Session 4: "Come Play, Come Write, Come MOO! A Virtual Text-Raising" Thursday, April 24, 7pm CST (8pm EDT) Hosted by Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas Special Guest: Lisa Guernsey, Assistant Editor of Electronic Projects The Chronicle of Higher Education *************************************************************** Other sites to visit regarding the issues at hand are gathered at: <http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/recognition/> Also ... We need volunteer facilitators for each meeting. 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, iew 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 From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending May 11 Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:43:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 44 (44) AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending May 11, 1997 (581-656) American Studies Opportunities & News is a weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit a posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact the Crossroads Administrator The following items appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from May 4-11, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first job posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 626 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; to get the the first and second job posting, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 626 587 to LISTSERV.HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM). [Special Note: To get details of the Crossroads Project's June Workshop, "Teaching American Culture with Technology," at Georgetown University, June 25-28, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 625] Jobs ==== 626 Af Am Litt/Generalist, American U (non-tenure, deadline 5/15) 587 Am Litt/Latino/a Studies, Penn State (tenure, deadline 5/29) 628 Am Studies, Henan Normal University, China (suit sabbatical) 588 Am Studies/Post-1865 History, U Leicester UK (deadline 5/30) 627 Ethnic Studies, Goddard College (non-tenure, May 31) 595 Folklife Specialist, Library of Congress (deadline, June 4) 596 Folklife Specialist, Oregon Historical Soc (deadline, May 30) 629 Humanities, Capital U/Cleveland (non-tenure, deadline 6/1) 589 Material Culture, University College London 645 Women's Studies/Af Am Studies, U. Mich (senior, deadline, 9/2) 655 Women's Studies, N. Arizona Univ (director, deadline 10/1) Fellowships & Prizes ==================== 598 AFS Folklore & Education Prize (Deadline, July 1) 585 Campbell Fellowship, Hist of Agriculture/Montana (May 15) 640 Fellowships, Inst of Advanced Studies, United Nations Univ. 590 Judicial Fellows, US Supreme Court (Deadline Nov 17) 632 NEH Preservation & Access Grants (Deadline, Aug 1) 623 Postdoc, Contemporary Policy Research, Abe Fellowships 608 Spencer Dissertation Fellowships (research on education) 644 Spencer Foundation Grants, 1997-1998 (research on education) Calls for Contributions to Journals/Books ========================================= 599 Canadian Folklore canadien, issue on Witches/Wicca 642 Citizenship in Latin America, for Social Politics Journal 602 Contemporary Girls' Culture (anthology) 649 Feminism Issue, Method & Theory in Study of Religion Journal 631 Folklore Forum Journal 606 Heaven's Gate Cult Articles for Millenial Prophecy Report 653 Lesbians Talking Sex, for Journal of Lesbian Studies 616 Recording Oral History (pamphlet), for Oral History Assoc 581 Review Essayists Sought on Books By/About Women Photographers 601 Sage Book Series in Family Studies 634 US Historical Statistics, for Historical Methods Journal 651 Women & Power issue, for Sociological Spectrum Journal Calls for Papers for Conferences ================================ 624 American Conversations, Mid America ASA, Iowa, Apr 98 593 Architecture & Culture, Cornell U, Oct 24-25 97 650 Bodies of Evidence, Normal IL, Oct 2-4 97 622 Cultural Studies Conf, Tampere, Finland, June 98 643 European Assoc of American Studies, Lisbon, Apr 98 583 Latina Visions for Transforming the Americas, New Haven Oct 97 603 Memory/Landscape/Identity, Great Lakes ASA, March 98 600 Oral Culture of Children, Sheffield UK, Apr 98 630 Portraiture in Age of Photography, Washington DC Nov 97 614 SW Hist Assoc/SW Soc Sci Assoc, Texas, Mar 98 607 Teaching Multi-Ethnic Litt in Am Litt, New Orleans, Nov 98 641 Young Adult Literature, Youngstown OH, May 98 Calls for Conference Panels =========================== 604 American Art History & the Art Market, CAA, Toronto 1998 615 American Food & Culture, Mid-Atl PCA/ACA, Baltimore, Oct 97 638 Architecture & Ethnic Communities, Los Angeles, Apr 98 643 European Assoc of American Studies, Lisbon, Apr 98 Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically) ============================================================= 654 Claiming Women's Political Power, Washington DC, May 29-30 582 History of Photography, Rochester NY, Oct 17-19 605 Soc for Hist of Am Foreign Relations, Georgetown U, June 19-22 Programs for Forthcoming Events, Institutes & Seminars ====================================================== 646 Newberry Seminar, Race & Housing in Chicago 1900-1950, May 21 635 Newberry Seminar, Legal Culture of Work in Early Am, May 29 591 Obituary, Paulo Freire (1921-1997) 633 Open Letter - Support NEH Documentary Publications Projects 613 Skyscraper Museum Opens, New York City 597 Summer Institutes: Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers & Students 619 Western Art Exhibits, Southern Methodist U (to June 22) 625 Crossroads Workshop, Teaching Am Studies with Technology, June 25-28 Bibliographical & Online Resources ================================== 656 Directory of Gender-Related Info Sources Website 618 Film & History Journal 1970-1996 Now on CD-ROM 637 Finding Info on the Internet -- UC-Berkeley Web Tutorials 594 Language/Bilingual Education Policy Website 586 Plurabelle Am Studies Antiquarian/Second-Hand Books (catalog) 652 Readers for Intro Women's Studies Courses (resource books) 636 Red Hot Jazz Archive Website 584 Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (online org) 647 USIA Website for Declassified US Govt Documents 592 Valley of the Shadow Civil War Project on CD-ROM & Web Book Reviews (abbreviated/by subtitle for clarification purposes) ================================================================= 611 Balboni, Italian Americans & Las Vegas (Duncan H-PCAACA) 617 Hill, Dallas: The Making of a Modern City (Summers H-URBAN) 620 Peterson del Mar, History of Violence against Wives (Bisson H-WOMEN) 612 Prochnau, Young War Correspondents in Vietnam (Patterson H-PCAACA) 621 Shokeid, A Gay Synagogue in New York (Balka H-URBAN) Tables of Contents ================== 648 Passages, Journal of Transnational & Transcultural Studies 639 Sources 2 (European cultural studies journal) From: David Wilson-Okamura Subject: fight spam (unsolicited email ads) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 19:18:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 45 (45) X-POSTED to: FICINO, MEDTEXTL, Mantovano Like most of you, I am tired of unsolicited email ads (AKA spam). I received the following this morning from a graphic design firm in California where my brother works. Essentially, it's a spam filter for Eudora. Free, too. Looks pretty good. Details below: _________________________________________________________________ EXPOSURE Internet Marketing News ~~~ Special Announcement ~~~ Friday May 9th, 1997 - Noon PDT "For the busy Internet Marketing Professional" _________________________________________________________________ In terms of Spam (Unsolicited Bulk email advertising), you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. John Audette (I-Sales Digest Moderator) and myself have decided to be part of the solution. We have gathered from various sources, specific domains that are known to generate bulk unsolicited email on a daily basis, and have placed them as a clickable text file on the Web, along with step by step instructions on how to insert this file, "filters.pce" directly into any Eudora program so that all email received from these domains is deposited directly into a Spam folder or into your trash can. As more domains are purchased by rhogue ISP's and known spammers, we will be continually updating this file, so all you'll have to do is change the file or refresh it every so often. We have found that filtering these domains allows us to get rid of 98% of all bulk unsolicited email as it is downloaded. It is an incredible timesaver. Bulk unsolicited email is a problem that is not likely to go away any time soon, but we hope that this site will provide people with the information they need to deal with this problem, and at the same time provide those new to online marketing with an incentive to investigate other more constructive ways to promote their businesses online, rather than use bulk unsolicited email. If you are a listowner, please put this information out to your readers if you think it will assist them in their online endeavors. http://www.mmgco.com/nospam/ We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, Exposure Internet Marketing News. --Warmest regards, Adam Boettiger, Editor, EXPOSURE __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ EXPOSURE Internet Marketing News is: Edited by Adam Boettiger mailto:ab@mmgco.com (503) 699-6939 http://www.exposure-usa.com/exposure/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura david@wilsoninet.com University of Chicago http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/dswilson/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: avigail oren Subject: Re: 11.0021 memory? advice for a course? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:23:26 +0300 (IDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 46 (46) Claire Warwick asked about a design of a hypertet course. I have not developed yet such a course but I am engaged in r&d related to hypertext educational environment. A main problem for teachers is the assesment process. From my experience, as the linkage is the main point in hypertext writing, you should examine the width and the depth of the links students produced in their hypertext article. Students should explain the links they define as part of the article (like footnotes for each link). The assesment should take into account the quantity aspect (number of links) as well as the quality (through students explanations and content significance). Avigail Dr. Avigail Oren Knowledge Technology Lab School of Education Tel-Aviv University From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 11.0021 memory? advice for a course? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:26:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 47 (47) Re: Advice for a course and te question: [deleted quotation] As I am planning a similar course I would be very interested in this topic as well. - Hope -------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Ian Lancashire Subject: Re: 11.0019 editing for computers Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:37:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 48 (48) Writing a program that can convert between roman and arabic numbers, someone in language technology writes, is a typical first-year problem for computer-science undergraduates. The task shouldn't be beyond a browser, let alone a tagger. I wrote harder programs for my first-year computer science course in 1980. If we tag our texts semi-automatically with sed or perl scripts, why can't a program manage the job? I'm not suggesting semantic disambiguation, lemmatization, or literary interpretation. Most tagging handles simple textual features that can be recognized by their format. Again, my question: why should we tag for computers as if they are in need of help? One just whipped a chess grandmaster. Let the computers be taught to recognize our texts. Let tools do jobs for us, rather than vice versa. I think you all could spend your time more wisely if the humanities took advantage of 50 years of computer science and turned to generate better software. Ian Lancashire From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 11.0019 editing for whom/what? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:13:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 49 (49) Call me greedy, but I want e-texts that are readable, no useable, by ME! That means, if such a thing exists, I want: - to see a reasonable facsimile of the original as the author created it - to see a reasonable facsimile of the published version, including all the original technologies applied to that version--things like line numbers and page numbers - to see a transcription of it in a manipulatable form, by which I mean something I can reformat, take apart, reassemble, read comfortably on screen, and otherwise muck about with - to toss it into my "text stewpot" with all the other texts and analyse it in a variety of ways (rather more than just plain "machine readable") - to hear and/or see a reading of the work by the author, especially if it is poetry, or, if the author is no longer living, to hear a historically informed rendition. (By the way, we have had audio recordings for close on a century now. Try listening to speeches from several decades. It is a fascinating look at how speaking changes.) - to follow up on a text in a variety of ways, by connecting with information about the author(s), the historical/cultural setting, the critical setting - and I want all of this from wherever I am: at the office, in the classroom, in the library, out of town, or curled up in my favorite rocking chair with a very large cup of tea nearby. - Hope (who is very grumpy this morning, having spent last night doing something grandiosely called "research" that, if it had been online, would have taken seconds instead of three wasted hours) --------- Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 11.0019 editing for whom/what? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:27:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 50 (50) What is interesting about this discussion is that e-texts by their very nature require computer software to be read. You can stare at your disk drive, floppy disk, or a CD-ROM very intently, but will see nothing resembling "text" except on the packaging label. E-text editing assumes the existence of an e-text editor that can figure out how to read the bits and interpret them as characters. What else it does is entirely up to the software. If you feed an e-text into a file dump utility, it might portray the text as carefully arranged columns of 0's and 1's; or as Hexadecimal characters. If the e-text is the output of a commercial software editor, it will have to be read and interpreted by a comparable software package that can remove all the machine instructions, redundant coding, etc. which the commercial software inserts. The moral here is that editing e-texts is ALWAYS the result of applying a creatively designed e-text interpreting software package to the text. What the software does or doesn't do is a matter of what is possible and what was implemented by the software designer. You can filter OUT information, but you cannot readily ADD information to the e-text. That is, if there are no font codes or layout information in the text; they can only be guessed at by clever software or else the text will appear as plain characters. In this regard you clearly want a LOT of information in an e-text making possible a very clever editing presentation software package which can use that information. If you have a lot of information in an e-text, but no clever software to use it; it is not the fault of the information in the e-text. From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0022 Deep Blue, human intelligence and AI Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 09:11:47 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 51 (51) [deleted quotation]working in Natural Language Processing for many years and having to defend it as a field of Artificial Intelligence, I learned to point out that AI is not necessarily modelling human thought. It can be instead developing a capability that requires human thought. Language is such an example: no one knows how we humans are able to use language but we do. Teaching a computer to use language then is artificial intelligence. I don't know how to compare winning one set of games in computer chess to a level of capability in a computer's language manipulation. Language hasn't had the precise scorability of chess! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: "Amsler, Robert" Subject: RE: 11.0017 Deep Blue and human intelligence Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:24:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 52 (52) The results from Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov are indeed a fitting subject for Humanist to discuss. In and of itself, one can dismiss this particular incident as atypical--another Grand Master may undoubtedly defeat THIS version of Deep Blue, but the handwriting is on the wall... The days when human beings can play better chess than a computer are drawing to a close. This is no more horrific than it was when steam engines were running in races with horses. Or rather, it is JUST as horrific; for that day ended the era of animal motor power being able to compete with machinery and claim victory. To be sure there are particular terrains which only an animal can carry a human--but earthmoving equipment is now the undisputed victor for work. What Computers Can't Do... the debate unfortunately never really got off to a great start. The answer is simple. Computers can reason. They just can't think. Chess is one of the reasoning tasks humans have elected to elevate to higher significance than many others which are in fact far harder to perform; but it seems to be a matter of scale. Humans like chess because of its human dimensions. Great mathematicians used to spend time calculating the orbits of planets in their head; some even suggested "wasted" their time doing so given the likelihood that calculating devices would be invented that would perform the same task faster and more accurately; but now nobody would deem to devote their hours to trying to use their brain like a calculating machine.... We delegated the task to the computer. People play chess, however, because they like to, and therein lies the rub. I suppose this is the fragile human ego. Because we LIKE to do something, we take offense when a machine takes the job over and does it better. Does this mean we have to stop playing chess? Well... we could invent a harder game if we really wanted to... but the issue is really just whether we can get used to the computer as a chess game judge and trainer and get back to doing what we do best---delegating reasoning tasks to the machines so we can create new ideas. From: "Steven J. DeRose" Subject: Re: 11.0022 Deep Blue, human intelligence and AI Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:06:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 53 (53) At 10:14 PM 05/12/97 +0100, Larry Taylor wrote: [deleted quotation] Agreed. But this is hardly new. Every time AI succeeds in some special domain, that domain becomes "no longer AI". C'est la vie. [deleted quotation] Again, true. But hardly significant by itself. Many a simpler machine has been "better at what it was engineered to do than ANY HUMAN ALIVE". For example, your everyday electric drill. Or a pencil. Deep Blue is a superb accomplishment, but a comparison to human intelligence is like comparing apples to poetry (one might entertain a comparison to an idiot savant). Optimizing for any single purpose is relatively easy. [deleted quotation] If Deep Blue had a sound chip, would it have whined last year? Steven J. DeRose Chief Scientist Inso EPS (formerly EBT) From: "Sarah L. Higley" Subject: Einstein's Brain Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:51:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 54 (54) Given the recent discussions of Deep Blue, chess-players, and AI, I thought I'd come in again from left field and ask another question about getting a famous picture of a famous scientist, since you were all so helpful about Edison as Wizard. This time, I'm looking frantically to get permission to reproduce that well-known photo of Albert Einstein, lying prone, his head hooked up to electrodes. This was taken apparently during an experiment conducted to see whether the brain waves of a genius would register differently from that of ordinary mortals. I've seen the picture a million times on posters, Roland Barthes describes it in "The Brain of Einstein," but I need to know who owns this photograph so that I can write to get permission to reproduce it. Again, please respond privately. slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu Many thanks! ********************************************************************* Sarah L. Higley slhi@troi.cc.rochester.edu Associate Professor of English office: (716) 275-9261 The University of Rochester fax: (716) 442-5769 Rochester NY, 14627 ********************************************************************* Py dydwc glein / O erddygnawt vein? "What brings a gem from a hard stone?" Book of Taliesin ********************************************************************* From: Richard Epstein Subject: SEMCOM: Ph.D. programs in Lx & Lit (fwd) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:26:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 55 (55) A short time ago, I posted a query on behalf of a grad student of mine seeking information about Ph.D. programs in the US which have specializations in Linguistics and Literature (Stylistics, Literary Pragmatics, etc.). Several English departments were mentioned as possibilities: U. of North Texas Ball State U. Texas A & M (http://engserve.tamu.edu/files/graduate/gprogram.html) U. of Wisconsin-Madison U. of Minnesota U. of South Carolina (Linguistics Program) U. of Southern California Several people also mentioned that there are more opportunities to pursue this line of research in Britain and Ireland (Lancaster, Strathclyde, Queen's U. in Belfast). Thanks again to all those who responded, Rich Epstein From: Paul Mc Kevitt Subject: AI-97 (Ireland) (Call For Papers) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:50:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 56 (56) AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? AI IN "CRISIS"? <> <> <> Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97) in tandem with: Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP-97) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97) AI IN "CRISIS" ? Has the field been in `crisis'? --- some argue we've been in the wilderness with no breakthroughs for decades except minor shifts towards connectionism and neural networks, artificial life, data collection/corpora, and hybrid systems. Others say the move towards integration (e.g. Intelligent MultiMedia integrating language/vision), PersonKommunikation, mobile and remote computing, more and more engineering and a focus on the significance or otherwise of the self, mind and consciousness is emphasizing the successes of AI... Ireland hosts AI conferences usually annually since 1988. This ninth AI-97 conference will continue the tradition of emphasising presentations of Irish and International original research in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science including Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience and related disciplines on the obvious problems of speech, NLP, and vision processing, robotics, learning, reasoning, knowledge representation and mobile/remote computing. Papers which address whether or not the field has been in `crisis' and its failures/successes are particularly welcome! Ever since George Boolean Logic (Cork), James Joyce's advances on streams-of-consciousness (see Dennett's Joycean machine), Claude Shannon found Information Theory and John McCarthy made LISP and gave the field its name (Dartmouth, US, 1956) we have been into Artificial Intelligence. Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97) (http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97) [material deleted] From: Geert-Jan Kruijff Subject: VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES (Nov.'97 and Mar.'98 in Prague) Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:50:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 57 (57) ANNOUNCEMENT VILEM MATHESIUS LECTURE SERIES 11 and 12 Prague, Czech Republic, November 1997 and March 1998 The Vilem Mathesius Teaching and Research Center in Linguistics and Semiotics (Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague), will organize its eleventh Lecture Series in November 1997, and its twelfth Lecture Series in March 1998. Below you will find more detailed information on the programmes of these series, and on how to contact us. LECTURE SERIES 11 The eleventh lecture series will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from *November 10 until 21*, 1997. The venue will be the Krystal hotel. The following prominent scholars will lecture at the eleventh series (usually three 90 minutes lectures): * Sue Atkins, Great Britain: Frame-based lexicography * Charles J. Fillmore, USA (Berkeley): Frame semantics and the lexicon * Barbara Grosz, USA (Boston): Issues of discourse analysis * Aravind Joshi, USA (Philadelphia): Lexicalized grammars: Linguistic, logical, computational and processing issues * Jacob Mey, Denmark (Odense): Pragmatic acts * Paolo Ramat, Italy: Linguistic categories and linguists' categorizations * John R. Ross (Canada): Poetics and the grammar of space * Helmut Schnelle (Germany): to be announced * Arnim von Stechow (Germany): to be announced * Mark Steedman, USA (Philadelphia): to be announced * Dean Worth, USA (Los Angeles): Diachronic interaction of related languages: Diglossia, bilingualism, or? Among the invited Czech teachers there are Frantisek Cermak, Jan Hajic, Eva Hajicova, Oldrich Leska, Jarmila Panevova, Jaroslav Peregrin, Vladimir Petkevic, Petr Sgall. There is a limited number of grants available for students from CEE countries. These grants cover accommodation, breakfast, and lunches for the duration of the series. Normal registration is US$ 350, covering the tuition fee, acommodation, breakfast, and lunches. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION: July 15, 1997 For applications for grants, see below. LECTURE SERIES 12 The Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 12 will be held from March 9 until 20, 1998, in Prague. The venue will be the Krystal hotel, as for the lectures; the special conference "Bridges and Interfaces" (see below) will take place in the old centre of Prague. The invitation to lecture at the Lecture Series 12 has already been accepted by V. Borschev, W. Dressler, C.J. Fillmore, K. von Fintel, L. Karttunen, F. Kiefer, J.D. McCawley, W. Noth, B.H. Partee, J. Pierrehumbert, H. Riemsdijk, I. Sag, H. Schnelle, J. Toman, and A. Zaenen. In connection with the twelfth lecture series there will be the international linguistic conference "Bridges and Interfaces: Form, Meaning, and Function" held at the occasion of the 650th Anniversary of Charles University. The conference will take place on March 12 until 14, 1998, and it will focus on the relationships between form, meaning and function of linguistic items from the perspective of different theoretical approaches providing thus a fruitful basis for a discussion of bridges and interfaces between different linguistic theories. DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION: November 30, 1997 GRANTS Applications for grants for students from CEE countries should be accompanied by a recommendation of the student's professor from his home university or country. DEADLINES for applying for grants are as follows: - Lecture Series 11: May 31, 1997 - Lecture Series 12: November 30, 1997 Applications should be sent to the address below. CONTACT INFORMATION For further information, please contact: Vilem Mathesius Center MFF UK - Linguistics e-mail: brdickov@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Malostranske nam. 25 (cc: hajicova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz) 118 00 Praha 1 fax: +420-2-2191 4309 Czech Republic tel.:+420-2-2191 4278 From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: 11.0027 course on hypertext Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:38:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 58 (58) [deleted quotation] I suggest also to look up Michigan Tech pages (RTC and STC syllabi, on-line course and students' materials, etc.). A good start would be: http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~kitalong/syllabi.html http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~awysocki/ Hope this helps From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Deep? Blue Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:04:15 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 59 (59) HennyPenny, the sky is falling! Not so, perhaps. It seems to me, and I have remarked on this phenomenon before, but seem not to have succeeded in getting my observations posted, ever...that... the first time one of our species flaked a flint cat meat from a bone, instead of tearing it with the teeth, we, yes we, were on the road that leads to comuter chess games and beyond. the wheel didnt remove the necessity for infants to learn to walk and run, and dance, etc. Why do "Humanists" get upset by machines? Edgar Allan Poe would have loved this all. He had a dwarf inside his chess playing machine! Who are the dwarfs behind Deep Blue? Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Chris Floyd Subject: Deep Blue, human intelligence, AI and Larry Taylor Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:12:37 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 60 (60) [deleted quotation] Artificial intelligence is a contradiction in terms. That is the dilemma of the Turing test. Intelligence is assumed to be the separation between animals and humans. When computers reproduce human intellectual capacity, the question is begged whether the intelligence duplicated is of nature. There is little computer power required to renact the thought processes of an amoeba (as distinct from its genetic construction) and many computer viruses are more sophisticated than their natural counterpart. If the development of intelligence is an evolutionary continuum then the break between animal behaviour and human thought is artificial, with language (and the manifest infrastructure of 'civilisation'), being the qualitative difference. If the break is an artificial construct, then equally so is our perception of what is intelligent. Do we know ourselves enough to define intelligence? So we digress to a semantic tangent. Given that intelligence is a part of evolution, then the intelligence of computers is not so much artifical as it is an extension of human intellectual ability. It is at one with the world since its becoming. We don't have artificial books. Books exist despite writing originating with humans. [deleted quotation] 1997-1957 [deleted quotation] There is a plethora of games people play with computers. For the beginner user, often there is a choice of levels, from novice to expert, and grand master. Some people search around for the good oil on the best tactics to play them, to get 'cheats' to win. But would I really want to play against Deep Blue? Is Deep Blue the best chess player for me? People choose different levels. There is more to chess than winning, as there is in other games. People also play for enjoyment and camaraderie. Does Deep Blue know any good jokes? Bobby Fischer was a world champion. A significant part of his game was 'psyching out' the opponent. I am not sure that Deep Blue would be susceptible to this. I am not convinced this makes Deep Blue (sex unknown) a more intelligent and 'better' chess player. Deep Blue might be proficient at winning chess games, as it so has been engineered to do, but I wouldn't invite it home to play chess. I wouldn't enjoy playing chess with it. I like making extempore moves against an intelligent fallible human. [deleted quotation] Who wins? The humans who engineered Deep Blue. If Deep Blue was intelligent, it would do something more important than tie shoes, it would realise the pointlessness of winning at all costs. [deleted quotation] Sounds like hardware. [deleted quotation] No, Kasparov's ego remains. It is his ongoing consciousness of the world. Deep Blue has no ego. But then I am not sure if Larry is a computer. Maybe Larry is Deep Blue. The Turing test is such a problem. Cheers, Chris. Dr Chris Floyd Oral: +61 9 339 8632 Ink: +61 9 385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 11.0022 Deep Blue, human intelligence and AI Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:25:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 61 (61) I quote from Larry Taylor's comments: "Particularly significant was Kasparov's whining after his loss, which showed that his ego has been crushed." Let us appreciate the marvelous feat of human engineering and electronic speed that Deep Blue's victory was; but let us acknowledge that if the computer didn't consider it an analogue to war, the engineers certainly did. Interesting that the *computer* isn't crowing (note the loaded word "whining" here) about the "crushing" of cultural constructs like egos; in fact the computer has no "interest" in victory at all. This would seem to imply that inside this scenario (engineers against chess masters) the computer is itself a pawn....Does anyone remember George Steiner's essay about music, chess, and mathematics? Pat Galloway MS Dept of Archives and History From: Patricia Galloway Subject: spamming Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:24:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 62 (62) Sorry to come in late on this, as I was out of town; but in the "internet press" lately we have all been reading huge amounts of hype about "push technology" (which IMHO just looks like cleverly targeted spam) like Pointcast that people will supposedly "want"---surely the reason we all are turning to the Internet is because we are tired of having things pushed into our faces and are enjoying the (very ancient!) challenge of going out and looking for what we want? I thought it was the "pull" model that made the Internet so attractive to people. If we hate the deluge of junk mail pouring through our letter slots and causing our mailboxes to fall off the wall every day, why would marketers think we could be made to want spam? Pat Galloway MS Dept of Archives and History From: mgk3k@faraday.clas.virginia.edu Subject: Re: 11.0026 editing for whom/what? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 22:16:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 63 (63) Everything on Hope's wish list here is curently within our technical reach, albeit to greater or lesser extents. But, while the medium will never be as friction-free as we'd like it, the real issue here is not technology -- it's time. It takes time to do the various things Hope describes, and it takes even more time to do them well. Scholars are protective of their time, and with good reason; few of us have the luxury of expending it without adequate institutional support, a euphemism that translates most immediately, it seems to me, into funding for research and rewards when promotion and tenure decisions come around. Electronic editing, and humanities computing more generally, cannot be abstracted from the institutional culture in which the technology is deployed. I don't mean to imply that Hope or anyone here is suggesting otherwise, but, in order to "take advantage of 50 years of computer science" (as Ian Lancashire has it in a separate post) we will need . . . time. --Matt ====================================================================== Matthew G. Kirschenbaum University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu Department of English http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ The Blake Archive | IATH From: Willard McCarty Subject: computer science Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:55:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 64 (64) The question of dialogue between computer science and the humanities is an interesting and challenging one. Recently I attended a meeting in Washington DC organised by NINCH in collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) on the relationship between the humanities and computer science. There were very few humanists there, as we usually define the kind, but several computer scientists. I found it curious and encouraging that the CS people were so interested in the question of this relationship. My thought at the time, perhaps too self-flattering, was that they had at last realised how very interesting our material is, and so were seeking out some way to get connected with it.... :-) The two chairs of the meeting, Bill Wulf (Virginia) and Stan Katz (Princeton), certainly represented the view that there has not been much of a dialogue and that one is urgently needed. So the question of why we have not taken advantage of the achievements in computer science, and I would think vice versa, is at least in the U.S. very much on some people's agenda. There are, I suppose, many reasons. It would be good indeed to have some comments on this question from CS people who happen to be here. One reason, I would suppose, is that in general computer scientists are interested in computer science, which seems to have rather different objectives from the applied fields. Like most if not all other disciplines, serving interests outside its own is not high on the list of priorities. So, one tends to hear about things that might be quite useful in the humanities, but these devices, which are constructed for research purposes in CS, seldom are translated into a form that most of us would find accessible. It's easy to understand why: the researchers, having milked them for their own purposes in CS research, are not interested in spending the enormous amount of labour required to put these into a robust form, with a user-friendly interface, for one of the platforms that humanists tend to use. Humanists, on the other side, have too much of their own work to do to have the time for all that is required to get the translation done, providing of course that somehow they can find out about what's happening in CS, penetrate the differences in terminology, etc., so that they can decide whether the translation would be worth the effort. To mount and manage a project for something we need rather badly, e.g. the "son of TACT and daughter of OCP", poses an enormous problem in organisation and resourcing, although I would suppose that from a computer science point of view the problems involved are not anywhere near the cutting edge of research, and so difficult to get exercised about. If we were as well funded as the computational linguists apparently are, then perhaps one of us would be willing to give up his or her entire career to raising funds and administering a centre at which such software could be written. But we aren't. What to do? To open up the dialogue between the humanities and CS, humanities computing would seem to be the right place in general, and perhaps Humanist in particular. I'm sure that a long conversation between the two disciplinary areas would be very welcome. Would someone like to take charge of this and see that it happens? As far as our making it on our own, I can think of two things we might do, one public and communal, the other private. The first would be for us somehow to organise our cottages into an industry that makes good software for humanists. We have lots of little hands, each of which could be making small bits of something large if only they could be coordinated. Humanist could be the place to agitate for the communal effort. The second is simply to go on as we are, doing what we can with what we have. That sounds selfish or blinkered, perhaps, but it isn't all bad. Actually some very fine work can be done with computing mostly in one's own head, with a few easily available pieces of software when these are needed. It may be our fate, as it were -- and I mean here only an historical description of what happens, not a rigid formula for what must happen -- to sit well back from the leading edge of computing as such, on another leading edge, and use what happens to be available, poor as it may seem, old as it may be, to do what we can. I recall once attending a seminar at the Semiotics Institute in Toronto, with many thanks to Professor Paul Bouissac, given by an Indian computer scientist (from Bombay) who got us to design a computing system that could not possibly be built, at least for the next several generations, based on current theories of how children learn. A brilliant seminar that taught me what one does with computing when one does not have the resources of an MIT to tempt one down a different path. We are so easily dazzled by what we perceive science to be, so easily envious. Indeed, reports from the other side can be quite arresting. As I continue to read Carl Djerassi's autobiography, The Pill, Pygymy Chimps, and Degas' Horse -- a fascinating story -- I often am deeply envious of his scholarly/industrial environment, where abundant money can power very fine research, allow for those who are good teachers to teach, attract the best minds around by being able to offer them jobs, all that. Oi. I guess, as a teacher of mine once exhorted me, "do what you can do with all your might"! This is certainly not a call to complacency. I hope we never stop kvetching about the real problems we face. If we did, then Humanist would fall silent! 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: EVELYN EHRLICH Subject: Librarian for Digital Technologies -- NYU Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 12:15:25 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 65 (65) NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Librarian for Digital Technologies Provides technical development for the library's digital programs, including multimedia image databases, digital collections and finding aids, online exhibits, electronic text applications and web services. Works with library staff to develop and implement programming solutions to support digital projects and web content, including scripts and forms; multimedia applications; authoring tools and document viewing methods. Serves on the reference desk. Keeps current with advances in web technology and digital libraries. Works closely with other librarians working on digital projects. Requires experience with electronic information resources and services, imaging, website management and configuration, networked client/server and web environments, working knowledge of graphics and imaging technologies, digital collections production, HTML, SGML, CGI, PERL, Java and C++ programming; familiarity with Internet architecture and technologies involved in running a website; ability to work with multiple platforms, e.g., PC, Unix, Macintosh. Excellent communication, analytic and problem-solving skills. ALA accredited MLS, master's degree for tenure. Faculty status, attractive benefits package. Minimum: $36,000. To ensure consideration send resume and letter of application, including names, addresses and telephone numbers of 3 references by June 30, 1997 to Mr. Jeffrey Slemmer, Library Personnel Director, NYU Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. PRELIMINARY INTERVIEWS AT ALA Annual conference. NYU encourages applications from women and members of minority groups. From: David Green Subject: CNI's New Executive Director Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:09:26 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 66 (66) ****************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 15, 1997 I am delighted to be able to forward this announcement of the appointment of Cliff Lynch as the new executive director of CNI. I am very much looking forward to working closely with him. David Green ------------------------------------------------------ Forwarded from cni-announce CNI APPOINTS CLIFFORD LYNCH AS NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CNI announced today that Clifford A. Lynch will become the Coalition's new Executive Director beginning in July 1997. Lynch, who is currently the Director of Library Automation at the University of California Office of the President, succeeds Paul Evan Peters, CNI's founder and Executive Director, who died suddenly in November 1996. "Cliff is uniquely gifted to lead the Coalition," said Duane Webster, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries. "His intimate and long-standing relationship with CNI provides the background to help us all move the Coalition smoothly into the new environment we face." Robert C. Heterick, Jr., Educom President concurred, "Cliff Lynch is well known to, and much respected by, many members of the Educom community. His scholarly research in the general subject area of networked information is truly remarkable and often quoted." Heterick added, "His leadership of the Melvyl effort at the University of California was groundbreaking for scholars not only at the University of California but all across this nation and the world. I couldn't be more pleased to find that he has accepted our challenge to provide leadership for the very important work of the Coalition for Networked Information." Jane Ryland, CAUSE President, offered similar remarks, "I've had the pleasure of knowing and working with Clifford for years, well before we conceived of the concept of CNI. I'm truly delighted that we'll now have even more of his prodigious talents and energies working to help create a networked information environment for the 21st century." Lynch has been at the University of California since 1979 where he oversees university-wide library automation and internetworking activities. M. Stuart Lynn, Associate Vice President of Information Resources and Communications at the University of California commented regarding the announcement: "Whereas I and his many colleagues and friends at the University are sorry to see him leave after so many years of extraordinary service, we are delighted for him and for CNI as he takes on this new challenge in an important national policy position. UC - as a founding member of CNI - and I personally as a member of the CNI Steering Committee - are pleased that CNI will be moving forward under Cliff's inspirational leadership." Internationally known for his development of Melvyl, an information system which serves all of the campuses of the University of California, Lynch has played a key role in the development of information standards. Especially noteworthy is his work on Z39.50, which addresses the need for interoperability among information retrieval systems. He has served on the Board of Directors of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and currently is a member of NISO's Standards Development Committee, and is also active within the Internet Engineering Task Force. Lynch, who is the immediate past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has received several awards recognizing his contributions, including the American Library Association's LITA/Gaylord award, an ASIS Dissertation Award, and the American Society for Engineering Education's Homer Bernhardt Award. A prolific author, Lynch recently wrote an article that appears in the March 1997 issue of Scientific American. He has been involved in a wide range of national initiatives in areas ranging from preservation of electronic information to research programs for digital libraries. He has also taught at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley for a number of years, and played an active role in the committee that defined the program for the new school. Lynch holds a Bachelors of Arts in Mathematics and Computer Science from Columbia College; a Master of Sciences in Computer Science from the Columbia University School of Engineering; and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Regarding his appointment as CNI's Executive Director, Lynch said "It's a great honor to be able to build on the work that my friend and colleague Paul Peters has done on behalf of our whole community, and to be able to lead CNI into the 21st century. My belief is that CNI is the most important program that we have to chart the course for the development and exploitation of the possibilities of networked information to serve scholarship. As a community, we face enormous but often confusing opportunities that can be addressed only by working together on a national and international basis, and I will work to ensure that CNI continues to be a powerful vehicle for sorting through the confusion, fostering dialog, and engaging the opportunities before us." * * * From: Irish Corpus of Electronic Texts Subject: Irish Electronic Texts on the Internet Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 17:19:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 67 (67) Irish Electronic Texts on the Internet A new Web project called CELT is being launched by University College Cork to make text material of Irish interest widely available in computerised form. The project will cover contemporary and historical topics from many areas, including literature and the other arts. It aims to provide the material to the greatest possible range of readers, researchers, academic scholars, teachers, students, and the general public. UCC decided to create the new initiative when the Royal Irish Academy informed them last week that they were pulling out of the earlier joint project, CURIA, because the Academy's funding had been cut off by the major project sponsor for undisclosed reasons. Contact for further information: CELT Project Office: +353 21 902609. The project pages start at http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ The address of the former CURIA project (http://curia.ucc.ie) will remain valid for an interim period to allow users to update their records. Revised and updated texts from this project will be transferred to the CELT address shortly. ///Peter Flynn UCC Computer Centre University College Cork, Ireland From: Charles Ess Subject: Computers and Philosophy Conference Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 07:16:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 68 (68) Computing and Philosophy Conference Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA August 7 - 9th, 1997 The CAP conference, which is co-sponsored by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, has become a central meeting place for all aspects of computing and philosophy. This year's program will consist of a series of invited panel discussions and demonstrations. The presentations will revolve around topics covered by Bynum and Moor's publication of How Computers are Changing Philosophy. The CAP program includes speakers and panels addressing: The APA report on how computers are affecting Philosophical Research, Teaching and Professional Cooperation; utilizing the World Wide Web in Philosophy; Multimedia in teaching and research; Logic Software ; Epistemology and Artifical Intelligence; and Computer Ethics. Information on the conference, including on-line registration can be found on the CAP web-site: http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/CAP/CAPpage.html From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0031 editing, the humanities, and CS Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 19:51:23 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 69 (69) I would like to believe that the reasons behind CS and the humanities not communicating well over the years has many grand and noble reasons but some of it just plain shortsightedness -- largely on the part of the CS folks, I'm afraid. As a humanist turned computer scientist but maintaining a foot in each camp, I think both sides are a bit responsible. We as humanists do not always express our problems in the sort of rational, logical, and formalistic manner that the CS community is used to. But the CS folks often are not looking for problems to solve outside their labs, as well. I am reminded of an amazing comment that I heard from the then President of the Association for Computational Linguists (one would assume an organization that lay somewhere between CS and HC) -- and Nancy Ide was there at the time and can vouch for my memory. While trying to discuss cooperation between ACH and ACL, Nancy and I mentioned that the two fields overlapped considerably. The reply from this (unnamed) ACL official was "What do the humanities have to do with computational linguistics?" I am happy to say that further effort on our part convinced ACL that there was in fact a BIT of overlap, and cooperation between the two organizations improved considerably. Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: Larry Taylor Subject: Re: 11.0030 Deep Blue, human intelligence, and AI Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:10:29 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 70 (70) On Deep Blue, there's been many words, And some of them have been for the birds. I'll agree with this switch: It's not a "who," but a "which;" And it's less, "Frankenstein," and more, "Revenge of the Nerds." LAT From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 11.0036 CS, the humanities and AI Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 17:05:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 71 (71) Mary Dee Harris said: [deleted quotation] I'd like to put in a word for what may be an unusual instance of collaboration, but one that needs to be documented in this context. The University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities exists because Bill Wulf and Alan Batson, of UVa's CS department, took an opportunity with IBM and steered it in the direction of humanities computing. This opening, and the continuing support of the Institute at UVa and beyond, has a great deal to do with Alan's practical support (at the time the Institute was set up, Alan was the head of UVa's Academic Computing division, and continues as a faculty member in the Computer Science Department, and an informal advisor to IATH), and with Bill's conviction that the humanities will raise the most interesting CS problems over the next decade or two. Many humanists will not be familiar with Bill's name, so I should add that Mr. Wulf is former Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation, a fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences, AT&T Computer Science professor at UVa, and President of the National Academy of Engineering. I guess the lesson would be that meaningful collaboration and cross-disciplinary understanding is possible, but (as with all good things) it depends more on the character and vision of individuals than on institutional structures or formal initiatives. John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: spam wars (fwd) Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 13:33:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 72 (72) Given the recent discussions of spam here, this ought to be of interest. --Matt [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Virtual Museum of Computing Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 08:42:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 73 (73) Humanists will likely enjoy a visit to The Virtual Museum of Computing, which "includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world." URL: <http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html>. 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: May issue of D-Lib Magazine Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:00:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 74 (74) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 16, 1997 The May issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at <http://www.dlib.org>. In addition to our usual collection of notices and announcements, we are pleased to feature the following stories: CONTENTS The New Zealand Digital Library MELody inDEX Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith David Bainbridge and Ian H. Witten University of Waikato Across Languages, Across Cultures: Issues in Multilinguality and Digital Libraries Carol Peters Eugenio Picchi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Just-in-Time Conversion, Just-in-Case Collections: Effectively Leveraging Rich Document Formats for the WWW John Price-Wilkin Digital Library Production Service University of Michigan Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Assuring Convenient Security and Data Quality Henry M. Gladney J. B. Lotspiech IBM Almaden Research Center Data Modeling for News Clip Archive: A Prototype Solution Robert C. Plotkin Michael S. Schwartz IBM T.J. Watson Research Center D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| R.E.B. Arnold, Editorial Assistant Corporation for National Research Initiatives 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 20191-5434 The Phone: (703) 620-8990 The Fax: (703) 758-5913 The Net: reba@cnri.reston.va.us The Web: http://www.cnri.reston.va.us The Web: http://www.dlib.org The Web: http://www.handle.net |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| From: David Green Subject: Digitizing Photo Collections WORKSHOP (June 7-9, Rochester, NY) Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 09:00:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 75 (75) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 16, 1997 DIGITIZING PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS WORKSHOP June 7-9, 1997 Rochester, NY A colloquium for the exchange of information among those actively involved in photograph digitizing projects, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities' Division of Preservation and Access and the Image Permanence Institute (IPI), will be held June 7-9, 1997, at IPI, Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology. Participants will discuss such questions as: How will institutions use digital images? What image quality is required? Do we need standards? And, if so, who should define them? The colloquium is part of a two-year NEH-sponsored project to investigate the key technical issues and problems of digital imaging for use in library and archive photographic collections. IPI's project is examining the issue of image quality requirements and their relationship to institutional policies and purposes. Speakers and panelists will include managers of preservation and digitizing projects from libraries and archives, imaging consultants, and representatives of industry. Photohistorians are encouraged to attend, to bring a scholarly perspective to the discussions. Contact: Jane Pestke, Image Permanence Institute Phone: (716) 475-5199. Fax: (716) 475-7230 E-mail: cjppph@rit.edu From: Barry Dank Subject: Call for Papers Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 15:40:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 76 (76) CALL FOR PAPERS The 1998 volume of SEXUALITY & CULTURE: An Interdisciplinary Journal will deal primarily with a central theme: sex work and sex workers. Theoretical and empirical articles dealing with any aspect of prostitution, pornography and other commercialized avenues of sexuality should be submitted to Professor Roberto Refinetti, Managing Editor, SEXUALITY & CULTURE, Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187. Four copies of the ms should be submitted. Deadline for submission is January 12, 1998. Professor Refinetti can also be contacted via e-mail at refine@facstaff.wm.edu For other information pertaining to this issue or the journal, contact Professor Barry M. Dank, Editor-In-Chief, Department of Sociology, California State University, Long Beach, CA 90840 or via e-mail at case@csulb.edu Contributors should check the journal web page for possible changes of address prior to sending manuscripts. Journal web page address is http://www..csulb.edu/asc~/journal.html ________________________________________________________________________ Subscription Information and information on the 1997 issue of the journal follow. SEXUALITY & CULTURE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL VOLUME 1 (1997) THEMATIC ISSUE: SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND SEXUAL CONSENT EDITORIALS Sexuality & Culture: An interdisciplinary journal by Barry M. Dank (Department of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach) Sexual harassment, sexual consent, and beyond by Roberto Refinetti (Department of Psychology, College of William & Mary) THEORETICAL ARTICLES Sexual harassment in organizations: A critique of current research and policy by Christine L. Williams (Department of Sociology, University of Texas) "Academia's dirty little secret": Deconstructing the sexual harassment hysteria by Klaus de Albuquerque (Department of Sociology, College of Charleston) Sexual harassment policies as all-purpose tools to settle conflicts by Heinz-Joachim Klatt (Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario) Forbidden love: Student-professor romances by Barry M. Dank (Department of Sociology, Cal State Long Beach), and Joseph S.Fulda ( Philosophy, New York City) On prohibiting relationships between professors and students by Peg Tittle (Department of Philosophy, Nipissing University) EMPIRICAL ARTICLES Gender-specific differences in evolved mating "strategies": The evolutionary basis of sexual conflict by Peggy La Cerra (Psychology, Santa Barbara, California) College students' perceptions of the relationship between sex and drinking by Gwendell W. Gravitt, Jr. and Mary M. Krueger (Health Science Center, Emory University) Sexual harassment on a South African university campus: Reverberations from Apartheid by Gillian Finchilescu (Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town) REVIEW ESSAYS Pornography by any other name by Warren Farrell (Gender Psychology, Encinitas, California) The making of a social problem: Sexual harassment on campus by Daphne Patai (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Massachusetts) The next wave in rape law reform: Criminalizing bad sex by Wolfgang P. Hirczy de Mino (Department of Political Science, (Oklahoma State University) ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY References examining assaults by women on their spouses/partners by Martin S. Fiebert (Department of Psychology, Cal State Long Beach) BOOK REVIEWS The rules, by E. Fein and S. Schneider, and The power of beauty, by N. Friday by Cathy Young (Cato Institute, Washington, DC) Moral panic: Biopolitics rising, by J. Fekete by Louis Marinoff (Department of Philosophy, City College of New York) Bound and gagged: Pornography and the politics of fantasy in America, by L. Kipnis by Robyn E. Blumner (American Civil Liberties Union of Florida) Intimate terrorism: The crisis of love in an age of disillusionment, by M. V. Miller by Rhoda Estep Macdonald (Department of Sociology, Cal State Stanislaus) Fair new world, by L. Tafler by Joseph S. Fulda (New York City) Copyright (c)1997 by Transaction Publishers. All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sexuality & Culture is published by Transaction Publishers. Publication frequency is one issue per year (Volume 1 in 1997). Issues may be purchased separately or by subscription at $21.95 per issue. Shipping costs are added to orders from outside the United States ($8 surface, $16 air mail). Please send all orders to: Transaction Periodicals Consortium Subscription Department Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Phone: (908) 445-2280 [Anyone who wonders what this has to do with computing hasn't been online for very long.... --WM] From: Jeff Finlay Subject: American Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending May 18 Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 20:36:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 77 (77) AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending May 18, 1997 (657-714) American Studies Opportunities & News is a weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit a posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact the Crossroads Administrator The following items appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from May 11-18, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 657 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; for the first and second posting, your message will be GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 657 682). Jobs ==== 657 Am History/Humanities, Franklin Pierce College (non-tenure) 682 Am Litt, Northwestern State U, Louisiana (tenure, due 5/30) 661 Am Studies/Litt, U. Washington-Bothell (non-tenure, due 5/28) 684 Women's Studies/Am Politics, Columbia U (tenure, due 5/31) 685 Women's Studies, Columbia University (tenure, due 5/31) Fellowships & Prizes ==================== 714 Fulbright Senior Scholars Program (due Aug 1) 700 Internships in Chicago-Area Community-Based Orgs 681 Irvine Visiting Fellows Program, Pepperdine University 706 Postdoc, Comparative Studies of Millennialism, Yale U 711 Postdoc, Japan-related Research, SSRC (due Dec 15) 663 Postdoc, Killam Fellowships, Dalhousie U, Canada (due Oct 15) Calls for Contributions to Journals/Books ========================================= 687 Essays in Living Differently Gendered (anthology) 703 History News Service (historically informed journalism) 659 National Minority Career Journal Calls for Papers for Conferences ================================ 708 19th Century Body, C19 Studies Assoc, Huntsville AL, Apr 98 668 Cultural Studies Assoc of Australia, Melbourne, Dec 97 680 Documenting the Midwest, St Louis, Oct 97 686 Mexico-US Border Region Historiography, Tijuana, Nov 97 694 Toxic Towers -- Women in Academe, Akron OH, Aug 97 664 Women in Higher Education, San Francisco, Jan 98 688 Women's Voices in Policy & Politics, Kentucky, Mar 98 Calls for Conference Panels =========================== 690 Gender in 1950s, Pacific Coast AHA, San Diego, Aug 98 666 Gossip in Academic Life, SCMLA, New Orleans, Nov 97 712 Work in Lives of Academic Women with Children, Conf in Aug 97 Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically) ============================================================= 709 America in Depression & War 1929-1945, Netherlands, Jun 25-27 702 American Library Assoc Preconferences, San Francisco, Jun 27 669 PCA/ACA National & Regional Meetings -- Schedule Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices ============================================== 693 Book Arts Members Exhibition, San Francisco, through Jun 28 665 Futures of American Studies Conf, Dartmouth NH, Aug 10-17 710 Japanese Americans in Baseball Exhibit, California, to Aug 8 692 Mexhostel Mexican Cultural Tourism Program, Oct 97-Apr 98 Bibliographical & Online Resources ================================== 683 African-American Contributions to Mainstream Art (website) 660 Economists & Regulation in Gilded Age/Progressive Era (essay) 672 Electrical History Review Online Journal 689 French Association for American Studies Database (website) 667 New List, Literata, for discussion of British/Am Litt 696 New List, PGPC, Australian Discission of Postcolonialism 699 Okinawa, The American Years, 1945-1972 (website) 679 Online Bibliography of Women's History in Journals (website) 695 Charles Colson Papers, at Billy Graham Center (archive) 713 Photography Resource & Photography Listservs on Web 678 Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (online org) 691 Webpage for Minerva Center (study of women & war) 670 Website of Archival Management & Historical Editing 671 Website of Rare Books & Special Collections, Tarlton Law 705 Website on Teaching Anthropology in Second-Level Education Book Reviews (abbreviated/by subtitle for clarification purposes) ================================================================= 674 Carlos Fuentes, A New Time for Mexico (Lucy H-LATAM) 704 Eicher, The Civil War in Books (Parrish H-CIVWAR) 698 Jeffries, World War II Home Front in America (Reagan) 675 Kammen, Gilbert Seldes & US Cultural Criticism (Berkeley) 658 Marvel, The Sailor's Civil War (Schneller H-CIVWAR) 707 McGreevy, Catholic Encounter with Race in Am Cities (Pacyga) 697 Mulholland, Pennsylvania Volunteers in Civil War (Sanders) 701 Ogle, American Household Plumbing, 1840-1890 (Elkind H-URBAN) 662 Winship, Puritan Providentialism (Errington OIEAHCNET) Tables of Contents ================== 677 Ayaangwaamizin, Journal of Indigenous Philosophy (Spring 97) 676 Role of Critic in Postcolonial Studies, Acolit (Spring 96) 673 Workers in Racially Stratified Societies, ILWCH (Spring 97) From: Mark Olsen Subject: Dictionnaire de L'Academie francaise, 5th Edition, 1798 Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:36:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 78 (78) Dictionnaire de l'Académie, 5th Edition, 1798 (Year VII). As part of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française Database Project (<http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~wulfric/academie/>) directed by R. Wooldridge and I. Leroy-Turcan, Professor Douglas Kibbee, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago, are collaborating to perform data capture, required editing, and development of a search engine for the 5th Edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française, published in 1798 (Year VII). We are pleased to announce an ALPHA release of this resource, accessible to all users at: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/academie/ This is a preliminary release, using a very simple headword search engine, so we are expecting some problems. We are developing a more sophisticated search scheme for this, and other documents, such as our Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Please feel free to examine this resource and let me know about bugs, typos, mis-identified structures, and anything else that seems to be a problem. Data entry of the first edition of the Dictionnaire (1695) is underway and should be completed in a month or so. Work on other editions, including the edition of 1765, is under way or being planned. Thus, your comments, complaints, and suggestions are quite important, since we can alter our proceedures and systems as we get this project underway. Thanks in advance!! 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: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0039 CS and the humanities Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 19:41:35 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 79 (79) John Unsworth writes: [deleted quotation] Yes, John is right that there are exceptions (thank goodness) to my complaint! And Bill Wulf is an exceptional person in many ways including having the foresight to assist in building such a strong program as UVA's. And there is also a new generation of humanists and computer scientists so we should hope for the best in the future. Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: "Robert S. Tannenbaum" Subject: Re: 11.0036 CS, the humanities and AI Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 10:50:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 80 (80) [deleted quotation] Mary Dee's note brought to mind a recent provocative article (Peter Wegner. "Why Interaction is More Powerful than Algorithms." Communications of the ACM. 40(5), May, 1997, pp. 80-91), which I just read. An interesting redefinition of computer science, which could be of considerable importance to humanities computing, may be forming around the concept of interactions, as opposed to algorithms. Wegner asserts that "interaction is a more powerful paradigm than rule-based algorithms for computer problem-solving, overturning the prevailing view that all computing is expressible as algorithms." He explains that much of modern computing cannot be modeled in terms of a Turing machine, that is, a prespecified set of instructions that will eventually come to a halt when completed. Rather, interactive systems are dependent upon their history (the sequence of interactions) and they can "learn" and adapt over time based upon their "experience." Humanists have know this for several decades, but have been constrained by the prevailing computer science paradigms. 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: Steve McCarty Subject: Ideological Spamming vs. Academia in Cyberspace Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 15:17:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 81 (81) Greetings again from Japan. In the brief time that my college has been online I've learned what a great need there is for reliable knowledge about East Asia in particular, as well as for East-West mutual exchange of knowledge though academic listservers. And yet I have also seen both rightists and leftists in institutions of higher education destroy unmoderated discussion lists with their ideological spamming. In both cases they also harrassed minorities as well as intellectual leaders of the lists, while sending sexually harrassing personal messages to female list members. Others have avoided ostracism by embedding their biases in frequent populist posts, advertising their extremism subliminally in small doses. They all subordinate tried-and-true academic standards and ethics to ideology, which may represent a more direct assault on Academia than commercially motivated spam. On 18 May 1997 Matt Kirschenbaum forwarded "spam wars," replete with bellicose cyberspace versions of terrorism, bombs, hijacking, extortion and other threats of harm, plus the informant victim's offer of a reward and determination to have the spammer punished. An unmoderated discussion list that I founded in the wake of the Knowledge and Discourse Conference at the University of Hong Kong was hijacked by a cyber-terrorist after I reported on the reaction of the Japanese vernacular media to the release of the real-life hostages in Peru. "Che lives" slogans combined with attacks on multiculturalism, many cross-posts from other lists plus hate mail to individuals with different views, in effect murdered off the fifty hostages who unsubscribed. A minority woman at Harvard Divinity School objected to the obscenities, while Peruvian and Brazilian women blasted the spammer's cowardly tactics. I forwarded some of it to the public university from which the spam originated, but though the spammer was harassing the school administration along with many academic lists, its policy was that First Amendment rights allow anything to be posted to open lists. But this list had members from about 30 countries including China and Singapore where receivers of obscene mail could be subject to arrest. The fine print on university diplomas also speaks not only of entitlements but also of obligations. Academia is being reconstituted in cyberspace, and it is not humanistic to surrender unmoderated lists to the 'spammability' of the medium. For academic lists to be forced to be closed and moderated to avoid destruction suggests a sort of "Waterworld" society. Moderated lists have a bulwark not enjoyed by open lists, but there is no common ground--such as a consensus as to what constitutes a general liberal arts education--on which to grow anything in this floating world. Academia ought to be like a network of beacons among the worldwide community of scholars. But if those beacons shine only on the interior of walls behind double-locked doors of paid admissions and bouncer software, with knowledge hoarded along with wealth by the privileged, then Academia is locked in its Ivory Tower without a mission in society. This is a plea to computing humanists who may be able to approach this issue from both sides, by narrowing the spammability of cyberspace while widening its educational role. Best regards, Steve McCarty steve_mc@ws0.kagawa-jc.ac.jp http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/pub/apexj/mccarty.html http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: info spamming Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 21:55:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 82 (82) This may be to put an incautious foot on the slippery slope of metaphor, but I also have a form of spamming that has annoyed me more than a little. I call this "info-spamming". For the editor of a discussion group such as this one, info-spamming consists of VERY long announcements for conferences, usually in areas only tangentially related to the interests of the group, that are obviously sent everywhere the organiser can think of, especially (I guess, uncharitably) to those groups that said organiser does not have to suffer from the consequences of. Not atypically these announcements describe everything from the keynote speaker to the T-shirts and parking facilities, ignoring the fact that all such information can be kept on a Web page. What's worse, they're usually in exotic locations I'd love to go to but cannot afford. Where these people get the funding is more than I can fathom. My response? Delete those that seem furthest from our ken, publish the few that I think might be of some interest. I am reminded of the many crises of volume that occurred in the early days of Humanist and how often I puzzled over what exactly people were objecting to. An interesting question, actually, if you think about it. What do we mean when we say "too much!" The digesting practice I began then, which persists to this day, remains the best response I know of, other than pulling the plug. 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: csmr98@aguirre.ing.UNIFI.IT Subject: CFPs: 2nd Euromicro Work.Conf. on Soft.Maint. & Reeng., Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 13:36:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 83 (83) Florence Call for Papers --------------- 2nd EUROMICRO WORKING CONFERENCE on SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND REENGINEERING Florence, Italy -- March 9-11, 1998 The purpose of the working conference is to promote discussion and interaction about a series of topics which are yet underrepresented. We are particularly interested in exchanging concepts, prototypes, research ideas, and other results which could contribute to the academic arena and also benefit business and industrial community. Researcher, practitioners, technology transition experts, project managers, developers and users of tools, are all welcome. Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: Maintenance and Reengineering Tools (CARE-Tools), Reverse Engineering Tools, Support of Reengineering Tasks by CASE-Tools, Software Reusability, Tele-Maintenance (Concepts, Experiences, Use of New Technologies), Maintainability of Programming Languages (e.g., OOPLs), Models and Methods for Error Prediction, Measurement of Software Quality, Maintenance Metrics, Formal Methods, Maintenance and Reengineering of KBS, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering Concepts, Experiences from Redesign and Reengineering Projects, Millennium Problem (Year 2000), Euro Problem, Organizational Framework and Models for "RE"-Projects, Software Evolution, Migration and Maintenance Strategies, Design for Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Personnel Aspects of Maintenance (Motivation, Team building), Third Party Maintenance, Empirical Results about the Maintenance Situation in Businesses, Version and Configuration Management, Legal Aspects and Jurisdiction, Organization and Management of Large Maintenance Projects, Software Offloading, Related Areas such as Software Documentation. Program Committee: V.S. Alagar, USA; A. Ambriola, I; G. Bakker, NL; K. Bennett, UK; A. Bertolino, I; F. Brito e Abreu, P; G. Bucci, I; M. Campanai, I; A. Cimitile, I; I. Classen, D; L. da F. Costa, BR; J.A. de La Puente, S; A. Fantechi, I; J.-L. Hainaut, B; J. Harauz, CA; B. Henderson-Sellers, AU; M. Hinchey, USA; F. Lehner, D; E.-A. Karlsson, S; T.M. Khoshgoftaar, USA; P. Laplante, USA; S. Liu, J; M. Loewe, D; M. Marchesi, I; T.J. Marlowe, USA; E. Miller, USA; J.-M. Morel, F; D. Natale, I; P. Nesi, I; S. Nocentini, I; M. Pezze`, I; P.T. Poon, USA; L. Richter, CH; D. Rombach, D; G. Sechi, I; J. Sommerville, UK; A. Stoyen, USA; J. Taramaa, SF; H. Toetenel, NL; G. Tsai, USA; Y. Yamaguchi, J; SUBMISSIONS: There are two types of papers: full length papers (not exceeding 4000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract) and short papers (not exceeding 2000 words in length and including a 75-100 word abstract). Authors are strongly encouraged to send a PostScript version of their paper by anonymous ftp to ftp.dsi.unifi.it and put this file into the directory pub/CSMR98/incoming (in order to avoid overwritings, the PostScript file should be named:.ps). In addition, they should send by e-mail to CSMR98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it the title of the paper, full names, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses of all authors, fax and telephone numbers. Alternatively, the paper can be sent by postal mail. In that case, five copies of all the above items should be sent to a program chairman. Proceeding will be published by IEEE Computer Society. Full papers exceeding 8 pages (short papers 4 pages) will be charged for pages in excess.For more information please contact the organization at the addresses: csmr98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it http://www.isst.fhg.de/csmr http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~nesi/csmr98.html The DEADLINE for submissions is Sept. 15, 1997. Authors will be notified of acceptance by Nov.25, 1997. The camera ready version of the paper will be required by Dec. 25, 1997. The following signed information should be included in the submission: All necessary clearances have been obtained for the publication of this paper. If accepted, the author(s) prepare the camera-ready manuscript in time for inclusion in the proceedings, and will personally present the paper at the working conference. SPECIAL SESSIONS: Sessions of special interest proposed by delegates will be welcome. Please send suggestions to a program chairman before the closing date of submissions. Program Chair: Paolo Nesi Dip. Sistemi e Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4796523 Fax: +39-55-4796363 email: nesi@ingfi1.ing.unifi.it csmr98@ozon180.ing.unifi.it Program co-Chair: Franz Lehner Institute for Business Informatics, University of Regensburg Universitatsstr, 31, D-93040 REGENSBURG, Germany Tel.: +49-941-943-2734 Fax: +49-941-943-4986 email:Franz.Lehner@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de Organizing Chair: Alessandro Fantechi Dip. di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Via S. Marta, 3, 50139 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4796265 Fax: +39-55-4796363 email: fantechi@dsi.dsi.unifi.it Local Chair: Maurizio Campanai CESVIT (High-Tech Agency), Fortezza da Basso Viale F. Strozzi 1, 50129 Firenze, Italy Tel: +39-55-4619154 Fax: +39-55-485345 email: campanai@cesvit.it General information The conference will take place at Palazzo degli Affari, in the center of Florence. Enquiries about the working conference arrangements should be directed to the organizing chairman or to the local chairman. Preregistration is suggested for the authors. From: Special Issues Project Subject: first call for papers Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:11:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 84 (84) CALL FOR PAPERS: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Computer-mediated communication (CMC) networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, offer tantalizing possibilities of global communications. If such communications facilitate dialogues which both cross and preserve irreducible cultural and political boundaries, they may contribute immeasurably to greater global understanding and democratization. But diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication also issue in culturally distinctive ways of implementing and using CMC technologies. Some of these culturally-grounded differences in implementation and use frustrate, rather than facilitate, hopes for greater global communication. Our thematic question: how do diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of CMC technologies? We seek to respond to this question by bringing together, in a special issue and international conference, papers which articulate the connections between specific cultural values and present and/or possible future communicative practices involving CMC technologies. We seek articles which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of "electronic democracy" better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems such as the Internet and the World Wide Web. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. The special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue electronique de Communication (EJCReC) will appear in the third quarter of 1998. For additional information on this project, visit our Web sites: <http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/index.html> <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/index.html> Submissions to the special issue with an abstract, are due to the guest editor, Dr. Charles Ess, by November 1, 1997. For more information, please contact Dr Charles Ess, . Submissions to the conference are due to the co-chair, Fay Sudweeks, by 1 November 1997. For more information, please contact Fay Sudweeks, . From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM 97: PRELIMINARY PROGRAM NOW AVAILABLE Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 00:07:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 85 (85) Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe presents ICHIM 97 in partnership with le Mus=E9e du Louvre The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums will be held 1-5 September 1997 at Le Musee du Louvre, Paris, France. Two days of pre-conference workshops and events are followed by three days of presentations by over 60 experts from around the world. Theme days feature Multimedia Publications, Geographic Information and the World Wide Web. Three days of rotating exhibits include dozens of demonstrations by developers of museum projects and commercial firms active in museum computing and cultural publication. Numerous opportunities will be provided for social interaction. The Preliminary Program and Registration details for ICHIM 97 are available at: www.archimuse.com/ichim97 See you there! -------- 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: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: CFR: Computing Workshop, Glasgow, UK. Sept '97. Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 17:57:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 86 (86) WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Department of Statistics =20 University of Glasgow, UK 11, 12 September 1997 Announcement and Call for Registration 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,=20 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. The registration fee is GBP150.00 and GBP100.00 for students. For more information about the workshop and to register, please consult the web site at http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql, or send email to the conference organisers at cimql@stats.gla.ac.uk. From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy Subject: Computers and Text, a practical course Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:10:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 87 (87) Dear Colleague, Over the past few years, many colleagues have commented that they would like to use computational techniques in their own research and teaching, or would like to encourage their students to do so, but that they lack some of the basic knowledge and skills. This is true for colleagues in various fields of study, such as language, literature, culture, and history. In order to assist such colleagues, a group of us are arranging `Computers and Text', a practical course in using computers for language analysis, which will take place in Debrecen, Hungary from 4th-10th September 1997. We hope that the Course will enable colleagues to get a better idea of the benefits that computer-based methods can offer them in their work and study. Although the focus of this course will be on the English language, most of the principles and techniques involved are broadly applicable to other languages, for many of which corpora and computer tools already exist or are currently being developed. We will certainly be willing to advise and assist people working on other languages. As we are a self-funding course, we would appreciate anything you can do to publicize this event. Please copy this email to your colleagues and relevant departments in your institution, or to any newsletters, bulletins, or journals you contribute to or subscribe to. Or print out the email and pin it up on your noticeboards. Thanks in advance for your support. Best wishes. =20 Ramesh Krishnamurthy, COBUILD, University of Birmingham. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. (For further information about the ESSE/4 Conference, visit the home page of ESSE: http://www.unil.ch/angl/docs/esse). 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):=20 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 REGISTRATION: Fill in the pre-registration form electronically at http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course if you can. Otherwise, fill in the Registration form at the end of this announcement, and post it to the Course Organizer. Applications must be received by 30th June 1997, otherwise late registration fees will apply. Once your Registration form has been received, a booking confirmation will be issued to you within 5 working days by e-mail, or 21 working days by post, if you have not given us an e-mail address. 6 Extra Practical Classes are available, at a fee of UK Pounds 50, or US $ 80, per person. If you wish to join these classes, please fill in the relevant section on the Registration form below. TIMETABLE: As the Course timetable depends partly on the ESSE/4 Conference timetable, details will be issued after the Conference timetable is published.=20 IMPORTANT: If you are taking part in any of the ESSE/4 Conference events, please tell us which events in the relevant section of the Registration form below, and we will try to organize the Course program to avoid clashes with your ESSE/4 commitments. COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41= =2E Email: rovnyf@tigris.klte.hu =09=09 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM ----------------- 1. YES, I want to take part in the `Computers and Text' Course described above from 4th-10th September 1997, in Debrecen, Hungary. REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160 (before 30th June 1997) LATE REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 325, UK pounds 200 (after 30th June 1997) 2. I understand that it is a pre-condition to register with the ESSE/4 Conference as well. =20 (Fill in BLOCK LETTERS, please, and send to the COURSE ORGANIZER: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41.) Title (Prof/Dr/Mrs/Mr/Miss/Ms): Position/Institution: Surname: First name: =20 Address: Country: =20 Zip code: E-mail: Telephone: Fax: EXTRA PRACTICAL CLASSES: (Delete 1. or 2. as appropriate) 1. YES, I wish to join the 6 extra practical classes at an additional fee = of UK Pounds 50 or US $ 80. 2. NO, I do not wish to join the 6 extra practical classes. ESSE/4 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: I will be taking part in the following lecture(s), seminar(s) and roundtable(s): From: David Green Subject: Roundtable PRESS RELEASE Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:08:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 88 (88) WASHINGTON, DC Spring 1997 COMPUTING AND THE HUMANITIES: PROMISE AND PROSPECTS A National Arts and Humanities Computing Roundtable A national effort to foster programmatic interaction between the humanities and the computer science communities could significantly enrich both disciplines. This was the unanimous sentiment of a recent roundtable involving a diverse group of researchers and executives from the arts, humanities and computing and communications communities on March 28, 1997, held at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. This lively brainstorming meeting was hosted by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council and convened by an extraordinary collaboration of the Board with the Coalition for Networked Information, the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, and the Two Ravens Institute. Unequivocally, participants urged further and wider multi-disciplinary discussions as a prelude to possible practical action. The Computing and the Humanities roundtable confirmed the organizers' expectations that further progress requires mutual focus on several key issues: DIGITIZING CULTURAL WORKS Understanding the intrinsic qualities of arts and humanities material to enable appropriate conversion to electronic media; the development of a critical mass of electronic works; and the encouragement of the generation of new material that may only be possible via electronic media; INTEROPERABILITY Developing cross-disciplinary and cross-media interoperability of systems and formats to enable researchers and the general public to search, find, and appraise a wide selection of humanities material in disparate physical locations, and to do so easily and creatively; PRESERVATION & ACCESS Facilitating the preservation of and access to relevant information resources over time and across a range of systems and media; PLANNING Planning for the new capabilities and new organization of resources that newer technology will continue to make possible; INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Understanding the need for institutional support for the deployment and maintenance of technical infrastructure, including networks, libraries of electronic material, and computer-based tools for working with humanities materials, as well as the nurturing of relevant human infrastructure, such as the support for cross-disciplinary collaboration; and COLLABORATION Identifying mutually satisfying mechanisms enabling humanists to work more effectively with industry and academic technologists to generate software and systems of value to humanists that also challenge computer scientists. A summary report on the Roundtable proceedings will be published in the fall of 1997 by the National Research Council. The report will also be distributed by the American Council of Learned Societies as an ACLS occasional paper. AGENDA AND DESCRIPTION OF ORGANIZERS AVAILABLE AT <http://www-ninch.cni.org/projects/C&H/roundtable.html> =============================================================== 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 . ============================================================== From: Gloria McMillan Subject: Paper on TEi-SGML _Dracula_ (need comments)...) Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:28:11 MST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 89 (89) [deleted quotation] *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* gmcmillan@east.pima.edu http://pimacc.pima.edu/~gmcmillan/index.html VIRTUAL CLASSROOM: Diversity University MOO TELNET>128.18.101.106 8888 login as: co guest Type: @go #2673 *----------------*---------------*---------------*-----------------* From: Willard McCarty Subject: pre-conference virtual paper Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 07:55:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 90 (90) Continuing to experiment with our common medium, I have put online my paper for the upcoming ACH/ALLC conference, "Theft of fire: meaning in the markup of names". This paper is meant to accompany the online tutorial for my research project, "Ovid in the metatext: an exercise in close reading through tags". This paper is my attempt, however feeble or strong you may judge, to come to terms with the implications of markup for literary critical research as a whole and Ovidian studies in particular. Much of it necessarily has to introduce the project itself, and being designed for presentation within a narrow slot of time it is quite cursory. Nevertheless, I would appreciate all comments on the form as well as content. See, and I hope enjoy, at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/Onomasticon/theft/> (Europe) <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~mccarty/Onomasticon/theft/> (the Americas & beyond) One of my objectives is to stir up debate on how its sort of thing might be done most effectively. I realise that it is, as it stands, very fiddly, requiring too many mouse-clicks and, alas, demanding a browser on the relatively high end of things. But the paper and tutorial demand nothing more than frames and a little Java script running on freely available, cross-platformed software -- nothing at all proprietary, nothing that anyone likely to be interested has not already downloaded. So, please, treat it as a prototype -- both form and content! 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: Greg Lessard Subject: Last reminder: ACH-ALLC97 - Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:03:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 91 (91) ***Please distribute widely*** ***LAST REMINDER*** 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 Registration form available on the web page or by email to: achallc97-admin@qucis.queensu.ca ---> Check out the PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS on the web page <--- 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 Bénard, Cocteau multimédia 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 références et coréférences 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 and Transfer in Unification-based Multilingual Machine Translation System Lise Desmarais, Mee-Lian Chung, Lise Duquette, Delphine Renié, Michel Laurier, L'évaluation des apprentissages et des interactions dans un environnement multimédia 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 Correspondence 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. (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 Electronic 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. (Introduction 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 Mönnink, 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, Øystein 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 State 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 Stéfan Sinclair, L'HyperPo: Exploration des structures lexicales à l'aide 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 assistée par ordinateur - Version 3AD95 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: Khalid Choukri Subject: ELRA New Language Resources Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:28:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 92 (92) [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION (ELRA) *** NEW CATALOGUE & NEW RESOURCES *** The new release of ELRA catalogue (vol2N1) has grown up and currently consists of: 1) Spoken resources: 37 databases in several languages (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, phonetic dictionaries, etc.). 2) Written resources: * 14 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 28 monolingual lexica * Around 60 multilingual lexica * A linguistic software platform and grammars development platform 3) Terminological resources: over 360 databases with a wide range of domains and several languages (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish). Since our last news on this electronic list, new resources have been negotiated by ELRA and are now available. These are: SPEECH AND RELATED RESOURCES ELRA-S0035 Phonolex (BAS/DFKI): PHONOLEX consists of a simple list of word forms (666,237 inflected words) with a set of features e.g. orthography (German 'Umlauts' in LaTeX format, capital nouns, old German spelling rules), linguistic information (nouns, verbs, etc.), pronunciation and a list of empirical pronunciations. Language: German Format: ASCII Mark-up: extended SAM-PA (PhonDat-Verbmobil) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-S0036 Speri-Data AG Basic dictionaries (colloquial= language): These dictionaries contain a daily-life vocabulary. They include phonetic transcriptions with related phoneme lists. The following languages are available: Language Entries Danish 8,000 Dutch 12,000 English (UK) 8,000 Finnish 10,000 French 19,000 German 13,000 Italian 23,000 Norwegian 8,000 Portuguese 9,000 Spanish 13,000 Swedish 10,000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-S0037 Speri-Data AG Technical dictionaries: All dictionaries contain phonetic transcriptions, with related phoneme lists. The following dictionaries are available (the label basic dictionary refers to the above ELRA-S0036): Domain Entries Banking French 10,200 Banking German 10,200 Banking Italian 10,200 Banking Spanish 10,200 Radiology German 42,000 (including basic dictionary) Radiology English 16,000 Medical German 130,000 (including basic dictionary) Jurisprudence German 31,000 Jurisprudence German 55,000 (including basic dictionary) Insurance German & English 37,000 A peculiarity of medical dictionaries in German speaking countries has to be taken into consideration: doctors in Germany, Austria and Switzerland may not use the original technical terms in Latin but the Latin word in a spelled manner or a German technical term (see examples below). Medical dictionaries therefore have to contain three different terms. Technical term Technical term Technical term in Latin in German spelling in German Appendicitis Appendizitis Blinddarmentz=FCndung Eccema Eczema Ekzem Diarrhoe Diarrh=F6 or Diarrh=F6e Durchfall, Durchfluss Carbunculus Karbunkel Geschw=FCr ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-S0038 Siemens VoiceMail (American English) VoiceMail consists of 17,5 hours of read acoustic speech divided into 9,5 hours of transliterated speech and 8 hours of non-transliterated speech recorded over the digital telephone network (ISDN) with 921 speakers originated from the USA. It contains orthographic transliteration for about 25,000 utterrances (of 34,912 utterances in total). Language: American English Standard in use: headerless, one separate transliteration file comprising all utterances of all speakers Sampling rate: 8 kHz Speakers: 377 males and 544 females Size: 17,5 hours Medium: 2 CD-ROM WRITTEN RESOURCES - MONOLINGUAL LEXICA ELRA-L0021 Dictionary of French verbs - CORA: This dictionary contains 25,610 verbs with usage domains, level of language (familiar, popular, literary, Quebec and Swiss terms, etc.), conjugation, auxiliary, verbal adjectives in -able, -ant or -, encoded syntactical constructions (subject, direct & indirect object, adverb), sample phrases, synonyms, operators enabling semantic-syntactic classification, encoding of derived forms in -age, -ment, -tion, -oir, -ure, deverbal nouns, base words from which verbs can be derived, a scale of usage ranging from 1 to 6, like those used by commercial dictionaries (basic vocabulary, extended, specialised, etc.). Codes enable automatic production of conjugation forms, derived nouns and adjectives and, if necessary, the production of potential forms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0022 Dictionary of words - CORA: This dictionary is composed of 126,844 words, with usage domains, grammatical category, gender, number, uncountable, collective, adjectival, nominal, verbal, adverbial derived forms according to the type of words. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0023 Dictionary of affixes - CORA: 4,286 suffixes and prefixes, plus information on their verbal, nominal or adjectival bases or on the verbal basis of greco-latin items. This dictionary does not include the suffixes contained in the dictionary of French verbs (ELRA-L0021) and words (ELRA-L0022) such as -age, -ment, -if,= -oir. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0024 Dictionary of verb phrases - CORA: Dictionary of 3,480 entries based on the model of the dictionary of French verbs (ELRA-L0021). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0025 Dictionary of invariable forms and phrases - CORA: Dictionary of 4,783 entries based on the model of the dictionary of words (ELRA-L0022). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0026 Dictionary of exclamatory stereotyped phrases - CORA: Dictionary of 1,901 entries based on the model of the dictionary of invariable forms and phrases (ELRA-L0025). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0027 Dictionary of French local authorities - CORA: 38,965 entries in lower cases with accents, controlled on the guide Michelin, without localities; A link can be made to the dictionary of words (ELRA-L0022) which contains inhabitants' names and their correspondence with town names. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA-L0028 Dictionary of noun phrases and plural-only words -= CORA: 2,138 compound names and 1,397 entries of plural-only words. For further information, please contact : ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie FR-75013 PARIS FRANCE Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00 Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88 E-mail : info-elra@calva.net WWW: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ...................................... Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA /ELDA 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: Greg Lessard Subject: Last reminder: ACH-ALLC97 - Humanities Computing Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 16:03:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 93 (93) ***Please distribute widely*** ***LAST REMINDER*** 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 Registration form available on the web page or by email to: achallc97-admin@qucis.queensu.ca ---> Check out the PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS on the web page <--- 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 Bénard, Cocteau multimédia 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 références et coréférences 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 and Transfer in Unification-based Multilingual Machine Translation System Lise Desmarais, Mee-Lian Chung, Lise Duquette, Delphine Renié, Michel Laurier, L'évaluation des apprentissages et des interactions dans un environnement multimédia 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 Correspondence 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. (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 Electronic 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. (Introduction 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 Mönnink, 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, Øystein 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 State 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 Stéfan Sinclair, L'HyperPo: Exploration des structures lexicales à l'aide 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 assistée par ordinateur - Version 3AD95 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: Mike Fraser Subject: Computers & Texts 14 Online & Call for Articles Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 21:35:20 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 94 (94) I am pleased to announce that Computers & Texts 14 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 A. Thomas Kraabel, Learning Greek with Accordance David Silver, Multimedia, Multilinearity, and Multivocality in the Hypermedia Classroom Kari Boyd McBride, Tailoring the Textbook to Fit the Student Body Sarah Porter & Michael Fraser, Computer-Assisted Film & Drama Studies Jakob Fix, Computer-Aided Processing of Old German Texts Stephen Clark, Review: A Right to Die? An Ethical Case Study on CD-ROM Don Fowler, Review: Literature Online Julia Briggs, Review: Major Authors on CD-ROM: Virginia Woolf Michael Fraser, Review: High Places in Cyberspace Lou Burnard, Review: Research in Humanities Computing COMPUTERS & TEXTS 15: 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 HE 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 (especially within UK higher education). Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. All contributions for Computers & Texts 15 should reach the Centre by July 18th 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 800-1,500 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 edit 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, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 282 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/ Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Green Subject: NINCH CONFU Report--Pt One Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:52:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 95 (95) ******************************************************* NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT - NEWS BRIEF May 23, 1997 CONFU CONTINUES? Is it time to re-group? -David Green What in the world is CONFU (and how is it perceived around the rest of the world)? This was one of the hotly debated questions during the advertised "final meeting" of the Conference on Fair Use on May 19, 1997. The winning answer is that CONFU is a loosely constructed framework called for in 1995 by the President's Information Infrastructure Task Force's Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights to enable copyright proprietors and the educational users of copyright material to develop guidelines for the fair use of copyrighted digital works. CONFU, we heard emphasized, was not a Congressionally-mandated body (indeed was not a body at all); the results and the forthcoming CONFU Report would certainly not have the force of law or even the status of being read into legislative history. CONFU is simply a discussion process, that is open to all. Its Working Groups, which produced three sets of guidelines, are similarly open to any who wanted (and could afford frequent travel to DC) to attend. So what occurred during the final meeting of this informal, non-legislative, non-binding "conference"? 1. Proposed guidelines, shared broadly since the previous final meeting of CONFU among the constituencies of those represented, were presented to the group as a whole with a list of those participating groups, which, after two years of working together, had endorsed, rejected or had no position on the guidelines (see list of organizations below). Of 100 participants, only 60 registered a position on the guidelines and only 25 had commented on the Digital Images or Distance Learning Guidelines. Interestingly the commercial proprietary community only registered comments on the Multimedia Guidelines, which were the most hotly contested. The mostly nonprofit user community objected in particular to the Multimedia Guidelines use of specific portion limitations in the fair use of copyrighted materials. This was not felt to be in the spirit of the four fair use factors, where context and circumstance play a large part in determining whether a use is fair. 2. It was clarified that CONFU--as a mere facilitating framework--would not endorse or "adopt" any set of guidelines. Peter Fowler, facilitator of the process, should only include in his Report to the Commissioner of the Patents and Trademarks Office what the resultant guidelines were and the level and quality of support they had received. 3. It was clarified that Recommendation number 5 of Peter Fowler's December 1996 Interim Report would be dropped. That recommendation was "That the Final Report be submitted to Congress by the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights at an appropriate time as part of legislative history, so that it can be referenced in connection with the Copyright Act provisions on fair use." This would not now take place. 4. It was determined that CONFU--the Framework--would continue beyond this "final meeting." The framework had produced a certain body of results but there was a determination to go "all the way" and see if consensus could be achieved in creating generally acceptable guidelines. A date was set for another plenary meeting a year ahead (May 19, 1998 at the Mumford Room at the Library of Congress). An expanded Steering Committee (see Appendix Two) would be formed to guide the process and determine the role of the 1998 meeting. In the interim, the working groups were encouraged to convene and discuss further steps. The process and the working groups were encouraged to be as inclusive as possible. 5. A Report would be published this summer. For those who had withheld their positions and statements on the guidelines, the deadline was extended to June 30. 6. The Guidelines (mostly endorsed by a minority of participants) were thus accepted as interim documents, place-holders. Some advocated testing or field use of the guidelines so that more concrete data might be gathered on how fair, useable or burdensome they might prove to be. 7. Except for Multimedia Guidelines. The Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC), chief organizer and facilitator of the Multimedia working group, maintained that these guidelines were fixed and would not be re-opened for "between 3 and 5 years." From the beginning, the multimedia guidelines were seen by many as something of a wild child. CCUMC had begun organizing guidelines before the CONFU process itself had started; some took issue with the purported inclusivity of the group; and the organizers had solicited the approval of members of Congress and other external groups that no other working group had sought. In the words of John Vaughn, the multimedia guidelines had been artificially reified by an unprecedented and astonishing media blitz by the proponents. Although some were figuratively horsewhipped for suggesting that CONFU itself was confusing and that it had brought with it much unhelpful political baggage from the IITF era, it seems clear to this writer that CONFU clearly has been confusing to many and that its continuation or resurrection under the same name might cause further misunderstanding or misrepresentation of its authority. Many within the nonprofit educational and cultural community are now thinking that it is time to step back and clarify what our community values are in the arena of production, management and use of intellectual property. What are some bedrock principles that could serve the nonprofit community in the place of broadly accepted guidelines? Perhaps now is the time for the educational community to more actively engage in a national debate about principles and values as far as the production , management and use of intellectual property is concerned. Some internal discussion and agreement might be good for our collective spirit and to foster more unified collective action when we next engage with the commercial proprietors. We should perhaps also consider whether, in the context of upcoming Congressional action in ratifying the WIPO Copyright Treaty and pursuing further digital copyright legislation, having attempted to play fair through CONFU, it is time to reassert Fair Use at the legislative level. This Report, available in hypertext with appendices, is available at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/Confu_Report.html> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: David Green Subject: NINCH CONFU Report--Pt Two Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 17:58:55 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 96 (96) ******************************************************* NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT - NEWS BRIEF May 23, 1997 CONFU CONTINUES? Is it time to re-group? --PART TWO: A P P E N D I C E S ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APPENDIX ONE NOTIFICATIONS RECEIVED FROM ORGANIZATIONS ON THE PROPOSALS FOR FAIR USE GUIDELINES ORGANIZATION Digital Distance Multimedia Images Learning Agency for Instructional Technology -- -- Yes American Association of Community Colleges No position No position Yes American Association of Law Libraries No Yes No American Association of Museums Yes -- -- American Association of State Colleges & Universities No No No American Council of Learned Societies No Yes No American Council on Education No No No American Historical Association No No No American Library Association No No No American Society of Composers Authors and Performers -- -- -- American Society of Journalists and Authors No position Yes Yes American Society of Media Photographers -- -- Yes Art Libraries Society of North America No No No Association for Educational Communications and Technology -- -- Yes Association for Information Media and Equipment -- -- Yes Association of American Colleges and Universities -- -- Yes Asociation of American Publishers -- -- Yes Association of American Universities No No No Association of American University Presses -- -- Yes Association of Architecture School Librarians No -- -- Association of Research Libraries No No No Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) -- -- Yes College Art Association No No No Consortium of College and University Media Centers -- -- Yes Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries No No No Creative Incentive Coalition -- -- Yes Educational Technology Officers Association of State University of New York -- -- Yes Educational Testing Service -- -- Yes Houghton Mifflin Company -- -- Yes Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education -- No -- Indiana University Institute for the Study of Intellectual Property and Education -- -- No Information Industry Association -- -- Yes Instructional Telecommunications Council -- -- Yes Iowa Association for Communication Technology -- -- Yes John Wiley and Sons -- -- Yes Johns Hopkins University No No No Maricopa Community Colleges -- -- Yes McGraw-Hill Companies -- -- Yes Medical Library Association No No No Motion Picture Association of America -- -- Yes Music Publishers Association -- -- Yes National Association of College and University Attorneys No Position No Position No Position National Association of Regional Media Centers -- -- Yes National Association of Schools of Art & Design -- -- Yes National Association of Schools of Dance -- -- Yes National Association of Schools of Music -- -- Yes National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges No No No National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History No No No National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Yes Yes Yes Northern Illinois Learning Resource Consortium -- -- Yes OhioLink No No No Recording Industry Association of America -- -- Yes Software Publishers Association -- -- Yes Sonneck Society for American Music No position Yes No position Special Libraries Association Yes Yes Yes Tennessee Board of Regents Media Consortium -- -- Yes Time Warner -- -- Yes Visual Resources Association No No No 5/16/97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Signatories to Letter to Orrin Hatch, 1/13/97, not included in above listing: American Association of School Administrators -- -- No National Association of Elementary School Principals -- -- No National Association of Independent Schools -- -- No National Association of Secondary School Principals -- -- No National Education Association -- -- No National School Boards Association -- -- No U.S. Catholic Conference -- -- No +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ APPENDIX TWO EXPANDED CONFU STEERING COMMITTEE *Chris Dalziel, Instructional Telecommunications Council Adam Eisgrau, American Library Association Mary Levering, Copyright Office *Lisa Livingston, Consortium of College and University Media Centers *Victor Perlman, American Society of Media Photographers Carol Risher, Association of American Publishers Mark Traphagen, Software Publishers Association *John Vaughn, Association of American Universities * new members From: Subject: Humanist Archives Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 97 (97) The archives of Humanist, going back to 1987, are now available via the Web as browsable and searchable hypertext, from the Humanist home page, <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> and <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>. The archives themselves are housed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, constructed and updated using hypermail (free Unix software available from www.eit.com), and indexed for searching with Excite. I encourage Humanist's members to experiment with the search function--you will find a wealth of accumulated wisdom, and maybe some amusing anachronisms too. Thanks to the folks at CETH and the Oxford Text Archive for saving and providing the raw material for this, and thanks to you all for creating it. John Unsworth From: Subject: Request of informations. Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 98 (98) I'm beginning a study on suicide from a philosophical point of view. Please, could somebody help me and give me some informations? Thank you. Raffaele Rizzello Sto iniziando uno studio sul suicidio da un punto di vista di filosofia morale. Sarei grato a chi volesse darmi indicazioni bibliografiche sull'argomento. Grazie. Raffaele Rizzello - sub signo angeli Raphaelis From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Ametican Studies Opportunities & News, Week Ending May 25 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 09:45:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 99 (99) AMERICAN STUDIES OPPORTUNITIES & NEWS Week Ending May 25, 1997 (715-796) American Studies Opportunities & News is a weekly index produced by the American Studies Crossroads Project (http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads) and sponsored by the American Studies Association. The Opportunities list, which generates the index, posts ASA news, calls for papers, conference programs, fellowships, jobs, bibliographical & online resources, book reviews and tables of contents. The Opportunities archive and search engine is on the web at http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html To submit a posting, or to subscribe to the index, contact the Crossroads Administrator The following items of interest to Humanist subscribers appeared on American Studies Opportunities & News from May 18-25, 1997. To order any one of them, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES followed by the item number to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM (example: to get the first posting listed below, send the message GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 749 to LISTSERV@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM; for the first and second posting, your message will be GETPOST OPPORTUNITIES 749 796). Calls for Contributions to Journals/Books/Media =============================================== 749 Cultural Attitudes towards Tech & Communication (essays) 796 Neo-Pragmatism & New Romanticisms, for Parallax Journal 745 New Cultural Theory & Techno-Politics, for Angelaki Journal Programs for Forthcoming Conferences (listed chronologically) ============================================================= 758 Ethnography & Qual Research in Postmodern Era, CA, June 20-22 720 Interpreting Edison, New Jersey, June 25-27 Events, Institutes, Seminars & Special Notices ============================================== 779 Future of Fulbright Program Study (essay) 792 Obituary, Paulo Freire, from Instituto Paulo Freire 790 Proposal for a National Anthropology Network From: Donna Thompson, American Social History Project Subject: New Media Classroom Institute, NYC, July 20-26 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 09:46:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 100 (100) THE NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM BUILDING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON NARRATIVE, INQUIRY AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE U.S. HISTORY SURVEY National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Institute American Social History Project and Center for Media & Learning, The City University of New York American Studies Association Crossroads Project (Georgetown University) ******************************************************************** * * * This notice contains application & information about: * * * * The ASHP/CML Summer Institute, New York City, July 20-26 * * (deadline: May 30, 1997) * * * * The ASHP/CML Year Long Professional Development Program, 1997-98 * * * ******************************************************************** The American Social History Project and the American Studies Association Crossroads Project (Georgetown University) are pleased to announce a year-long professional development program supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, focused on advancing the use of new technology in humanities education. THE NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM: BUILDING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON NARRATIVE, INQUIRY AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE U.S. HISTORY SURVEY offers high school and college educators nationwide an opportunity to join with historians and multimedia designers on the ASHP/CML staff, along with Randy Bass of Georgetown University, Robin D.G. Kelley of New York University, Lynne Adrian of University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, Roberta Matthews of Marymount College, and Roy Rosenzweig of George Mason University, to advance the dialogue on issues of narrative and inquiry as they pertain to historical synthesis, prepare faculty as technology leaders, and further the use of new media resources to enrich classroom learning. Building on an already-successful project, the New Media Classroom program will begin with a week-long summer institute (July 20-26, 1997) in New York City, which will enable participating faculty to: a) advance teaching strategies using a range of new history resources available on CD-ROM and the World Wide Web; b) work with scholars and producers who have pioneered the development of new media applications; and c) prepare themselves as teaching- with-technology leaders. During the 1997-98 school year, faculty will use new media tools to teach a U.S. History survey (or an interdisciplinary American history & literature course) at their home campus. Faculty will take part in a year-long on-line seminar, exchanging and deepening experiences and insights. And with the assistance of project staff, participating faculty will coordinate on-campus workshops for colleagues in their home communities. We see this outreach effort as a key step in deepening faculty learning and building an informed national conversation about new media education. The program will pay for summer institute housing and travel costs (for out-of-town participants) and purchase of selected new media materials; participants' schools will provide a small honoraria to recognize participants' year-long contributions to their schools' efforts to integrate the use of new educational technology. In 1998-99, NMC will offer interested schools an opportunity to take roles as centers of new media learning. Participating faculty and their schools will be able to apply to NMC for funds to host regional New Media Classroom programs, including regional summer institutes. Experienced faculty participants will be invited to serve as co-leaders for these regional programs. The New Media Classroom program will involve a diverse group of history and humanities educators, including high school and college faculty. We believe secondary and post-secondary educators have much to gain from collective conversation about curriculum and teaching. The program will involve leaders in the field of new media education and those at an intermediate level, who have at least one year's experience using new media as part of classroom instruction. Our goal is to work together to deepen collective expertise in new media-based instruction and help humanities faculty prepare as technology leaders, building a national conversation about the new media classroom and extending its promise to a broad range of teachers and students nationwide. GUIDELINES FOR CANDIDATES The New Media Classroom program is open to high school and college educators who teach the U.S. history survey. American Studies faculty will also be considered for participation. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their demonstrated interest and experience in: 1) Teaching the U.S. History Survey (or comparable interdisciplinary or American Studies courses); 2) Using inquiry-based and learner-centered classroom pedagogies; 3) Exploring new media tools and resources; 4) Expanding their professional knowledge and teaching repertoires; 5) Preparing for role as teaching with technology leaders. Candidates must commit themselves to attending a summer institute July 20-26, 1997 held in New York City, and to participating in follow-up activities including classroom testing, school-based workshops, and on-line seminar. The New Media Classroom program considers classroom implementation to be essential to professional growth and the development of a broader understanding of the educational potential of new media. A candidate's eligibility and successful participation will depend upon the willingness of his/her school or college to make a commitment to facilitate such implemen tation, including these steps: A) Schedule the candidate to teach the U.S. history survey (or comparable interdisciplinary course) in Fall 1997 (option to continue in Spring 1998). B) Schedule the candidate's U.S. history survey courses for classrooms or computer labs equipped to provide students with ready access to new media resources; C) Facilitate the candidate's individual access to on-line systems for program communication and participation in on-line seminars; D) Provide the candidate with a $600 professional development stipend to recognize and support faculty's work in new media. E) Host outreach workshops to expose humanities faculty to new media-based instruction. The New Media Classroom will continue in 1998-99. Faculty participants will be offered the opportunity to apply to extend their participation serving as co-leaders for a national network of regional programs. APPLICATION PROCESS Applications, which are due by May 30, 1997, include: 1) a completed application form; 2) an accompanying letter from the school or college administration (signed by the high school principal or college department chair) addressing the school's commitment to items A-E (above); and 3) two letters of reference describing the candidate's qualifications for successful participation. Selection will be finalized by June 10. Submit applications to: Dr. Bret Eynon, ASHP Education Director 99 Hudson Street, Third Floor New York, New York 10013 tel: 212-966-4248 fax: 212-966-4589 E-mail: BEynon@aol.com THE NEW MEDIA CLASSROOM: BUILDING A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON NARRATIVE, INQUIRY, AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE U.S. HISTORY SURVEY National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Institute APPLICATION should include responses to the following: Name: Address (home): Address (work): Telephone (home): Telephone (work): On-line address: School or College Name: School or College Address: Public or private institution? Please answer the following questions: 1. Please outline your experience teaching U.S. History (or related interdisciplinary humanities courses). 2. How would you describe your current teaching strategies? What has been your experience with inquiry-based and learner-centered approaches to teaching and learning? 3. Please outline your classroom use of new media resources and on-line communications systems (email, Internet, World Wide Web, CD-ROM, etc.). Please attach samples of class lessons using new media resources. 4. What do you see as the advantages and challenges that are encountered when implementing new media-based instruction? 5. What electronic discussion groups (listservs) are you subscribed to? 6. Please rank the following topics of interest to you: _____World Wide Web (WWW) _____CD-ROM _____Games and Simulations _____New Technology and Issues of Narrative _____Hypertext Writing and Electronic Papers _____Producing Your Own Multimedia Materials for Presentation _____Rethinking the Survey Class _____Making a Classroom Web Page _____Other suggestions: 7. Please sketch your long-term goals as an educator. How would participation in the New Media Classroom program help you address these goals? 8. What is your experience and interest in leading faculty development programs? 9. Please help us get a clear picture of the school where you teach. Please describe your school, including information that you think would be helpful to us. If possible, include: the numbers of students enrolled in the schools; some sense of the student demographics; and an estimate of the number of students in a typical U.S. history survey course. 10. What kind of computer facilities (including platform) are available at your school? Do your students have on-line access in your classroom? computer laboratory? the library? Do you and your students have access to computers with CD-ROM drives? 11. Please assess your school's commitment to hosting new media workshops for humanities faculty. 12. Where did you hear about the New Media Classroom program? From: Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow Subject: KineJapan Announcement Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:22:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 101 (101) Apologies for cross-posting. NEW E-MAIL DISCUSSION LIST: KINEJAPAN A DISCUSSION LIST FOR JAPANESE FILM AND IMAGE STUDIES The members of Kinema Club (http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html), the internet's only site devoted to the study of Japanese film and moving image media, are pleased to announce the inauguration of KINEJAPAN, the first e-mail list of its kind specializing in discussions on Japanese cinema and other image media. Anyone interested in Japanese moving image media, from scholars to film fans, is welcome to join KineJapan and participate in our talks. Anything related to Japanese image media is open to discussion: feature film, television, magic lanterns, anime, documentary, experimental film and video, as well as the social, economic, and historical factors that are deeply intertwined with these media. (For those only interested in discussing anime, however, we remind you that there are already lists devoted to that.) We also encourage the posting of announcements about new films, conferences, publications, film festivals, and other events relating to Japanese image media that might be of interest to our subscribers. KineJapan is a discussion group with members from countries all over the world. While most of the discussion will be in English, we welcome postings by subscribers in their native tongues and in particular encourage Japanese subscribers to post in Japanese if that is what feels most comfortable. KineJapan is an unmoderated list, which means we leave it up to subscribers to moderate themselves. In the end, we conceive of all subscribers as fellow scholars working together to achieve a greater understanding of Japanese film and image culture. With recent triumphs at Cannes and other international film festivals, Japanese film is again becoming the center of international attention. We hope KineJapan will become an important means of understanding such new works and their predecessors as well as their their place in Japan, Asia, and the world. To SUBSCRIBE to KineJapan, send an e-mail, leaving the subject line blank, to: listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu In the text of your message (not the subject line), write: subscribe kinejapan firstname lastname Example: subscribe kinejapan Matsunosuke Onoe You can also subscribe by accessing the KineJapan home page on the Kinema Club site: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Kine.html Kinema Club was formed several years ago with the goal of providing greater access to information on Japanese film and moving image media. The site already contains an extensive bibliography of non-Japanese writings on Japanese film, reviews of recent Japanese films, a list of currently rentable 16mm films, guides to internet resources for Japanese cinema, and other resources. We are also looking for members who are willing to help us expand and up-date the site. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the list owner: Aaron Gerow onogerow@gorilla.or.jp [It would be helpful to know in particular what computing offers film studies. I can certainly guess, but a brief summary from someone actually involved in the field might help those of us in other fields. --WM] From: Peter Liddell Subject: Re: New Copyright Law in Canada Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 15:29:42 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 102 (102) The new law, which caused so much consternation among educators in the committee stage, was proclaimed on April 25th, apparently little changed from that proposed. The texts are available in both official languages, at: (English) http://www.parl.gc.ca/bills/government/C-32/C-32_4/C-32TOCE.html (French) http://www.parl.gc.ca/bills/government/C-32/C-32_4/C-32TOCF.html From: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 11.0065 suicide philosophically considered? Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:06:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 103 (103) I am also very much in need of information on the subject for the annotation of Montesquieu's Persian letters on suicide. Any pointers will be warmly appreciated. Pauline Kra kra@ymail.yu.edu On Sun, 25 May 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Spam, Spam, Spam ... Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:39:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 104 (104) Given the recent conversations on HUMANIST about spamming, thougt some of you might be interested in a spam filter maker for Eudora. Right now it's Mac only, but a Win port is in the works. The url is <http://www.public.usit.net/nwcs/Spam/Spam.html>. This url also contains a link to an AOL compiled list of spam addresses. -- Sincerely, ________________________________________________ Gary W. Shawver <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gshawver/> ________________________________________________ From: Harold Short Subject: Press Release: Textual Monopolies Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 13:41:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 105 (105) Textual Monopolies: Literary copyright & the public domain This important and ground-breaking volume of essays edited by Patrick Parrinder and Warren Chernaik, is published on 28 May 1997. It is a joint publication of University of London's Centre for English Studies (CES) and the Office for Humanities Communication (OHC), based at King's College London. Textual Monopolies is published in the same OHC/CES series as Beyond the Book and The Politics of the Electronic Text. The essays are based on papers at a conference at CES in December 1994, occasioned by changes in copyright law brought about by a 1993 European Directive, and have been brought up to date to reflect significant developments since that time. According to John Sutherland's preface, 'the London conference on copyright proved extraordinarily educative for those attending. It enlarged horizons and created points of intellectual connection between traditionally separated sectors of the book world and the academic community, publicising an issue of cultural importance that was in danger of passing into law without anyone noticing'. Contributors to the volume include legal and literary scholars, publishers, and authors, expressing both practical and political concerns, in a searching consideration of changing ideas of intellectual property in the electronic age. According to Richard Morrison in the Times, May 17, 1997, this collection of essays is a 'real gem', 'compulsive reading'. 'a brilliant anaylsis': 'I have been riveted, enthralled, consumed to the exclusion of all other matters, by the marvellous Textual Monopolies ... If you want to glimpse human nature, red in tooth, claw, and legal fees, then Textual Monopolies ... is required reading'. Contents include: * Foreword by John Sutherland. * Introduction by Patrick Parrinder: Literary copyright and the public domain. * Brad Sherman and Lionel Bently: Balance and harmony in the duration of copyright: the European Directive and its consequences. * Kate Pool: Authors and the European Directive. * Clive Reynard: The impact of the European Directive on inexpensive reprint editions. * Patrick Parrinder: Licensing scholarship: some encounters with the Wells Estate. * Warwick Gould: Predators and editors: Yeats in the pre- and post-copyright era. * John Worthen: D.H. Lawrence and copyright. * Charles Oppenheim: Copyright in the electronic age. * Fiona Macmillan Patfield: Legal policy and the limits of literary copyright. * Christopher Scarles: Quote and be blessed. Copies can be ordered now from the OHC at a cost of 12.50 pounds sterling plus postage and packing. Orders should be sent to the Office for Humanities Communication, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, enclosing a cheque made payable to 'King's College London'. Addition for postage and packing per copy: UK - 1 pound, Europe - 2 pounds, and outside Europe - 3 pounds. (Payment is accepted in EU currencies, and in US or Canadian dollars. Please convert at current exchange rate.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Khalid Choukri Subject: ELRA Press release Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:32:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 106 (106) ELRA European Language Resources Association Press release ===================================== *** Non European organisations may become subscribers to ELRA now *** ELRA (European Language Resources Association), a non-profit association registered in Luxembourg, was established in 1995. Its mission is to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology) within the Language Engineering field. ELRA receives financial support from the European Commission and national governments in Europe. Although its prime focus is on Europe, ELRA also seeks active cooperation and exchange of resources with the global Language Resources community. As part of its policy of opening up its impressive catalogue of Language Resources to research and commercial organizations outside its core operating area, ELRA is pleased to announce that during its meeting on April 30 1997, the Board decided to extend the opportunity to become an ELRA subscriber (non-voting member) to non-European organizations. Subscribers will benefit from substantial discounts on the prices of Language Resources similar to those offered to ELRA members, as well as other services available only to members. This includes discounts on publications related to Language Engineering activities (produced by the major publishers), summaries of market surveys (about LR and LE), newsletter (published quarterly in English and French), legal consultancy regarding IPR, copyrights, etc., manuals for the validation of LRs, special pages on the Web, entitled "For members only". The annual subscription fees are: o non-profit organizations: 1,000 ECU, o for-profit (commercial) organizations: 5,000 ECU. To become a subscriber: o non profit organisations have to pay a subscription fee of 1,000 ECU o profit organisations have to pay 5,000 ECU The subscription form can be completed directly from the one below or it can be downloaded from the ELRA Web site. ===================================== SUBSCRIPTION FORM ===================================== Organisation .............................................................................. .......................................................................... Department .............................................................................. ............................................................................ Name of Designated Representative .............................................................................. ....................................... Address .............................................................................. ................................................................................. .............................................................................. .............................................................................. ................... Town ....................................................................... Postcode ........................................................................... Country .............................................................................. .................................................................................. Telephone .............................................................................. .............................................................................. Fax .............................................................................. .............................................................................. ............. E-Mail .............................................................................. .............................................................................. ........ College of interest: ( ) Spoken ( ) Written ( ) Terminology I agree to the information above appearing in the ELRA Directory : Signature Date Notes : 1) The annual subscription fee for non-Europeans is: - 1,000 ECU for non-profit organisations, - 5,000 ECU for for-profit organisations. An invoice for this amount will be sent upon receipt of the completed application form, and should be paid within thirty days. 2) Payment may be made by bank transfer or cheque, in ECU, made out in favour of ELRA. Bank : BNP (Luxembourg) S.A, Bd. Royal, L2953 Luxembourg : Account number 63-114418-57-6102-997. ===================================== For further information, please contact : ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie FR-75013 PARIS FRANCE Tel : +33 01 45 86 53 00 Fax : +33 01 45 86 44 88 E-mail : info-elra@calva.net WWW: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ===================================== --------------------------------- _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ --------------------------------- ...................................... Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA /ELDA 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: Maureen Donovan Subject: Re: 11.0071 KineJapan; Canadian copyright law Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 12:34:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 107 (107) [deleted quotation] Well, that's a big question, but I will respond by giving some background about how I became involved working with Kinema Club, the group that is initiating the KineJapan discussion list. For the period 1994-96 I directed a US Dept of Education Title II-A and Japan-US Friendship Commission funded project called: East Asian Libraries Cooperative World Wide Web. (http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/ ) The project aimed at establishing web sites at East Asian Studies library collections so that librarians could scan tables of contents of materials in their collections or create specialized bibliographies and post them to the web, thereby promoting resource sharing, enchancing remote access to research collections, increasing interdependence, etc. The funded phase of the project extended to ten university libraries. Now that funding has ended, the project continues to evolve in various ways. Early on in the process of implementing the project I "bumped into" some Japanese film scholars on the Internet - mainly (at that time) advanced graduate students - who were at different universities. Since the research materials they needed were scattered around at various libraries, they had formed a "club" for sharing tables of contents with each other. In the Fall of 1994 I met with some of them at a conference and offered them a web site to use for sharing information. We also set up a small mailing list for communication among the group developing the web site. Gradually the mailing list became a place to discuss Japanese films and film studies. Now they've decided to expand to a public list which will be archived at the web site. The smaller mailing list will continue, as will the development of the web site. The URL for the Kinema Club site is: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html In the meantime, I have become interested in this as a model. As a librarian, I see the project as a dynamic electronic resource that has been "acquired" (= is supported ) by the library. The "library" that these scholars are using is not physically at any one place (although there are some collections that have particular strengths on Japanese cinema) and the "field" that they represent is scattered across almost as many disciplines as their own numbers (or their universities). However, the "resource" that they are creating by participating in the project has lots of potential for further expansion. In the meantime, everyone involved vascillates between doing a bit for the project and then getting down to the work that (hopefully) will lead to academic employment/tenure. (The web work is not seen to have much benefit in that regard.....) Well, to summarize: I think that computing can help film studies develop as an academic field. But then, I am not in that field..... I'm interested in knowing of other projects that support scholarly collaboration through use of a small mailing list and a web site -- or any other means, for that matter. I see this as the equivalent of an electronic reference book -- or as a whole shelf of electronic reference books. I suppose that it might evolve into a whole area of the stacks eventually, with a journal, a newsletter, monographs, etc -- but by that time I wonder what kind of "support" would be needed. As I librarian, I would like to see academic libraries play a role in this kind of scholarly communication. Maureen Donovan Japanese Studies Librarian/Associate Professor The Ohio State University Libraries donovan.1@osu.edu Tel: 614-292-3502 Fax: 614-292-7859 From: "Kristen L. Abbey" Subject: 1997 CETH Summer Workshop == Extended Application Deadline Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 12:10:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 108 (108) 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 Due to continuing demand, the application deadline for the 1997 CETH Summer Workshop has been extended to Monday, June 2. Applications continue to be accepted on a rolling basis, but space is limited, please do not delay. "The CETH Summer Workshop will have both an introductory and an advanced track. Plenary sessions will concentrate on topics that (we believe) are worth coming to even for people who have heard them discussed before. Breakout sessions in the advanced track will cover topics that make no sense to beginners but which may be useful to active users of TEI or other SGML tag sets. We think this will be the first systematically planned *advanced* TEI instruction anywhere." --Gregory Murphy CETH 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: "Irving D. Goldfein" Subject: EPI-Centre (BRS Software Products) Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:38:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 109 (109) Since having been in touch with them about 16 months ago, we have been unable to re-establish contact with EPI-Centre (BRS Software Products,) the (U.K.) publisher of the CD-ROM, "Bibliography of the Hebrew Book." We have also exhausted all obvious means of finding any inheritors or new owners of their rights. Dataware, the current owner of BRS, were not able to provide any helpful information. Would appreciate any help in tracking down any individual who might be familiar with the current status. Irv Goldfein Infomedia Judaica, Ltd. *************************************************************** 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: "Gregory J. Murphy" Subject: Re: 11.0069 suicide philosophically Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:39:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 110 (110) I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on the theme of Stoic "willing death" in early French tragedy. Below are some excerpts from the bibliography thatP. Kra and R. Rizzello may find useful. Sorry about the French bias. Most discussion of suicide in the early modern period derives from the Stoic arguments, and especially, from Seneca. Montesquieu is an interesting case, since his comments about suicide in the _Persian Letters_ are also intended to mock Neo-Stoicism, still in vogue at the turn of the 17th century. Extracts: Arnold, Edward Vernon. Roman Stoicism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1911. Baechler, Jean. Les Suicides. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1975. Bayet, Albert. Le suicide et la morale. New York: Arno Press, 1975. Bels, Jacques. "La mort volontaire dans l'oeuvre de saint Augustin." Revue de l'Histoire des Religions 187 (1975): 147-180. Benz, Ernst. Des Todesproblem in der Stoischen Philosophie. Tübinger Beïtrage zur Alterumswissenschaft, 1929. Bodson, Arthur. La morale sociale des derniers stoïciens, Sénèque, Epictète, et Marc Aurèle. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1967. Cleary, James J. "Seneca, suicide and English Renaissance Tragedy." Ph.D., Temple University, 1969. Daube, David. "The Linguistics of Suicide." Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1972): 387-437. Donaldson, Ian. The Rapes of Lucretia: A Myth and it's Transformations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. Droge, Arthur and James Tabor. A Noble Death: Suicide and Martrydom among Christians and Jews in Antiquity. San Francisco: Harper, 1992. Dubruck, Edelgard. The Theme of Death in French Poetry of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Hague: Mouton, 1964. Durkheim, Emile. Le suicide. 2 ed. Paris: F. Alcan, 1912. Faber, Melvin D. Suicide and Greek Tragedy. New York: Sphinx Press, 1970. Fehrle, Rudolf. Cato Uticensis. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1983. Galinsky, Hans. Der Lucretia-Stoff in der Weltliteratur. Breslau: Priebatsch, 1932. Goar, Robert J. The Legend of Cato Uticensis from the First Century B.C. to the Fifth Century A.D. Vol. 197. Collection Latomus, Bruxelles: Latomus, 1987. Griffin, M. F. "Philosophy, Cato and Roman Suicide, I." Greece and Rome 33 (1 1986a): 64-77. ---. "Philosophy, Cato and Roman Suicide, II." Greece and Rome 33 (2 1986b): 192-202. Grisé, Yolande. Le Suicide dans la Rome antique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1982. Hamer, Mary. "Cleopatra: Housewife." Textual Practice 2 (2 1988): 159-179. Hirzel, R. "Der Selbstmord." Archiv für Religionswissenschaft 11 (1908): 75-104, 243-84, 417-76. Hooff, Anton J. L. van. From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity. New York: Routledge, 1990. Hoven, René. Stoïcisme et Stoïciens face au problème de l'au-del Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1971. Hughes-Hallet, Lucy. Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. New York: Harper and Row, 1990. Leech, Clifford. "Le dénouement par le suicide." Le Théâtre tragique Ed. Jean Jacquot. 179-189. Paris: CNRS, 1962. Lefkowitz, Mary. Women in Greek Myth. London: Duckworth, 1986. Monferier, Jacques. Le suicide. Paris: Bordas, 1970. Rist, John M. Stoic Philosophy. London: Cambridge UP, 1969. Rose, A. R. "Seneca and Suicide: The End of the Hercules Furens." Classical Outlook 60 (1983): 109-11. Spanneut, Michel. Permanence du stoïcisme, de Zénon à Malraux. Gembloux: Duculot, 1973. Tadic-Gilloteaux, Nicole. "Sénèque face au suicide." L'antiquité classique 32 (1963): Thiel, M. A. La figure de Saül et sa représentation dans la littérature dramatique française. Amsterdam: H. J. Paris, 1926. White, Monique Chantal Boissier. "The Dido Fable in French Tragedy: 1560-1693." Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1975. Wilie, R. "Views on Suicide and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy and Some Related Contemporary Points of View." Prudentia 5 (1973): 15-32. Williamson, Marilyn L. Infinite Variety: Antony and Cleopatra in Renaissance Drama and Earlier Tradition. Mystic, Connecticut: Lawrence Verry, 1974. From: Susan Hockey Subject: ALLC Session at ACHALLC97 Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:12:17 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 111 (111) All are invited to participate in this ALLC-sponsored session at ACHALLC97. ---------------------------------------------------------- Humanities Computing in the Graduate Curriculum Session sponsored by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing ACHALLC97, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Tuesday 3 June 1997 Stirling Hall Theatre D Chair: Susan Hockey, University of Alberta Speakers: Harold Short, Kings College, London Espen Ore, Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Willard McCarty, Kings College, London Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster University The session will include European and North American perspectives on the development of graduate programmes in the humanities in which a computing component has a significant role. A major Europe-wide project will be described whose objectives are not only to gather information about the current situation in European universities, but also to promote collaborative curriculum development. Other panelists will describe initiatives under way in individual British and North American universities. All the panelists will be emphasizing the issues that are shaping the development of new graduate curricula rather than describing particular programmes in detail. The main focus of the session is on general discussion, in which members of the audience will be encouraged to contribute their experience and concerns. Anyone whose home institution has or is contemplating a graduate programme with a strong computing component is urged to attend and participate. Here are some issues which the session will address: What should be the scope of an MA programme in humanities computing? What should be taught? And how? What would be the optimum format for an MA programme in humanities computing? What would be the appropriate balance between course work, project work and dissertation? Should a graduate programme be closely allied with one discipline, for example English? Or should it attempt to fit the needs of several humanities disciplines? How can project work be encouraged and also examined? What factors are important in the assessment of a project? What are the crucial topics and issues to be discussed in a graduate programme in humanities computing? How can these be related to "critical thinking" in humanities scholarship? What institutional factors are important to encourage the development of humanities computing in the graduate curriculum? What would be the typical components of a PhD in humanities computing? What kinds of thesis topics would be appropriate and how might they be examined? What would attract students to a graduate programme in humanities computing? ------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Hockey, Professor, Department of English, 3-5 Humanities Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E5, Canada Phone: 403 492 1029 E-mail: Susan.Hockey@UAlberta.ca ------------------------------------------------------------- From: Nelson Hilton Subject: "(electro)poetics" issue of EBR (fwd) Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 12:19:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 112 (112) The following recent posting of Robert Kendall's to ht_lit is forwarded here with his permission: The current "(electro)poetics" issue of the Electronic Book Review (http://www.altx.com/ebr/) should be of interest to people on this list. Below is a partial table of contents. Those of you unfamiliar with the Review may also want to check out its premiere issue, "the electronic muse" (contents also listed below). ------------------------------------------------- Electronic Book Review, ISSUE 5: (electro)poetics ------------------------------------------------- Harry Mathews . . . . . . . . Oulipo poetics and the art of translation Stephanie Strickland. . . . . on the translation of poetry from print to screen Issa Clubb. . . . . . . . . . on the ghost in the machine: the font as spiritual medium in CD-ROM poetry design John Cayley . . . . . . . . . a "cybertext" on Copeland, Gibson, and Dewdney Eduardo Kac . . . . . . . . . on holographic poetry Robert Kendall. . . . . . . . on the present and future of hypertext poetics Wendy Battin . . . . . . . . a performative show and tell at the interface of poetry and html related reviews Chris Funkhouser. . . . reviews Charles O. Hartmann's _Virtual Muse_ and Eduardo Kac's _Visible Language_ John Cayley . . . . . . a view of the British hypertext conference, complete with his own view of present and potential web politics 1997 ---------------------------------------------------- Electronic Book Review, ISSUE 1: the electronic muse ---------------------------------------------------- A Review of Books in the Age of Their Technological Obsolescence [Joseph Tabbi on media theory, book reviewing, Bruce Sterling's dead media project, and Richard Powers's _Galatea 2.2_ ] Notes from the Digital Overground [Mark Amerika on establishing Alternative-X in the no-man's land between commercial, academic, and underground media] Cyborg Ideology [N. Katherine Hayles discusses what happens when postmodern writers theorize in a void ] The Maul of America [liquid architect Marcos Novak on William Mitchell's _City of Bits_] Sleepless in Seattle [Paul Harris explores IN.S.OMNIA's technographies] Cyberinthian Ways [Linda Brigham imagines what a hypertext philosophy might be] My Body the Library [Michael Joyce looks at experimental hypertext, body art, body piercing, and web culture] Bugging the Net [Peter Krapp riffs on the philosophy underlying his web site, foreign body] Carolyn Guyer checks in on the Telematik Workgroup in Hamburg, Germany Walter Vannini investigates the effects of hypertext publishing in Italy's literary marketplace ----------------------------------------- Robert Kendall e-mail: rkendall@wenet.net home page: http://www.wenet.net/~rkendall From: "A.J.M.Colson" <102765.1440@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies Date: 29 May 97 12:14:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 113 (113) My name is Alicia Colson and as the administrator of the Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies I am posting the following information. It would be of interest to both graduates and faculty members who use computing as part of their research tool in their literary research. URL: http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html LUSIAS Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada In July of 1997 Lakehead University will be offering graduate courses in the research application of multimedia and hypertext techniques to the humanities and social sciences. This program is offered in collaboration with the Mackenzie Ward Heritage Trust. It addresses the method and theory of applying multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images and sound as a research tool. Students enrol in an introductory course, and then select a maximum of two special topics courses from a list of three offered. These courses may be taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses. The 1997 course offering includes: Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning For more information regarding this program please view the LUSIAS homepage or enquire for information via email LUSIAS HOMEPAGE http://www.lakeheadu.ca/~lusiaswww/lusias.html EMAIL LUSIAS@lakeheadu.ca Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems This course provides an introduction to the application of multimedia computer systems for analyzing large data bases consisting of text, video, audio, graphics and animation files. While specific computer methodologies are introduced, the emphasis is upon exploring the critical implications of transforming conventional text, numeric data, sound and graphic images into electronic form. This includes the process of digitally rendering the original source information without modifying its contextual meaning, and establishing logical linkages between related pieces of data. Credit: .5 FCE Course Coordinator: Jean Colson Course Duration: July 7 to July 15, 1997 Contact Hours: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and 2:30 pm to 6:00 pm. Structure and Method: Knowledge accumulation in this course is intensive and cumulative. Unless competence is continuously assessed, students will not derive full benefit from the Special Topics courses, nor be able to successfully complete the program of study. Individual assessment will be based upon demonstrated competence during session 0. During Day 2 students will be allocated to groups for remedial instruction. Subsequent days will consist of 1-2 hour lectures, followed by hands-on `workshops' supervised by the course staff. The workshops will utilize materials prepared previously by the respective tutors. Days [9] and [10] will be used for specific `remedial' tuition. Students will also prepare their essay during this period. Materials and Library: Workshop materials will be furnished based upon the demonstration materials prepared for the various Special Topics courses. Mini-manuals and working materials have been written, some of which will draw upon local archives. Facsimiles of documents from the Hudson's Bay Company Archives plus other local archives will be featured as part of the example exercises. Method of Assessment: Assessment methods are twofold: A.Daily diagnostic tests in the last session of each course module. An average of at least 70% is required for successful completion of this course. B.An essay of ca. 2,500 words on a topic to be defined at the beginning of the course. The essay will address basic issues in the field, and will have to indicate understanding of at least one of the applications addressed. It can also review or critique the pertinent literature. Topics must be approved by the Course Co-ordinator. The essay will be graded by LUSIAS staff. Pass level is 70%. The essay contributes 80% to the final grade. Prerequisite: Completion of initial test and any remedial work required by the Director of Studies, graduate qualification or equivalent as approved by the LUSIAS Council. Content: Day 1 - July 7th [0] Diagnostic tests which indicate student's understanding of basic operational procedures. [Jean Colson] [1] General introduction to computer systems [hardware storage and scanning] software and operating systems [Jean Colson] Day 2 - July 8th [2] `Editing' and `Reading' images of evidence [text, landscape, artifact] [Jean Colson] [3] `Working' with MS Windows - attaining a working knowledge [Hugh Davies] Day 3 - July 9th [4] Introduction to databases: structure and utility. [MS ACCESS used as example] [Jean Colson] Day 4 - July 10th [5] Introduction to markup languages [TACT] [Jean Colson] Day 5 - July 11th [6] Introduction to HTML and the WWW [Jean Colson] Day 6 - July 12th [7] Introduction to Electronic Maps and GIS [LU staff, Scott Hamilton] Day 7 - July 14th [8] Introduction to Image Processing [Manfred Thaller] Day 8 - July 15th [9] Introduction to sound and video [Hugh] [10]Project management - case studies - [Scott Hamilton, Paddy Reid] Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities This course introduces students to the use of open hypermedia systems for organizing and retrieving multimedia information. It will concentrate on using Microcosm Plus for Windows, but will also consider the use of other delivery systems such as the World Wide Web, Toolbook and Hyper-G. During the course the students are expected to create a large digital resource of materials related to their subject, and this application will form the basis of the formal assessment. Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Hugh Davies Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week. The course will be taught with each student having individual machines, each of which runs the requisite software (Microcosm Plus for Windows). Students will attend a presentation on the topic,followed by `hands on' laboratory sessions using both new and prepared examples. Assessment: 20% observation, and 80% through the `multimedia application' to be built during the course and completed by day 10 of the course. Content: Day 1 - Wed July 16 Introduction to hypertext and navigation in Microcosm using exemplar materials provided by MWT. Day 2 - Thur July 17 Building resource-based applications in Microcosm using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 3 - Fri July 18 Organizing your resources: working with texts using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 4 - Sat July 19 Information Retrieval working with multimedia using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 5 - Mon July 21 Working with Third Party applications (including Netscape, Toolbook and Word) using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 6 - Tue July 22 The Multimedia Essay- building trails of association using exemplar materials provided by MWT Day 7 - Wed July 23 Working with the World Wide Web- authoring and using Webcosm (Microcosm on the Web). Comparing Microcosm to the World Wide Web and other systems, using new and archival materials (MWT) and focusing on the integration of the Web in an application Day 8 to 10 - Thur July 24, Fri July 25 and Sat July 26 Building links automatically- and identifying the `openness of a Microcosm application 1) demonstrating student applications 2) oral presentation of media data. Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems Rapid improvement in computer technology has enabled electronic storage and presentation of pictorial and manuscript materials at resolutions that rival conventional photographic reproduction. New cost-effective publishing and distribution systems have also developed using CD ROMs and computer networks. Thus, it is now possible to create digital archives containing upwards of 50,000 to 100,000 digital objects (pages of manuscript, photographs, etc.). This course explores some of the practical and theoretical issues involved in the development of digital archives. Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Manfred Thaller Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week. Objectives: This course will provide students with a comprehensive survey of the existing technologies used to develop digital archives, by participation in a "teaching project". Theoretical issues underlying digital archive design are also emphasized in the lecture component. Participants will be led through all stages in the creation of a small digital archive. This will culminate in the production of a CD ROM, and rendering it available through a local area network. The substance of these practical exercises will be decided in accordance with the preferences of the participants. Assessment: 20% observation, 40% on a written test which discusses the theoretical principles involved, 40% through the `digital archives to be built during the course and completed by day 10. Content: Day 1 - Wed July 16 Different types of archival systems. General considerations for the design and implementation of archival and museum systems Day 2 - Thur July 17 General considerations underlying the design and implementation of "private systems" Day 3 - Fri July 18 The interfaces used for digital editions and archives and the availability of basic tools. Day 4 - Sat July 19 The creation of interfaces which make the largest possible amount of source material available in a cost-effective fashion. Day 5 - Mon July 21 The issue of longevity of digital collections will be discussed as will the strategies for insuring the physical survival of the data. This session will also discuss techniques for making data immune from problems associated with hardware and software obsolescence. Day 6 - Tue July 22 The issue of data security will be discussed. Digital publications and/or archives must be created in a way which makes them safe from illicit copying. This issue includes concerns with protecting digital data from malevolent modification. Day 7 to 10 - Wed July 23 to Sat July 26 The final three days will be taken up with the development of the students' own "digital archives", and examination of students' comprehension of the principles that underlie such activity. Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning. This course focuses upon issues associated with preserving and interpreting "meaning" implicit in source materials as they are developed as electronic media. While ambiguity of meaning is evident in textual sources, it is particularly apparent when the analyst addresses graphic and audio-visual data. Exploration of these semantic networks within multimedia datasets is the primary focus of this course. It reviews how multimedia technologies enable researchers to move beyond the constraints of conventional textual data, and rigorously explore subtle meanings expressed in the use of language and gesture, and preserved in audio-visual media. Credit: .5 FCE Instructor: Jean Colson Course Duration: July 16 to July 26, 1997 Contact Hours: Four hours per day consisting of 1 to 2 hours of lecture and 2 to 3 hours of labs. Students may find they need additional lab time to complete the required material and develop sufficient expertise. The course will run 6 days per week. Objectives: Traditionally, scholars within the Humanities select representative textual data to illustrate interpretations derived from a larger body of literature. The limitations of conventional writing and publication has constrained the analysis, presentation and justification of such interpretation. However, with multimedia technologies, scholars are in a position to present a large corpus of primary documentation and simultaneously demonstrate the interpretative process using text, sound and images. This course reviews the theoretical and analytical implications of research in an electronic environment by demonstrating the process using Microcosm to draw upon textual, graphical, sound and video sources. Method: Daily 1 hour exposition followed by `hands-on' work with text, images, sound and video as necessary for the analysis of meaning in images. The first five sessions would be taken up with theoretical and practical techniques, including readings of relevant approaches. A selection of texts will be made available. The second five sessions will involve the construction of an application bearing in mind the theoretical perspectives offered. The final session will involve an oral exposition by the student drawing on the application which has been constructed. Assessment: Continuous assessment - 20% observation, 50% through the multimedia application, 30% oral exposition. Content: Day 1 - Wednesday 16th July 1. Beyond Illustration - what is an image as `source' using an application constructed for the purpose. Day 2 - Thursday 17th July 2. How do we derive meaning - the questions which might be asked: - who?, what? why, when? - markup and the boundaries of an image. Day 3 - Friday 18th July 3. Exploiting an exemplar image. 4. A workshop session - in which students `mount' their `own' image and explore the ways in which meaning might be `tapped' : This will entail the exploration of the notion of different `voices' and imposed `views'. The students should also explore the issues involved in the identification of `views' and `signs - symbols' or metaphors. Day 4 - Saturday 19th July 5. Modelling `views' and the establishment of interpretation. Students are encouraged to `model' their views in the software provided by Microcosm. The addition of `comment' and `alternative images' or `argument'. Day 5 to 9 - Monday 21st July to Friday 25th July 6. The students will be building their own application, providing systematic exploitation of their sources and short oral expositions of their plans and completed work. Day 10 - Saturday 26th July 7. Student presentations - students will talk to their application. An oral exposition will take not less than 20 minutes. This includes a `live' demonstration. LUSIAS Lakehead University Summer Institute for Advanced Studies LUSIAS offers graduate courses in the application of computing technologies to research in the humanities and social sciences. These courses address the method and theory of multimedia techniques to integrate text, still and video images, and sound. The program of study emphasizes multimedia as a tool for research and to aid the development of digital archives, and is less concerned with conventional multimedia applications such as presentation tools. Each summer (July) we offer an intensive 3 week program of study that encompasses about 170 hours of lecture and laboratory instruction time. Students must enroll in GS 5511 (Intro.), and can chose a maximum of 2 out of 3 Special Topics courses. Each course is valued as .5 FCE (full course equivalent). They may be taken for academic credit, or as non-credit training/skills upgrading courses. The courses use a "case study" approach to teaching. These case studies include European and Canadian examples. Examples deriving from North America Aboriginal culture will form an integral part of the curriculum. As part of the curriculum, students are strongly encouraged to bring their own data and research problems to develop as multimedia applications. LUSIAS is joint research and education initiative of the Mackenzie Ward Heritage Trust and Lakehead University. The 1997 courses descriptions and study schedule: Graduate Studies 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems Graduate Studies 5115 Special Topics Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities Graduate Studies 5116 Special Topics Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems Graduate Studies 5117 Special Topics Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning Instructor Biographies Jean MacKenzie Ward Colson born 1944 Academic career: 1966 B. A [Art and Anthropology]. University of California at Davies, California, U.S.A. 1970 M.A. in Symbolic Anthropology, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. 1971 Diploma in Social Anthropology, Oxford, England 1971-76 Southampton University 'Extra-mural' Lecturer in Social Anthropology. 1977-79 Lecturer in Historical Anthropology at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarine (state), Brazil. 1980-95 Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Southampton University, Hampshire, U.K. 1986-94 Research Assistant History Department, University of Southampton: responsible for the development of the HiDES Project. and the teaching of research techniques using advanced hypermedia systems - developed the Arts Computing course "Questioning the Image". 1994-96 Research Assistant Digital Libraries Research Centre (DLRC): responsible for the development of hypermedia systems in Humanities Research, and the "Introduction to Humanities Computing" taught at the Schools of Research and Graduate Studies. Academic Projects in the Field of Arts/Humanities Computing: 1977-79 Field work in a small fishing village, artesanal fishing, and lace-making , Lagoa de Conceicao, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. (Brazilian Fishing Village/Lace Making) Research in State and Federal archives - Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil. - Property and inheritance in leading families of the 18th and 19th century Ilha de Santa Catarina. 1979-96 Viana Project, Demographic History of the City of Viana do Castelo, 1750 - 1931. Project work funded by:- 1996 - present HiDES Project, A major project designed to introduce computing into the teaching of history in the UK 1989-94 The Winchester Project - a local history project involving major conversion of data structures from SIR, designing Kleio data structures. Database and data representation work 1989-94 "Questioning the Image" The use of advanced multimedia in the teaching of history. 1993-96 "Chicago 1919" , Project sponsored by the Newberry Library, Chicago "Multimedia History of a year in Chicago" 1993 - present The Technology in the Teaching and Learning Process, History Consortium "Core Resources for Historians" Teaching: 1972-76 Introduction to Social Anthropology Social Anthropology of Indigenous Peoples of North America Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous Art of North America 1977-79 "Parentesco, Casa, e a Familia Brasileiro", Florianopolis, Ilha de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina (state), Brazil (Taught in Brazilian-Portuguese) 1986-90 Visiting researcher in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Courses in conjunction with that department in Latin American Social History 1989-96 Developed a course called 'Questioning the Image'. which introduces students how to analyze images as sources. They are asked to implement this analysis in a multimedia application. They create the application and at the same time as writing a mini-thesis analyzing the meaning and the context of the images that they have chosen to study. I 'run' the DLRC's weekly internal Seminar called The Wishgroup which discusses the theoretical and methodological issues of text and image processing. I help to supervise Ph.D. students who are working with images in their own research. Since 1995 I have co-ordinated the 'IT' component of a yearly course entitled 'Humanities Research Skills' to all incoming M. A. Students - it argues the issues which arise when database management systems, mark-up languages and HTML are used in the course of research. I also teach a course entitled 'Historical Computing' which is a workshop course. Students either learn Kleio - a object/source oriented environment for the analysis of text and images, or create an multimedia research application of their own using Microcosm. Summer Institutes: I organize the annual "Microcosm Summer School" at the Annual Conference of the International Society History and Computing, and an annual DLRC "Colloquium". As part of the DLRC, I am engaged in research and design of large Multimedia applications. I build multimedia applications. I am interested in the implications of hypertext implementations and applications. I am concerned with the theoretical issues which arise when one uses textual and image sources in research. I work closely with the MMRG Group in Electronics and Computing Science at Southampton. Publications: Colson, Jean, 1996 'CASE STUDY H : Community Reconstruction and the Viana do Castelo database' In Charles Harvey and Jon Press, eds., Databases and the Historian, Macmillan Basingstoke. J. Colson, and F. Colson, H. C. Davies and W. Hall, 1994 'Questioning "Authority". The Challenge of Multimedia' In Storia & Multimedia, Atti de Settimo Congresso Internazionale Association for History and Computing, eds. Francesca Bocchi and Peter Denley (Grafis, Bologna 1994), pp 597-605. Colson, J. M. 1992 "The Quartim - an Exemplar", in, Fischer, M.,(ed.), Bica (Bulletin of Information on Computing and Anthropology), The University of Canterbury, Kent, issue no. 8 , June 1992 (on-line. electronic publication). Colson, Jean, Roger Middleton, and Peter Wardley, 1991 Annual Review of Information Technology Developments for Economic and Social Historians, Economic History Review, XLIV, 2 (1991), pp. 343-393. Colson, F., Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D., 1990 "In search of the Individual. Brazil, Portugal and London, 1841-1915', Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 5, no. 4, pp 279- 296. (Oxford University Press.) Colson, F. , Colson, J. M. and Doulton, D. 1990 'Anatomy of a Rupture. Miguelismo, Petty Aristocracy and Liberal Centralism in Portugal, 1820-1834', in, History and Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1. (Oxford, 1990). pp. 1-13. Colson Jean, and Frank Colson, 1990 "Mercantile Migration - The Case of Viana do Castello and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil", in Oliveira Martins, Herminio, (ed.), Portuguese Studies Workshop, St. Antony's College, Oxford, Spring. Hugh C. Davies born 1958 Academic Career: 1981 B.Sc. (Hons) in Ship Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. 1982 Further Education Teachers Certificate, IOWCAT, Teacher. 1988 British Computer Society Part 1, BCS 1988 M.Sc. in Computer of British Society, ICS 1992 Membership of British Computer Society, BCS 1995 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southampton, Hampshire, U.K. 1992 - present Lecturer, Multimedia Research Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, U.K. Founder of the Multimedia Research Group in 1987, and one of the inventors of the Multimedia open hypermedia system. Since 1990 I have been transferring the technology that comes from our lab into industry. I am a director of Multicosm Ltd., which has been set up the University to manage this technology transfer. My research areas are open hypermedia systems, open protocols, the applications of hypermedia in industry and education. I am currently working on document management systems within the digital library. I am research team manager within our research group. I have been heavily involved in the hypermedia research community for some years. I have been involved with dozens of firms, including Boeing, IBM, HP, Glaxo Welcome, Shell, Unichem, concerning the applications of hypermedia technology Academic Projects within the field of hypermedia computing: 1990 - present working with a large number of applications germane to Arts/Humanities Computing. 1992 Bath University/Sainsburys Microcosm Applications in GIS. 1993 JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm 1993 SERC Remote systems application for Microcosm 1994 JISC Implementation of Research Version of Microcosm. 1994 Glaxo Microcosm Applications 1994 JISC Implementation of Academic Version of Microcosm. 1995 Unichem Microcosm Applications 1995 EPSRC Web Applications for Microcosm. 1996 EPSRC Microcosm Architecture for Video Information Systems. 1996 E.U. Memoire Project - Microcosm Information Management Systems in Digital Libraries. 1996 EPSRC Search instruments in hypermedia environments. 1997 Co-chair of ACM Hypertext 97, which will be held at Southampton , Member of Southern Committee of British Computer Society Teaching: Teaching one regular introductory and advanced course in Computer Science and Hypermedia. Within Southampton I am in charge of our modular M.Sc. in Information Engineering, which is unique in that it uses the Internet as its primary method of distributing information. Summer Institutes: I have given invited seminars at many major UK universities, including the Open University. I have given courses introducing and using Microcosm at many UK and EU universities. Other Professional Information: I have been a regular reviewer and referee for ACM and IEEE journals and conferences; an invited speaker at many conferences and workshops including "Learning Technology in Higher Education Conference", September 1993, DDG XIII B, OII REFMOD Hypertext and Hypermedia workshop on producing an OII reference model. January 1993., " Status User Conference", Oct. 1993, the "Workshop on Open Hypertext Systems" at the University of Konstanz, May 1994. The "Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, ECHT'94., the 21st IAMSLIC Conference (International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centres), the 2nd Workshop on "Open Hypermedia Systems" at the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology, April 1996. Recent Publications: Andrew Fountain, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath and Hugh Davies. 1990 "Microcosm An Open Model for Hypermedia with Dynamic Linking". In: A. Rizk, N. Streitz and J. Andre eds. Hypertext: Concepts, Systems and Applications. The Proceedings of the European Conference on Hypertext, INRIA, France, November 1990, Cambridge University Press Gillian Lovegrove and Hugh Davies. 1991 "Experimenting with Object-Orientated Programming in the Curriculum". University Computing, 13 pp 163-170. Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, Ian Heath, Gary Hill and Rob Wilkins. 1992 Towards an Integrated Information Environment with Open Hypermedia Systems. In: D. Lucarella, J. Nanard, M. Nanard, P. Paolini. eds. The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypertext, ECHT'92, Milano, ACM, 1992. Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall, and Ian Heath. 1993 Media Integration Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications. IEEE, 1993. Hugh Davies, Gerard Hutchings and Wendy Hall. 1993 A Framework for Delivering large-scale Hypermedia Learning Material. In: Hermann Maurer. ed. Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Annual 1993, of ED-MEDIA'93, Orlando, Florida, USA, pp. 115-122. AACE. 1993. Les Carr, Hugh Davies and Wendy Hall. 1993 Experimenting with HyTime Architectural Forms for Hypertext Interchange. Journal of Information Services & Use 13(2) pp. 111-119, 1993 Hall, W., Hill, G. J. & Hall, W. Why Use HyTime?. EP-ODD, Vol. 7 No. 1. 1994. Hugh Davies, Wendy Hall and Ian Heath. 1994 Media Integration Issues within Open Hypermedia Systems. In: R. I. Damper, W. Hall & J. Richards: eds. Multimedia Technologies and Future Applications. Pentech Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7273- 13207, 1994. Hutchings, G. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & White, S. 1994 "Resource Based Learning: Creating Reusable Hypermedia for Education" In: The Proceedings of MediaActive, Liverpool, May 1994. Carr, L. A., Hall, W., Davies, H. C. & Hollom, R. J. 1994 The Microcosm Link Service and its Application to the World Wide Web. in: Cailliau, R., R. Nierstrasz, O. & Ruggier, M. eds. The Proceedings of the First International World Wide-Web Conference. Geneva, May 1994 pp 25-34. CERN 1994. Hall, W. & Davies, H. C. 1994 Hypermedia Link Services and Their Application to Multimedia Information Management. Journal of Information and Software Technology. pp. 197-202, 36(4). Davies, H. C., Knight, S. J. Hall, W. Light 1994 "Hypermedia Link Services" In: The Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Hypermedia Technology. ECHT'94. Edinburgh. ACM Press 1994. Davies, H. C. & Hey, J. M. R. 1995 "Automatic Extraction of Hypermedia Bundles from the Digital Library" In: Shipman, F. M. III, Furuta, R., & Levy, D. M. The Proceedings of Digital Libraries `95. Texas A&M University, June 1995. Davies, H. C. 1995 "To Embed or Not to Embed..." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38(8), pp 108-109. August 1995. Lewis, P. H., Davies, H. C., Griffiths, S. R., Hall, W. & Wilkins, R. J. 1996 "Media-based Navigation with Generic Links" In: Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Hypertext, Hypertext `96, pp. 215-223, ACM, March 1996. Davies, H. C., Lewis, A. J. & Rizk, A. 1996 "OHP: A Draft Proposal for Standard Open Hypermedia Protocol" In: Wiil, U.K. & Demeyer, S. (eds). The Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Open Hypermedia Systems, at Hypertext' 96, Washington D.C. UCI-ICS Tech Report 96- 10, University of California, Irvine, April 1996. Hall, W. Davies, H.C., & Hutchings, G. A. 1996 Rethinking Hypermedia : The Microcosm Approach. ISBN 0-7923-9679-0. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manfred Thaller born 1950 Academic career: 1970 History (originally History and Ancient Oriental Studies) at the University of Graz, Austria. 1975 Ph.D. in Modern History "Studien zum Europaischen Amerikabild. Darstellung und Beurteilung der Politik und inneren Entwicklung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in Deutschland, Gro3britannien und Osterreich zwischen 1840 und 1941 im Vergleich." Postgraduate study of (empirical) sociology as "scholar" of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna; special interest, study of historical mobility studies. Participation in research projects on the history of the family, study of the daily life of the Middle Ages and interlocking directorates of German and Austrian companies. 1978 - present Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Geschichte, Goettingen. Responsible for the design and implementation of a general database oriented programming system for history "Kleio". At the same time research on a general methodology of historical computer science. 1995 - present Part-time Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Responsible for development of M.A. / Ph.D. program in "Historical Computer Science". Visiting professorships at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1987), Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (1993) and the European University Institute, Florence (1993). Academic Projects in the field of Arts/Humanities Computing: 1987-88 Project director: "WORM's als Editionsmedium fur historische Datenbanken", (funded: IBM Germany) 1988-92 "Entwicklung fachspezifischer Software fur die Historischen Wissenschaften", (Grant support - VW Stiftung) 1996-99 "Digitale Archive", (Grant support -VW Stiftung) 1991 Project co-ordinator:- "Sicherstellung der Archive in Auschwitz" 1992 "Autumn School for New Historical Methods at the Moscow State University" 1995 "Technology, Skills and Resources for Historians of the Former Soviet Union" 1991-94 President of the International Association for History and Computing Teaching: 1979 - present Historical Computer Science at the Universities of Gottingen (since 1984) and Munich (since 1985); lectures and seminars at the Universities of Graz, Hamburg, Salzburg, Siegen and Vienna. Intensive courses, primarily on the usage of various software packages at the Universities of Freiburg, Koln, Odense, Utrecht, the Institute of Historical Research, London., Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Summer Institutes: Summer school "Neue Methoden in der Geschichtswissenschaft"; originally at the University of Linz, later at the University of Salzburg, since 1994 at the Universities of Bergen and Salzburg. 1987 - 1992, 1994 and 1996 organizer of a summer school on source orientated data processing in Goettingen. Publications - since 1986 As author 1986 "Can We Afford to Use the Computer; Can We Afford not to Use it?" In: H. Millet (Ed.) Informatique et Prosopographie, Paris 1986 "A Draft Proposal for the Coding of Machine Readable Sources", in Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung. 40 (October1986). 1987 "Methods and Techniques of Historical Computation" in: Peter Denley and Deian Hopkin (Eds.): History and Computing, Manchester 1987. 1987 "Auf dem Weg zu einem Standard fur maschinenlesbare Quellen", in Friedrich Hausmann et. al. (Eds.): Datennetze fur die Historischen Wissenschaften , Graz . 1987 "The Daily Life of the Middle Ages, Editions of Sources and Data Processing", in: Medium Aevum Quotidianum 10 (1987). 1987 "Secundum Manus. Zur Datenverarbeitung mehrschichtiger Editionen", in Gunther Cerwinka et al. (Ed.): Beitrage zur Geschichte und Ihren Grundlagen, Festschrift Friedrich Hausmann zum 70. Geburtstag, Graz 1988 "Vom Beleg zum Begriff. Der Beitrag der Datenverarbeitung zur Losung von Terminologieproblemen", in: G. M. Dienes et al. (Eds.): Ut populus ad historiam trahatur., (Graz ,1988). 1988 "Gibt es eine fachspezifische Datenverarbeitung in den historischen Wissenschaften? Quellenbanktechniken in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: H. Kaufhold and J. Schneider (Eds.): Geschichtswissenschaft und elektronische Datenverarbeitung (Wiesbaden 1988.) 1988 "A Draft Proposal for a Format Exchange Program", in: Jean-Philippe Genet (Ed.): Standardisation et echange des bases de donnees historiques., Actes de la troiseme Table Ronde Internationale tenue au L.I.S.H. (Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifique), (Paris 1988). 1988 "Was sind `fortgeschrittene Kenntnisse' in formalen Verfahren fur Historiker", in: Manfred Thaller, Gerhard Botz et al. (Eds.): Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, (Frankfurt / New York Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York . 1989 Kleio "Ein Datenbanksystem" St. Katharinen 1989 and later editions (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 1). (St. Katharinen 1989, (Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 2). 1989 "Have Very Large Data Bases Methodological Relevance?", in: Otto Opitz (Ed.): Conceptual and Numerical Analysis of Data, Berlin 1989 "Warum brauchen die Geschichtswissenschaften fachspezifische datentechnische L'osungen? Das Beispiel kontextsensitiver Datenbanken", in: Manfred Thaller and Albert Muller (Eds.): Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte und Berichte, Frankfurt a. Main Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft 7 . 1989 "The Need for a Theory of Historical Computing", in: Peter Denley et al. (Eds.): History and Computing II, Manchester and New York . 1990 "Sphragid`Geographische Angaben in einer Historischen Datenbank", in: Eratosthene e 2 (1990). 1990 "Databases and Expert Systems as Complementary Tools for Historical Research", in: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 103 (1990). 1990 "Entzauberungen. Die Entwicklung einer fachspezifischen historischen Datenverarbeitung in der Bundesrepublik", in: W. Prinz und P. Weingart (Eds.): Die sogenannten Geisteswissenschaften: Innenansichten. Frankfurt a. Main 1990 "The Need for Standards: Data Modelling and Exchange", in: Daniel Greenstein (Ed.): Modelling Historical Data, St. Katharinen 1991 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 11. 1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 16 (1991). 1991 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Computers and the Humanities 25 (1991). 1992 "The Historical Workstation Project", in: Josef Smets (Ed.): Histoire et Informatique, Montpellier 1992. 1992 "The Processing of Manuscripts", in: Manfred Thaller (Ed.) Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, St. Katharinen 1992 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14 1991 "Bildanalyse in der Geschichtswissenschaft", in: W. Neubauer und K.-H. Meier (Eds.): Deutscher Dokumentartag 1991 1992 "On the Conception, Training and Employment of Historical Data and Knowledge Daemons", in: Jan Oldervoll (Ed.): Eden or Babylon?, St. Katharinen . 1992 "Von der Miverst andlichkeit des Selbstverst andlichen", in: Rudolf Vierhaus et al. (Eds.): Fruhe Neuzeit-Fruhe Moderne. Forschungen zur Vielschichtigkeit von Ubergangsprozessen, Gottingen 1992 Veroff. des MPI fur. Geschichte 104. 1993 "Kleio A Database System", St. Katharinen 1993 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik B 11. 1993 "The Archive on the Top of your Desk? On Self-Documenting Image Files", in: Jurij Fikfak and Gerhart Jaritz (Eds.): Image Processing in History: towards Open Systems, St. Katharinen Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 16. 1993 "Historical Information Science: Is there such a Thing? New Comments on an Old Idea", in: Tito Orlandi (Eds.): Seminario Discipline Humanistiche e Informatica. Il problema dell' integrazione, (Roma 1993 ) Contributi Del Centor Linceo Interdisciplinare `Beniamo Segre' 87. 1994 "Source Oriented Data Processing", in: Informatik Forum 8. (1994). 1994 "Die Herausforderung groSer Korpora unstrukturierter Texte", in: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berichte und Mitteilungen 1 1994. 1994 "Bilder und Manuskripte als Gegenstand der rechnergstutzten Bearbeitung", in: EDV-Tage Theuern 1993. Kolloquiumsbericht, Munich 1994. 1995 "Source Oriented Data Processing and Quantification: Distrustful Brothers", in: Manfred Thaller et. al: Statistics for Historians: Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26. 1995 "The Archive on Top of Your Desk: An Introduction to Self-Documenting Image Files", in: Historical Methods 28 (1995). 1996 "L'immagine del passato: Accesso e memorizzazione delle fonti della cultura visiva", in: Immagini e memoria elettronica, Bologna. 1996 "Inventare und Forschungssysteme: Zwei Seiten einer Munze oder unterschiedliche Wahrungen?", in: EDV-Tage Theuern Kolloquiumsbericht, Munchen. As Editor 1981 - 1984 Software Editor for Historical Social Research / Historische Sozial -forschung: Quarterly reports. Since 1989 Series Editor of the Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik: so far ca. 30 volumes. Die Praxis der Quantifizierung in der osterreichischen Geschichtsforschung, abgedruckt in Bericht uber den 16 . Osterreichische Historikertag, Wien 1985. Datenbanken als Werkzeug Historischer Sozialforschung St. Katharinen 1986 Historisch-Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungen 20. with Ursula Klenk und Peter Scherber: Computerlinguistik und philologische Datenverarbeitung, Hildesheim etc. 1987 Linguistische Datenverarbeitung 7. with Gerhard Botz et. al. Qualitat und Quantitat. Zur Praxis der Methoden der Historischen Sozialwissenschaft, Frankfurt / New York 1988. with Albert Muller: "Computer in den Geisteswissenschaften. Konzepte und Berichte", Frankfurt a. Main 1989 Studien zur Historischen Sozialwissenschaft 7. with Heino Best und Ekkehard Mochmann: Computers in the Humanities and Social Sciences Munchen etc. 1991. Images and Manuscripts in Historical Computing, [St. Katharinen 1992] Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 14. with Leonid Borodkin and John Turner: Statistics for Historians: Standard Packages and Specific Historical Software, St. Katharinen 1995 Halbgraue Reihe zur Historischen Fachinformatik A 26. --------- Fee Structure, Course Timetable The LUSIAS courses are offered as graduate programming. Students may also enroll on a non-credit basis. Credit and non-credit registration forms are available by clicking to go to the appropriate on-line registration form. Additional information can be sought from the contact addresses at the bottom of this page. A limited number of bursaries will be offered to students enrolled in three courses for academic credit. These bursaries will be awarded on the basis of academic performance. Course Timetable July 7 to 15, 1997 GS 5511 Introduction to the application of Multimedia Computer Systems July 16 to 26, 1997 GS 5115 Introduction to Hypermedia: using and building Open Hypermedia Applications in the Humanities GS 5116 Images and Manuscripts as Objects in Digital Systems GS 5117 Questioning the Image: form, content and the analysis of meaning. Fee Structure 1 course (.5 FCE) $1,000 Canadian 2 courses (1.0 FCE) $2,000 Canadian 3 courses (1.5 FCE) $2,500 Canadian $200 is payable on registration, with the balance due at the start of the course. Make cheques payable to Lakehead University and send to the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. Registration Deadlines May 31, 1997 For more information please contact: Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1 telephone (807)343-8785 fax (807)346-7749 email LUSIAS@lakeheadu.ca From: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 11.0077 suicide philosophically Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:27:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 114 (114) Dear Gregory, I am very grateful to you for the extensive expert bibliography. Your response to my query on the internet proves the power of the medium. Since you are uniquely qualified to interpret the Montesquieu letters on suicide, would you expand your comments on them? Where do you see the intention to "mock Neo-Stoicism"? Pauline From: David McNeil Subject: Re: 11.0077 suicide philosophically Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:16:01 -0300 (ADT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 115 (115) On philosophical discussions of suicide, see David Hume's suppressed essay in which he defends the practice. His publisher would have none of it. See also Arthur Schopenhauer who ultimately rejects suicide as a capitulation to the will but who expresses much sympathy for suicidal tendencies (& supports Hume's ideas to a degree). For Schopenhauer, see the essay on suicide and "suicide" in the index to _The World as Will and Representation_ (vol. 2)--Payne translation. David McNeil dmcneil@is.dal.ca From: Emily Rose Subject: Re: 11.0076 EPI-Centre? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 21:13:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 116 (116) [deleted quotation] You might try the H-Judaic list. From: Denis Dutton (141) Subject: The Annual Bad Writing Contest (fwd) Date: Sat, 31 May 97 12:26:21 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 117 (117) --Bad Writing Contest Winners-- We are pleased to announce winners of the third Bad Writing Contest, sponsored by the scholarly journal Philosophy and Literature (published by the Johns Hopkins University Press) and its internet discussion group, PHIL-LIT. The Bad Writing Contest attempts to locate the ugliest, most stylistically awful passage found in a scholarly book or article published in the last few years. Ordinary journalism, fiction, etc. are not eligible, nor are parodies: entries must be non-ironic, from actual serious academic journals or books. In a field where unintended self-parody is so widespread, deliberate send-ups are hardly necessary. This year's winning passages include prose published by established, successful scholars, experts who have doubtless labored for years to write like this. Obscurity, after all, can be a notable achievement. The fame and influence of writers such as Hegel, Heidegger, or Derrida rests in part on their mysterious impenetrability. On the other hand, as a cynic once remarked, John Stuart Mill never attained Hegel's prestige because people found out what he meant. This is a mistake the authors of our our prize-winning passages seem determined to avoid. * The first prize goes to a sentence by the distinguished scholar Fredric Jameson, a man who on the evidence of his many admired books finds it difficult to write intelligibly and impossible to write well. Whether this is because of the deep complexity of Professor Jameson's ideas or their patent absurdity is something readers must decide for themselves. Here, spotted for us by Dave Roden of Central Queensland University in Australia, is the very first sentence of Professor Jameson's book, Signatures of the Visible (Routledge, 1990, p. 1): "The visual is _essentially_ pornographic, which is to say that it has its end in rapt, mindless fascination; thinking about its attributes becomes an adjunct to that, if it is unwilling to betray its object; while the most austere films necessarily draw their energy from the attempt to repress their own excess (rather than from the more thankless effort to discipline the viewer)." The appreciative Mr. Roden says it is "good of Jameson to let readers know so soon what they're up against." We cannot see what the second "that" in the sentence refers to. And imagine if that uncertain "it" were willing to betray its object? The reader may be baffled, but then any author who thinks visual experience is essentially pornographic suffers confusions no lessons in English composition are going to fix. * If reading Fredric Jameson is like swimming through cold porridge, there are writers who strive for incoherence of a more bombastic kind. Here is our next winner, which was found for us by Professor Cynthia Freeland of the University of Houston. The writer is Professor Rob Wilson: "If such a sublime cyborg would insinuate the future as post-Fordist subject, his palpably masochistic locations as ecstatic agent of the sublime superstate need to be decoded as the 'now-all-but-unreadable DNA' of a fast deindustrializing Detroit, just as his Robocop-like strategy of carceral negotiation and street control remains the tirelessly American one of inflicting regeneration through violence upon the racially heteroglossic wilds and others of the inner city." This colorful gem appears in a collection called The Administration of Aesthetics: Censorship, Political Criticism, and the Public Sphere, edited by Richard Burt "for the Social Text Collective" (University of Minnesota Press, 1994). Social Text is the cultural studies journal made famous by publishing physicist Alan Sokal's jargon-ridden parody of postmodernist writing. If this essay is Social Text's idea of scholarship, little wonder it fell for Sokal's hoax. (And precisely what are "racially heteroglossic wilds and others"?) Dr. Wilson is an English professor, of course. * That incomprehensibility need not be long-winded is proven by our third-place winner, sent in by Richard Collier, who teaches at Mt. Royal College in Canada. It's a sentence from Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory, by Fred Botting (Manchester University Press, 1991): "The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains." * Still, prolixity is often a feature of bad writing, as demonstrated by our next winner, a passage submitted by Mindy Michels, a graduate anthropology student at the American University in Washington, D.C. It's written by Stephen Tyler, and appears in Writing Culture, edited (it says) by James Clifford and George E. Marcus (University of California Press, 1986). Of what he calls "post-modern ethnography," Professor Tyler says: "It thus relativizes discourse not just to form--that familiar perversion of the modernist; nor to authorial intention--that conceit of the romantics; nor to a foundational world beyond discourse--that desperate grasping for a separate reality of the mystic and scientist alike; nor even to history and ideology--those refuges of the hermeneuticist; nor even less to language--that hypostasized abstraction of the linguist; nor, ultimately, even to discourse--that Nietzschean playground of world-lost signifiers of the structuralist and grammatologist, but to all or none of these, for it is anarchic, though not for the sake of anarchy but because it refuses to become a fetishized object among objects--to be dismantled, compared, classified, and neutered in that parody of scientific scrutiny known as criticism." * A bemused Dr. Tim van Gelder of the University of Melbourne sent us the following sentence: "Since thought is seen to be 'rhizomatic' rather than 'arboreal,' the movement of differentiation and becoming is already imbued with its own positive trajectory." It's from The Continental Philosophy Reader, edited by Richard Kearney and Mara Rainwater (Routledge, 1996), part of an editors' introduction intended to help students understand a chapter. Dr. van Gelder says, "No undergraduate student I've given this introduction to has been able to make the slightest sense of it. Neither has any faculty member." * An assistant professor of English at a U.S. university (she prefers to remain anonymous) entered this choice morsel from The Cultures of United States Imperialism, by Donald Pease (Duke University Press, 1993): "When interpreted from within the ideal space of the myth-symbol school, Americanist masterworks legitimized hegemonic understanding of American history expressively totalized in the metanarrative that had been reconstructed out of (or more accurately read into) these masterworks." While the entrant says she enjoys the Bad Writing Contest, she's fearful her career prospects would suffer were she to be identified as hostile to the turn by English departments toward movies and soap operas. We quite understand: these days the worst writers in universities are English professors who ignore "the canon" in order to apply tepid, vaguely Marxist gobbledygook to popular culture. Young academics who'd like a career had best go along. * But it's not just the English department where jargon and incoherence are increasingly the fashion. Susan Katz Karp, a graduate student at Queens College in New York City, found this splendid nugget showing that forward-thinking art historians are doing their desperate best to import postmodern style into their discipline. It's from an article by Professor Anna C. Chave, writing in Art Bulletin (December 1994): "To this end, I must underline the phallicism endemic to the dialectics of penetration routinely deployed in descriptions of pictorial space and the operations of spectatorship." The next round of the Bad Writing Contest, results to be announced in 1998, is now open with a deadline of December 31, 1997. There is an endless ocean of pretentious, turgid academic prose being added to daily, and we'll continue to celebrate it. ********************************** Dr. Denis Dutton Senior Lecturer in the Philosophy of Art Editor, Philosophy and Literature University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Phones: 64-3-366-7001, ext. 8154; 643-348-7928 (home) d.dutton@fina.canterbury.ac.nz From: Geoffrey Rockwell (5) Subject: ARE YOU BEING INVESTIGATED ???? (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 118 (118) Dear Willard and fellow Humanists, An example of a recent SPAM message I recieved that should be of concern to all. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Learn EVERYTHING about your friends, neighbors, enemies, employees or anyone else! -- even your boss! -- even yourself! My mammoth SNOOP COLLECTION of internet sites will provide you... * Over 200 giant resources to look up people, credit, social security, current or past employment, mail order purchases, addresses, phone numbers, maps to city locations... it's incredible... * Track down an old debt, or anyone else that has done you wrong! * Locate an old friend (or an enemy who is hiding) or a lost love -- Find e-mail, telephone or address information on anyone! Even look up *unlisted* phone numbers! * Investigate your family history! Check birth, death, adoption or social security records Check service records of Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps. * Enjoy the enchantment of finding out a juicy tid-bit about a co-worker. * Check out your daughter's new boyfriend! * Find trial transcripts and court orders! * Find WORK by searching classified ads ALL OVER THE WORLD! * SCREEN prospective employees -- Check credit, driving or criminal records Verify income or educational accomplishments The Internet is a POWERFUL megasource of information, if you only know WHERE to look. I tell you how to find out nearly ANYTHING about anybody, and tell you exactly where to find it! You will be amazed to find out what PERSONAL information other people can find out about YOU! Check your credit report so you can correct WRONG information that may be used to deny you credit. Research YOURSELF first! You'll be horrified, as I was, at how much data has accumulated about you. If you believe (like I do) that the information that is stored about EACH ONE OF US should be freely accessible, you'll want to see the SNOOP COLLECTION I've compiled. Verify your own records, or find out what you need to know about others. And my huge collection is ONLY THE BEGINNING! Once you locate these FREE private, college and government web sites, you'll find even MORE links to even MORE information search engines! I'm telling you, it's incredible what you can find out using the internet! FOUR WAYS TO ORDER 1) WE TAKE: AMERICAN EXPRESS <> VISA <> MASTERCARD [material omitted] [deleted quotation] [material omitted] which will fully explain... * What information is available -- and exact URL to get there! * My easy-to-browse, categorized megacenter of information, has my own description of how to use each site, and what you'll find when you get there -- and tricky tips on how to extract the best data! * Exactly where to look for -- AND THE CLEVER WAY to use - the above search engines, and TONS more! INCLUDING ... Personal ads, logs of personal e-mail, mention of individuals anywhere on the internet (including PRIVATE bulletin boards), lists of resources to find even more information (private investigators, etc...), how to leverage one database against another, up-to-the-second news reports on any subject you choose, and MORE... Order surveillance/snoop tools (if legal in your state) Send anonymous e-mail Research companies or business issues Research and discuss the issue of privacy and technology Locate military records from Viet Nam, Korea, WW II, etc... Search legal opinions, trial transcripts, etc... Find Wanted fugitives -- maybe your reclusive neighor! You can know EVERYTHING about EVERYBODY with my SNOOP COLLECTION! ABSOLUTE SATISIFACTION GUARANTEED: Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed, just return the material for a full refund within 30 days if you aren't dazed & amazed. Copyright 1997 All Rights Reserved From: Donald Theall Subject: Re: 11.0020 CIEC; Monday MOO Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 22:51:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 119 (119) Almost three weeks ago, Willard raised the question of the forthcoming CDA decision anticipated from the U.S. Supreme Court in the near future. At the time I was undergoing surgery and thus not able to reply, but on returning I was surprised to see that there had been no response. While the results of the decision will only legally affect the United States, the issue itself and the U.S. approach towards it has implications everywhere, for it is bound to play a role in discussions about the free flow of information on the Internet globally. Currently I am working on an article on Censorship and the Internet to be published in a book on Censorship in Canada. In the course of researching and organizing this article, it has become apparent that certain decisions seemingly directed towards the prohibition of material deemed dangerous to certain sectors of society (e.g., children), or which might lead to dangerous actions against some group (e.g., hate literature) could have a profound impact on the normally expected freedom of inquiry within the research community -- that means us! If the CDA were to pass in its present form and similar legislation to be adopted in other countries as well, the danger to freedom of research inquiry -- in fact even to the more general public's freedom of inquiry and expression -- is apparent, as the U.S. District Court made clear in its decision which found the CDA legislation in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. But even if the CDA were to be rejected in full or in part by the Supreme Court of the United States, it is apparent that there will still be a strong movement to enforce legislatively the use of filtering software in public institutions, as well as providing it for parents in the home. Debates concerning the use of filtering software in public libraries have already surfaced in many areas (e.g. Boston) and in the course of exploring those controversies, it has become apparent that, in spite of the right of any user of a library to have free and unhindered access to all information, whoever controls the filtering software is making decisions which, without being clearly communicated to those using the facilities, may well block them from sources of important information without their even being aware of it. Such sites as those of the Electronic Freedom Foundation at M.I.T. have presumably been blocked by some widely used filtering software. It is arguable -- apart from libraries and other public institutions -- that on a variety of grounds this could also be extended to colleges and universities: protection of students under 18 years of age, support of presumed possibilities of harassment and dissemination of hate literature. I am trying to avoid getting into arguing the issues raised by Stanley Fish and others justifying censorship (although they obviously are extremely problematic) by raising only the issue of the university research community retaining the same free, open, and uninhibited research sources that it currently experiences. It is conceivable that such filtering could prevent students, and even faculty from access to crucial materials. The CDA issue and accompanying actions by other countries and international bodies to control the Internet must raise questions and concerns among humanists as well as all university researchers. Therefore, the profound silence after Willard's query has been one of those intriguing silences which we humanists are always tempted to interminably interpret. I realize the complexity of the problem and the difficulty in dealing with it briefly online is a factor in such silence, but I suspect there are many others. Yet to a community such as we humanists, who instinctively query any censorship, this is an issue of major importance. I would be curious to know the opinions of others on the issues posed by the CDA controversy currently receiving major attention in the world arena -- from Germany to Singapore and from China to the UN -- since it is bound to have some effects on our university communities. These may be minor and short-term; or they may be major and create a long-term battle to maintain essential rights which we have already achieved. So that some of our colleagues do not think I am being elitist, I believe the same freedoms that we have had in the universities, should be guaranteed to all. But I am raising here the specific problems presented to freedom of research and inquiry, which I believe humanists need to discuss among themselves. The broader issues are already being vigorously discussed in many other electronic forums, but there has been relatively little discussion as to the specific potential threats to the community of scholars. Perhaps a serious discussion of the harm that even a little control of research inquiry and academic freedom can do to academic integrity would provide an additional basis to defend these values for the broader global community. Donald Theall University Professor Emeritus Trent University On Wednesday, May 11th Willard McCarty wrote: The U.S. Supreme Court is due to hand down its decision on the infamous Communications Decency Act in June or July of this year. Meanwhile, information about the hearings on 19 March of this year are available from the Web site of the Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition (CIEC), "a broad group of Internet users, library groups, publishers, online service providers, and civil liberties groups", <http://www.ciec.org/>. Further pointers and comments welcome. From: Beth Kanter Subject: CA Governor's Conference on the Arts Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 14:05:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 120 (120) The California Arts Council's 1997 CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON THE ARTS (http://www.govcon.org) is examining the increasingly important issue of the globalization of the world economy, the telecommunications revolution, and the importance of the marketplace of ideas as they affect the arts. An online component, implemented by Arts Wire at http://www.artswire.org/reg/gov_reg.cgi provides an opportunity for anyone interested to participate Beth Kanter Arts Wire Network Coordinator kanter@artswire.org <http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/spiderschool/spider.htm> ======================================================================== Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe presents ICHIM 97 in partnership with le Musée du Louvre The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums will be held 1-5 September 1997 at Le Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. Two days of pre-conference workshops and events are followed by three days of presentations by over 60 experts from around the world. Theme days feature Multimedia Publications, Geographic Information and the World Wide Web. Three days of rotating exhibits include dozens of demonstrations by developers of museum projects and commercial firms active in museum computing and cultural publication. Numerous opportunities will be provided for social interaction. The Preliminary Program and Registration details for ICHIM 97 are available at: www.archimuse.com/ichim97 ====================================================================== THE SPECIALIZED SCHOLARLY MONOGRAPH IN CRISIS OR HOW CAN I GET TENURE IF YOU WON'T PUBLISH MY BOOK? SEPTEMBER 11-12, 1997 WASHINGTON, DC CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY: AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRESSES ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES "Saving 'Tenure Books' From a Painful Demise" Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/1/96 "Profit Squeeze for Publishers Makes Tenure More Elusive" New York Times, 11/18/96 Recent headlines in the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education warn of the dangers posed by the threat to the specialized scholarly monograph. The primary market for specialized monographs--research libraries--has been burdened over the past decade with significant increases in the costs of science and technology journals, resulting in dramatic decreases in monographic purchases. Faced with this eroding market and declining subsidies from both universities and funding agencies, university presses can no longer afford to publish the specialized research which is central to their mission. As a consequence, young faculty are not getting tenured or promoted, undermining the future of education and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. This conference on the specialized scholarly monograph brings together faculty, administrators, publishers, and librarians to focus attention on an issue central to the entire academic enterprise. It examines the current state of scholarly communication and explores the potential of new technologies to provide both new means of dissemination and new formats for conducting research and communicating the results. The conference examines: * the issues involved in the creation and dissemination of scholarly communication from the perspectives of a university administrator, scholar, publisher, and librarian; * the functions and costs involved in the scholarly communication process, examining the factors which have contributed to the endangered status of the monograph; * expectations for young faculty, and how and why they are changing; * how the issues differ across fields and disciplines and how these variables affect the decisions made by the presses; * current experiments in monographic publishing; and * new frameworks in scholarly communication and how these might provide new models for creation and dissemination of research. INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE: John D'Arms, ACLS Scott Bennett, Yale University Library Stanley Chodorow, University of Pennsylvania Sandria Freitag, American Historical Association Joanna Hitchcock, University of Texas Press Peter Nathan, University of Iowa Marlie Wasserman, Rutgers University Press For more information or to register online, see <http://arl.cni.org/scomm/epub/program.html> -- Mary Case, Director Office of Scholarly Communication Association of Research Libraries 21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Suite 800 Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 296-2296 X112 Fax: (202) 872-0884 Internet: marycase@cni.org From: David Zeitlyn Subject: RAI Anthropology Today - Contents and Calendar of Events Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 12:17:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 121 (121) The RAI's publication Anthropology Today for June 1997 is now in press. The table of contents is already available on the RAI pages http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/at.html and the calendar of events 'AnthroCal' which is availble from http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/rai/AnthToday/AnthCal.html We hope this is found to be useful (apologies for cross-posting) best wishes david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Eliot College, The University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NS UK. Tel. (44) 1227 764000 -Extn 3360 (or 823360 direct) Fax (44) 1227 827289 http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ From: David Green Subject: FCC CHAIR REED HUNDT TO STEP DOWN Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:28:54 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 122 (122) NINCH ANNOUNCE May 27, 1997 FCC CHAIR REED HUNDT TO STEP DOWN An important announcement, forwarded from the Benton Foundation, about Reed Hundt's announcement this afternoon of his intention to leave the FCC in the next few months. In many ways, Hundt has been an ally of the nonprofit community in the telecommunications arena. Note Andrew Blau's comments at the end of this Benton Announcement. David Green ==================== FCC Chairman Reed Hundt Announces Plan to Leave Commission Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt announced this afternoon that he will be stepping down from the Commission. Although Chairman Hundt's term does not expire until June 1998, his announcement today will set in motion a process that will probably end his tenure within the next few months. At a press conference at the FCC, Mr. Hundt noted the Commission's work to "put the power of communications into the hands of every child" as his greatest accomplishment. Also noted as important accomplishments were the FCC's rules of children's television and efforts to win free airtime for political candidates. Hundt pointed out that since the beginning of the Clinton Administration, 12 million new jobs have been created -- 8 million in the communications industry. Chairman Hundt said he felt lucky to have been asked to serve by President Clinton. The Chairman said that he has no immediate plans other than writing. He has a title for a work of nonfiction -- So You Want A Revolution -- on bringing competition to the communications industry. Hundt also plans to publish a work of fiction. Asked of his role at the Commission over the next few weeks, the Chairman said he would continue to be active and be a full voting member: "We're going to see if this duck can fly." Speaking for the Benton Foundation after the press conference, Andrew Blau said: "Whether the issue was connecting America's classrooms, paving the way for digital television, or ensuring that universal service would survive into the next century, Reed Hundt has been the best friend the public interest community has had in the Chairman's office for at least a generation - if not longer. "The last four years have been one of the most extraordinary periods for communications since the creation of the FCC itself, yet Chairman Hundt has been a principled voice for fairness and the public interest throughout. His door was open to people and constituencies that hadn't been on the 8th floor before. "He has been smart, took risks, and even dared to be unpopular -- a rare and risky thing in this political town. But his government service has been a true public service, and we will miss his leadership. We wish him the best of luck in whatever he does next." ================================== Communications Policy and Practice Benton Foundation 1634 Eye St, NW 12th Floor Washington, DC 20006 202.638.5770 202.638.5771 (fax) http://www.benton.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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: tracihon Subject: JCMC's newest issue is out! Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:27:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 123 (123) Table of Contents, Volume 3, No. 1: "Studying the Net" Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Read JCMC at any of these sites: http://www.usc.edu/dept/annenberg/vol3/issue1/ http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue1/ http://207.201.161.120/jcmc/vol3/issue1/ In this issue: "Studying Online Social Networks" Laura Garton Sociology Department and Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Barry Wellman Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto "Assessing the Structure of Communication on the World Wide Web" Michele Jackson Department of Communication, Florida State University "Casting the Net: Surveying an Internet Population" Christine Biship Smith Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California and Department of Systems Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey "Getting the Seats of Your Pants Dirty: A Methodology for Ethnographic Research on Virtual Communities" Luciano Paccagnella Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Università di Torino and Dipartimento di Sociologia, Università di Milano "Evaluating the World Wide Web: A Global Study of Commercial Sites" James K. Ho Department of Information and Decision Sciences and Applied Research and Consulting Services College of Business Administration University of Illinois at Chicago Brief Reports "On-line Services in India: A Market Analysis" Kaushik Banerjee Network Programs India "Demographics and Behavior of the Chilean Internet Population" Miguel Mendoza H. Jose A. Alvarez de Toledo Programa de Extensión en Computación e Informática Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas Universidad de Chile From: Costis Dallas Subject: Re: 11.0078 suicide philosophically Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 09:52:23 +0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 124 (124) An account of suicide in literature which I personally found fascinating back in the eighties - with many references - is Alvarez' The Savage God. It must have appeared in paperback form (Penguin? Pelican?) - can't recall other publication details. Also, a more specific reference: Nicole Loraux, Facons tragiques de tuer une femme, Hachette 1985, provides an interesting reading of how women in Greek tragedy, such as Ifigeneia, "internalise" their imminent murder - surely a form of suicide. There are more straightforward suicide instances too. Apologies if I repeat references you already know. Costis Dallas # Dr Constantinos Dallas, Visiting Associate Professor # Dept of Computer Science, University of Crete # Tel. (3081) 393576, 393502 (301) 8084193 # mailto:dallas@csd.uch.gr http://www.csd.uch.gr/~dallas From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0078 suicide philosophically Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:58:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 125 (125) Hume's essay on suicide is on the web if you are unaware at the Hume homepage. From: "Thomas P. Copley" Subject: ANNOUNCE> Summer '97 Links Workshop Still Open Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:18:12 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 126 (126) MAKE THE LINK WORKSHOP (WORLD WIDE WEB FOR EVERYONE) The Make the Link Workshop (World Wide Web for Everyone) is an eight week long distance learning workshop conducted entirely by HTML mail*. It introduces the beginner to the World Wide Web (WWW), the Internet's distributed hypermedia information system, and enhances the skills of the somewhat more experienced user as well. The workshop has been newly updated to reflect the latest information on HTML authoring tools, including NetObjects Fusion, Microsoft Front Page and Netscape Navigator Gold. The workshop also includes guidance on how to select an Internet service provider. Three Make the Link Workshop sessions will be scheduled for this summer. The dates are: June Session............. June 16 - August 9 July Session............. July 14 - September 6 August Session........... August 11 - October 3 The cost of the Workshop is $20 US. Sign up for ONE session only unless you plan to take the Workshop more than once.. To sign up for one of the Make the Link Workshop sessions, please send an e-mail message to the address: majordomo@arlington.com and in the body of the message, include: subscribe links-jun to subscribe to the June session, or subscribe links-jul to subscribe to July session, or subscribe links-aug to subscribe to the August session. This will automatically put you on the mailing list for more information about the Workshop, and you will receive an acknowledgment with the particulars about signing up, and unsubscribing, should you decide not to participate. If you have any difficulty with this procedure or fail to receive a response, please send e-mail to this address: tcopley@arlington.com The Workshop leader, Thomas P. Copley, Ph.D., has taught the popular Make the Link Workshop since 1995. He is also the author of the Tune In the Net Workshop <http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/tune.html>, which will also be conducted this summer.. ________________________________________________________________ THOMAS P. COPLEY tcopley@arlington.com Make the Link Workshop www.bearfountain.com/arlington/ From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: Humanities Computing Repository Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:35:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 127 (127) *** Please distribute widely *** to any and all computing humanists <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/> The Prospect of the inaugural number of Computers in the Humanities (1966) gives as the principle goals of the journal to encourage collaboration between researchers of various Humanites disciplines and to minimize needless repetition of work. The Humanities Computing Repository has the very same objectives. The Repository is a dynamic database that allows researchers to add entries for their work. Since these entries are available through the World Wide Web, they are easily accessible to all who might be interested. The Repository has very recently been made available, so please take a few moments to add an entry if you have worked on or are currently working on any project that you think may be of use to others. These projects include, but are not limited to, scholarly articles and journals, computer programs and databases. The interest and usefulness of a central repository for applications in humanistic computing need surely not be insisted upon. We look forward to seeing a description of your work in the Humanities Computing Repository. <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/> ------------------------ Stéfan Sinclair Departement of French 4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca Queen's University <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/> Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6 QI: <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/> (613) 545-2090 From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0083 censorship: CDA decision Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:40:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 128 (128) As a father of six children who allows them full access to the internet my solution is to tell my children the type of sites that I consider to be off limits to them and to have two caches of every page and downloaded file. Of course my children like to pull my chain occasionally. The other day I was going through the cache and I came across 12 jpegs that were entitled hot chicks 1-12. When I looked at the jpegs they turned out to be jpegs of fried chicken. Nice joke on me. Are you aware that the concern about sexual material on the web has turned those sites into some of the few sites on the web actually making money. Because you now have to have some sort of proof that you are an adult to get on. And usually that is a credit card number? As for sites which would not be considered politically correct as well as the one's that are, I think that we just have to live with them. You outlaw them and you find yourself running into talk about black data banks and libraries and blocking off parts of the web or services as Germany did with Compuserve and Communist China is trying right now. Or you are going to have people using PGP or it's like to communicated with whomever or whatever. From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0085 privacy? Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:58:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 129 (129) This is part of what I do in my business. About 80% of the items that are mentioned are of public record and anyone who knows how can access them. The remaining 20% are not. Unlisted phone numbers, credit reports and the like are all governed by privacy laws that have heavy fines and prison time for those caught breaking them. You run credit checks on people without their permission and you are in major trouble if they find out. Why do you think when you borrow money that you are required to sign a release? Part of this is cause by the information that financial institutions and governmental institutions ask in their applications and they are becoming more intrusive all the time. But you don't have to answer them. Recently the public schools in my area started asking for my children's social security numbers so that their files can be indexed under those numbers. I refused to do that. The social security number is what links up everything. And anyone who has it can link up your entire life. Your school,financial and medical records all become available to those who have it. From: K.SOHEIL@kcl.ac.uk Subject: RE: 11.0085 privacy? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 16:13:27 BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 130 (130) In reply to Geoffrey Rockwell's (are you the son of Peter Rockwell?) forwarded message re: privacy, is it for real, has anyone checked it out, doesn't it sound too much like a scam? Even if a scam, I'm pretty certain that the content is more true than not. I once called an operator at the telephone company on some query and soon realisedshe had access to information concerning my bank and insurance accounts and could trace my movements of the past 12 years. It requires no specific training or qualification to get her job. Short of breaking in and destroying all data, can anyone imagine a solution? "Rollerball" seems to have been far too accurate a vision: big business and sports. We need some positive checks. K. Soheil k.soheil@kcl.ac.uk From: Jeff Finlay Subject: bad writing wins Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 19:47:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 131 (131) [deleted quotation] It doesn't seem very philosophical to single out poststructuralist prose as the only kind of bad writing in academia. One would think a philosophy scholar would give second thought to what constitutes "badness." I don't see any writing in here by Lynne Cheney or ED Hirsch, but it seems they are equally "bad" to my way of thinking as any of the postmodern mouthfuls quoted in your message. Best Wishes, Jeff Finlay From: Charles Young Subject: Re: 11.0087 bad writing Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:12:53 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 132 (132) Jeff Finlay wrote: [deleted quotation] I myself disagree with much of what I've read of Cheney's, with rather less with what I've read of Hirsch's, but I've not noticed any special problems with either's prose. Quite the contrary, in fact, my impression is that Cheney is ususally quite clear, and that Hirsch is not only clear but sometimes elegant. Do you have any passages to cite of bad prose by either of them? I'm genuinely curious; this is not a bash. Best wishes, Charles From: Michael Guest Subject: Re: 11.0087 bad writing Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 18:30:11 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 133 (133) [deleted quotation] Me too. I suppose that one difficulty is that poststructuralism works against conventional grammar (c.f. Nietszche: "God is not yet dead while we still have grammar"). So too certain literatures, such as Joyce's "world's most famous unread book" _FW_ and Beckett of course. It would be easy for someone to pull bits out of Beckett and poke fun at him in the same way, on the grounds of impenetrable prose. At random: "nothing too to be sure often nothing in spite of everything dead as mutton warm and rosy always inclined that way ever since the womb if I may judge by what I know less and less that's true of myself since the womb the panting stops I murmur it" (_How It Is_ woops, lost the page). The most incredibly boring, thickheaded reading is without exception grammatically and stylistically scupulous. Moreover, from a poststructuralist point of view, I guess you could say that "transparent" writing is a priori crap, posited on an ideological illusion of the sign. The more you try to describe it, the worse it gets, as you see here. Wasn't one of the references to that stupid so called "parody" of postmodernism written by some illiterate? I had a giggle and accepted it underneath for what it is, some kind of retro backhander to have them haw-haw and hem-hemming. All mockery is self-mockery, after all. Dr Michael Guest Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Shizuoka University, Japan guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: BRUNI Subject: what is "good" writing? Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 10:20:19 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 134 (134) It doesn't seem very philosophical to single out poststructuralist prose as the only kind of bad writing in academia. One would think a philosophy scholar would give second thought to what constitutes "badness." I don't see any writing in here by Lynne Cheney or ED Hirsch, but it seems they are equally "bad" to my way of thinking as any of the postmodern mouthfuls quoted in your message. I agree wholeheartedly with Jeff Finlay's comments regarding the "bad" writing contest. The judges of the contest, it seems to me, have a fairly obvious ideological bias: that they wish to discredit ideas they don't like or approve of, such as Marxist or feminist theory, simply by discrediting how these ideas are expressed in writing. Thus, the judges kill the message along with the messenger. Let's look at this issue from the opposite side: what, then, is "good" writing? From whose perspective? I think we will find that writing standards can often appear as somewhat arbitrary, according to who gets to set the rules. John Bruni University of Kansas From: Willard McCarty Subject: ruminations on the field Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 15:46:31 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 135 (135) These are ruminations arising from the fine ACH/ALLC conference just held in Kingston, Ontario. As one perhaps more extensively involved that he should have been, I am very interested in what any Humanist might have to say about my ruminations and the issues they point to. Many Humanists might not locate themselves in humanities computing as such, but like comparative literature the field is defined so as to include anyone interested in the interdisciplinary common ground. That means all of us. Two broad developments seem now to be affecting our work. The first is institutional investment in the field. Within the last few years a small but significant number of institutions in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. have established posts in humanities computing itself or expanded their academic staff in the field. Jobs in the traditionally non-technical fields have also been advertised with explicit responsibilities for applied computing. In other cases academic-related and non-academic positions have been created along similar lines. As became obvious from talking to attendees of the conference, there are a number of quite different institutional models for humanities computing; these vary considerably with local conditions. Nevertheless, overall institutional commitment to our field is very encouraging. At the same time (as one attendee put it) those of us whose jobs put us squarely in this field may feel as if we're sitting in the road with tire-tracks up our backs. Computing has become so integral to what academics do that we can no longer lay claim to, or perhaps even keep track of everything that is happening. In some cases we may feel as if the action has moved elsewhere altogether. This is especially true since imaging and the Web took the centre-stage of humanities computing away from text-processing, leaving the Old Guard guarding an outpost at the edge of an empire expanding rapidly away from them. Having awakened our colleagues in the non-technical disciplines, we may feel as if they don't need us any more. But of course they do. No one else will tend the interdisciplinary common ground. Those appointed in the non-technical disciplines will cultivate and remain aware of only those patches that immediately verge on their bits of turf. If each discipline is the centre of all knowledge, then that knowledge is shaped to orbit the discipline, and those aspects of related knowledge that do not fit will be neglected or only seen dimly. Since applied computing is in flux, changing with the progress of the technology, our common ground must be tended and developments brought to the attention of the other disciplines as collegial service to them. At the core, however, must lie real research in humanities computing. The ACH/ALLC conference gave us examples of such research and strong reason to think that a critical mass of insight is possible if we are able to bring the bits and pieces of our work together. Communication is thus essential. One problematic aspect of communication among ourselves came out in a number of conference papers, namely the rhetoric of interdisciplinary discussion. How does one communicate common insights to one's colleagues in other disciplines? This is not an easy thing to do! I find generalities to be unconvincing, indeed empty of any real content. Thus to reach these colleagues I find that one must begin by explaining why anyone other than a specialist should care about the research one is doing, even the terms in which scholarly work in one's own field is defined. Even the nature of what is considered "scholarly" must sometimes be explained. It is simply not good enough to satisfy those who know these terms already and are already committed to the goals and methods of one's discipline. I guess what I am talking about is something we might call collegial teaching, a close companion of the collegial service that seems to me to lie at the core of humanities computing. It is also, perhaps, one of the best ways to prepare oneself for the outreach beyond the institution that some argue is vitally necessary to our survival as academics. How many of us can answer the questions one tends to get for example from children reaching adulthood and so wondering where their parents fit into the world -- what do you do? why do you do it? why should I care about that? "Opposition is true friendship" (Wm. Blake), and so comments please. Humanists from beyond the borders of the three countries I mentioned above are most welcome to correct any parochialisms. Yours, WM From: Jeff Finlay Subject: bad writing Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 13:34:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 136 (136) [deleted quotation] Charles, I think it depends how you assess elegance and clarity; such words are open to interpretation like anything else these days. The Wansee document might be regarded as a "clear" piece of writing insofar as its syntax and grammar and descriptions of procedures to be followed are correctly expressed. Would we therefore say it's "good writing"? Would we say Mein Kampf is "bad writing" because of its incoherent prose whereas the Wansee document is "good writing" because of its clinically precise prose? Extreme examples to be sure, but the criteria (such as they are) used by Phil-Lit would seem to suggest such a statement is possible. I'll grant you Cheney and Hirsch (to name but two writers) are "clear" insofar as they don't conceal the iron filings with which their gloves are filled, but once one gets beyond the diagetic dimension of their work, one is left asking "towards what end? why the insistence on negating the gains (and obvious victory) of multiculturalism?" and their implied answer on these grounds is much less clear. But, yes, on a transparent basis, both Cheney and Hirsch suck too at times. YOU might consider the following, from one of Hirsch's Core Curriculum documents, "elegant prose"; I'd describe it as "rivetingly awful": The words that children hear in school are like so many snowflakes falling on the school ground. (To continue the snowball metaphor, we would need to picture the children rolling among these flakes like so many snowballs!) Disadvantaged children may hear the words, but they do not pick up the meanings, whereas children who have already accumulated a covering of knowledge and vocabulary will be picking up knowledge rapidly. As their academic snowball grows, so does their ability to accumulate still more knowledge - - in strong contrast to disadvantaged students whose initially meager learning abilities get smaller and smaller by comparison, humiliating them still further and destroying their motivation. In response to the other comments on "bad writing" I'd like to suggest that the philosophical parameters of "bad" be extended beyond mere examples of syntax being unable to convey abstruse theoretical meanings to writing that is based upon a specious premise, writing that is overtly agenda-driven, or, as in the case of my Nazi analogy above, so emotive as to stimulate the reader's defenses rather than sense of reasoning 8-). Logocentrically yours, Jeff Finlay From: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Re: HUMANIST digest 401 Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 23:35:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 137 (137) I read with great trepidation, indeed expectation, your latest missive in re: bad prose within the realm of scholarly discourse. Having been the victim of such for numerous years through the good graces of the learned journal and the well-intentioned often too focused monograph, I find myself lapsing into turgidity on occasion, such as at the present time. Well, here, here for perpetuating another myth, to wit, that academicians do not write crisp and clear articles and books. Naturally this reflects not a whit on their abitilities to reason effectively and draw logical conclusions, not to mention to act with ethical uprightness and moral certitude. Verily yours, Tzvee Zahavy Dr. Tzvee Zahavy Home: zahavy@andromeda.rutgers.edu http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/tzvee.html Office: zahavy@jcn18.com; http://www.jcn18.com/ Editor-in-Chief, The Jewish Communication Network From: "Mark K. Gardner" Subject: what is good writing? Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 13:35:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 138 (138) [deleted quotation] I was amused by the "bad writing contest," but good writing, like any form of communication, as an attempt to convey the inner workings of one human mind to another, must clearly portray the ideas in a manner that does not rely on 'implied' meanings or assumption of understanding on behalf of the reader; neither a post-modernist dictionary nor telepathy should be required to understand an article on any topic! Now, that very sentence by its sheer length, would probably shoot my computer's 'readability' meter off the scale, yet I think most people with an eighth grade education could get the gist of it. Even so, it is conceivable that I could have divided in half, retained its meaning, and not insulted the intelligence of anyone on this list. I think that on one hand scholars should not be forced to "dumb down" their work, but on the other hand _we all_ should take care to express our thoughts in manner less byzantine. I write this with some experience in the matter. My own style of writing was constructively criticized by a graduate professor of mine whose observations on my first report that semester included: "Your sentence structure is too complex--you take the meaning of each one right to the edge!" In other words, he explained to me in his office, we scholars need to simplify our written ideas so as to be more effective communicators. Just because our target audience is mostly composed of M. A's and Ph. D's, and just because they _can_ read at a more complex level than the average bear, doesn't mean we/they _want_ to be subjected to it page after page, he explained. As it turned out that semester, a required book for the Historiography class I was taking with him happened to be _The End of American History_ by David W. Noble (© 1985 Univ. of Minnesota Press). Anybody else out there ever _have_ to read this? While it was very informative, Noble's writing style is so complex that it is an extremely difficult book to read. Holding this text up as an example, my professor asked me to be aware of and avoid this tendency in my future writing assignments. In fact, when I saw the "Bad Writing Contest," I immediately thought of Noble. For example: "This attack on the necessity for critical distance, this declension from the pragmatic realism of the founding fathers, this repudia- tion of the need for the reconciliation of differences and compromise then became institu- tionalized in the business community as the cult of the self-made man." (Page 107) This seems to fit right in with the theme for the contest, in that the reader of this excerpt would be hard put to assign meaning to much of it; and there is plenty more where that came from. Taken out of context, it _is_ mostly meaningless. When read in context, it makes sense, but one has to attain a level of concentration that is impossible to sustain for a very long time. Very dense, each sentence so packed with meaning, one of my classmates described reading a chapter of Noble to be like "swimming through a pool of wheel-bearing grease." I felt fairly drained after every three-hour seminar discussion of this particular book. While communicating complex ideas is often a complex task, it should not be so couched in jargonese and so dense with meaning as to fry our minds with each reading. I learned a great deal about American historians from Noble's book, but I can't say I enjoyed reading it. I imagine most of you reading this have a jewel or two like Noble that came to mind when you read the examples in the "contest." Anyway, a compromise needed to be reached in my own writing style if I expected to receive anything higher than a A-/B+ for my work in that course. After training myself for two decades to pack as much as possible into as compact and concise a verbal area as possible, I had found it to be difficult, but not impossible. It was one of those "intangible" lessons I picked up that had nothing really to do with the topic of the class yet was one of the most important things I learned that semester. To return to the original question, "What is good writing?", I would propose some suggestions for improvement. One thing that I find helpful is when an author clearly defines any and all 'jargonese' in the forward/introduction. Another suggestion is one I am implementing in my own style. I simplify some of my more complex sentence constructs in the proofreading process by deconstructing them into smaller segments. I find I can still communicate complex ideas without straining the reader's sensibilities or reducing my writing down to a newspaper's level. I aim for a happy medium now instead of striving for something that sounds as it belongs in the "Bad Writing Contest." It is truly amazing what a period instead of another comma can do to create a clearer and more precise prose!! Finally, when the devoir must embrace a long composition of mind-numbing compexity, an analogous summary of the most salient points would be beneficient to facilitate and amend total gestalt constituent absorbtion... Oh my! What I meant to say was we should briefly summarize the main ideas in plain English. If we can't do that, then it is quite possible we don't really know what we are talking (writing) about. Regards Mark Gardner P.S. Out of curiosity, I ran this letter through the MS Word grammar program. According to MS Word, the averaged readinglevel/grade index of the above email is 10.1. Mea culpa--I should have said "anyone with a _tenth_ grade education should be able to get the gist of this..." From: Carmen Zavala Subject: Greek characters Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 14:01:13 -0500 (GMT-0500) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 139 (139) Dear colleagues : We are wondering if there is any possibility to write greek characters as codes and not as gif-images, as it is possible with some other European characters (as the German HTML code for "ss" [alt 225] is "ß"). The Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru is going to publish a journal of philosophy on-line (Estudios de Filosofia 3) and has entrusted us with the task of publishing this journal on-line. We would be most grateful if somebody could help us further with this Greek characters. Sincerely Carmen Zavala czavala@pucp.edu.pe Aurelio Mini amini@pucp.edu.pe From: Martin Wallraff Subject: Son of WinGreek Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:26:25 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 140 (140) [Forwarded from LEXI (Greek and Latin lexicography). --WM] Dear list members, a while I ago I wrote to this list about a forthcoming shareware package "Son of WinGreek". Here it is! Good news for all users of Win95... Martin Wallraff. ------------------------------------- Son of WinGreek is here! Classical Greek scholars who use WinGreek have been dismayed to find that its 'Beta' keyboard utility doesn't work in Windows 95. The author has no plans to make a new version. Other classical Greek programs use different character sets, so that they can't read documents that were made with WinGreek. Result - impasse. That's all changed now. Neil Beshoori of NRB Systems, author of the popular keyboard utility WinKeySwap, and Ralph Hancock, designer of the Greek Old Face font for use with WinGreek, have joined forces to make a successor to the program, which we have called Son of WinGreek. It works in both Win 95 and Win 3.x, and with US, British, German and other keyboard layouts. The current version is for Greek only, and comes with full instructions. Son of WinGreek uses a simplified 'dead key' system for diacriticals which, with a little practice, allows faster typing. The 13 most commonly used combinations are assigned to the numeral row at the top of the keyboard. A small chart is provided which can be printed out and laid above these keys as a reminder. The system gives access to every character, including the numerals themselves and a few extra symbols that don't even exist in the original WinGreek font. Son of WinGreek is distributed in a package with the Greek Old Face font in Type 1 and TT versions. It is sold as shareware with a registration fee of US$20 or equivalent in any hard currency. You can get Son of WinGreek by FTP: ftp://ftp.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/pub/institute/evtheol/sowg.exe or download it from the web: http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404/SoWG.html or from CompuServe: Program Title: SON OF WINGREEK Registration ID: 15533 Fee (US$): 20.00 Available for registration via SWREG - simply connect to Compuserve and GO SWREG, then enter details as above. The program will also be in the following fora: Foreign Languages Forum GO: FLEFO Library 4: Latin/Greek Desktop Publishing Forum GO: DTPFOR Library 12: Program Demos ---------------------------------------------- *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*==*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= 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 http://www.uni-bonn.de/~ute404 privat Fuerstenstrasse 8, D - 53111 Bonn tel/fax (+49) 0228 - 696741 ========================================================== From: Erik Sandewall Subject: ETAI - new kind of electronic publishing structure started Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 15:56:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 141 (141) [The following passed on from a discussion group to which I belong. The subject area may not be of interest to you, but the e-publishing ideas probably will. I am intrigued especially by the notion of reviewing after rather than before publication. This is not a new idea exactly -- as I recall, The Medical Journal of Australia launched something quite similar more than a year ago (<http://www.library.usyd.edu.au/MJA/mja/>). It would be interesting and helpful to know of other examples and to have commentary on the idea. --WM] Dear colleagues, I believe you may be interested in the following official announcement for the ETAI, the main ideas of which I described at the Stockholm meeting. Now it's official. The ETAI is a concrete attempt to realize many of the ideas which have been discussed in the present email exchange, including author-side payment of publication costs, free access for all would-be readers, a re-thinking of incentives and of reviewing structures, and at the bottom of it all, the insight that when a new technology arrives, people's first idea is always to transfer the usage patterns of older technology into the new one, but after a while it starts living its own life. Electronic publishing simply allows us to "cut the pie differently", that is, to find new structures for scientific communication services and for scientific knowledge management. Please take a look at it and write back what you think! Sincerely Erik Sandewall The official announcement follows: Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence -------------------------------------------------- The European Coordinationg Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) announces the creation of a new forum for exchange of scientific results, the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (ETAI). It is an Internet-based service which is available at http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/etai/ All ETAI information is available free of charge. The editor in chief of ETAI is Erik Sandewall, Linköping University, Sweden. ETAI is both more and less than a scientific journal ---------------------------------------------------- In a certain sense, ETAI is an electronic journal. However, it is not simply a traditional journal gone electronic. The differences may be summarized by the following table of communication functions: Conventional journal ETAI Distribution major not our of the article function business Reviewing and major major quality control function function Debate about not much done major published function results Publication of impossible welcomed and on-line software already happening Bibliographic not much done major services function To explain: The basic service of a conventional (paper) journal is to have the article typeset, printed, and sent to the subscribers. The ETAI stays completely away from that process: it assumes the existence of First Publication Archives (similar to "Preprint Archives", but with a guarantee that the articles remain unchanged for an extended period of time). The ETAI only deals with URL:s pointing to articles that have been published (but without international peer review) in First Publication Archives. The reviewing and quality control is a major topic for the ETAI, like for conventional journals. However, the ETAI pioneers the principle of *posteriori reviewing*: the reviewing and acceptance process takes place *after* the article has been published. This has a number of consequences, but the major advantage from the point of view of the author is that he or she retains the priority right of the article and its results *per the original date of publication*, and independently of reviewing delays and possible reviewing mistakes. Reviewing in ETAI also differs from conventional journal reviewing in that it uses a succession of several "filters", rather than one single reviewing pass, and in that it is set up so as to encourage self-control on the side of the authors. The intention is that ETAI's quality control shall be considerably *more strict and reliable* than what is done in conventional journals. Besides the reviewing process, the ETAI also organizes *News Journals* in each of its speciality areas. News Journals are fora for information about current events (workshops, etc), but they will also contain debate about recently published research results. Naturally, the on-line medium is much more appropriate for debate than what a conventional journal is. Compared to mailgroups, the News Journals offer a more persistent and reputable forum of discussion. Discussion contributions are preserved in such a way that they are accessible and referencable for the future. In other words, they also are to be considered as "published". One additional type of contributions in News Journals is for links to software that is available and can be run over the net. This is particularly valuable for software which can be run directly from a web page. Already the first issue of an ETAI News Journal publishes two such on-line software contributions. The creation of bibliographies, finally, is a traditional activity in research, but it is impractical in paper-based media since by their very nature, bibliographies ought to be updated as new articles arrive. The on-line maintenance of specialized bibliographies within each of its topic areas is a natural function in the ETAI. Generally speaking, it is clear that the electronic medium lends itself to a different grouping of functionalities that what is natural or even possible in the paper-based technology. For example, the bibliographic database underlying ETAI's bibliographic services is well integrated with the reviewing process and with the News Journals where new contributions to the literature are first reported. Similarly, debate items pertaining to a particular article will be accessible from the entry for the article itself. The ETAI therefore represents a novel approach to electronic publishing. We do not simply inherit the patterns from the older technology, but instead we have rethought the structure of scientific communication in order to make the best possible use of international computer networks as well as electronic document and database technologies. The ETAI now starts operation, and welcomes contributions in the research areas and by the procedures described in the web pages specified above. From: David Green Subject: ALAWON v6, n45 - FAIR USE JOINT STATEMENT RELEASED (fwd) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 12:52:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 142 (142) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 7, 1997 Following up on my earlier report on the May 19 CONFU Meeting, I'm forwarding a joint statement by library, cultural and educational organizations that NINCH has endorsed on the future of the work, discussion and collaborative endeavor embodied by the Conference on Fair Use. David Green [deleted quotation] -- 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: Paul Miller Subject: Cross-domain use of metadata -- reports available for comment Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:16:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 143 (143) In an effort to explore the issues behind creating a cross-domain interdisciplinary service for the Arts & Humanities, the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and Office of Library and Information Networking (UKOLN) recently convened a series of workshops where participants addressed: - requirements for resource discovery within the discipline - current resource description/discovery practices - fitness of Dublin Core for resource discovery within the discipline In each domain-specific workshop, participants were drawn from within the domain, and were asked to consider likely needs, both within a service for the domain itself and for a domain-spanning service such as the AHDS, where the issues are slightly different. These workshops addressed the important subject of resource discovery, and explored the issues behind use of metadata to describe electronic resources in such a way that they might effectively be located and retrieved within a cross-domain interdisciplinary environment such as that of the AHDS. Although focussed upon the Arts & Humanities, it is intended that the workshop findings will have value more widely within the electronic libraries sphere, where several projects are concerned with describing or locating resources in an electronic environment. DRAFT reports from each AHDS Service Provider are now available on the web: <http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/project/metadata/res_dev_wrkshp1.html> (Archaeology) <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/metadata/draft_report01.html> (History) <http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/reports/metarep1.html> (electronic text) <http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mu_rep.html> (digital sound resources) <http://pads.ahds.ac.uk/mi_rep.html> (moving image resources) <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/Metadata1.html> (visual arts and cultural heritage). Each report is available in draft form until the end of July, at which time comments will be incorporated into finalised versions of the reports. AHDS would welcome comments from as wide a cross-section of the community as possible in the time available, and invites you to look at those reports of interest and submit comments to their authors. Comments on the series as a whole should be addressed to me in the first instance. Thanks, Paul == paul miller ================== collections@ads.ahds.ac.uk == collections manager, archaeology data service, king's manor york, YO1 2EP, UK tel: +44 (0)1904 43 3954 == http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ahds/ ==== fax: +44 (0)1904 43 3939 == +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder of Registration Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:17:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 144 (144) [deleted quotation] ******************************************************************* *************** REMINDER OF REGISTRATION ****************** ***************** DEADLINE 30.06.97 ******************** ******************************************************************* COMPUTERS AND TEXT: A PRACTICAL COURSE IN USING COMPUTERS FOR LANGUAGE ANALYSIS 4th-10th September 1997 DEBRECEN, HUNGARY Associated with the ESSE/4 Conference Course Tutors: ************** PATRICK HANKS Chief Editor, Current English Dictionaries Oxford University Press RAMESH KRISHNAMURTHY Corpus Manager Collins COBUILD, University of Birmingham DR. BELA HOLLOSY Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of Department English Linguistics, University of Debrecen Pre-Registration: ***************** Web: http://www.flc.klte.hu/Course Email: rovnyf@gin.flc.klte.hu Post: Ferenc Rovny, CLTDC, Foreign Language Centre, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - 4010, P.O. Box 41. REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 260, UK pounds 160 (before 30th June 1997) LATE REGISTRATION FEE: US$ 325, UK pounds 200 (after 30th June 1997) ******************************************************************** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 10:18:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 145 (145) [deleted quotation] The ARTFL Project is pleased to announce the release of an alpha version of two on-line editions of the DICTIONNAIRE de l'ACADEMIE FRANCAISE. As part of an on-going project, we have started with the 1st (1694) and 5th (1798) editions. Both allow searches by headword and are available for general use at the following URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/academie We would appreciate reports of any difficulties that users may encounter. Jack Iverson ARTFL Project research assistant jack@gide.uchicago.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: news Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:35:29 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 146 (146) In the Guardian Online section for Thursday 12 June.... (1) Keith Devlin, "University Challenge". As has happened in N. America, representatives of what we call "industry" in Britain -- I think allegorically of some terribly industrious person constantly repeating good advice referring to the habits of bees and ants while efficiently accomplishing everything he or she has set out to do -- has warned "that employers may soon start to boycott universities and establish their own house educational units." They're worried about quality. One U.K. manufacturer, Unipart, is worried enough to have invested 4 million pounds to set up its own in-house training unit. What the Confederation of British Industry is arguing for, however, is "an expansion of higher education, with access for all." According to Devlin, the real threat to universities isn't these in-house training units, rather the possibility that we will not be able to respond to something much more difficult. "The real agent of change is already among us, and growing rapidly: information technology and the Web. The development of information technology has provided and alternative path to what used to be one of the principal benefits of attending a university" -- access to information. Devlin goes on to make what seem to me are highly exaggerated claims for the kind and quality of information currently available: "Today, all you need is a PC and a modem to access a far greater source of information than can be found in any single university library." How recently, one wonders, has he been in such a library? Is there a single subject for which a single aisle in the stacks of a major research library would provide more and better information than all the World Wide Web? If many of us have our way, his claims may not be so wide of the mark one day, but meanwhile we might give some thought to the consequences of people at large believing Devlin's claims. Or, what may be worse in the short-term, of senior university administrators who have forgotten what the inside of a library looks like believing these claims. (Please note that the relative clause in the previous sentence is restrictive!) Perhaps it would be more productive for us to distinguish between (a) what face-to-face instruction in a university setting does best, and (b) what the Internet does best -- and for whom. I would argue that only where the latter improves on the former should we push for a change in the way we educate our students. Clearly, however, we need to be very clear about both (a) and (b) in the face of poorly informed but influential public discourse. Who is better equipped to engage in this debate than we are? (2) Duncan Campbell, "Wig, gown and laptop". Big changes to the legal profession, it seems. Here again a sorting of what face-to-face encounter does best from what IT can do is called for. "So while some lawyers may dread the cost-efficient litigation that IT systems could bring, defendants and claimants may rest assured that robotic justice from Judge Dredd will be staying firmly in the comic books." Great to have some good news, yes? (3) Ken Cottrill, "Unplugged, unwanted and underground". Please, the next time you hear some environmentally naive person talk about "saving trees" direct them to this article. "Fifty-five million computers will be landfilled in the US by the year 2005, according to a preliminary report by Carnegie Mellon University's green design initiative due to be published later this month..." Furthermore, "for every four purchases of new computers in the US, another three used machines are lying abandoned in storage." Redeploying the old kit is problematic for many reasons and will not be done, according to Cottrill, until it is required by law. "Landfilling is fraught with difficulty because some units pose an environmental risk, because they contain toxic elements such as lead." The article ends with cautious optimism. Some companies, such as Xerox, are requiring their designers to think about recycling of components. It seems that the current estimate of landfilled computers in the US (55 million) is considerably less than a similar prediction in 1991 (148 million). Then there's the statistics about increase in paper usage directly attributable to computer use. (4) Kevin Wilson, "Witness for the elocution". New speech-recognition technology for the ordinary user is within reach of recognising continuous speech -- as opposed to speech in which the speaker pauses between each word. As with machine translation software, some humorous errors have been recorded, e.g. the name of the new French Prime Minister, Lionel Jospin, was rendered "the analogy of sperm" by the beta version of this technology. Soon like Star Trek: "Computer, locate all the places in English literature where...."? See <http://www.guardian.co.uk/> for the online version of Online. 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: "Dr. Pauline Kra" Subject: Re: 11.0081 suicide Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 22:28:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 147 (147) Thanks for the pointer to Hume. What is the address of the Hume homepage? Pauline Kra From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 11.0091 ruminations Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 17:03:15 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 148 (148) At 15:57 +0100 08-06-97, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] This is also true in other parts of the world, although in some places where humanities computing institutions were established early there may not have been that much recent developement. Still I am happy to inform Humanist readers who did not hear this in Kingston that at the University of Bergen a larger humanities computing programme is now being establish. This is done by joining the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen, and the Norwegian Terminology Bank, but there will also be some fresh money put into this. As for some of your other ruminations, I have always regarded interdisciplinarity not only as an extremely important ingredient of "humanities computing" but also as a result of using computers in the humanities. And here I think the WWW has appeared at the right time. Now it is possible to disseminate data in a more holistic way which comes closer to the complex culture which is the object of study for the humanities as a whole. (Of course, when we have managed to link all our data into complete Memex or Xanadu, people will start branching off in new specialities.) espen From: Dan Price Subject: Thanks for Ruminating Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 17:36:26 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 149 (149) Thanks for Rumiating on the state of affairs of the field. As usual there is much to ponder and the invitation is well put. In a recent posting, I asked about degree programs on this field specifically on the bachelors level, and was surprsied by the absence of response. Evidently we (the academic community) are not at that stage yet; probably more important is that there is not yet a perceived market for such a degree. While one can revel in the cross-disciplines, one must still eat! So thanks again and surely it will be a wonder to see where we are in 5, 10, and 20 years from now. OR do you think that the revolution is waning? No, even if computer sales are not matching expectations and the web is perhaps sending more away after a few hours of wandering here, the web is still too vital for education and research to be just a blip on the screen. This is the revolution, as far as I can tell and invest . Thanks again for reading of the above. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, The Center for Distance Learning ************************************************************ The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 *********************************************************** From: Leslie Chan Subject: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Symposium Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:19:08 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 150 (150) ** Apologies for cross-posting ** SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING AND COMMUNICATION IN THE ELECTRONIC ENVIRONMENT September 26-27, 1997 University of Toronto at Scarborough New information technologies, and in particular the World-Wide Web, are offering tremendous diversity of channels and media for scholarly and scientific communication. At the same time, traditional paper-based publishing is being rapidly transformed and severely challenged by economic shortfalls and networking technologies. It is timely and critical to examine how elements of the established scholarly communication vehicle, the journal, can best be combined with the new elements of distributed network publishing. The Centre for Instructional Technology Development at the Bladen Library, University of Toronto at Scarborough, is hosting an international symposium to examine the changes in research practices and implications of electronic publishing. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This symposium is intended for all stakeholders in the scholarly communication processes, from academics and researchers from across the disciplines, who are primary producers and consumers of published knowledge, to librarians and publishers, who add value and order to intellectual products, and to computer specialists, who are increasingly called upon to design and maintain the conduits for information exchange. GOALS OF THE SYMPOSIUM: Promote knowledge of distributed network publishing among faculty and graduate students in the university and research communities, Draw attention to the wealth of scholarly and scientific information and peer-reviewed electronic journals already present on the Internet, Bring together librarians, computer specialists, publishers and academics to consider collaborative models that would further facilitate the scholarly communication process, Explore the emerging cooperative research, resource sharing and teaching models enabled by networked technologies, Examine the limitations and advantages of scholarly electronic publishing. KEY ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION: The role of Government Agencies and University Administrations in promoting electronic publishing Peer review and Quality Control Legal and Copyright Issues Archive and Retrieval of digital material Searching, linking and New Tools for scholarship Learning to Publish in the Electronic Milieu Electronic Publishing in the Sciences Electronic Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences SPEAKERS AT THE SYMPOSIUM: Keynote speaker: Stevan Harnad (Professor of Psychology, University of Southampton). Invited speakers: Gregory Crane (Professor of Classics, Tufts University), Peter Boyce (Senior Associate of Electronic Publishing, American Astronomical Society), Jean-Claude Guedon (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal), Carole Moore (Chief Librarian, University of Toronto), Leslie Ellen Harris (author of Canadian Copyright Law), Katherine Denning (Editor of Assemblage), David McCallum (Principal consultant of the Electronic Publishing Promotion Project, Industry Canada), Anne Marie Corrigan (Vice President, Journals and Creative Services, University of Toronto Press), Sally Brown (Senior Vice-President, AUCC) and more. REGISTRATION: Individual from non-profit or educational institutions: $60 Cdn Individual from businesses or corporations: $120 Cdn Students: $30 Cdn For further information on registration, schedule, links to speakers and related resources, please visit the symposium web site: http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/Epub/1997.html or contact symposium co-ordinators Leslie Chan (chan@scar.utoronto.ca) or William Barek (Barek@scar.utoronto.ca) The symposium is supported by the Connaught Committee and the Snider Visiting Professorships of the University of Toronto. From: Scott Stebelman Subject: "Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians" Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:18:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 151 (151) "Studies of Interest to English and American Literature Librarians" is a cumulation of citations that appear in _Biblio-Notes_, the newsletter of ACRL's English and American Literature Section. The scope of the bibliography is to include any research of interest to our members, from studies on building literature collections to the provision of literary reference service. Of potential interest to Humanist subscribers are the citations on computer applications in the humanities, and on the information seeking behaviors of humanities scholars. The URL for the bibliography is: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib/english.html I welcome any additional citations people think germane to the subject. Scott Stebelman, Editor _Biblio-Notes_ Gelman Library George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 202/994-1342 (work) 202/994-1340 (fax) scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib From: "F.W.Langley" Subject: Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Medieval French Studies Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 10:38:00 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 152 (152) GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS The Department of French, University of Hull, wishes to appoint a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Medieval French Studies. GTAs pursue research for doctoral degrees and teach for not more than 6 hours per week. The post is available from the start of the next academic year and is for up to 3 years duration. The stipend is £6134 per annum and GTAs are not expected to pay academic fees. Applicants should send 2 copies of a detailed CV, including the names of two academic referees, to the Personnel Office, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, quoting the appropriate reference (T1) (tel.: 01482 465277; fax: 01482 465568; e-mail: J.Hardy@admin.hull.ac.uk. Prospective applicants may, if they wish, contact one of the medievalists in the Department of French: Dr A. Hindley: tel: 01482 465833; e-mail: a.hindley@french.hull.ac.uk Dr. F. Langley: tel: 01482 465206; e-mail: f.w.langley@french.hull.ac.uk Dr B.J. Levy: tel: 01482 465367; e-mail: b.j.levy@french.hull.ac.uk ---------------------- Frederick Langley F.W.Langley@french.hull.ac.uk From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: 11.0092 bad writing Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:29:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 153 (153) [deleted quotation] These qualities were present in the contest winners. I'm not sure they were the primary criteria. From: Jeff Finlay Subject: bad writing Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:49:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 154 (154) [deleted quotation] I don't get it. What's complex or bad about this? Anyone who knows how to parse will see it as a kind of sentence more usually found in oratory: this thing, apposite of this thing, apposite of this thing then leads to this thing. Actually, though I haven't read the rest of the book, this one sentence seems beautiful to me. Perhaps that is what you mean by taking stuff out of context. As a matter of interest, I found your message rather hard to read, though it was probably not badly written. [deleted quotation] Well, anyone who gets a machine to judge their work is in really bad shape 8-) Jeff From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" Subject: Bad scholarly writing Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:23:20 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 155 (155) My own test of bad (i.e. failed) scholarly writing is the following: If discussions of a critic or theoretician's work focus on whether people disagree with him/her, then the writing is probably adequate. If discussions instead focus on arguments over what the critic or theoretician is trying to say, then the writing is bad (noncommunicative). Homi Bhabha is a classic case. I happily confess to clinging to the old-fashioned notion that criticism and theory should elucidate, not obfuscate, and remain unimpressed by the common stance: "Scholar X is making a brilliant point in language which you are too dim to make out but which I can't possible explain to you in different words." Never has literary scholarship been so far removed from the "common reader" and so irrelevant to the world outside the walls of academe. Modern theory is deep into denial on this point. Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians From: Willard McCarty Subject: computing and the theoretical? Date: 13 June 1997 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 156 (156) Let me attempt to nudge this discussion into our official common ground. Many if not most of the complaints about bad writing among colleagues have to do with discussions and applications of theory, esp. literary critical theory. Is the preoccupation with theory over data constitute a flight from the data into a less demanding realm? Does applied computing offer a way out of the current mental labyrinth (if you think it so) into a confrontation with the data? Do we, then, have something rather important to offer in this regard? WM From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 11.0098 challenges & other Online matters Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:05:23 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 157 (157) [deleted quotation] In the original Star Trek series, the computer occasionally had a voice, but was usually a box with blinking lights, toggle switches, and a slot into which one fed small rectangular plastic chips (rather like 3.5 inch floppies). In the more recent incarnations of Star Trek the computer is usually a voice, an omnipresence with which one communicates through speech, though the occasional manual buttons under backlit panels are also much in evidence. The former seems rather laughably limited, the latter seems much more wonderfully useful, but we must remember that both are simply reflections of the times in which they were created, and both share a certain conceptual framework. In both cases the computer is definitely the Other, omnipresent, perhaps, but still an external entity. But in our own reality will the computer remain an external entity, easily identified as the Other or will it become much more invisible, more integrated into the world around us? Will the computer be outside us or will we live in and with the computer? I am not going so far as suggesting that in five years we will be "jacking in" a la Gibson. But take an example: You get dressed in the morning. As you walk to a nearby restaurant where you will be meeting someone you are charging your shoes which then supply power to your hat. Part of your hat is collecting visual data from around you, while another portion displays information to you at eye level. When you meet your party you shake hands, which initiates a data connection, passing her resume, research information, or other data to you. After the meeting you continue to your part-time office. Your hand on the doorknob initiates a security check which unlocks the door for you and delivers your e-mail... Well, I could go on. For many years we have been bombarded with and, indeed have fun laughing at, visions of wondrous future technology. Oddly enough, the things I describe above are already happening (see MIT's Wearble Computing pages at: http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearable/ for examples). So, what happens to education and universities (which are not the same thing) in a world where computing is much more ubiquitous than it is now? - Hope ------------ Hope Greenberg University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Landfilled computers Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 10:17:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 158 (158) In fact, in the US at least there is a very vigorous industry in the recycling of old computers: every component from the plastic to the heavy metals on the circuit boards is respectively recycled and/or reused. I have had to look into this for Mississippi state government (here, we're so poor that somebody in state government uses them until they are actually broken), and there are many recyclers in all parts of the country. Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Re: 11.0098 challenges & other Online matters Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:19:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 159 (159) Another nightmare for environmentalists is the prospect of landfills overflowing with TV sets after digital television is introduced. We recently had Joel Brinkley (digital TV trailblazer) from the New York Times at NYU for a colloquium - he was asked a question about the garbage problems we'll have when everyone dumps old TVs for new ones at the same time. Needless to say, the media moguls haven't thought about this one! Lorna [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Brad Scott Subject: Re: 11.0091 ruminations Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 15:32:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 160 (160) For me, the paper at ACH/ALLC that highlighted the crossover of interests and agendas was Andrea Austin's on "Discipline-Specific Humanities Computing: Whose Job Is It?". As I suggested at the time, the wide range of issues that academics are having to address in coming to terms with the practicalities of dealing with texts electronically can be mapped extremely easily onto the experiences that publishers are having in the same area. Publishers are devising ways of accommodating electronic activities into their core business, whether that be through establishing separate electronic divisions, integrating electronic products into our normal editorial processes and structures, or devolving control to external agencies, be they academics or commercial software companies. I would in fact take issue with the idea that "no one else will tend the interdisciplinary common ground". Publishers are also in this game, which is what we traditionally do in our print publishing activities. Arguably, we are very well placed to see the broad similarities in approaches between disciplines; in the electronic arena, this may include not only data schemas, but also the functionality that individual projects require. This is something that has become clear from our work on the Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM, which has some potentially interesting crossover with other subject areas in its handling of a multiple synchronised frames version of DynaText, which supports images (and also audio files). Attending conferences such as ACH/ALLC (and DRH as well) illustrates all too well that there is a huge overlap of interests, expertise and common ground between academics, publishers and librarians, all of whom are learning about the same technical, scholarly and pedagogical requirements, albeit from slightly different perspectives. These forums give us all the opportunity to compare notes and collaborate to deliver as much as possible what the broader academic community actually want and will use for both teaching and research. ___________________________________________________________________ Brad Scott, Electronic Development Manager Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE tel: 0171 842 2134 fax: 0171 842 2299 email: bscott@routledge.com Routledge Online: http://www.routledge.com/routledge/routledge.html ___________________________________________________________________ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Bayle's Dictionnaire Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:58:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 161 (161) [deleted quotation] The ARTFL Project is happy to announce completion of an experimental version of PIERRE BAYLE'S DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE URL: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/bayle This is an image database of the four volumes of the 1740 edition. Users can search for articles, call up specific page numbers, or conduct text searches in the 100-page thematic index. The average size of the page image files is 400-450K, so transmission may be slow. We have undertaken this project, at least in part, as an experiment in accessing large image-base access methods, and we are eager to receive comments from many users. It is possible that at a later date we will proceed with full-text data capture, but we will not carry out this step for some time. Please send remarks and questions to Jack Iverson: jack@gide.uchicago.edu Mark Olsen: mark@barkov.uchicago.edu Thank you, Jack Iverson, ARTFL Project research assistant 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Hypermedia in den Geisteswissenschaften Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:02:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 162 (162) [deleted quotation]An alle Interessentinnen und Interessenten von Hypermedia-Anwendungen und Entwicklungen: der Arbeitskreis Hypermedia der Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV) (Leiterin des AKs: Dr. Angelika Storrer, IdS Mannheim) wird sein naechstes Arbeitstreffen am 20. Juni 1997 am Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universitaet Bonn abhalten. Der Workshop wird unter dem Thema Geisteswissenschaftliche Hypermedia-Anwendungen stehen. Das Programm koennen Sie unter http://www.ids-mannheim.de/grammis/bonn.html einsehen. Interessierte Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer aus Ihrem Bereich sind hierzu herzlich eingeladen. Ueber Zusagen bis Freitag, dem 13.06.1997, wuerde ich mich sehr freuen. Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Bernhard Schroeder Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn T.: +49 228 735621 F.: +49 228 735639 Web-Seite des IKP: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de Web-Seite der GLDV: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/GLDV Web-Seite des AKs: http:/www.ids-mannheim.de/grammis/ak.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: technophobia Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:31:13 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 163 (163) We all complain about technophobia, but at least two people have made a profession from it, namely Dr. Larry D. Rosen and Dr. Michelle M. Weil. See Rosen's homepage at the URL <http://www.csudh.edu/psych/lrosen.htm> for a number of interesting links, including those to the texts of articles on the subject. 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: BRUNI Subject: theory, writing, and computers Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:40:50 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 164 (164) [deleted quotation] WM In response, I would say that theory tends to be confrontational, for it allows us to critique how data is disseminated and interpreted. This is especially true of Donna Haraway's work, as well as other scholars who interrogate scientific theory. Theory also critiques writing itself as a system of signification and communication. An example I would offer here would be the work of Jacques Derrida. Of course when writing is used to critique writing, problems do result in readability. It is not that anyone should have the license to write badly. It is instead that theory often reminds us, whether we would like to admit this, of the difficulty of critically separating any topic or research area from another. Theory breaks down the idea of neat, organized categories or borders. Computers also reflect this idea of connectivity. And this is where I see the value of merging computers and theory. We now have a chance to test out theory, to see how theory performs in a different space other than print. The results should be interesting. John Bruni English Department University of Kansas From: omar Subject: humor (was Re: 11.0099 bad writing) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:29:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 165 (165) On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Paul Brians wrote: [deleted quotation]Pater): "Tonight is the last night that the reading is 'tough.' After this it's like a breath of fresh air. The problem is you're all going to embrace aestheticism -- because you'll understand it." -Dr. Mark Facknitz James Madison University -john drummond -- drummojg@jmu.edu This Message Sent With Love From http://falcon.jmu.edu/~drummojg/ My Linux Box, The Mosque. From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 11.0101 future of computing Date: Fri, 13 Jun 97 07:39:54 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 166 (166) On the occasion of Hope Greenberg's question about the future of education and the university vis-a-vis computing, but also simply because I was going to recommend it to HUMANIST readers in any case, I would like to call your attention to the July Issue of Scientific American, which contains three articles of interest to computing humanists. One very short piece is a graphic which shows the concentration of Internet hosts/population throughout the world (p. 26). The map makes very clear that the vision of a "global electronic village" is at a considerable remove from a current infrastructure concentrated most heavily in North America, Scandanavia, and Australia. A second piece, a marvelous interview with Michael Dertouzos of M.I.T. attacks what he calls five myths of the Information Age. One comment may be especially comforting to humanists who find the rate of change a bit dizzying at times: Myth: The information revolution is moving too quickly for most to keep up. Dertouzos: "We've been four decades into the business, and we've hardly done anything. The second industrial revolution took nine decades. So relax." (29) Dertouzos also announces that it's time we put technology and humanism back together! Finally, an extensive article by W. Wayt Gibbs documents the hard look businesses have been giving to the claims that computerization will lead to greater productivity. (For the purposes of this article, education is included as a business.) Gibbs introduces his article by observing: the [information] explosion is well under way, and its economic blessings so far appear decidedly mixed. For all the useful things computers do, they do not seem, on balance, to have made us much richer by enabling us to do more work, of increasing value, in less time. Compared with the big economic bangs delivered by water-, steam- and electricity-powered machines, productivity growth in the information age has been a mere whimper....Recent studies of computer use in offices reveal that much of the time saved by automation is frittered away by software that is unnecessarily difficult, unpredictable and inefficient. Design experts warn that current industry trends toward increasingly complex programs and new, untested ways of presenting information could do more harm than good - and will almost certainly do less good than advertised. (82) Notably, productivity gains have _dropped_ from 4.5% in the 1960s to 1.5% more recently - and these drops have occurred most significantly precisely in those industries that have invested the most in information technology. In particular, many of the cutting-edge technologies dear to the hearts of the enthusiasts among us who confidently predict the quick end of the brick-and-mortar colleges - virtual reality, autonomous software agents, speech recognition/understanding, the Web, and videoconferencing - are not proving themselves to be useful technologies at least as far as business is concerned. In addition, the actual costs of introducing a simple PC into the workplace appear to be far higher than we ordinarily admit - for a $3,000 desktop machine, one group estimates the total costs are ca. $23,500. These costs include technical support, the loss of time as coworkers help one another with computer-related problems, and "futzing" - waiting for programs to run and/or help to arrive, double- checking printouts for accuracy and format, rearranging disk files, playing games, and going over that presentation software just one more time to make sure all the nifty effects are just right. (It is rumored that Sun Microsystems banned its managers from using presentation software to make slide presentations for meetings: 87). Part of the discrepancy between promise and reality may be explained by what academics would call assessment: it is notoriously difficult to assess what "productivity" in education might mean, much less determine how much of any demonstrated gain might be traced to computers. On the bright side (for us computer enthusiasts): productivity gains can be demonstrated for computer uses that involve human-factors engineering to custom fit interfaces and applications to specific tasks. But this lesson is being learned only slowly: in a recent computer-human interface conference, ....only nine of those 83 projects compared workers' performance on real tasks using the new interface with their current way of doing things. Four offered no gains at all. Radiologists completed their reports faster without the computer. Video offered no improvement over audio for collaborative writing or design. Only three new interfaces - an interactive blueprint program, the combination of a keyboard joystick with a mouse for two-handed input, and a "wearable" computer - sped work significantly. (89) While this report focuses on productivity gains in business, some analogies may be drawn for computer-use in education. At least, this report reinforces my concern that students can waste far more time on computers - between game-playing and spiffing up their web pages - than they may spend taking advantage of the many tremendous learning opportunities made possible by computers and networks. It further reinforces my sense that we run into serious questions of balance the more we focus on the _means_ of presentation (Web pages, PowerPoint, etc.) vis-a-vis the _content_ being presented. Finally, all of this reinforces my sense that academics - e.g., the President of a major state university down the street - who think that the future of education lies in "every faculty member putting his/her courses on the Internet" are painting with very broad and highly misleading strokes. My own experience - ranging from disappointing experiments with videoteleconferencing to somewhat successful (because, this article suggests, they were highly focused and specific) uses of e-mail and the Web - tells me that these technologies can indeed powerfully supplement more traditional classroom approaches (including readings, discussions, indeed - lectures!). But only supplement, not replace. If this is true, those institutions that have jumped on the distance learning boat in the belief that the Internet and the Web will replace bricks-and-mortar institutions may have jumped just a wee bit too soon. I strongly recommend Gibbs' article to anyone in the computing/humanities world who is put in a position of having to justify the costs of acquiring new technologies (all of us?). While some of us will not agree with every point, and serious questions need to be raised about the analogy between business and education - at least we need to know what our very business-minded administrators may be thinking when they review our next proposals. Appropriate to this audience, I've made some extensive notes on the Gibbs article at http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/technology/WGibbs.html This will give a strong sense of the article, but omits a great deal of Gibbs' supporting evidence and examples. Cheers - Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/ess.html From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0101 future of computing Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:09:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 167 (167) The future is not as far away as you might think. I have a CDROM product that is call the LDS Collectors Library 97 (That is a folio infobase product) where I can type in a topic,thought,phrase and it will bring up all the hits in its library. I would say that its about 75% to becoming all enclusive in its area. From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Tenure, Technology and Scolarly Futures Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:20:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 168 (168) The University of Vermont will be welcoming its new President, Dr. Judith Ramaley, on July 1. A new president provides a perfect opportunity to reexamine university practices. One of the concerns of academics who are involved in technology, particularly those of us who are in the humanities, is how creation and use of technological resources is reflected in university policy related to promotion and tenure. I would like to ask those of you who may have recently addressed this issue how it was handled, what the results were, what (online) documentation, if any, is available, and what advice you might offer. Comments from those who wish their university would address this issue are also welcome! Thank you. - Hope [Please send all replies for which the author can afford to be known by name directly to Humanist. Those who wish to remain anonymous but want their views circulated may send messages to me so that I may quote them anonymously. --WM] ------------ Hope Greenberg Humanities Computing Specialist University of Vermont http://www.uvm.edu/~hag From: Willard McCarty Subject: the fate of universities Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 16:07:27 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 169 (169) As we contemplate the course of humanities computing and how our universities respond to changes in the sociology of knowledge, it is helpful to keep an eye on the history of our academic institutions. Helpful in this regard is Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, ed., A History of the University in Europe (Cambridge), volume 2 of which, Universities in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800), has just been reviewed in the TLS for 13 June 1997 (no. 4915). In his article, "Academic distinctions: How competition blighted Europe's universities", Alastair Hamilton notes in particular the decline of European universities by the mid-eighteenth century: "their numbers were depleted, their standards dropped, and most of them were strongly in need of the reforms which would reinvigorate them in the nineteenth century." Hamilton cites several reasons for the decline: (1) availability of qualified teachers; (2) the failure of the universities to move with the times -- "unable to adapt to the inevitable glut they themselves had created"; but primarily (3) their loss of the monopoly on scholarship and education. The explosion of academic establishments after the Reformation, many of these theological seminaries, provided stiff competition, but even more schools sponsored by rulers for the benefit of a particular class or profession, e.g. the Inns of Court in London, which resulted in "the loss of the traditional legal faculties at Oxford and Cambridge". "As science advanced in the eighteenth century and the universities were ever less able to meet increasingly sophisticated demands, more and more scholars sought refuge in the academies.... Many universities did what they could to keep up.... But by and large they were overtaken, albeit only provisionally, by the numerous competing institutions." An object lesson for us here? See again the article in Thursday's Online section of the Guardian by Keith Devlin, "University Challenge", <http://online.guardian.co.uk/theweb/866040269-offline.html>. In the light of history, the threat would seem real. Comments? 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: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0097 Hume site(s)? Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 10:16:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 170 (170) There are four or five Hume sites on the web bu the best one for what you are looking for is www.utm.edu/research/hume/hume.html. From: Michael Guest Subject: Beckett, bad writing, computers Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:42:57 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 171 (171) Thanks both to Willard and John Bruni for so lucidly recapitulating the point I thought I'd made. "What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed"! I think of MOO programming as one site in which computers play a possible role in opening avenues of rhizomatic anti-reason (thought :)). One can program using a MOO a kind of virtual reality in text, which raises the question of whether a MOO should conform mimetically to known representations (e.g. represent structures of received reality, geography etc), or else try somehow to set in play some whole new kind of phenomenology, by which phrase I'm trying to suggest some original mode of human existence not rooted essentially in received reality. Well, I suppose that's not only MOOs, but research into virtual reality in general. One point is that computers are perceived to be products of a particular kind of purchase on reality, in a "hard" computer science sense. Out of this comes the inferiority complex of the humanities (psychological and economic). But the idea that there is a certain irrefutible pattern hardwired into the bases of computer science and immanent in reality can perhaps be influence by progressive thinking from the humanities: perhaps there is no reasonable underlying reality, but a hyperreality. It's a fairly common thought though, isn't it, about how much computing can contribute to the humanities? How easier their magic (i.e. that of computer scientists) can make our lives when we don't stick our finger into the wrong socket. But we (brilliant humanists) offer applications and possibilities that they would never be able in their wildest dreams to think of (scratching their behinds and misarranging their cutlery the way they tend to do). A fair comparison to make, I think, is between approaches to media communications: satellite technology etc. and the examination of economies and ideologies that produce media moguls etc. (see the Routledge series on communications), versus content analysis, semiotics and so on. The abstract stuff going on in heads either end of the wire link-up, versus technology and implementation of the wires themselves. Form requires content, to use such outmoded terms, and there is a necessary "backward" effect (sorry) through this necessary interface. I'd like to quote Samuel Beckett again to try to illustrate the point I'm getting at. There has existed a similar kind of relationship (i.e. computer science versus humanities computationalists) between philosophers and literateurs (Flaubert: "occupation of idlers"), according to which the latter tend only to represent or utilize the weightier ideas (read technologies) of the former. Hence, this beautiful little phrase from _For To End Yet Again_ always sticks in my mind: "First change of all in the end a fragment comes away and falls. With slow fall for so dense a body it lights like cork on water and scarce breaks the surface" (_For To End Yet Again and Other Fizzles_, London: John Calder, p. 12) I'm struck with Beckett's image of "Foucault's" episteme, according to which human perception undergoes discrete alterations--new eras begin, according to the principles structuring which it is only possible to think in a certain kind of way. The "I" here is surprised to see a dense body fall slowly, so the I is structured on the conception of a Newtonian viewpoint. It's an infinite point of balance, the beginning and end: "First change of all in the end..." You can never see outside of your own way of seeing. We can't say that Beckett reiterates Foucault's idea, however, since actually Foucault and D&G etc acknowledge Beckett lavishly in their seminal works. Beckett's writing feeds back into philisophy like a source spring. So too, the scientific episteme changes where it is influenced by feedback from imaginative channels. The little Beckett phrase is a metaphor and an agent for this kind of change, that seems to work against the grain of received reality. My idea is shareware, so if you use it, please acknowledge the place where it first occurs, my unpublished Ph.D. thesis, _Beckett's Later Prose: A Study in Structure and Rationale_ University of Sydney, 1989. I'll forward relevant pagenumbers on request by email. Does that sound arrogant? At least I didn't ask for money. Dr Michael Guest Assoc/prof. Faculty of Information Shizuoka University, Japan guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 172 (172) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 173 (173) Jeff Finlay wrote [deleted quotation]This is exactly my point--the level of complexity is understandable and certainly parsable than those out-of-context bad-writing contest examples, but when an author forces the reader to parse several times a paragraph, it becomes quite tiresome. None but the most determined will continue. If one's work is to be accessible by anyone other than a handful of acamedicians and their students, let's turn down the intensity knob a couple of notches. [deleted quotation] I'm glad Jeff got my joke--however MS Word does the same thing _all_ educators are taught to do in their "Reading in the Content Area" ed. course-how to determine readibility levels to decide if a text is appropriate for a particular grade level. As computer programs, spell/grammar checkers are still rather inefective. As texts become more electronically based, however, it may be possible to accomadate reading levels by "stacking" documents and data in so that concepts assumed by one author can be easily looked up in a more elementary text "stacked above"; the "deeper one delved into the stack the more complex and data based the presentation. This could take time, but as search engines become smarter, they could aid in the compilation process. Regards Mark Gardner From: Roger Easson Subject: Re: 10.0914 computer literacy courses? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:17:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 174 (174) I've been reviewing the on line materials relating to information literacy created by research librarians especially as regards to evaluating the quality of website information. I think you'd be interested to see how much information is online regarding this subject. Please see Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators [http://www.capecod.net/wixon/eval.htm] which is an excellent overview. Cordially roger Roger Easson Professor Literature and Languages Christian Brothers University Memphis, TN 38139 "It is in the shelter of others that the people live." Irish Proverb From: Gerard Goggin Subject: scanning from microfilm Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:34:17 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 175 (175) I would be grateful if anyone could advise whether it is possible to scan a text directly from microfilm, rather than copying the microfilm onto paper and scanning from this. A colleague wishes to scan and edit a late 18th-century text. He has a microfilm of the original and would like to use scanning and OCR with optimum results. Gerard Goggin English Department University of Sydney /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Gerard Goggin ph. +61 2 9387 3416 fax.+61 2 9369 2206 e-mail:ggoggin@mail.usyd.edu.au http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~ggoggin/hello.html From: Raffaele Rizzello Subject: Re: 11.0077 suicide philosophically Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:48:34 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 176 (176) At 23.35 28/05/97 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation]thatP. Kra and R. Rizzello may find useful. Sorry about the French bias. Was very useful. Thank you! [deleted quotation] Please, where precisely? [deleted quotation] In which of his works? Thank you, very much. Raffaele Rizzello - sub signo angeli Raphaelis From: Mick Doherty Subject: Re: 11.0109 tenure & the fate of universities Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 01:52:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 177 (177) Tenure & Technology I have begun collecting sites which do address these issues at the following URL: http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/recognition/ It includes links to the _Kairos_ Coverweb addressing the topic, the Rutgers resolution, Eric Crump's wonderful story-telling site, the MLA statement, and a host of other resources. I would appreciate feedback and suggestions for additions to the site. The site was actually featured in a recent papertext issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed, but ironically, they mis-quoted (?) the URL ... Mick Doherty From: Willard McCarty Subject: contributions to Humanist Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:57:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 178 (178) Here is a matter with which the philosophers amongst us can help. It concerns the contributions to Humanist (or to other online seminars) that advance an argument or otherwise add to a discussion rather than those supplying factual information. In several exchanges I have had with members of Humanist -- or is it in exchanges I have wanted to have with them? -- I've been reminded that the point of such contributions is not to be right but to clarify the discussion as a whole, to advance the discussants' understanding in some way, even to provoke them into thinking a bit harder about something important. Once, that is, one moves from monologue to dialogue, what matters is the whole conversation rather than any of its individual parts. I would suppose that the same is true of the difference between a lecture and a seminar. Do we not have a particularly clear case of this in an electronic seminar, disembodied and shared among discussants who may never meet each other? Apart from the philosophical questions the above provokes, I mean this as encouragement to all who have only lurked on Humanist because they felt they did not know enough to say something that is true. Lurking is of course fine, but I would not like to think that anyone lurked in the conviction that he or she had to be right. One only has to avoid being dull! Fortunately for us all, here decorum seldom if ever seems to be a problem. 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: "Nancy M. Ide" (117) Subject: WorldCALL Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 179 (179) Marsha Sawkins WorldCALL Secretariat PO Box 895, North Sydney, NSW 2069 Australia Fax: 61-2-9954 4964 Ph: 61-2-9954 4544 email: fauroy@ozemail.com.au WorldCALL CALL to Creativity 13 - 17 July 1998 Inaugural World Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning Venue: The University of Melbourne, Australia Call for Papers Topics: - CALL as a catalyst for change - Motivating language acquisition through CALL - Interdisciplinary perspectives in CALL - The relationship between theory and practice - New models of evaluation and assessment - CALL in the developing world - New identities, new communities - New literacies, new genres - Learner autonomy versus learner dependence - Transparent technologies Submission of abstracts Deadline for receipt - 1 July 1997 Abstracts should be sent to the Conference Secretariat and should be submitted on disk with a hard copy attached. Papers will be of 30 minutes duration followed by 10 minutes of question-time. Abstracts may be no longer than 200 words and should include the author's name, contact details, paper title and an indication of the topic to which the paper relates. The abstract should be exported or saved as a text only unformatted file. Bio-data of no more than 50 words should accompany the abstract. Confirmation of acceptance will be made by 15 September 1997. Keynote speakers to date John Barson, USA Chris Candlin, Australia Graham Davies, UK Madanmohan Rao, India Key dates Deadline for receipt of abstracts 1 July 1997 Notification of acceptance 15 September 1997 Registration forms available 1 November 1997 Early bird registration closes 31 March 1998 Submission of papers for proceedings 30 June 1998 Audio visual facilities Each presentation room is equipped with the following: PC. Mac. Video Projection. VCR (PAL/SECAM/NTSC). Slide Projector. Overhead Projector. Audio Cassette Player. Audio Loop. Please advise of any additional requirements. It may be necessary for you to bring unusual equipment. Expressions of interest The Inaugural WorldCALL Conference will bring together experts and practitioners in Computer-Assisted Language Learning from around the world. The objective of the Conference is to promote and develop national and international networks for CALL research and practice. The theme of the Conference "CALL to Creativity" reflects the organisers' intention to provide a forum for discussion of some of the pressing educational, social and political issues associated with the development of CALL. With more than 500 delegates expected and interest levels already high, WorldCALL will offer unprecedented access to innovators, educators and entrepreneurs in the field. One of the goals of WorldCALL is to provide a number of scholarships for professional development, offering those who have worked with CALL in developing countries the opportunity to attend this Conference and benefit from the exchange of ideas and contact with leaders in the field. Funding has already been pledged to this end. Melbourne is the capital of Victoria and home to more than 3 million people. Awarded the title 'World's most liveable city', Melbourne is the gateway to regional Victoria and beyond that, the great expanse of Australia. Melbourne is close to beaches, ski-fields, desert and lush valleys. Melbourne enjoys mostly moderate weather, during winter (June - August) temperatures range from 7oC to 14oC. Registration brochures will be available from November 1997 with early bird registration of AUD $550 closing on 31 March 1998 (full price AUD $650). To receive further, more specific details as they become available, please register your interest below and mail or fax, or email your details to fauroy@ozemail.com.au Details can also be found at www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/~hlc/worldcall Family Name: Given Name: Title (Mr, Mrs, etc): Organisation: Address: Telephone: Facsimile: I will/will not be submitting a paper Please send more details on: Accommodation Discount Flights Conference Registration Pre-, Post Tours Conference committees Organising Committee: June Gassin (Chair), Denis Cunningham, Robert Debski, Mike Levy, Iain Morrison, Mike Smith Program Committee: Sue Otto (Chair), Robert Debski, Mike Levy Steering Committee: Richard Baldauf, John Barson, Keith Cameron, Chris Candlin, Carol Chapelle, Graham Chesters, Mary-Louise Craven, Graham Davies, Nina Garrett, Henry Hamburger, David Herren, Mike Levy, Peter Liddell, Brian McCarthy, Kazunori Nozawa, Gudrun, Oberprieler, Sue Otto, Peter Patrikis, Kari Sajavaara, Roly Sussex, June Thompson, Mark Warschauer, Peter White Supporting organisations ALAA, AILA, CCALL, EUROCALL, FIPLV, IALL, TESOL CALL-IS, Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Sponsoring organisations Australian Technology Enhanced Language Learning Consortium (ATELL) The University of Melbourne Further details may be obtained from: The Conference Secretariat, Fauth Royale & Associates Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 895, North Sydney NSW 2060, Australia. Tel: 61 2 9954 4544 Fax: 61 2 9954 4964. Email fauroy@ozemail.com.au From: Lou Burnard Subject: Re: What REALLY happened in Canada (fwd) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:43:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 180 (180) A piece of ephemera preserved: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~csteph/tagteam.html :-) Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Information is not knowledge..." | | Humanities Computing Unit Chris Stephens | | Oxford University Humanities IT Support Officer | Computing Services | 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford Tel: +44 (0) 1865 283295 E-mail: Christopher.Stephens@oucs.ox.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 11.0113 contributions to Humanist Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:12:20 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 181 (181) [deleted quotation] Am I the only one to detect a slightly paranoid attitude here? We seem to object both to the "spammer", whose presence on the list is only too obvious, and to the "lurker", who reads but doesn't make his/her presence known. Why should we feel uneasy about someone reading but not contributing? I don't think it's because we feel that that person is not "pulling his/her weight". I suspect that it's more akin to the feeling that we get when the passenger next to us on the tube (subway) reads over our shoulder the letter we have received from our mother... The lurker on one thread may be the contributor to the next. May I quote Molie\re. In the burlesque ceremony of intronisation of Monsieur Jourdain as "Mamamouchi", the "Turks" chant, in the Mediterranean _lingua franca_:- Si ti sabir, Ti respondir. Si no sabir, Taisir, taisir... This should be the battle-cry of all scholarly discussion-lists... Franc,ois C-R From: Glenn Everett Subject: microfilm scanning Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:03:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 182 (182) Gerard Goggin asked: [deleted quotation]You'll need a good scanner and good OCR software, and a transparency adapter for your scanner; in the US, these adapters may run between $350 and $850. Glenn Everett Faculty Multimedia Center University of Tennessee at Martin aaff@utm.edu From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0112 microfilm scanning? refs to philosophical suidide? Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:32:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 183 (183) The answer is yes it is possible to scan from microfilm (roll or fiche) I do it on a regular basis. The only thing you need to make sure is that the type face can be recognized by your software. From: Hans Joergen Marker Subject: RE: 11.0112 microfilm scanning? refs to philosophical suidide? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 08:43:00 +1 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 184 (184) Microfilm scanning. Microfilm scanning is most certainly possible provided naturally that you have the right equipment. I know of a couple of places where it is done on a major scale: The Netherlands Historical Data Archive (contact René van Horik) and the Danish State Archives Photographic Unit (contact Jesper Dal: jd@lav.sa.dk) The equipment you need costs in the order of 100.000 $ but in both of the mentioned places I believe that they would be willing to do the scanning for you if you pay them a resonnable compensation. Hans Joergen Marker Danish Data Archives hm@dda.sa.dk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Your Homepage Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:36:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 185 (185) [deleted quotation]Hello, My name is Einat Amitay and I'm a PG student at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, Scotland. I'm collecting a corpus of *manually* generated HTML files (homepages, at the moment.... but stay tuned...). I already 'possess' a corpus of 847 HTML files randomly retrieved from the web, but this time I need people to give me their consent to use their homepages. This is where you come into the picture: can you give me the URL of your homepage so that I could use it in my new corpus? This is for research purposes ONLY! I promise! please send the URL to the above email. Thanks a lot einat ------------^m-----o-------)---@@@---(--------o----------- Einat Amitay email: einat@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: (44) (0131) 662-4448 ext. 24202 Tel in Israel: (972) (06) 757134 HomePage: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~einat/Home/Shalom.htm -------------------o------)---@@@---(--------o------------ From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 11.0116 microfilm scanning Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 13:09:40 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 186 (186) [deleted quotation] A silly question, but we are talking about scanning a modern or at least modern-ish (say post 1850) edition aren't we? My experiments with scanning earlier printed material weren't at all satisfactory. Francois C-R From: Steve Taylor Subject: Re: 11.0116 microfilm scanning Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:12:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 187 (187) [deleted quotation] OK, I'll bite. What technique do you use? Steve Taylor Faculty Information Technology Center Emory University (404)727-8931 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ussjt/ From: "Robert S. Tannenbaum" Subject: Re: 11.0111 bad writing, computing &c. Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 08:22:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 188 (188) I have often been struck by the "bad" writing in many scientific and technical pieces. By that I mean the inability of the writer simply and clearly to convey the meaning of the material. I recently received a perfect example of this phenomenon from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service: On the tax increase after the refund, we'll charge the lower refund rate of interest on the tax instead of the higher underpayment rate of interest. We'll charge the lower interest rate on the new tax (up to the amount of the refund) for the same period of time we paid interest on the overpayment. It is interesting to me to note their attempt at informality by the use of "we" and the contraction "we'll." Still, it is almost impossible to discern what they intend to do with my money. (It was all a mistake on their part, anyway, They had lost my tax return, but I have the receipts to prove that I had filed it on time.) Someone at Microsoft (another organization almost as large as the IRS) has a sense of humor with regard to bad technical writing, however. They sent a note to some users recently that read, in part, "We apologize for the fact that our recent documentation was not up to our usual standards of obfuscation. We will try to do better in the future." 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: Willard McCarty Subject: bad writing Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:52:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 189 (189) Software manuals are often, as we all know, very bad indeed. Apart from the author's simple incompetence with the written language, many of those I've seen suffer from a common failure of imagination. Prima facie evidence suggests very strongly that the authors of these things simply cannot imagine that their readers do not know what they know. I've picked up many a manual that never actually says what the software in question is, rather it launches immediately into details of how to do X, sometimes without saying what X is either, or why one would want to do it. Perhaps it is true that the perfect software interface does away with any need for a manual, but with a package like Excel, for example, I tend to doubt that the need for written documentation will ever wither away. The job in question is simply too complex. In any case, the interface, as a kind of implicit manual, is another area where failures of imagination are not uncommon. Those of us who teach beginners for a living, or whose technically ignorant partners or mates suddenly develop the yearning to know which buttons to push, are well aware of how misleading the claim for an "intuitive" interface is. I find it very salutory indeed to be reminded, and more to be forced to strive for the kind of understanding and communicative skills that teaching the beginner requires. When I took first-year chemistry at Berkeley, in the mid 60s -- the year xenon tetraflouride was first synthesized in labs there; I saw the first sample -- the professor (may his name be blessed, though I cannot remember it!) had such skills in such abundance that I doubt any of us, among the 500 or so in the lecture theatre, were not moved to a love of the subject, even if only for a moment. Such stories I could tell, but won't. He was chair of the department and a distinguished chemist, as I recall. Taught first year chemistry like a master. It's so easy to be an expert, be more correct than anyone about Y, so long as Y is sufficiently specialised; it's so difficult to communicate why anyone should care. It seems to me that if we're going to understand what humanities computing is, we need to be stuck with (blessed by being stuck with) teaching it. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: CFP: TEI 10th Anniversary User Conference Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:05:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 190 (190) ************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ************************* TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE TENTH ANNIVERSARY USER CONFERENCE http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/ November 14-16, 1997 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA Sponsored by Brown University Computing and Information Services Brown University Libraries - o - To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The TEI was established at an international planning meeting on text encoding standards, held at Vassar College on November 12-13, 1987. The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe. The TEI conference will bring together users of the TEI Guidelines in order to share ideas, experiences, and expertise, provide a forum for technical discussion and evaluation of the Guidelines as they have been implemented across a variety of applications. The topics include but are not limited to: o reports on the use of the TEI scheme in a particular project or in a particular application area or discipline o reports from particular user communities such as the builders and designers of electronic text centers, digital libraries, language corpora, electronic editions, multi-media databases, etc. o evaluations of the TEI scheme as applied to a particular class of texts or in a particular type of scholarly research o technical discussions of particular encoding problems and solutions such as unusual or complex text types, multi-media, multiple views or information types, multi-lingual data and internationalization, textual variation, overlap, etc. o papers on customization and extension of the TEI for particular application areas and text types o reports on experience using off-the-shelf software with TEI documents, or developing software to handle TEI material o discussions of markup theory and markup architectures, with particular reference to the TEI o discussions of the TEI in the light of developments in the larger computing community (the Web, XML, ...) A portion of the conference will also be devoted to consideration of the future of the TEI. Possible topics to be discussed include the organization of the project, membership on the component committees, priorities, and new work items to be proposed to the Technical Review Committee. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions of at least 1500 words should be sent by August 20, 1997. Email submissions or a URL where the submission can be retrieved should be sent to tei10@stg.brown.edu. Submissions in TEI Lite are preferred, but full TEI or (valid!) HTML 3.2 is acceptable. If it is not possible to submit in one of these forms, please contact tei10_program@stg.brown.edu to make special arrangements. Papers should include complete references to related work and should clearly identify the main problem being addressed, other similar projects and their relation to this project, the main and original contribution of the paper, and remaining or open problems. Authors are also asked to indicate if this paper is or will be submitted elsewhere. Notification of acceptance will be made by September 20, 1997. Final versions of full papers will be due by October 15, 1997. An electronic conference proceedings will be published; other publication details will be forthcoming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: * Nancy Ide, Vassar College * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Susan Armstrong, University of Geneva * Winfried Bader, German Bible Society * David Barnard, University of Regina (Sask.) * Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Services * Tom Corns, University of Wales, Bangor * Steve DeRose, Inso Corp. * David Gants, University of Georgia * Dan Greenstein, King's College, London * Susan Hockey, University of Alberta * Stig Johansson, University of Oslo * Judith Klavans, Columbia University * Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona * Elli Mylonas, Brown University * John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan * Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics * Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo * Syun Tutiya, Chiba University * Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: On program and paper submissions: tei10_program@stg.brown.edu About local arrangements: tei10@stg.brown.edu URL: http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/ FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEI: URL: http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: tenure, technology Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:23:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 191 (191) A colleague in Japan sent me the following, with the request that should I decide to circulate his remarks I not mention his name or university. Thus the censored bits. ------------------------ I'm not yet a subscriber to the Humanist Discussion Group (though perhaps I should be); a friend who is a subscriber forwarded to me a message about "Tenure, Technology, and Scolarly [sic] Futures". [omitted material] Hope Greenberg wonders: [deleted quotation] The very simple answer is that, to the best of my knowledge, it's not reflected at all. [deleted quotation] I have yet to be convinced that it is an issue. Self-evidently, I use the kind of "technological resources" that I imagine are of interest to you. On balance, I'd prefer it if my colleagues did too. However, I'm much more concerned about their knowledge, and pedagogic enthusiasm and ability--whatever the "information" channels they care to use. [omitted material] 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Survey on Business Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:48:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 192 (192) [deleted quotation]I am conducting a survey on business ethics for an MBA project. I would appreciate if you could please take a minute to answer the survey at: http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Floor/3016 Thank you for your help. From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0121 bad writing Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:16:59 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 193 (193) [deleted quotation] [deleted quotation] When I first worked for IBM as a programmer back in the olden days (1960's), I was considered quite talented because I could READ the manuals and comprehend their meaning and intent. And even better I could explain it all to other people. In those days there was no such thing as a *user*; even the 'programming' manuals were written by and for the engineers. There were few explanations of any sort, certainly no algorithms, simply technical (VERY) description of the execution cycle of each assembly language instruction. We were supposed to figure out the rest. I never saw any instructions for something like operating a computer, which we did have to do on occasion to test our programs. I've always wondered how my academic background of mathematics, German, and English literature prepared me for that! I guess that's why we call it education and not training! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com From: David Silver Subject: cyberculture studies Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:08:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 194 (194) List members, For a fairly extensive collection of resources and materials pertaining to cyberculture and a list of over 60 online syllabi related to the topic, see: Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> =-=-=-=-= David Silver, PhD Student, American Studies University of Maryland, College Park <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> From: "M. Salimian" Subject: A Multimedia Instructional Design course on the web Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:35:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 195 (195) Greetings I would like to inform you that a multimedia design course is offered free to those who are interested in the subject. The focus of the course is to get the educators (and others) prepared for learning/teaching environment of the next century. It uses the web as the main medium of communication and instruction which might be of interest to the members of this list. The homepage for the course is at: http://www.eng.morgan.edu/~salimian/IEGR485/ I would also appreciate if you forward this message to any other list that you feel it might be appropriate. Thanks in advance, Masud Salimian Indust. Engr. Morgan State University From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: Early Registration deadline - CIMQL Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:53:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 196 (196) 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 EARLY REGISTRATION Please note that the early registration deadline has been extended until 30 June for this workshop. Payments received after this date will be subject to a GBP50 increase in the registration fee. To register, complete the form at http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql/regform.html, or download and complete the text version (regform.txt). Details of the workshop follow: 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. The registration fee is GBP150.00 and GBP100.00 for students. For more information about the workshop and to register, please consult the web site at http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql, or send email to the conference organisers at cimql@stats.gla.ac.uk. From: Willard McCarty Subject: we have our moments Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:42:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 197 (197) Tagging may be characterised as a collection of moments in each of which an observation about primary data is followed by its encoding in some metalanguage (like TEI/SGML). Then, at intervals, the collection of tags is compiled, individual items perhaps corrected, after which the resulting metatext becomes the basis for analysis. The great virtue of tagging as the basis for study of primary material is that unaided we humans seem at best to be very good at making such momentary observations but rather less good at summing them up without overlooking or forgetting the troublesome ones. To the degree such oversight occurs, we get out of our primary material more or less what we expected, wanted to find. Consider, then, the following meditation on our kind, from Philip Gerrans, "Is it catching?", rev. of Dan Sperber, Explaining culture: A naturalistic approach (Oxford: Blackwell), in TLS 4916 for 20 June 1997, p. 5: "Rationality is a precarious achievement, almost instantly swamped in day-to-day life by other influences on human psychology.... Furthermore, it seems that rationality, even in situations where it is recognised as desirable, such as planning and prediction, is not an automatic part of the human inferential repertoire. Humans are very bad at employing the norms of rationality, such as logical inference, probabilistic reasoning and planning beyond the immediate future, but they are very good at convincing themselves that they have sound reasons for what they do. Perhaps the most tenacious aspect of mind is not rationality, but rationalization, the reinterpretation of evidence to support a belief rather than revising it in the face of counter-evidence and counter-argument. Indeed, Stuart Sutherland's recent book, Irrationality, demonstrates that even those areas of human culture consecrated to the norms of rationality, the academic professions, operate, in some cases, according to non-principles of confabulation, improbability and counter-induction." If the development of human mentality in essence involves, as some have argued, the externalization of mind through our creations and inventions, then is the computer a materialization of our desire to be rational? Are we in effect giving ourselves the means to be rational? Is this a good thing? Comments welcome. Yours, 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: "Prof. Jose Gomes Filho" Subject: Re: 11.0101 future of computing Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:56:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 198 (198) About these ideas and the future of computing, I go a little further and add that, in the future, when the science has gotten the complete "artificialization" of the human brain (and obviously the whole body) we will have completely evolved to a new species, the *homo cyber* , which among other characteristcs, will have a quasi ethernal life, since it will possibly posess something like a "black-box" that will make possible the individual's reinstallation in a new body, in case of accident. The Japanese already begin to think on the miniaturization of such body. Something like using nanoneurocybernetics... For the success on such direction we need for example that the movies business would also help and turn to show the cybernetic (and cloning) scientific evolution and fiction on a more *userfriendly* way, with the cybernetic creatures having a little more emotion too. [deleted quotation] From: Patrick Allen Subject: RE: 11.0117 paranoia about lurkers? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 10:48:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 199 (199) So far, I have only been a lurker on this list. I now think that it is time for me to "come out". Can I just say that I get an enormous amount of pleasure and knowledge out of just reading contributions to the list - that's when I get time to read them. I am now curious about the the relationship between pleasure and knowledge - any thoughts? Patrick Allen. From: Alfredo Elejalde Subject: Re: 11.0117 paranoia about lurkers? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:54:35 -0500 (GMT-0500) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 200 (200) [deleted quotation] Out of this same light, out of the central mind, We make a dwelling in the evening air, In which being there together is enough. (Stevens, Wallace. Final Soliloquoy of the Interior Paramour) Alfredo Elejalde F. elejalde@pucp.edu.pe http://macareo.pucp.edu.pe/elejalde [Editorial footnote. When I wrote my note about lurkers (self-knowledge, such as I have it, engaged) I meant only to encourage those with something to say. What a delight to have poetry in response! --WM] From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: job posting -- Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:56:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 201 (201) ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCY COORDINATOR, HUMANITIES TEXT INITIATIVE (Term Appointment through 7/31/99) The Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) provides a program focus for building both commercially published and locally created electronic text resources, as well as for instruction and research related to electronic text and text analysis and systems for wider practical access to text in the humanities. With significant collaboration and guidance with faculty, the program serves as a catalyst for interdisciplinary scholarship through resource building, research support, symposia, and services related to the creation of and access to scholarly texts. The HTI coordinator has primary responsibility for the development and management of text resources and services in support of the Initiative. The HTI is a branch of the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) and has responsibility for encoded text resources in the humanities, as well as finding aids encoded using the EAD DTD. DUTIES: The HTI Coordinator works with a team of librarians and technologists in DLPS to establish priorities and build campus services in several clearly defined areas. The HTI Coordinator also plays a central role in the process of analyzing SGML-encoded materials in all subject areas in support of DLPS's non-humanities SGML support activities. Key areas of responsibility for the Coordinator include: * Collection development. * Text production and access services for materials encoded with the TEI and EAD DTDs. * Assistance with SGML system development. * Remote user support. * Working with the School of Information, course implementation and experiential opportunities for student community. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: ALA accredited MLS. Minimum two years experience in research library environment, including experience in service or collection role. Demonstrated extensive experience with SGML, text standards, and text production in the humanities. Demonstrated experience in the evaluation and implementation of text retrieval tools, and in evaluation and selection of humanities electronic text resources. Knowledge of one or more Western European languages. Demonstrated strong communication skills and ability to work in collaborative environment. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multi-cultural environment. Supervisory experience. Desired: Advanced degree in humanities discipline. Teaching experience related to structured texts, especially in the humanities. Experience in design and use of image and multimedia resources relevant to the humanities. Experience in grant proposal development. Evidence of publication and research related to text resources. RANK, SALARY, & LEAVE: Rank of Associate Librarian. Final salary dependent on years of previous relevant professional experience. (Minimum salary - $33,000); 24 working days of vacation a year; 15 days of sick leave a year with provisions for extended benefits. RETIREMENT PLAN: TIAA/CREF retirement plan TO APPLY: Send cover letter & copy of resume to: Karen Downing; Library Human Resources; 404 Hatcher Graduate Library North; University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 APPLICATION DEADLINE: Applications received by 7/14/97 will be given first consideration. The University of Michigan is a non-discriminatory, affirmative action employer. ************************************************************************** John Price-Wilkin Phone: 313.764.8074 Head, Digital Library Production Service Fax: 313.647.6897 302 Hatcher North email: jpwilkin@umich.edu University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1205 ************************************************************************** From: Carole Meyers Subject: Romantic Circles virtual conference series Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 09:18:13 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 202 (202) R O M A N T I C C I R C L E S: C A L L F O R P A P E R S F A L L 1 9 9 7 Romantic Circles Announces its Virtual Conference Series! ** Please print and post Romantic Circles (a Website devoted to the study of Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, their contemporaries and historical contexts) is pleased to sponsor two upcoming virtual conferences, one built around Mary Shelley's _The Last Man_ (to be held September 13, 1997) and the other around Percy Shelley's "The Devil's Walk" (to be held October 18, 1997), two texts currently available on RC's Web pages: http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/rc.html The Conference Committee's idea is to use Romantic Circles' Web pages and MOO (the Villa Diodati--a text only environment that allows for real-time communication) to highlight the primary texts edited and archived by RC. We thus hope to explore the ability of electronic media to facilitate the kinds of creative, spontaneous engagements (with both texts and people) traditionally facilitated by live conferences. The culmination of each conference will be a meeting in RC's MOOspace, opening with a virtual plenary session during which invited respondents will react to the previously posted keynote essays. This roundtable discussion will then be opened up to all participants for a lively exchange of ideas. Closer to the event, we will provide a variety of MOO orientation sessions designed to get people of all skills up and going in the MOO. EmoryMOO is available for teachers to hold classes and other events (we had a literary masquerade ball last fall), so check it out by telnetting to chaucer.library.emory.edu 4444 For general MOO help, see the our help pages: http://prometheus.cc.emory.edu/help.html A few participants will be invited to expand their pieces into formal essays to be archived along with the keynotes on permanent Romantic Circles Web pages--this lasting record will serve as a kind of conference journal. * * * * C O N F E R E N C E #1 V I R T U A L L Y D E A D ? M A R Y S H E L L E Y'S T H E L A S T M A N September 13, 1997 Keynote speakers and respondents include: Elizabeth Fay Gary Kelly Greg Kucich Steve Jones Anne Mellor Alan Richardson The Conference Committee invites papers, approximately 1,000 words in length, to be submitted on subjects related to Mary Shelley's The Last Man. The following are suggestions for possible paper topics: * The Ends of Introspection: Imagining Solipsism in The Last Man Sibylline Leaves: Mary Shelley's Prefaces * Apocalypse Then and Apocalypse Now: Mary Shelley and the Evolution of Lastness * The Last Man as Ecological Novel * The Last Man and the Radical Novels of the Romantic Era * Questioning the Aesthetic Value of The Last Man * Frankenstein's Monstrous Cousin: Teaching The Last Man Deadline for submissions for The Last Man Conference: August 15, 1997 * * * * C O N F E R E N C E #2 U R B A N E X C U R S I O N S: P E R C Y S H E L L E Y'S "T H E D E V I L'S W A L K" October 18, 1997 Keynote speakers and respondents include: Stuart Curran Neil Fraistat Robert Griffin Morton Paley Walter Reed Don Reiman Suitable topics for papers could include, but are not limited to, the following: * "The Devil's Walk" and the Broadside Ballad Tradition * Satanic Verses: Shelley, Southey, Coleridge, and Milton * Unacknowledged Legislators: Anonymity and the Political Writer * "The Devil's Walk" as Augustan Satire * Reloading the Canon: Teaching the Lesser Known Poetry of Mary Shelley's Husband * Questioning the Aesthetic Value of "The Devil's Walk" * Faceless Publishing: Past and Present Deadline for submissions for "The Devil's Walk" conference: September 15, 1997 Please send papers or inquiries to: Mark Ledden--mledden@emory.edu Carole Meyers--cmeyers@emory.edu Liz Rackley--erack01@emory.edu or to: Liz Rackley Emory University English Department 302 North Callaway Center 537 Kilgo Circle Atlanta, GA 30322 The general editors of Romantic Circles are Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, Donald H. Reiman, and Carl Stahmer. Carole Meyers Computing Specialist in the Humanities Emory University cmeyers@emory.edu http:/prometheus.cc.emory.edu/cfm/cfmhome.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Convite para participar na "Forum-LP" Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:41:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 203 (203) [deleted quotation]Our apologies to the non-portuguese speakers. As nossas desculpas por eventuais recepcoes duplicadas. Por favor, divulgue esta mensagem a possiveis interessados. ====================================================================== Caro(a) Colega: E com muito prazer que o(a) convidamos a inscrever-se na recem-criada lista Forum-LP que tem por objetivo reunir os investigadores interessados em Processamento de lingua natural ou linguistica computacional tendo o Portugues como lingua objeto. Pensamos que com esta iniciativa contribuiremos para a quebra do isolamento das pessoas que trabalham nestas areas. Abaixo enviamos uma descricao detalhada da lista, com seus objetivos e procedimentos de operacao. Com os melhores cumprimentos Prof. Dr. Jose Gabriel Pereira Lopes Antonio Ribeiro & Michael Mora ====================================================================== Forum-LP@ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~glint/Forum-LP Forum de Linguistica Computacional da Lingua Portuguesa criado a 6 de junho de 1997 promovido pelo Glint* - Grupo de Lingua Natural DI/FCT/UNL/PT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Leia com atencao as informacoes abaixo para uma boa utilizacao desta lista. Apresentacao ------------- Este e' o Forum de Processamento de Lingua Natural e Linguistica Computacional da Lingua Portuguesa. O forum nao e' moderado e toma preferencialmente o Portugues como lingua de veiculacao. Publico Alvo ------------- Esta lista e' destinada a todos aqueles que trabalhem com, facam investigacao e/ou estejam interessados em Processamento de lingua natural ou linguistica computacional tendo o Portugues como lingua objeto. Topicos de Interesse --------------------- Todos os aspectos de linguistica computacional: - pragmatica, discurso, semantica, sintaxe, lexico; - fonetica, fonologia e morfologia; - interpretacao e geracao de lingua falada e escrita; - analise morfologica e gramatical; - modelos linguisticos, matematicos, psicologicos e cognitivos da lingua; - extracao de informacao de lingua natural; - modelos estatisticos e baseados em corpora; - traducao automatica e semiautomatica de e para Portugues; - interfaces em lingua natural e sistemas de dialogo; - sistemas de compreencao de lingua natural; - representacao de conhecimento para lingua natural; - sistemas multimedia que envolvam linguagem; - aplicacoes de lingua natural; - arquitecturas multi-agentes para processamento de lingua natural; Objetivos --------- Esta lista destina-se a servir como um forum de anuncios e discussao de assuntos relacionados com o processamento de Lingua Natural para Portugues, de modo a aumentar a comunicacao e a cooperacao entre os investigadores e interessados em todo o mundo. Inscricao --------- Para inscrever-se na lista Forum-LP: 1. Via WWW: visite a pagina http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~glint/Forum-LP ou 2. Envie uma mensagem para majordomo@ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt com o seguinte texto no corpo da mensagem: subscribe Forum-LP ( ) e envie os dados abaixo para glint@di.fct.unl.pt - Nome: - Instituicao: - Area de trabalho atual: - Outras areas de interesse: - Endereco da sua pagina WWW (se existente): - Da' autorizacao para disponibilizacao futura destas informacoes numa pagina WWW do Forum-LP ? sim [ ] nao [ ] Desinscricao ------------ Para desinscrever-se da lista Forum-LP envie uma mensagem para: majordomo@ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt com o seguinte texto no corpo da mensagem: unsubscribe Forum-LP Envio de mensagens para o Forum-LP ---------------------------------- Envie a sua mensagem para: Forum-LP@ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt Outras Operacoes ---------------- Para mais informacoes sobre outras operacoes disponiveis no servidor de listas, envie uma mensagem para: majordomo@ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt com o seguinte texto no corpo da mensagem: help Contamos com a participacao de todos os interessados. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glint* - Grupo de Lingua Natural Departamento de Informatica Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Correio eletronico: glint@di.fct.unl.pt Pagina WWW: http://www-ia.di.fct.unl.pt/~glint/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Chris Floyd Subject: Re: pleasure & knowledge Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:21:00 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 204 (204) [deleted quotation] Pleasure is to enjoy something. Knowledge is to know you enjoy something. The two are quite different. You need a theory to know that something is worth enjoying. Of course, theory and knowledge are also quite different. Coming to know something can be pleasurable except when that something is a theory that you know nothing. Then ignorance is pleasure. Dr Chris Floyd Oral: +61 8 9339 8632 Ink: +61 8 9385 7443 mailto:cfloyd@carmen.murdoch.edu.au http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~cfloyd From: James O'Donnell Subject: list-serving software Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 08:48:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 205 (205) For a list I run, we are being made to change from majordomo to listproc. I am struck in going through the pains of transition that these things are all still mid-80s technology. I'll refrain from any venting here, but I write to this list to ask, if you really know something about this and were asked to recommend a list-serving software package to run on a unix server, what would you recommend? The best answer will take into account both the concerns of the sysop (security, load on server, ability to thwart spam) and the listowner (ease of use for owner, flexibility of configuration to do what you want it to, quality of documentation and ease of use for listmembers). (I agree that some kind of webcasting is probably the *future*, but for now I confine my question only to software that can build and maintain a subscription list and send e-mail to it.) Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: economics Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:54:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 206 (206) I am looking for an economist of electronic publishing who is primarily interested in the system-wide effects of e-publishing within the academy. A socio-ecological economist? The question I wish to raise with such a person is how e-publishing affects and is likely to affect the way we are organised, what we do, and how we do it. Suggestions please. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Willard McCarty Subject: communication Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 10:57:18 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 207 (207) Many Humanists will likely be interested in the existence and work of the Human Communication Research Centre, Edinburgh and Glasgow, which "brings together theories and methods from several disciplines. Formal linguistics and logic, computational modelling, and experimental psychology are all recruited to the pursuit of a common goal. When people communicate, they process vast quantities of information. To understand better how this happens, we focus on spoken and written language; we also study communication in other media - visual, graphical and computer-based." See the URL <http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/hcrc/>. 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: John Bradley Subject: Software for TACT users: TACTweb Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:30:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 208 (208) ***Announcing Version 1.0 of TACTweb*** A new version of TACTweb is now available. TACTweb is a WWW CGI program that allows you to share a TACT textbase (TDB file) over the Internet. With TACTweb you can provide colleagues and students a WWW accessible text analysis environment for modest textbases. With the TACTweb software comes a interactive workbook suitable for introducing undergraduates to text analysis. You can try TACTweb and the workbook at our demonstration site: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca At this site we have links to other sites that are using TACTweb. You can download the (free) software to set up your own TACTweb server from the following sites: North America: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/download/TACTweb/ UK: ftp://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/d%3A/anonymous/TACT/TACTweb/ Installation instructions are available from the demonstration site at <http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca>, and are also included in the distribution package. We welcome suggestions and news from those who have tried TACTweb. TACTweb is an experimental project led by John Bradley and Geoffrey Rockwell. John Bradley Geoffrey Rockwell King's College, London McMaster University John.Bradley@kcl.ac.uk grockwel@mcmaster.ca From: John Bradley Subject: Software for TACT users: sgml2tdb Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:33:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 209 (209) Announcing an Update to sgml2tdb A new version of "sgml2tdb" is now available. sgml2tdb is software that can take SGML marked-up text (including TEI and TEIlite, but not limited to them) and create from them a TACT textbase (TDB file). Like the TDBs that are created by MakeBase, TDBs from sgml2tdb can be used by other TACT programs such as UseBase or Collgen, can be mounted on the WWW using TACTweb, or can be merged with other TDBs using MergeBase. You can download the software from the following two sites: North America: http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca/download/sgml2tdb/ UK: ftp://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/d%3A/anonymous/TACT/sgml2tdb/ Full instructions on how to set up and use sgml2tdb are available from both sites, and are also included in the distribution package. Sgml2tdb is still beta-level software. However, I welcome your comments and suggestions, and will update the software based on them as time permits. John Bradley King's College, London John.Bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Re: 11.0131 list software? economics of e-publishing? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:05:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 210 (210) [deleted quotation] Without a doubt, revised Listserv 1.8c is the most powerful and flexible program for running a list. It'll run on a variety of platforms -- see the listserv homepage at http://www.lsoft.com Jeff Jeff Finlay, Administrator American Studies Crossroads Project 303 New North Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Phone: (202) 687-4535 Fax: (202) 687-5445 URL: http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads Editor, ASA Opportunities & News http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html From: BRUNI Subject: Re: 11.0123 present & future of computing Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 13:27:39 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 211 (211) On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] One could certainly argue that computers are rational systems. But, then again, what does rationality, divested from imagination lead to? As Martin E. Rosenberg states, to be rational (in the abstract sense) can lead to a world view where only facts and figures count: "a...construct that disguises the nature of human awareness in order for it better to plot industrial schedules, the trajectories of cannonballs, the circumnavigation of the globe." I would hope that we use computers in more imaginative ways, for example, to create imaginative texts that can articulate how we perceive the increasing complexity of the world. Of course, rationality fits here as well. But let us not make it the entire picture. John Bruni English Dept University of Kansas From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Digital and rational Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 11:17:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 212 (212) [deleted quotation]Dear Humansits, The recent posting concerning the weakness of the human mind in matters of "rationality" has somewhat disturbed me. When Philip Gerrans says, "Humans are very bad at employing the norms of rationality, such as logical inference, probabilistic reasoning and planning beyond the immediate future..." to what is he comparing us? We are irrational compared to computers? We are the most rational being on this planet, in this solar system. Would we even be aware such things as probability and logic had not some human mind discovered / created them? Was it Plato that said that writing a sort of corruption of the mind because we used it to perform a function (memory) that we were capable of but chose not to exercise? I think we would agree that writing is a compliment to the mind, not a corruption of it. Although it might have started as a system for keeping track of finacial transactions, it evolved into essays, poetry, and fiction that allows to express and learn things about our selves and our world. Computers are the same. Compiling raw data about many texts using computers is no more rational, in principle, than using an abacus to help us add and subtract long lists of numbers. It is still the human mind that makes the tool, figures out how to use it to obtain results, and draws conclusions. Some of us might interpret the data differently than others, or make false conclusions. This is simply evidence of falibility, not irrationality. Alas, all humans are guilty of imperfection, even the most rational, even Philip Gerrans. Adam Foit From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 11.0124 lurkers, battle cries, and poetry Date: Wed, 25 Jun 97 13:03:31 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 213 (213) Patrick Allen asked about the possible relation between pleasure and knowledge. In these postmodern days we seem even more intent on forgetting our own past than might have been the case in "modernity" - so it is with fear and trembling that I recommend Plato's _Symposium_, specifically Diotima's speeches on _eros_ as the psychic drive that, ultimately unsatisfied by the beauties available among bodies and souls, aims for knowledge of beauty as such. Much follows, of course, in subsequent traditions, regarding the conjunction of knowledge, insight, wisdom, etc. with the intense pleasure our time seems to imprison within the simply bodily/sexual domains. So the religious mystics who speak of the Divine as their lover, etc. Curmudgeonly yours, Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA homepage: http://www.drury.edu/phil-relg/ess.html From: Brian Nielsen Subject: Re: 11.0131 list software? economics of e-publishing? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 17:14:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 214 (214) At 10:27 PM 6/23/97 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] Willard -- Two folks come to mind for me: one is the current dean of Berkeley's library school, Hal Varian, to whom you should at least pose the question directly. Hal is an economist, done some very interesting things, but perhaps not right on topic of your interest -- see The second person is Michael Buckland, FORMER dean at the same school. His training was in librarianship, but in Britain, where it was fairly heavy operations-research oriented. But take a look at his book: Buckland, Michael Keeble. Redesigning library services : a manifesto / Michael Buckland ; foreword by Michael Gorman. Chicago : American Library Association, 1992. x, 82 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79) and index. Michael would be a fun person to talk with on your question. Brian Brian Nielsen Manager, Learning Technologies Group Academic Technologies Northwestern University 2129 N. Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-2850 (847)491-2170 fax:(847)491-3824 email: b-nielsen@nwu.edu http://www.nwu.edu/people/b-nielsen From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: economics of e-publishing? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:58:15 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 215 (215) Try the work of the economist Hal Varian, eg http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/papers.html Leslie Burkholder From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New Babble Version Available Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:32:31 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 216 (216) [deleted quotation]Babble 1.1.1 (a synoptic Unicode browser) is now available for download at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/babble/download.html be sure to check the documentation at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/babble/babblehelp.html Some new features have been added: 1. Babble can now deal with SGML-tagged Unicode files delivered via the Web (fixing a problem with version 1.1 in which it couldn't find and load style sheets correctly). As part of this change, stylesheets are now specified in the SGML Doctype declaration (see the documentation). 2. Babble can now flip texts vertically (columns) to horizontally (rows) and back again. 3. Installation and setup instructions are broken down by platform, and more detailed instructions are included on how to set up Babble as a helper application, and on how to set up a web server to serve unicode files to Babble. 4. Two installation versions are available, one for Windows95/NT with a setup wizard, and one for manual installations on other platforms (Unix). The manual installation version includes a shell script that can be used to run Babble as a helper application. 5. A new utility, uni2ascii.java is included, for converting Roman-character files from unicode to ascii. 6. Help documentation now includes new features by release version and a list of known bugs and FAQs. Enjoy, and be sure to send bug reports or questions to: babble-l@jefferson.village.virginia.edu John Unsworth, Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities From: John Bradley Subject: Problems with TACTweb and sgml2tdb European Site Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 17:46:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 217 (217) Problems with TACTweb and sgml2tdb European Site A few days ago I announced new versions of TACTweb and sgml2tdb, and said that they were available from ftp://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk. On the very day of my announcement the ilex machine became unreliable, and yesterday it died entirely! Although service staff have been working on it, it is still not repaired. My apologies for the inconvenience. Both pieces of software are still available from http://tactweb.humanities.mcmaster.ca in Canada. ... John Bradley (john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk) From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 11.0124 lurkers, battle cries, and poetry Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 11:59:58 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 218 (218) It might be interesting for this inquirer about the association between pleasure and knowledge to start with Freud himself. If he hasnt read Freud's basic works, perhaps he may not follow too well the dense discussion in THE PROBLEM OF ANXIETY. But there is also BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE, etc. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Marnie Swanson Subject: Re: job at Michigan Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 17:01:35 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 219 (219) Wouldn't it be wonderful! I keep seeing this type of position being created in libraries in the U.S. Their budgets are obviously bigger than ours! [deleted quotation] Marnie Swanson University Librarian University of Victoria Victoria, B.C. V8W 3H5 Phone: (250) 721-8211 Fax: (250) 721-8215 E-mail: mswanson@uvic.ca From: Willard McCarty Subject: technical vs. philosophical Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:44:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 220 (220) In a recent offline discussion involving Humanist, one person asserted rather strongly that our field needs a new discussion group devoted to the technical aspects of humanities computing. One suggestion was that Humanist itself be used for the purpose, or sharpened in its provision of technical information, by denoting it as such, e.g. in the subject line. Presumably such a sorting would serve those who have little patience with the philosophical, sociological, historical and other "soft" parts of the field; they could then go straight for their gold and delete the dross. Wisdom, to my mind, prevailed: one acute participant observed that humanities computing lies precisely in the intersection of technical and non-technical, that to separate these would be to violate the spirit if not the body of what we do. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Re: 11.0113 contributions to Humanist Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:07:56 +0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 221 (221) [deleted quotation] Factual information often provides a very good argument supporting a point, and this makes it quite difficult to fully separate the two. However, what can happen is that sometimes there are interpretations involved and many view the same facts or events differently, resulting in arguments. In many cases the facts themselves are not much interesting. What is more interesting is the competing versions of explanations of those facts, explanations which can strongly clash, but can well hopefully give rise to increased awareness and understanding on both sides. People can attach different meanings to the facts, to which all parties agree. But they disagree, if they do, on the significance and on how best to describe those facts. Terms used to describe or explain facts or events can be charged with meanings which might transform one event dramatically from one thing to another. Take as an example the coming handover of power in Hong Kong. The Chinese in Beijing (as evidenced in Deng Xiao Ping's unfulfilled wish to see its return before his death) view the event as a very important part of their history. An event which vindicates the more than a century of humiliation brought upon by the Opium War. But the Hong Kong residents view this sometimes with apprehension, sometimes with indifference. Thus when discussions come on line, what gets them going is often not just the announcements of facts, unless there's a moderator who specifically intends them to be that way. Of course people don't have to be always right in order to join a discussion. But who is? And if we are focusing on arguments and discussions, what we normally expect from contributions is that the facts are just the starting points. What is expected is what the contributors are going to do with them. (If it is agreed that those 'facts' are actually true.) Now the correctness of the facts is not so relevant. What is is that the points being offered are supported by reasons, and we hope that all would benefit through participating in the discussions. Lurkers benefit too. Often they just don't have the time or their ideas have already been expressed by someone else. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. Soraj. [deleted quotation]Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, THAILAND Tel.(662)218-4756 Fax.(662)218-4636; 218-4755 email -- , or Personal Web Page: http://pioneer.netserv.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html From: Patrick Durusau Subject: technical vs. philosophical Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:07:59 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 222 (222) In his report of a discussion concerning the focusing of the Humanist list on more technical aspects of humanities computing, Willard McCarty states: [deleted quotation] With deference to his concern for the spirit of humanities computing, I am more concerned such a separation would result in tools or techniques that do not address the concerns of humanities scholars. Most Humanist readers will be familiar with the now common "glyph" versus "character" distinction embodied in Unicode as well as other standards (see Working Draft of ISO/IEC TR 15285 Information technology - An operational model for characters and glyphs, MS Word format: ftp://ftp.jhuapl.edu/pub/cgmodel/cgm9608.doc and PostScript format: ftp://ftp.jhuapl.edu/pub/cgmodel/cgm9608.ps). The draft summarizes the relationship of glyphs and characters as follows: - A character conveys distinctions in meaning or sounds. A character has no intrinsic appearance. - A glyph conveys distinctions in form or appearance. A glyph has no intrinsic meaning. - One or more characters may be depicted by no, one, or multiple glyph representations (instances of an abstract glyph) in a way that may depend on the context. (Working Draft of ISO/IEC TR 15285, page 3) If "glyphs" have no meaning in information technology, is there any reason to develop tools to preserve the glyphs used information in pre-Gutenberg texts? I suspect a majority of humanities scholars would immediately protest that there are many situations where the actual "glyphs" used to record a text are relevant. For example, in the Hebrew text of Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6 begins with lemarbeh, with the m written as final form mem. If one reads the small masora (margin note), there is a reference that leads to other cases where the final form of a letter appears at other locations. A tool that does not allow for the placement of the final form of a letter at some location other than the end of a word would lose this information. In this case, preservation of the "glyph" information gives meaning to the marginal note, as well as being important for efforts to determine textual transmission and possible issues concerning scribal practices in the transmission of such texts. (Loss of this type of information is not an abstract fear, before the advent of Unicode the CCAT project elected to ignore final character forms in the Hebrew Bible as entirely predictable.) The intersection of the technical and non-technical sides of humanities computing is necessary for the development of tools and techniques that address meaningful questions for humanities scholarship. I was glad to learn that such interaction will continue on the Humanist list. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu From: Michael Guest Subject: Re: 11.0138 discussion on Humanist Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 17:10:35 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 223 (223) [deleted quotation] Then perhaps they should start one. This dividing and sub-dividing of 'disciplines' according to one's specific research interests can only be counter-productive to our emerging quest to locate humanities studies within technology. It's Foucault's dream after a heavy night. I sometimes regret the dross and drivel that I spasmodically contribute, but does it really matter much? Someone somewhere might get an inkling from it, if only confirmation of their own antipathetical stance. If you bozo me, it hurts no-one; it's an entirely ethically justifiable action. I wonder about the 'hard' versus 'soft' definitions as well. Computer scientists of the highest order should require imaginative imput from all disciplines, to develop their discipline. The lesser order ought to too. Imagine how tedious would be this proposed list. I love Francisco Tarrega's statement, "to play guitar one must bathe in the fountain of culture." C.f. "How I can I get my Mac to make umlauts?" (not omelettes). I've been out of touch with Humanist for a couple of weeks, I'm sorry. Were there any 'hard' or other responses to the notion of episteme that I tried to sketch by way of a Beckett quote from _How it is_? Thanks as always to Dr McCarty for performing the work that he does to produce this progressive, indeed groundbreaking activity of inter-disciplinary discourse with this discussion list. I'll go with his intuitions any day, rather than submit to such retro suggestions as I've quoted above. Dr MIchael Guest Assoc/prof. Faculty of Information Shizuoka University, Japan guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: Mick Doherty Subject: Re: 11.0138 discussion on Humanist Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:47:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 224 (224) I have to admit, the quasi-standard bifurcation between "technical" (or "technological") and "philosophical" would be amusing if it weren't so painful. Sharing discussion about breakthroughs in code, interface, software, hardware, etc. -- we bring to that discussion assumptions, sometimes hidden, sometimes subconscious, sometimes overt and blatant, about what we expect/hope/want those "technical" things to do. And even if we somehow have miraculously freed ourselves from those assumptions, the interface (et al) has politics in its design and philosophical implications for the users, buyers, nstudents, teachers, educators, and techies who will use a^C& r To: humanist@kcl.ac.uk I have to admit, the quasi-standard bifurcation between "technical" (or "technological") and "philosophical" would be amusing if it weren't so painful. Sharing discussion about breakthroughs in code, interface, software, hardware, etc. -- we bring to that discussion assumptions, sometimes hidden, sometimes subconscious, sometimes overt and blatant, about what we expect/hope/want those "technical" things to do. And even if we somehow have miraculously freed ourselves from those assumptions, the interface (et al) has politics in its design and philosophical implications for the users, buyers, students, teachers, educators, and techies who will use and build upon these technological advances. (If they are indeed advances -- but that would be a philosophical question!) Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor" and Selfe & Selfe's "Politics of the Interface" (in _College Composition and Communication in early 1996) are two excellent examples (of a possible hundred/s) of forefronting (looking at) the fact that the technical and the philosophical can never be separated, and to do so would be, at best, naive. To my reading over the last year -- as long as I've been subscribed -- Humanist has been one of the few electronic resources to fill this role well without making it a badge of honor. Doing it without preaching it. Willard -- one vote from Dallas, Texas to keep this list as-is. Mick Doherty Internet Editor Dallas Convention & Visitor's Bureau *** Editor _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/ *** mick@rpi.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: research profiles? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 09:56:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 225 (225) This is a sociological question for those Humanists who are professionally engaged in other fields than humanities computing. It is motivated by a desire to understand how research in these fields tends to relate to professional activity, esp. the very public kind like giving papers at conferences. I expect that if we had the data to hand, the answer would vary from discipline to discipline. What I am wondering is this: does the real research of a discipline tend to be done by those who are also most active in this public way, or does maintaining a professional presence militate against research? One reason for asking the question relates to the effect of electronic communications and publishing on how research is conducted in a field. I have noticed in my own work and that of my colleagues a tendency for the pace of the new medium to push how we do humanities research in the direction of how the sociologists work. If I understand the latter, it may be characterised by frequent publication of relatively limited results, rather than the infrequent publication of a more extensive kind characteristic of the humanities. One perhaps transitional phenomenon (if in fact we are in a transition) is the tendency of humanists thoroughly engaged with the technology (if this is in fact the case) to publish more frequently than perhaps they should about long-term research. Sorry to be so tentative and anecdotal, but this really is an interrogative note meant to be questioned in every particular. Are we humanists undergoing an intellectual and professional metamorphosis? If so, what do we think about this? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Willard McCarty Subject: "Web Usability": IJHCS special issue now on Web Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 21:09:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 226 (226) [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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Willard McCarty Subject: economics and technology Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 22:10:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 227 (227) Two useful URLs on the topic: <http://www.finearts.com.au/journals/soc/eco11.htm>, about (alas, only about) the journal, Economics of Innovation and New Technology. The managing editor, Edward Steinmueller, is a good person to watch on this topic. <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/cict/>, Science Policy Research Unit, Centre for Information and Communications Technologies, University of Sussex. These I have of course incorporated into my list of resources, "Overview of electronic publication", <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/overview.html>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA new resource Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:09:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 228 (228) [deleted quotation] [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News ===================================== *** NEW CATALOGUE & NEW RESOURCES *** ELRA is happy to announce the update of its catalogue of Language resources for Language Engineering and Research. It currently consists of: 1) Spoken resources: 39 databases in several languages (recordings from microphone, telephone, continuous speech, isolated words, phonetic dictionaries, etc.). 2) Written resources: * 14 monolingual and multilingual corpora * 28 monolingual lexica * Around 60 multilingual lexica * A linguistic software platform and grammars development platform 3) Terminological resources: over 360 databases with a wide range of domains and several languages (Catalan, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish). We would like to inform you that a new resource (from ITC-IRST, Italy) is now available via ELRA. A brief description is given herein: ******************************** * ELRA-S0039 APASCI (ITC-IRST) * ******************************** APASCI is an Italian acoustic database recorded in insulated room with a Sennheiser MKH 416 T microphone. It includes ca. 16090 utterances and digits, 58924 words (2191 different words), 641 minutes of speech. The data is uttered by 100 Italian speakers (50 male and 50 female). Each of them uttered 1 calibration sentence, 4 sentences having a wide phonetic coverage, 15 or 20 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage. Six speakers (3 male and 3 female) uttered 26 occurrences of the calibration sentence, 104 sentences having a wide phonetic coverage, 390 sentences having a wide diphonic coverage. 54 of the speakers (42 male and 12 female) repeated 20 times 10 isolated digits. The linguistic annotations of the database are given at the phonemic and orthographic levels. This database aims to design, train and evaluate continuous speech recognition systems (speaker independent, speaker adaptive, speaker dependent, multispeakers). It is also designed for research on acoustic and linguistic models, and for research on new acoustic parameters for speech recognition. o Format: 16 bit linear o Standard: NIST SPHERE o Sampling rate: 16 kHz o Medium: CD-ROM ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 87, Avenue d'Italie 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ******************************************** ...................................... Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA /ELDA 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: Piero Meldini Subject: Call for help Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 08:18:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 229 (229) Some time ago, in a book whose title I don't remember, I found a quotation from a Greek author which sounded like this: 'Athenians made fun of the Thebans because they asserted that their moon was bigger then the one in Athens'. I could be wrong about the identity of the two populations (Athenians and Thebans) but I am quite sure about the general meaning of the sentence. I remember that the passage was considered as one of the first examples of rationalist reasoning. Could you help me (at your best convenienee) in finding my lost quotation? I will be forever grateful. Thank you in advance for your kind attention. Best regards. Piero Meldini From: Willard McCarty Subject: mindless enthusiasms Date: Tue, 01 Jul 1997 13:39:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 230 (230) Danger... strong opinion ahead. If the fate of ideals felt and articulated by the now ruling segment of society has taught us anything, it is that even intelligent enthusiasms tend to become mindless and so dangerous as they spread. Take the notion of the "electronic library" as an example. What happens when this fine idea spreads across the lands to places where the person in charge needs for whatever reason to keep up with what is happening elsewhere and has not the wit to sift fads for their value? Disaster, of course. In the latest TLS (4719, 27 June) J.C. writes in the "NB" column about nice words from the new Minister for the Arts in the U.K., Mark Fisher, who spoke last week at the Library Association Reference Awards, declaring strong support for public libraries, reading, literacy and publishing. In the same week the same Association published appalling statistics about the state of school libraries in England and Wales -- book funds down 33% in Kent and Anglesey, 26% in South Tyneside, and so on. As J.C. notes, paradoxically the first thing to go when library budgets are short is acquisition of new books. Into this situation enters the fever for "that unassailable symbol of progress, information technology". Once people believe (I use this word advisedly) that information access is the point rather than the reading of words and looking at pictures, then one has no choice but to buy the latest gear, and for many there goes the book fund. The main problem here is that computers are VERY BAD at presenting words for the purpose of continuous reading, though they are undoubtedly superior when synchronic access is what one wants. So it is at least arguable that quickly one very powerful way, perhaps the most powerful way of relating to knowledge becomes much more difficult, and then amidst the druggy haze of cant disparaging "linear" ways of presenting knowledge this old technology slides into decline -- or at least becomes very much more expensive, and so increasingly out of reach for those without money. Democratization of knowledge? Tales have circulated, in the august TLS and elsewhere, about destruction of books by those who thought they were no longer necessary. Some of these have been refuted, others not. J.C. for example notes that writer Nicholas Baker is currently suing the San Francisco Public Library for access to records documenting the discarding of 200,000 books. J.C. also quotes, from a recent article in Harper's, Sallie Tisdale's lament of the demise of her local public library in Portland, Oregon. It seems that the noisy activities of entertaining the folks with audio-visual/multimedia gear has made ordinary reading impossible. Isn't it up to us to raise a critical voice against the mindless enthusiasm? Or are we too badly compromised already? I sometimes suspect that pronouncements about the new medium, even from those who are qualified to be scholars, are made by people who have not been inside a library, and actually among the books, in quite some time. (Yes, this is sometimes hard to manage in a busy life, alas, but would appear to be a great occupational hazard for computing humanists.) I've always found that my street-cred among colleagues and students increases with intelligent scepticism. How do we develop the critical attitude? What courses do we put in place, what other disciplines involve, what approaches do we take? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Neil Beagrie Subject: Humanist announcement Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 08:32:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 231 (231) The second edition of the Arts and Humanities Data Service Newsletter is now available from our web site (http://ahds.ac.uk/). In addition to AHDS news items, the current issue focuses on resource discovery with contributions about metadata, about integrating access to diverse on-line collections and catalogues, and about Internet gateways for the humanities. We are also launching a new feature involving case studies written by and for humanities scholars explaining how the creation or use of digital resources has enhanced their research and teaching. Many thanks Neil Beagrie ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ************************************************************************ From: Sarah Subject: Environment 97 Date: Sat, 05 Jul 1997 08:34:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 232 (232) I would like to draw your attention to Environment97, the world's first environmental conference to take place entirely on the Internet, at: www.environment97.org The conference takes a broad look at environmental issues. Papers range from global issues (eg. Climatic change) through environmental philosophy (Can the US be sustained?, Is sustainable development compatible with the free market?) to toolkits and techniques (Life cycle assessment, Environmental impact assessment). All of the information is free of charge, and unlike most international environmental conferences, Environment97 will not add to the problem. A brief overview: ~ 150 technical and general papers ~ Discussion groups for each keynote paper ~ Downloadable images of environmental bad practice ~ Life cycle assessment comparing an internet conference with a real conference ~ Chat bar - talk to your colleagues around the world We look forward to 'meeting' you at environment97 John Duffy Marketing Manager - Environment97 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Project Gutenberg's 26th Anniversary Newsletter Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 17:05:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 233 (233) [deleted quotation]Our email is back up, but our FTP is still iffy. . .see below. 26th Anniversary Edition of the Project Gutenberg Newsletter July 4th 1971 to July 4th 1997: nearly 1,000 Etexts online. We have chosen Howard Pyle's "Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" as our 26th Anniversary edition, and are still working madly on Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian and several English text translations for our 1,000th Etext, which should be released officially on September 1st. This is going to be quite an effort, anyone who has not been in touch with me lately about it, please contact me again. WIRED magazine's July issue listed Project Gutenberg as part of their 40 year timeline of the most important events in an extensive "informed projection" of the causes and effects of the events of the 40 years surrounding the year 2000 in four pages of foldout between pages 122 and 127. The listing for Project Gutenberg is near the top center of the four pages-- this is a very impressive list to be included in. **Blush** [I don't blush that often, but this is impressive! company.] LOST EMAIL! If you haven't heard from me, see below. As announced two weeks ago, Prairienet was down last week to make upgrades, and I have replied to all of the over 1400 of your emails that I received over that period, but I know the fact is that a lot of email is in the bit bucket in the sky, as our sysadmins put it, so if you have not heard from me, a resend will be necessary. . .sorry for the hassle. Our email is now functioning normally but our Prairienet FTP sites are still not working, none of them, so you would have to get the files from alternate sites, listed below. If you are SENDING us files, please use mrcnext right now or trixie, if mrcnext is down. We still need more people with SCANNERS. . .please email our Director of Production, Dianne Bean if a scanner is available to you. We need to find a copy of: Sir D'arcy Thompson's "On Growth and Form" 1917 Cambridge University, or reprint. "Geoffrey F. Pawlicki" Here is a list of a dozen new releases since the last Newsletter: Mon Year Title and Author [# of PG books by the author][filename.ext] ### Jul 1997 Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories, by Cal Stewart[ncjshxxx.xxx] 970 Jul 1997 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte [B#4] [wldflxxx.xxx] 969 Jul 1997 Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #32][chuzzxxx.xxx] 968 Jul 1997 Nicholas Nickleby, by Charles Dickens[Dickens #31][ncklbxxx.xxx] 967 Jul 1997 Maid Marian, by Thomas Love Peacock [maidmxxx.xxx] 966 Jul 1997 The Black Tulip, by Alexandre Dumas[Pere][Dumas#1][tbtlpxxx.xxx] 965 Jul 1997 The Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle[HP#1][2rbnhxxx.xxx] 964 Jul 1997 Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens [Dickens #30] [ldortxxx.xxx] 963 Jul 1997 The Poems of Henry Kendall, by Henry Kendall [phkndxxx.xxx] 962 Jul 1997 Glinda of Oz, by L. Frank Baum [LFB#17] [Oz#14] [12wozxxx.xxx] 961^Z *** You can get the Project Gutenberg books via FTP and the Web: [This site is in Urbana, Illinois, and is quite fast] ftp uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu or ftp 128.174.5.14 login: anonymous password: yourname@your.machine cd pub cd etext cd gutenberg [or just cd /pub/etext/gutenberg/etext97] cd etext97 [96, 95,94, 93, 92, 91 or 90. 70's and 80's are in /etext90] get filename (be sure to set bin, if you get the .zip files) get more files quit get GUTINDEX.96 to see all Project Gutenberg Etexts to date. get GUTINDEX.97 to see current releases. New files in etext97, of course. ftp prairienet.org *** [This is usually the first site they appear in, but is slow] [This site is in Champaign, Illinois] ftp ftp.prairienet.org or ftp 192.17.3.4 username: anonymous password: yourlogin@your.machine.domain [this is your email address where you are] cd pub/providers/gutenberg/etext97 [etc, as above] ls or dir for a listing of files get filename.txt (ascii files) get filename.zip (binary zipped files) be sure to type "binary" before retrieving the .zip files! *** New major site for Eastern United States! For those on the East Coast of the United States we have sailor.gutenberg.org or 198.76.201.198 in Baltimore, MD. This site should provide very fast service for both WWW and FTP service. *** In Europe, please try our site at: Bucharest High School of Computer Science Serving Central and Eastern Europe ftp://ftp.lbi.ro/pub/Books/Gutenberg and a new site up at: http://www.informika.ru -- official server of the Ministry of Education of Russia (the Russian part of the server not equivalent to the English one). http://www.informika.ru/windows/books/gutenb/list.html This is only available on the Russian language side of their system, but is pretty easy to see. Click on the WINDOWS icon at the bottom of the main menu. Then, on the lower left selection [the web names will pop up in English] which is /books. The first one of that list, The Palms Russian Public Library, is Project Gutenberg Etexts in .zip format as mirrored from uiarchive. and our newest: ftp://ftp.pinknet.cz/pub/etext/gutenberg/ in the Czech Republic. *** http://www.mirrors.org.sg/pg in Singapore The Gutenberg archive can also be accessed from Singapore at http://www.sol.com.sg/pg These two addresses reflect the same database in Singapore. and others are starting soon in Japan and Taiwan. *** Project Gutenberg Web Sites can now be reached at: [This site is in Nevada] http://promo.net/pg/ [This is the definitive site for now] ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/gutenberg/pg_home.html http://www.prairienet.org/pg and from Silicon Valley at ftp://cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg and ftp://archive.org/pub/gutenberg/etext/etext97 and etext96/95/94/93/92/91 and etext90, of course. and from Dallas, Texas at ftp://viemeister.com/pub/gutenberg And for you Gopher types: gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu:70/11/Gutenberg ** And our newest sites: ftp://ftp.ihug.co.nz/pub/mirror/gutenberg Adam Moore and Sydney, AU Our Newest Site Is In Taiwan ftp transend.com.tw/mirrors/gutenberg/etext or, with your browser, the URL is: ftp://ftp.transend.com.tw/mirrors/gutenberg/etext Please let me know if you need more information. 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/CMU"] Thanks! Michael To subscribe or unsubscribe to or from the Project Gutenberg Newsletter or change your subscription address to Project Gutenberg's Newsletter: send email to: listproc@prairienet.org say: unsub gutnberg unsub gutvol-l Message MUST be sent from the address you subbed from, of course. To sub from a new address, send message from there: sub gutnberg [yourfirstname] [yourlastname] If you want the volunteers' list sub gutvol-l [yourfirstname] [yourlastname] [That is "gutvol-L" NOT "gutvol-1"] Thanks!! Michael S. Hart Project Gutenberg Executive Director From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Iberamia 98 Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:46:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 234 (234) [deleted quotation]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 in 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 exhibitions, 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 eastern 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 official languages and with the aim to promote and diffuse 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 holiday in Portugal, may be dedicated to visit 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 (e.g. 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 sponsoring the event, and demonstrations of AI industrial products designed in IberoAmerican 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 applications 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 concourse 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). E-mail: iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt WWW: http://www-ia.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ ***************************************************************************** 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 ***************************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------- Joao Balsa da Silva jbalsa@di.fc.ul.pt Dep. Informatica - Fac. Ciencias Lisboa Bloco C5 - Piso 1, Campo Grande, 1700 Lisboa - PORTUGAL Telef: +351 1 757 31 41 - ext 2553 Fax: +351 1 750 00 84 http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jbalsa/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- From: Wendell Piez Subject: wiring the schools (item 2) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 235 (235) NETFUTURE Technology and Human Responsibility -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #52 Copyright 1997 Bridge Communications July 2, 1997 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Editor: Stephen L. Talbott NETFUTURE on the Web: http://www.ora.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/ You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes. CONTENTS: *** Editor's Note *** Quotes and Provocations Laws That Are Made To Be Broken Wiring Our Schools: Here Comes the Backlash Toward the Great Singularity (Part 2) We Are Not Becoming a More Image-based Society *** Alice Outwater on Engineering Our Water Resources (Steve Talbott) Should we leave it to beavers? *** About this newsletter -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Editor's Note (8 lines) I'll be mostly unavailable by email from now until after Labor Day, although I *will* eventually read all mail. I also expect to continue publishing NETFUTURE during the remainder of the summer -- perhaps at somewhat wider intervals. SLT -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Quotes and Provocations (260 lines) Laws That Are Made To Be Broken ------------------------------- Referring to Moore's Law -- which says that computer chip density, and therefore processing power, will double every eighteen months -- Gary Chapman (L.A. Times Syndicate, June 24) wisely points out that This `law' ... is less a law than an expression of how chip manufacturers invest their money. And also, of course, how the rest of us spend *our* money. So we might better have called it "Moore's Resolve," which is at the same time an American Resolve. But it's always nice to believe that our resolves have the objective necessity of natural laws. Of course, even after careful reflection and weighing of societal priorities, we might still want to keep to this particular resolve. But the important thing is to grasp willingly and with both hands the implications of the fact that it is indeed *our* resolve rather than a dictate of physics or fate or economic necessity. Only in making our resolves fully conscious and in accepting responsibility for their many implications can we escape mastery by our multiplying technological servants. Wiring Our Schools: Here Comes the Backlash ------------------------------------------- I suggested several months back that "1997 is very likely to see the first high-profile, tempest-causing note of sanity sounded against the cooption of primary and secondary education by the costs, the time drain, and the general irrelevance of computerized technology. Before long *someone* is going to step forward with an unexpected word of common sense." In fact, many will do so, it's begun, and the storm's preliminary breezes are already kicking up dust. You may have seen the cover article in the July *Atlantic Monthly*. Written by Todd Oppenheimer, it's called "The Computer Delusion," and is prefaced with these words: There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning, yet school districts are cutting programs -- music, art, physical education -- that enrich children's lives to make room for this dubious nostrum, and the Clinton Administration has embraced the goal of "computers in every classroom" with credulous and costly enthusiasm. You may also have seen the little item from Edupage, drawn from the *Washington Times* (June 24), which sounded like it was taken verbatim from Lowell Monke's NETFUTURE pieces: BUY IT AND THEY WILL LEARN More than 2,800 pieces of classroom computers, printers or terminals are broken or neglected in Fairfax County (VA) public schools. A school official says: "The focus of attention was on buying the equipment, and the support of that equipment was not taken into account. It was assumed the current support systems would be able to handle things and that has not proven to be the case." The school board's budget panel chief says the board's decision not to hire additional technicians for this fiscal year was influenced by its budget policy to hire administrators only when absolutely necessary. I've mentioned previously (NF #42) the high-profile conference scheduled for September at Penn State: "Education and Technology -- Asking the Right Questions." Another equally important event, about which I expect to have an announcement soon, will be held in December at Teachers College, Columbia University. These conferences will bring what is, to date, unprecedented critical firepower to bear upon the reigning mania. Given the first substantial notice of the problems by the mainstream press, and given the press's herd instinct for periodic (and profitable) reversals of direction, I expect these conferences will provoke a lot of coverage and controversy. Perhaps most important of all, there is reality. One gets the feeling in talking to at least some educators that they simply cannot restrain their questions any longer, no matter how stifling the surrounding bandwagon mentality. As one school principal recently remarked to me, "I don't want to sound like a Luddite to my board, but we've *got* to slow down long enough to figure out where these computers really belong in the education of the child." And if the backlash is intense, what then? That's almost the only question worth asking, and I don't see a lot of ground for optimism. As a society we've been complaining about television for many years -- we moan and groan about it to the point of tedium -- and yet television's penetration of society, its redefinition of politics, entertainment and culture, continues unabated. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, the computer companies, the telephone companies, charitable foundations -- all will continue making gifts to schools of hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment and software. Who will turn them down? Governments will not have the insight or the guts to change the course they've already set. And perhaps most perniciously: the drive to computerize education is the most convenient distraction imaginable from the persistent shortcomings of the educational process itself. These shortcomings were provoking a sense of national crisis just before the networked computer burst on the scene a few years ago; now that crisis has been forgotten as we indulge our recurrent wish that the right technology will kiss us and make everything okay. In the end, I don't know any other answer than to let families choose their schools in full freedom. We will then see, via a massive and tragic experiment, whether the attempt to cultivate nine-year-old geeks is preferable to the restoration of art, music, and shop classes, the pursuit of a hands-on science of the real world, and a wisely guided experience of the "classroom village." [material deleted] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online items Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 14:06:52 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 236 (236) [deleted quotation]<http://www.guardian.co.uk>. (1) Apple shares sinking, now to their lowest level since 1985. Power Computing (manufacturer of Mac clones) and Educational Access (leading reseller in the U.S. educational market) are both diversifying to handle PCs, and EA is dropping "real" Macs to sell Power Computing clones. (2) Long Now, <http://www.longnow.org/>, is a foundation established to foster long-term responsibility. "CIVILIZATION is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multi-tasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed---some mechanism or myth which encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where 'long-term' is measured at least in centuries." The primary project of the foundation is the Clock Library, whose mechanism is the Millenium Clock. It is based on an idea of Daniel Hillis (who invented massively parallel computing architecture): "When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. Now, thirty years later, they still talk about what will happen by the year 2000. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of the Millennium. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium." Stewart Brand's diagrams are worth the visit. (3) Douglas Rushkoff, "A potted history", about current hysteria concerning the supposed pro-drug contents of the Internet. Why, he asks, does "all this 'pro-drug' information [seem] to travel much faster and wider on the Internet than do anti-drug messages"? "The reasons are simple", he says. "First... the kind of information that spreads most readily on the Internet tends to be counter-cultural and anti-prohibitive. The Internet as an idea, an experience and a complex of hardware, fights censorship and control.... And because the information that is crucial to those who have chosen to eat or smoke illegal plants is not provided by the overground press, it is no wonder that these communities have turned on to the Internet.... Even more significantly, the reason why online culture appears so infused with pro-psychedelic conversations is that today's Internet was, in many ways, an achievement of psychedelic users.... The very conception of the almost hallunicatory realm we call cyberspace required the imaginative capacities of people who were familiar with navigating hallucinatory headspace. This is why so many Silicon Valley forms eschew the employee drug testing of other industries. If high-tech companies weeded out weed users, they'd have few employees left. Instead of reviling the Internet's psychedelic members, we should perhaps thank them...." You get the idea. People I knew used to say that after "the revolution" they'd be the only ones to know how to survive..... (4) Benign intervention. The U.S. government, specifically the White House, has "unveiled its first comprehensive policy statement on the Internet, coming out firmly in favour of a hands-off approach to the new medium." This is known as the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce. In combination with the recent Supreme Court ruling on the infamous Communications Decency Act, it represents a highly significant victory for those who advocate unrestricted (or rather self-regulating) approach to online communications. "Attorney Bruce Ennis, who represented the coalition opposing the [Communications Decency Act] has described the ruling as 'The legal birth certificate of the Internet'." For more information on the Supreme Court decision see, for example, the homepage of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, <http://www.eff.org/>. One wonders, once again, about peer review; is the online medium the place for it? (5) Posting for a Senior Systems Communications Analyst, King's College London, Computing Centre, 25K - 30K pounds sterling, inclusive of the London allowance. E-mail Louisa de Beaufort, . (King's has been known to hire foreigners.) 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: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: microfilm scanning Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 12:52:27 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 237 (237) Those still interested in the possibility to scan (and recognize) texts directly from microfilm, may like to know that here at CISADU we have experimented with good success the following procedure: scan microfilm with Nikon Coolscan II [attention, not a transparency adaptor, but a scanner in full capacity] produce a *.tif file pass the *.tif file to a good OCR. For modern-ish books [Crompton-Roberts] we find "optopus" very good. The equipment costs about US$ 20.000.000, including software (optopus is very expensive), so much less than that used in the Danish State Archives [Marker]. Cordiali saluti! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Subject: Re: 11.0145 mindless enthusiasms Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 238 (238) At 07:52 PM 7/2/97 +0100, you wrote (in the Humanist list): [deleted quotation] To me, your opinion seems mild and mildly expressed. And I agree with it. I'd like to say more, but unfortunately it's late and I have to wake up early. A small point, however. You say that in TLS [deleted quotation] I haven't yet seen this TLS. The writer's name is not Nicholas but Nicholson Baker; using this name and "library" as keywords, you'll find plenty more of interest on the WWW, particularly via the search engine of the SF Chronicle/Examiner website, <http://www.sfgate.com/wais/search/chron-pro.html>. Hope this is of help. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter Evans From: David Green Subject: NINCH-Announce Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 15:35:36 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 239 (239) NINCH Announcement July 8, 1997 D-LIB and AHDS Newsletters Below is a fresh announcement from the British Arts and Humanities Data Service about its second newsletter, available on its website and an older announcement from D-LIB Magazine on its June issue. Apologies for the lacuna in NINCH announcements during my recent absence in the UK and the last week of catching up with pressing business. David Green ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. ARTS & HUMANITIES DATA SERVICE NEWSLETTER 1.2 The second edition of the Newsletter from the Arts and Humanities Data Service for UK universities is now available from our web site <http://ahds.ac.uk/>. In addition to AHDS news items, the current issue focuses on resource discovery with contributions about metadata, about integrating access to diverse on-line collections and catalogues, and about Internet gateways for the humanities. We are also launching a new feature involving case studies written by and for humanities scholars explaining how the creation or use of digital resources has enhanced their research and teaching. ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ************************************************************************ 2. JUNE ISSUE OF D-LIB MAGAZINE The June issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at <http://www.dlib.org>. The UK Office for Library and Information Networking maintains a mirror site for D-Lib Magazine at: <http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/mirrored/lis-journals/dlib/>, and The Australian National University Sunsite also maintains a mirror at <http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/mirrors/dlib>. In addition to our usual collection of notices and announcements, we are pleased to feature the following stories: CONTENTS **Sui Generis Database Protection: Has Its Time Come?** Jonathan Band Jonathan S. Gowdy Morrison & Foerster LLP **From Static to Dynamic Surrogates : Resource Discovery in the Digital Age** Carl Lagoze Cornell University **The 4th Dublin Core Metadata Workshop Report : DC-4, March 3 - 5, 1997, National Library of Australia, Canberra** Stuart Weibel, OCLC Renato Iannella, DSTC Warwick Cathro, National Library of Australia **Paying Their Way : Commercial Digital Libraries for the 21st Century** Innes A. Ferguson Michael J. Wooldridge Zuno Ltd. **Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users : Document Access Control** Henry M. Gladney IBM Almaden Research Center **Multi-Media, Multi-Cultural, and Multi-Lingual Digital Libraries , Or How Do We Exchange Data In 400 Languages?** Christine L. Borgman University of California, Los Angeles **Workshop Report: The Technology of Terms and Conditions** James R. Davis Xerox PARC Judith L. Klavans Columbia University D-Lib Magazine is produced by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative. William Y. Arms, Vice President Amy Friedlander, Editor, D-Lib Magazine From: Mike Fraser Subject: CTI Textual Studies: Bursaries for DRH '97 Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:28:17 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 240 (240) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES '97 CONFERENCE 14 - 17 September 1997 'Bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources for the humanities.' http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bursaries available from CTI Textual Studies As part of our continuing efforts to encourage the use of technology in HE teaching, the CTI Centre for Textual Studies is offering a limited number of bursaries for attendance at the Digital Resources for the Humanities conference. Applications for the bursaries are sought from those involved in UK Higher Education teaching in the Arts and Humanities, and who have an established interest in the use of technology in teaching. This will primarily include HE teaching staff, but specialist IT Support Staff, and Subject Librarians are also welcome to apply. Application is by submission of a brief statement of interest (approximately 250 words) outlining your interest in the use of IT in HE teaching, preferably with some detail of current or planned implementation of IT in teaching. Bursaries cover the cost of registration fees, which includes the full academic programme, lunches and dinners (excluding the Conference Banquet). Accommodation, breakfast, and travel costs are not included. Places are limited to one per institution. Applications, including statement of interest, full contact details (including an email address), and institutional affiliation, should be submitted by Friday August 1st 1997. An online submission form and further details are available at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/bursary.html Alternatively submissions may be sent by email to ctitext@oucs.ox.ac.uk, or by mail to: Sarah Porter CTI Centre for Textual Studies Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel. 01865 283282. Fax. 01865 273275 From: Willard McCarty Subject: mediology Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 20:11:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 241 (241) Those of you who read the TLS will already know that the latest issue, 4918 for 4 July 1997 on Information Technology, has many items of interest for us. Were there world enough and time I'd summarise the lot for you, but all I can manage is to quote from the most important item, Re/gis Debray's review of Dan Sperber's Explaining Culture, "A plague without fleabites: The failure of Dan Sperber's 'epidemic' model to take account of our cultural milieu" (pp. 14f). Those of you whose French is in good condition will be able to read the original article online, in "Travail me/diologique" (a publication of AD.REM, Association pour le De/veloppement de la Recherche en Me/diologie, <http://www.ina.fr/CP/Mediologie/travaux.htm>), and Sperber's very interesting book in the original, La Contagion des ide/es. Sperber's project is in brief, as Debray notes, to develop a naturalist viewpoint on culture. "He aims to close the divide between the natural and human sciences, removing psychology from its myths of interiority and enthralment to ego." He does this by modeling the spread of culture on the transmission of infectious diseases. Debray's review is more of a contribution to the subject in its own right, and it is that aspect of it which I recommend to your attention. Short of reading Sperber, one can get more of a summary of his argument in the TLS review one or two issues back. Where Debray touches on our field is in his remarks on the externalisation of knowledge. These, I take it, could serve as a rough adumbration of the field of mediology, of which he is the founder. Quite a bit of work on externalisation seems to be going on these days. At the recent ALLC/ACH in Kingston, Ontario, for example, Merlin Donald (Queen's) gave a talk on the topic, "Symbolic Technologies: Challenges and Dangers for the Humanities", which is now available online at <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/papers/donald.html>. Such work suggests to me the beginnings of a theoretical basis for humanities computing. Comments on such a rash statement are welcome from Humanists who have already read Debray and are more familiar with the directions of his thinking than I am. In any case, here's a bit of what Debray says in his review article. ----- "The act of transmitting words and symbols and pictures first requires organised matter before organised people. Objective traces have to be accumulated in material memory either by recording (encoding, transcribing, symbolising), gathering or collecting (concentrating, summing, unifying marks), or preserving and reproducing. It is at this cost of effort, this series of externalising operations, that interiority survives beyond the place and moment of its passing. What is called a culture is the survival of a past in a present. Handing down and passing on memory presupposes a social setting and structure anchored in a collective heritage, and in certain procedures of memory-recording. Writing is but one such procedure, developed late in the day (extra-cerebral memory having begun with the tool-making biface hand axes and flint scrapers). Exteriority constituted the interior, and technology gave human beings their sense of time. "We must examine the material genesis of memory itself, if we do not want to go on in a vacuum about disembodied 'memory' -- as does the psychology of faculties restyled 'modules' by Jerry Fodor. To reflect, for example, on geometry and mathematics is to reflect on the history of writing. We have known this since Husserl and Derrida, and the idea was all but advanced by F.M.Cornford in his 1935 essay, 'The Invention of Space'. One cannot speak of the same unified, timeless 'memory' irrespective of its setting down in, and dependence on, either, first, a technology of letters (the linear alphabetic writing that Eric Havelock has studied for what can be called the early period of the Logosphere, coincident with Greek literacy and idols), or second, an analogical technology (of photography, phonography, cinematography, radiophony, etc), or third, the digitalized technology of today. The substrata of transmission modify its functioning and condition the nature of its contents. Passing from one mnemotechnology to the other alters the horizon, the community, the laws of patrimony, the dominant standards of knowledge and learning. The 'within' of mental phenomena cannot possibly be corralled, unless the 'without' of material devices is taken into account. Our regimens of belief, which today tend toward visibility, vary as a function of the techno-material bases of communication, in the same way that psychological individuality varies as a function of group identity and collective beliefs. Ideological support structures and mentalities change no less in accordance with the age of technological reproduction than do works of art.... "A pecularity of homo sapiens... is its irreducibility to the genetic coding of the species. We have a competence that is innate for biologically programmed speech but not for the skill of writing. Writing is a technological prosthesis transmitted in accordance with unpredictable and variable procedures. Precisely because it is technologically conditioned, cultural transmission operates under no biochemical guarantee and remains intrinsically fragile.... unable to benefit from permanence of programmes inscribed in our DNA.... What calls for explaining is the cumulative powers of the inheritance, which is *not* the same thing as the repetitive powers (with variation, of course) of heredity...." ----- Debray's most recent book, translated as Media Manifestos: On the technological transmission of cultural forms, was published last year. See <http://www.amazon.com/> for more exact information. A Web search on "regis debray" turns up a number of interesting items. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: UM Making of America breaks the 1,000 volume barrier Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 19:40:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 242 (242) UM Making of America breaks the 1,000 volume barrier Several hundred new volumes were recently added to the University of Michigan's Making of America site http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/ bringing to the total number of books to 1,402. That's an average of 258 pages per volume, and a total size of 742Mb of searchable text. This represents a significant body of materials for research, 85% of the size of the English Poetry Database, now accessible freely on the Internet. Nearly 200 more monographic titles will be added in the coming months, bringing the size of the monographic portion to nearly 1Gb. The UM Making of America site will soon feature Michigan's first periodical titles in the project. Indexers are currently adding article separators and accurately keyed bibliographic information to the MoA periodicals. Several volumes have been prepared, and material will be added as indexing is completed. By the end of the summer, approximately 250,000 pages of 19c periodicals will be accessible through the project. The UM portion of the project uses a combination of automatically generated OCR with a low level of SGML encoding, using the TEI Guidelines. This strategy provides us with a means by which we can inexpensively build access mechanisms while at the same time building a consistent upgrade path. Volumes begin as lightly encoded materials, with a TEIHeader, body, and page breaks. As funding is found to improve materials in the collection, the OCR is proofed/corrected and the full structure of the volume (e.g., chapters, sections, paragraphs) are encoded. Initial materials are made available in the relatively "raw" form, displaying page images at various resolutions dynamically generated from 600dpi TIFF images. The improved, or "cooked", materials are used to display on-the-fly generated HTML, with links to the same page images for consultation. An announcement and fuller discussion on this capability will be made available late in the summer. We hope that over time resources can be found to improve large numbers of volumes in the MoA collection. Access mechanisms for this collection were developed by the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, a federated organization with funding, staff, and computing resources contributed by the UM's Library, its Information Technology Division, and the Media Union. For more information about DLPS, see http://www.umdl.umich.edu/dlps/about.html. The collection itself was built by the hard work of collection development librarians and Preservation staff. Generous funding was provided by the Mellon Foundation for the original page conversion. A sister site with many significant 19c periodicals has been made available by Cornell University at: http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/ For more information or to provide feedback about the University of Michigan MoA site, please e-mail moa-info@umich.edu. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CMC/98 First Announcement Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 08:57:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 243 (243) [deleted quotation]%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% CMC/98 Second Int'l Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication, Theory and Applications ********* Sponsored by the Universities of Brabant Joint Research Organization (SOBU) and the ACL Special Interest Group in Multimedia (SIGMED) Tilburg, The Netherlands, 28-30 January 1998 ********* FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ********* Following the successful first conference CMC/95 (which has been the basis of a book published soon by Springer Verlag), the Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group at Tilburg University, in collaboration with the Center for Research on User-System Interaction IPO in Eindhoven and the Department of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology, will host the Second International Conference on the theory and applications of Cooperative Multimodal Communication, CMC/98, to take place January 28-30, 1998. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers involved in the design, implementation, and application of forms of cooperative human-computer communication where natural language (typed or spoken) is used in combination with other modalities, such as visual feedback and direct manipulation. TOPICS OF INTEREST ********* The conference will focus on formal, computational, and user aspects of building cooperative multimodal dialogue systems. Papers are sought in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following topics: * cooperativity in multimodal dialogue * metaphors for human-computer interaction * communicative acts in multimodal communication * interacting with visual domain representations * natural language interpretation in a multimodal context * effective use of different media and modalities * formal and computational models of dialogue context * pragmatic concepts in human-computer dialogue * the role of time in multimodal communication * agent-based dialogue architectures * user modelling * approaches to dialogue management SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ********* Authors are asked to submit an extended abstract of their paper of minimally 4 and maximally 7 pages, including keywords and references, by October 1, 1997. Only electronic submission will be possible, in uuencoded compressed Postscript form, to be sent to tijn@win.tue.nl and to kievit@kub.nl (two copies). All extended abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee; authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper. Full papers will have to be submitted in Latex form, so it would seem advisable to use Latex also for the extended abstract. A Latex style file to be used for the full paper will be made available; for details see the CMC/98 Web page. IMPORTANT DATES ********* Submission of extended abstracts: 1 October, 1997 Notification of acceptance: 1 November, 1997 Final papers due: 1 December, 1997 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********* Harry Bunt (Tilburg) (chair) Nicholas Asher (Austin) Norman Badler (Philadelphia) Don Bouwhuis (Eindhoven) Walther von Hahn (Hamburg) Dieter Huber (Mainz) John Lee (Edinburgh) Joseph Mariani (Paris) Jean-Claude Martin (Orsay) Mark Maybury (Bedford) Paul McKevitt (Sheffield) Rob Nederpelt (Eindhoven) Kees van Overveld (Eindhoven) Ray Perrault (Stanford) Donia Scott (Brighton) Jan Treur (Amsterdam) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken) Bonnie Webber (Philadelphia) Kent Wittenburg (Morristown) Henk Zeevat (Amsterdam) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********* Robbert-Jan Beun Tijn Borghuis Harry Bunt Leen Kievit Margriet Verlinden INFORMATION ********* For questions about the program contact Harry Bunt@kub.nl; for issues relating to the submission of abstracts and papers contact tijn@win.tue.nl. For all other matters contact the conference secretariat: Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Group, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. phone: +31 13 466 30 60; fax +31 13 466 31 10; email: denk@kub.nl. Web: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/CMC (soon available) -- ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Bunt@kub.nl WWW: http://tkiwww.kub.nl:2080/tki/Faces/Hb/Hb.html ----------------------------------------------------- From: BRUNI Subject: Re: 11.0148 wiring the schools Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 11:09:34 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 244 (244) In response to the "backlash" against "wiring the schools," I would like to offer the following remarks. The claim that "There is no good evidence that most uses of computers significantly improve teaching and learning" seems like a rather empty assertion. It could easily be argued that "There is no good evidence that most uses of computers *do not* improve teaching and learning." My point is that we need to seek out this "evidence," instead of firing off broad polemics. I think it is unlikely that we will be able to keep Gates and his crew out of the schools. What I think we should do is actively participate: both in learning how to use computer technology and in overseeing how this technology is being used in schools. The worst thing we could do is leave the arena entirely. Because then, the technocrats will be running the show, and the results, I can assure you, will not be to our liking (unless we want our schools to turn into corporate-run "knowledge factories"). The solution that we allow parents to choose the schools that their children would attend (education as a cafeteria menu) does not seem to be a good one. This notion of "choice" will further siphon funds away from city schools. Maybe city kids would not mind being bussed to suburban schools. But, consider what would happen if the decline of the city is accelerated: the cultural loss is too great a price to pay for "choice." For, where else can we actively experience the culture that we are purporting to teach to our children? Surely, not in the suburbs, where culture is almost wholly commodified in the chains of "theme" restaurants, Borders bookstores (who espouse the belief that reading is good, unions bad) and simulated "art-house" movie theatres. John Bruni English Department University of Kansas From: "David L. Gants" Subject: JOB OPENING IN TRANSLATOR TRAINING IN FLENSBURG, GERMANY Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 11:41:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 245 (245) From: Klaus Schubert English text below. Die Fachhochschule Flensburg stellt - vorbehaltlich der Mittelbewilligung - ab sofort zeitlich befristet bis zum 31.01.2000 eine Lehrkraft fuer besondere Aufgaben fuer den Studiengang Technikuebersetzen zur Unterstuetzung des wiedergewaehlten Prorektors im Bereich der Lehre ein. Die Lehrgebiete umfassen Sprachkompetenz Englisch, Technisches Englisch, Technisches uebersetzen Deutsch-Englisch, Uebersetzungslehre. Die Ausschreibung richtet sich ausschliesslich an englische Muttersprachler/innen mit wissenschaftlichem Abschluss in einem einschlaegigen Fach. Verg=FCtung: bis BAT IIa. ******* On condition that funding is approved, the Fachhochschule Flensburg (Flensburg Polytechnic) invites applications for the post of Assistant Lecturer in the four-year study programme in Technical Translation. The post is for a limited period until 31.01.2000. =20 The successful applicant will be required to teach general English language competence with special reference to translation, technical English, technical translation German-English, translation theory. The postholder must be a native speaker of English and holder of an academic degree in a relevant subject. ******* AUSKUNFT erbitten Sie wegen der Urlaubszeit am besten parallel beiden Genannten. INQUIRIES should during the holiday period be directed to both persons named below in parallel. Prof. Dr. Brian J. Careless Tel. +49 (4 61) 8 05-2 01 Fax +49 (4 61) 8 05-3 00=20 Prof. Dr. Peter Baumgartner Tel. +49 (4 61) 1 44 97-15 Fax +49 (4 61) 2 11 25 From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: WordCruncher for Windows Beta Software Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 14:01:30 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 246 (246) WordCruncher has at times "lurked," at other times merely been "sighted," and has occasionally even played a "leading role" on the Humanities Computing stage. We are pleased to announce that WordCruncher has new life. WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. was formed in late 1996. Many list members know that WordCruncher for Windows, developed on the Brigham Young University campus, has been subject to the infirmities that academic software is occasionally heir to. We are working to change all that, and on May 1, 1997, moved the WordCruncher development team under a new roof. Our objectives include: 1) Industrializing the software -- can it become the "Son of TACT, Daughter of OCP" that Willard has mentioned? We think so, and perhaps even more. 2) Create an Internet-accessible library, http://www.wordcruncher.com, that is chock full of WordCruncher-compatible books. We now have approximately 500-600 titles and are adding 50 to 100 new ones per week. NOTE: We asked list members for feedback on an earlier version of the Library. Based on your wise advice, counsel and criticism, it has been changed and we hope improved. Many thanks! Please feel free to make more suggestions. 3) Create a publishing/distribution/sales model that makes it attractive for others to create WordCruncher-compatible books and distribute them via the i-Library, CD-ROM or other venues. We invite interested Humanists to participate in WordCruncher's beta testing program. If you have an application that you would like to try out with WordCruncher, and are willing to provide us with feedback, insight, suggestions (for applications, improvements, etc.), constructive criticism, etc., please send an e-mail to beta@wordcruncher.com and tell us a little about you and your application ... we'll send you the ftp site address, a password and username, instructions, etc. By the way, the "View" element of this beta version can now search not only a local WordCruncher text, but also an Internet-based WordCruncher Library -- we have a few texts up for on-line searching, and will be adding our entire collection by the end of July. Please let me know if I can provide further information. Many thanks. Best, James Johnston WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. johnston@wordcruncher.com http://www.wordcruncher.com ========================= Nothing would be done at all, If a man waited to do it so well, That no one could find fault with it. ========================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA Price Cut Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:59:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 247 (247) [deleted quotation] [ We apologise for the duplicate posting of this announcement ] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News ===================================== *** PRICE CUTS ON THE M2VTS DATABASE *** Following all the requests regarding the speech database M2VTS (ref. ELRA-S0021), we are happy to announce a substantial price reduction for this database. The new prices have been set in agreement with the M2VTS provider. For ELRA members => 250 ECU (used to be 900!) For Non members => 500 ECU (used to be 1490!) The database is available for research purposes only. Please note that the entire catalogue of ELRA resources can be found on the ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html - please follow the links - ********************************************* + For further information, please contact: + + ELRA/ELDA + + 87, Avenue d'Italie + + 75013 PARIS + + Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 + + Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 + + E-mail: info-elra@calva.net + + http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html + ********************************************* From: David Green Subject: Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:00:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 248 (248) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 10, 1997 DEMONSTRATION OF HELIOS at NARA, Tues July 15 On Tuesday, July 15, 1997, Mr. Edward A. Galloway of the Heinz Electronic Library Interactive Online System (HELIOS), will present a demonstration and overview of HELIOS to the National Archives Assembly and to the archival, library and historical community of the Washington, D.C. area, at the National Archives Building in College Park, Maryland. Mr. Galloway will begin his presentation at 10:45 a.m. The HELIOS Project will convert one million pages of the congressional papers of the late Senator John Heinz (R-PA) into digital format and provide access to these papers through innovative information retrieval software developed at Carnegie Mellon University. This digital archive will be available through the Internet. For further information concerning HELIOS, please see: <http://www.library.cmu.edu/Guide/Heinz/>. All interested individuals are encouraged to attend this presentation. There are no preregistration requirements, and public transportation is available to the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. For further information, please contact: Jim Cassedy National Archives Assembly Center for Electronic RecordsNational Archives and Records Administration 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740 (301) 713-6630 james.cassedy@arch2.nara.gov From: David Green Subject: Alert on NEH Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:00:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 249 (249) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 10, 1997 NEA-NEH Merger Proposal Apologies for cross-posting and to those who don't feel an urgency on this issue, but I think this report from the National Humanities Alliance is important enough to distribute on the NINCH-Announce list. David Green [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: Update on House, NEA & NEH Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:00:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 250 (250) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 10, 1997 UPDATE ON NEA-NEH 10 July 1997 [deleted quotation] From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online bits Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:20:34 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 251 (251) [deleted quotation] (1) Photos from Mars. See the list of mirror sites at <http://mpfwww.jpl.nasa.gov/>. (2) Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, <http://www.mk.net/~dt/Bibliomania/Reference/PhraseAndFable/>. (3) Richard Colbey, British barrister, on copyright, "Chapter and verse". (4) Fractals: Fractint deep-zooming at <http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/dz.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/humanities/cch/wlm/ From: Michael Guest Subject: Jesus in Japan? (Cross-post) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:33:29 +0900 (JST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 252 (252) [The following will be out of context for Humanist readers but is interesting nonetheless. Some of the more valuable moments in Humanist's long conversation have been when cultures have unexpectedly mixed or mixed in unexpected ways, as when one moves to a "foreign" country and sees the exotic or quaint suddenly become the stuff of (extra)ordinary life. But I ramble... --WM] I would have answered the baroque criticisms of myself, Foucault, the number 42 and everything a couple of weeks ago [in that other! list], except that the moderators and I agreed in spirit that my submitted response may have also gotten off the track in places. Thus withdrawn and lurking, I thoroughly enjoyed those submitted instances of Japanese commercial appropriation of totally alien religious iconography. I wanted to point out in the first place that an image of someone "resembling Jesus" crucified, seen from a Tokyo train [advertizing a pop cd], cannot reasonably have been a picture of a slender blue eyed caucasian with long silky brown hair and pink cheeks such as we are used to seeing in churches, for instance, since Jesus was more likely a stocky dark-skinned fellow from the Middle East. We from the West sometimes forget our own history of appropriation and perversion of religious imagery perhaps. Indeed, many people (particularly the young) mistakenly believe that Jesus looked in reality as he is depicted in such Christian icons. So I cannot see Japanese commercial appropriation of Western appropriated and perverted symbolism as an instance of racism, to say the least. I, like another reader, found the Last Supper Drunken Salaryman motif ("Thank God it's over!") as rather amusing. And I have two more to offer: - Santa crucified in a department store. Perhaps this says something about how Christian celebrations are received here? And perhaps it's not so far from the truth of perceptions of Christianity even in some western countries? - "Beer loves you" A brand new commercial slogan, drawn I believe from a well known Christian (from my way of thinking, unfounded) assertion. What a wonderful notion! I take such findings as worthy both of my humour and study. I see them as indices to understanding, across barriers of reason, dogma and culture. They are socio-cultural phenomena and data about Japan. This is not a Christian country and it should not be judged according to Christian standards, nor necessarily any other extraneous standards. Dr Michael Guest Assoc/prof. Faculty of Information Shizuoka University guest@ia.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp From: Haradda@aol.com Subject: Re: 11.0154 wiring the schools Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:00:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 253 (253) I don't have a problem with Gates or anyone else wiring the schools. I think that it is too little and way too late and way too expensive. The local schools in my area are still using Apple II's and IBM 8088's in their "computer literacy" classes. They will never catch up to the resources that I provide my children in my home. And quite a few other families in my area provide for their children. The schools don't even use the resources that they have very well. I have been giving CDroms such as those put out by Project Gutenberg for years to the public schools which my children attend. I was told just recently that they don't want me to anymore at the Middle School because they only have one computer with a CDrom player in the whole library and the librarian uses that for cataloging. I offered to donate a couple of 6x CDrom drives and have them installed to correct the situation. I was turned down. (The library has 4 386 machines) The reason that I was given was that they were trying to get the school board to give them better equipment which they couldn't do it I kept donating equipment. They killed the music programs in the elementary school a couple of years ago and now it is starting to effect the Middle School and the High School music programs. I expect that they will be cutting them soon. I have been supplementing my children's music, art, math and recreational education more and more each year. Which is as it should be. They are my children and I want the best that I can do for them. The time is swiftly coming where I can see that any benefits they can get from public education will be very minor. The cities are already in decline and have been so for all my lifetime. I don't see anything that is going to stop it. If anything it is accelerating. But there is more to life than than restaurants, bookstores and art movie houses. I really like the Barnes and Noble bookstores (We don't have Borders in my area). I don't find unionization to be a particular benefit to me. From: Mick Doherty Subject: Web Specs? Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:48:09 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 254 (254) Humanist colleagues, My supervisor has asked me to start collecting ideas for and authoring a draft of what he is calling "Internet Guidelines" for the CVB here. Some of the kinds of things he is looking for are (his specific examples): *The first screen of a site or subsite should take no longer than X seconds to load given Y speed modem *No single node in the website should scroll any more than X screens given Y monitor size and standard default settings in Z browser ... Etc. I fully realize that these kinds of specs are hard to come by given the lack of control authors have over the user-end interface and/or difficulties with distributed publication. I am *not* asking you to (necessarily) debate the actual specs, or the widsdom of collecting them. I am wondering if you know of any place(s) that have made avaialble these kinds of specs, or guidelines thereof. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! Mick Doherty Internet Editor Dallas Convention & Visitor's Bureau From: Pat Ensor Subject: PACS Review, v. 8, n. 2 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:56:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 255 (255) The Public-Access Computer Systems Review Volume 8, Number 2 (1997) ISSN 1048-6542 ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMMUNICATIONS Bruce Morgan, Is the Journal as We Know It an Article of Faith? An Open Letter to the Faculty The Dean of Libraries of Montana State University explains his conclusion that "the specialized paper-based journal no longer is effective in the wide or timely dissemination of scholarship." He notes, "We need to explore how we might achieve scholarly communication that is more effective and that will still adhere to the academic values (well-thought-out, well-written, well-researched, well-documented articles) that we have always deemed important." He makes unique use of Thomas Kuhn's ideas about scientific revolutions and paradigm shifts to call for a move from paper to electronic scholarly journals. o HTML file World Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n2/mort8n2.html> o ASCII file World Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n2/morton.8n2> COLUMNS Casting the Net Priscilla Caplan, Will the Real Internet Please Stand Up? NGI, Internet2, IPv6, IPng--who can make sense out of it any more? Priscilla Caplan untangles the web of current Internet initiatives, relating what's what, what's new, what's old, and who's doing what. She also provides a look at what difference this makes to Internet users. o HTML file World Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n2/capl8n2.html> o ASCII file World Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n2/caplan.8n2> ----------------------------------------------------------------- Editors-in-Chief Pat Ensor and Thomas C. Wilson University Libraries University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-2091 (713) 743-9762 and 743-9673 plensor@uh.edu and twilson@uh.edu Associate Editor, Columns Leslie Dillon, OCLC Associate Editor, Communications Andrea Bean Hough, University of Houston Associate Editor, Production Ann Thornton, New York Public Library Associate Editor, Technical Support Robert Spragg, University of Houston Editorial Board Ralph Alberico, University of Texas, Austin George H. Brett II Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago Steve Cisler, Apple Computer, Inc. Walt Crawford, Research Libraries Group Lorcan Dempsey, University of Bath Nancy Evans, Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Stephen P. Harter, Indiana University Charles Hildreth, University of Oklahoma Ronald Larsen, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Clifford Lynch, Division of Library Automation, University of California David R. McDonald, Tufts University R. Bruce Miller, University of California, San Diego Ann Okerson, Yale University Mike Ridley, University of Guelph Peggy Seiden, Skidmore College Peter Stone John E. Ulmschneider, North Carolina State University List Server Technical Support List server technical support is provided by the Information Technology Division, University of Houston. Tahereh Jafari is the primary support person. Publication Information The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is an electronic journal that is distributed on the Internet. It is published on an irregular basis by the University Libraries, University of Houston. There is no subscription fee. To subscribe, send an email message to listserv@listserv.uh.edu that says: SUBSCRIBE PACS-P First Name Last Name. Circulation PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU: 10,912 subscribers in 72 countries (PACS-L is estimated to have 10,000 additional USENET subscribers). PACS-P@LISTSERV.UH.EDU: 3,848 subscribers in 68 countries. Electronic Distribution Each article is initially distributed in both ASCII and HTML formats. ASCII files are paginated. HTML files are not paginated. HTML files may have linked GIF files. HTML files may have internal links, external links, or both. The editors do not maintain external links. ASCII and HTML files are available from the following server: o World Wide Web: http://info.lib.uh.edu/pacsrev.html> In consultation with article authors, the editors determine whether an article is updated, whether both ASCII and HTML files are created for updated articles, and whether all prior versions of an article are retained. Print Distribution The first five volumes of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review are also available in book form from the American Library Association's Library and Information Technology Association (LITA). Copyright The Public-Access Computer Systems Review is Copyright (C) 1997 by the University Libraries, University of Houston. All Rights Reserved. Copying is permitted for noncommercial, educational use by academic computer centers, individual scholars, and libraries. This message must appear on all copied material. All commercial use requires permission. From: David Green Subject: Digital Object Identifier System Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:54:48 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 256 (256) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 11, 1997 PRESENTATION OF PUBLISHERS' DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER--August 11, 1997 Below is an announcement by the Defense Technical Information Center of a presentation to be made in the Washington DC area on August 11, 1997, on the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). This mechanism for giving a digital identification to each piece of commercial digital publication is being developed with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and is expected to be adopted by international publishing as a means of enabling on-line commerce. For more information on the DOI, see <http://www.doi.org/>. David Green *********************************************************** Defense Technical Information Center presents The Association of American Publishers Digital Object Identifier System Managing Electronic Content The Association of American Publishers has designed a system for marking digital objects in order to facilitate electronic commerce and enable copyright management systems. That system, called the Digital Object Identifier System, is now under development, in partnership with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, and is expected to be live on a limited scale in August 1997. Learn how DOIs might be used in practice by not only publishers but related organizations involved with Abstracting and Indexing, information aggregators, subscription agents, and libraries. The DOI, a prototype for managing content, is regarded by the publishing industry as a key component of safe and successful commercial use of the Internet and other networked environments. DOI, a type of "electronic license plate" for "digital content" traveling the information superhighway, will facilitate commerce in cyberspace by: 1) allowing users to locate digital materials and arrange for their purchase 2) helping publishers manage and market their digital products. Speakers: Carol Risher, Vice President for Copyright and New Technology for the Association of American Publishers (AAP), coordinates copyright enforcement activities, including strategic litigation, in the U.S. and overseas. She assists AAP members in their efforts to move from print-based products to electronic products. She is responsible for monitoring new technologies that affect publishers' markets and working with AAP members to promote development of pre-competitive standards such as the Digital Object Identifier that facilitate Internet commerce. Larry Lannom is with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) and is responsible for the Handle System and Repository. Where: HQ Complex Building Auditorium 8725 John J. Kingman Rd, Ft Belvoir, VA http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/directions.html When: August 11, 1997 Time: 1:30-3:30 pm R.S.V.P. to Julia Foscue, email: jfoscue@dtic.mil tel: (703) 767-8236 =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: lena gan Subject: Gather info Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:11:57 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 257 (257) Hi! I'm Ms. Lena. Currently I'm teaching secondary students on the morale subjects. Need to seek info & interact with educators who have been teaching this subject. Thanks From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:58:59 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 258 (258) Thank you to Willard McCarty for making excerpts from Re/gis Debray's TLS review of Dan Sperber's "Explaining Culture" available to us. Whoever once had to move his or her private library, documentation, and whatever accumulates around a serious scholar over time knows my current trouble. Nevertheless I would like to share a quote from a brief text that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz wrote exactly 300 years ago, as a thanks to Willard McCarty and a bow of reverence to the TLS. "What is called a culture is the survival of a past in the present," Re/gis Debray writes in summary of Dan Sperber's argumentation. Isn't that quite an outdated understanding that can well be situated in the 19th century (Tylor), but is inappropriate in the third millenium and quite surprisingly stands in contrast to the first origins of the term ? Read what Leibniz had to say in 1696: "Though many substances may have reached great perfection, those parts that still rest asleep in the abysses of things -- because of the infinite divisibility of the continuum -- need to be awakened and led to something greater and better, in one word: to a better culture. As a consequence, progress will never reach an end." (Translated from Herbert Herring's German translation of the original Latin text without access to my English dictionaries). This is a memorable statement by the founder of the Academy of Sciences of a country that today boasts of 650 000 unemployed academics. Funny also to read such a statement when you are leaving town because your kids do not receive adequate teaching at school, because the teachers do not consider it necessary to invest any effort into teaching once they have won a secure lifetime employment as "civil servants." Wiring up schools won't help; moving places is still the solution ? Kind regards Dr. Hartmut Krech NEW ADDRESS: Postfach 1430 Postfach D-27734 Delmenhorst D-28215 Bremen GERMANY GERMANY Ph/Fx ++49-4221-538 36 Ph/Fx ++49-421-355 755 eMail kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de eMail kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 11.0145 mindless enthusiasms Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 22:00:21 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 259 (259) If one may make some mild observations about this matter...? It seems to me that people are inclined to view and judge serious matters about values and their support in an either/or manner. I have always myself plumped for both/and. [If I recall the first time I read of such a discussion it was J C Powys' work on RABELAIS, and I was a junion in college, aged 18+, in 1948-49. He also used the term "multiverse" to describe the world of Rabelais' imagination.] What happens is that people fail to see that we are terribly rich in the West, but somehow money for the greater glory of culture and civilization is always lacking. Well, the bulk of taxes is paid by most people who cannot afford to support books, say, and wouldnt wish to, for any number of reasons, serious and trivial, fatigue, ignorance, television and ill-education. But then, c & c are made by elites, and high civilization is not what our resentful demos respect or wish. IN this century all the icons and statutes and gods are pulled down. Le petit ressentiment des petites. I say this as the son of workingclass people, raised in the Great Depression. But if we look about, we can hear all of Caliban redux: you gave me words (books, reading) and my profit on't is to curse. So literacy, the great goal of mass education from the High Victorians on, means one can read the comics, etc. All this should be obvious to all of us "serious" minded folks. Then, there is the specialization of fragmented cultures, something CP Snow mentioned an eon ago. Then, there is the an-estheticization of reading as something other, or more than utilitarian. Matthew Arnold wanted as did Huxley, all things to be read and available from the lowest to the highest. But my own Theory is that we are watching what I call the Greshaming of Culture and Civilization. The hallmark of it is also noticed in the way those who will not, not those who can not, hate those who will and can. See what has happened to music and ears and listening, concomitantly with the vast archival availability of treasuries of music from every where and every time easily to be had. The question is large. ONe wonders how it is that literary and culture works of whatever kind are printed in such teeny numbers in the UK, as one hears, and the libraries do not buy and cannot supply, or will not, all needs. And yet the UK is not as p;oor as it was 15 years ago! One could go on and on. But as Falstaff, the Old Fart [sic] remarked when he saw the new puritanism aiming in his direction, They hate us youth! Who are the "they" in our situation? Mass society? Too simplistic, but there. And then, why should there be more than the 60,000 "real readers" that Philip Roth remarked last year left in the USA. Is 60,000 too small a number in a population of 275 millions? Perhaps. How many "real readers" were they ever at one time? 60,000 is perhaps too small a number to support him properly, may be what he also meant. Tant pis Pour lui, pour nous. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Judith Altreuter Subject: Re: wiring the schools Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 15:21:54 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 260 (260) I can reply to this thread on wiring schools as a parent: I have a 7-year-old entering 2nd grade. Three years ago I did a lot of research on New York City elementary schools (public and private) in my area and one of the things I looked for was how they used computers. Most schools had them, some had them in the classrooms, some had computer labs. Most schools emphasized that in the younger grades social interaction is much more important than computer skills. The school I chose uses computers in the classroom, but in a very limited way in the lower grades. When I toured this school I was impressed with their use of computers with the 4th graders: they used the internet to be "penpals" with a school in Maine. The kids were able to talk to each other about banal features of their schools. One day the kids in Maine had a moose in their playground. The kids in here in New York City amazed the Mainers when they described their playground on the roof of the school. It seems to me that this kind of spontaneous interchange is a great use of computers for kids. In kindergarten there was one low-grade computer that was rarely used. In 1st grade some children used it for writing stories that they "published," they would make graphs in math and play games on them (3 Macs) before school started. Many children find writing on a computer much easier than handwriting them, so that the opportunity to use a computer helps them learn to write and read. While some schools are obsessed with how many computers they have, most parents I know are not and value the teachers more than the equipment. I believe wiring schools is a useful goal, as long as the uses for those wires are thought through carefully. Judith Altreuter Production Director, MLA From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Re: 11.0162 wiring the schools Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:38:07 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 261 (261) [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] I am not sure where Mr. Haradda lives, but we have a somewhat different situation where I live. In Utah, every High School has a T1 connection to the Internet. In the Alpine School District, there are a total of approximately 2,500 computers in the high schools alone (with an additional 5,400 in Jr. High and Elementary) -- 90% are networked. James Johnston WordCruncher Publishing Technologies, Inc. http://www.wordcruncher.com johnston@wordcruncher.com From: "Lissa Lord " Subject: International Writing Program Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 13:54:10 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 262 (262) http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/ INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM THE INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM (IWP) at THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA and THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES have joined talents to create The IWP Homepage. The impetus for this project is a shared desire to provide access to selected original texts of the participant IWP authors. The IWP Homepage also details information about the program itself as well as research information on writing. The library is including these texts as part of an initiative to provide broad access to original texts in electronic format. The International Writing Program is including the writings as an integral part of their new Homepage. Also included in this collaborative project: IWP Annual Report; The Gallery (photos of participants); Roster of Writers; Author Biographies; Staff Profiles; Program Description; the program's literary magazine, "100 Words"; Internet links to writing programs including Writing at the University of Iowa. The page includes a selection of writings from the 35 participant authors in the 1996 International Writing Program. Also contained in the homepage collection are the writings of IWP Director, Clark Blaise and Rowena Torrevillas, the IWP Program Associate. Selected works of participating international writers from this renowned writing program can now be viewed by students and scholars from anywhere in the world. Information concerning this project can be obtained by visiting the IWP Homepage <http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp> or by contacting IWP Program Associate, Rowena Torrevillas (rowena-torrevillas@uiowa.edu) or IRIS Team Leader for Research Services Librarian, Lissa Lord (lissa-lord@uiowa.edu). From: Willard McCarty Subject: information transfer Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:18:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 263 (263) A web page for a U.K. publisher, under the category "Books", begins with the insightful sentence, "Books are practical, effective and user friendly means of information transfer...." This reminds me of an incident several years ago in a hallway just outside my office, in an American college known for such foolishness. In this college, revolutionary for those days, you could check out all sorts of electronic gear from the library. An assemblage of such things intended to work together to teach you something, was known as a "self-paced learning unit". No kidding. One day I was standing outside my office and spied a student walking toward me with a book in her hand and a look of wonderment on her face. She stopped and remarked with astonishment, "You know, the book was the first self-paced learning unit!" What a discovery. As I think I said earlier, as soon as we accept such terms ("means of information transfer", "self-paced learning unit") as an adequate description of the codex, we have assigned it to the dustbin of progress. Is there a cure for the disease? 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: Tzvee Zahavy Subject: Wiring the schools Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 21:42:39 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 264 (264) By all means - wire all the schools in the US if the aim is to kill the Internet. Logical? See if you follow this line of deductive inquiry: - Apple is the leading computer in schools (1980s) - Children cannot wait to escape the utter irrelevance of schools - Apple now has about 3% of the PC market So one might argue, keep the Internet out of schools and watch it flourish. Dr. Tzvee Zahavy Home: zahavy@andromeda.rutgers.edu http://newark.rutgers.edu/~zahavy/tzvee.html Office: zahavy@jcn18.com; http://www.jcn18.com/ Editor-in-Chief, The Jewish Communication Network From: Patricia Galloway Subject: school-wirings Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 08:24:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 265 (265) A propos of Mr. Johnston's amazing revelations about the wiring of Utah schools: is this a result of Novell's contributions? Maybe we in Mississippi could learn how to persuade LDDS-Worldnet to do the same for us, as we also have a large isolated rural population! Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Re: 11.0168 wiring the schools Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 05:07:19 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 266 (266) [deleted quotation] I am afraid I disagree ... while it may be satisfying to poke the bureaucratic eye, IMHO Apple's business troubles stem from one disastrous decision ... they maintained a proprietary hardware architecture, and did not provide an opportunity for other businesses to join in the party ... Intel didn't. The Apple operating system (e.g. user interface -- check the Mac vs WinEver) actually won ... unfortunately for Cupertino, some guy in Redmond copied and promoted it more successfully. As far as children wanting to escape the utter irrelavance of the schools .... I am afraid that higher education carries the greatest guilt ... undergraduates are considered a necessary evil, secondary education gets a cursory glance, most of the technology in education graduates go to business rather than to the educational trenches ... try to talk to computing humanists about taking what they are learning and moving it into the classroom, and the reactions run from an open sneer to a polite dismissal. I'll save my Colleges of Education rant for another day! -------------- [deleted quotation] No, not really ... it is due to a technology initiative from the Utah Legislature ... our state is in reasonably good financial shape, and they put about $60M into technology for the schools. Having said that, one could certainly argue the case that because Novell and WordPerfect (and 2,000 or so other high-tech companies) are in the state, there is a certain awareness that technology is important, but the initiative is the result of cooperation between the Governor's Office, the Utah Department of Education and the Legislature ... JWJ From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: "self-paced learning unit" Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:55:28 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 267 (267) [deleted quotation] Funny you should say that today of all days. I heard on my radio this morning that, as well as being St Swithin's day which determines the weather for the rest of the summer, today had been designated "Plain English Day", on which we are told we should eschew all verbiage and gobbledegook. We even heard one of our Professors of English, Lisa Jardine, lending her support to the cause. Best wishes to her and all plain speakers, I say... Francois C-R From: Francois Lachance Subject: accepting regeneration Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:12:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 268 (268) Willard, Information transfers, if I recall correctly involve labour and many if not most information transfers are labours of love. And if I read my Ovid correctly love affairs are affairs of resistence. And if I am permitted an observation on the nexus of reading and writing, information transfers like many an entropic whirl are also information transformations. Now "acceptance" and "assignation" may well be paired in many a discourse on the future of codex technology. However I wonder if in the following about the difference between their logical and syntactic ordering: [deleted quotation] The cure may be homeopathic and Erasmian in nature. The De copia offers readers and potential writers a wonderful set of exercises in variation. It has been suggested that the generation of lists of synomyms for the term "books" is an excellent rhetorical exercise. Such exercises are of course quite valuable in demonstrating the tenuousness of the link between ways of speaking and affective states. The cherished word may be anathema. The communicative power of a pedagogical statement may miss its mark. I am lead to ask about the nature of the codex in a situation where there is a failure of (complete) transfer. Can an "adequate description of the codex" account for the non-communicative non-pedagogical aspects of the object? Do such aspects even exist? Perhaps the discipline of computing in the humanities and the field of transcoding studies remind us of the difficulty of disentangling the tripartite functions of delighting, teaching and moving. Rhetorically but adaquately quizzical, -- Francois From: Carl Vogel Subject: Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:48:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 269 (269) [deleted quotation] I fail to perceive what the disease is. Was the questiion itself an example of its symptoms? Or does it have specific relation to creative application of terms from other fields to just books? From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ALLC/ACH '98: Call for Papers in Humanities Computing Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 09:26:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 270 (270) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH '98 "VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES" JULY 5-10, 1998 LAJOS KOSSUTH UNIVERSITY, DEBRECEN, HUNGARY ALLC/ACH '98 invites submissions of between 1000 and 2000 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as the point of intersection between computing methodologies and problems in humanities research and teaching, encompassing both traditional and new, and discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary, approaches. Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, creative writing, and cultural studies. We particularly encourage submissions from non-text-based areas and from library science, both of which have been under-represented in the past. Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital resources (what has been characterised as 'extending the scale and breadth of scholarly evidence') and the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering (including neural networks and image processing). We are interested in receiving - technical proposals that focus on new computational tools and approaches to research in humanities disciplines; - proposals that focus on traditional applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including (but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; - proposals which present and discuss applications of computing methodologies and tools to audio and visual materials; - proposals that focus on significant issues of creation, representation, discovery, delivery, management and preservation of digital and other resources relevant to the humanities; - proposals that either present or evaluate software applications and uses for humanities-based teaching; - proposals dealing with the role of humanities computing in undergraduate and graduate training and institutional support for humanities computing. PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those describing finished research may be submitted as papers. Ongoing dissertation research may be submitted as poster proposals. See below for details. Students and young scholars should also read the note on bursaries later in this document. Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to faciliate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in a language other than English are submitted with an English translation. The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 20 NOVEMBER 1997. The deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 31 JANUARY 1998. FORMAT OF PROPOSALS Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software demonstrations, and sessions. The type of submission should be specified in the header of the proposal. PAPERS Proposals for papers (1000-2000 words) should describe completed research which has given rise to substantial results. Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Proposals should describe original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) are designed to give researchers an opportunity to present late-breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is provided with about 2 square metres of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but a block of time separate from paper sessions will be assigned when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The format for proposals for posters and software demonstrations are the same as those for regular papers. Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indicate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted. SESSIONS Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000-1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. All submissions should begin with the following information: TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, session or software demonstration. TITLE: title of paper or session KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session If submitting a session proposal, give the following information for each paper: TITLE: title of paper KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author If submitting a paper proposal, give the following information: AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author PHONE NUMBER: of first author Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1 files. Where necessary, a header should indicate the combinations of ASCII characters used to represent characters outside the ASCII or ISO 8859/1 range. Notes, if needed, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. Submissions should be sent to: submit-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu with the subject line " Submission for ALLCACH98". Those who submit abstracts containing graphics and tables are asked to fax a copy of the abstract in addition to the one sent electronically. Faxes should be sent to: +36 52 418 733 The cover page should reproduce the header from the electronic submission. EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), an Internet connected computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate needing NTSC, please note this information in your proposal. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizers no later than January 31, 1998. DEADLINES November 20, 1997: Submission of proposals for papers, posters and sessions and software demonstrations February 15, 1998: Notification of acceptance PUBLICATION A book of abstracts will be provided to all conference participants. In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page at <http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98> An announcement in regard to publication of full papers will be made in due course. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprising: Espen Ore, University of Bergen (Chair), John Dawson, University of Cambridge, Lisa Lena Opas, University of Joensuu, Thomas Rommel, University of Tuebingen, Jim Coleman, Stanford University, Robin Cover, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Julia Flanders, Brown University, John Unsworth, University of Virginia LOCAL ORGANIZER Laszlo Hunyadi Lajos Kossuth University hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu BURSARIES As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing will award up to five bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who have papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Applicants must be members of ALLC. The ALLC will make the awards after the Program Committee have decided which proposals are to be accepted. Recipients will be notified as soon as possible thereafter. A participant in a multi-author paper is eligible for an award, but it must be clear that s/he is contributing substantially to the paper. Applications must be made to the conference organizer. The deadline for receipt of applications is the same as for submission of papers, i.e. November 20, 1997. Full details of the bursary scheme, and an on-line application form will be available from the coference web page. LOCATION Debrecen is the second largest city in Hungary with a population of 220 thousand. Located 220 km from Budapest and 38 km from Hortobagy, the Puszta, it is the cultural center of the eastern part of the country. It can be reached by train from all major cities of Hungary and there are direct train connections from Vienna and Frankfurt am Main as well. There are daily flights to Budapest from all European capitals as well as New York, Toronto and Tokyo. As an option, one can take a boat trip from Vienna to Budapest. The campus of the university is located in the city forest which can be reached by local transport. Accommodation will be offered in the new student residence hall. The cost of accommodation will be on the order of 25 USD (single occupancy) and 15 USD (double occupancy). In addition, a block of rooms have been reserved in the Aranybika Grand Hotel and the Hotel Thermal, both within 10-20 minutes walk from the campus. It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order of 150 USD for members. This will include the printed abstracts and morning and afternoon refreshment breaks. Other cultural events in Debrecen just preceding or following the conference will include the Bela Bartok International Choral Competition and the Bridge Fair of Hortobagy and Horse-Show. Detailed information on the conference, the university, and the city may be obtained at the conference web page: <http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98> FURTHER INFORMATION... Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the format or content of papers should be addressed to: ALLC/ACH '98 Center for Applied Linguistics Lajos Kossuth University Debrecen POB 24 Hungary H-4010 Tel.: +36 52 316 666 ext. 2116 Fax.: +36 52 418 733 E-mail: allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu or Laszlo Hunyadi hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu Other useful email addresses are: allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (general information) submit-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (submission of abstracts and papers) accommod-allcach98@llab2.arts.klte.hu (accommodation) From: Guedon Jean-Claude Subject: Re: 11.0158 mediology Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 06:18:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 271 (271) In response to Willard's remarks about Regis Debray's recent article in TLS. let me underscore the importance of several of his recent works such as Cours de mediologie generale (Gallimard, 1991), Vie et mort de l'image (1992), Transmettre (Odile Jacob, 1996) and his excellent Cahiers de mediologie published by Gallimard. The third issue in which i published a small piece with Bruno Oudet just came out last May. Debray, formerly known as the revolutionary author of Revolution in the revolution and a coompanion of el Che, was imprisoned in Bolivia between 1967 and 1971. More recently, he has been developing a very original line of analysis about "meaning through material transmission" and his works ought to be translated into English very fast. They are brilliant AND clearly written, a quality not always obvious in contemporary French philosophers :-) Highly recommended (along with Roger Chartier's analyses of reading and the history of books). Jean-Claude Guedon From: Andrew Hawke Subject: Safle newydd i Eiriadur y Brifysgol / Welsh Dictionary: new site Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:32:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 272 (272) [deleted quotation] Ceir safle newydd ar y We <http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/index.html> sy'n darparu dolen gyswllt a thim Prifysgol Cymru sy'n gweithio ar _Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru_. Dechreuodd y gwaith ymchwil yn 1921 a'r golygu yn 1948, gan gyhoeddi'r rhan gyntaf yn 1950. Hyd yn hyn y mae 47 o rannau (hyd y gair _rhadus_) wedi eu cyhoeddi. Geiriadur hanesyddol y Gymraeg yw'r geiriadur o'r glosau cynharaf hyd heddiw, ar lun yr _Oxford English Dictionary_. Ceir hanes byr a disgrifiad o'r cynllun ar y safle hon, ynghyd a manylion llawn o'r cyfrolau a'r rhannau sydd ar gael, yn ogystal a chyfarwyddiadau archebu, a manylion ar sut i gysylltu a'r staff. Gobeithir cynnwys rhestrau o eiriau ac ymadroddion y mae angen rhagor o dystiolaeth iddynt, a chynorthwyol ar-lein megis modd i chwilio am fyrfoddau llyfryddiaethol na restrir yn y cyfrolau cyhoeddedig. Ni phenderfynwyd eto a ddarperir unrhyw ffyrdd i chwilio'r geiriadur ar y We. _________________________________________________________________ A new Web site <http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/index.html> provides a point of contact with the University of Wales team working on _Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru: A Dictionary of the Welsh Language_. Research for the project began in 1921, and editing commenced in 1948, with the first part being published in 1950. To date 47 parts (up to the word _rhadus_) have been published. The dictionary is a historical dictionary of Welsh from the earliest glosses to the present day, compiled on the lines of the _Oxford English Dictionary_. This bilingual site gives a brief history and description of the project, full details of the available volumes and parts, together with ordering information, and contact details for the staff. It is hoped to include lists of words or phrases for which further evidence is required, and on-line aids such as a way to search for new bibliographic abbreviations not listed in the published volumes. No decision has yet been taken regarding the provision of any Web-based searching mechanisms. _________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hawke -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Andrew Hawke ach@aber.ac.uk (01970) 627513 (+44) 1970 627513 (fx 627066) Golygydd Cynorthwyol/Rheolwr Systemau Assistant Editor/Systems Manager Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru University of Wales Dictionary Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru National Library of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH, U.K. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Job Vacancy: Research Officer Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 14:08:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 273 (273) [deleted quotation](With apologies to those who receive this more than once). Job Vacancy: Research Officer Dept. of Language and Linguistics University of Essex, UK The Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex has a vacancy for a linguist or computational linguist to work on a project involving World Wide Web access to linguistic corpora. The successful candidate will be involved in the Essex contribution to JTAP project JTAP-2/247: ``Word Wide Web-Corpora/Internet Grammar of English'', which involves the University of Essex and the Survey of English Usage at University College London. (JTAP is the Joint Technology Applications Programme of JISC, Joint Information Systems Committee of the UK funding councils). The aim of the Essex part of the project is to provide WWW access to linguistic corpora. The successful candidate will have a background in linguistics or computational linguistics, ideally with a strong corpus orientation, and will be expected to contribute to a variety of project tasks, in particular: + testing and evaluation of prototypes; + design of questionnaires to elicit feedback from users, and analysis of such feedback; + documentation, particularly design of on-line help messages, examples and exercises. + The CL/MT group at Essex is involved in a number of language engineering and computational linguistics projects in which the successful candidate may be involved. Applicants should, ideally, have a strong backround in corpus linguistics, and should be computer literate (ideally with familiarity of working in a Unix environment). The appointement will be on the RA1A/RA1B scale, commensurate with age and experience (i.e. in the range UKL 15,159 to UKL 22,785 per annum). The period of the appointment will be until the end of the project (31 July 1998), with a possibility of extension. We are looking to appoint as soon as possible (which means, realistically, a starting date at the end of Septembmer). More information on the project, and the CL/MT research group at Essex can be found at the following pages: http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/ http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/group/ http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/w3c-ige/ Applicants should send a CV to Martin Rondell (rondm@essex.ac.uk), and can contact Martin Rondell (rondm@essex.ac.uk) or Doug Arnold (doug@essex.ac.uk) for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Doug Arnold, doug@essex.ac.uk Dept. of Language & Linguistics, http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/~doug University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Tel: +44 1206 872084 (direct) Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK. Fax: +44 1206 872085 ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: David Green Subject: AHDS Seeks Bids for Systems Suite Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 08:01:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 274 (274) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 15, 1997 Following is a technical request for bids for supplying a set of systems providing access to networked cultural heritage material. See <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/or4a.htm> for full information UK's ARTS & HUMANITIES DATA SERVICE SEEKS INTEGRATED SYSTEMS SUITE Apologies for cross posting. The AHDS requires an integrated suite of systems to provide users with integrated access to its extensively distributed, mixed media, and interdisciplinary holdings. A draft Operational Requirement detailing the functional and technical specification for that suite of systems which, it is expected, will be based on the Z39.50 network applications protocol, is currently available from our web site (http://ahds.ac.uk/). The draft is being notified for public review and comment for a two-week period ending 29 July 1997. All comments received before that date will be considered for inclusion in the final operational requirement. A full and final draft of the operational requirement will be posted and notified in early August 1997 inviting proposals to supply the systems that it details. All comments will be treated in the strictest confidence, and should be e-mailed to: daniel.greenstein@ahds.ac.uk Daniel Greenstein Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, Executive King's College London, Library Strand, London WC2R 2LS From: David Green Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 3, #30, July 15, 1997 (fwd) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:52:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 275 (275) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 16, 1997 The following NCC Update contains a succinct summary of current Congressional movements on the Endowments, National Archives and NHPRC. The news includes: ** Last Friday's 328:96 defeat in the House of the Chabot Amendment to eliminate the NEH; ** Last Friday's 271:155 defeat in the House of the Ehlers Amendment for replacing the NEA with a system of block grants to states. The House Interior Appropriations Bill now includes no money for the NEA. ** Announcement that the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee will meet this Friday July 18 to markup its appropriations bill, which will include the budgets for the NEH, NEA, the Smithsonian, historic preservation programs, and the National Park Service. ** Senate Appropriations Committee recommendations in its appropriations bill for the budgets of the Nationa Archives and NHPRC David Green ******************************************************************************* NCC Washington Update, vol. 3, # 30 , July 15, 1997 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History 1. House Defeats By Large Majority Amendment to Eliminate Funding for NEH 2. Senate Appropriations Committee Endorses Subcommittee Recommendations for the National Archives and NHPRC 3. House Defeats Ehlers Amendment on $80 million in Block Grants To States for Arts Funding 4. Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee to Markup Budgets for NEH, NEA, and Other Cultural and Historic Preservation Programs On July 18 1. House Defeats By Large Majority Amendment to Eliminate Funding for NEH -- On Friday, July 11 the House debated an amendment introduced by Representative Steve Chabot (R-OH) to eliminate funding in FY 98 for NEH. On Tuesday, July 15 at 8 pm, in a roll call vote the House defeated the Chabot Amendment by a vote of 328 against with only 96 voting to eliminate NEH funding. There were 92 Republicans who joined the Democrats in defeating this amendment. Representative Ronald Dellums (D-CA) summed up the debate by saying that while he opposed the amendment, he felt that Chabot had done the House a service in allowing so many colleagues an opportunity to give eloquent testimony about the valuable work of NEH. In the debate which last over an hour, twenty-two members, including four Republicans, spoke in opposition to the amendment stressing the many and varied contributions of NEH. Only three members supported the amendment to eliminate funding for NEH. The twenty-two members who spoke in opposition to the Chabot amendment which called for the elimination of funding for NEH were as follows, listed in the order in which they spoke: Yates (D-IL), Vento (D-MN), Fowler (R-FLA); Boswell (D-IOWA), Bereuter (R- NEB); Baldacci (D-Maine), Castle (R-Del), Capps (D-CA), Johnson (R-CT), Gejdenson (D-CT), Obey (D-WI) Nadler (D-NY), Strickland (D-OH), Moran (D-VA), Pelosi (D-CA), Dellums (D-CA), Meek (D-FL), Engel (D-NY), Jackson-Lee (D-TX), Davis (D-IL), Mink (D-Hawaii), Sawyer (D-OH). The three members supporting the amendment were: Chabot (R-OH), Kingston (R-GA), and Cunningham (R-CA). Chabot rooted his case for the elimination of NEH in the argument that NEH benefits a small cultural bureaucracy. He stated that money should not be taken out of the pockets of hard working Americans for junkets for academic elites. The supporters of NEH responded by noting the many ways in which the ordinary folks of America, not the academic elite, benefit from the programs of NEH. The supporters of NEH highlighted the value of specific programs such as the summer institutes for teachers, documentary films, and many humanities councils programs that bring humanities programs to rural areas. The twenty-two supporters stressed the that NEH fosters creativity, teachers us as a nation who we are and what we might become, engages the public in life long learning, builds a sense of community, preserves America's history, enhances the soul of America, excels at creating a public-private partnership, nurtures critical thinking skills, and educates citizens about our democratic heritage. 2. Senate Appropriations Committee Endorses Subcommittee Recommendations for the National Archives and NHPRC -- The Senate Appropriations Committee met on July 15 and endorsed the recommendations of the Senate Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee for the budgets for FY 98 for the agencies under its jurisdiction. The Senate Appropriations Committee s markup of its appropriations bill includes $5 million for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grants program, this is a 25% increase above the President's request of $4 million. The NHPRC's grants program is currently funded at $5 million. The markup also includes $207.939 million for the FY 98 operating budget for the National Archives. The Archives operating budget is currently $196.963 million and the President had recommended $ 206.47 million. In a separate line item, the markup designates $10.65 million for the repairs and alterations of the National Archives buildings, which include the Presidential Libraries. This was an increase over the President's request of $6.65 million. 3. House Defeats Ehlers Amendment on $80 million in Block Grants To States for Arts Funding -- On July 10 the House in a very close 217 to 216 procedural vote decided to allow no votes on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and to permit only the Ehlers amendment on arts funding to come before the House. Representative Vernon J. Ehlers (R-Mich) amendment called for an appropriation of $80 million in block grants to states in FY'98 for arts funding with 60% going directly to local school boards for art education projects and 40% going to the state arts commissions. Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was behind the development of this amendment and its intent was to dismantle the national program of NEA while allowing some federal funding for arts through block grants. Although the procedural vote -- that allowed the Ehlers' amendment to be brought to the floor -- passed by a very close vote, the Ehlers amendment when it came to the floor for a vote on July 11 failed by a significant majority with 271 voting in opposition and only 155 supporting it. The House Interior Appropriations Bill includes no money for NEA and provides no block funding for the arts. 4. Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee to Markup Budgets for NEH, NEA, and Other Cultural and Historic Preservation Programs On July 18 -- On Friday, July 18, at 10 am the Senate Interior Subcommittee will meet to markup its appropriations bill, which involves determining the budgets for all agencies and programs under its jurisdiction. This includes the NEH, NEA, the Smithsonian, historic preservation programs, and the National Park Service. Members of this committee are: Slade Gorton (R-WA) Chairman , Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) , Thad Cochran (R-Miss) , Pete Domenici (R-NM) senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov>, Conrad Burns (R-MT) conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov> , Robert Bennett (R-UT) , Gregg (R-NH) , Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-CO), Robert Byrd (D-WV) Ranking Minority, Patrick Leahy (D-VT) , Dale Bumpers (D-ARK) , Ernest Hollings (D-SC) , Harry Reid (D-NV) , Barbara Boxer (D-CA) , and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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: ENDORSEMENT OF COPYRIGHT PRINCIPLES Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:31:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 276 (276) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 16, 1997 NHA PRINCIPLES ENDORSED BY CAA & ARL: OTHER ENDORSEMENTS NEEDED The boards of the College Art Association and the Association of Research Libraries recently voted to endorse the "BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT." This brings the total of endorsees to six organizations, including the NHA's own sponsorship. The National Humanities Alliance is an umbrella organization representing nearly 90 organizations concerned with federal policy affecting work in the humanities. The National Humanities Alliance encourages as many organizations as possible in the broadly defined educational community to consider signing on to these principles. Endorsements should be sent to John Hammer , Executive Director, National Humanities Alliance, 21 Dupont Circle, 6th floor, Washington, DC 20036; tel: 202/296-4994; fax: 202/872-0884. The "BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT" were developed in the Spring by a committee of the National Humanities Alliance from a draft document "University of California Copyright Legislation and Scholarly Communication Basic Principles." They were developed in an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment. The PRINCIPLES have been developed to assert the basic beliefs of the educational community in the need to assure the continuation of the principle of balance between creators, copyright holders and the users of intellectual property from the present print environment into the electronic world. As the introduction to the PRINCIPLES states: "As they revolutionize the means by which information is recorded, disseminated, accessed, and stored, digital technologies are eliminating the technical limits that have supplemented the legal framework of balance between ownership and public dissemination: Unlimited technological capacity to disseminate by transmission in ways that can violate the rights of copyright holders confronts equally unlimited technological capacity to prevent works from being used in ways contemplated by law. Carried to its logical extreme, either trend would destroy the balance, with results that would likely undermine core educational functions as well as radically transform the information marketplace." The full text of the PRINCIPLES may be obtained from John Hammer at the address above or from the NINCH website at: <http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/PRINCIPLES/NHA_Complete.html>. A list of the principles themselves, without introduction or commentary is appended to this message, together with a list of those organizations currently endorsing them. David Green ******************************************************************* BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR MANAGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT 1. Copyright law provisions for digital works should maintain a balance between the interests of creators and copyright owners and the public that is equivalent to that embodied in current statute. The existing legal balance is consonant with the educational ethic of responsible use of intellectual properties, promotes the free exchange of ideas, and protects the economic interests of copyright holders. 2. Copyright law should foster the maintenance of a viable economic framework of relations between owners and users of copyrighted works. 3. Copyright laws should encourage enhanced ease of compliance rather than increasingly punitive enforcement measures. 4. Copyright law should promote the maintenance of a robust public domain for intellectual properties as a necessary condition for maintaining our intellectual and cultural heritage. 5. Facts should be treated as belonging to the public domain as they are under current law. 6. Copyright law should assure that respect for personal privacy is incorporated into access and rights management systems. 7. Copyright law should uphold the principle that liability for infringing activity rests with the infringing party rather than with third parties. Institutions should accept responsibility for acts undertaken at their behest by individuals but should not be held liable for the acts of individuals--whether or not associated with the institution--acting independently. This principle is an essential underpinning for academic freedom. 8. Educational institutions should foster a climate of institutional respect for intellectual property rights by providing appropriate information to all members of the community and assuring that appropriate resources are available for clearing rights attached to materials to be used by the institution, e.g., in support of distance learning. 9. New rights and protections should be created cautiously and only so far as experience proves necessary to meet the Constitutional provision for a limited monopoly to promote the "Progress of Science and useful Arts." 10. Copyright enforcement provisions should not hinder research simply because the products of a line of inquiry might be used in support of infringing activity. EMDORSEMENTS AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH From: David Green Subject: NINCH NEWSLETTER No. 7 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 07:26:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 277 (277) N I N C H Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter No. 7 July 16, 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. C O N T E N T S 1. COPYRIGHT: Where We Are 2. PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES D-Lib: July-August Issue (includes NINCH article on Networking Moving Images) Ariadne: July Issue ACLS Publishes Survey of Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship. Getty AAT & ULAN: Now Online Perseus Expands Into English Renaissance 3. MOVING ON ----------------------------- COPYRIGHT: WHERE WE ARE Midsummer, and it's time for the broad cultural community to assess where it stands and determine what its next steps are with regard to a number of copyright related issues. As the Association of Research Libraries has put it, one of the goals of the educational community should be to develop a consensus about "the kind of practices in digital environments that are understood to represent responsible applications of copyright, especially fair use." We should be able to extend that to the even broader cultural community (engaging museums, artists and arts organizations as well as libraries, education and research institutions). What is fair and just in the use of "intellectual property" on the networks? What are the tools that we need to proceed? For a sense of the landscape from tha research library perspective, see the Copyright Special issue of the ARL Newsletter for June 1997 at <http://arl.cni.org/newsltr/192/192toc.html>. A number of developments have now come to a head that make this the time to seriously survey the landscape and consider the direction we take. What has brought us to this pass? A. LEGISLATION The proposed language for both last year's domestic legislation, the "NII Copyright Protection Act," and the World Intellectual Property Organization's Copyright Treaty skewed the current balance away from that of existing copyright statute, re-asserting the rights of copyright holders at the expense of certain limitations, notably Fair Use. Fortunately, the domestic legislation was stalled and the final WIPO language reasserted the balance between the rights of copyright holders and those of the users of intellectual property. As we prepare for new U.S. domestic legislation (including WIPO implementing legislation) we need to be clear about what our values and priorities are. As a member of the Digital Future Coalition, NINCH has been an enthusiastic supporter of its positions and legislative activity. As a community, we all need to be clear about what the issues are and how they are represented in Congress. B. CONFU The longstanding Conference on Fair Use came to its ambiguous conclusion this May. None of the proposed guidelines gained majority support and many in the nonprofit educational world felt that their voices were not fully heard nor were their positions included in the guidelines. Some are prepared to continue the conversations; some are willing to test the guidelines but there was generally a very strong feeling of blockage and difficulty. There was the question whether some rights holders accepted and understood Fair Use as a fundamental aspect of copyright practice, or saw it as an obstruction to efficient commercial business. See the "Joint Statement by Libraries and Cultural Organizations," at <http://www.ala.org/washoff/confu.html>. C. FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS Taking the debate on the road, the College Art Association and American Council of Learned Societies organized a series of Kress Foundation-funded town meetings to discuss the fate of fair use in a digital environment. Three were held before May 19 (an interim report is available at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeeting-Report>) and three more are being scheduled. These educate and engage an audience, air questions and grievances and will continue to shape our understanding of what positions and actions we may need to take. The next Town Meeting is scheduled for September 26-27 at Reed College, Portland Oregon, entitled: "Copyright Law in the Digital World: Fair Use, Education and Libraries after CONFU." Stay tuned for further announcements. D. NHA PRINCIPLES A committee of the National Humanities Alliance drew up a set of basic principles in an effort to build consensus within the educational community on the uses of copyrighted works in the digital environment. Currently seeking endorsements from as many in the educational community as possible, this document is a model for assembling community-wide bedrock principles upon which we build practice. See <http://www-ninch.cni.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/PRINCIPLES/NHA_Complete.html>. If other communities are evolving similar principles or policies, we should encourage them but seek to integrate them with the NHA Principles. E. LICENSING Research libraries have been engaging commercial vendors delivering digital content via licensing arrangements. Both sides are determining, often through negotiation and practice, what acceptable terms and conditions are. Librarians are being aided by a number of recent resources, among them the "LibLicense: Licensing Electronic Resources" website and discussion list at <http://www.library.yale.edu/~Llicense/index.shtml> and "Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources," <http://arl.cni.org/scomm/licensing/principles.html> produced by six library associations. In another realm, the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), examining the issues involved in licensing digital images from museums' collections for use on university campuses, is concluding and will shortly release its report. Two museum licensing collectives are now being formed to put MESL's lessons and recommendations into practice. F. ROLES Out of many of these developments, many have come to the realization that online, a great majority of us, both as individuals and institutions, will be, sometimes simultaneously creators, copyright holders and users of intellectual property. The scenario is a far more complex one than that between those who are exclusively copyright holders and those who are exclusively users of copyrighted material. ----------------------------- PUBLICATIONS & RESOURCES **The July/August double issue of D-Lib Magazine, now available at <http://www.dlib.org>, is devoted to stories about conversion, preservation, and archiving. Aside from NINCH's piece on Networking Moving Images is an article on how humanities textbase projects can help the digital library research agenda and a number of reports on particular projects, including the University of Virginia E-Text Center, J-Stor, Michigan's Humanities Text Initiative, the Model Editions Partnership, the Making of America project and others. **Ariadne, the magazine of the British e-Lib project, has just published its tenth issue online at <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue10/>. Contents include an interview with CNI's new director Clifford Lynch, an article on issues academia has with electronic journals, an example of how Dublin Core metadata is being embedded in Web pages and reports on a number of e-Lib projects. **The American Council of Learned Societies has just published "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects and Challenges: The US Focus," as an Occasional Paper. This 54-page booklet, written and compiled by Pamela Pavliscak and Charles Henry from Rice University and Seamus Ross, of the University of Glasgow, is a selective review of the application of IT to humanities practice. It also identifies obstacles and challenges that need to be overcome for humanities computing scholarship to flourish. Copies of the booklet are available from ACLS (212/697-1505; ); an electronic version will be available this fall via the American Arts & Letters Network <http://www.aaln.org/>. **Getty AAT & ULAN: Now Online The extremely useful Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) <http://www.gii.getty.edu/aat_browser> and the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) <http://www.gii.getty.edu/ulan_browser> are now freely available for use on the website of the Getty Information Institute. Both sites include searching tips and information about the scope and content of the vocabularies. **Perseus Expands Into the English Renaissance The well-known Perseus project <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/>, well known for assembling a multimedia library of classical material is now beginning to build an English Renaissance digital library, beginning with all the work of Marlowe and expanding into Shakespeare's sources. Suggestions for texts to work on are being accepted at . ----------------------------- MOVING ON American Council of Learned Societies Douglas Bennett has now left ACLS and is ensconced as President of Earlham College; his position as ACLS Vice President is currently unfilled. Stan Katz leaves his position as President of ACLS at the end of August; John D'Arms takes his place September 1. Coalition for Networked Information Clifford Lynch, formerly Director of Library Automation at the University of California, is now installed as Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information. See press release at <http://www.cni.org/press/> Kennedy Center Scott Stoner, Director of ArtsEdge at the Kennedy Center, also left this Spring. A search for his replacement is currently underway. President's Committee on the Arts & Humanities Ellen Lovell, Executive Director of the President's Committee departed for the White House this Spring. Her new position is as Deputy Chief of Staff for the First lady. Taking her place is Harriet Fulbright, formerly president of the Center for Arts in the Curriculum and, from 1987 to 1990, executive director of the Fulbright Association. ----------------------------- =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== ----- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ----- From: "[iso-8859-1] Raphaël Cohen" Subject: Re: 11.0173 wired enthusiasms & plain speech Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 18:18:57 +0200 (MET DST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 278 (278) Ionesco : "The purpose of education is to cretinize young people". It is so true ... And it succeed so wonderful ! In spite of education, an other thing than can be given. Offered as a gift. Korban is proximity in hebrew. Raphael Cohen Paris ----- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ----- From: Ian Butterworth Subject: conference Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 16:52:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 279 (279) Readers of the Humanist may be interested to learn that in connection with the British Association Annual Festival of Science at the University of Leeds,the Academia Europaea is organising a half-day John Mason Conference on the afternoon of Thursday 11 September entitled "Gates vs.Gutenburg? The impact of electronic publishing on the scientific community" The speakers will be: Prof. Pieter Drenth (Chairman of the European Commission on Preservation and Access; Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) :- "Preservation of Academic Results - on paper or in bytes?" Robert Cailliau ( Head of the World Wide Web Office,CERN; Chairman of the International WWW Conference Committee) :- "Goals for the world wide web" Prof. Erich Neuhold ( Director, GMD-IPSI,Darmstadt) :- "Technologies for scientific publishing" Terry Hulbert ( Producer,Electronic Publishing, Institute of Physics Publishing):- "Demonstration of electronic publishing" Conference chaired by Ian Butterworth ( Academia Europaea;Imperial College) Despite the title and location,I believe the content might also be of interest to those in the humanities. The location: Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 15, University of Leeds. For those who wish to attend only the Conference there is no charge. The BA of course hope that many will wish to register for the full Festival on a daily or weekly basis. Either way, for those who wish to attend, the simplest approach is to contact: Sandra Koura at Major Events,British Association,23 Savile Row,London W1X 2NB Tel: 0171 973 3076 Fax: 0171 973 3051 e-mail: ba.major.mgr@mcr1.poptel.org.uk Ian Butterworth =========== ----- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ----- From: "J. Trant" Subject: AMICO Update Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:50:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 280 (280) ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) UPDATE Please excuse any duplication ... The members of the Association of Art Museum Directors are investigating the formation of a consortium to make their digital documentation collectively available to the educational community. Representatives of major North American Museums are meeting to define the terms of their collaboration and to outline the nature of a common digital library of text, image and multimedia data. Details about this emerging organisation and the formation of the consortium can be found at www.amn.org/AMICO. The report of the group's most recent meeting is also available at this site. Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to: Maxwell Anderson Liason for Information Technology Association of Art Museum Directors max_anderson@ago.net or Jennifer Trant or David Bearman Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com or dbear@archimuse.com -------- 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 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online items Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 09:16:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 281 (281) [deleted quotation] (1) Louise McElvogue, "Should spam be canned?" on the first ever "spam summit" in Washington, DC, convened by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, bringing together a truly motley crew of those concerned with spamming, including Sanford (a.k.a. Spamford) Wallace, head of Cyber Promotions. (2) Toby Howard, "Mad, bad and dangerous to know", on the proliferation of crazy ideas on the Internet from those cranks who have discovered that the new medium is a cheap way to circulate them. "There are thousands of pages devoted to crazy ideas. These range from traditional crank fixations on free energy and perpetual motion to the US couple who claim to psychically 'zap' the CBS evening news every Thursday and the Unarius Academy of Science, which channels the 'the brothers of light from the higher frequency planes'. And then there's the dark side, by which I mean worse than cinematic special effects can manage. The argument for self-regulation is based on such balancing acts as the "hate sites" (like that of the British National Party) and those who monitor them (see, for example, <http://www.rickross.com>, the virtual front-end for a consultancy business). Can dangerous information be countered, however? Take, for example, activities where mischief slides into serious anarchy. While I was listening to a Radio 4 programme on American militia types the other night, for example, I heard an articulate militia chap objecting to the interviewer's claim that he and his buddies were distributing seriously dangerous information, e.g. on how to make explosives. His point was that this information was already widely in circulation on the Internet, some of it published by official bodies. Being logged on at the time I took his strong hint (clever, that) to search for the keywords "amonium nitrate" (on AltaVista, type "amonium;nitrate" without the quotation marks) and found just what he said would be there, and quite a bit more, e.g. the Jolly Roger Cookbook. This sort of thing tests one's conviction that what Milton called "unlicensed printing" is a workable idea, i.e. it puts us back into the situation in which we are forced seriously to examine what publications media can do. How is this situation different from, say, 17th-century pamphleteering? How is the online publication medium fundamentally different, if it is, from what came before? (3) Jack Schofield, "Wild West Web", about Ira Magaziner, a corporate strategist who advises U.S. President Clinton on policy -- and the principal author of the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce (for which see <http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/Commerce/>). His approach, become official U.S. government policy, is essentially that of "laissez-faire capitalism largely uncontrolled by government regulation: a continuation of the Internet as, in Clinton's words, 'the Wild West of the global economy'." European governments have just endorsed a similar plan under the name of the Global Information Networks (<http://www2.echo.lu/bonn/themepaper.html>). There's a strong protectionist movement in Europe, however, where critical mass requires a rising above regional differences, i.e. the story of the EU played out in policy toward the virtual realm. Our toy has hit the big-time, though we have not. (4) Karlin Lillington, "So farewell then Gil..." and Jack Schofield, "Caught in a vicious circle", on the increasingly serious problems of the Apple Corp. (5) Douglas Rushkoff, "Make yourself @home", on yet another project to employ cable for super-fast Internet connection, by the @Home Corporation. "What's most troubling about the @Home vision of America's future on the Internet is its willingness to sacrifice the egalitarian nature of the Net's underlying architecture for the bravado of high-speed access to packaged media." High-speed interactivity puts quite a demand on the network, requiring upgrades from the various cable companies involved. "The other troubling feature of the @Home architecture is that wherever in the network a cable company cannot or will not upgrade its lines to full interactivity, coaxial cable will be used for incoming data and slower phone lines will be used for outgoing signal." This means that it becomes easier to listen than to speak, which as Rushkoff points out, encourages passivity. Probably nothing to worry about, as he says, since so little has come of other cable-company schemes. But @Home does help to clarify what we want -- something more like ham radio than FM? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Research Position at Sussex Univ. Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:35:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 282 (282) [deleted quotation] UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX SCHOOL OF COGNITIVE AND COMPUTING SCIENCES Research into robust parsing A research assistant position is available on a 3-year EPSRC-funded project entitled `PSET: Practical Simplification of English Text'. The goal is to build a computer system which takes in English newspaper text across the WWW, and outputs a simplified version with broadly similar meaning (with, for example, uncommon or unusual words replaced with more common or familiar synonyms, and difficult to follow syntactic constructs replaced with simpler ones); the system will be targetted at people suffering from aphasia which impairs their comprehension of written English. The component of the research at Sussex involves further development of an existing robust statistical parsing system. The project is in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sunderland. Applicants should have research experience in natural language processing (i.e. PhD-level or similar), with knowledge of statistical and/or unification/constraint-based computational linguistics, and should be familiar with UNIX and C. Ability to program in Lisp and experience of MacOS are also desirable. The salary will be on the Research 1B or 1A Scale (#15,159-22,785 pa), depending on age and experience. The project will start on or soon after October 1, 1997. The grant includes provision for attendance at relevant workshops and conferences. See <http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/carroll/carroll.html> for further details. Interested candidates should send a CV as soon as possible to: Dr John Carroll, Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK. E-Mail: john.carroll@cogs.susx.ac.uk; Fax: (+44 / 0)1273 671320 Previous applicants need not re-apply. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ian Butterworth Subject: Humanist: Half day Conference on Electronic Publishing Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:54:13 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 283 (283) SLIGHT CORRECTION Half-day John Mason Conference in connection with the British Association Annual Festival of Science at the University of Leeds on the afternoon of Thursday 11 September entitled "Gates vs.Gutenburg? The impact of electronic publishing on the scientific community" I would like to post a slight correction to the notice I sent out.It turns out that participants to our conference can attend the full Leeds BA Festival without any further formalities. All that is required is that they register for the Conference through the Academia Europaea. Please e-mail,fax or mail the Executive Secretary of the Academia,Peter Colyer e-mail: ACADEUR@Compuserve.com mail: Academia Europaea, 31,Old Burlington Street, London W1X 1LB fax: 0171 287 5115 Ian Butterworth From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Last CFP: ACM SAC'98 - Track on Coordination Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 15:39:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 284 (284) [deleted quotation] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ==================== (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) 1998 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '98) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications February 27 - March 1, 1998 Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, U. S. A. (http://www.ucy.ac.cy/ucy/cs/SAC98.html) SAC '98: ~~~~~~~~ Over the past twelve years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC'98 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups SIGAda, SIGAPP, SIGBIO, and SIGCUE. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. The most recent previous ACM SAC conferences were held in San Jose (SAC'97), Philadelphia (SAC'96) and Nashville (SAC'95). Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A new special track on coordination models, languages and applications will be held at SAC'98. The term "coordination" here is used in a rather broad sense covering traditional models and languages (eg. ones based on the Shared Dataspace and CHAM metaphors) but also other related formalisms such as configuration and architectural description frameworks, systems modeling abstractions and languages, programming skeletons, etc. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Novel models, languages, programming and implementation techniques. * Relationship with other computational models such as object oriented, declarative (functional, logic, constraint) programming or extensions of them with coordination capabilities. * Applications (especially where the industry is involved). * Theoretical aspects (semantics, reasoning, verification). * Software architectures and software engineering techniques. * All aspects related to the modeling of Information Systems (groupware, Internet and the Web, workflow management, CSCW). Track Program Chair: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 537 CY-1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Tel: +357 2 338705/06, FAX: +357 2 339062 Guidelines for Submission: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Original papers and poster abstracts from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered. This includes three categories of submissions: 1) original and unpublished research; 2) reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, government, education and industry; and 3) reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a blind review process by at least three referees. The accepted papers in all categories will be published in the ACM Press SAC'98 proceedings. A special issue on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications of the ACM/SIGAPP quarterly Applied Computing Review is planned for the Fall of 1998 comprising expanded versions of selected papers from those accepted in this track. Submission guidelines must be strictly followed: * Submit six (6) copies of original manuscripts to the SAC '98 Coordination Models, Languages and Applications Track Chair. Electronic submissions in uuencoded compressed postscript format are encouraged. Fax submissions will not be accepted. George A. Papadopoulos Department of Computer Science University of Cyprus 75 Kallipoleos Str., P.O.B. 537 CY-1678, Nicosia, CYPRUS E-mail: george@turing.cs.ucy.ac.cy Tel: +357 2 338705/06, FAX: +357 2 339062 * The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. * The body of the paper should not exceed 5,000 words (approximately 15 pages, double-spaced). * A separate cover sheet attached to each copy should show the title of the paper, the author(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), and the address (including e-mail, telephone, and FAX) to which correspondence should be sent. * All submissions must be received by August 15, 1997. Important Dates: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * August 15, 1997: Paper Submission. * October 15, 1997: Author Notification. * December 1, 1997: Camera-Ready Copy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: AMICO Update Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 10:35:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 285 (285) NINCH ANNOUNCMENET July 21, 1997 Below is an update on the development of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and its plan for establishing a digital library of museum images, with supporting data, for site licensing to universities. Please note also an article on museum site licensing to appear in the ARL Newsletter <http://arl.cni.org/newsltr/> next month, which will put this announcement in a broader context. David Green ***************************************************************** ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) UPDATE Please excuse any duplication ... The members of the Association of Art Museum Directors are investigating the formation of a consortium to make their digital documentation collectively available to the educational community. Representatives of major North American Museums are meeting to define the terms of their collaboration and to outline the nature of a common digital library of text, image and multimedia data. Details about this emerging organisation and the formation of the consortium can be found at www.amn.org/AMICO. The report of the group's most recent meeting is also available at this site. Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to: Maxwell Anderson Liason for Information Technology Association of Art Museum Directors max_anderson@ago.net or Jennifer Trant or David Bearman Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com or dbear@archimuse.com -------- 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 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Hypercard to Web Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 18:15:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 286 (286) Dear Humanists, I have recently been having some discussions with faculty who have enquired about the possibility of porting elderly hypercard applications and stacks onto WWW pages. It strikes me that there are probably a lot of people out there who spent many hours painstakingly compiling hypercard stacks for teaching back in the good old days when that represented the cutting edge of technology - where are all these stacks now? Has anyone had success in importing hypercard stacks into a web based format? Or is it a case of re-doing all the links in a web authoring program? Is there a plug in that will help? Any suggestions, comments, or anecdotes welcome, thanks, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Espen S. Ore" Subject: Re: 11.0182 Hypercard to Web? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:20:41 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 287 (287) At 17:48 +0100 23-07-97, Humanist Discussion Group (Lorna Hughes) wrote: [deleted quotation] It is possible to connect HyperCard stacks directly to MacHTTP (and WebStar, I think) but this is probably not the best solution in the long run. The project on which I should spend much more time than I have involves converting a hypermedia version of Ibsen's Peer Gynt from HyperCard + extras to some kind of SGML or HyTime for storage purposes and either use SGML-aware presentations software such us DynaWeb or define procedures for extracting fixed HTML from the material. -- espen Espen.Ore@hd.uib.no Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities Tel: +47-55582865 Fax: +47-55589470 From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Re: 11.0182 Hypercard to Web? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 16:29:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 288 (288) Hi, Lorna. Long time; no see. Actually, my Apple representative told me about a year ago that Apple (or maybe a third party) was in the process of creating such a plug-in. I'd love to see it, in order to put the old Beowulf Workstation in all of its antequated glory on the web. So, I reiterate your request: does anybody know anything? --Pat -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Patrick W. Conner Department of English P.O. BOX 6296 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV 26506-6296 phone: (304) 293-3107 e-mail: pconner@wvu.edu fax: (304) 293-5380 From: Lou Burnard Subject: Re: 11.0182 Hypercard to Web? Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:53:05 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 289 (289) I once spent a happy hour or six writing a Hypercard stack which would dump the fields of a hypercard stack in an exportable ascii format, using SGML tags (what a surprise) to identify each field on the card. Of course that doesn't export much of the linking information, though someone who knows more about hyperTalk than I do shouldn't have much difficulty in doing that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou From: Willard McCarty Subject: Hypercard to Web Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 07:01:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 290 (290) This is a followup question to the one in the last Humanist about converting from Hypercard to WWW. Has anyone thought through how to use the Web to do Hypercard/Toolbook-like things, with Javascript perhaps, to approximately the same degree of difficulty for the person who constructs them? I'm thinking of students who could handle Hypercard but might have difficulty writing the Javascript themselves, so would need some canned bits to plug into their pages. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte (3) Subject: Adjunct Position in Turin Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 291 (291) The University of Turin is actively advertising adjunct positions for the academic year 1997-98. The disciplines of interest are: Economia aziendale (Business Management) Storia dell'arte contemporanea (History of Contemporary Art) Tecniche della comunicazione pubblicitaria (Advertising) Teoria e tecniche della comunicazione pubblica (Public Communication) Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio giornalistico (Journalism) Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio radio-televisivo (Broadcasted Media) Teoria e tecniche delle comunicazioni di massa (Mass Communication) The attached message gives more details on the application process. The letter signed by Professor Mario Ricciardi, Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, explicitly states that the process will be transparent and that the University seeks maximum advertising for these positions. Candidates currently teaching and/or working abroad are especially encouraged to apply for these positions. The review process will be overtaken by an ad hoc committee nominated by the Faculty of the Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione. Transparency in the hiring process and active advertising of the positions have not been a common practice among Italian academics. We welcome the action of the University of Turin as a sign of change. ======= http://italia.hum.utah.edu/maurizio/ricciardi/bandi/98.html ========= UNIVERSITA DI TORINO FACOLTA DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA CORSO DI LAUREA IN SCIENZE DELLA COMUNICAZIONE Il Consiglio di Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione ha deciso di provvedere per gli insegnamenti sotto-indicati con la massima trasparenza e pubblicità onde garantire non solo la più ampia informazione verso la comunità della ricerca e delle professioni interessate ma anche un proficuo e corretto rapporto che integri in modo positivo lo stesso corso di laurea col mondo delle professioni, dell'amministrazione e delle attività economiche. I contratti di diritto privato si rivolgono, come recita lart. 25 del DPR 11 luglio 1980, n. 382 SPECIFICATAMENTE a docenti che insegnino in università non italiane o a rappresentanti della comunità scientifica e delle professioni dotati di alta qualificazione. E stato perciò predisposto un bando pubblico, che verrà pubblicato dagli organi di stampa italiani e che verrà pubblicizzato nelle forme più efficaci. Torino, 14 luglio 1997 Il Presidente del Corso di Laurea in Scienze della comunicazione prof. Mario Ricciardi BANDO DI CONCORSO PER PROFESSORI A CONTRATTO Il Consiglio della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Torino, ha deliberato di attivare per il prossimo anno accademico 1997/8 i seguenti insegnamenti, destinati al Corso di Laurea in Scienze della Comunicazione, utilizzando la procedura di conferimento mediante contratti di diritto privato a tempo determinato, secondo le modalità previste dallart. 25 del D.P.R. 11 luglio 1980, n. 382.: Economia aziendale Storia dell'arte contemporanea Tecniche della comunicazione pubblicitaria Teoria e tecniche della comunicazione pubblica Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio giornalistico Teoria e Tecniche del linguaggio radio-televisivo Teoria e tecniche delle comunicazioni di massa le modalità amministrative per la stipula del relativo contratto di diritto privato, gli impegni didattici conseguenti e la durata massima del contratto stesso, sono specificate nel citato art. 25 del D.P.R. 11 luglio 1980, n. 382. E' richiesta, a termini di legge, un'alta qualificazione scientifica o professionale, comprovata attraverso pubblicazioni scientifiche o dalle posizioni ricoperte nella vita professionale, economica e amministrativa del candidato. I candidati dovranno fare pervenire alla segreteria della Presidenza della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Università di Torino, un curriculum vitae dettagliato, in duplice copia. I candidati devono inoltre allegare copia dei documenti, pubblicazioni o altri titoli che ritengano utili per comprovare la loro alta qualificazione. Il Consiglio di Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia nominerà commissioni ad hoc, col compito di valutare le domande pervenute per ciascun insegnamento e successivamente procedere, con delibera del Consiglio di Facoltà stesso, all'attribuzione dei contratti elencati in questo bando. La domanda di rito, con la documentazione allegata, deve essere indirizzata a: PRESIDENZA FACOLTA DI LETTERE E FILOSOFIA VIA S. OTTAVIO 20 -10124 TORINO e deve pervenire entro il 1 settembre 1997. Torino, 14 luglio 1997 Il Preside prof. N. Tranfaglia ************************************************** Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh Dept. of Italian DHT, George Square EH8 9XJ United Kingdom Tel. 44+131-6503646 Fax: 44+131-6506536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/italian.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Online items Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:44:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 292 (292) [deleted quotation]<http://www.guardian.co.uk/>: (1) Jack Schofield, "Man and Supercomputer", reviewing Charles J Murray, The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer. Brilliant, eccentric, insufferable seem to be the adjectives for the man. What's professionally interesting is the epitaphizing of the supercomputer: now a thing of the past because (a) the US government is no longer willing to pay the huge price-tags to underwrite development and to purchase these things, and (b) many supercomputing needs can be met by off-the-shelf chips. Once upon a time, even at universities where much greater needs went begging, such machines were bought, staff hired to manage them and to spend their time looking for customers whose work could justify the huge expenditures. There were or still are schemes to do supercomputing by means of paralleling individual workstations. Are these still current? (2) Douglas Rushkoff, "The plug that was waiting to be pulled", on the disasters that result from centralisation of key Internet components, such as the DNS list maintained by Network Solutions (U.S.). As most of you will likely know, a massive DNS failure caused by distribution of a corrupted list crippled the Internet recently. "The answer, of course, is to limit or altogether eliminate these high-leverage points in the global Internet. The less important any particular cable or server, the less damage will be done in any single accident.... As David Holtzman, senior vice president at Network Solutions boasted last month about one of his name servers, 'if you pull the plug out of the back of this baby, everything on the Internet would die in about two days.'" A fascinating collision of social models, in which we find ourselves on the side of the US government, with its deregulatory stance against the centralising tendencies of big business. (3) Jack Scofield, "Netwatch". a. The report that the entire higher education community in the U.K. has been waiting for, from the committee chaired by Sir Ron Dearing, published simultaneously on paper and on the Web, at <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/ncihe/>. b. European Museum Guide 1997-98, <http://www.museumguide.com/>. c. Fish4it.com, which chooses a random site based on keywords or established special topics, <http://www.fish4it.com>. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: ambiguity Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 16:27:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 293 (293) In the latest TLS, #4921 for 25 July, Jonathan Bate discusses in "Commentary" the origins of William Empson's thinking on ambiguity, in "Words in a quantum world: How Cambridge physics led William Empson to refuse 'either/or'". There's much for us to contemplate here, particularly about how computing relates to the cultural and philosophical changes that surfaced earlier this century -- in science through the work of Einstein, Planck, Dirac, Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Eddington and others, and in the humanities through Empson. I suppose we're always in danger of thinking that science is primary, the humanities derivative. In the case of Empson, who read for the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge (ranking Senior Optime) before he went on to study English, in 1928, the one does come before the other, apparently, but I prefer to think of both as articulating a common substrate. "It was during the first few months after he switched from Mathematics to English that Empson wrote the first draft of Seven Types [of Ambiguity]." This draft, Bate says, "seems to have become Chapter Two of the finished book", and at the end of that chapter, Empson recognises explicitly the parallel between how he reads Shakespeare and the thinking "in recent atomic physics". There are several other clues as well, and Bate makes a good case from them. In essence Bate argues that Empson was the first to replace the "either/or" perspective in literary criticism with "both/and". About Shakespeare in particular, Empson wrote, "So it is assumed, except when a double meaning is very conscious and almost a joke, that Shakespeare can only have meant one thing, but that the reader must hold in mind a variety of things he may have meant, and weigh them, in appreciating the poetry, according to their probabilities. Here, as in recent atomic physics there is a shift in progress, which tends to attach the notion of a probability to the natural object rather than to the fallability of the human mind." Computing has, I would suppose, emerged from the same world and is indebted to the same physical insights as was Empson. Allow me to suggest that as a result two opposites have separated out, and that the opposition puts into our hands a most potent means of understanding: one the one hand, the "both/and" of the physical and imaginative worlds (if these are different); on the other, the powerful "either/or" of computing. Computing humanists daily use the latter to study the former, but it is in understanding the former that computing first, it seems, became possible -- and now is fundamentally necessary to keep in mind if computing is to have any real meaning for us. Of course Shakespeare, Ovid and all the rest meant several things simultaneously; trying and inevitably failing to compute them shows us 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 <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EMLS 3.1 Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:11:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 294 (294) [deleted quotation] _"All's Well that Ends Well," "Love's Labour's Lost," "A Midsummer Night's Worst Nightmare": Or, How Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 Finally Came to Fruition._ This lamentable tale of the delay of EMLS 3.1 begins in March 1997 with a deliberate decision to move EMLS's publication schedule to May, September, January, to avoid clashing with beginnings and ends of term and the MLA's December convention. Our timing slightly out of joint, we nonetheless felt confident that all was on schedule. But then a tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning was heard overhead and the Oriel College ethernet connection was hit by a bolt from the heavens. Suddenly, e-mail was no more, the internet receded into virtual unreality, and EMLS's non-existent funding was channelled into trans-atlantic phone-calls. The journal did not appear. Happier news was on the horizon, though, as a post-doctoral fellowship beckoned Ray Siemens to the University of Alberta. A welcome offer, its only drawback was that it meant him packing up and sending off his books and files and computer to these distant lands. And still the journal did not appear. Back in Oxford, meanwhile, and Joanne Woolway's other job (Adviser to Women Students) got her involved in a lengthy harassment case, which wiped out two weeks of term. This bode some strange eruption to our state . . . A job offer (Lecturer at Oriel College) added further distraction, though this time of a more welcome nature. So still the journal did not appear. Close to completion, the files were mounted on the EMLS site, carefully proof-read by a new team of editorial assistants, Sean Lawrence, Gillian Austen, and Jennifer Lewin (now in charge of interactive EMLS, with Paul Dyck). But some mischievous spirit had altered an access password and the homepage only showed issue 2.3. (O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set this right, said Joanne) And still the journal did not appear. To be or not to be?: that really was the question. But finally, it has appeared, and we now present this issue to our patient audience. The table of contents is below, and the EMLS site can be found at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Included alongside issue 3.1 is the first in the EMLS Special Issue Series, edited by Ian Lancashire and Michael Best, and entitled _New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries: Applications of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database._ EMLS is always happy to consider submissions and new ideas for publication: full submission details, contact addresses, etc. can be found on the site. Happy reading! Raymond G. Siemens Joanne Woolway Early Modern Literary Studies = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Early Modern Literary Studies 3.1 (May 1997): Editor: Joanne Woolway, Oriel College, Oxford Articles: Steve Sohmer. "12 June 1599: Opening Day at Shakespeare's Globe." Randall Martin. "Isabella Whitney's 'Lamentation upon the death of William Gruffith.'" Emma Roth-Schwartz. "Colon and Semi-Colon in Donne's Prose Letters: Practice and Principle." Note: Jeffrey Kahan. "Ambroise Pare's Des Monstres as a Possible Source for Caliban." Reviews: Patricia Parker. Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996. Mary Bly, Washington University, St. Louis. Chris Fitter. Poetry, Space, Landscape: Toward a New Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Pennsylvania State University. William S. Carroll. Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1996. Michael Long, Oriel College, Oxford University. Mark Breitenberg. Anxious Masculinity in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. Stephen Longstaffe, University College of St Martin. Hilary Hinds. God's Englishwomen: Seventeenth-Century Radical Sectarian Writing and Feminist Criticism. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1996. Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato. Melanie Hansen and Suzanne Trill, eds. Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. Renaissance Texts and Studies, Keele, Staffordshire: Keele UP, 1996. Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia. David Lindley. The Trials of Frances Howard: Fact and Fiction at the Court of King James. New York: Routledge, 1993. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria. Lady Mary Wroth. Lady Mary Wroth: Poems. A Modernized Edition. R. E. Pritchard, ed. Keele, Staffordshire: Keele UP, 1996. Joyce Green MacDonald, University of Kentucky. S. P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds. Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents. New York: Routledge, 1996. Patricia Ralston, Covenant College. EMLS Special Issue Series 1 (April 1997): New Scholarship from Old Renaissance Dictionaries: Applications of the Early Modern English Dictionaries Database. Ian Lancashire and Michael Best, eds. Editorial Preface. Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto, and Michael Best, University of Victoria. "That purpose which is plain and easy to be understood": Using the Computer Database of Early Modern English Dictionaries to Resolve Problems in a Critical Edition of The Second Tome of Homilies (1563). Stephen Buick, University of Toronto. Renaissance Dictionaries and Shakespeare's Language: A Study of Word-meaning in Troilus and Cressida. Mark Catt, University of Toronto. Did Shakespeare Consciously Use Archaic English? Mary Catherine Davidson, University of Toronto. An English Renaissance Understanding of the Word "Tragedy,"1587-1616. Tanya Hagen, University of Toronto. Understanding Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and the EMEDD. Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto. Reflections of an Electronic Scribe: Two Renaissance Dictionaries and Their Implicit Philosophies of Language. Jonathan Warren, University of Toronto. "A Double Spirit of Teaching": What Shakespeare's Teachers Teach Us. Patricia Winson, University of Toronto. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 11.0183 Hypercard and the Web Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 18:26:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 295 (295) On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I'm not quite sure how Javascript would work but recently in a discussion on multimedia applications I heard that "Lingo" (the script used for Director/Shockwave interactive applications) is based on Hypercard. Having used Lingo myself, I can vouch for the fact that it is not really that difficult--on the order of learning how to write macros for MS Excel. And if the Hypercard heritage is true, it might be rather familiar to your students. 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: "Craig A. Berry" Subject: Re: 11.0183 Hypercard and the Web Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 00:27:05 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 296 (296) Lorna et al., I believe Hypercard 3.0 is supposed to have web integration as a major focus, but for now, Hypercard 2.3.5 includes: "LiveCard from Royal/Heizer Software, which enables real-time streaming of HyperCard stacks off the net that are viewable by Windows, UNIX, and Mac OS web surfers. LiveCard accomplishes this by streaming each card in the stack as an industry-standard HTML format file. These files are readable on any platform while maintaining button and script functionality. LiveCard enables educational, business, and productivity stacks to be leveraged across Internet/intranet and across an enterprise through any computer client." The foregoing excerpted from: <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q1/961209.pr.rel.internet. html#Apple Announces HyperCard Update and Software Bundle> This is obviously Apple PR literature (several months old at that) and it is not clear how the web server interacts with Hypercard, but it does sound promising. Craig A. Berry mailto:berry@metamor.com From: Ken Tompkins Subject: Toolbook Assistant Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 07:52:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 297 (297) Willard.... Have you seen the new Toolbook Assistant? If you haven't you should ask them to send you the demo disk. It is Toolbook with drag and drop. Basically it has all the usual widgets except one doesn't have to learn OpenScript to get it to work. You can export to html or use the Neuron plugin or simply distribute with the runtime. I have college students creating all sorts of things including webpages with it. In my view -- because it powerfully exports to HTML/Java -- it is the best and most powerful authoring tool out there. You might want to look at it. kt ======================================== Ken Tompkins Richard Stockton College of NJ ktomkin@earthlink.net http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Randall Jones Subject: Recording with a mini-CD recorder Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 14:05:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 298 (298) I plan to make some voice recordings in Germany this fall and I am considering using a palm-size SONY MZR 30 mini-CD recorder. Aside from the price it seems to have many advantages, but it almost seems too good to be true. Can anyone advise me on using a mini-CD device for recording voice? How is the recording quality? Is it reasonably easy to use? I'd appreciate any advice. Randall Jones Brigham Young University From: Scott Stebelman Subject: Ph.D. Specialization in Computer Applications in the Humanities Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 06:56:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 299 (299) I would like to know if any English Departments have, among their areas of specialization for Ph.D. students, one for computer applications in the humanities. Students in such a specialization would take courses focusing on electronic concordances, the use of computers for stylistic analysis or authorial attributution, and the World Wide Web as a repository for scholarly resources. The courses do not all necessarily have to be offered by the English Department, but some should be. Thanks in advance for any information that can be provided. Scott Stebelman Faculty Outreach Librarian Gelman Library George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052 202/994-1342 scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: the future of sloth Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 12:57:57 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 300 (300) "Perhaps the future of Sloth will lie in sinning against what now seems increasingly to define us -- technology. Persisting in Luddite sorrow, despite technology's good intentions, there we'll sit with our heads in virtual reality, glumly refusing to be absorbed in its idle, disposable fantasies, even those about superheroes of Sloth back in Sloth's good old days, full of leisurely but lethal misadventures with the ruthless villains of the Acedia Squad." Thomas Pynchon, "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee". (For the whole thing, see <http://pete.pomona.edu/pynchon/uncollected/sloth.html">; for the San Narcisco College Thomas Pynchon Home Page, "the profoundly unofficial but widely collaborative Web page devoted to the work of Thomas Pynchon", see <http://pete.pomona.edu/pynchon/>.) 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Digital Resources for the Humanities Subject: Conference announcement: please post Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:17:16 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 301 (301) DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES '97 September 14 - 17 1997, St Anne's College, Oxford FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS ***** Closing date is now 15th August***** 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. 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. A number of conference bursaries are available. The conference web site at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/ is regularly updated, and includes full details of the programme and registration information. DRAFT PROGRAMME KEYNOTES Opening Keynote Father Roberto Busa "Concluding a life's safari from punch-cards to WWW" Closing Keynote: Details to be announced PRESENTATIONS Historical Resources Sheila Anderson (University of Essex) "Developing the Potential of Historical Data" Phil Stringer (Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services) "GENUKI - The UK genealogical information service" Katharine Keats-Rohan (Linacre College, Oxford) "COEL: Continental Origins of English Landowners " The Digital Library LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) "Whither the Humanities? An Ethnographer's View of the Digital Library Program" John Pull (Library of Congress) "Bridging the Gap between the Real and the ideal" Peter Robinson (De Montfort University) "The De Montfort/IBM Digital Library Project" The JISC Technology Applications Programme Stuart D. Lee and Paul Groves (Oxford University Computing Services) "Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature" Doug Arnold (University of Essex) "WWW-Corpora and the Internet Grammar of English" Katharine Stynes and John MacKay (Ravensbourne College) "Networked Collaboration for Design Students" Scholarly Resources Martin Mueller (Northwestern University) "The Chicago Homer as a Pedagogical and Scholarly Tool" Merrilee Proffit (Bancroft Library) "Progress Report on the Digital Scriptorium Project" John Price-Wilkin and Frances McSparran (University of Michigan) "The Middle English Compendium: Text, Lexicon, Bibliography" Developing Digital Collections Iain Watson (Arts Libraries and Museums, Durham County Council) "The Durham Record Project" Louise Smith (Museums Documentation Association) [To be confirmed] Alicia Wise (Archaeology Data Service) "Unearthing Archaeology for the Digital Age." Teaching with Digital Resources Sarah Porter (CTI Centre for Textual Studies) "Digital texts in humanities teaching: what about the users?" Gavin Burnage (University of Cambridge) "Integrating Digital Video into Language Learning Software" Judith Thomas (University of Virginia) "The Media Archive: Instructional Tool and Scholarly Resource" Film and Performance Dr E. Lyon, J.Maslin (Unversity of Surrey) "Audio and video on-demand for the performing arts: Project PATRON" Barry Smith (Nottingham Trent University) "Overload and underload in our digital future" Kjell Jerselius (University of Stockholm) "Papermaker and cut!" The Virtual Manuscript Matthew Driscoll (University of Copenhagen) "The virtual reunification of the Arnamagnaean collection" Fernando Magan (Centro de Investigacions Linguisticas e Literarias Ramon Pineiro) "Arquivo Galicia Medieval" Zoe Borovsky (University of Oregon) "If Looks Could Kill: TACT and Icelandic sagas" Non-Formula Funding of Special Collections Ian R. M. Mowat, (University of Edinburgh). "Non-Formula Funding of Specialised Research" Mark Nicholls (Cambridge University Library) Glyn Goodrick and Keith Webster (University of Newcastle) "The Gertrude Bell Archive" Beyond Resource Discovery Lorcan Dempsey (UKOLN) "Hybridicity" Oscar Struijv (History Data Service) "Telescope, Stethoscope... Microscope: extending the hyperspace exploration toolset for Humanities scholars and teachers" Keith Cole (Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services) "The KINDS project" Claire Warwick (Oxford University) "The British National Corpus" SGML as Metadata MacKenzie Smith (Harvard University) "Integrating metadata in the digital library" Richard Gartner (Bodleian Library) "Linking word and image" LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) "EAD at the Library of Congress: a progress report" Peter Kidd (Bodleian Library) "Medieval manuscripts and metadata: an SGML approach" Documentary Resources Christian-Emil Ore (University of Oslo) "Making multidisciplinary resources" C.M. Sperberg-McQueen (University of Illinois) "What is XML and Why Should Humanists Care?" David R. Chesnutt (University of South Carolina) "The American Documentary Heritage Database: Building the First Cluster" Electronic Publishing Rolando Minuti (University of Firenze) and Guido Abbattista (University of Trieste) "The CROMOHS Experience" Espen S. Ore and Peter Cripps (University of Bergen) "Electronic publication of Wittgenstein's Nachlass" Donald A. Spaeth (University of Glasgow) "Reflections before Commercialisation: Electronic Publication and the TLTP History Courseware Consortium" Literary-Historical Resources Christopher Mulvey (King Alfred's University College) "The African American American Research Library OnLine" Glenn Dibert-Himes (Sheffield Hallam University) "Digital Access to the Edition Corvey" Susan Hockey and Patricia Clements (University of Alberta) "The Orlando Project" Linguistic Resources Lisa Lena Opas and Ilkka Savijarvi (University of Joensuu); Espen S. Ore and Sjur Moshagen (University of Bergen) "Language Contacts on the Internet" Milena Dobreva and Dobrislav Dobrev (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia) "Orthographic Variety in Medieval Slavic Texts" Florence Bruneseaux (CRIN-CNRS & INRIA, Lorraine) "A user-oriented linguistic resource server: the Silfide project" Literary Resources David H. Radcliffe (Virginia Tech) "Mapping Tradition in a Database: Spenser and Romantic Poetry, 1579-1830." Michael Groden (University of Western Ontario) "James Joyce's Ulysses in Hypermedia" Domenico Fiormonte (University of Edinburgh) "The Digital Variants Archive project" Preservation Seamus Ross (Glasgow University) "The Urgent Case for Digital Preservation" Nancy Elkington (Research Libraries Group) "Digitisation for preservation and digitisation for access" Richard Blake (Public Record Office) "Influencing the behaviour of data creators" [to be confirmed] Sean Townsend (History Data Service) "Data Need a Home" Performing and Fine Arts Christie Carson (Royal Holloway) "Shakespeare Studies in the Multimedia Age" Dan Fleming (University of Ulster) "Curating the Views: the Formations Project" J. Scott Bentley (Academic Press, San Diego) "The Image Directory: Bringing Electronic Publishing to Art Museums" PANEL SESSIONS Creating Digital Resources in the Humanities: panel organized by John Unsworth (University of Virginia) with Morris Eaves (University of Rochester), Ed Ayers (University of Virginia), Martha Nell Smith "Dickinson Electronic Archives", Ken Price "Walt Whitman Archive" Discovering Humanities Resources : panel organized by Neil Beagrie (AHDS Executive, Kings College) with Rosemary Russell (UKOLN) [To be confirmed], Paul Miller (AHDS) "Metadata for Resource Discovery"; Cressida Chappell, (History Data Service) "Changing Boundaries: the need for an Historical Geographical Thesaurus" AHDS User Services: roundtable organized by Astrid Wissenburg (AHDS Executive) with participants representing national projects and institutional departments involved in user support Changing Shape: The Electronic Journal: panel organized by Willard McCarty (Kings College London) with Jennifer Lewin (Early Modern Literary Studies) and Seamus Ross (Internet Archaeology) Network delivery of moving images: panel organized by Daniel Greenstein (AHDS Executive) and Murray Weston (British University Film and Video Council) [Details to be confirmed] New Services in the Visual Arts: panel with Catherine Grout (Visual Arts Data Service) Tony Gill (Surrey Institute of Art and Design), Jane Williams (University of Bristol) "Technical Advisory Service for Images: TASI and VADS working together" [To be confirmed] REGISTRATION FORM THE DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATIONS IS AUGUST 15TH 1997 Please complete a separate form for each person intending to attend Please register the following delegate: Title (Dr/Mr/Ms etc).................................................. First Name............................................................ Family Name/Surname................................................... Position/Job Title.................................................... Organisation.......................................................... Full Mailing Address.................................................. ....................................................................... ....................................................................... Postcode............................................................... Country............................................................... Telephone............................................................. Fax................................................................... PLEASE SELECT CONFERENCE FEES PAYABLE: [ ] Registration Fee @ 250 pounds [ ] Partner Registration Fee @ 125 pounds [ ] Prepaid (AHDS) Registration Fee [ ] Conference Banquet @ 40 pounds The partner registration fee provides shared ensuite accommodation for an additional person (including meals) from dinner on 14 Sept to lunch on 17 Sept inclusive. Partners are also welcome to attend the Conference Banquet at an additional charge of 40 pounds. Admission to conference sessions and coffee breaks is not included. You may be eligible for a bursary to cover all or part of your registration fees. See Current Bursary Schemes at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97/bursaries.html for details. Total Conference Fee Payable: .......... Pounds. ACCOMMODATION: [ ] Three nights, single room, shared bathroom @ 90 pounds [ ] Three nights, single room, ensuite @ 140 pounds [ ] Three nights, twin room, ensuite @ 140 pounds (per delegate) The accommodation fees above cover all meals and accommodation from dinner on 14 Sept to lunch on 17 Sept inclusive. ADDITIONAL NIGHTS For additional accommodation, please indicate below the dates required and the type of accommodation: [ ] Bed and Breakfast for Friday 12 September [ ] Bed and Breakfast for Saturday 13 September [ ] Bed and Breakfast for Wednesday 17 September [ ] single room, shared bathroom @ 30 pounds [ ] single room, ensuite bathroom @ 45 pounds [ ] twin room, ensuite bathroom @ 80 pounds If paying by cheque on a non-UK bank, please add bank charges of 15 pounds Please indicate method of payment : [ ] Cheque enclosed (for printed forms only) [ ] Institutional Purchase Code (please specify)...................... [ ] Please Invoice [ ] Bank Transfer - Please send necessary form Payment by Credit Card: Please debit .....................pounds from my Visa/Mastercard Card no:............................................. Expiry date: ........................................ Cardholder's name (as on card): ...................... Cardholder's address (to which statements are sent): .................................................................... .................................................................... Please return printed forms to Christine Merle, CPD Centre, University of Oxford, 67 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU, UK. Tel: +44 (1865) 288166 Fax: +44 (1865) 288163 to arrive NO LATER THAN AUGUST 15th 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Ph.D in Humanities Computing Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 11:50:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 302 (302) [deleted quotation] The American Studies Program at University of Virginia has an MA program that is centered around hypertext and hypermedia publications as an expression of interdisciplinary scholarship. Alan Howard is the coordinator. See their fab website at http://xroads.virginia.edu for more info I think the English Dept at UVA has similar emphases. Other than this, I'm sure the rhetoric/composition programs at Michigan Tech, Texas Tech and some of the other well-known rhetoric schools have the kind of thing you are describing. Jeff Jeff Finlay, Administrator American Studies Crossroads Project http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads Need info about jobs, fellowships, conferences, neat resources? Check out http://home.dc.lsoft.com/archives/opportunities.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: metaphors Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 08:43:35 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 303 (303) Many years ago Heinz von Foerster warned us about the metaphors we use in speaking of information, data, knowledge. Have you noticed that the borders (if there ever were any) between these areas is blurring? Have you noticed the number of new metaphors? We now have data warehouses, data marts, data archaeology, data hygiene, data packaging, data mining, data migration, information brokering, knowledge workers, data clearinghouse, knowledge representation, etc., all terms for library, information storage and retrieval (to which Heinz objected), bibliography, cleanup, etc. Perhaps I could consider myself a data mole (you heard it here first). Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: either/or Date: Sun, 27 Jul 97 08:23:46 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 304 (304) I think that the problem of either/or has to do with concept formation and such things. I have always maintained that it was I who first said: "The problem is not that machines will come to think like human beings, it is that human beings will come to think like machines." Anyway a nice chiasm. The kind of yes/no but never maybe thinking has been pressed upon us from all sides: symbolic logic, set theory, computers. In fact, it was Claude Shannon's realization that switching theory and symbolic logic (in the form in which he studied it in the late thirties) were roughly isomorphic if not strictly isomorphic that gave much of the impetus for the first digital computers. But most of the concepts we humanists work with are not yes/no, digital, whatever, they are ambiguous, fuzzy, stippled spectrum, more so / less so, (non-)metrically ordered, ideal type, etc. concepts, such as dialect, language, medieval, ode, Shakespeare. By an as-if sort of thing which human beings do so well, we can pretend for some nefarious purposes, such as computerizing, that they are, but they are not. This situation has forced upon us such procrustean beds as authorship assignment by computer, dendrology by computer, and the like. It is not at all necessary to do this; we CAN have poly-valued computers. Cf. the collection of papers by Jon T. Butler, _Multiple-Valued Logic in VLSI Design_ (Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991). Alternately, if we act as if dialect were an aristotelian concept for some purpose, we need to keep in mind that it is not in reality. One can act as if verb/adjective ratio were something amenable to quantification AND as if the result told us something about author attribution, but in the end one must realize that even `author' is not a well-defined, not to get into set theory, and that it is often quite hard to tell what is a verb and what is an adjective. Just try to parse what I am writing at this moment. Remember the ambiguities of doing sentence diagrams. Remember Chomsky! One of the outcomes of late 18th century / early 19th century Boolean thinking was Boolean algebra, another was the dendrology we see in Indo-European studies, in textual criticism (Lachmann school). To do one of these dry trees, one has to use either/or logic. It is either on one branch or the other, it cannot be on both. In practice, we cheat a lot, but dendrology requires the assumption of well-formed concepts without overlap and fuzzy borders. All of this has very little to do with Empson, the use of the number seven, and Cambridge logic. I had to read him as an undergraduate and came away with the feeling (I still have my term paper) that he didn't tell me much. We ought to know that much which we humanists do is profoundly ambiguous, fuzzy, etc. We need not be ashamed of this; it comes with the territory and is something to be proud of. ! Jim Marchand. From: "Paul R. Falzer" Subject: Re: 11.0190 either/or, both/and Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 14:43:20 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 305 (305) [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] Willard, Regarding your remarks about Empson's thinking on ambiguity, I am reminded of section 352 of *Philosophical investigations*: "Here it happens that our thinking plays us a queer trick. We want, that is, to quote the law of excluded middle and to say: "Either such an image is in his mind, or it is not; there is no third possibility! The law of excluded middle says here: It must either look like this, or like that. So it really -- and this is a truism -- says nothing at all, but gives us a picture. And the problem ought now to be: does reality accord with the picture or not? And this picture *seems* to determine what we have to do, what to look for, and how -- but it does not do so, just because we do not know how it is to be applied. Here saying "There is no third possibility" or "But there can't be a third possibility!" expresses our inability to turn our eyes away from this picture: a picture which looks as if it must already contain both the problem and its solution, while all the time we *feel* that it is not so." I would only add that perhaps "both/and" is not the only alternative to "either/or," and that posing the two as complementary seems to illustrate the difficulty of turning away from the picture. In any case, I think that Wittgenstein's name can be added to the list of distinguished scientists and humanists who have addressed the problem -- though it may not be easy to classify him as one *or* the other. We could characterize his work as "both/and," but for what purpose? Paul R. Falzer From: John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu Subject: Re: 11.0190 either/or, both/and Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 12:06:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 306 (306) [deleted quotation] I have my doubts as to whether Empson really needed physics to spur his insights into poetry; I suspect that this is a case of science as rhetorically useful, to assist in making a case for an unusual though venerable way of seeing things, rather than as a direct inspiration (which is however something you can also find in Empson, especially in his poetry). My favorite comment of Empson's on science is from the 1955 foreword to his Collected Poems: By the way, I have been much disturbed by recent theories that the universe is not, after all, finite though unbounded, as the earlier poems here often require it to be; but I retain my confidence that the sane old views we were brought up upon will come back into favour. John Lavagnino ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Marta Steele Subject: either/or Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:50:31 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 307 (307) Willard, To trace some origins of this opposition (not THE origins, I'm sure), Kierkegaard titled what he considered to be the beginning of his authorship as _Either/Or_. The first volume, the writings of a young man, include _The Seducer's Diary_, which my employers (Princeton University Press) are bringing out as a separate volume forwarded by John Updike quite soon (n.b.: disappointingly, there is no actual seduction involved; SK "dumped" his fiancee/ in a panic over his intellectual future); in the second volume, Judge William writes the older friend's "or": the first volume collects the esthetic view of life, the second the ethical. I don't mean to sound too much like a jacket flap (from which I am quoting and paraphrasing), but the point is that SK leaves the resolution to his reader. until part iii, which appears in _Stages on Life's Way_: the third "existence-sphere" is the religious. This just to provide some background. I will not speculate on the nihilistic postscript he never did publish: _Neither/Nor_. Marta Steele PS: re my employers, the usual disclaimer: my opinions etc. bear no reflection on any attitudes or policies of PUPress. PPS: Volume 1 of _E/O_ actually gives some further background to the expression: the Latin aut/aut was used by Frederik Christian Sibbern in his review of Heiberg's _Perseus_ journal, in a discussion of the principle of contradiction: Mynster also used the phrase in his discussion of contradiction, in opposition to Hegel et al. (this, from p. x of the intro. to vol. I of _E/O_). So here are "official" contexts. One can joke that the Latin coordinating conjunctions existed far earlier as nothing more than that. From: Willard McCarty Subject: usefulness of either/or Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 08:20:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 308 (308) Marchand, Falzer and Lavagnino in Humanist 11.192 give thoughtful response to Bate's review of Empson's intellectual history and the question of the ambiguous. Like John I'm suspicious of any argument that sets up the humanities as reactive to core discoveries in the sciences. Could we call this "intellectual penis-envy"? To put the matter another way, there seems a prevalent sexism that sets the arts and humanities up as softly decorative, even sexy, but in doing so dismisses them from the real work of the hard sciences. Although it is possible that Empson was stimulated into thinking the way he did from hanging about other bright people who happened to be scientists, nevertheless it's difficult for me to accept that either/or froze the minds of everyone before. A false parallel here between intellectual development in the sciences and that in the humanities? What really interested me about the TLS piece was the possibility that it might provoke some thinking about the cultural change that directly concerns us here, that is, the intellectual shift brought about -- or more accurately represented -- by computing. Whether our mental ways can be programmed into a VLSI chip aside, the computers we have are either/or machines. What does it mean for either/or processing to become so culturally important at the very time when so many certainties have dissolved away or are crumbling, precisely when we are pushed more insistently than usual to realise fundamental ambiguities? Possibly, as Elaine Showalter argues in her book on hysteria, this has something to do with our millenarian circumstances. In any case, it's where we are. What opportunities does the moment present to us? I don't think our purposes need to be nefarious for us to take as a working assumption that either/or processing is at least useful. We know it's a seriously flawed model, but as we've shown over the last 50 years we can do some useful work with it, we can even get to some realisations about our materials that time and mortality made unreachable before. But we're terribly thick if we stop there. What about the failure of either/or? Is it our dirty secret or (as I keep arguing) one of the most powerful intellectual tools we have? And if the latter, then what? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: A. David Wunsch wunscha @woods.uml.edu Subject: ambiguity Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:23:58 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 309 (309) A friend sent me your piece on ambiguity that appeared in the Humanist Discussion Group Forum. It seems to me that there is much more ambiguity coming out of the special theory of relativity than there is in the quantum model of the atom. Is there any evidence that Empson was influenced by Einstein's work ? Yours A. David Wunsch Dept of Electrical Engineering U Mass Lowell Lowell MA 01854 wunscha @woods.uml.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Cindy Wambeam Subject: Re: 11.0191 Ph.D. in humanities computing Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 15:07:04 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 310 (310) [deleted quotation] The English Department at New Mexico State University offers a PhD in Rhetoric & Professional Communication that is very interdisciplinary, encouraging students to take courses outside of the department. Several doctoral students are focusing their studies on computers & the humanities -- some of us are looking at Internet communication, publishing on-line, hypertext, teaching with computers, visual rhetoric. Others are doing more with computer programming and linguistics, programming and program documentation, or programming and hypertext. As you can probably tell, we define our own areas of specialization. However, the department as a whole offers much for those interested in Rhetoric & Technology/Science. There are also two MAs, one in Rhetoric and one in Technical Communication, that encourage the same sort of interdisciplinary studies. You can find out more on our web site at: http://www.nmsu.edu/~english Other schools that I know of with similar PhD programs (in the U.S.) are Michigan Tech and Texas Tech. A variety of Technological Universities (like New Mexico Tech in Socorro) offer undergrad and MA programs that emphasize the connection between technology/computing and the humanities. Cindy _ ......................... ___(_) _ __ Cindy Wambeam : Oedipa, to retaliate,: / __| | '_ \ New Mexico State University : stopped believing: | (__| | | | | English department : in them: \___|_|_| |_|.......==>cwambeam@nmsu.edu<==....:.(The Crying of Lot 49): (http://scf.nmsu.edu/~cwambeam) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: bobevans Subject: All-in-one printer, scanner, copier Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:29:25 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 311 (311) I would appreciate any advice about purchasing an all-in-one printer, scanner, and copier. I have been looking at the HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 C, which is relatively new, and would welcome any comments on this or similar devices, especially those who may have used them. I am particularly interested in any opinions on the quality of the scanning. I need a device that has a flat-bed scanner rather than a sheet-fed model. Thanks for any help. Bob Evans bobevans@strudel.aum.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Sean Golden Subject: 4th International Conference on Translation Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:38:02 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 312 (312) 4th International Conference on Translation 25 years of Translation and Interpretation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Future Perspectives Faculty of Translation and Interpretation 6 - 8 May 1998 First Circular The 4th International Conference on Translation and Interpretation takes on special importance, coinciding as it does with the 25th anniversary of translation and interpretation studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the first university centre in Spain to introduce this discipline. The Conference will include three main sections: plenary sessions with guest speakers, papers and communications by conference members. Thematic areas of the 4th Conference: * Theory of translation * Specialised translation * History of translation * Audiovisual translation * Didactics of translation * Translation and new technology * Interpretation * Terminology * Literary translation In this 4th Conference priority will be given to future perspectives of research in each of the thematic areas and to research in the field of Catalan. A round table will be held entitled: "Les traduccions al català: models de llengua", moderated by Dr Francesc Parcerisas. The following speakers have confirmed their participation: Dr Daniel Gile (University of Lyons), Dr Albrecht Neubert (Emeritus Professor of the University of Leipzig), Dr Eugene A. Nida (American Bible Society), Dr Christiane Nord (University of Magdeburg), Dr Joaquim Mallafrè (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) and Dr J.A. Sager (UMIST, Manchester). The scientific committee is formed by Drs Anna Aguilar-Amat, Doris Ensinger, Joan Fontcuberta, Seán Golden, Amparo Hurtado, Francesc Parcerisas, Marisa Presas and the six invited speakers. Co-ordination: A. Aguilar-Amat, A. Hurtado and M. Orozco. Organising committee: M. Altimir, A. Beeby, E. Butterfield, D. Cinca, M. Conill, D. Ensinger, J. Minett, L. Molina, P. Orero, A. Pintori, J.M. Piqué, J. Sellent and J. Sureda Call for papers and communications All those interested in presenting communications and papers are invited to do so before 28 November 1997 at the address indicated below. Papers (40 minutes) and communications (20 minutes) should be summarised in writing (200 words) in English, French, German, Spanish or Catalan, indicating the area in which you wish to register and any special material you might need (video, O.H.P., computer, etc.). Papers and communications may be sent by e-mail to the following address: congres_ti@cc.uab.es, as an attached file (in accordance with the MIME standard) in Word, WP 5.1 or HTML format; the message will be acknowledged. The 4th Conference has the following WEB page: http: //cc.uab.es/congres_ti/ which contains further information. This may be used for pre-registration and papers and communications can be sent to it. Acceptance of papers and communications will be confirmed by the Conference Secretary before 31 January 1998 Registration fees: Students: 3.000 pesetas Other participants: 15.000 pesetas (before 15 April -18.000 pts after that date) Payment should be made by bank transfer to Title: Fourth International Conference on Translation Bank: Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona Branch: Universitat Autònoma Address: Edifici Rectorat. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) c/c: 02-001228-91 Pre-registration forms should be sent accompanied by proof of bank transfer to: Secretaria del Department de Traducció i d'Interpretació Facultat de Traducció i d'Interpretació (Edifici M-1) Campus Universitari s/n 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Tel: (93) 581 27 61/ 581 31 24; Fax (93) 581 2762 E-mail: congres_ti@cc.uab.es Pre-registration forms are available at http://cc.uab.es/congres_ti/ Sean Golden Dean of the Faculty Facultat de Traduccio i Interpretacio Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 08193 Bellaterra, BARCELONA, Spain Tel: 34 3 5811374 FAX: 34 3 5811037 e-mail: sgolden@cc.uab.es From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 14:21:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 313 (313) New conferences added to the NINCH Calendar page, at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html>, include the following: * August 22 Coalition for Networked Information: New Learning Communities, Washington, DC * October 1-3 BUILDING THE GLOBAL INFORMATION SOCIETY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, European Commission Brussels, Belgium * November 17-22 The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), Bethesda, MD * Feb 26-28, 1998 Consortium for School Networking (CoSN): K-12 School Networking '98 Washington, DC * April 1-3, 1998 EP98, 7th International Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and Typography St Malo, France From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI '97 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:16:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 314 (314) [deleted quotation] [Sorry for possible duplicates] LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ESSLLI'97 European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information Aix-en-Provence, France (August 11-22, 1997) http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~esslli97 The ninth European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information will be held in Aix-en-Provence, France, from August 11 until August 22, 1997. ESSLLI has as its main focus the intersection of the areas of logic, linguistics, and computation. The programme includes courses, workshops and symposia covering a variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Computation, Computation & Language, and Language & Logic. Courses are given at both introductory and advanced levels. [material omitted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Electronic Archives Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 17:50:46 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 315 (315) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 29, 1997 THE PRESERVATION OF DIGITIZED RECORDS AND REPRODUCTIONS In the context of continuing discussion and thought about the management and preservation of digital material come two related by separate policy statements, one from the Society of American Archivists and from the Australian Archives. The first is a statement of principles, recently approved by the Council of the SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS. The three-page "Statement on the Preservation of Digitized Reproductions," <http://www.archivists.org/governance/resolutions/digitize.html> covers the issues of preservation, selection, quality, integrity and access. Overall the document stresses the importance of considering and carrying forward the context of a document or object when it is digitized, the importance of an object's metadata accompanying the object throughout its digital history, and of the long-term care of an object through migration onto future generations of digital carriers. The second announcement concerns the release of the AUSTRALIAN ARCHIVES' policy document, "Managing Electronic Records - A Shared Responsibility" <http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Issues/ManagingER.html>. This is an update of a 1995 policy document and marks an increasing understanding of the importance of long-term care of electronic records and objects, from creation through migration. To quote from the Introduction: "The essential features of such an approach involve: * strategic management of electronic records; * the development and implementation of electronic recordkeeping systems; * the migration of electronic records, with their content, structure and context intact, across changes in software and hardware platforms." From: Willard McCarty Subject: cyberculture Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:19:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 316 (316) Some Humanists may not know about the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/>, run by a new member of this seminar, David Silver. It includes book reviews, interviews, course listings, listing of scholars, bibliography, conference listing, links, etc. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: David Green Subject: UNESCO World Information Report Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:33:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 317 (317) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 30, 1997 UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT RELEASED The first World Information Report has just been published by UNESCO. This 390-page volume provides a comprehensive and topical worldwide picture of archive, library and information services on the five continents in 1996. It is divided into three parts: In Part 1, libraries and information services, together with archives, are presented in 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular region; audiovisual archives are the subject of one worldwide chapter. Part 2 reviews the infrastructures for information work with 5 chapters devoted to computer developments, multimedia technologies, telecommunication technologies, the Internet, and design criteria for large library buildings. Part 3 offers 8 chapters in which a number of issues and trends are discussed: the information society, information highways, economic intelligence, book publishing, access to archival holdings and unique library materials, presentation of archival holdings and unique library materials, copyright in the electronic age, international co-operation and assistance. The report is edited by Yves Courrier (UNESCO) and ASIS member Andrew Large (GSLIS, McGill). The 32 authors were drawn from a variety of countries, but most authors in part 2 and 3 are from the industrialized countries. Of the 27 chapters of the report, nine are available online, together with an Introduction, at <http://www.unesco.org/cii/wirerpt/vers-web.htm>. The online chapters are as follows: Introduction, by Yves Courrier and Andrew Large; Part One, INFORMATION SERVICES WORLDWIDE: Ch 2: South Asia; Ch 8: Latin America and the Caribbean; Ch 10 The Arab States, Ch 11 Africa; PART TWO: INFRASTRUCTURES: Ch 17 Telecommunications Technologies; Ch 18 The Internet; PART THREE ISSUES & TRENDS: Ch 21 Information Highways; Ch 26 Copyright in the Electronic Age; ch 27 International Co-operation and Assistance. Those wishing to pursue issues raised in the report may join a listserv at: Orders for the 275FF Report may be made through UNESCO Publishing at <http://www.unesco.org/publishing/jp2.html#88d6bfd0208436f80a471d3fdd1cc76b> Below, I include the opening "Presentation" from the report "The World Information Report provides a worldwide picture of archive, library and information services in 1996. This sourcebook not only covers in detail the state of the art of archive, library and information services in the five continents, but also addresses the most challenging issues that they face at the dawn of the twenty-first century. "A thorough review of the world of information, from East to West and from North to South, is offered in Part I. For the first time , a general picture covering both developed and developing countries describes: national archives, libraries and information centres; school, university and public libraries; national and international networks; database producers; professional associations and education; public and private institutions providing all sorts of information services. Tables and figures synthesize the data available region by region. "The Part II deals with the basic technical components of information work, which are presented in the form of state-of-the-art reports. Computers, telecommunication and multimedia technologies, and Internet together with library buildings are accordingly reviewed from an information perspective. "Part III is concerned with issues and trends of relevance to information provision. Crucial problems such as the future of books and copyright, access to archives, preservation of the archival heritage, and international co-operation and assistance are presented for the benefit of the layman. Prevailing trends leading to the twenty-first century's information world are covered in chapters such as The Information Society, Information Highways, and Economic Intelligence. "Prepared by UNESCO, which secured the contribution of the best specialists from all over the world, the World Information Report is an instrument of both diagnosis and decision. It will provide decision-makers, government officials, information professionals and the public at large with a better understanding of the information world as it is today and a more acute insight of what it will be tomorrow. " =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Diane Whitehouse (5) Subject: HCC5 - Call Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 318 (318) FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS IFIP/TC9 5TH WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN CHOICE AND COMPUTERS COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION GENEVA AUGUST 1998 Dear Colleagues and To whom it may concern, The IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing http://www.ifip.or.at) Technical Committee 9 (http://www.uta.fi/jarjestot/ifip/) is preparing a World Conference on Implications of new Information Technologies: The fifth Conference on "Human Choice and Computers" (HCC5) on COMPUTERS AND NETWORKS IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (Web site : http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/) This Event will take place in Switzerland (Geneva) from 26 to 28 August 1998 (Tutorials, Working Groups Meeting, get together, 25 August), organized by the Inforge (http://www.hec.unil.ch/inforge/) from Lausanne University Business School (http://www.hec.unil.ch) In a particularly choatic period with a lot of social, economic, political and ethical problems, that Conference must be a most interesting and challenging event to cross intercultural perceptions and examine the issues to be settled for the next Millenium in relation with Informatics, Computer Science, Networks and Information Systems. As wide field of disciplines are concerned, the Programme and Organizing Committees, hope for large scientific contributions from non-computer research fields ie Sociology, Economy, Law, Politics, Business, Electronic Commerce, etc. The main topics of that Conference will covered: Methodological Paradigms and Shifts : Virtual Reality, Multimedia, Cyberspace, Information and Communication Infrastructures National and Regional Developments of Information Infrastructures Role of Work in Information Societies : Experiences and Perspectives Human Rights in Information Societies and Role of Groups with Special Needs Home Informatics and Telematics Threats to Information Economies and Societies: Legal Implications Information Societies in Historical Perspective Role of Education in Information Societies and Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Education Impact of Global InformationInfrastructures on Democracy and Culture Economic changes induced by Globalization Emerging organisational forms such as virtual organisations" Towards an Ethics of Information Societies and Cyberspace Informatics, Telematics & Automation Virtual Worlds - Applications and Social Implications Women, Work and Computerization Gender and Information Technology Accepted papers will be published with an official editor of IFIP SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The HCC-5 Programme Committee invite the submission of research papers, case studies, research-in-progress articles, panel session proposals to the Fifth World Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC-5). IMPORTANT DATES January 5 1998 : Deadline for submission February 11, 1998 : Paper Selection April 6, 1998 : Final Papers LANGUAGE English The original, unpublished papers, limited to 10-12 pages should be submitted electronically (Microsoft Word) : E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk If not possible, send your disk ( or paper) to the address of the Programme Committee Chairman : Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN Address for submission : Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN Project Centre CESAR Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Science Park SYMBION Fruebjergvej 3 DK-2100 COPENHAGEN 0 Denmark Phone : +45 39 17 98 66 Fax :+45 39 17 98 63 E-mail : iqlbr@cbs.dk See our Web site to get all other detailed informations : http://www.hec.unil.ch/hcc5/ We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your interested colleagues and within your own scientific networks. Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Prof. Leif Bloch RASMUSSEN and Prof. Silvio Munari Chair of Programme Committee and Chair of Organizing Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------- Professeur Silvio MUNARI e-mail: Silvio.Munari@hec.unil.ch HEC-INFORGE Tel: ++41.21/692.34.01 University of Lausanne Fax: ++41.21/692.34.05 CH - 1015 Lausanne ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: 11.0190 either/or, both/and Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:43:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 319 (319) Willard, I was intrigued that respondants to your posting about [loss of text here, for what reason I do not understand... WM] chose to address the "outer" subject line "either/or both/and". The direction of that particular discursive syntagm (either/or to both/and, Aristotle to Boole, the excluded middle to the fuzzy edge) intrigues me because it is often paired with an ascription of the digital to the cultural and the analog to the natural with the attendent valuations placed on such pairings. Very often, an implicit choice of the form EITHER either/or OR both/and functions in the discourse as the prelude to the inscription of a tale of progress, a movement from the simple to the complex. "Ambiguity" can be an indication of complexity. At a certain meta-level, there exists a decision either to apply or not to apply a "both/and" logical operation. To what is that "both/and" operation applied? The results of at least two either/or operations. The either/or operations can succeed each other temporally: An either/or operation leads to one result. An either/or operation is reiterated and leads to a second result. The "both/and" operation is applied to the results. The objection may be raised that the either/or operation can either be applicable or not. That would mean that a single attempted either/or operation would lead to a possible "both/and" operation. An appeal to the recursivity of frames could help make the claim that the single attempt of the application of an either/or operator requires at a meta-level another either-or operator to judge its applicability. Of course the foregoing seems to assume that "comparison" is primitive. However the movement between results and application of an operation (or for those familiar with Turing machines between states and instructions) seems to assume that "connection" is primitive. This is could be a replay of the semantics versus syntax debate. If it is, then is there something more primitive than either comparison or connection, something about semiotic artefacts that is neither semantic nor syntactic? Perhaps this is the wrong question. Perhaps the question to ask is how cognitive models offered by cybernetics yield an understanding of semiotic artefacts as objects in motion and subject to a variety of operations. And an other question might be about the sociology of knowledge -- how is it that certain cultural and ideological assumptions about the fluidity of semiotic objects affect the acceptance of cybernetic models of cognitive activity? Perhaps there is more than one question to ask and more than one way of connecting their asking. One could be more categorical about investigative pluralism. It is good. It leaves room for a certain primitive "ifyness". -- Francois From: Marta Steele Subject: either/or? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:54:46 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 320 (320) Willard, Please print this only if you think it adds anything substantive to the discussion. Re the dichotomy you draw between humanities and the sciences, I have to say that I think the "top" of all intellectual pursuits converge into the same irrational quest/answer. Call it the vaste and horrifying edifice of the Great Unknown, call it Truth, or Metaphysics - i.e., philosophy transcending science even as it reinterprets it and reexpresses it. In the person of someone like Hans Christian Oersted, there was so much said about both pursuits, blending them and separating them as needed - his is a laudable and inspiring synthesis. We are publishing his collected scientific works one of these days, within which, even minus the humanistic writings, there was a lot for this poet/classicist to glean, gratefully. As usual the disclaimer, don't blame my employers for any of my opinions - they are strictly my own, though I learn a great deal from my editing experiences here. With best wishes, as always, Marta Steele From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 11.0195 either/or Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:19:51 GMT0BST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 321 (321) Curiously, there was a slightly relevant thread on the French Language discussion list France_Langue recently. Someone commented on the recent appearance of the expression "et/ou" in French, saying that it was an anglicism. The French _ou_, unlike "or" in English, is inclusive and thus _et/ou_ is redundant. _Prenez-vous du lait ou du sucre dans votre café?_ does not preclude taking both, which, in English, only semantics tell us is a legitimate reply. I wonder if there might have been some slapdash translations of German and French writings... Incidentally, Latin makes the distinction between _aut_ and _vel_. Is it unique in this respect? François C-R From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 11.0195 either/or Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 13:55:36 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 322 (322) You write: [deleted quotation] Speak for yourself! And of course we must ask, between the sciences and the humanities, who is envying whom? Something to ponder! Mary Dee -- Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. 512-477-7213 Language Technology, Inc. 512-477-7351 (fax) 2415 Griswold Lane mdharris@acm.org Austin, TX 78703 mdharris@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: VaniaCascio Subject: looking for a grant for a PhD. in Computer & Humanities Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 12:25:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 323 (323) Dear C&H friends, Do you know about any funding opporunities (grants, scholarships, EU projects, etc) for an European (Italian) student (M.A. in Applied linguistics) keen on undertaking a PhD. in Computer & Humanities (Main research interests: Electronic publishing; Translation Studies and Multimedia). Thanks in advance Vania Cascio ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Maurizio Oliva Subject: Re: 11.0197 printer+scanner+copier? Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 15:24:18 -0600 (MDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 324 (324) On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] If your top priority among the different functions is scanning, then the HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 C is the way to go. There is nothing comparable around, at least for the 1,000 USD price range and the 1150 is the only one that operates on a flat bed. About two months ago the OfficeJet was banned in Singapore because the quality of the copies exceeds some governmental standards. If you have other priorities, such as message center functionality, FAX and PC FAX capabilities (the OfficeJet Pro does lacks them), then you should look into the Brothers 6500 or 7500. The Brothers do not do color though. The lowest cost solution is the HP OfficeJet 350 (gray scale). They have the reputation to wear out fast, and they are slow as compared to laser engines. The Canon BJ2500 is an interesting machine. It prints color, if you are ready to wait 3-4 minutes for one page. I personally own a Brothers, after having toyed with the idea of purchasing an HP 1150. Its operation is simple and reliable, I strongly recommend it. On the other hand. I am looking into buying a digital camera for scanning and other purposes. You can get an Olympus DL-200 for 500 USD and it allows you to have images of acceptable quality that can later be processed by OCR software. It fits in your pocket. It gives you several imaging solutions for different situations. If I had the money I would go for the Kodak DS 120, which allows higher resolution and better image quality, but especially provides for an uncompressed image option (avoiding lossy JPG compression). Maurizio Everything I said about digital cameras will be old and unreliable in a matter of three to four months. As far as multifunction peripherals are concerned. Things will take longer to change. Maurizio Oliva, Director Multimedia Language Lab Denison University Box M Granville, OH 43023 Tel. 614 587-6643 FAX: 587-6417 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Rita Wilson <099RITA@muse.arts.wits.ac.za> Subject: Re: conference announcement - please post Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:07:46 GMT + 2:00 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 325 (325) Apologies for any cross-posting FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY FOR GENERAL LITERARY STUDIES (SAVAL) BIENNIAL MAIN CONGRESS HOSTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG A SENSE OF SPACE 2-5 JUNE 1998 An international, interdisciplinary conference will be held at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg from Tuesday 2 June to Friday 5 June 1998. The theme of the Congress, "A Sense of Space" aims to attract scholars from a wide range of disciplines and to stimulate debate around "the spatial forms and fantasies through which a culture declares its presence" (Paul Carter). Proposals are invited for papers addressing the conference theme and related areas. Topics could include: Narrative Metaphors: Labyrinths, Mazes, Worlds Architectural space, Landscapes Images and Realities Nation, Space, Identities Utopias Travel Writing Colonial Space, Centres, Peripheries, Boundaries Spatiality: Subjectivity, Metaphysical Theatrical and Visual space Cyberspace Translation, Transgression, Transposition Psychoanalysis Social Space The Congress will be held back to back with the AGM and seminar of the South African Translators' Institute (SATI). This offers a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary discussion. Interdisciplinary papers between these two fields are encouraged (this would apply particularly to literary translation). Papers should not exceed 30 minutes. Those wishing to present papers at the Congress are invited to send a provisional title and a brief synopsis not later than 1 NOVEMBER 1997. Your paper will be scheduled in an appropriate session. Papers delivered at the Congress will appear in published Proceedings. These will also be made available on the Internet via the SAVAL homepage. Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to: Rita Wilson or Carlotta von Maltzan Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Private Bag 3 WITS 2050 Phone: (+27 11) 716 3270 or (+27 11) 716 3426 Fax: (+27 11) 403 7289 E-mail: 099rita@muse.arts.wits.ac.za or 120car@muse.arts.wits.ac.za The University of the Witwatersrand is located in the largest metropolitan area and the industrial and commercial heart of South Africa. Wits is recognised both nationally and internationally for the quality of its graduates and its excellence in teaching, research and service to society. It has a longstanding commitment to university autonomy, academic freedom and non-discrimination. The Congress will be centred on the university's West Campus, located only minutes from Johannesburg's city centre. Full details of the Congress, including registration forms, will be forwarded at a later stage but any general enquiries now should be addressed to the Convener of the Organising Committee, c/o The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the above address. SAVAL (The South African Society for General Literary Studies) is an important interdisciplinary forum for general literary discussion, especially in the areas of literary theory and comparative literature. While most of its membership has been traditionally drawn from Departments of English and Afrikaans, at present it has 250 members from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from Theology to Romance Literatures. SAVAL (the acronym is derived from the Afrikaans name of the Society) is affiliated to the International Comparative Literature Association. SAVAL members regularly participate in activities of the ICLA. SAVAL is in fact in the final stages of a bid to host the 2000 ICLA Congress. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rita Wilson Department of Modern Languages and Literatures University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Private Bag 3, WITS 2050 Tel: +27 11 7163270 Fax: +27 11 4037289 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 11.0194 metaphors Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 16:38:27 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 326 (326) Notice, however, that the term data is an adjective, and all these figures or semimetaphors are part of the etherealization of human consciousness, as it relies on powerful machines to represent itself to itself. Nothing too bad there, or harmful. Better information retrieval than learning or wisdom retrieval? That etherealization was put religiously in a way by Teilhard about 1960 or so, and he thought it was a religious sort of thing, evolutionarily speaking. Mystics in Silicon, as 'twere. Who knows, it maybe so? Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Code problems/archiving Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 10:39:08 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 327 (327) This is a grumble, not a call for help, unless it be looked upon as a call for help on the part of our profession. These may be anecdotes, but they are literally true: 1. I just received an e-mail from a Spanish friend of mine. Every extended ASCII character was represented as =FNumber or symbols to that effect. Not a real problem, though I have another friend whose name I do not know, since the last letter of his name is =ENum. I don't have a conversion routine for such things, so I guess I will write one. Grumble, grumble. 2. When working with out library, I always capture my sessions, and get a capfile.out in ASCII and can do what I want with it. Now, my capfile.out is filled with escape codes of the form <-[[ etc. (you know what I mean). I do not have a scrubber for them; I guess I will write one, if I can remember my ANSI. Grumble, grumble. 3. I have inherited a very useful book catalog written in ProCite 2.1 on a Mac, and I am a PC freak. Even if it weren't there would be conversion problems. 4. I received a bunch of .tif files of manuscript pages the person wants me to work with. My graphics browser tells me that they are not proper .tif files. Probably have to debug them and put in good headers. 5. When calling libraries from home, I have always used lynx (a library does not usually come in pictures, especially if you want bibliography). My library, for its own secret reasons, does not permit interrogating databases with lynx; you must use netscape. From home?! 6. I just received a mime-encoded message. When I extracted it, it needed to be unzipped. After being unzipped, it had a self-extracting .exe file, which put out things that had to be installed in Windows 3.1. Enough of this. I overcame, mit Muehe und Not, as we Germans put it, all these problems, but it took some time and, on occasions, a little ingenuity. I have little of either. What we need is at least an attempt to standardize on the part of our nurturers/providers. We need conversion programs, of course, to convert between platforms, but we also need conversion routines for other things. How do you convert those great big disks? Can anybody read them? It is getting where no one can even read 5 1/4s. How about old tapes? I have not even gotten into things such as encoding foreign languages; I thought Unicode was going to save us, but nobody seems to use it much. These are not always frivolous problems. How about the mag tapes and paper tapes, not to mention the punch cards (and edge-punched cards) or yesteryear? We have the same problem I have converting my old 78s to something that a modern machine will play. Or what do you do with old tapes? I just saw about 100 of them on a junk pile outside of my building. I have kept my old tape recorder just so I could read the Zwirner tapes at 3 1/4. Que faire? ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: counterfactuals Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 21:17:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 328 (328) In his review of Niall Ferguson's collection of essays, Virtual History: Alternatives and counterfactuals, J. M. Roberts notes that "the fiction that things could have been otherwise often seems in some sense to illuminate what actually happened" ("Putting the What if? in history", TLS 4922 1 Aug 97 p. 6). The common-sense objection, that things turned out as they did, and so it is useless to speculate on what might have happened had conditions been different, obscures the contingencies in things. "Had Louis XVI been able to show more political flair, we reflect, the French Revolution might have taken a different course; no doubt he could not have behaved differently given the persistence of other facts in the equation (the identity of his family and advisers, for example), but that seems somehow only to focus our attention on such matters as the contingency of those facts and the particular degrees of personal responsibility, unless we assume some genetic or psychological determinism in that well-meaning and unhappy monarch." Roberts adds that "Much historical study" -- and, I would add, much of what happens in all the other disciplines of the humanities -- "is conversation, implicit or explicit, and counterfactuals can feed it usefully." They do so not only by recovering the living moment but also by putting what is not against what is, imagination against fact, and so allowing us better to understand the nature of each through its contrary. Is this not what we do with computing? With it we put what can be demonstrated against what we know but cannot say how. This seems to me like the frontier of knowledge, like what scholarship is all about. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: AHDS Invitation for System Bids Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 09:29:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 329 (329) **Final invitation to tender. AHDS Systems Operation Requirements** Apologies for cross posting. AHDS Systems Operational Requirement. Final statement of requirements and invitation to tender for the supply and support of a suite of networked information discovery and retrieval, and user registration, authentication, and resource ordering systems. This document is now available from the AHDS's web pages at <http://ahds.ac.uk/>. Full proposals for any system or systems detailed in this document must be submitted to the AHDS Executive by 5pm on 5 September 1997. Vendors interested in tendering to supply any one or several of the systems detailed in the document are invited to an open meeting to be held at 11am on 18 August 1997 in King's College London. Those interested in attending the meeting should contact Julie Wilson by 5pm on 13 August 1997 (Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive, King's College London, Library, London, WC2R 2LS, UK, phone: (0)171 873-5075, fax: (0)171 873-5080, email: julie.c.wilson@ahds.ac.uk). Daniel Greenstein Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, Executive King's College London, Library Strand, London WC2R 2LS phone/fax: +44 (0)171 873-2445 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Gary Shawver Subject: Bibliographic query Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 14:51:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 330 (330) Dear HUMANISTs I would really like to get a copy of Akiyuki Jimura's "Chaucer's Use of 'Soth' and Fals' in The House of Fame" published in *Philologia* 23 (1991): 11-35, a publication of Mie University, Japan. The interlibrary loan librarian tells me she can't get it here. If anyone out there has access to the article, please contact me. I'm willing to pay postage and reproduction costs for the article. Gary Shawver ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "J. Trant" Subject: ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS: Reminder, advance registration required Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 17:32:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 331 (331) Please excuse any duplication and forward as appropriate. *** ICHIM 97 *** September 1-5, 1997 *** *** le Musee du Louvre *** Paris, France *** Held by Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe, in partnership with le musee du Louvre, and in association with l'ecole du Louvre, the fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity takes place September 1-5, 1997. Full details for an exciting series of pre-conference workshops are now available on the ICHIM97 Web site . Two days of pre-conference workshops, September 1-2, 1997 offer opportunities for professional development the following areas: September 1, 1997 1. Systematic Design of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 2. Looking at new software architectures and their application to digital images. Brieuc Segalen (Directeur de la societe Briq, specialisee en Realite Virtuelle, France) 3. Current State of Museum Information Standards Alain Michard (Aquarelle, France) 4. Issues in Multilingual Terminology Work Theory and Practice Murtha Baca and Pat Young (Getty Information Institute, USA) 5. Copyright and other IPR concerns: What Progress? Jeremy Rees (IVAIN, UK) and Emanuella Giavarra (European Copyright User Platform, ECUP) September 2, 1997 6. Strategies for Museum Multimedia Delivery Peter Samis (SFMOMA, USA), Larry Friedlander (Stanford University, USA) and Xavier Perrot (AMIE, France) 7. Mapping Web Sites Paul Kahn (Dynamic Diagrams, USA) 8. Systematic Evaluation of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 9. Designing for Humans: big and small Slavko Milekic (Hampshire College, USA) 10. Multimedia Tools Katherine Jones Garmil (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, USA) Pre-registration is necessary for all workshops. Please return the registration form, available at: For further information, and full program details, visit the conference web site, or contact Archives & Museum Informatics at info@archimuse.com See you in Paris! jt -------- 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 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: brief handover Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 22:09:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 332 (332) Dear Colleagues: I'm off for the better part of a week, to a place about 50 miles from Carmarthen, Wales, to stay with a friend, hike and be totally out of touch. In the interim, Humanist is passing into the hands of my capable assistant editor, David Gants (English, Georgia -- USA, that is). I am reminded of one of the first bouncing-mail crises in the early days of Humanist, when a certain computational linguist went away on vacation, setting his mailer automatically to reply with a note saying that he would be away, and I think specifying some exotic location. This was before Humanist was moderated, so each reply from the mailer generated a Humanist message, which in turn provoked another reply from the mailer, and so on. Each message, quoting the previous one, grew longer with the repetitions. One Humanist, after this growing message was automatically repeated several times, complained that the fellow really didn't need to boast so much! But a little boasting adds a kind of primitive tang to our rarified seminar, don't you think? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: watching the net Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:35:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 333 (333) Dear Colleagues: There are few places in the world outside Silicon Valley, I would suppose, where computing is regularly front-page news, but the attention paid to our subject by the Guardian, 8 time-zones and many thousands of miles away from there, is remarkable. I trust that my habit of reporting on the Guardian Online section, which comes out each Thursday and which usually can be devoured in the time it takes to travel on the District line from Mile End to Temple, is not boring you. Should anyone else discover a useful source of information, tips and amusements related to computing, he or she is most welcome to report on it as well. 1. Jack Scofield's "Netwatch" has, this time, a number of intriguing items listed in it, e.g. (a) Dormant accounts held in Swiss banks -- a serious issue for those affected, of course, but it is also an interesting example of accessibility to information that formerly would have been rather hard for you and I to get. Scofield's URL, www.dormantaccounts.ch, doesn't work from here (DNS lookup fails), which I find curious given where Scofield presumably works from, but a quick flex of AltaVista did turn up the Swiss Rechtsanwaelte, von Erlach &al., <http://www.vonerlach.ch/>. (b) The Freepages directory, <http://www.freepages.co.uk/>, to find businesses in the U.K., with cinema guide, etc. Also an amusing animated GIF -- esp. given the recent discussion -- of the expression "and/or". (c) NYBooks, "The Website for the intellectually curious", <http://www.nybooks.com/>. Contains links to Reader's Catalog Online (ok, only promised, but worth waiting for, it would seem), "the entire Reader's Catalog database, annotated and illustrated, will be made available, as well as a wide-ranging database of over three hundred thousand other titles, virtually every book *really* available in the country [i.e. U.S.]"; New York Review of Books. The archive now contains 11 recent issues (February through July of this year) plus the first issue: "This special exhibition of our first issue inaugurates an ambitious archival project at The New York Review: the digital conversion of our entire 34-year publishing history. Over the next three years, The New York Review archives will be making back issues available electronically, in monthly increments. All archival articles will be exactly as they appeared in print and presented in an easily downloaded or printed form." Scofield notes that about half the current issue is there too. (d) About-Face, <http://www.about-face.org/>, "About-Face is a grassroots effort dedicated to combating negative and distorted images of women and promoting alternatives through education and action - and humor." Very effective design too. (e) Unicef report, "The Progress of Nations", <http://www.unicef.org/pon97/>. "The Progress of Nations charts the advances made since the 1990 World Summit for Children, at which governments pledged to take specific steps to improve the lives of their children." (f) Jonathan Inglis memorial Web site, <http://inglis.custard.co.uk/>, maintained by his colleagues as a memorial after his death at age 46 in a cycling accident. He was a graphic artist, "one of the first exponents of electronic art in the early eighties using Basic and a BBC-B computer". 2. Douglas Rushkoff, "Before the flood", about the new device marketed by the American branch of Sega, the Sega Saturn console, "a fully fledged TV-based Internet browser and online service". "As potentially radical as the first connection of computer and telephone, videogame access to the Internet invites an entirely new audience on to the Web, and invites a whole new style of browsing.... Think of it: millions of kids who previously used their control pads and keyboards as little more than grenade launchers will be unleashed on the Net." Indeed, just think of it. Some, when they do, are deeply disturbed about the shift of focus toward entertainment. "But more people in our real world are interested in playing games with their technology than discussing libertarianism, greenhouse gases, or Ram cache. And in a sense, we snooty intellectuals have been getting a relatively free ride all along, benefitting from the backbone and servers put in place by businesses who have seen little, if any, return on their investment." Did we want an audience for our work? Is this an opportunity, or what? There's more, of course, but I'm through with transcribing for now. One final, suggestive note. If you want to get a taste for how topical the Web can be, and how hot, try searching for "post traumatic stress disorder", "Gulf War syndrome", or "recovered memory". It might be interesting, though it would be very risky, to use such material in class, e.g. to teach a unit in text-analysis. Also interesting and less risky would be the material dredged up by searching for "tobacco" and "smoking". 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Pinaula Subject: Re: 11.0210 grumbling code Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 18:02:45 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 334 (334) I read Jim Marchand's grumblings with appreciation, as I and, I'm sure, many others have encountered similar problems in the past. With the prevalent forces that drive the computer industry, however, it seems doubtful we'll see the benefits of standardization any time soon. Innovation and technological evolution seem largely driven by the commercial marketplace and it is often elements of nonstandardization that mark one product from its competition. The recent development of HTML and Java comes to mind as an example of this phenomenon. HTML has long had a standard, albeit an evolving one, for the very reasons of multiplatform compatability and interchangeability Jim notes. One doesn't have to go far back in one's memory, however, to recall the enhancements to the standard Netscape and MIcrosoft both implemented as a way to add value and differentiation to their browsers. This attempt at innovation and added marketplace appeal subverts standardization, but often achieves the economic goals each corporation hopes to reach. How many of us have been guilty of implementing these nonstandard features on our Web pages, fully aware that doing so flies in the face of the universal exchangeability the Web might promise? This appeal of enhancement through nonstandardization continues to subvert standards today, perhaps best manifested in the need for a "100% Pure Java" campaign to stem the tide of performance-enhancing "tweaks" that defeat the multiplatform promise of Java. It's equally apparent that these forces are at work in the development of hardware. Removable storage media is in the midst of a period of nonstandardization that will not shake out until the marketplace has had its say. Will the next portable storage standard be that of Iomega, Syquest, the LS-120 group or one which hasn't yet made itself apparent? A de facto standard exists for portable storage media, but how can the capacity of a 1.44Mb floppy hope to hold off the onslaught of the 100Mb+ nonstandard media on the market now? It seems to me that nonstandardization to some degree is the price we pay for innovation and development, one which will continue to be exacted so long as marketplace competition drives research and development dollars on the corporate level. 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 Public Encryption Key 0xD921B79B ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ross Subject: Retiarius Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:01:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 335 (335) Announcing RETIARIUS: An electronic journal devoted to the study of post-antique Latin language and literature from the end of the Roman empire to the present day. Submissions are now invited. Each issue of RETIARIUS will be published only in electronic form on the World Wide Web. No hard copies will be issued. Readers, of course, may print for themselves any part of RETIARIUS which especially interests them. RETIARIUS will be published once a year. Latin (simple, clear, grammatically correct Latin) is the required language for all contributions. Each issue of RETIARIUS will be divided into two parts. The first part will be comprised of ÔcreativeÕ writing in Latin: verses, essays, short-stories. The second part will be exclusively devoted to the philological study of post-antique Latin texts. For this part of the journal we will consider articles on the linguistic and/or literary features of medieval and modern Latin texts, critical editions of shorter Neo-Latin works, articles proposing emendations, additions, or other improvements to already published editions of post-antique Latin works We will also consider book reviews, but we are not in a position to send out new copies of books to potential contributors. Instead we ask those interested to send us the texts of their reviews, which will be considered according to the same criteria as other submissions. An international editorial board will evaluate all submissions to RETIARIUS. Among the editors are experts in Latin philology, with specialities in the late antique, medieval, humanist and modern periods. Also among the editors are several authors of non-academic material in Latin. For further details, see: http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/retiarius/ or contact Terry Tunberg (clatot@pop.uky.edu) From: Willard McCarty Subject: 1997 Conference on Editorial Problems Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 12:40:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 336 (336) COMPUTING THE EDITION: Problems in Editing for the Electronic Medium 7-9 November 1997 University College University of Toronto <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html> Convenors: Willard McCarty (Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London) Fred Unwalla (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto) Conference Co-ordinator: Jennifer Forbes (Centre for Medieval 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 panelists are Andrew Hughes (Music), Alex Jones (Classics), Ian Lancashire (English, panel chair), Keren Rice (Linguistics), Gary Shawver (Medieval Studies), Jens Wollesen (Fine Art History), Russon Wooldridge (French). 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. The number of attendees is strictly limited, so early registration is highly recommended. Details about the 1997 Conference, including a registration form and information on hotels and the amenities of Toronto may be found at the 1997 Conference Web site, <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html>. Enquiries are welcome, to . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: update on the William Blake Archive Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:45:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 337 (337) The editors of the William Blake Archive -- Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Joseph Viscomi -- are pleased to announce that The Book of Thel, copy F, is now online in searchable form. This may seem a modest achievement, given that this is one of Blake's shorter works, and that its eight plates (with enlargements and accompanying transcriptions) have already been available on the site since November of 1996. In fact, however, this copy of The Book of Thel is a prototype for all future works to be added to the Archive (both illuminated books and other materials), and its appearance reflects the architecture and objectives of the Archive as they have taken shape over many months of development, testing, and refinement. Unlike its previous version, and unlike the other illuminated books currently available in the Archive, this copy of Thel has been tagged using SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). SGML tagging offers the Archive's users the opportunity to perform sophisticated searches, either on the text of the plates, or, more remarkably, on the content of their illustrations. Search results are retrieved and presented using DynaWeb, a product of the Inso Corporation. The text and image searching enabled by DynaWeb and the underlying SGML tagging is a powerful demonstration of the potential of electronic resources in the humanities. However, there's more. Users with Java-capable browsers can now make use of Inote, Java-based software developed at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, to assist them in their study of the Archive's visual materials. Users may employ Inote to examine editorial annotations of a given image independently of a search, or else, following a successful image search, Inote may be used to open the image, zoomed to the specific area containing the object of the search, together with the relevant editorial commentary. This is IATH's first public implementation of Inote, and its release marks a major advance for image-based electronic editing. Users with Java-capable browsers can also take advantage of a second, equally innovative Java program developed at IATH, the ImageSizer. This is a feature that allows one to view Blake's plates and images at their true size, reproducing the object's actual physical dimensions on the screen, regardless of the resolution of a particular monitor; indeed, users can calibrate this feature to consistently display the Archive's images at whatever proportions they may wish. Finally, the Archive's selective bibliography of criticism, reference materials, and standard editions, with about 500 entries, is now available. We hope to have the bibliography searchable by the end of the summer. We also hope to have David V. Erdman's Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake online and searchable by that same time. In the coming weeks and months we will turn our attention to placing other illuminated books online in searchable form, following on the model of The Book of Thel, copy F. We will begin with the other copies of Thel (copies H and O), as well as copies of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (copies C and J) now publicly available only in HTML -- thus lacking any of the capabilities described above. We will then move on to other books: All Religions are One (copy A), There is No Natural Religion (copies C and L), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (copy D), America (copy E), Europe (copies B and E), The Song of Los (copies A and B), The Book of Urizen (copy G), Songs of Innocence and of Experience (copy Z), The Book of Ahania (copy A), and The Book of Los (copy A). The Blake Archive is located at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/ Please forward this announcement as appropriate. Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager The William Blake Archive blake@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia, Charlottesville From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Site Web / Website Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 15:41:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 338 (338) [deleted quotation] La Soci=E9t=E9 canadienne d'=E9tude du dix-huiti=E8me si=E8cle est heureuse d'annoncer l'ouverture de son site web. On peut le consulter =E0 l'adresse suivante : http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~melancon/csecs.tdm.html * * * The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is proud to announce that it now maintains its own website at the following URL : http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~melancon/csecs.tdm.html Nous vous y attendons ! Come and visit ! Peter Sabor, pr=E9sident SCEDHS/CSECS President Beno=EEt Melan=E7on, webmestre/Webmaster ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: COCOSDA-97 in Rhodes Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:29:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 339 (339) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS COCOSDA, the Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Assessment, was founded in 1991, and has held yearly workshops ever since. The 1997 COCOSDA workshop, on the theme "Standards and Tools for Linguistic Annotation of Speech Databases," will take place at the Convention Centre of the Rodos Palace Hotel, in Rhodes, Greece, on the two days following the Eurospeech meeting: Friday, September 26 and Saturday, September 27. It will be co-located with the COST workshop on "Speech Technology in the Public Telephone Network: Where are we today?" held in the same facility on the same two days. Overall registration is limited to 200, 100 from each organization. COCOSDA aims to promote collaborative work and information exchange for resources and standards in Spoken Language Engineering. It maintains working groups on Speech Corpora and Labelling, Speech Synthesis Assessment, and Speech Recognition Assessment. COCOSDA workshops include reports on relevant activities around the world, and discussions of topics of mutual interest. Further information about COCOSDA can be found at the URL http://www.itl.atr.co.jp/cocosda/, and further information about COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) can be found at http://www2.cordis.lu/cost/src/intro.htm. Submissions on the theme of COCOSDA'97, as well as other relevant subjects, are invited. REGISTRATION FOR COCOSDA'97 To register for COCOSDA97, see http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/cocosda97. COCOSDA'97 attendees are welcome to attend sessions of the COST workshop as well, though they will have to register separately for COST in order to get a copy of the proceedings. On Friday afternoon, there will be a joint COST/COCOSDA session on the topic of Speech Recognition. On Friday morning and Saturday afternoon, COCOSDA'97 will meet separately from COST. There will be both reports of general interest and presentations on the workshop theme. On Saturday morning, the three COCOSDA working groups (on Speech Corpora and Labelling, Speech Synthesis Assessment, and Speech Recognition Assessment) will meet separately, as arranged by their individual organizers. INFORMATION FOR COCOSDA'97 PRESENTERS COCOSDA'97 is focused on standards and tools for linguistic annotation of speech databases. If you would like to make a presentation on the workshop theme, or on another topic within COCOSDA's area of interest, please register for the workshop and send an abstract of 500 words or less to cocosda97@ldc.upenn.edu. If possible, include a URL for papers or project descriptions. All good-faith submissions will be accommodated, though some may have to be placed in a poster session. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: FOIS '98 - Call for Papers Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 08:50:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 340 (340) [deleted quotation] Preliminary Call for Papers INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOIS'98 In conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning KR'98 TRENTO, ITALY, JUNE 6-8, 1998 Under the auspices of the Project ONTOINT (Ontological Tools for Heterogeneous Knowledge Organization and Integration) funded by the Italian National Research Council Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community. Its importance has been recognized in fields as diverse as qualitative modelling of physical systems, natural language processing, knowledge engineering, information integration, database design, geographic information science, and intelligent information access. Various workshops addressing the engineering aspects of ontology have been held in the past few years. However, ontology -by its very nature- ought to be a unifying discipline. Insights in this field have potential impacts on the whole area of information systems. In order to provide a solid general foundation for this work, it is therefore important to focus on the common scientific principles and open problems arising from current tools, methodologies, and applications of ontology. The purpose of this conference is to take a first step in this direction. As the heterogeneity of the program committee indicates, the conference will have a strongly interdisciplinary character. Expected participants include computer science practitioners as well as linguists, logicians, and philosophers. Although the primary focus of the conference is on theoretical issues, methodological proposals as well as papers addressing concrete applications from a well-founded theoretical perspective are welcome. TOPICS Examples of problem areas that may be addressed at the conference include: THEORETICAL ISSUES * Foundations: parthood, constitution, identity, integrity, dependence, causality * Kinds of entity: particulars vs. universals, continuants vs. occurrents, abstracta vs. concreta, attributes, relations, qualities, quantities, tropes or moments, states, situations, environments * Matter, space, time, motion, change * Natural kinds, organisms, artifacts * The ontology of social reality: legal and administrative entities, artistic expressions * The ontology of information and information processing: representations, signs, software products, virtual reality, cyberspace * Top-level ontological taxonomies: new proposals or critical analyses of existing ones * Cognitive foundations of ontological distinctions * Kinds of ontology: top-level ontologies, domain ontologies, task ontologies, application ontologies * Ontological commitment APPLICATION AREAS * Knowledge organization, integration and standardization * Intelligent information access * Information systems design * Knowledge engineering * Conceptual modelling * Qualitative modelling * Lexical semantics * Terminology integration * Product knowledge integration * Geographic information systems * Legal information systems TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES * Ontological and linguistic instruments for conceptual analysis * Methodologies for ontology development, maintenance, and integration SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Papers will be selected on the basis of a rigorous review of full paper contributions. Authors should submit 5 copies to the Conference Chair by December 19, 1997. Papers received after the deadline or not conforming to the submission format will be rejected without review. The proceedings will be printed by a major publisher and will be available at the conference. Final camera-ready copies of the accepted papers will be due by March 9, 1998. Authors will be responsible for preparing the final camera-ready in conformity with the formatting requirements laid down by the publisher. Submitted papers must be unpublished and substantially different from papers under review. Papers that have been or will be presented at small workshops/symposia whose proceedings are available only to attendees may be submitted. Each submission should include a title page containing the title, author(s), affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address, as well as an abstract and keywords indicating the topic areas listed above that best describe the contribution. Submissions must be at most 16 pages, excluding the title page and the bibliography, with a maximum of 38 lines per page and an average of 75 characters per line (corresponding to the LaTeX article-style, 12pt) using LaTeX or Microsoft Word. Papers should be sent in 5 copies. Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Those proposing to submit papers must complete the form at the WWW address <http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/fois98/> by Monday December 15, 1997. If intending authors do not have WWW access, then an e-mail message must be sent to by the same date, giving details of any proposed submission in the following format: Title: Author: <Last name, initials> Author: <Insert as many more author lines as necessary> ..... CorrespondingAuthor: <name of corresponding author> CorrespondingEmail: <email of corresponding author> CorrespondingAddress: <address of corresponding author> Keywords: <insert list of keywords, preferably chosen from above list> Abstract: <insert short abstract, max 200 words> EndAbstract: <mark the end of the short abstract thus> Should intending authors not have e-mail access, the information above should be sent by letter to arrive to the Conference Chair by Monday December 15, 1997. SCHEDULE Monday, December 15, 1997 Electronic abstracts due Friday, December 19, 1997 Papers due Friday, February 6, 1998 Results sent to authors Monday, March 9, 1998 Final papers due Saturday-Monday, June 6-8, 1998 FOIS'98 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE CONFERENCE CHAIR ORGANIZATION CHAIR Nicola Guarino Alessandro Artale National Research Council ITC-IRST LADSEB-CNR Povo, I-38050 Trento, Italy Corso Stati Uniti, 4 e-mail: artale@irst.itc.it I-35127 Padova, Italy e-mail: guarino@ladseb.pd.cnr.it PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Bateman (Dept. of English Studies, Univ. of Stirling, UK) B. Chandrasekaran (Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Ohio State Univ., USA) Tony Cohn (Division of Artificial Intelligence, Univ. of Leeds, UK) Ernest Davis (Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York, USA) Richard Fikes (Knowledge Systems Lab., Stanford University, USA) Kit Fine (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA) Mark Fox (Dept. of Industrial Engineering, Univ. of Toronto, Canada) Nicola Guarino (LADSEB-CNR, National Research Council, Padova, Italy) Patrick J. Hayes (Inst. for Human and Machine Cognition, Univ. of West Florida, USA) Graeme Hirst (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada) David Israel (Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park, USA) Fritz Lehmann (CYCorp, Austin, Texas, USA) Diego Marconi (Dept. of Humanities, Univ. of Torino at Vercelli, Italy) Richiro Mizoguchi (Inst. of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka Univ., Japan) Kevin Mulligan (Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab., New Mexico State Univ., USA) Guus Schreiber (Dept. of Social Science Informatics, Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Peter Simons (School of Philosophy, Univ. of Leeds, UK and Ontek Corp., USA) Doug Skuce (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada) Barry Smith (Dept. of Philosophy, State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA) John Sowa (Philosophy and Computers and Cognitive Science, Binghamton Univ., USA) Mike Uschold (Boeing Corporation, Seattle, USA) Reind Van De Riet (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Univ., The Netherlands) Achille Varzi (Dept. of Philosophy, Columbia Univ., New York, USA) Laure Vieu (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, France) Yair Wand (Faculty of Commerce and Business Admin., Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) Ron Weber (The Univ. of Queensland, Australia) Chris Welty (Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, New York, USA) Roel Wieringa (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Univ., The Netherlands) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Alessandro Artale - Enrico Franconi (ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy) Nicola Guarino - Claudio Masolo (LADSEB-CNR, Padova, Italy) Luca Pazzi - Sonia Bergamaschi (Univ. of Modena, Italy) Geri Steve - Aldo Gangemi (ITBM-CNR, Roma, Italy) Cristiano Castelfranchi - Rino Falcone (IP-CNR, Roma, Italy) From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: SAC '98 Soft Computing Track CFP Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:18:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 341 (341) [deleted quotation] ###################################################################### [deleted quotation]# [deleted quotation]s [deleted quotation]t [deleted quotation]=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [deleted quotation]l [deleted quotation]o [deleted quotation]n [deleted quotation]f [deleted quotation]e [deleted quotation]- [deleted quotation]- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: NEH 1998 Summer Stipends Competition: Deadline Oct.1, 1997 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 10:11:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 342 (342) [deleted quotation] PLEASE DISSEMINATE THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU! The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the October 1, 1997 deadline for the Summer Stipends program. NEH Summer Stipends support two months of full-time work on projects that will make a significant contribution to the humanities. Projects proposed for support may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities, and they may address broad topics or consist of research and study in a single field. In most cases, faculty members of colleges and universities in the United States must be nominated by their institutions for the Summer Stipends competition, and each of these institutions may nominate TWO applicants. Prospective applicants who will require nomination should acquaint themselves with their institution's nomination procedures well before the October 1 application deadline. Individuals employed in nonteaching capacities in colleges and universities, and independent scholars not affiliated with colleges and universities do not require nomination and may apply directly to the program. Adjunct faculty and academic applicants with appointments terminating by the summer of 1998 may also apply without nomination. APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 1, 1997 TENURE: Tenure must cover two full and uninterrupted months and will normally be held between May 1, 1998 and September 30, 1998. INQUIRIES: Summer Stipends Program Room 318 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20506 telephone: 202/606-8551 e-mail: stipends@neh.fed.us web: <a href="http://www.neh.fed.us/html/forms.html">http://www.neh.fed.us/html/forms.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Han Baltussen <Han.Baltussen@phil.ruu.nl> Subject: WInGreek Conversion Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:56:33 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 343 (343) I would be grateful if anyone knows a solution for a conversion of WinGreek (MS DOS) to Apple; a colleague of mine has found that the ASCII table in 128 and up dooes not work. yrs Han Baltussen ------------------------- Dr. Han Baltussen To be reached until sept. 3, 1997 at: Dept. of Philosophy Utrecht University P.O. Box 80.126 3508 TC Utrecht The Netherlands ------------------------- Phone :++ 31 - 30 - 253 43 60 Fax : ++ 31 - 30 - 253 28 16 From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Subject: metaphors Date: Wed, 6 Aug 97 09:01:14 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 344 (344) Back to metaphors. As in the case of everything else, there is inflation here, too. Roy Tennant in the latest issue of Current Cites briefly reviews David Shank's recent book, Data Smog (San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997). I am waiting for Information Slime, Information Sludge, Information Murk. We all know we are awash in a sea of information, against which we need to take arms. BTW, someone wrote asking for information on the article by Heinz von Foerster, mentioned earlier. It is: "Thoughts and Notes on Cognition," in Paul L. Garvin, ed., _Cognition: A Multiple View_ (NY: Spartan Books, 1970), 25-48. Though he is against others making up terms, his own, "pathological semantics", is perhaps apropos at times. His remarks on p. 30 on information storage and retrieval fit well today. I do not believe we can do anything at all about "pathological semantics"; people will continue to anthropomorphize and deify the computer: "The computer has shown that St. Paul did / did not write x" has been with us for a long time. I saw a computer that translated "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" from Russian as "the booze is good, but the meat has gone bad." The anecdotes of yesteryear are ever with us. ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship" Online Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:10:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 345 (345) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 6, 1997 Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges-- The United States Focus by Pamela Pavliscak, Seamus Ross, and Charles Henry (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 37) NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE The American Council on Learned Societies has just announced that its recently published Occasional Paper No. 37, "Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges--The United States Focus," is now available on-line in a hypertext version at <<a href="http://www.acls.org/op37.htm">http://www.acls.org/op37.htm</a>>. To introduce this report I can do no better than to quote its Preface: "This report surveys the various applications of information technology to research in the humanities. In the course of our investigations we came across a variety of innovative research that could have a profound impact on the humanities. However, the incidence of such work is uneven, and the widespread adoption of information technology in the humanities is being hindered by a number of significant obstacles. We also examine the challenges that must be overcome if such applications are to become the norm among scholars. "We present only a selective view of current activities, focusing primarily on work by American scholars, with some references to international projects of relevance to the humanities, since computer technology now makes scholarship a genuinely global enterprise. This overview is intended for scholars in the humanities who are not yet aware of what has been accomplished, as well as for those who direct and fund research and higher education. Their cooperation and understanding are needed for these obstacles to be overcome and for the potential of information technology in humanities scholarship to be realized. The report comprises five sections I: A Background essay II: Information Technology and Scholarship--a survey of work and achievements in a variety of media (text, data, images, multimedia), an examination of retroconversion projects and of the creation of original works, electronic publication and a look at available tools for scholars. III: New Developments and Change IV: To Challenge and Invigorate Future Scholarship--a look at what is needed to fully prepare faculty, researchers and institutions to take full advantage of the electronic medium V: Principal Recommendations and Follow-up Activities The report concludes with a useful list of links to exemplary projects and services <<a href="http://www.acls.org/op37-app.htm">http://www.acls.org/op37-app.htm</a>>. An expanded version of this report will be available later this year on the American Arts & Letters Network <<a href="http://www.rice.edu/aaln/">http://www.rice.edu/aaln/</a>> =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CL School: Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:08:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 346 (346) [deleted quotation] ****************************************************************** SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Hotel Orpheus, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria 7-9 Sept'97 <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> [Summer School] ****************************************************************** The sixth summer school "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics" immediately precedes the international conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)" (11-13 Sept'97, same location). The school will continue its tradition of offering both introductory and advanced courses. The programme will consist of tutorials and short courses. LECTURERS_________________________________________________________ * Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Information Extraction * Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University) Multi-Engine Machine Translation Environments * Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen University) Semantic Syntax * Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) Linguistically Intensive Content Characterisation * Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS) Natural Language Generation * Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI) Computational morphology * Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Corpus Linguistics * Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Recent Developments in Anaphora resolution * Carlos Martin-Vide (University of Tarragona) Natural Computation for Natural Language * Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) Automatic Abstracting Course descriptions are available at: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> [Summer School] LOCATION__________________________________________________________ Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the shores of Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. A minibus will provide reasonably-priced transport between Sofia airport and the summer school's hotel. REGISTRATION FEES_________________________________________________ Industrial participants 150 USD Academic staff 110 USD Students 80 USD ACCOMMODATION AND HALF-BOARD PRICES_______________________________ * OPTION 1 Hotel Orpheus Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 40 USD a day (single room) 30 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) * OPTION 2 Guest house belonging to the Higher Medical Institute (VMI) Plovdiv. 2-3 minutes walking distance from the Hotel Orpheus amidst beautiful fir trees. Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 20 USD a day (single room) 15 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) * OPTION 3 Accommodation at VMI Guest house, half-board at Hotel Orpheus 30 USD a day (single room) 25 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) Option 2: two years ago the guest house had fixed times for meals which clashed with the programme. The local organisers are trying to sort this out. If you would like to share a room, please let us know; would you please also specify if you wish to share the room with someone in particular. REGISTRATION____________________________________________________ All participants are requested to complete the following registration form and send it to Victoria Arranz <victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk> We regret to inform you that the local organisers have difficulties in processing cheques, bank transfers and credit card payments. You are kindly requested to pay the registration fees and accommodation/ half-board on site in cash. Any major currency will be accepted; US dollars, German marks & British pounds are preferable. ! REGISTRATION FORM_______________________________________________ ! ! ! Names . . . : ! Organisation: ! Country . . : ! Fax . . . . : ! Telephone . : ! Email . . . : ! ! ! * Accommodation and half-board ! ! [ ] Option 1 ! [ ] Option 2 ! [ ] Option 3 ! ! [ ] Single room ! [ ] Double room (to be shared with another participant) ! ! I'd like to share the room with: _________________ (specify name) ! ! For the period (delete as appropriate) ! ! [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] September 1997 ! <-school--> <--RANLP'97--> ! ! ! Amount to be paid on site in cash: ! ! Accommodation + half board: ___ USD / DM / GBP ! Registration fee: ___ USD / DM / GBP ! ! (please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or ! the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds) ! ! _______________<mailto: victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk>_________________ Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible. Accommodation capacity in both "Hotel Orpheus" and VMI guest house are limited: all reservations will be dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis. SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION_________________________________________ For further information, if you wish to participate please contact: - Victoria Arranz <victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk> or - Malgorzata Stys <m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk> If you wish to exhibit books/software: - Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk> RELATED EVENTS____________________________________________________ The summer school will be followed by the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)". <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: ICHIM WORKSHOPS; METADATA REPORTS Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:12:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 347 (347) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 7, 1997 1. ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS 2. AHDS/UKOLN DISCOVERY & RETRIEVAL ISSUE WORKSHOPS REPORTS 3. RLG REPORT ON "METADATA SUMMIT MEETING" 1. ICHIM 97 WORKSHOPS Held by Archives & Museum Informatics, Europe, in partnership with le musee du Louvre, and in association with l'ecole du Louvre, the fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity takes place September 1-5, 1997. Full details for an exciting series of pre-conference workshops are now available on the ICHIM97 Web site <www.archimuse.com/ichim97>. Two days of pre-conference workshops, September 1-2, 1997 offer opportunities for professional development in the following areas: September 1, 1997 1. Systematic Design of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 2. Looking at new software architectures and their application to digital images. Brieuc Segalen (Directeur de la societe Briq, specialisee en Realite Virtuelle, France) 3. Current State of Museum Information Standards Alain Michard (Aquarelle, France) 4. Issues in Multilingual Terminology Work Theory and Practice Murtha Baca and Pat Young (Getty Information Institute, USA) 5. Copyright and other IPR concerns: What Progress? Jeremy Rees (IVAIN, UK) and Emanuella Giavarra (European Copyright User Platform, ECUP) September 2, 1997 6. Strategies for Museum Multimedia Delivery Peter Samis (SFMOMA, USA), Larry Friedlander (Stanford University, USA) and Xavier Perrot (AMIE, France) 7. Mapping Web Sites Paul Kahn (Dynamic Diagrams, USA) 8. Systematic Evaluation of Hypermedia Applications Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) and Paolo Paolini (University of Lecce, Italy) 9. Designing for Humans: big and small Slavko Milekic (Hampshire College, USA) 10. Multimedia Tools Katherine Jones Garmil (Peabody Museum, Harvard University, USA) Pre-registration is necessary for all workshops. Please return the registration form, available at: <www.archimuse.com/ichim97> For further information, and full program details, visit the conference web site, or contact Archives & Museum Informatics at info@archimuse.com See you in Paris! jt -------- 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 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- ================================================================ 2. AHDS/UKOLN FINAL WORKSHOP REPORTS ON HUMANITIES RESOURCE DISCOVERY ISSUES The Arts and Humanities Data Service and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking have organised a series of workshops to explore metadata, Dublin Core, and resource discovery issues. Between March and May 1997 six workshops were organised to cover the subject areas of archaeology; digital sound; electronic texts; history; moving images; and the visual arts, museums and cultural heritage. Each workshop has now produced a final report which is available online. Details and links to these reports are available from: <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm</a> > ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ************************************************************************ ================================================================ FR: Willy Cromwell-Kessler (bl.kes@rlg.org) RE: Metadata Summit Meeting Report On July 1, 1997, the Research Libraries Group hosted an invitational "summit" meeting on metadata issues. This meeting was an outgrowth of the work of the Task Force on Meta Access of the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). The participants represented a variety of research information projects, standards groups and related communities. The goal of the Summit was to identify metadata issues that have special relevance for the research community in order to identify, if possible, a common action agenda. Much of the discussion centered on the potential role of the Dublin Core elements as a mechanism for discovery of information resources available via the Internet, but which are not static html-Web pages. A full report on the meeting is available on the RLG Web site: <<a href="http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html">http://www.rlg.org/meta9707.html</a>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Sixth International Summer School Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 11:00:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 348 (348) [deleted quotation] ________________________________________________________________ SIXTH INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL "CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS" Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria 7-9 Sept'97 <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> [Summer School] ________________________________________________________________ The sixth summer school "Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics" immediately precedes the international conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)" (11-13 Sept'97, same location). The school will continue its tradition of offering both introductory and advanced courses. The programme will consist of tutorials and short courses. LECTURERS * Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) Information extraction * Sergei Nirenburg (University of New Mexico) Multi-Engine Machine Translation Environments * Pieter Seuren (Nijmegen University) Semantic Syntax * Branimir Boguraev (Apple Computer, Cupertino) Linguistically intensive content characterisation * Michael Zock (LIMSI, CNRS) Natural Language Generation * Harald Trost (Austrian Institute for AI) Computational morphology * Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Corpus Linguistics * Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Recent Developments in Anaphora resolution * Carlos Martin-Vide (University of Tarragona) Natural computation for natural language * Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) Automatic abstracting For more information on the courses please check <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the shores of Batak Lake. It is approximately 145 km from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. A minibus will provide reasonably-priced transport between Sofia airport and the conference hotel. SUMMER SCHOOL VENUE The summer school will be held at the "Hotel Orpheus", Tzigov Chark. REGISTRATION FEES 150 USD for industrial participants 110 USD for academic staff 80 USD for students ACCOMMODATION AND HALF-BOARD PRICES The following options are available: *Option 1 Hotel Orpheus Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 40 USD a day (single room) 30 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) *Option 2 Guest house belonging to the Higher Medical Institute (VMI) Plovdiv (will be referred to in future correspondence as the VMI Guest House). The Guest House is within 2-3 minutes walking distance (amidst beautiful fir trees) from the "Hotel Orpheus". Accommodation and half-board (breakfast and lunch) 20 USD a day (single room) 15 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) *Option 3 Accommodation at VMI Guest house, half-board at "Hotel Orpheus" 30 USD a day (single room) 25 USD a day (if sharing a twin-bedded room) Option 2 is contingent on the flexibility of the VMI guest house staff - two years ago they had fixed times for their meals which clashed with the conference programme. The local organisers are trying to sort this out: we shall inform you on this matter soon. If you would like to share a room, please let us know; would you please also specify if you wish to share the room with someone in particular. Accommodation capacity in both "Hotel Orpheus" and VMI guest house are limited: all reservations will be dealt with on a first-come, first-served basis. REGISTRATION We regret to inform you that the local organisers have difficulties in processing cheques and bank transfers. Neither can they accept credit card payments. You are therefore kindly requested to pay your registration fees and accommodation/half-board in cash on site. Any major currency will be accepted but preferably US dollars, German marks or British pounds. All participants are requested to complete the following registration form and send it to Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM * Personal details Names: Organisation: Country: Fax: Telephone: Email: * Accommodation and half-board Accommodation requested: Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 (please delete as appropriate) Single room Double room (to be shared with another participant) (please delete as appropriate) I would like to share the room with (please delete as appropriate or specify name) For the period [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] (please delete dates as appropriate) Amount (accommodation + half board) to be paid on site in cash USD / DM / GBP (please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds) * Registration Fee Registration fee(s) applicable: USD for the conference USD for the summer school (please specify which registration fee(s) will be applicable in your case and delete if appropriate) Amount to be paid on site in cash USD / DM / GBP (please specify the amount you are going to pay in USD or the equivalent in German Marks or British Pounds) ----------------------------------------------------------- Please reserve your accommodation as soon as possible. SUMMER SCHOOL INFORMATION For further information, if you wish to participate or exhibit books/software, please contact: - Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk) or - Malgorzata Stys (m.stys@cl.cam.ac.uk) RELATED EVENTS The summer school will be followed by the International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP'97)" (same location). For more information on the conference, visit <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: RANLP '97 Programme Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:23:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 349 (349) [deleted quotation] _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (RANLP'97) 11-13 September 1997, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria Co-organised by: * University of Wolverhampton * University of Sussex * University of Hamburg * Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics Sponsored by: * The European Commission, DG XIII * Evrika Foundation PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME 11 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ 9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: YORICK WILKS Combining Independent Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson (Univ of Sheffield) STATISTICAL TAGGING ----------------------------------------------- 9.40-10.10 Extending N-gram Tagging to Word Graphs Christer Samuelsson (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies) 10.10-10.40 Automatically Acquiring a Language Model for POS Tagging Using Decision Trees Lluis Marquez, Horacio Rodriguez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) 10.40-11.10 Coffee break LEXICON ----------------------------------------------------------- 11.10-11.40 Designing a Dictionary of Derived Nominals Catherine Macleod, Adam Meyers, Ralph Grishman, Leslie Barrett, Ruth Reeves (New York University) 11.40-12.10 Partial Evaluation for Efficient Access to Inheritance Lexicons Sven Hartrumpf (Univ of Hagen) 12.10-12.40 Lexicon Filtering Frederique Segond, Max Copperman (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble) 12.40-3.00 Lunch break DISCOURSE --------------------------------------------------------- 3.00-3.30 Segmentation of Expository Texts by Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Yaakov Yaari (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 3.30-4.00 Information Structure and Machine Translation: Generating Danish Existential Sentences Patrizia Paggio, (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) 4.00-4.30 Robust Reference Resolution with Limited Knowledge: High Precision Genre-Specific Approach for English and Polish Ruslan Mitkov (Univ of Wolverhampton) Malgorzata Stys (Univ of Cambridge) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break CORPORA, TOOLS (parallel session) --------------------------------- 5.00-5.20 Can we Improve Part-of-Speech Tagging by Inducing Probabilistic Part-of-Speech Annotated Lexicons from Large Corpora? Nicolas Smith, Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) 5.20-5.40 An Internet Agent for Language Model Construction Peter Wyard (BT Laboratories, Ipswich) Tony Rose (Canon Research Centre Europe, Surrey) 5.40-6.00 Term Weight Learning for an Automatic Text Categorization Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada, Atsumi Imamiya (Yamanashi University, Japan) 6.20-6.40 Using the TOPSIS Multicriteria Method to Direct an Agreement Error Correction Process: an Application to Arabic Belguith Hadrich Lamia, Ben Hamadou Abdelmajid, Aloulou Chafik (Faculti des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Sfax) MACHINE TRANSLATION & TRANSLATION AIDS (parallel session) --------- 5.00-5.20 Gaijin: A Bootstrapping, Template-Driven Approach to Example-Based MT Tony Veale, Andy Way (Dublin City University) 5.20-5.40 Aspect Calculation in MIROSLAV: a German-Russian MT System Bernhard Staudinger, Nancy Smith 5.40-6.00 Verb Instantiation by Concept Coherence and Refinement Abolfazl Fatholahzadeh (Ecole Superieure d'Electricite) H. Altay Guvenir (Bilkent University Turkey) 6.20-6.40 Refining Domain Ontologies for Flexible Explanation Generation Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Kalina Bontcheva (Univ of Sheffield) 12 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ 9.00-9.40 INVITED TALK: SERGEI NIRENBURG If You Have It, Flaunt It: Using Full Ontological Knowledge for Word Sense Disambiguation Kavi Mahesh, Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale (New Mexico State University) TOOLS ------------------------------------------------------------- 9.40-10.10 Efficiency and Elegance in NLP: The EPISTEME Approach J. Gabriel Amores (Universidad de Sevilla) Jose F. Quesada (CICA, Spain) 10.10-10.40 Linguistic Processing using ALEP Andrew Bredenkamp & F.Fouvry (Univ of Essex) Thierry Declerk (DFKI Saarbruecken) B.Music (CST, Copenhagen) A.Theofilidis (IAI, Saarbruecken) 10.40-11.10 Coffee break MACHINE TRANSLATION ----------------------------------------------- 11.10-11.40 Using Hybrid Methods and Resources in Semantic-based Transfer Bianka Buschbeck-Wolf, Michael Dorna (IMS-CL Univ of Stuttgart) 11.40-12.10 Inflectional Information in Transfer for Lexicalist MT Davide Turcato, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 12.10-12.40 Lexical Ambiguity in Machine Translation: Using Frame Semantics for Expressing Systemacies in Polysemy Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) 12.40-3.00 Lunch break GENERATION -------------------------------------------------------- 3.00-3.30 Aggregative Utterance Planning for Interactive Instruction Tsuneaki Kato, Yukiko I. Nakano (NTT Information & Communication Systems Labs, Japan) 3.30-4.00 A Question/Answer Explanation based Approach for Customizable Text Expansion vs Summarization Yllias Chali (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse) 4.00-4.30 AMALIA - A Unified Platform for Parsing and Generation Shuly Wintner (Univ of Thuebingen) Evgeniy Gabrilovich & Nissim Francez (Israel Institute of Technology, Technion) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION, PARSING (parallel session) ----------- 5.00-5.20 Validation of STEP/EXPRESS Specifications by Automatic Natural Language Generation Hercules Dalianis, Anders Hedman, Paul Johannesson Department of computer and Systems Sciences (Royal Institute of Technology & Stockholm University) 5.20-5.40 A generation algorithm for f-structure representations Toni Tuells (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) 5.40-6.00 Memory-based Deep Syntactic Analysis of Unrestricted French Emmanuel Giguet, Jacques Vergne (Universiti de Caen) 6.20-6.40 Morphosyntactic Disambiguation for Basque Based on the Constraint Grammar Formalism Aduriz I., Arriola J.M., Artola X., Diaz de Illarraza A., Gojenola K., Maritxalar M. (University of the Basque Country) DISCOURSE (parallel session) -------------------------------------- 5.00-5.20 Subject Ellipsis in Chinese News Headlines Chi-on Chin, Benjamin K.Y. Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) 5.20-5.40 Slot Unification Grammar and Anaphora Resolution A. Ferrandez, M.Palomar, L.Moreno (Alicante University) 5.40-6.00 Reference Analysis of Deicitic Expressions to Visual Objects Hiroyasu Yamada, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Atsumi Imamiya (Yamanashi University, Japan) 6.20-6.40 Word Spotting of Radio News based on Topic Identification for Speech Recognition Yoshimi Suzuki, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Yamanashi University, Japan) 13 SEPTEMBER ___________________________________________________________________ SEMANTICS --------------------------------------------------------- 9.00-9.30 Combining Multiple Methods for the Automatic Construction of Multilingual Wordnets Jordi Atserias, Salvador Climent, Xavier Farreres, German Rigau, Horacio Rodriguez (Universitat Politechnica de Catalunya) 9.30-10.00 Using Wordnet to Complement Training Information in Text Categorization Manuel de Buenaga Rodrmguez, Josi Marma Gsmez Hidalgo, Belin Dmaz Agudo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 10.00-10.30 Probabilistic Word-Sense Disambiguation: a Portable Approach Using Minimum Knowledge Edward Teo, Christopher Ting, Hian-Beng Lee Li-Shiuan Peh (DSO National Laboratories, Singapore) 10.30-11.00 Probabilistic Event Categorization Janyce Wiebe, Rebecca Bruce, Lei Duan (New Mexico State University) 11.00-11.30 coffee break PARSING, INFORMATION EXTRACTION, EVENT CATEGORISATION ------------- 11.30-12.00 A New Approach to the Construction of Generalized LR Parsing Algorithms Miguel A. Alonso, David Cabrero, Manuel Vilares (Universidade de Coruna, Spain) 12.00-12.30 Statistical Ambiguity Resolution for Principle-Based Parsing Cathy Berthouzoz, Paola Merlo (Univ of Geneva) 12.30-1.00 MILK: a Hybrid system for Multilingual Indexing and Information Extraction A. Bolioli, L. Dini, V. Di Tomaso, A. Goy, D. Sestero (Centro per l'Elaborazione del Linguaggio e dell'Informazione; Torino-Vercelli-Pisa) 1.00-3.30 Lunch break INFORMATION FILTERING, TEXT CLASSIFICATION, SEMANTIC CONSTRUCTION 3.30-3.50 Using Supertags in Document Filtering: The Effect of Increased Context on Information Retrieval Effectiveness R. Chandrasekar, B. Srinivas (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) 3.50-4.10 Exploiting Thesaurus Knowledge in Rule Induction for Text Classification Markus Junker, A. Abecker (DFKI, Kaiserlautern) 4.10-4.30 Constructing Compact Representations of Ambiguous Language Kurt Eberle, Carl Vogel (IMS-CL, Univ of Stuttgart) 4.30-5.00 Coffee break SEMANTIC PROCESSING, DISAMBIGUATION (parallel session) ------------ 5.00-5.20 Word Class Functions for Syntactic-Semantic Analysis Hermann Helbig, Sven Hartrumpf (FernUniversitaet Hagen) 5.20-5.40 Extraction of Predicate-Argument Structures from Texts Sylvain Delisle (Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres) Stan Szpakowicz (Univ of Ottawa) 5.40-6.00 Estimating Similarity of Word Senses by a Fuzzy Relation on a Large Dictionary YoungJa Park, ManSuk Song (Yonsei University, Korea) 6.20-6.40 An Alternative Approach to Lexical Categorical Disambiguation Joao Luis Tavares da Silva, Vera Lucia Strube de Lima (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul) LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING (parallel session) ------- 5.00-5.20 SVENSK: A Toolbox of Swedish Language Processing Resources Mikael Eriksson & Bjoern.Gambaeck (Royal Institute of Technology/KTH, Stockholm) 5.20-5.40 Reusability of NLP Tools for Detecting Rules and Contexts When Modelling Language Learners' Knowledge Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Montse Maritxalar, Maite Oronoz Anchordoqui (Univ of the Basque Country) 5.40-6.00 Learning Terminology in a Foreigh Language Vania Dimitrova (Univ of Shoumen, Bulgaria) Darina Dicheva (Sofia University, Bulgaria) 6.20-6.40 A Syllable-Based Extraction Method of Kana-Kanji Pairs from Japanese Sentences Hisahiro Adachi (Utsunomiya University, Japan) RESERVE PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------- Computation of the Preference in the Interpretation of Anaphors Soo-Yeon Kim (George Washington University) Encoding Danish Verbs in the PAROLE Model Costanza Navarretta (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen) Cautious Steps towards Hybrid Connectionist Bilingual Phrase Alignment Stefan Wermter, Joseph Chen (Univ of Hamburg) Bilingual parallel text segmentation and tagging for specialized documentation Raquel Martinez Unanue (U. Complutense de Madrid) Arantza Casillas Rubio (U. Alcala de Henares) Joseba Abaitua Odriozola (U. Deusto) Building of Semantico-Cognitive Representation of Different Types of Narratives in French Delphine Battistelli (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne) Nikolay Vazov (Universite Paris IV - Sorbonne & LIMSI) LOCATION Tzigov Chark is a beautiful resort in the Rhodope Mountains on the shores of Lake Batak. 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. REGISTRATION Due to the limited conference facilities, registration will be carried out on a first-come, first-served basis. For further details and to check if there are still places available, contact Victoria Arranz (victoria@ccl.umist.ac.uk). CONFERENCE INFORMATION Visit RANLP'97 home page at: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a> 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) or through the conference web site: <a href="http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html</a>. 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. All wishing to demonstrate/exhibit software, please contact Nicolas Nicolov (nicolas@cogs.sussex.ac.uk). Publishers wishing to exhibit/promote books please contact Ruslan Mitkov (r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: Prolamat 98: First Announcement and CFP Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:09:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 350 (350) [deleted quotation] The Tenth International IFIP TC5 WG-5.2 WG-5.3 Conference PROLAMAT '98 ------------ The Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century: Innovation, Agility, and the Virtual Enterprise Conference date and venue: September 9-11, 1998 - Trento, Italy [deleted quotation] Abstracts Due: November 10, 1997 Acceptance Notification: December 20, 1997 Camera ready Paper Due: April 30, 1998 Please show interest in contributing to PROLAMAT '98 using attached form by: September 30, 1997 The conference scope of PROLAMAT '98 expands design and manifacturing issues to include teams and virtual enterprises which come together across space and time to develop new products and bring them to global markets. Manufacturing issues and information models have long been part of concurrent engineering; they are increasingly important in new product innovation and in the development of manufacturing plans and processes which span multiple companies along with multiple time zones. Past emphasis on human aspects and innovation provides a strong foundation for the next PROLAMAT, which emphasizes three themes in separate tracks of the conference: Track 1: Sharing experience gained from telecommunication use in industry for agility and innovation Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard representations, reuse Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing Background ---------- The PROLAMAT conference is an internationally well known event for demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of discrete manufacturing. Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the PROLAMAT is traditionally held every three years and it includes the whole area of advanced software technology for Design and Manufacturing in Discrete Manufacturing. Past conferences have explored: - Manufacturing Technology, - Advances in CAD/CAM, - Software for Discrete Manufacturing, - Software for Manufacturing. The Eight International PROLAMAT focused on the theme of Man in CIM. The 1995 PROLAMAT featured the theme of Life Cycle Modelling for Innovative Products and Processes. The 1998 conference in Italy will be organized by the University of Trento, School of Engineeering and Department of Computer and Managemet Sciences, jointly with Istituto Trentino di Cultura, under the auspices of the WG2 for "Computer-Aided Design" and WG3 for "Computer-Aided Manufacturing" of the Technical Committee 5 for "Computer Applications in Technology". This conference will be the last PROLAMAT before the next century, and it provides an opportunity to investigate and imagine what the digital communications revolution going on all around us will mean for manufacturing. _______________________________________________________________________ Conference Subjects ------------------- Track 1: Sharing experience from telecommunication use in industry for -------- agility and innovation Globalization of product opportunities and manufacturing processes, along with advances in digital communications, are simultaneously enabling and demanding agility and rapid enterprise innovation. A number of industries have been driven to exploit emerging telecommunication technologies as an important tool for meeting these demands. A major goal of this conference will be to complement the more traditional academic presentations with a separate track devoted to sharing industry experience and determining the implications of the emerging digital communications era for discrete manufacturing in the 21st century. - Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies for: - concurrent engineering involving shared product and process models, - applications of telecommunications for agility, innovation or virtual organizations, - distributed business process reengineering and out sourcing, - managing virtual teams and developing and sustaining virtual organizations, - Advances in telecommunication technology for collaborative knowledge processing for engineering - tele-presence, remote sensing, and distributed coordination of processes, - collaborative feature modelling, feature-based design, and geometric modelling - Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing product development - collaborative version management and update sharing - tools for enterprise integration and managing organizational change - enterprise-wide distribution and coordination of emerging product models. _______________________________________________________________________ Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard -------- representations, reuse People, not machines, design new products and make manufacturing systems work. Increasingly, groups of people are required to design new products and bring them to market. Requirements for agility and the suitability of specific manufacturing processes must be matched with the culture and knowledge base of the work force. World-class processes have floundered when this was not done. Information and communication systems can either amplify or reduce the magnitude of differences across culture or engineering discipline. Researchers specializing in knowledge representation, modelling, communications, standardization, and reuse will be invited to share their experiences and research perspectives. - Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain boundaries, - distributed manufacturing and supply chain management - early stage product development which dynamically incorporates supplier constraints - standard models for component information representation, product and process interchange, - Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the product lifecycle, - adaptive systems for organizational management, knowledge sharing, education, and training - organizational and manufacturing process simulation - organizing and representing design and manufacturing process for dissemination and reuse - The interface between human and machine for information sharing, training, education, - virtual reality and multi-media in manufacturing and design - collaborative manufacturing process definition and operation - collaborative product and process modeling for the product life cycle - implications of models of human communication for the support of integrated manufacturing _______________________________________________________________________ Track 3: Telecommunication and agility impact on software technology for -------- discrete manufacturing Even in today's post-industrial information-society, machines, not people, ultimately make the products which humans have designed and will use. Digital telecommunication has become an enabling technology for agile organizations and an important tool driving some enterprise innovation. What are the implications of these profound changes in communications technology for discrete manufacturing? Which old assumptions must be rethought, and what totally new opportunities now exist? How have software tools for discrete manufacturing evolved during these past three years? The conference, as a whole, and this track, in particular, will attempt to answer these far reaching questions. - Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed manufacturing, - concurrent and simultaneous engineering systems - distributed and global methodologies for design and collaborative manufacturing - Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across institutional boundaries for - automated machining operations, - scheduling, coordination, or planning for machining or manufacturing processes, - Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated manufacturing, - formal design theories and methodologies - engineering simulation, product and process modelling, planning, and scheduling - Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing - methods and tools for sustainable product development and manufacturing processes ________________________________________________________________________ Conference Chair: G. Jacucci Invited Members to the International Program Committee L. Alting (DK) S. Ansaldi (I) A. Baskin (USA) P. Bertok (AUS) S. Bhattacharyya (UK) O. Biorke (N) K. Bo (N) M. Boari (I) G. Bracchi (I) D. Brown (USA) L. Camarinha-Matos (P) L. Carlucci Aiello (I) B-K. Choi (K) G. Christensen (DK) C. Ciborra (F) E. Ciciotti (I) U. Claussen (D) J-P. Crestin (F) U. Cugini (I) B. David (F) C. Davies (UK) Z. Deng (N) C. Dent (UK) I. St.Doltsinis (D) G. Doumeingts (F) W. Ehrenberger (D) J.L. Encarnacao (D) L. Estensen (N) K. Fedra (A) S. Finger (USA) F. Gambarotta (I) J. Gero (AUS) R. Geudj (F) P. Gili (I) B. Girard (F) F. Giunchiglia (I) H. Grabowski (D) U. Graefe (C ) G. Guida (I) G. Halevy (ISR) J. Hardy (USA) J.M. Hee (DK) G. Hermann (H) B. Hofmaier (SW) T. Holden (UK) G. Jacucci (I), Chair H. Jansen (D) C.C. Kai (SP) F. Kimura (J) T. Kjellberg (S) D. Kochan (D) G. Kovacs (H) Z. Kozar (CZ) F-L. Krause (D) J. Latombe (USA) G. Lazzari (I) R. Levi (I) F. Lillenhagen (N) W. Loeve (NL) S. Lu (USA) K. MacLaughlin (USA) R. Manara (I) M. Mantyla (SF) A. Markus (H) T. Markus (H) R. Mayer (USA) G. Menga (I) E. Merchant (USA) J. Mermet (F) I. Mezgar (H) R. Michelini (I) G. Micheletti (I) V. Milacic (YU) P. Mudur (IND) G. Musso (I) L. Nemes (AUS) R. Ning (PRC) S. Nof (USA) S. Noll (D) G. Olling (USA) T. Otker (NL) M. Pallot (F) K. Pawar (UK) J. Peklenik (SL) G. Perrone (I) F. Plonka (USA) V. Ponomaryov (Rus) M. Pratt (UK) K. Preiss (ISR) F. Prinz (USA) B. Radig (D) F. Rigotti (I) J. Rix (D) F. Robson (UK) C. Rosenthal (USA) M. Sabin (UK) A. Sambura (AUS) T. Sata (J) D. Schelfi (I) J. Schneider (USA) G. Seliger(D) O. Semenkov (BJ) M. Shpitalni (ISR) D.L. Shunk (USA) R. Soenen (F) O. Stock (I) A. Storr (D) J.C. Teixeira (P) P. ten Hagen (NL) V. Tipnis (USA) P. Tiribelli (I) N. Todorov (BG) T. Tomiyama (J) M. Tomljanovich (I) E. Tyugu (S) H. van Brussel (B) F. van Houten (NL) G. Vernazza (I) M. Veron (F) A. Villa (I) R. Vio (I) M. Waldron (USA) K. Wang(PRC) E. Warman (UK) M. Wozny (USA) H. Yoshikawa (J) R. Zandonini (I) E. Zaninotto (I) A. Zorat (I) R. Zuest (CH) Submission Information Extended abstracts of two pages, written in English, should be e-mailed to prolamat@lii.unitn.it by November 10, 1997. Accepted formats are text only, Word attachment or Latex attachment. Abstracts will present an additional cover sheet providing title, all authors with affiliation, the full address of the principal author (with phone, fax numbers and e-mail address) and a list of keywords related to the paper contents. The Extended Abstracts will be reviewed by three referees for inclusion in the Conference Program. Accepted contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings by Chapman & Hall. Format requirements from Chapman & Hall for the preparation of the camera-ready article, will be sent to the authors in due course. Conference Organizing Committee V. D'Andrea, University of Trento, (I) Y. Ficiciyan, IPK Berlin (D) E. Filos, European Commission, DGIII, (B) M. Marchese, University of Trento, (I) Chair M. Ronchetti, University of Trento, (I) G. Salvatori, Istituto Trentino di Cultura, (I) A. Servida, European Commission, DGXIII, (B) Official Language: English Contact Information: contact: Mara Gruber e-mail: prolamat@lii.unitn.it phone: +39.464.443.134 +39.464.443.140 fax: +39.464.443.141 www: <a href="http://www.lii.unitn.it/prolamat/">http://www.lii.unitn.it/prolamat/</a> mail: Laboratorio di Ingegneria Informatica via F. Zeni, 8 38068 - Rovereto (TN) Italy [deleted quotation]__________________________________________________________________ Reply Form IFIP International Conference PROLAMAT '98 The Globalization of Manufacturing in the digital communication era of the 21st century: Innovation, Agility and Virtual Enterprise September 9-11, 1998 Trento Name: ........... Institution: ........... E-Mail: .......... I am interested in receiving further notices on PROLAMAT '98. [ ] I am also interested in contributing a paper: Tentative Title: .......... The paper will touch upon the following topics: Track 1: Experience using telecom for agility and product/process innovation; [ ] Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies for: [ ] Advances in telecom technology for collaborative knowledge processing for engineering [ ] Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing produt development Track 2: Human and machine communications, modelling, standard representations, reuse [ ] Enterprise data sharing across engineering, cultural, and supply chain boundaries, [ ] Technologies for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and across the product life cycle [ ] The interface between human and machine for information sharing training, aducation Track 3: Telecom and agility impact on software technology for discrete manufacturing [ ] Rapid and virtual prototyping using distributed teams or distributed manufacturing, [ ] Intelligent tools which communicate across the shop floor or across institutional boundaries for : [ ] Architectures, frameworks, and DSS for design and integrated manufacturing [ ] Issues and systems relating to sustainable manufacturing ___________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Lenoble Michel <lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA> Subject: Re: Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 218 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:13:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 351 (351) [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] En reponse au message de Humanist Discussion Group : [deleted quotation] I would try to find a version of the RECODE program developped by Francois Pinard for the GNU foundation. It would convert most character sets into any other. Check with F Pinard at: pinard@iro.umontreal.ca M.L. -- =================================================================== Michel LENOBLE | Fax et tel.: (514) 485-1799 lenoblem@ere.umontreal.ca =================================================================== From: Richard Giordano <Richard_Giordano@Brown.edu> Subject: Humanities Applications in Computer Science. Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:52:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 352 (352) I'd like to draw attention to members of the Humanist some of the work that my collegaues at the Department of Computer Science (at the Unievrsity of Manchester) have begun with respect to applying structured terminologies and description logics for use by art archivists and historians. The project description can be found at <<a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/people/seanb/starch">http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig/people/seanb/starch</a>>. A position paper on the subject can be found at <<a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/people/seanb/art/position.htm">http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/people/seanb/art/position.htm</a>>. This project, in my opinion, is an example of a marriage between the interests of computer scientists and the needs of art historians and archivists. /rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Otfried Lieberknecht <lieberk@berlin.netsurf.de> Subject: CONF: (fwd) "Dante, Data and toDay", Sofia, 15-21 Sept '97 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 97 13:12 MET DST X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 353 (353) [X-posted to Italian-Studies, MedTextL, Medievale, Mantovano, Ficino, Humanist] "Dante, Data and toDay" 15-21 September 1997 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Education in Mathematics and Informatics Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Block 8 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria The aim of this conference is to bring together teachers, students, and scientists to develop new roles and ideas of teaching and studying, with special regard to the use of electronic media. Dante's work and its reception will be viewed under interdisciplinary and intercultural aspects, including religion, philosophy, literature, history, science, mathematics and astronomy. The conference will be divided into two separate parts: lectures and discussions in the mornings and workshops in the afternoons, the latter including a demonstration of new computer possibilities in translation using Italian, English, Russian and Bulgarian versions of the Divine Comedy. The proceedings of the conference will be published and we would welcome any contributions. The participation prices are USD 50 till the 30th of August and USD 60 thereafter. Accomodation: there are appartments available in the Institute (cost: 10 USD), or rooms in several small but clean hotels in the area with prices of around USD 50. There are also adequate resturants and eating places in the Academy and nearby. For further informations please contact: John Muirhead E-mail: john@math.acad.bg Tel.: (003592) 713 2895 or 713 2891 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin Tel.: ++49 30 8516675 (fax on request), E-mail: lieberk@berlin.netsurf.de Homepage for Dante Studies: <a href="http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html">http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html</a> ORB Dante Alighieri - A Guide to Online Resources: <a href="http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html">http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/lit/Italian/Danindex.html</a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:25:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 354 (354) [deleted quotation] *PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT* FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other associations and consortia, including EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with the sponsorship of major national and international organizations, including ARPA, the European Commission - DG XIII and the NSF. Cooperation and co-sponsorship with other institutions is currently being sought. CONFERENCE TOPIC In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized. Two issues are currently considered particularly relevant for promoting international cooperation: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building, improving or evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, and in general, as core resources for the software localization and language services industries, for language studies, electronic publishing, international transactions, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora, computational lexicons, grammars, terminology databases, basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customization and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation in Language Engineering is increasingly recognized. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a program, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, and finally product benchmarking. It accompanies research and development in Human Language Technologies, and has driven important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programs, including the US ARPA HLT program, EU Language Engineering projects, the Francophone Aupelf-Uref program and others, particularly in the localization industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research problems. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information on ongoing and planned activities, present language resources and their applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference: - Issues in the design, construction and use of LR (theoretical & best practice) - Guidelines, standards, specifications, models for LR. - Organizational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR. - Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR - Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR - Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain-specific LR - Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g., terms, lexical information, language modeling) from LR - Monolingual vs. multilingual LR - National and international activities and projects - LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry. - Industrial production of LR - Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) - Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (language technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.) - Industrial LR requirements and the community's response - Analysis of user needs for LR - Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR - Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation - Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR - national and international policies - Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation - Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc) - Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc) - Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and handwritten character recognition, etc) - Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems - Qualitative and perceptive evaluation - Evaluation of products and applications - Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems - Situated evaluation of applications - Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures - Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing - Economics of LRs IMPORTANT DATES 1. Submission of summaries for proposed papers: (approximately 800 words): 1 December 1997 E-mail submission in ASCII form is encouraged. Otherwise, five hard copies should be submitted. - E-mail submissions should be sent to lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it - Postal submissions should be sent to Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56100, Pisa, ITALY 2. Notification of acceptance: 15 February 1998 3. Final version of the paper: 20 April 1998 The papers accepted will be included in the Conference Proceedings. PROGRAM The program will include both papers and poster sessions. In addition, the Program will also include invited speakers, and a number of panels on the major themes of the Conference. In particular, it is planned to organize a panel on various aspects and perspectives of international cooperation, with the participation of representatives of the major European, North American and Asian sponsoring agencies. WORKSHOPS Half-day pre- and post-conference Workshops can be organized, at the request of a presenter, to permit the discussion and debate of topics of current interest. The format of each Workshop will be determined by the Workshop organizer, who will set any necessary deadlines for the participants. The next announcement, to be circulated in September, will provide guidelines on how to submit a proposal for a Workshop to the Program Committee. SYSTEMS AND LR DEMONSTRATIONS Various platforms will be available for language resources and tools presentations and unreferenced systems demonstrations. Organizations interested in presenting systems should contact the local demonstration organizers, whose address will be provided in the next announcement. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE The full composition of the Scientific Committee will be listed in the next announcement. The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA, via della Faggiola, 32, Pisa 56100, Italy). The Secretariat of the Conference is provided by Khalid Choukri (ELRA, 87, Avenue d'Italie, F-75013, Paris, FRANCE). The conference organizing committee consists of: Harald Hoege (Siemens, Munich, Germany). Bente Maegaard (CST, Copenhagen, Denmark), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France), Angel Martin-Municio (President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain), Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy). ********* From: Jean G Anderson <jganders@arts.gla.ac.uk> Subject: COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITIVE LINGUIST Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:45:55 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 355 (355) WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Department of Statistics & Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute University of Glasgow, UK 11, 12 September 1997 Announcement and Call for Registration 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. The registration fee is GBP 200.00 and GBP 150.00 for students. For more information about the workshop and to register, 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 _______________________________________________________ Jean Anderson Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK email: j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 <a href="http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/">http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/</a> mailer: Pegasus _______________________________________________________ From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 15:51:27 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 356 (356) Contact: Guy Lamolinara, Library of Congress (202) 707-9217 Crystal Ashton, Ameritech Library Services (801) 223-5330 GUIDELINES FOR 1997-98 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION NOW AVAILABLE DEADLINE: November 3, 1997 ELIGIBLE SUBJECTS: collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate United States history and culture for the period 1763-1920. APPLICATION WORKSHOPS: Chicago: Aug. 29; Washington DC: Sept. 8 * * * The Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition Guidelines for 1997-98 are now available. The Guidelines may be used by any nonfederal, tax-exempt, nonprofit (501(c)3) cultural repository in the United States holding primary sources suitable for digitizing and making available on the Internet. To order, view or download the Guidelines, visit the competition's Web site at <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/</a>>. With a $2 million gift from Ameritech, the Library of Congress is sponsoring a competition to enable public, research and academic libraries, museums, historical societies and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of primary resources. These digital collections will complement and enhance the collections made available on the Internet by the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress. The National Digital Library is envisioned as a distributed collection of converted library materials and digital originals to which many American institutions will contribute. The Library of Congress's contribution to this World Wide Web-based virtual library is called American Memory. This is the second year of the competition; 10 institutions received awards last April in the first round of the program. For this competition cycle, applications will be limited to collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate United States history and culture for the period from 1763-1920. Program staff will be available for individual consultations Aug. 29, during the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Chicago (check program guide for location). A workshop will be held Sept. 8 in Washington, D.C., at the Library of Congress. Call (202) 707-1087 to schedule an individual consultation or use the on-line registration form at the competition Web site (<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award</a>) to sign up for the Sept. 8 workshop. ============================================ 1996/97 AWARD WINNERS Following is a list of the 1996 award winners. Detailed project descriptions are available at <<a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/award97.html">http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/award97.html</a>> *Brown University: African-American Sheet Music Digitizing Project *Denver Public Library: History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library *Duke University: Historic American Sheet Music Project *Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Frances Loeb Library: American Landscape and Architectural Design,1850-1920: A Study Collection from the Harvard School of Design *New York Public Library: Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Dennis Collection, 1850-1910 *North Dakota State University: The Northern Great Plains, 1880-1920: Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak Photograph Collections *Ohio Historical Society: The African-American Experience in Ohio,1850-1920 *University of Chicago: American Environmental Photographs, 1897-1931 *University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: First-Person Narratives of the American South,1860-1920 *University of Texas, Austin The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jean G Anderson <jganders@arts.gla.ac.uk> Subject: Heritage Lottery Fund IT Survey Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:47:10 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 357 (357) Heritage Lottery Fund Information Technology Study The Heritage Lottery Fund has commissioned a study on information technology in the heritage sector which will take place over the next six months. I have appended a brief for the project. The consultants who have been commissioned to carry out the work are the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, led by Dr Seamus Ross. The National Heritage Act 1997 is likely to enable the Heritage Lottery Fund to consider a wide range of new types of projects which have hitherto been ineligible for Lottery funding. There are therefore many new opportunities for using IT in heritage projects. I would be most interested in receiving any information you might have relating to your own work in this area - for example, any studies or reviews you have undertaken, any IT projects in which you have been involved, or any guidelines you have developed on IT projects. I would also welcome any comments you might have on how the HLF might approach the area of information technology. We would appreciate any comments, however brief. Jean Anderson Principal Researcher HATII University of Glasgow ---------- Heritage Lottery Fund and Information Technology Projects Brief for research study Purpose of study 1.To assist in developing a policy framework and funding guidelines to support the Heritage Lottery Fund's wider powers under new legislation to fund projects involving: * compilation and dissemination of information about the heritage * encourage study, understanding and enjoyment of the heritage These new purposes, taken with HLF's established role in funding conservation of the heritage, imply that information technology will play will play a much greater part in future HLF grant activity. HLF wishes to identify the most effective contributions it can make in this field. 2.The new legislation widens the range of HLF's potential projects and applicants. There will be no new lottery funding to meet these demands, and capital projects involving the direct conservation of the heritage will remain a priority. Resources for information technology projects will be finite, and an important objective of the study will be to identify and recommend priorities in the short and medium term. 3.These priorities should take account of government policy on, and parallel developments in the use of information technology, for example in the fields of current information and education, to identify opportunities for HLF to complement other initiatives and avoid duplication. Specific objectives 4.To review (by means of a literature survey and targeted interviews) the established and developing uses of IT in the sectors covered by the HLF: i Built heritage a) Survey and Record b) Archaeology ii Countryside and Nature Conservation a) Survey and Record b) Biological & Natural Records iii Objects (including preserved ships etc.) and Collections (museums, archives, special library collections) 5. To examine the possible future applications and issues raised for the above by: i Databases, including image databases ii Interactive on-site and on-line systems iii Websites 6. To identify requirements for standards (principals for selection rather than particular standards), kinds of applications to be supported (eg database development, interactive systems, software development, hardware) and the issues raised by copyright and intellectual property rights. 7. To examine the issues related to the inclusion of information technology training and skills-development with bids to the Heritage Lottery Fund. 8. To examine dissemination issues and problems associated with improving access and making certain that technology-based projects succeed in reaching a wider user-base and not just the traditionally IT literate communities. 9. To identify policy options, and recommend priorities across the range of areas, in the short (eg first two years) and medium term. 10. To draw up recommended criteria, and guidelines for the material to be submitted by applicants, which are: * comprehensible to non-IT specialists among applicants, HLF staff and trustees * sufficiently robust about priorities to facilitate efficient and economic assessments by HLF 11. To define assessment tests for IT projects, including assessment of commercial viability, and appraisal of economic, cultural and social "market" for projects. 12. To review HLF options and resource implications for inviting/assessing applications for IT projects, including viability of establishing a special programme for IT in the heritage sector. _______________________________________________________ Jean Anderson Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK email: j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980 <a href="http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/">http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/</a> mailer: Pegasus _______________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Kevin Ward <kevin.ward@GSFC.NASA.GOV> Subject: Katharine Sharp Review #5 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:21:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 358 (358) Katharine Sharp Review ISSN 1083-5261 <a href="http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review">http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review</a> The Katharine Sharp Review, the review of student scholarship in library and information science, announces the publication of issue No. 5, Summer 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. <a href="http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/5/">http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/5/</a> Table of contents: * Karla J. Block - Problem-Based Learning in Medical Education: Issues for Health Sciences Libraries and Librarians * Lisa C. Peterson - Time Management for Library Professionals * Charles D. Bernholz - Weeding the Reference Collection: A Review of the Literature * June Abbas - The Library Profession and the Internet: Implications and Scenarios for Change * Molly M. Moss - Reference Services for Remote Users + + Kevin Ward Editor The Katharine Sharp Review review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu <a href="http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review">http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review</a> + + From: Neil Beagrie <neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk> Subject: AHDS Announcement Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:22:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 359 (359) Apologies for any cross posting The Arts and Humanities Data Service and the UK Office for Library and Information Networking have organised a series of workshops to explore metadata, Dublin Core, and resource discovery issues. Between March and May 1997 six workshops were organised to cover the subject areas of archaeology; digital sound; electronic texts; history; moving images; and the visual arts, museums and cultural heritage. Each workshop has now produced a final report which is available online. Details and links to these reports are available from: <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/projects/ahds/pol/metareps.htm</a> > ************************************************************************ Neil Beagrie Tel: +44 (0)171 873 5076 Collections and Standards Officer Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5080 The Executive Arts and Humanities Data Service Email: neil.beagrie@ahds.ac.uk King's College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: MLA Draft Guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:52:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 360 (360) [deleted quotation] I am pleased to report that at long last the draft guidelines for Electronic Scholarly Editions, under development by the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions for several years, are available for general comment. They are posted on the Sunsite Digital Library server at the University of California, Berkeley: <a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MLA/intro.html">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/MLA/intro.html</a> INTRODUCTION These draft Guidelines were vetted and tentatively approved in September of 1996 by the MLA's Committee on Scholarly Editions. They follow the Committee's guidelines for printed scholarly editions as closely as possible. In fact much of the text is drawn word-for-word from the latter; with additions as necessary to accommodate the capabilities of the new media. They are designed to complement Peter Shillingsburg's "General Principles for Electronic Scholarly Editions," a copy of which is also included on the web site. The Guidelines have already been distributed to a small group of experienced scholars and modified on the basis of their comments. I should be very grateful if you could send any comments by 15 September 1997 to the Electronic Scholarly Editions listserv (ese@ra.msstate.edu) for full discussion. Please feel free to notify other scholars of their existence either privately or by posting this notice on appropriate mailing lists. Substantive reactions will be incorporated into a final draft version for discussion by the CSE at its September meeting. The goal is to have a document that enjoys broad support in the scholarly community for adoption by the Committee on Scholarly Editions and ratification by that Committee as an official MLA statement comparable to the current guidelines for printed editions. Many thanks for your help Charles B. Faulhaber U. of California, Berkeley [Humanists particularly interested in the MLA Guidelines will perhaps welcome another reminder of the forthcoming Conference on Editorial Problems, "Computing the edition: Problems in editing for the electronic medium", to be held 7-9 November in Toronto, Canada. Full information may be obtained at <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/cep/1997.html</a>>. --WM] From: Terry Kuny <Terry.Kuny@xist.com> Subject: "Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards" Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:33:46 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 361 (361) Metadata Standards" Comments: To: meta2@mrrl.lut.ac.uk To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA This notice is being posted to several lists and newsgroups. Please forgive the duplication. CALL FOR PAPERS Special Topic Issue of _JASIS_ "Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards" The next Special Topics Issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science (JASIS) is scheduled to come out in 1999 on the topic of Integrating Multiple Overlapping Metadata Standards. The guest editor for this special issue will be Zorana Ercegovac who is with the Department of the Library and Information Science, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the InfoEN Associates (www.lainet.com/infoen/). As more heterogeneous objects, including text, become available electronically, people have just started to look at different metadata standards that had independently evolved to identify and describe these objects (e.g., geospatial data such as imagery archives and remotely-sensed datasets; museum and cultural information repositories). These metadata standards (e.g., TEI, FGDC, AACR2) come from different disciplines and reflect different perspectives and traditional cultures. Only recently have we started to "mesh" these different content metadata standards and converge into superstandard schemes. Example is the collaboration between Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata and Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR 2nd ed.) standards. Both standards have a capability to describe cartographic materials but from different perspectives: while, for example, FGDC focuses on coordinate access points, projection, and other spatial, temporal, security, and data quality attributes, AACR2 is entering maps under the author main heading. Similar differences exist in the areas of visual and archival representation. Specific topics of interest, but are not limited to, the following: -- Metadata elements for the representation of digital repositories including networked resources; for example, which elements should be included in a metadata record for images and spatial datasets in general? Which data elements should be included at different levels of detail? -- Federal metadata standards for data-intensive application areas -- Integrating multiple overlapping metadata standards (e.g., AACR2, FGDC) -- Designing a superstandard scheme, or a catalog, of metadata entries -- Multiple levels of metadata for multiple user needs -- Integration of data and its metadata -- Economic implications for the integration of metadata standards for multimedia and heterogeneous digital datasets -- Application-apecific metadata projects from academia, research laboratories, governmental organizations, and industry Inquiries may be made to the guest editor at zercegov@ucla.edu Manuscript submission (four copies of full articles) should be addressed to: Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D. Department of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 222 GSLIS Building University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 (310)206-9361 (work) (310)391-3923 (fax/voice) zercegov@ucla.edu <a href="http://www/gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html">http://www/gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html</a> The deadline for sumbitting manuscripts for consideration for publication in this special issue is April 30, 1998. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of referees, and those accepted will be published in a special issue of _JASIS_. Original artwork and a single copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web as is further information about _JASIS_, at <a href="http://www.asis.org/">http://www.asis.org/</a>. Zorana Ercegovac, Ph. D. Dept of Library and Information Science Graduate School of Education & Information Studies 222 GSLIS Bldg University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521 Tel: 1-310-206-9361 Email: zercegov@ucla.edu <a href="http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html">http://www.gslis.ucla.edu/LIS/faculty/zercegov/ercegovac.html</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: IRAL '97 Program Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:32:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 362 (362) [deleted quotation] Invitation The 2nd International Workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages -1997 October 8-9, 1997 The Tsukuba Center for Institutes 2-20-5 Takezono, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken, 305 Japan 1. About the Workshop The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers who are interested in exchanging new ideas and presenting results of the field of information retrieval, with an emphasis on the issues related to Asian languages and multi-lingual issues.The first International Workshop was held with the name "Information Retrieval with Oriental Languages" on June 28-29, 1996, in Taejon, Korea. With the success of the workshop, the program committee has decided to make it an annual workshop with the new title, "Information Retrieval with Asian Languages", to extend the scope. 2. Program *October 8 (Wednesday)* Plenary session 9:30 Welcome---Co-Chair 9:40 Invited Speech: "Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing"(tentative) Prof. Jun-ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) 10:40 Break Chair:Arcot Desai Narasimhalu (National University of Singapore, Singapore) 11:00 "Korean Information Retrieval Model based on the Principles of Word Formation" Min-Jeung Cho, Bo-Hyun Yun & Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea) 11:30 "Improvements of Natural Language Modeling Approaches with Information Retrieval Techniques and Internet Resources" Lee-Feng Chien, Min-Jer Lee & Hsaio-Tiech Pu (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 12:00 Lunch Break Chair: Lee-Feng Chien (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) 1:30 "A Construction Method for the Index Represented by a Pointerless Patricia Trie" Masami Shishibori, Masao Fuketa, Kazuaki Ando & Jun-ichi Aoe (University of Tokushima, Japan) 2:00 "Korean Compound Noun Indexing based on Lexical Association and Conceptual Association" Bo-Hyun Yun, Min-Jung Cho & Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea) 2:30 "Hybrid POS tagging with generalized unknown-word handling" Geunbae Lee, Jeongwon Cha & Jong-Hyeok Lee (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) 3:00 Break Chair: Adachi, Jun (National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan) 3:30 "Structural & Contextual Index Extraction for Chinese Documents" James C.K. Pang, Kam Fai Wong, Boon Toh Low & Vincent Y.S. Lum (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 4:00 "Performance Evaluation of Character-, Word- and N-Gram-Based Indexing for Chinese Text Retrieval" Wai Lam, Chi-Yin Wong & Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 4:30 "Fast Keyword Extraction of Chinese Documents in a Web Environment" Yuen-Hsien Tseng (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) 5:00 "A Korean Phrasal Indexing using a Greedy Parsing" Min-Jung Kim (Miryang National University, Korea) Hyuk-Chul Kwon (Pusan National University, Korea) 6:30 Evening reception *October 9 (Thusday)* Chair:Kam-Fai Wong(Chinese University, Hong Kong) 9:30 "A Character-based Hierarchical Information Filtering Scheme for Chinese News Filtering Agents" Von-Wun Soo, Pey-Ching Yang, Shih-Hung Wu & Shih-Yao Yang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) 10:00 "Information Retrieval Considering Adaptation to User's Behaviors on the WWW" Koji Eguchi, Hidetaka Ito & Akira Kumamoto (Kansai University, Japan) 10:30 Break Chair:Wu, Mei-Mei ( National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) 11:00 "The Effect of a Proper Handling of Foreign and English Words in Retrieving Korean Text" Sung Hyun Myaeng, Kil-Soon Jeong & Yun-Hyung Kwon (Chungnam National University, Korea) 11:30 "Various Transliterations of Foreign Words in Multilingual Information Retrieval" Jae Sung Lee & Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) 12:00 Lunch Break Organization Committee meeting Chair: Aoe, Jun-ichi (University of Tokushima, Japan) 1:30 "Experiments on large test collections with probabilistic approaches to Chinese text retrieval" Xiangji Huang & S. E. Robertson (City University London, U.K.) 2:00 "Using Multiple Relevance Feedback Methods for High Retrieval Effectiveness" Kyi Ho Lee & Joon Ho Lee (KORDIC, Korea) Kyu Chul Lee (Chungnam National University, Korea) 2:30 "Informational noise reduction using prunning" Dongwook Shin, Hyojin Nam & Sejin Nam (Chungnam National University, Korea) 3:00 Break Chair: Kwun, Hyuk-Cheol (Pusan National University,Korea) 3:30 "Japanese Compound Nouns Matching For Information Retrieval" Koichi Yamada, Tatsunori Mori & Hiroshi Nakagawa (Yokohama National University, Japan) 4:00 "Design and Evaluation of Semantic-Based Sentence Categorization" Atsushi Fujii, Kentaro Inui, Takenobu Tokunaga & Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) 4:30 "Intelligent Information Retrieval System For the Metadata of Korean Technical Journals" P. K. Rhee & Y. H. Kim (Inha University, Korea) B. S. Sim (SERI, Korea) 5:00 "Voice Retrieval of Mandarin Speech Database" Hsin-min Wang (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Bor-shen Lin & Bo-ren Bai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) 5:30 Closing *The Workshop Organization Committee Tetsuya Ishikawa (University of Library and Information Science, Japan) Co-Chair Sung H. Myaeng (Chungnam of National University Taejon, Korea) Co-Chair Lee-Feng Chien (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Arcot Desai Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Kam-Fai Wong (Chinese Univ., Hong Kong) *Program Committee Choi, Key-Sun (KAIST, Korea) Kim, Young Whan (Korea Telecom, Korea) Kwun, Hyuk-Chul (Pusan National Univ., Korea) Lee, Guen Bae (Pohang Univ., Korea) Lee, Joon Ho (KORDIC, Korea) Moon, Sung Been (Yonsei Univ., Korea) Myaeng, Sung H. (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Rim, Hae-Chang (Korea Univ., Korea) Shin, Dongwook (Chungnam National Univ., Korea) Adachi, Jun (National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan) Aoe, Jun-ichi (Univ. of Tokushima, Japan) Ishikawa, Tetsuya (Univ. of Lib. & Info. Science, Japan) Fujishiro, Issei (Ochanomizu Univ.,Japan) Matsui, Kunio (Fujitsu, Japan) Nakagawa,Hiroshi (Yokohama National Univ., Japan) Nishida, Toyoaki (Nara Institute of Science & Tech., Japan) Ogawa, Yasushi (Ricoh, Japan) Tamura, Naoyoshi (Yokohama National Univ., Japan) Tokunaga, Tekenobu (Tokyo Institute of Tech., Japan) Arcot Desai Narasimhalu (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) MunKew Leong (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Paul Wu (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore) Chien, Lee-Feng (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Wu, Mei-Mei (Natioanl Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) Dik L. Lee (Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Kam-Fai Wong(Chinese Univ., Hong Kong) Xiling Zhou(Beijing Information Technology Institute, China) * Cooperations ACM-SIGIR SIG-KLP (Korean Language Processing of Korean Information Science Society) SIG-NLP (Natural Language Processing of Information Processing Society of Japan) SIG-DBS (Data Base Systems of Information Processing Society of Japan) Japanese Association for Natural Language Processing ACM Hong Kong Chapeter * Registration Regular: 20,000 Yen, Full-time student: 10,000 Yen. The regular fee includes a copy of Proceedings and an Evening Reception(10/8) ticket which is not included in the student registration fee. Additional tickets for the evening reception can be purchased with 5,000 Yen. Payment must be in cash only. Please read the '<a href="http://www.ulis.ac.jp:9090/~ishikawa/iral-1997/index.html'">http://www.ulis.ac.jp:9090/~ishikawa/iral-1997/index.html'</a> that includes the registration form, map, hotel list, and so on. * Registration form -----Please send Registration form to iral97@ulisdio.ulis.ac.jp.------ Title--- Prof / Dr / Mr / Ms Name (Family name)--- (Given name)--- Affiliation--- Position--- Postal address--- Country--- E-mail--- Fax--- Accompanied by Mr / Ms --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Allen Renear <ALLEN@BROWNVM.BITNET> Subject: CFP: TEI 10th Anniversary (Reminder) Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 17:36:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 363 (363) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***** ABSTRACTS DUE AUGUST 20!!! ***** TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE TENTH ANNIVERSARY USER CONFERENCE <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/">http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/</a> November 14-16, 1997 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island, USA Sponsored by Brown University Computing and Information Services Brown University Libraries - o - To commemorate the tenth anniversary of its founding, the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is sponsoring its first user conference, to be held 14-16 November 1997 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The TEI was established at an international planning meeting on text encoding standards, held at Vassar College on November 12-13, 1987. The TEI is sponsored by the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. The TEI Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange were published in spring of 1994. They provide an extensive SGML-based scheme for encoding electronic texts across a wide spectrum of text types and suitable for any kind of application. The Guidelines have already achieved wide-scale implementation in projects throughout North America and Europe. The TEI conference will bring together users of the TEI Guidelines in order to share ideas, experiences, and expertise, provide a forum for technical discussion and evaluation of the Guidelines as they have been implemented across a variety of applications. The topics include but are not limited to: o reports on the use of the TEI scheme in a particular project or in a particular application area or discipline o reports from particular user communities such as the builders and designers of electronic text centers, digital libraries, language corpora, electronic editions, multi-media databases, etc. o evaluations of the TEI scheme as applied to a particular class of texts or in a particular type of scholarly research o technical discussions of particular encoding problems and solutions such as unusual or complex text types, multi-media, multiple views or information types, multi-lingual data and internationalization, textual variation, overlap, etc. o papers on customization and extension of the TEI for particular application areas and text types o reports on experience using off-the-shelf software with TEI documents, or developing software to handle TEI material o discussions of markup theory and markup architectures, with particular reference to the TEI o discussions of the TEI in the light of developments in the larger computing community (the Web, XML, ...) A portion of the conference will also be devoted to consideration of the future of the TEI. Possible topics to be discussed include the organization of the project, membership on the component committees, priorities, and new work items to be proposed to the Technical Review Committee. SUBMISSIONS: Submissions of at least 1500 words should be sent by August 20, 1997. Email submissions or a URL where the submission can be retrieved should be sent to tei10@stg.brown.edu. Submissions in TEI Lite are preferred, but full TEI or (valid!) HTML 3.2 is acceptable. If it is not possible to submit in one of these forms, please contact tei10_program@stg.brown.edu to make special arrangements. Papers should include complete references to related work and should clearly identify the main problem being addressed, other similar projects and their relation to this project, the main and original contribution of the paper, and remaining or open problems. Authors are also asked to indicate if this paper is or will be submitted elsewhere. Notification of acceptance will be made by September 20, 1997. Final versions of full papers will be due by October 15, 1997. An electronic conference proceedings will be published; other publication details will be forthcoming. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: * Nancy Ide, Vassar College * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Susan Armstrong, University of Geneva * Winfried Bader, German Bible Society * David Barnard, University of Regina (Sask.) * Lou Burnard, Oxford University Computing Services * Tom Corns, University of Wales, Bangor * Steve DeRose, Inso Corp. * David Gants, University of Georgia * Dan Greenstein, King's College, London * Susan Hockey, University of Alberta * Stig Johansson, University of Oslo * Judith Klavans, Columbia University * Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona * Elli Mylonas, Brown University * John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan * Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics * Frank Tompa, University of Waterloo * Syun Tutiya, Chiba University * Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: On program and paper submissions: tei10_program@stg.brown.edu About local arrangements: tei10@stg.brown.edu URL: <a href="http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/">http://www.stg.brown.edu/webs/tei10/</a> FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE TEI: URL: <a href="http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/">http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: James O'Donnell <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> Subject: cybercafes in Europe Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:26:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 364 (364) Foreseeing a trip, I would like to know if cybercafes in Europe are likely to have telnet capability -- to get at my e-mail. I'm happy to sneak into telnet through netscape (open location of the form <a href="telnet://hostname.domain.edu">telnet://hostname.domain.edu</a>) and in worst case could imagine getting my e-mail by ftp, but would appreciate any reassurance or caution from experienced voyagers. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: distributed work? Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:44:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 365 (365) Dear Colleagues: My stay in Wales, near the village of Llandewi Brefi, which is itself near Lampeter (see your Ordnance Survey map 146, Landranger series) is over. No more waking to the sounds of sheep, cows and horses. If only, I thought, a fast Internet connection were possible without great expense, then life there, as I know it, would be possible. How sharp dropping out would be otherwise, i.e. as things stand. (An account at the University in Lampeter would serve basic needs from Llandewi Brefi, but the cost would be prohibitively high, I would suppose.) Yet another way of sensing how much computing has changed in the last decade. Places like many in Wales, or in a number of other places, could support vigorous collaborative work & businesses of various kinds by use of the Internet and Fax. It would be interesting to hear from Humanists who know about any trends toward geographically distributed academic and commercial work by the Internet. Is the possibility being realised? A seemingly wonderful prospect, to be able to live in a Welsh village community yet not give up the connections. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Ken Tompkins <ktomkin@earthlink.net> Subject: Word Processors for Humanists Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:20:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 366 (366) Willard.... I have read the recurring statements on Humanist about word processors for humanists, what capabilities we want, etc. I can remember you and others suggesting that we need to identify what we want and try to influence those who produce them to incorporate our ideas. It is with that as background that I draw your attention to a statement in the most recent issue of _Lingua Franca_. In an article on Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, there appears the following: "Now that hundreds of thousands of people make use of free software, what's next? A web browser, for one. Stallman also plans to develop word processing software. It's a tantalizing notion, one that might bring Stallman's ideas more directly into the mainstream. Instead of waiting the years it takes for Microsoft to release ( and charge for) a new update of its popular Word program, users of Stallman's software could email directly to the FSF site. Scientists could modify the program to deal with complex mathematical notations, while humanists might help develop the ultimate poststructuralist thesaurus. These specialized versions would each be available for downloading on the Internet. All that would be missing would be the shrink wrap and the styrofoam." (pp. 47-48) So, there is a possibility, at last, that we might get the program we want. ken tompkins ======================================== Ken Tompkins Richard Stockton College of NJ ktomkin@earthlink.net <a href="http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm">http://loki.stockton.edu/~ken/wharram/wharram.htm</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: exteriorising Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 13:47:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 367 (367) Some argue that the development of our species is tied intimately to our inventions, at least those which exteriorise our mental life. Thus the written record exteriorises memory, even more so the computer, which can give virtual substance to something like our processes of thought. The degree to which we depend on our external environment for proper operation of mind is suggested by the common trauma of moving from one culture to another, and this (I am told) is exacerbated by a move that involves a change of language. My own experience has been quite striking, especially considering that British and N. American cultures are, as these things go, quite similar. Temporary moves are not a good test, I would guess, not even for a year or so, say on a sabbatical; it's the one-way trip that brings out the deep relationship between mental functioning and one's environment. Such experiences lead one to think about the arts of memory, but I raise the matter here because it seems to me that there is much for us to think about in the relation between our use of computers and the way we may be going as a species. This sounds more than a bit over the top, but I think it's worth entertaining as a possibility. Apocalyptic thoughts should, I suppose, be taken cum grano salis, but seeds of great changes start off small. What led me to recall the trauma of displacement was musing with a friend of mine about how difficult it sometimes is to, as I put it, shrink back into the physical body after sending my mind out into the world through the Internet. The compelling thing is often not writing to this or that particular individual, or accessing this or that Web site, rather it is simply *being online*. Of course one has such experiences, or something very much like them, when reading a good novel, say, but it seems to me that the online world is much more a matter of the vehicle. We open a channel of communication, and what turns out to be the most significant fact is the open channel, not what comes through it. Living like this, how can we not become rather different? But where is this pushing us? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> From: Lorna Hughes <Lorna.Hughes@nyu.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0225 European cybercafes Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:02:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 368 (368) Jim and others, Remember the days when we planned our trips abroad around museums, galleries and concerts? Now it seems that when I'm in Europe I spend more time working out how to access my e-mail than anything else. It is either a symptom that this is truly an electronic age, at the cutting edge of dynamic communications exchange we can't afford to miss, or a symptom that I really need to get a life... Anyway, I have had lots of adventures trying to access my e-mail when I'm in Europe (but I'll spare you the grisly details). However, my research has concluded that the cybercafe is truly a great invention, where accessing your e-mail is as easy as grabbing a cup of overpriced cappucino. Most major cities have such an establishment now, and they are listed in most guide books (The "Rough Guide" series and the "Time Out" guides generally list them). There is even a list of European cybercafes on-line at <a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~bertb/index.html">http://www.xs4all.nl/~bertb/index.html</a> I've used Cyberia in London for the last couple of years, and I think it is fairly typical of most of CyberCafes. They generally have a long wait for computers at peak periods (lunchtimes and after work) so it is a good idea to call ahead and schedule time on the computer. That way you can do a little bit of sightseeing while waiting for your computer. They have Telnet capability as well as Netscape on all their machines. And you can always justify your presence in such places in anthropological terms - your average cybercafe is truly the Rick's cafe of the 90's ("in the end, they all come to the Cybercafe") - you have wandering scholars checking their e-mail, students surfing the net, people doing business on the mobile phone while accessing their ISP, illegal gambling (alright, I made up the last bit). Anyway, it is all good fun. I'm looking forward to my European trip already... 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Update on UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:39:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 369 (369) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 13, 1997 ************************************************************** As I have received a number of calls, resulting from the July 30 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT posting, asking how to obtain a copy of the UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT, I thought I would clarify a few points. ============================================================== "UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT 1997, 390 pp., 21 x 30 cm ISBN: 92-3-103341-7 Price: 275 FF "Written by leading experts from around the world, this first World Information Report provides a global and topical picture of archive, library and information services in the five continents and addresses the most challenging issues that they face at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Publié également en français : Rapport mondial sur l'information 1997/98 ISBN 92-3-203341-0 / 275 FF ============================================================== * The above UNESCO WORLD INFORMATION REPORT may be ordered directly online (by mailing or faxing in an order form) at: <<a href="http://www.unesco.org/publishing/jp2.html">http://www.unesco.org/publishing/jp2.html</a>> * The Report may be obtained in the U.S. from the two official UNESCO distribution centers: 1. Bernan Associates (ex UNIPUB), 4611-F Assembly Drive, Lanham, MD 20706-4391, tel. : 1 800-274-4447, fax : (301) 459-0056 . 2. United Nations Bookshop General Assembly Building, New York, NY 10017, tel. : (212) 963 76 80, fax : (1-212) 963 4910, e-mail : bookshop@un.org. * If necessary, the Report may be ordered directly from UNESCO Publishing in Paris: UNESCO Publishing, Promotion and Sales Division, 1, rue Miollis F - 75732 Paris Cedex 15 France; Fax: +33 01 45 68 57 41; E-Mail: c.laje@unesco.org. Details of how to order and pay may be found at <<a href="http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/publish/order2.html">http://www.unesco.org/general/eng/publish/order2.html</a>> * An introduction, overview and description of the chapter authors is available at <<a href="http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wirerpt/report.htm">http://www.unesco.org/webworld/wirerpt/report.htm</a>> * Ten of the Report's 27 chapters are available online at the above URL (see NINCH homepage for links to three of the chapters of most interest to the cultural community: <<a href="http://www.ninch-cni.org">http://www.ninch-cni.org</a>>) =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: luigi monga <monga@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu> Subject: hand-held scanners and the libraries Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 06:11:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 370 (370) Dear Friends, Since some of the European libraries where I am doing my research don't offer microfilming services, I am considering using a hand-held optical scanner (of the small and non-obtrusive persuasion) to obtain an image of the page (manuscript or book). I am told that a high-density diskette would hold about twenty images, and this is quite satisfactory. I have, however, a couple of questions. The first, obviously, is the legality (or "permissibility") of such an operation: does anyone know what is the common practice re: scanners in European and US libraries? Are they allowed, and if so, under what circumstances? The second question is the quality of the image obtained (I'd be happy with a good black and white one). My third question could be what kind, brand name, etc. of scanner to buy... Thanks for any help and suggestions! Luigi Monga Luigi Monga Professor of French and Italian Box 1660 Station B 1903 Linden Avenue Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 37212 Nashville, TN 37235 tel. 615-292-5887 tel. 615-322-6900 fax: 615-343-6909 From: "Paul [not \"Brian\"] Brians" <brians@mail.wsu.edu> Subject: Display software for the Mac? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:58:20 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 371 (371) I am about to start using a newly-equipped classroom which will allow me to do computer-based presentations but I will be lacking the second screen which my old software demanded and I need to choose something new. I will be displaying high-resolution, 16-bit color graphic images, mostly of fine art on a big screen, plus some text, some maps. Hardly any graphs, bullet charts, etc. I need something fast, easy to use, and--most important--which will let me alter my presentation on the fly (skip ahead five screens, jump back two, choose an image at random from a menu, etc.). The software must run on a Mac. Any suggestions would be welcome. 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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Carl Vogel <Carl.Vogel@cs.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: 11.0226 influencing software development Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 00:26:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 372 (372) [deleted quotation]next? A web browser, for one. Stallman also plans to develop word processing software. It's a tantalizing notion, one that might bring Stallman's ideas more directly into the mainstream. Instead of waiting the years it takes for Microsoft to release ( and charge for) a new update of its popular Word program, users of Stallman's software could email directly to the FSF site. Scientists could modify the program to deal with complex mathematical notations, while humanists might help develop the ultimate poststructuralist thesaurus. These specialized versions would each be available for downloading on the Internet. All that would be missing would be the shrink wrap and the styrofoam." (pp. 47-48)< one might argue that LaTeX already implements this. it's free. it's powerful. it meshes with GNU. and it's mainstream, depending on your stream. i'd argue that folks needn't hassle Stallman over their desires for word processing, but should investigate the time savings that would emerge from defining abstract document and bibliography classes under latex and bibtex. The specialized facilities already exist; it'd be a waste of resources to reinvent them. kind regards, carl From: "N. Heer" <heer@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0226 influencing software development Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:59:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 373 (373) We already have Richard Stallman's editor, Emacs, and it can be used with Donald Knuth's typesetter, TeX. Both are in the public domain and can be downloaded from many sites. You don't have to use TeX with Emacs; you can use it with any editor. I've used TeX with PCWrite (an old shareware program) for years and have always preferred TeX to any word processor put out by a commercial company like Microsoft. TeX will do anything you want it to, once you learn the proper markup language. There are also versions of TeX for languages written in non-Latin scripts. I use ArabTeX, developed by Klaus Lagally for Arabic-script languages. If you want to do something with ArabTeX that it's not yet designed to do, all you have to do is write to Lagally and he'll incorporate a way to do it in his next version. Would Microsoft ever be so accommodating? Nicholas Heer +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nicholas L. Heer, Professor Emeritus Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization University of Washington, Box 353120, Seattle, WA 98195-3120, USA E-Mail: heer@u.washington.edu Telephone: 206-325-0852 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From: Ted Parkinson <parkinsn@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> Subject: Re: 11.0226 influencing software development Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:22:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 374 (374) Perhaps I'm misremembering, but I thought Stallman et al had already done this. It's called "Emacs" and while it's true that it's only a text "editor," it's free and does lots of things with multiple windows, and when used in conjunction with something like LaTex, it manages to be very flexible for the relatively few people who want to spend the time learning it. Also, there already _is_ a free web browser: it's called "Microsoft Explorer." However, the thought of users and "scientists" re-hacking a program on an ongoing basis is a little frightening. I've used Nota Bene for years, and it's an _excellent_ program with most everything a Humanist could want, but its creators started with an excellent product (XYWrite), employed talented programmers, learned support people and several sales and office staff, and still have had problems (in the past) with upgrades and stability, not to mention marketing. Ted Parkinson, English, McMaster, Ontario, Canada parkinsn@mcmail.mcmaster.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "J. Trant" <jtrant@archimuse.com> Subject: AMICO Documents Available Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:59:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 375 (375) ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE Please excuse any duplication ... The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is founding the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). The members of this new not-for-profit organization will build a shared library of digital documentation of their collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community. A formal invitation to form the Consortium was issued by Hugh Davies, President of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) on August 7, 1997. Founding Members of AMICO are invited to attend the Consortium's inaugural meeting, September 22-23, 1997 at the Art Institute of Chicago. The founding of AMICO follows a number of planning meetings, where over 70 representatives from art museums in the United States and Canada defined the terms of their collaboration. Together these museums will build a shared library of digital documentation of their collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community. AMICO will build a collective Library, comprised of multimedia works (at least text and image) documenting the collections of its member museums. Products derived from that Library, which may or may not include value-added indexing and retrieval tools, will be offered to different markets under specific licenses and through a number of distribution channels A set of agreements reflecting this consensus were drafted by Archives & Museum Informatics, who acted as consultants and facilitators throughout the AMICO planning process. These include frameworks for organizing the Consortium, governing its strategic planning, developing a standards-based approach to the distribution of the AMICO Library, and defining its products and licenses. Key among these are the draft University and Museum licenses, that outline the terms under which the library will be offered to these communities. Next on the licensing agenda is the drafting of K-12 educational and public library licenses, as the museums involved have active educational programs that are already reaching these communities. This work will continue in tandem with plans for a testbed distribution of a significant Library of digital documentation to a limited number of universities in the Fall of 1998. AMICO's framework documents are now available for public comment at <a href="http://www.amn.org/AMICO">http://www.amn.org/AMICO</a> Questions regarding AMICO can be directed to: Maxwell Anderson Liaison for Information Technology Association of Art Museum Directors max_anderson@ago.net or Jennifer Trant or David Bearman Archives & Museum Informatics jtrant@archimuse.com or dbear@archimuse.com -------- 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 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: WRITERS LOSE COPYRIGHT CASE Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:36:40 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 376 (376) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 14, 1997 An extremely important and telling piece of news is contained in the following News Release from the National Writers Union. The NWU president, Jonathan Tasini, lost a recent court case against several major publishers and electronic database operators. The claim was that the publishers were commercially re-distributing previously published writers' works on their electronic outlets without the permission of the writers and without compensating them. The publishers involved are: The New York Times, Newsday, Sports Illustrated, Lexis/Nexis and the UMI Company. The NWU is considering both an appeal and legislative action to counter this court decision. David Green ======================================================================= NEWS RELEASE August 13, 1997 Contact: Ann Filloramo or Tisha Davis-Memminger Phone: (212) 254-0279 WRITERS CONSIDER APPEAL, LEGISLATIVE ACTION IN WAKE OF COPYRIGHT LAWSUIT DECISION [deleted quotation] From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: AMICO; Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:57:14 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 377 (377) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 14, 1997 CANADIAN INITIATIVE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) TO BE FORMALLY INAUGURATED The following two announcements are of new consortia that have recently been formed. The first is the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL), created to foster greater coordination of Canadian digital library resources. The second is the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), which after many months of detailed planning, is being formally inaugurated this September. AMICO will build a shared library of digital images and documentation of art museums' collections for licensing and distribution to the educational community. David Green ------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcing the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries A new alliance of Canadian libraries interested in improving communication and coordination in the development of Canadian digital library resources has been formed. The Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries (CIDL) will provide a forum for: *sharing information and experience related to digital libraries, *discussing best practices in areas such as digitization, metadata, encoding, rights management, etc., *defining roles and responsibilities for long-term archiving of Canadian digital resources, *raising awareness of Canadian digital library activities both in Canada and internationally, *and discussing many other issues including training, funding, interoperability, public access, etc. CIDL will be directed by a steering committee elected in the Fall 1997 from member libraries, and there will be subgroups on specific issues. CIDL is open to all Canadian libraries. For more information on CIDL--its mandate, objectives, proposed activities, how to become a member, etc.--and to find some other useful information on digital library development, please see our site at <a href="http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl/">http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/cidl/</a> Gwynneth Evans Director-General, National and International Programs National Library of Canada gwynneth.evans@nlc-bnc.ca **************************************************************** ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE [See Jennifer Trant's message, above] From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: Scanning Conference Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:50:05 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 378 (378) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT August 14, 1997 SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections November 3-5, 1997 New York Academy of Medicine, NYC The Northeast Document Conservation Center presents the following conference: School for Scanning: Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections. November 3-5, 1997; At the New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave. (at 103rd St.), NYC What is the School for Scanning? A seminar that will take the mystery out of digital technology while training participants in: * The Basics of Digital Technology; * File Formats; Content Selection for Digitization; * Legal Issues; * Text and Image Scanning; * Quality Control and Costs; * Metadata; * Digital Preservation; * World Wide Web Applications; * CD-ROM Publications. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? If you are an archivist, curator, interpreter, librarian, historic preservation specialist, registrar, or other cultural or natural resource manager dealing with paper-based collections, 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; Howard Besser, University of California at Berkeley; Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway, Yale University Library; Richard Ekman, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute; Janet Gertz, Columbia University; Kevin Guthrie, JSTOR; Paul Handly, National Park Service; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Roy Rosenzweig, George Mason University; Maxine Sitts, Commission on Preservation and Access; Roy Tennant, University of California at Berkeley; Diane van der Reyden, Conservation Analytical Laboratory; Diane Vogt-O Connor, National Park Service; and Stuart Weibel, OCLC. WHAT DOES THE CONFERENCE COST? The cost of the seminar is $255 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 October 17, 1997. For more information about NEDCC and a calendar of workshops and seminars, visit NEDCC s homepage at <<a href="http://www.nedcc.org">http://www.nedcc.org</a>>. For more information or to request a flier with a registration form, contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494; 508 470-1010; <tracy@nedcc.org>. 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> Web site: <a href="http://www.nedcc.org">http://www.nedcc.org</a> =============================================================== 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 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<a href="http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/">http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/</a>>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: EFL Teaching Position in Korea Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:56:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 379 (379) Jeonju University from Korea is looking for an English native speaker who can teach English conversation to Undergraduate students, children, and adults. One position is available on Sept. 1, 1997. 7-8 positions will be available in March, 1998. The qualification and payment are as follows: i) MA or Ph.D. in EFL, TESOL, Education, English, Linguistics is preferred. ii) Teaching experience is preferred. iii) 10 month contract first year and 12 month contract next year iv) one-way air-fare, free apartment v) 15 hours/week teaching vi) 4 weeks paid vacation (2 weeks during summer and winter) If you need more information, please contact me by E-mail or fax, or send your CV with transcipt to me: Dr. Byong-seon Yang Director International Cooperation and Education Jeonju University Chonju, Korea fax) 82-652-220-2464 tel) 82-652-220-2122, 2213 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: not joking Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:12:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 380 (380) Two items to lighten your mental load, from the Thursday Guardian, the main section, pp. 2 and 3. (1) "It's good to talk to a petrol pump". These days it seems that many service devices, such as traffic lights, petrol (gas) pumps, drinks dispensers and public toilets, have their own telephone lines and modems so that they can call in to report problems. "Automation, while failing to deliver on many promises (self-propelled vacuum cleaners, robot lawnmowers), has managed to give us the mechanical nuisance caller. Self-diagnosing machines, sitting on the end of their own telephone lines, are programmed to ring control points to report faults or other problems. But when the wrong telephone number is programmed, those at the wrong end of the line can be driven up the wall. This is because the machines often dial tirelessly, on and on, until someone stops them.." The British Telephone Nuisance Calls Bureau reports that, "We've had a soft-drinks machine which has run out of drinks ringing every few minutes and a medical fridge full of insulin trying to raise the alarm because the temperature had fallen.... In another case, an elderly woman was rung throughout the night by a public lavatory in a part trying to report a fault." This is more annoying than you might think, because these devices do not generate any tone but remain entirely silent, so that the one rung can mistake such a call for a malicious event. (2) "An online service to die for: your very own virtual headstone". Right, this is about Britain's first online cemetery. "There will be no need to walk to the gravestone of loved ones to pay your condolences, only to click on their virtual headstone.... 'We are seeking to bring back the dignity to funerals,' said Mr. [David] Wilkinson [Methodist preacher from Clevedon, near Bristol], who works at an estate agent's [information that will add much meaning to his comments for anyone who has recently purchased a house in London]...." I couldn't possibly comment. 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: galloway@archives1.mdah.state.ms.us Subject: Re: 11.0231 exteriorising mind, and the cybercafe Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 08:16:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 381 (381) Willard, Sherry Turkle's latest opus, Life on the Screen, speaks a little bit to this theme. IMHO, for most westerners, who no longer spend much time exploring the timeless and boundless "inner space" that we have called "spirituality", being online in cyberspace--which we endow with the same timelessness and boundlessness--is an analogue and substitute, but like other spiritual exercises it can be taken to excess.... Aren't there people who suggest that cyberspace is Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere come into being? Pat Galloway From: BRUNI <jbrun@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0231 exteriorising mind Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:56:25 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 382 (382) [deleted quotation] Ever since Descartes's postulation of the mind/body split, we seem to have had a fairly rigid conception of what defines the physical "body." This belief, when extrapolated to the experience of cyberspace, leads us to assume that we lose, or cannot sustain, the experience of a "real body" once we enter cyberspace. This means, then, that bodies in cyberspace are somehow seen as "different" from bodies in real spaces. Indeed, the body, in Gibson's popular description of cyberspace, found in his cyberpunk novel *Neuromancer*, becomes nothing more than "meat." Leaving the body--a desire that comes right out of Western metaphysics--is, however, a rather privileged notion; for only those who have the access to powerful computer-based technology can take part in this illusion. The belief that one can become "bodiless" in cyberspace, furthered by high-tech slight-of-hand, merely and conveniently "forgets" that the body is always there, only partially "hidden" from us and the larger social world (that determines what bodies are and can be) as we sit in front of our computers... John Bruni English Department University of Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0230 hand-held scanners? Mac display software? Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 21:47:51 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 383 (383) For one thing, I found years ago that CAERE's THE TYPIST handscanner was not good at all. Dont spend money on it. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Margaret Lantry <mlantry@imbolc.ucc.ie> Subject: Re: 11.0230 hand-held scanners? Date: 14 Aug 1997 09:54:55 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 384 (384) Re the legality of using hand-held scanners. Remember that using a scanner is similar to photocopying: EU law states that no more than 5% (correct me someone if this is incorrect) of a text can be copied or more than one chapter of a book, and then the text copied can only be used for non-commercial purposes (e.g. your own research). I know that some years ago in the University of Cambridge Library use of hand-held scanners was prohibited, but this may have changed. Why not browse the webpages of libraries you intend visiting and emailing them to ask? Do these scanners need a power source other than batteries: would you be permitted to plug into the library's sockets? Margaret L. =================================================== Margaret Lantry Managing Editor CELT Project Computer Centre University College Cork <a href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt/">http://www.ucc.ie/celt/</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: _Kairos_ Expands Staff, Board for 1997-98 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 14:18:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 385 (385) [deleted quotation] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Please distribute freely, in part or whole. ---------------------------------------------------------- _KAIROS_ REVAMPS STAFF, BOARD FOR 1997-98 ACADEMIC YEAR 14 August 1997 Compiled from E-Mail and MOO Transcripts DALLAS, TX -- The editorial team of _Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_ is pleased to announce the addition of twelve new members, who will join the _Kairos_ staff and board beginning immediately for the production cycle of issue 2.2 (Fall 1997). _Kairos_ is a hypertext journal exploring 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 broad base of Humanities curricula. _Kairos_ is sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing and hosted by the English Server at Texas Tech University. The most significant change for _Kairos_ involves Michael J. Salvo's move from the position of Managing Editor to a position on the Editorial Board. Salvo has been Managaing Editor for _Kairos_ since Day One of the journal's inception, and has become synonymous with the _Kairos_ project at conferences and in online environments. Salvo is pursuing other projects toward completing his doctoral work at Texas Tech, but will also stay involved with _Kairos_ in an advisory role. Moving into the position of Managing Editor is Claudine Keenan of the Penn State Lehigh Valley Campus. Keenan has spent the last year as Sections Editor for _Kairos_, responsible for the News, Reviews, and Response sections of the journal. According to _Kairos_ Links Editor Greg Siering, "Since Claudine took over the Sections Editor position, the scope of that job has grown immensely, with even larger prospects for the future. And while she's been doing an incredible job, as I told (_Kairos_ Editor Mick Doherty) on the phone, I don't want us to be responsible for Claudine's brain exploding. So I feel that giving [her] more managerial responsibilities and hiring her some help for some of the sections that have been growing each issue will be a good step for us." To provide that help, _Kairos_ has created three new positions for the editorial staff: Reviews Editor, News Editor, and Response Editor. Filling those positions will be Nick Carbone of Marlboro College; Patty Ericsson of Michigan Tech University; and Jenn Bowie of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Carbone, a two-year member of the _Kairos_ Editorial Board, is completing doctoral work at the University of Massachusetts. He has been a frequent contributor to _Kairos_ over the last two years, publishing in the News, Reviews, and LoggingOn sections. He will be responsible for determining what books, software, websites, and other resources should be reviewed, assigning those reviews to particular authors, and recruiting and working with coordinators of special _Kairos_ sections such "The E-List" and "PaperText." Ericsson will enter the doctoral program at Michigan Tech University in the Fall of 1998 after 15 years of teaching and administration at Dakota State University, where she also founded the DSU Online Writing Lab (OWL). Ericsson claims that "my most recent publication proves that online publications [are the] only way to go -- it was written four years before it was finally published in the very book it was originally written for!" She will be responsible for coordinating the _Kairos_ InterMOOs, Calls For Participation Resource, Conference Roundup Reviews and other pertinent online pedagogy news. Bowie has just completed her bachelor's degree in Communication at Rensselaer, where she will begin the graduate program in Rhetoric and Technical Communication in this Fall. Her hypertext fiction web "A Drink with Morte" won the McKinney Award for best undergraduate electronic fiction writing, and she has led several MOO workshops on gender-fair language in professional writing situations. Bowie will be responsible for revamping "_Kairos_ Interactive," soliciting feedback for publication in the journal, and for coordinating a series of _Kairos_ "Meet The Author" and "Roundtable Discussion" MOO sessions. Also joining the _Kairos_ team in the position of Chief Copy Editor is Sandye Thompson of Texas Woman's University. Thompson has spent the last year as a member of the journal's copy team, and also coordinated the inaugural edition of "The E-List" for the Fall 1996 issue (1.3). She is completing doctoral work at TWU, and has book chapters in press regarding MOOspace and hypertext, gender and electronic communication, and the reconceptualization of "publication" in MOOspace. She will work with Assistant Editor Amelia DeLoach in coordinating a still-developing team of copy editors during _Kairos_ production cycles. In addition to Doherty, Keenan, Siering, and DeLoach, returnees to the _Kairos_ Editorial Staff are Production Manager/Graphics Editor Jason Cranford Teague and Coverweb Editor Douglas Eyman. The reconfiguration of the staff is accompanied by a similar expansion of the Editorial Board, as another wave of some of the finest scholars in computers, writing & pedagogy have agreed to offer their talents to the journal's peer review process over the next year. A position on the _Kairos_ Editorial Board focuses on interactive peer commentary with contributing authors of Feature, News, Review and Coverweb materials, in a non-blind review process. As the invitation to these new Board members stated, "This is a new kind of peer review, and to be blunt, we are making it up as we go along. Each member of the current Editorial Board has been encouraged to develop his or her own style of reviewing, and to make that style as author-specific as possible." Joining Salvo -- one of the primary architects of the non-blind interactive peer review process -- as new members of the Editorial Board are nine fresh faces: John Barber, Northwestern State University of Louisiana; Kris Blair, Bowling Green State University; Michael Day, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Keith Dorwick, University of Illinois-Chicago.; Cynthia Haynes, University of Texas at Dallas; Jan Rune Holmevik, University of Bergen INorway); Beth Kolko, University of Texas at Arlington; Pam Takayoshi, University of Louisville; and Todd Taylor, University of North Carolina. Returning for a second year on the Board are Joel English, Ball State University; Dene Grigar, Texas Woman's University; Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Purdue University; Judith Kirkpatrick, Kapi'olani Community College; Susan Lang, Southern Illinois University; Ted Nellen, Murry Bergtrum High School of New York; Anthony Rue, University of Florida; and Cindy Wambeam, New Mexico State University. Third-year members of the Board include Carbone; Eric Crump, NCTE; Jeff Galin, Cal State San Bernardino; Bill Hart-Davidson, Purdue University; Lee Honeycutt, Rensselaer Polyechnic Institute; Steve Krause, Southern Oregon State College; Tony Rue, University of Florida; and Dickie Selfe, Michigan Tech University. Becky Rickly of the University of Michigan returns for a second year with the _Kairos_ board after a one-year sabbatical. Completing their tenure with the _Kairos_ board are Wayne Butler of the Daedalus Group; Dean Fontenot of Texas Tech University; and Terry Harpold of Georgia Tech University. These changes bring the number of "Karoi" on the Editorial Board to 27. For more information about _Kairos_, please contact Editor Mick Doherty at <mick@rpi.edu> or <mdoherty@dallascvb.com>. The Fall issue (2.2) is due for publication release on October 27, 1997 and will feature a Coverweb focus on gender and electronic communication. Visit the _Kairos_ webpage at <<a href="http://english.ttu.edu/kairos">http://english.ttu.edu/kairos</a>>. From: David Green <david@cni.org> Subject: MCI Study: Alternative Public Internet Access Points Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 16:39:15 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 386 (386) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 15, 1997 The press release below, forwarded by the Benton Foundation contains some interesting and I believe relevant news on the increasing use of libraries, museums and community organizations for Internet access. David Green What's Your Log-On Locale? MCI Study of Internet Access Finds Sharpest Increase Among Alternative Public Points WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- According to an MCI LibraryLINK study released today, the number of people who regularly access the Internet through points other than home, office or school has nearly tripled in the last year. The growing phenomenon of "alternative points of access" such as libraries, museums and civic organizations, illustrates the heightened need for the Internet among diverse audiences. MCI LibraryLINK a public-private partnership between MCI and the American Library Association, commissioned the analysis to determine the trends associated with society's growing demand for Internet access. The analysis is based on Internet research from the CommerceNet/Nielsen Media Research Internet Demographic Studies. In a random telephone survey of U.S. and Canadian residents, respondents were asked where they log on to the Internet. The analysis uncovered some startling data about Internet access. In the spring of 1996, approximately 1.5% of the Internet users claimed to access the Internet through an "alternative point of access" such as a library. Today, that number has almost tripled to 4% and the analysis shows it will continue to grow exponentially as communities respond to the public's growing need for increased public access. "The flourishing popularity of 'alternative points of access' illustrates the Internet's escalating importance in the daily lives of more and more Americans," said Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President, Internet Architecture and Engineering at MCI. "For people who don't work with computers in the workplace or have the ability to go online from home, these alternative points of access are their lifeline to the Internet and to the wealth of information it holds such as job lines, business databases, and homework help stations." MCI defines "alternative points of access" as any venue other than home, school or work where the public or a group's members have access to the Internet. These venues are classified as "alternative points" because going online has not, until recently, been a service or activity associated with these locations. These venues include public libraries, museums, churches, community centers, retailers, hospitals and recreational facilities. Percentages of respondents claiming to access the Internet from an alternative point break down as follows: Public libraries 36% Churches/Community Centers 14% Retail Outlet 11% (mall computer store, coffeehouse etc.) Hotels 6% Museums/Recreational Facilities 5% Hospitals 3% Airports 3% -- Statistics has been reclassified to exclude someone else's home and relative's workplace -- 20% of respondents did not answer or did not know where they accessed the Internet Other segments of access showed growth, but not as large a growth rate as access from alternative points. Compared to 1996, the number of respondents claiming they accessed the Internet from a school nearly doubled. Users accessing from home and work categories each increased by four percentage points from 1996 to 1997. Since 1995, MCI LibraryLINK has awarded more than $1 million in grants to 27 main libraries impacting over 200 community library branches, helping to increase the number of Internet-connected libraries from 21% to 80%. These grants have helped create and enhance information technology systems linking people to library resources, government services and to the Internet. "These public points of access are important because they help level the playing field. By the year 2000, nearly 30% of all Internet users could be accessing through alternative points," said Diane Strahan, Executive Director of Corporate Community Partnerships at MCI. Nielsen Media Research, a Cognizant company, has headquarters in New York City and offices in major markets across the U.S. Through its Interactive Services division, Nielsen Media Research develops audience measurement and custom research on new media, including the Internet, the Web and online services. MCI, with its world headquarters in Washington, D.C., offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of communication services. MCI reported 1996 annual revenue of $18.5 billion, making it the tenth largest telecommunications company in the world, along with being the world's third largest carrier of international voice traffic. Credited with first bringing the benefits of long distance competition to American consumers and businesses, MCI now is leading the charge to open up local calling markets to competition. MCI is awaiting final regulatory approvals to complete its planned merger with BT to form Concert. SOURCE MCI LibraryLINK CONTACT: Christa Poston, 202-887-2757, or Jill Arquette, 703-358-0012, both for MCI LibraryLINK/ (MCIC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: richmond <richmond@ustanne.ednet.ns.ca> Subject: CCALL/CELAO 3 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 11:32:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 387 (387) Dear Colleague, The following is the first call for papers for the CCALL 3 conference, which will be held next June. Please forward it to any other colleagues you believe might be interested. Thank you. Cher(e) collegue, Voici le premier appel de communications pour le colloque CELAO 3, qui aura lieu au mois de juin prochain. Veuillez avoir l'obligeance de le faire parvenir a d'autres collegues qui pourraient s'y interesser. Merci d'avance. Ian M. Richmond. --------------------------------------------------- CCALL 3 / CELAO 3 ################# Troisieme Congres Canadien sur l'Enseignement des Langues Assiste par Ordinateur Third Canadian Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning 25-27 June, 1998 / 25-27 juin 1998 Universite Sainte-Anne Pointe-de-l'Eglise, N.-E. / Church Point, NS CCALL 3 / CELAO 3 Troisieme Congres Canadien sur l'Enseignement des Langues Assiste par Ordinateur Third Canadian Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning Call for Papers The Third Canadian Conference on Computer-Assisted Language Learning will be held at Universite Sainte-Anne, Church Point, Nova Scotia from 25 to 27 June, 1998. Presentations, software demonstrations and poster sessions, in English or French, are invited on all aspects of computer-assisted language learning. Papers and demonstrations will be limited to 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes allocated to questions and discussion. Please submit a 200-250 word summary, preferably by e-mail, to the address given below no later than 30 November, 1997. Presenters will be notified by 15 March, 1998. Appel de Communications Le Troisieme Congres Canadien sur l'Enseignement Assiste par Ordinateur se deroulera les 25, 26 et 27 juin 1998 a l'Universite Sainte-Anne, Pointe-de-l'Eglise, Nouvelle-Ecosse. Nous sollicitons des communications, des demonstrations de logiciels et des presentations par affiches, en francais ou en anglais, sur tout aspect de l'enseignement des langues assiste par ordinateur. Les communications et les demonstrations ne devront pas depasser 20 minutes afin de permettre une periode de 10 minutes consacree a des interventions. Veuillez soumettre, par courrier electronique si possible, un resume de 200 a 250 mots a l'adresse ci-apres avant le 30 novembre 1997. Toute decision concernant les soumissions sera rendue le 15 mars 1998 au plus tard. Ian M. Richmond Ian M. Richmond VRER VP (Academic and Research) Universite Sainte-Anne Universite Sainte-Anne Pointe-de-l'glise, N.-. Church Point, NS B0W 1M0 B0W 1M0 Telephone: (902) 769-2114 Telephone: (902) 769-2114 Teléeopieur: (902) 769-3120 FAX: (902) 769-3120 richmond@ustanne.ednet.ns.ca <a href="http://ustanne-59.ustanne.ednet.ns.ca">http://ustanne-59.ustanne.ednet.ns.ca</a> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: out on the inner trip Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 10:41:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 388 (388) Willard, What strange musings you bring to us back from Wales. At least that is one story I can compose out of the missives that you have launched on certain parts of the actual world. Or such a narrative is but a trick of memory or, more acurately, remembering. Indeed reflection upon the activity of remembering as the fine analysis you provide for the tagging of a tale of dismembering by Ovidian hounds raises a quivering frisson concerning the ontological status of what is remembered...goosebumps if you will about the simple mundane transactions of storing and sorting. The allusion sans citation above to one of your publications is for some readers, placed in the position of overhearing, the occassion of a minor case of the "common trauma" which, to transcode or relabel, is also the great joy of the foreigness of homesickness to the one intrigued by cultural differences (and similarities). The value one assigns such experiences relates not only to what stories one has been told, what one has preserved but also what one wants to tell. The telological is never far away from the archeological in such matters. Time bends. That beast of indeterminate ontological status - what is remembered - returns to us the wonderful though at times puzzling topic of synchronization. To consider the intersubjective ground of "what is remembered" brings out in the conceptualization of certain theories of memory a notion that is logically prior to that of place: event. T H elsewhere alien T R E is here. Memory as the activity of link making or link activating. can be a leisurely walk around the palace or a dizzying run through it (Remember those Flash Card drills for learning multiplication tables?) Being online, [deleted quotation] Perhaps to an event where more people deal with artefacts, digital or otherwise, as sites for the exercise of mnemonics and calculii, sites where the made and the played are not all that different. As ever, overdeterming the coincidences, crostically -- Francois From: Jascha Kessler <jkessler@ucla.edu> Subject: Re: 11.0236 out-of-body experience Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 12:20:12 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 389 (389) Out of the body in cyberspace? One is out of the body when one really thinks or dreams or creates. At the screen, one comes back immediately as soon as one rises from one's seat and the back cracks and the knees falter. Not to speak of carpal syndrome. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Glen Worthey <glenw@sulmail.stanford.edu> Subject: mind, body, book Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:45:41 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 390 (390) Willard's recent thoughts (and others' comments) on mind-body dualities and cyberspace brought to mind a recent review of an internet-only publication of a children's book, <cite>The End of the Rainbow</cite> by Bjarne Reuter, at <<a href="http://www.penguin.com/usa/buster">http://www.penguin.com/usa/buster</a>>. The review, by Sarah Ellis, appears in <cite>The Horn Book Magazine</cite>, May/June 1997. Ellis claims that her experimental reading of children's literature on-line was different from that on paper not in the physical ways of which we often hear: "I had expected that the use of a machine for reading would be uncongenial, but in fact it was fine. A laptop radiates a mild pleasant warmth on the lap; it leaves your hands free for your sandwich; and because it contains its own light, it solves the bedside light issue. I was pleasantly surprised." What she found deeply unsatisfying about this type of reading was its _failure_ to transport her as book-reading on paper does: "By reading ..... I mean the absorbing experience of being taken out of yourself." She found that, while reading this electronic text, she was not as involved a reader as she usually is, not as attentive; the reading experience itself was not as "real" or memorable for her. "Reading from a screen," she writes, "turned me into a reluctant reader." For this particular task (and perhaps for this particular reader, although I believe many of us would concur with her), cyberspace turns out to be less transporting than paperspace; it proves less able to emphasize the mind-body difference, and less capable of enabling the jump from body to mind. This little review makes other common-sense observations which seem to counteract some of the claims of computer media: "Reading on the screen also gave me a revelation about my own reading style. I realized that I do not read in a strict linear, steady way. I speed up and slow down. I skip. I put my finger in a page that I'll go back to when I've finished the really good bit that I'm on. I even occasionally start in the middle of a book. Looking back, I know that this is a reading style that I developed in childhood to cope with the problem of savoring versus galloping. None of this works on the screen. It is too cumbersome to scroll back and forth. Ironically, the medium which prides itself on being interactive and nonlinear was, in this experience, tiresomely inflexible, ploddingly linear." She also relates a similar, altered perception of time while using interactive media -- an impatience with downloading, scrolling, etc: She finds that "this 'just get on with it' mood is deeply antithetical to the reading of fiction." Ellis recalls the "multisensual experience" of childhood reading that she missed in this experience: the tactile, visual, aural, even olfactory "child pleasures" of book reading -- "the pleasure of someone who knows that carrots cut in sticks taste better than carrots cut in coins." It strikes me that modern children's literature is a prototypically multimedia creation, even without considering the inexplicable (or perhaps less defensible) multisensory experience of childhood reading Ellis remembers; how and why is it that multimedia cyber-reproductions fail even in this regard? Finally, the very appearance of the book on the Net prompts some economic questions, for the publishers claim that "the harsh realities of today's market for translated books" -- this one is an English translation from Danish -- "prohibit traditional publication in bound form. However, Dutton Children's Books believes so passionately that this book deserves an audience that we have arranged with the author for the complete book to appear only on the Internet and free to all readers." Doesn't prevailing wisdom in the humanities computing community hold that a good electronic text is often more expensive than a print edition? Or is this merely a shifting of financial burdens? And should we be grateful to publishers who refuse to print good books? Ellis contemplates the possibility that her reading experience was perhaps poisoned by her grown-up association of computers with work, with heightened feelings of download-impatience, and that children may well "read" computers quite differently. It seems to me that these are not trivial questions, but ones that relate to larger issues of reading and even of consciousness (child and adult, physically and cybernetically bound and unleashed) -- and, more immediately, to the type of political pronouncement that initially led Ellis to write about her small reading experiment: that school libraries would soon, thanks to the Net, become obsolete. We've heard that sort of claim before. -Glen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Glen Worthey Academic Text Service Stanford University Libraries ph:(650)725-5647 fax:(650)725-8495 glenw@sulmail.stanford.edu From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: imaginative uses of the Web Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 23:05:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 391 (391) In "Oetzi the Alpine iceman cometh, but only between nine and five", Kate Connolly reports in this morning's Guardian on an Irish anthropologist, Tom Varley, who is doing his best for five months to live like an ice-age man. ("Oetzi" is the name given to the perfectly preserved specimen, found in a glacier about 6 years ago in the Oetztaler Alps.) "Dressed in animal skins and a grass coat, Mr. Varley, aged 41, is trying to piece together the life of 'homo tyroliensis'. He lives in Ferlach, Carinthia, in a hut made of branches and mud, and has planted a garden. His life centres on the fireplace, whose ashes he uses for rituals.... [He] survives on nuts, berries, roots and mushrooms, and by fishing in a nearby river. He hunts small animals, but only when absolutely necessary. He is not allowed to speak. Visiting members of the public can look into his three-acre enclosure but are not permitted to enter." His three daughters "consider him 'a weirdo, but they'd be upset if I wasn't'". Those of us with daughters, or sons, may be excused for wondering if he isn't painting a rather different picture from that of his offspring, who were not interviewed, but there certainly are children less lucky in their parents. "'It's great, living like this. You're free as the breeze. In the Stone Ages you could do what you wanted, you could sleep all day and you had no job to go to. I advise everyone to do it.'" Hmm. Not being an anthropologist I cannot say with any authority at all, but I'd guess that Stone Age men and women had to work reasonably hard to survive, like all the time they were awake, or nearly. The remarkable thing about Mr. Varley's story, however, is that in the evenings he puts aside his Stone Age existence "to record the day's adventures in a daily diary, on the Internet at <<a href="http://www.swp.org/">http://www.swp.org/</a>>". This is a very sophisticated site, with RealAudio clips of Varley speaking and a number of images. Most of the text is in German, but not the interview clips. At first, I suppose, one marvels at the disjunction between the purist's imitation of something so very old followed daily by description of it using something so very new, and the humour of the article, more than hinted in the title, may point this disjunction into a dismissal. But the intensity of the effort is clear, and the passion to recreate a vanished past, with more than a little idealising of it, something very contemporary if not quite coeval with the net. And here we are, with him virtually in Austria, living out his experiment. Does he update his Web site while wearing his grass coat? 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/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: New Collection from the Linguistic Data Consortium Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 20:50:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 392 (392) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the LINGUISTIC DATA CONSORTIUM CALLHOME Collection in Six Languages The objective of the CALLHOME project is the creation of a multi-lingual speech corpus that will support the development of Large Vocabulary Conversational Speech Recognition (LVCSR) technology. The collection covers six languages, American English, Egyptian Arabic, German, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Each CALLHOME language includes telephone speech, transcripts and tables, and a lexicon. Each language can be distributed as a complete set of speech, transcripts, and lexicon (lexicons to be released in the near future) or the components can be ordered separately. The telephone speech consists of either 100 or 120 unscripted telephone conversations between native speakers of the specific language. All calls, which lasted up to 30 minutes, originated in North America. Participants typically called family members or close friends. Most calls were placed to various locations overseas, but some participants placed calls within North America. The transcripts cover a contiguous 5 or 10 minute segment taken from a recorded conversation. The transcripts are timestamped by speaker turn for alignment with the speech signal, and are provided in standard orthography. The lexicons, which are not yet available, contain tab-separated information fields with orthographic, morphological, phonological, stress, source, and frequency information for each word. The lexicons will be covered by a special license agreement. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1997 Membership Year will be able to receive the CALLHOME materials at no additional charge, in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Due to a delayed release, 1996 members are entitled to CALLHOME Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. Nonmembers can purchase CALLHOME materials for research purposes only. The cost of the CALLHOME collection is $3000 per language. The various components of this collection can be purchased separately; Speech databases are $1000, transcripts are $500, and lexicons are $1500 each. 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 <a href="http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/">http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/</a>. 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. Language Speech Transcripts Lexicon Membership $1000 $500 $1500 year ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- American LDC97S42 LDC97T14 LDC97L20 97 English (PRONLEX) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Egyptian LDC97S45 LDC97T19 LDC97L19 97 Arabic ----------------------------------------------------------------------- German LDC97S43 LDC97T15 LDC97L18 97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Japanese LDC96S37 LDC96T18 LDC96L17 96/97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Mandarin LDC96S34 LDC96T16 LDC96L15 96/97 Chinese ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Spanish LDC96S35 LDC96T17 LDC96L16 96/97 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/">http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/</a>> <<a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/</a>> ========================================================================= From: Hartmut Krech <kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de> (8) Subject: Re: Update Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:22:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 393 (393) I cannot help but share the following with the list. It was originally posted on the mailing list of the International Society for the History of Medicine, so a quote may not be inappropriate for a list such as Humanist. (Excuses for any duplication). Greetings from a sunny Bremen, Germany. Dr. Hartmut Krech [deleted quotation] .../. From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> Subject: CFP: AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Intelligent Text Summarization Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:03:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 11 Num. 394 (394) [deleted quotation] INTELLIGENT TEXT SUMMARIZATION <a href="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/aaai-sss98-its</a> With the proliferation of online textual resources, it has become very difficult to find information of interest. Improving access to online information includes finding relevant documents (Information Retrieval) and presenting only information that matches the user's interests (Text Summarization). In the recent very successful workshop on Intelligent Scalable Text Summarization at the ACL/EACL conference, papers focused largely on statistical approaches. In this symposium, we aim to discuss also the strengths of other, symbolic/rule-based, techniques. We particularly welcome contributions that address some of the fundamental issues underlying summarization: what is a summary? What is an abstract? How can one evaluate the quality of a summary? The symposium will include formal presentations and discussions of existing techniques and open problems. Using input from potential participants, the program committee will present a series of questions to which attendees will be encouraged to suggest approaches and solutions. Sample topics: - Knowledge Representation Issues - AI and Statistical Techniques - Discourse Analysis and Discourse Planning - Concise Text Generation - Summarization of Multiple Documents - Generation of Updates - Architectures for Summarization - Multilingual and Multimodal Summarization - User Modeling