From: Willard McCarty Subject: one more than ten Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 23:35:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1 (1) Karl Meninger, in Number Words and Number Symbols, confirms that eleven, like 12, is a strange number in many languages, formed differently from those that come before and those that follow. In childhood I recall thinking, up to the time of my 12th birthday and into the year it began, that 12 was the perfect age. The teens I associated with acute discomfort, embarrassment and profound physiological change -- nothing to look forward to, though certain of the rewards did seem tantalizing indeed. They still do... and are. No such special status, though perhaps born of fear, I ever accorded to being 11. It was apparently not memorable. A time out of time, a dull-featured passage from childhood to the celebrated verge, with the dreaded but exciting turbulence beyond. The way we count birthdays is, of course, ambiguous. Humanist's eleventh birthday, today in fact, is the beginning of its 12th year and completion of its 11th, so from that point of view we are entering the perfect age. (Note the volume and issue number of this message.) This is, of course, what I hope for on behalf of us all. I was not so given to seeing the ambiguities and ironies as a child, however, so all those associations really belong to the Humanist-year beginning May 1999, the last of the 20th century and the second millenium. Generosity here (or is it muddled sloppiness?) allows me roughly to mark the beginning of Humanist's second decade with my own move to a new land and so a profound psycho-social reconstruction, which of course is still in progress. My no-man's eleventh, between the North American first ten and who knows how many following these here in England, has been anything but featureless, rather a time of more profound change than ever I could have imagined. Looking over the last year of Humanist I don't see an analogous change, rather more or less of a steady-state. Our seminar some years ago lost its early prominence amidst the crowd of its children (if I may presume), just as my generation of pioneering computing humanists found themselves no longer so special. It's commonplace now for the likes of us to feel, as one of my friends put it vividly last year, like we're sitting in the middle of the road with tire-tracks going up our back. As a researcher and scholar I don't feel that way at all, but professionally one does get the sense that the Action has gone elsewhere. We do not tend to be the ones whom government ministers consult and newspaper reporters interview. Text-analysis does not make the headlines. Being in the backwater is not entirely a bad thing, of course; traditionally it has been where humanists have preferred to be. But I have been inspired recently to ponder on the question of how we make the connection between what we do and what the society at large (which supports us) wants or needs. Difficult one, that. People at the level of the British Academy and its equivalents elsewhere are, I know, worrying about such things, because unless this connection is made, they argue, our kind may vanish. This evening I was listening, as I usually do, to Radio 4 while preparing dinner, to a programme about the successful applications of connectionist AI to decision-making in government. The man narrating the programme concluded rather uncomfortably by saying that we really should be discussing such potential for profound social change and social control now, openly, frequently, loudly. "Where are the public debates about these issues?" he asked. On Humanist, of course, though perhaps not as often as they need to be. Looking over the messages of the last year -- as we all can easily, thanks to the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH, Virginia) -- I am struck repeatedly by how rich and interesting our chatter is. Who knows what the juices of adolescence in the turn of the millenium will do to us. We've had a robust childhood, however, so needn't be worried -- as long as we can keep on talking, and like serious youths everywhere, develop a strain of idealism strong enough to outlast all the world's adult carborundum. Happy Birthday to you all! 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/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: no birthday present Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 23:37:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 2 (2) Dear Colleagues: While processing this last lot of messages, filled as I was with birthday cheer, I accidentally deleted everything. Mea maxima culpa! No machine error this time. Please accept my apologies and resend your unkindly deleted contributions. Yours soberly, 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/> ========================================================================= From: Kurt Fendt Subject: Conference Announcement Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:40:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 3 (3) Transformations: Technology, Foreign Languages, and Undergraduate Education The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning and the Section on Foreign Languages & Literatures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are pleased to announce a national conference, October 23-25, 1998. Intended for foreign language faculty, administrators, directors of humanities computing, and language laboratory directors, this conference will examine the transformations of the foreign language classroom, the role of the teacher, the institutional mission, the curriculum, and the infrastructure in the light of developments in multimedia computer technology. The conference will not be an occasion for demonstrating hardware and software. Instead, it seeks to pose new questions about fundamental changes that all foreign language programs and all institutions are currently undergoing. Speakers will include Jacqueline Brown (Princeton University), Gilberte Furstenberg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Henry Jenkins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), William A. Johnson (Bucknell University), Yoko Koike (Haverford College), Claire Kramsch (University of California at Berkeley), Karen Landahl (University of Chicago), James S. Noblitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Slava Paperno (Cornell University), and Thomas Thornton (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The conference will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, beginning Friday afternoon, October 23, 1998, and concluding mid-day, Sunday, October 25, 1998. [material deleted; see URL below] The registration form is available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat .pdf file, 49K. at: http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/conf98/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: disciplinarity, mad cows and smoke Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 22:33:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 4 (4) For those interested in the rise, fall and mutation of academic disciplines -- in their contingency -- the latest issue of the Times Literary Supplement (4962 for 8 May 1998) has much of interest. The discipline in question is anthropology. I found especially instructive the review of Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy, eds., Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale UP), by Paul Henley, "Seeing is understanding". I find the mutability and overall contingency of disciplines interesting in the context of humanities computing, as a good counter to those who take a principled stand against the scholarly nature of our practice on the basis that it is not a "discipline". Red herring. Another article of interest is A. M. Daniels, "Coughing up: The unholy alliance between greed and puritanism", reviewing Peter Pringle, Dirty Business: Big tobacco at the bar of justice (Aurum). One of the text-analysis projects I have been tempted to give to students is an analysis of the collected online texts pertaining to tobacco, of which there are many. They bear out what Daniels is saying, that the whole issue is shot through with multiple ironies. I have done a similar project using online texts concerning BSE/CJD (bovine spongiform encephalopathy / Creuzfeld-Jacob disease), a.k.a. Mad Cow Disease. These, and I suspect the tobacco ones as well, move among three positions, or did more clearly before the current government was elected: the Major government, in deep denial that BSE was a problem; the scientists (those not in the hire of the former), who were getting on with the research; and the newspapers, interested in selling papers by stirring up, shall we say, public concern. For text-analysis purposes these are just right, since with certain key words (e.g. "body") you can pick apart the texts fairly well for their political alliances. Daniels' article would make a good reading assignment in conjunction with such a project. 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/> ========================================================================= From: Vallee Jean-Francois Subject: E-journal: Surfaces, vol. 6 and 7 Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 00:26:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 5 (5) ---------------------------------------------------- SURFACES, Volumes VI and VII http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/ ---------------------------------------------------- Volumes VI and VII of the e-journal SURFACES, now maintained by the Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, have recently been published. Both volumes include an impressive array of essays by many renowned authors. ------------ Volume VI http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol6/vol6ToC.html ------------ Volume VI, co-edited by Terry Cochran and Jean-Francois Vallee, is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague BILL READINGS who died in a plane crash in October of 1994. Bill Readings was the author, most notably, of _The University in Ruins_ published posthumously by Harvard University Press in 1995. In honour of Bill Readings, who played an important role in introducing Lyotardian philosophy in the U.S. (_Introducing Lyotard_, Routledge, 1991), JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD was kind enough to send us a previously unpublished conference on music and postmodernity. The recent death of Jean-Francois Lyotard has, sadly, made this volume more memorial than we had intended. The special section dedicated to Bill Readings also includes essays, in English or French, by J. Hillis Miller, Stephen Melville, Marc Redfield, Marshall Grossman, Jean-Ernest Joos, Karlheinz Barck, Jennifer Allen, Johanne Villeneuve, Valeria Wagner, Gary Hall, Germain Lacasse, Eric Mechoulan, Marie Lessard, Craig Moyes, Richard Waswo, and Beatrice Skordili. Volume VI also contains the transcript of the discussions on the future of humanist discourse in which Bill Readings had participated at Irvine with Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, Wolfgang Iser, Murray Krieger, Ernst Behler, Hendrik Birus, Ludwig Pfeiffer and Hazard Adams. ---------------- VOLUME VII http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol7/vol7ToC.html ---------------- Volume VII of SURFACES, edited by Terry Cochran, publishes essays based on the "Feminism Beside Itself" conference organized by Diane Elam and Robyn Wiegman following the publication of their book _Feminism Beside Itself_ (Routledge, 1995). The aim of this electronic edition of the conference proceedings is to pursue, in yet another media, the debate on the status and future of feminist thought. The volume includes essays and interventions by Diane Elam, Robyn Wiegman, Susan Stanford Friedman, Rachel Bowlby, Elizabeth Weed, Marie Lessard, Alessandra Tanesini, Cyrania Johnson-Roullier, Devoney Looser, E. Ann Kaplan, Dana Heller, Gayle Margherita, Sabina Sawhney and Yung-Hsing Wu. ---------------- NOTE: SURFACES will soon move to a new URL. However, a link with the new Web site of the journal will be created at the current address.: http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/ ---------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dan Price Subject: Congratulations Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:58:19 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 6 (6) Agreed as to the richness of the discussion in this particular ListServ. It is my favorite and often recommended to others. As to the uniformity of the discussion despite the transition to another country-does this speak of the "oneness" of the new electronic world? Again Congratulations. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, 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 http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ron Zweig Subject: text for analysis Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 08:14:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 7 (7) Willard: I can think of other categories of text that were designed to convey meaning to limited or defined audiences, and might therefore confound "textual analysis": (i) telegrams. A genre that has died, but fills the archives. Brevity and confidentiality were more important than comprehensibility. (ii) notes taken (e.g., lecture notes) for one's own use Category (i) is interesting, because it is entirely probable that text analysis skills have been developed outside of academia to monitor correspondence that is important for reasons of security or financial regulation (tax and foreign currency control). Is there anyone working in the field of text analysis that has access to, memory of or working relations with those murky organizations of the state that have huge budgets to spend on developing analytical tools for message understanding? Ron Zweig Humanities Computing Project Tel Aviv University From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Re: 11.0728 text-analysis Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 14:26:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 8 (8) As the purveyor of what I think is a fairly decent content analysis package, about to be extended to easily handle multiperson dialogs, automatically separating the speech of each speaker, I have over the past several months considered issues like you are raising. What my program picks up very well is stylistic differences that capture genre quite well. Going beyond these surface aspects, the program then picks up quite subtle gradations of meaning. When I recently analyzed an 8-person discussion (that looked like a bunch of college students), I was amazed to have interpretations leap off the page: who was being bossy, who emotional, who analytical, the kinds of terms and semantics they were using in this, swings into use of, say, abstract terms or cusswords, etc. The results from my program stemmed from a reasonably decent category system. This in turn (and my main point) stems from being able to create category systems based on syntactic, semantic, stylistic features associated with the lexical items. With such features, you can, for example, create categories that cover only a middle ground in a hierarchy (neither too general nor too specific). So, I think it is possible to do the kind of analysis which you dispute. Send me a file of love letters and I'll run it through. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: job posting Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 07:56:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 9 (9) LEAD SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Electronic Records Initiative Mississippi Department of Archives and History The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has received an electronic records initiative research grant from the US National Historical Publication and Records Commission to test real-world strategies and methods for the long-term preservation of state government electronic records. A special unit has been set up using a separate protected intranet to experiment with data description, capture, handling, and access methods, drawing on the expertise of archival and data-mining consultants and working actively with state agencies, historians, and other researchers on access issues. Primary Responsibilities: We seek to fill the lead technical position on the team, Lead Systems Administrator. The successful candidate will take responsibility for managing the project intranet, creating a prototype electronic records warehouse to support records from other agencies, and working with Department of Health data processing staff to experiment with network tunneling methods of data exchange and automatic downloads. At the conclusion of the grant period, the employee will continue to hold the lead technical position in a new Electronic Records Section of the Archives. Qualifications: BS in computer science or directly related field with coursework in programming language and systems analysis, and four years of experience in programming and systems analysis in PC/LAN envoronments; OR two years' experience as a senior level systems administrator. Other substitutions for directly related education and experience are possible. Experience with UNIX, TCP/IP internetwork communications standards, text and data encoding schemes, and relational databases needed; knowledge of data storage methods and media helpful. Background in archival work and/or humanities computing PREFERRED. Starting salary: high $30s to mid $40s, depending upon qualifications of the applicant. This is a permanent Mississippi State government job offering competitive benefits; all information technology positions in Mississippi state government have just been reclassified to create favorable career paths. To Apply: Send a cover letter and CV via fax (601-359-6975) or email (galloway@mdah.state.ms.us) to Patricia Galloway, Special Projects Officer, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Antoinette Renouf Subject: phd studentship Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 22:46:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 10 (10) --------------------------------- Department of English Research and Development Unit University of Liverpool Applications are invited for an EPSRC-funded PhD studentship from graduates with good Honours degrees in language or linguistics. In addition, knowledge of corpus-linguistic approaches and text-based computing would be relevant. The studentship is available for a 3-year period, starting in October 1998, to work with the Unit in its research. The Research Unit's activities include the development and application of automated systems in the fields of language description, NLP and information technology, especially text retrieval. It is envisaged that the studentship will focus on an aspect of current work on the lexico-grammatical classification of rare new words, based on the computer-aided observation of English text. Candidates should have a relevant connection with the UK; further advice may be found on the EPSRC Web-site: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk. A CV detailing relevant experience and research interests should be sent to: Antoinette Renouf Research and Development Unit for English Studies University of Liverpool 19 Abercromby Square Liverpool L69 3BX email: ajrenouf.liv.ac.uk tel: 0151 794 2289/2286 fax: 0151 794 2298 from whom further details may be obtained. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: conference announcement Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 10:05:53 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 11 (11) The "Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei" in Rome is please to announce an Internationa Conference: "I nuovi orizzonti della filologia. Ecdotica, critica testuale, editoria scientifica e mezzi informatici elettronici" [New horizons in philology: Text edition, textual criticism, and scientific publishing in a computing environment] Rome, Palazzo Corsini (via della Lungara, 10), 27-29 May 1998. Speakers will include: Cesare Segre, Almuth Grsillon, Bruno Gentili, Tito Orlandi, Peter Robinson, Jean-Louis Lebrave, Claude Cazal, Giuseppe Gigliozzi, Gianfranco Capriz, Consuelo Dutschke, Alfredo Stussi, Ezio Raimondi. Full programme: http://accademia.lincei.it/CONVEGNI/ECDOTICA.html [[I believe in short announcements :-) ]] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re LDL Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 17:24:27 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 12 (12) If only at least we could get THEM to get it straight. There is not much to what is called Long Distance Learning, since we cannot know much about it that is different from the correspondence course mills of the world who take money, but what is gained by the pupil? I have tried to tell people that it would be more accurate, and truthful, to call the process Long Distance Teaching, or LDT. But I get blank stares from people in person, and silence over the cyber vacuum. Administrators may be willing to commit fraud to get bucks to feather their fowl nests, but truth is truth, sometimes. Cordially, Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 12.0001 one more than ten Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 12:45:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 13 (13) I must respectfully disagree with Willard about the significance of achieving the age of eleven. While it is an awkward age in several ways, I remember well my twelfth year -- when I was age eleven -- as one of serious dreaming and important decisions! I knew from that year onward that I would BE somebody, not just somebody's daughter and somebody's wife and somebody's mother -- all of which I have been and enjoyed -- but somebody all by myself that people would know. That Mary Dee Harris, they would say, she's really something, isn't she? It was the early 50s then so such dreaming was a bit radical for a girl! And such dreams I had of riding out with the knights in shining armor, my own shining too, of course, while the less adventurous girls (and boys) stayed back at the castle! Knights had visors so I could hide a bit, the fact that I was not the usual sort of knight but a GIRL knight! Another important dream I had was about American Indians and their initiation rites. I would be brave and smart and live off the land, as required of all Indian boys, and then for the ceremony following, I would wear a beautiful soft beaded leather dress with feathers in my long hair - the loveliest of all the Indian princesses! You see, when I was eleven, I wanted it all -- and for the most part have grown up to get it all! So let us Humanists not simply notice the tire tracks on our backs, but continue (or maybe start) dreaming about what we want to be when we grow up. Maybe we can have it all. At least we can continue seeing visions of what might be. Mary Dee Harris -- 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@cs.utexas.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: humanities computing Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:18:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 14 (14) Dear Colleagues: As many of you will know, I've been pursuing basic questions relating to our common field for some time now, drawing as best I could on my own research and teaching, as well as the work of others, to attempt a definition of "humanities computing". The latest manifestation is an essay, "What is humanities computing? Toward a definition of the field", which is available online, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/what/>. As I explain in a note, the purpose of my putting such an inchoate piece into circulation is to provoke thought and discussion about what we all are up to. I'm convinced that occasional introspection is good for one's professional and mental health. Of course the most important thing, as Allen Renear remarked recently, is simply to do good work (which is what I hope we all are in fact doing), but that's not enough in such a young and poorly represented field. We need to find the commonalities, the common shape throughout the various corners of our practice. That's what I'm attempting in this essay and would greatly appreciate your help in getting it right. Thanks. 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/> From: Bob Evans Subject: Litpage Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 21:59:50 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 15 (15) Litpage (http://members.aol.com/litpage/litpage.html) is a new and growing resource for students, teachers, writers, and readers of literature. It emphasizes practical information and is also home to the annual Frank O'Connor short story and essay contests, which award $1000 for the best story and $500 for the two best essays submitted. Please share this information with other lists or individuals who may be interested. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: benda Subject: Re: 11.0728 philatelic passions Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 23:28:40 +0800 (EAT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 16 (16) After reading Francois Lachance's message about philately (11.0728), I looked around on the Web and found a picture of the Taiwanese copyright protection postage stamp in question at http://www.post.gov.tw/esp384.htm I'm not a stamp collector, so I don't know how the image lives up to its description, or if one is better off imagining the stamp... Jonathan Benda Dept. Foreign Lang. and Lit. Tunghai University Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C. benda@s867.thu.edu.tw ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Database Bill Vote Today--Tues May 12 Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:30:49 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 17 (17) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 12, 1998 As many of you will already know, the controversial "Collection of Information Antipiracy Act" (H.R. 2652) is being voted on today. This will create an entirely new body of protected material that can not be protected under copyright law and will result in more material being taken out of the public domain. I reproduce two "calls-to-action" from the American Library Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. David ===== [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop Programme "Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 08:35:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 18 (18) Resources" [deleted quotation] *********************************************** Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources *********************************************** May 27th, This workshop is part of First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation at the University of Granada, May 26th to 30th 1998 (see http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html for details and how to register). The workshop will discuss ways to increase the efficacy of linguistic resource distribution and programmatic access, and work towards the definition of a new method for these tasks based on distributed processing and object-oriented modelling with deployment on the WWW. Organizers: Yorick Wilks, Wim Peters, Hamish Cunningham, Remi Zajac [material deleted] From: David Green Subject: Etext course at Virginia, summer 1998 Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:35:35 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 19 (19) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 12, 1998 BOOKS AT VIRGINIA: RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1998 (RBS) University of Virginia, Charlottesville 13 July - 7 August <http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~oldbooks> [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: Workshops at Museum Computer Network Conference Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:46:02 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 20 (20) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT May 12, 1998 WORKSHOPS AT MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK CONFERENCE September 23, 1998 Santa Monica, CA, USA <http://www.mcn.edu/MCN98> The Museum Computer Network announces 11 Pre-Conference Workshops, on Wednesday, September 23, 1998. All are half-day workshops, except "Information Management in Museums: Planning and Implementing Successful Systems" which runs the full day. For complete workshop descriptions, visit http://www.mcn.edu/MCN98. "Managing Digital Imaging Projects", with Mikki Carpenter, and Linda Serenson Colet, Museum of Modern Art "Kick-Starting Your Intranet", with Sam Quigley, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Lara Greenwood, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology "Strategic Technology Planning for Museums", with Robert L. Anderson, Anderson Technologies "Empowering the Visitor at the Museum Web Site: Designing Points of Response and Interaction for the Visitor", with Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum "Negotiating Skills for Licensing Museum Content", with Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum, and Lesley Ellen Harris, Copyright and New Media Lawyer "Information Management in Museums: Planning and Implementing Successful Systems", with Leslie Latta-Guthrie, University of Alberta, and Charlene Garvey, Museums Alberta: Information Network "Using the Getty Vocabularies (Thesaurus of Geographic Names, Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names)", with Michelle Futornick, Alison Chipman, Lala Lalami, Christi Richardson, Robin Johnson, and Patricia Harpring, Getty Information Institute "Building a Project Plan: A Hands-On Workshop", with Holly Rarick Witchey, San Diego Museum of Art "Knowledge Management in Museums: Approaches, Tools, and Issues", with Guy Hermann, Mystic Seaport Museum "Web Usability: Creating User-Friendly Web Sites", with Dr. Jurek Kirakowski, University College Cork and Dr. Nigel Claridge, NOMOS Management AB "In-House Production Procedures for Museum Multimedia", with Chris Larrance and Peter Samis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robin Lilien and Charles Passela, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Brian Sullivan, J. Paul Getty Trust ======================================================================= MCN Membership Office, 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501, Silver Spring, MD, 20910. Tel: (301) 585-4413, Fax: (301) 495-0810, E-mail: mcn@mcn.edu From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: EMNLP3: Early registration deadline May 13 Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 17:50:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 21 (21) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- !!!!!!! EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MAY 13 !!!!!!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-3) Sponsored by ACL SIGDAT Tuesday, June 2, 1998 Granada, Spain Following the First International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: Email: emnlp3@cs.vassar.edu Web: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/emnlp3.html http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: Program for the Annual Meeting of COCH/COSH, 1998 Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 16:01:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 22 (22) [please excuse x-posting] ****************** The full conference program (incl. abstracts) can be found at http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/winder/abs_1998.htm ****************** COCH/COSH Brief Program for the Annual Meeting of COCH/COSH at the 1998 Congress of the Social Sciences and the Humanities, May 27 - 28, 1998 University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. _____ *In Memory of Elaine Nardocchio (1945-1998)* _____ [material deleted] --- Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines WWW Site: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/cochcosh.htm ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Nigel Williamson Subject: Bolton Priory White Rose Studentship Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 16:18:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 23 (23) Department of History, University of Sheffield Department of History, The Borthwick Institute, University of York White Rose Studentship An Edition of the 'Coucher Book' of Bolton Priory (Yorkshire) An edition of the sixteenth-century 'Coucher Book' of Bolton Priory (an Augustinian monastery near Skipton in Yorkshire) has long been sought for publication by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series. The manuscript is part of the muniments of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth and is a partial copy of a lost 14th-century original. The task in preparing the edition would be to recreate as closely as possible the lost original Chartulary. Beyond the 'Coucher Book' there also exist a great number of original charters of the monastery, mainly at Chatsworth. The edition would have to incorporate this material too in the textual construction. The full co-operation and backing of Chatsworth has been guaranteed. Advances made in textual reconstruction at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, offer an obvious advantage to a student engaged to undertake work at Sheffield. Support would be available from both the Medieval sections concerned at Sheffield and York. Given the preparatory work already undertaken, completion within three year= s for a Ph.D. is definitely envisaged. The joint supervisors, Professor Ian Kershaw (Department of History, University of Sheffield) and Professor David Smith (Department of History/Borthwick Institute, University of York) have already collaborated extensively in preparation for publication of the 'Bolton Priory Compotus', which goes to press this autumn. The 'Compotus' is a unique fourteenth-century account book of the monastery, and of direct relevance t= o the project outlined above. Professor Kershaw has already published extensively on the history of Bolton Priory and has expert subject knowledg= e of the 'Coucher Book'. Professor David Smith is a Professor of Medieval History and also Director of the Borthwick Institute at the University of York, the leading institute in the country for the study of medieval history. The White Rose Scholarship comprises a home/EU tuition fee waiver and an annual student support grant at standard research council rates (=A35,455 i= n 1998/99). Applicants for the above project should complete the attached University of Sheffield Graduate Admissions Form, asking referees to send in reports on the enclosed forms without delay. =09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09Ian Kershaw =09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09March 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Willard McCarty Subject: author, author? Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:02:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 24 (24) Dear Colleagues, Some months ago I ran into a translated quotation from Baudelaire, about Goya. I would greatly appreciate knowing which work. The quotation is: "The line of the suture, the meeting point between real and fantastic, is impossible to find. It is a hazy borderline which even the subtlest analyst wouldn't be able to chart." Thanks. It really is all about humanities computing, you see. 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/> From: Willard McCarty Subject: place of publication? Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:09:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 25 (25) Would anyone here (wherever "here" is) happen to know where Jerry Fodor's review of Steven Pinker, *How the mind works* and Henry Plotkin, *Evolution in mind*, entitled "The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism", was published, when and what issue number? Thanks. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: knowledge is power Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 19:20:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 26 (26) Dear Colleagues: [deleted quotation] "Knowledge is said to be power, and it is power in the same sense that wood is fuel. Wood on fire is fuel. Knowledge on fire is power." Henry MacKenzie (Scottish novelist, 1745-1831) [Exact attribution 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/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Edward Mendelson at King's Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 14:59:58 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 27 (27) Programme for International Pynchon Studies University of London and the University of Antwerp Seminar Series Edward Mendelson (Columbia), on Thomas Pynchon 15 May 1998, 14.00 - 15.15 Strand Building, King's College London For more information, including the schedule for the remaining Seminars, see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/PIPS/seminar.htm>. EDWARD MENDELSON is Professor of English, Columbia University. A recipient of American Council of Learned Societies, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, he is chiefly interested in 19th-and 20th-century literature, formal and social aspects of poetry and narrative, and biographical criticism. He is Auden's literary executor; a sequel to his book Early Auden (1981) will soon appear. He has edited a volume of essays on Pynchon and, with Michael Seidel, Homer to Brecht: The European Epic and Dramatic Traditions. He has worked on editions of novels by Hardy, Bennett, Meredith; on the first three volumes of a complete edition of Auden, as well as selections of Auden's poems and prose. His recent essays appear in Romanic Review, Yale French Studies, TLS, Raritan; and as introduction to a new edition of Gravity's Rainbow. He has also written about computers, music, and the visual arts. ---------- 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/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Society of Scholarly Publishing Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 23:06:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 28 (28) The annual meeting of the Society of Scholarly Publishing is being held 3-5 June in San Diego, California, U.S. For information see <http://www.edoc.com/ssp/AnnualMeetingF.html> complete with animated gifs. 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: "by way of Willard McCarty " Subject: Visual representations and interpretations Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 12:13:16 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 29 (29) VRI '98 Visual Representations and Interpretations The Foresight Centre University of Liverpool 22-23 September, 1998 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Aim The purpose of this multidisciplinary workshop is to bring together researchers across a range of disciplines who are actively investigating visual representations and interpretations. [deleted material] Topic areas might include but are not restricted to:- visual languages, user-interface design, data visualisation, representation of natural forms, diagrammatic reasoning, visual metaphors, semiotics, theories of visual representation and multimodal communication, history and philosophy of science. [deleted material] Questions or queries about VRI '98 should be addressed to Dr Irene Neilson (ien@csc.liv.ac.uk) or Ray Paton (rcp@csc.liv.ac.uk). The VRI '98 HomePage is: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ien/VRI/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Rakestraw Subject: Fodor on Pinker and Plotkin Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 22:01:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 30 (30) Jerry Fodor's "The Trouble with Psychological Darwinism" (a review of How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker and Evolution in Mind by Henry Plotkin) was published in the London Review of Books, vol. 20, number 2. It's still on line at <http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20n02/fodo2002.html>. --=20 John A. Rakestraw, Jr. Research Associate Learning Technology Center, Peabody College Vanderbilt University 615-343-2615 FAX 615-269-4143 From: Kay McBurney Subject: German-English computer dictionaries Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 12:28:23 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 31 (31) [deleted quotation] I am a technical translator specializing in information technology and for my money the best dictionary on the market in this area is the one originating from the Siemens stable: W=F6rterbuch der Daten- und Kommunikationstechnik - Data Systems and Communications Dictionary, Karl-Heinz Brinkmann & Herbert F. Blaha Deutsch-Englisch, English-German [in one volume] Publisher: Brandstetter Verlag, Wiesbaden 1997 (5th completely revised and enlarged edition) ISBN: 3-87097-181-9. It covers hardware, software and telecommunications, and in this latest edition the number of entries in both D->E and E->D directions has been expanded by around 25% to include many terms for the latest developments in the field, e.g. Windows 95 user interface terms, object-oriented processing etc. I purchased my copy from Grant & Cutler, Language Booksellers, 55-57 Great Marlborough Street, London Tel: +44/0 171 7342012, Fax: +44/0 171 7349272 for GBP 57.95 (pretty good value I think). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Survey Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 10:07:16 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 32 (32) [The following comments on "What is humanities computing?" announced in Humanist 12.0010, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/what/>, were included within a longer message on another topic. This time, possibly never again, I managed to restrain modesty from halting the flow of knowledge. :-) --WM] .....Apart from the very succinct and concise way in which you manage to describe the endeavour of humanities computing in general your article rightly stresses the methodological issue - what I like to call the "reconciliation of the numerical and the hermeneutical paradigm". This ought to be underlined time and again. The chief contribution humanities computing can make - over and above its pragmatic functions in the various realms of humanities research - is an attempt at reformulating qualitatively (hermeneutically) oriented questions genuine to the humanist paradigm of scholarship in terms of quantitative procedures of data analysis normally alien to our field of research. And perhaps this calculated transgression will eventually start working the other way round and help us to understand how the potentiality of "meaning" is structurally embedded in empirical data (in fact, it has done so for quite a while: in the "Gestalt"-concept, among other). Against this background the question of whether or not humanities computing is a discipline is indeed secondary, if not misleading - because humanities computing essentially puts the methodological homogeneity of disciplines per se into question. Regards, Jan Christoph Meister ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Survey Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:31:14 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 33 (33) CATEGORIES FOR HUMANITIES COMPUTING SURVEY Members of our research group are in the process of planning an overall survey of humanities computing activities in research, teaching and text edition in the German speaking countries. The survey is intended to cover all humanities disciplines, as well as neighbouring disciplines in the social sciences. At this stage we are compiling a catalogue of categories and questions to b= e included in a questionnaire. The function of this questionnaire is a) to determine the scope, profile, methodology, institutional backing etc. of th= e various individual projects b) to gather data for a quantitative analysis o= f activities in order to highlight major trends in humanities computing in th= e German speaking countries. We would greatly appreciate input from colleagues who have either conducted similar surveys in the past and/or who would want to bring certain aspects normally not covered in such surveys to our attention. Apart from suggestions for categories and questions to be included in our catalogue, a= s well as referrals to similar compilations already in existence any information on experiences gathered in the process of conducting such surveys - obviously constituting an important part of humanities computing activities themselves - would be of great help. Please e-mail any suggestions or responses to Jan-C-Meister@RRZ.Uni-Hamburg.de Thanks! Jan Christoph Meister ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Arbeitsstelle f=FCr Sozialgeschichte der Literatur Universit=E4t Hamburg Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar von Melle Park 6 20146 Hamburg, Germany Tel (+49) 40 - 4123 5402 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: pellis Subject: NYPL Digital Library Collections Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 14:23:00 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 34 (34) Please post. -------------------------- The New York Public Library Launches Digital Library Collections The New York Public Library introduces its Digital Library Collections web site, featuring a wide range of primary source materials from The Library's four research libraries, at <http://digital.nypl.org>. The first collection, the Digital Schomburg, comprises 56 texts and more than 500 images representing African American history and culture. The Digital Schomburg includes two components, "Images of African Americans in the 19th Century" and "19th-Century African American Women Writers." The images in Digital Schomburg document the social, political, and cultural worlds of African American people from slavery to various stages of freedom. The texts in the collection include essays, works of fiction and poetry, and autobiography and biography--among them, Anna Julia Cooper's A Voice from the South; Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral; and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. The materials are drawn primarily from The New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the world's leading research facilities devoted to the preservation of materials on the global African and African diasporan experiences. Other online collections currently in development include Small Town America: Stereoscopic Views from the Robert Dennis Collection, 1850-1910; The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Millennium Project; Urban Landscape Photography in the Romana Javitz Collection; and Berenice Abbott's Changing New York. The Library participates in several cooperative projects, including Marriage and the Law in the U.S. and the U.K.; the Global Migration Project; Travels Along the Hudson, and Making of America II. For more information about NYPL's Digital Library Collections, contact Pamela Ellis at pellis@nypl.org or join the DLC mailing list at <http://digital.nypl.org/email.cfm>. From: Willard McCarty Subject: NYPL Center for the Humanities Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 14:28:58 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 35 (35) In addition to the New York Public Library Digital Library Collections, Humanists will be interested to know about the NYPL Center for the Humanities, whose virtual presence is at <http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/chss.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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski Subject: MCCA Content Analysis Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:19:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 36 (36) We are pleased to announce the availability of MCCA Lite, an evaluation/demo version of Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis technique. The technique, which has recently been shown to stand up quite well in a test of techniques measuring corpus similarilty and homogeneity (as good as, if not better than, chi-square and Spearman rank correlation frequency analyses), has now been expanded to handle multiperson transcripts. The evaluation/demo version (Windows 95) includes Hamlet, which will be loaded for analysis when you install the program and start it for the first time. The software is suitable for other kinds of transcripts, in addition to plays, such as focus groups, TV and news shows, hearings, interviews, telephone hot-line interactions, and many more. From download to results on the screen for Hamlet may take no more than 10 to 15 minutes on a modest Pentium machine. We invite your reactions and suggestions. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-926-5904 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 20239 Lea Pond Place Gaithersburg, MD 20879-1270 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com From: Willard McCarty Subject: Berkman Center for Internet and Society Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 22:36:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 37 (37) Humanists will be interested to know about the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the School of Law, Harvard University (the one in America, of course). The mission statement is as follows. "The Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace, its development, dynamics, norms, standards, and need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, an action center. We study law and its complement in norms and values. What we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study and publish. Our mode is entrepreneurial and non-profit. Our goal is to bring knowledge to the world." Given the unique position of Harvard in the American academic scene, and (as I understand it) of the Law School in particular, this Center begins from a position of considerable strength. Assess it at <http://cyber.harvard.edu/index.html>, and enjoy the animated gif. 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/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 38 (38) [deleted quotation]he [deleted quotation]st [deleted quotation] You will find the original in the Pleiade edition of Baudelaire (Paris,=20 Gallimard, 1966), p. 1020. The French text reads as follows (I complete the sentence to give the=20 context which deals with Goya's caricatures) Toutes ces contorsions, ces faces bestiales, ces grimaces diaboliques=20 sont p=E9n=E9tr=E9es d'humainit=E9. M=EAme au point de vue particulier de= =20 l'histoire naturelle, il serait difficile de les condamner, tant il y a=20 analogie et harmonie dans toutes les parties de leur =EAtre; en un mot, la= =20 ligne de suture, le point de jonction entre le r=E9el et le fantastique est= =20 impossible =E0 saisir; c'est une fronti=E8re vague que l'analyse la plus=20 subtile ne saurait pas tracer, tant l'art est =E0 la fois transcendant et = =20 naturel. This was published for the first time on October 15th, 1857 in Le Pr=E9sent= =20 and reprinted the following year in L'Artiste (September 26th, 1858). In=20 the latter form, it was placed within Curiosit=E9s esth=E9tiques. All this= =20 information is found in the Pleiade notes, p. 1699. Jean-Claude Gu=E9don Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- =09Jean-Claude Gu=E9don=09=09=09=09Tel. 514-343-6208 =09D=E9partement de litt=E9rature compar=E9e=09=09Fax. 514-343-2211 =09Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al=09=09 =09CP 6128, Succursale "Centre-ville"=09=09Surfaces =09Montr=E9al, Qc H3C 3J7=09=09=09=09 =09Canada=09=09=09http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/=09 See you at INET'98, Geneva, 21-24 July, 1998 http://www.isoc.org/inet98 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- [Thanks to the others who identified the quotation from Baudelaire. Since they did not differ in their identification, I publish only the first of the messages to arrive. --WM] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Lynne Boone Clement Subject: Re: Did Anyone Attend?--SHAPING POLICY IN THE INFORMATION AGE Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 12:45:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 39 (39) It seemed like a very interesting offering and I was disappointed that I could not attend the sessions. I did, however, manage to squeeze in one of the Saturday workshops. I went to the one on the Dilbert Ethics Game put on by an ethics officer from Lockheed Martin. It is our policy at ArtsEdge to put up a report of staff conference attendance. When the report on this workshop is ready and up on our site, I will notify the list. Sorry it's not the entire meeting. Lynne Clement, Director ArtsEdge: The National Arts & Education Information Network The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Washington, DC 20566-0001 Tel: 202-416-8873 Fax: 202-416-8876 From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: WORKSHOP: Computationally-Intensive Methods Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:28:06 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 40 (40) SECOND WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Department of Statistics University of Glasgow, UK 7-9 September 1998 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. [material deleted] 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: Teaching And Language Corpora 1998 Subject: Conference Announcement: TALC 98 Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:01:46 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 41 (41) *****Call for registration: TALC98******** The 3rd international conference on TEACHING AND LANGUAGE CORPORA will be held at Keble College, Oxford between 24 and 27 July 1998. The use of large computer-held corpora of real language, no longer novel in linguistic research, is increasingly a focus of attention for language teachers. Experiments in data driven learning and corpus-based methods are beginning to bear fruit in a wide range of language teaching environments. This international conference will bring together practitioners and theorists with a common interest in the usability of corpus data for such purposes as: * language teaching and learning * student-centred learning and investigation * cross-linguistic comparison * cultural and historical studies [material deleted] Full details of the speakers and the programme, including rates and registration forms, are available at the conference website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~talc98 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PLEASE NOTE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Registrations received before 29th MAY will qualify for a discount * * An additional registration fee will be charged for Workshops * * Workshop Registration will close on 30 June; places are limited * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: new media conference Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:35:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 42 (42) Willard, I pass along the following conference announcement for "Creativity and Consumption: New Media Arts in Advanced Technology Culture" for the those who are interested. Feel free to clip it if it looks too long. Apologies to those who have already seen it. But I also forward this to provoke some conversation on the relationship between the kinds of activities represented by this conference and humanities computing, along the lines you delineate that field (or "discipline") in your essay. I see surprisingly little discussion of creative work in the new media/digital arts on Humanist (or similar venues, such as H-CLC). Surely we have a great deal in common with the audience for this conference, as well as artists of all sorts working in the medium -- not the least of that being a certain DIY (do it yourself) sensibility necessitated by the consumer-driven R&D paradigms of commerical industry. Why not cultivate such commonalities, perhaps starting by bringing digital artists to venues such as ACH/ALLC? Yours, Matt [deleted quotation] [material deleted] From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Computers and Philology: reviewed announcement Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 20:02:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 43 (43) I would like to inform all the interested members of Humanist that due to accommodation problems in the area of Edinburgh during the last week of the Edinburgh Festival we strongly advise early submission of abstracts (and early booking of accomodation for non-speakers) to: LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTERS An international seminar University of Edinburgh Department of Italian, DHT, George Square 7-9 September 1998 The original submission deadline was June 30th, but we recommend to send proposals as soon as possible. Contributions regarding hypertextual applications in the field of textual criticism and philology would be at this point particularly welcomed. Please check the conference web page at <http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/seminar.htm> for updated information on the seminar programme, venue and timetable, or send enquiries by email to: Domenico.Fiormonte@ed.ac.uk *or* mc9809@mclink.it *IMPORTANT NOTICE*: due to time constraints, and to preserve the creative dynamics of the seminar, the number of presentations will be limited to 15. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CfP BOBCATSSS Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:09:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 44 (44) [deleted quotation] ============================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================ 7. International BOBCATSSS Symposium Bratislava 25. - 27 January 1999 LEARNING ORGANISATION - LEARNING SOCIETY - LIFELONG LEARNING This symposium aims to point out what kind of changes and challenges ask for a LEARNING SOCIETY necessary. [material deleted] For further information please contact: e-mail: BOBCATSSS@hbi-stuttgart.de Tel./Fax: 0711/2570615 HBI Stuttgart Wolframstra_e 32 D-70192 Stuttgart Germany From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: CaNew'98 Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:10:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 45 (45) [deleted quotation] Call for Workshop Submissions/Participation CaNew'98 Causal Networks: from inference to data mining 3 October, 1998 A workshop held in conjunction with the the sixth biennial Iberoamerican Conference on Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA'98 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ci=EAncias Sociais e Humanas October 5-9, 1998, Lisbon, Portugal. [material deleted] Further information on IBERAMIA'98 is available at the IBERAMIA98 Homepage: http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia/ The URL of this Workshop Homepage will be: http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/canew.html There exists a text and PostScript of this call. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Second CFP: ESSLLI-99 Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:12:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 46 (46) [deleted quotation] [An HTML version of the Call for Proposals will be made available via the FoLLI web page at http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/folli/. The usual apologies apply if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-99 August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands SECOND CALL FOR PROPOSALS The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-99 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Exended deadline and reduced student fee (E.R.Caianiello Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:13:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 47 (47) School) [deleted quotation] ***************************************************************** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR THE SUMMER SCHOOL MAY 30 1998 REDUCED REGISTRATION FEE FOR MASTER and Ph.D STUDENTS Please post **************************************************************** International Summer School ``Neural Nets E. R. Caianiello" 3rd Course "A Course on Speech Processing, Recognition, and Artificial Neural Networks" web page: http://wsfalco.ing.uniroma1.it/Speeschool.html [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: creative work in new media Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 06:59:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 48 (48) Matt Kirschenbaum, in a note elsewhere in this edition of Humanist, observes that there has been very little discussion of creative work in the new media and the digital arts. It seems to me that he is quite right, that we have a great deal in common with digitally engaged artists. I would suppose that the problem is the old exclusionary division which, for example, makes many art history departments not particularly congenial to artists, and art schools not a place where art historians tend to be. (I recall a story told by an old professor of mine, about the art history students at some prestigious U.S. institution where the painting studio was down the hallway from the seminar room, who complained about the distracting smell of linseed oil.) Apart from this division (if I am right about it), I see no reason why a closer association with said artists would not be mutually beneficial. How do we make the connection? 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/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Wolverhampton Job - deadline extended Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 15:11:41 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 49 (49) [deleted quotation] RESEARCH ASSISTANT Researcher A (Fixed Term, 3 years) 11562 - 13101 UK. pounds per annum (pro rata) depending on age, qualifications and experience. The School of Languages and European Studies at the University of Wolverhampton wishes to appoint a research assistant to work on anaphora resolution project. The duties will focus on the development and implementation of a robust, knowledge-poor pronoun resolution approach. We are looking for researchers with proven experience in NLP and with excellent programming skills. The successful candidate will have a first degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science. Appointees may register for a Ph.D. or an M.Phil. on a part-time basis. The successful candidate is expected to start the job as soon as possible but no later than 1 September 1998. For further information about the project, please contact Prof. Dr. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk . Formal applications must be made to: The Personnel University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include a completed application form (to be requested at per@wlv.ac.uk, please quote Reference number A1587), a full CV (including details on your experience in NLP projects and programming skills) and one or two relevant publications, if available. Please note the extended closing date for applications for this post is 1 June 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: A New Project In Digital Archiving Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:47:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 50 (50) NINCH ANNOUNCMENT May 19, 1998 UK's CONSORTIUM OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LIBRARIES (CURL) Announces CEDARS: CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives <http://www.curl.ac.uk> A new project furthering the development of strategies and best practices in proceeding with digital preservation in research libraries is the subject of the release below. CEDARS is a new, leading JISC-funded digital preservation project of the British Consortium of University Research Libraries aiming to address "strategic, methodological and practical issues and to provide guidance for libraries in best practice for digital preservation." David Green =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: UCC Article 2B update Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:13:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 51 (51) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 19, 1998 UNIVERSAL COMMERCIAL CODE REVISION UPDATE: Article 2B (Licensing) Delayed For those following the progress of the UCC2B amendment discussions, the following is an update. The key issue for this community in the revision of the Universal Commercial Code is Article 2B, ruling on digital licensing and whether fair use will or will not be pre-empted. Here is news that, given the controversy surrounding this article that the American Law Institute will delay final approval until next year. Note below the hope that "Professor Charles R. McManis, leader of an unsuccessful attempt in 1997 to include copyright preemption language in Article 2B, may try again to introduce language that preserves in the licensing realm fair use and other rights granted under copyright law." 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Check your watch, then calendar, and consider the following from Bill Bryson's hugely entertaining Made in America (London: Reed, 1995), pp. 188-9: "On 8 January 1815 General Andrew Jackson led American troops in a stormy rout of the British at the Battle of New Orleans. It was a decisive triumph -- or would have been had there been anything to be decisive about. Unknown to the combatants on both sides, the War of 1812 had been amicably concluded over port and brandy two weeks earlier with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent. More than two thousand men died fighting a battle in a war that was over.... "Rarely did a letter posted in Boston in November reach London before the following spring.... Even news of crucial import was frequently delayed. No one in America knew of the Stamp Act or its subsequent withdrawal for two months after both events. The Bastille was stormed in July 1789, but President Washington, newly inaugurated, didn't learn of it until the following autumn. "Within America matters were, if anything, worse. Often letters never found their destination and when they did it was not uncommon for a year to elapse before they received a reply. Letters routinely began with a summation of the fate of previous correspondence, as in this note from Thomas Jefferson, writing from Philadelphia in 1776, to William Randolph in Virginia: 'Dear Sir, Your's of August I received in this place, that of Nov. 24th. is just now come to hand; the one of October I imagine has miscarried.'" 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/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: WORKSHOP: Thesaurus/Authority File Workshop at Digital Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 14:32:58 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 53 (53) Library Conference NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 19, 1998 WORKSHOP ON NETWORKED IMPLEMENTATION OF THESAURI/AUTHORITY FILES Pittsburgh, Saturday June 27 from 9 am to 4 pm <http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/dl98_workshop.html> PART OF ACM DIGITAL LIBRARIES '98 CONFERENCE <http://www.ks.com/dl98/> Below is the announcement of a potentially important workshop on the networked implementation of thesauri, classification schemes, and hierarchically structured authority files that could help in furthering work in the development of network standards and protocols. We trust that the arts and humanities will be well-represented. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] "The Application of Terminology and Classification Tools for Digital Collection Development and Network-based Search" is a workshop to be held in association with the Digital Libraries conference in Pittsburgh in June. The workshop will focus on the networked implementation of thesauri, classification schemes, and hierarchically structured authority files. One of the goals of the workshop is to define what is needed in network implementations of authority files with the hope that this will be useful in the development of standards and protocols. The formation of a working group that could continue after the workshop is anticipated. Practitioners, researchers, developers and users of thesauri and authority files interested in attending are requested to provide a short, 1-paragraph biographical sketch and a statement of their work or interests in this area, to one of the workshop organizers by June 5. In order to provide an update on new developments and a perspective on issues, selected participants will be invited to speak about their experience or areas of expertise. However no formal papers will be presented, and the emphasis will be on open discussion on how standards and common approaches can facilitate the use of authority files over networks. All participants will be able to contribute to the breakout sessions on specific issues to be held in the afternoon and to the general discussion. The workshop will be held in Pittsburgh, Saturday June 27 from 9 am to 4 pm as part of the ACM Digital Libraries '98 Conference <http://www.ks.com/dl98/>. Cost of the workshop is $50.00 and includes lunch. Please see the Workshop web site <http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/dl98_workshop.html> for more information. For specific questions, or to express your interest in attending, you may also contact one of the workshop organizers: Linda Hill ; Ron Davies or Gail Hodge . Ron Davies --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Davies Internet: rdavies@bibliomatics.com Bibliomatics Inc., 48-200 Owl Dr., Phone: (613) 523-7981 Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1V 9P7 Fax: (613) 523-4417 **************************************************************************** DIGLIB is a public service provided by IFLA (http://www.ifla.org) and sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc.: "The Network is the Computer". Sun has published a new whitepaper, "The Digital Library Tool Kit". This paper by Peter Noerr addresses many of the leading questions that academic institutions, public libraries, government agencies, and museums face in trying to develop digital content and distribute it on the Worldwide Web. This 98 page document can be accessed in PDF or Postscript format via the Sun in Libraries webpage at; http://www.sun.com/edu/libraries/index.html. **************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0030 creative work in the new media Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 17:48:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 54 (54) [deleted quotation] I should clarify that this observation was meant to apply specifically to Humanist and closely associated venues such as ACH/ALLC, CHUM, etc. In other venues, new media arts and artists have received significant attention. (See, for just one example, the Eyebeam Atelier, http://www.eyebeam.org/, especially the hypermail archive of the Eyebeam discussion list.) In many cases, I believe the work of digital artists such as those represented by the Eyebeam site ought to be regarded as "research" into the medium no less than the more academic enterprises many on this list are familiar with. Matt From: Alan Myouka Sondheim Subject: Re: 12.0030 creative work in the new media Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 19:28:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 55 (55) You might look at the nettime group, or go to www.jodi.org for a good example or simply go to your school's multimedia department. Alan Sondheim URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html MIRROR with other pages at: http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt IMAGES: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~davidson/pix/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dieke van Wijnen Subject: creative work in new media Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 09:54:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 56 (56) Dear Willard, I find your remarks regarding creative work in the new media very interesting indeed. As you may know, our journal Computers and the Humanities revised its scope statement some time ago to include a larger range of contributions from the humanities community, including research applications relevant to the creation and use not only of digital TEXTS/DATABASES - but also of images, sound, video and mixed-media. We'd be delighted to receive contributions of serious research coming from the digital art community, as well as those doing research in such applications for art history, performing arts and music. Last year, I invited someone from the electronic art community to submit a proposal for an issue on digital art and, although we have not heard back from him, we are still interested. Ms. drs. Dieke van Wijnen Commissioning Editor Humanities and Social Sciences Department Kluwer Aacdemic Puboishers PO BOX 17 3300 AA Dordrecht, the Netherlands Email: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl Tel 31+ 78 6392 264 Fax 31+ 78 6392 254 From: Mike Fraser Subject: Re: 12.0030 creative work in the new media Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:31:48 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 57 (57) An enjoyable article is: Smith, Barry, "Live Art's digital horizons: recording recent developments in Live Art practices." Literary and Linguistic Computing 12:4 (1997): 251-57. [Plenty of further references; see also the Live Art archive at http://art.ntu.ac.uk/liveart/] Further resources and so on can be found via * the CTI Centre for Art and Design <http://www.bton.ac.uk/ctiad/> * the ADAM (Art, Design, Architecture and Media) Gateway <http://www.adam.ac.uk/> * FACT:The Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (commissioning body for electronic media art in Britain) <http://www.fact.co.uk/>. Continuing the British theme, this year's IESA (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) conference is to take place in Liverpool, 2-7 September 1998. View '...invisible cities...' and everything else via <http://www.isea98.org/>. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Manager, CTI 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: Steve Dietz Subject: Re: 12.0032 creative work in the new media Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 07:17:28 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 58 (58) Another source for the work of net artists and commentary about it is the exhibition I curated for the Museums and the Web conference, "Beyond Interface: net art and Art on the Net" (http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/beyondinterface). I specifically make the argument that one way to think about the work of these 24 artists is as explorers (research?) of new possibilities for the medium. sd -- Steve Dietz || Director of New Media Initiatives YProductions || Walker Art Center 24680 Smithtown Rd. || Vineland Place Shorewood, MN 55331 || Minneapolis, MN 55403 sd@yproductions.com || 612 375-7686 From: Francois Lachance Subject: creating machine scholarship Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:57:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 59 (59) Willard, You have recently lifted a fibre from a posting to spin a thread concerning the similarities that may exist between the creative arts and scholarship in the emerging age of digital media. This action -- what I like to call using the telling detail to magnify the picture -- is itself facilitated by digital media. As you have pointed out and said on numerous occasions, the digital media offer artefacts both easily reproducible and malleable. What is considered an artefact can vary. A tradable commodity, an electronic edition or a database of cultural records, for example, fit very well with a view of digitalization that, whether celebrating or deploring, proclaims the democratization of means of production. A view of digitalization focused upon distribution networks provides a glimpse of artefacts less tractable as commodities and more easily apprehended as public utilities. In short, if your electronic bursts of energy as well as mine can be modified, forwarded, bounced, deleted or stored, so too can the addresses of the senders and receivers, the translators and transducers of these propelled and halted bursts. Salons and discussion lists mutate as much as the messages exchanged within their precincts. Groups and institutions are a special set of artefacts. They govern and regulate the social organisation of work, scholarly and creative. Certain artefacts act as switches influencing the flows of who does what when. The figure of the group-as-machine is rarely stated overtly in the discourse on governance of organisational theory except in those silly extended comparisons between the workings of computers and human society that forget to mention the sources of power and eternally loop input and output in some perpetual motion. Creative and scholarly (digital) workers know machines can die! It is perhaps our humble task to repeatedly remind ourselves and others of the mutability in the distribution of the skills for making the artefacts that drive digital machines. Shuttling some warp into your woof and admiring your skill at weaving groups of respondants, Francois plugs scifi touching upon how machines may make promises at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/sd/sd0003.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final programme workshop on Distributing and Accessing Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:53:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 60 (60) Linguistic Resources [deleted quotation] *********************************************** Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources *********************************************** May 27th, This workshop is part of First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation at the University of Granada, May 26th to 30th 1998 (see http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html for details and how to register). The workshop will discuss ways to increase the efficacy of linguistic resource distribution and programmatic access, and work towards the definition of a new method for these tasks based on distributed processing and object-oriented modelling with deployment on the WWW. The workshop will take place in the afternoon after the scheduled lunch break (13.20 - 14.40). [material deleted] From: Mike Fraser Subject: Conference: The Renaissance Computer Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:38:17 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 61 (61) The Renaissance Computer University of St Andrews, 19-20 June 1998 http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/personal/adm6/Conference.html A symposium organised by the School of English, St. Andrews University, and the School of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Southampton, in conjunction with the Scottish Renaissance Seminar. With sponsorship from the Folger Institute and Routledge. The symposium is linked to a project to create a digital Renaissance encyclopedia (EMTOD). The papers which follow the initial discussion of the project will explore links between the technologies of computing and printing, early modern knowledge systems and the Renaissance encyclopedic text. [material deleted] Further information from: Jill Gamble, School of English, The University, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL, Scotland. Tel: 01334 462666 Fax: 01334 462655 Email: jg9@st-andrews.ac.uk http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/personal/adm6/Conference.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: gleanings Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 19:17:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 62 (62) As you know, I tend to buy the Guardian newspaper on Thursdays, principally for the Online section, looking for things of interest to note here, to hel= p extend our interests from the grindstone to which our noses are put out int= o the world that is eating up great dollops of computing like the proverbial candy. The fact that gleanings have not appeared on Humanist as regularly i= n recent weeks as before does not covertly point to a leaky roof or exploded boiler in your editor's lovely Victorian pile in Leyton, but rather to the thin soup that the Guardian has been serving of late. Could it be that we'v= e passed the point at which our subject is no longer novel enough to fill a supplement? But... perhaps I should take that all back, to wit, in last week's issue: Karlin Lillington, "Surfing for sex: on the real power behind innovation on the Web" -- the cover story for today's Online, at <http://online.guardian.co.uk/theweb/895059985-porn.html>.=20 "Not even the defense industry capitalises on new technical developments as swiftly, and with as much innovation and payback, as pornographers. They bu= y the best equipment, use some of the best Internet service companies in the business to give them ultra-fast connections directly to the Internet^=D2s backbone, and are always eager to test the newest applications ^=D7 anythin= g to push images as fast as possible to the paying punters at the end of the mouse. From Web video to live chat, online credit card transactions to imag= e compression technologies, the online sex industry usually got there first and pioneered the format. As a result, the Internet has made silicone as ubiquitous as silicon. Sex is the Web^=D2s killer app."=20 If you choose to read the remainder online, consider the case of Danni Ashe= , a former stripper who taught herself HTML. Sociologically "the mutual fascination between the sex and tech worlds", which her success story illustrates, should hold our attention long after the content of "Danni's Hard Drive" (the name of her site) becomes boring -- as, I would suppose, i= t does very rapidly. The close relationship that this mutual fascination suggests leads me quickly to a fascinating book, Ellen Ullman's Close to th= e Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents (San Francisco: City Lights Books= , 1997). No time now for commentary on this, but soon -- unless someone else would care to review it here. In today's issue: (1) John Keeble, "From hackers to knackers", about the recycling of compute= r parts. Hear, hear! This week's cover story, for which see <http://online.guardian.co.uk/>. (2) Jack Schofield, "Netwatch", points to the Alexandria Digital Literature site, <http://www.alexlit.com/>, which is in essence a virtual bookshop for purchase of etexts with a software rating system built in. Whether it is as good as Amazon.com's (which, to quote a friend, is so spooky that you're likely to think that someone's been following you around observing your reading habits) remains to be seen. Does anyone have sufficient experience of this site to say? (3) Jack Schofield, "What's bugging you?", about the millennium bug, for which see <http://online.guardian.co.uk/computing/895675553-bug.html>. Scar= y stuff. Some of us can at least now afford to be amused by the survivalists' reaction, especially in the U.S., the subject of Douglas Rushkoff's piece, "Shop early for doomsday", at <http://online.guardian.co.uk/computing/895675184-second.html>. Rushkoff makes the essential point that the crisis "will be fuelled more by panic than by lapses in technology.... This isn't about computer programming at all, but about the real values infusing what we like to think of as our civil society. With any luck, we'll come to understand that there's more to survival than meets the 'I'."=20 There are some very sober people with very sobering things to say about thi= s crisis, e.g. Ed Yourdon, "doyen of American programming", who thinks the crisis will have about the same impact as the OPEC oil crisis in the 70s.= =20 Schofield's article lists online sources for software with which to test one's own system. That's enough for now. To put the matter mildly. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -=20 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=20 <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NLP Research Position in Australia Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:55:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 63 (63) [deleted quotation] *** Apologies in advance for multiple appearances in your mailbox *** Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia -- Research Position in The Microsoft Research Institute's Language Technology Group Position Reference 18455: Application deadline is *5 June 1998* ------------------------------ The Language Technology Group at Macquarie University's Microsoft Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work in the area of intelligent information extraction and presentation. The LTG takes a results-oriented approach to research: our goal is to contribute to the generation of practical solutions to real problems. The position we have available focuses on the development of techniques for overcoming the information overload exacerbated by the recent growth of the Internet; we require someone who has experience of developing NLP-related techniques either for the analysis of existing textual or database content (for example, using information extraction techniques) or for the creation of new content (for example, using natural language generation techniques). The appointee will play a key role in further developing our research in this area, and will also be expected to participate more broadly in the activities of the Language Technology Group. The appointee can expect to spend approximately 50% of their time on group-related project activity, and 50% of their time developing their own research directions. Applicants must have a PhD in an area closely related to Natural Language Processing, or have equivalent experience. The applicants should have a track record of publication in natural language processing or a closely related area and a demonstrated ability for independent research. Preference will be given to applicants who can demonstrate practical abilities in the construction of linguistic technologies: some experience in developing information extraction tools, in the use of robust parsing techniques, and in using text generation tools would be desirable. Enquiries and further information: Associate Professor Robert Dale, Director, on +61 2 9850 6331 or email Robert.Dale@mq.edu.au or refer to http://www.mri.mq.edu.au. The position is available from July 1998 for a fixed term of one year with the possibility of further appointment subject to availability of funding and satisfactory performance. Salary range: Level B A$47363 to A$56245 per annum increasing to A$49965 to A$58776 per annum from 1 January 1999. Applications close 5 June 1998. Applications, including full curriculum vitae, visa status, and the names and addresses of three referees should be forwarded to the Recruitment Manager, Personnel Office, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 by the closing date. Applications will not be acknowledged unless specifically requested. Women are particularly encouraged to apply. Equal Employment Opportunity and No Smoking in the Workplace are University Policies. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:02:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 64 (64) [deleted quotation] SELECT Project - Research Fellow in Language Engineering (Fixed Term, 12 months) 14648 - 19267 UK pounds per annum (pro rata) depending on age, qualifications and experience. The School of Languages and European Studies at the University of Wolverhampton wishes to appoint a Research Fellow to work on the EU Framework IV Language Engineering Project SELECT - a high-profile international Telematics project involving Klett in Germany, Giunti in Italy and the University of Poitiers in France. The Research Fellow's responsibilities will focus on the development of the "Language Learner's Workbench" (LLW). The aim of the LLW is to develop an electronic resource-based tool which will assist business users to learn and use foreign languages. The tool will involve working with material in French, English and Portuguese. It will also give the user access to Web-based and intranet-based language learning material. The LLW will be developed in collaboration with IAI, Saarbruecken and OFAI, Vienna. For more information on the LLW and SELECT, visit http://www/wlv.ac.uk/sles/select We are looking for researchers with proven experience in NLP and Corpus Linguistics and with programming skills. Candidates should preferably have a knowledge of one of the target foreign languages and fluency in English. The successful candidate may apply to be registered for a higher degree on a part-time basis. For further information about the project, please contact Prof. Stephen Hagen (s.g.hagen@wlv.ac.uk) and for specific information about the Language Learner's Workbench - Prof. Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk) Formal applications must be made to: The Personnel University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include a completed application form (to be requested at per@wlv.ac.uk; please quote reference number A1628), a full CV and reference to one or two relevant publications. Please note the closing date for applications for this post is 12 June 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New Greek Sculpture Materials on the Web Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 08:54:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 65 (65) [deleted quotation] We are pleased to announce the publication of a revised catalogue of Greek sculpture on the Perseus Project web site (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/). The catalogue, available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/browser?object=sculpture/, contains 588 entries covering major sculptural works in a variety of media, most from the archaic and classical periods. While the catalogue includes new entries on 222 objects, many entries from our pre-existing catalogue have been revised and expanded, and new bibliographical references have been added. The format of the sculpture catalogue has been entirely redesigned to bring the visitor's attention to distinctions between copies and originals, as well as single sculptures and groups, and related fragments in separate collections. Note, for example, that the entry for the "Rampin Rider" (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/sculptureindex?lookup=Rampin+Rider) links to separate entries for the body in Athens (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/sculptureindex?lookup=Athens,+Acropoli s+59 0), and the head in Paris (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/sculptureindex?lookup=Louvre+Ma+3104), bot h of which, in turn, provide links to the main entry. Known findspots, functions, classes of monuments, sculptural techniques, and documentary evidence have also been added to the range of information provided for individual objects. The Greek sculpture catalogue is fully interconnected with the Perseus digital library and objects may be accessed through Perseus' keyword and English index searches. With the browser (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/browser?object=sculpture) one may also search for objects organized by collection, context, period, region, class, material, scale, sculptor and associated building. Objects from a 28 museums in Athens, Berlin, Delphi, London, New York, and elsewhere are now documented in the Greek sculpture catalogue on the Perseus Project. We are particularly glad to report that images of objects from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are now available to all users of the Perseus Project's web site. Illustrated catalogue entries on almost 50 sculptures from the Classical galleries of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, may be accessed from the following url: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/browser?object=Sculpture&field=Collecti on&v alue=Boston,+Museum+of+Fine+Arts/ Look for announcements regarding the availability of other images in the near future. The new catalogue entries and revisions have been prepared by Dr. Amy C. Smith, our Art and Archaeology Editor. We are also glad to acknowledge the help of our Sculpture Advisory Board members: Professors Mark D. Fullerton (Ohio State University), Carol L. Lawton (Lawrence University), and Andrew Stewart (University of California, Berkeley). Funding has been generously provided by the Getty Grant Program (http://www.getty.edu/grant/index.html). Gregory Crane Associate Professor of Classics Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project Eaton 124 Tufts University Medford MA 02155 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elaine Nardocchio Subject: Endowed Fellowship at McMaster University Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:52:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 66 (66) [Some time ago I forwarded an announcement of the untimely death of Professor Elaine Nardocchio, Canadian pioneer in humanities computing. The following concerns a fellowship established in her honour. --WM] I am pleased to announce that the Elaine Nardocchio Memorial Scholarship Fund has now reached a level at which it will support an annual endowed fellowship in perpetuity. The scholarship will be awarded to a Humanities student registered in Francophone Studies who has shown a strong interest in computer skills as applied to the Humanities. For further information please contact Ms Nancy Alexanian, Gilmour Hall room 106, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L8 Charles Jones (cjones@chass.utoronto.ca) URL of Elaine's Memorial Web Page below. -- http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~nardo/nardo.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mike Fraser Subject: Computers & Texts 16 Online & Call for Articles Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 18:40:11 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 67 (67) I am pleased to announce that a preprint edition of Computers & Texts 16 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 (Articles) Neil Rhodes, Teaching with the Chadwyck-Healey Literature Databases Domenico Fiormonte, Digital Variants and the Writing Process Chris Hopkins, Web+QMark+Humanities=? Robert Sterling Gingher, IT's Challenge to Literature and 'Cognitive Dissonance' Dene Grigar & Mindi Corwin, The Loom and the Weaver: Hypertext and Homer's Odyssey (Sponsored by the Oxford Text Archive) Michael Popham, News from the Oxford Text Archive John Page, Computer Indices for the Zuozhuan Susan Schreibman & Judith Wusteman, The Thomas MacGreevy Hypertext Chronology (Reviews and News) Douglas Mohrmann, Review of The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Reference Library Julie Sanders, Review of Julius Caesar on CD-ROM Joseph DiNunzio, Review of Hypertext 2.0 COMPUTERS & TEXTS 17: 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 (but not language learning), linguistics, theology, classics, philosophy, film & media studies, theatre arts and drama). We especially welcome reviews and case studies of computer resources currently being used in the classroom (particularly within UK higher education). Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. All contributions for Computers & Texts 17 should reach the Centre by 17 July 1998. 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 Manager, CTI 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jeff Finlay Subject: Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 21:44:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 68 (68) [deleted quotation] THE AMERICAN STUDIES CROSSROADS PROJECT is offering a Faculty Development Workshop and Regional New Media Institute on TEACHING AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES June 3-7, 1998 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. The American Studies Association's Crossroads Project, along with the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML), is offering a five-day faculty workshop to explore the issues of narrative and inquiry as they pertain to the interdisciplinary study of American culture, new media resources, and classroom learning. The Crossroads New Media Institute will feature an integrated approach that combines practical hands-on sessions, demonstrations, and group work revolving around successful strategies for introducing new technologies into the culture and history classroom. In particular, the workshop will emphasize the use of information technologies to engage students in active and authentic learning, with an emphasis on multicultural and multivocal approaches to American culture study. [material deleted; for more information see <http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/workshop98.html> and the following] http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/nmcannounce.html or write to Donna Thompson, Education Coordinator, New Media Classroom Project, for more information, at dthomps1@email.gc.cuny.edu. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Method and theory in electronic text Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 13:19:55 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 69 (69) PLEASE CIRCULATE / POST ----------------------- Method and theory in electronic text a one-day colloquium organised by the Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and Office for Humanities Communication, King's College London Third Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, University of London, London WC1E 7HU Thursday 11 June 1998 The speakers are Julia Flanders (Women Writers Project, Brown University); Pat Conner (English, West Virginia); Allen Renear (Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University); and Kathryn Sutherland (Reader in Bibliography & Textual Criticism, Oxford). The event will conclude with a discussion led by a panel of distinguished respondents. For more information on this event see <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/electxts.html>. ---------- 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: Scott Stebelman Subject: Resources from Information Technology Symposium Now Available Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:12:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 70 (70) On April 21, Gelman Library (George Washington University) sponsored a symposium on "The Development of Subject Specific Web Sites." The speakers were Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information), Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine (Labyrinth, a Medieval Studies Web Site), Michael Goldberg (American Society for Microbiology), and Kate Wittenberg (Editor-in-Chief of Columbia University Press and Project Director for Columbia International Affairs Online Web Site). The resources distributed at the symposium, as well as a summary of the presentations, are available at: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib/development2.htm A description of other symposia in this series, with hyperlinks to relevant resources, are available at: http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~scottlib/main.htm For more information contact: Scott Stebelman Faculty Outreach Librarian 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: AiML'98: Final Call for Papers Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:12:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 71 (71) [deleted quotation] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Advances in Modal Logic'98 AiML'98 October 16-18, 1998 Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Advances in Modal Logic is an initiative aimed at presenting an up-to-date picture of the state of the art in modal logic and its many applications. The initiative consists of a workshop series together with volumes based on those workshops. Advances in Modal Logic'98 is the second workshop organized as part of this initiative. AiML'98 will be held from October 16--18, 1998 in Uppsala, Sweden. The workshop is intended for users of modal logic in cognition, computing, and language, as well as for logicians working in modal logic. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: Email enquiries about the AiML '98 workshop should be directed to Krister.Segerberg@filosofi.uu.se. Information about the AiML initiative can be obtained on the World-Wide Web at http://www.wins.uva.nl/~mdr/AiML. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EAGLES PANEL AT LREC Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:13:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 72 (72) [deleted quotation] ***ANNOUNCEMENT*** At the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), to be held in Granada, Spain, May 28 - 30, 1998, there will be a EAGLES PANEL ON LEXICAL SEMANTIC STANDARDS FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS on MAY 29, 1998 from 17:00 - 18:40. To provide more detailed information about the work done sofar within the EAGLES lexicon/semantics interest group, we have prepared a HTML version of our most recent report, accessible at http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2 (even though we are still working on it). This is an interim report and should be considered as a ``polished draft''. Moreover it is still only the survey part. The final report, available in September 1998, will provide a revised version of the present survey plus an additional part on Guidelines for standards in the area of lexical semantic encoding with specific reference to Machine Translation, Information Systems and related enabling technologies. **FOR CONFERENCE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT THE LREC WEBSITE AT: http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html ** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IDG Conference - New deadlines Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:15:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 73 (73) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleague, due to several requests, the deadline for submission of abstracts for the IDG Fifth International Conference on "Law in the Information Society" has been postponed to the end of June. Please verify on our Web Site the new dates and the changes on the programme: http://www.idg.fi.cnr.it/convegno98/announce.htm Looking forward to meeting you in Florence, Kindest regards, The Organizing Committee *********************** Segreteria del Convegno / Conference Secretariat Il diritto nella societ=E0 dell'informazione (Law in the Information Society) IDG-CNR Via Panciatichi, 56/16 50127 FIRENZE (Italy) ph.: +39 55 4399613; fax: +39 55 4221637 e-mail: conv98@idg.fi.cnr.it http://www.idg.fi.cnr.it/convegno98/annuncio.htm http://www.idg.fi.cnr.it/convegno98/announce.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu Subject: Re: 12.0040 gleanings: sex, chips and a serious bug Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:06:08 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 74 (74) Willard writes, in summarizing the Guardian's coverage of the Year 2000 problem: | There are some very sober people with very sobering things to say | about this crisis, e.g. Ed Yourdon, "doyen of American | programming", who thinks the crisis will have about the same | impact as the OPEC oil crisis in the 70s. Ah, Ed Yourdon... Some of us are grizzled enough to remember his predictions in the early 1980s that the Japanese were going to take over the programming industry completely within a few years. But then if you went around saying that come 2000 things will probably just stumble along day-to-day pretty much the way they do now, that wouldn't be news, would it? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: smart materials and sensual aircraft Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 09:08:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 75 (75) Thanks to a colleague here in elecrical engineering I have in my hands a fascinating popular account of a subfield activity in her area centering on substances known as "smart materials". The article is Cliff Friend, "Even aircraft have feelings", New Scientist 3 February 1996, pp. 32-35. Smart materials are, as the name suggests, substances that narrow the gap between inert matter and living tissue. The central research problem for her particular material is caused by metal fatigue in aircraft, which leads to sudden breakdown that can occur while the airplane is in the air. The article cites a particular case in which a 6-metre section of the fuselage broke off of a Boeing 737 at 7000 metres, leaving the first-class cabin roofless. Detecting metal fatigue is exceedingly difficult because the areas to be scanned are quite large and the detectors quite small. One solution has been to embed optical fibre sensors in the material of the aircraft, linking them to an onboard computer that can then act on information about metal fatigue, undue vibration and other conditions. Research is in progress toward the application of materials that can also change shape, thus leading to metamorphic control of aircraft wings, for example. The engineering and computer science problems involved here are complex, of course. The amount of data to be dealt with dynamically is very large and quick response times are essential. I have no information on what has happened since this article was written, but I do know that there are conferences at which the latest research results are reported. Presumably what are called "sensual aircraft" are much closer to commercial realisation than they were 4 years ago. What particularly fascinates me is the active anthropomorphism, or what we might call the physical personification of our external world. In the case of sensual aircraft, for example, this is achieved by moving artificial intelligence into the materials themselves. The so-called "spaghetti syndrome" to which the size and complexity of the sensor array for an aircraft leads has lead some researchers to propose (in 1996) that materials themselves should be made smart enough not to need sophisticated circuits, parts and systems external to themselves. Hiroaki Yanagida, professor of intelligent materials at Tokyo calls these "KEN materials after the Chinese characters meaning wisdom, structure, monitoring, integration and benignity". Thus, for example, a material can modify its own conductivity to express impact and fatigue damage. I find it instructive to consider what vision of the world and of our relationship to the entities in it is implied by this research. According to the usual prejudice, engineers are "hard headed" and practical, i.e. not interested in the poetics of material science, but the facts are that our engineering colleagues work toward a better world and that the outlines of this world, and the lineaments of human desire these reveal, can occasionally be glimpsed. Sensual aircraft? Vehicles that understand and care for their passengers? I dimly recall a Star Trek episode along these lines, as silly as it may have been. Engineering the paradisal vision gives us much to think about and to do, no? 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/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Gilster, Digital Literacy Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:19:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 76 (76) [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/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EDSITEment Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:10:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 77 (77) [deleted quotation] In case you haven't heard about EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov), it is a web site created and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Council of the Great City Schools, MCI Communications Corp., and the National Trust for the Humanities, and serves as a gateway to what we consider to be the best humanities-related educational content on the Internet. Last spring we asked you to nominate web sites to be showcased on EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov) and, out of the more than 300 sites you suggested, our Peer Review and Blue-Ribbon Panels, using the national merit review process developed by NEH, selected 20 sites to be included on EDSITEment. This spring we repeated the process and, by June 1, we will announce 29 new sites to be showcased on EDSITEment. This spring we also created a new listserv for EDSITEment users. If you want to become a member of the EDSITEment listserv, send me a message from the "Talk to Us" feature on EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov). For those of you new to EDSITEment, the website includes: Top Humanities Web Sites: a user-friendly site offering one-top shopping for quality materials on humanities related topics. Each link listed on EDSITEment has been screened by a rigorous academic review process and endorsed by a distinguished panel of educators and parents. Learning Guides: Practical lesson plans that draw directly on the resources available through EDSITEment, with step-by-step directions to help teachers implement each learning activity or use it as a template to create their own lesson plans. Take-Home Activities: Specially-designed activities that allow students and their parents to work together on projects that bring EDSITEment into students' homes. Activities can be completed with or without home access to the Internet. If you have any comments or would like to join our mailing list to receive hardcopy lesson plans and any updates, use the "Talk to Us" function on EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov). Caroline Eisner Program Director EDSITEment From: Toby Burrows Subject: Books on the Social Aspects of Computing, 1996-1997 Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:00:54 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 78 (78) HUMANISTs may be interested in this list of more than 500 books on the social, cultural, political, educational, economic, business, literary, legal, and religious aspects of networking and computing, published in English in 1996 and 1997. It was compiled by Philip Agre of the School of Communication, University of California San Diego. Toby Burrows University of Western Australia [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Beatrice Huisman Subject: Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:07:58 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 79 (79) Digital Creativity is an international, refereed journal which covers all the traditional sub-disciplines of art and design (fine art painting, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design, illustration, photography, textiles and fashion, 3D design, product design, jewellery, ceramics, furniture, etc.) as well as the performing arts (theatre, dance, music, etc.). It also covers the newly emerging disciplines that are based around digital technologies as a medium (digital art, web-based art, computer supported collaborative design, etc.) Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers have taken over this journal and sample copies of our first issue are available. This is a theme issue on 'Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ROY ASCOTT: Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era REBECCA ALLEN: The Bush Soul: Travelling Consciousness in an Unreal World DIANA DOMINGUES: The Desert of Passions and the Technological Soul JOHANNA DRUCKER: The Next Body and Beyond: Meta-Organisms, Psycho-Prostheses and Aesthetics of Hybridity EBON FISHER: The Future of Wiggling Things CAROL GIGLIOTTI: What is Consciousness For? RYSZARD W. KLUSZCZYNSKI: Art of Virtual Bodies TED KRUEGER: Autonomous Architecture NIRANJAN RAJAH: Prosthetics for the Mind: Augmenting the Self with Microelectronics NAOKO TOSA & RYOHEI NAKATSU: Artistic Communication for A-Life and Robotics Please send a message to pub@swets.nl to request a sample copy. More details available from: http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/dc1.html Beatrice Huisman Publishers' Assistant SWETS & ZEITLINGER PUBLISHERS P.O. Box 825 2160 SZ Lisse The Netherlands Telephone: +31 252 435 411 Fax: +31 252 415 888 E-mail: bhuisman@swets.nl http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: _Kairos_ 3.1 Now On The Web! Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:32:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 80 (80) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCING ... KAIROS: A JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS OF WRITING IN WEBBED ENVIRONMENTS Volume 3 * Issue 1 * Spring 1998 http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/ TABLE OF CONTENTS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LOGGINGON "As We May Link" [deleted quotation]Mick Doherty, Kairos Editor & Publisher, on the name of the journal, the meaning of "hypertext" and the death of "Computers and Writing." Current Issue(s) Todd Taylor, Web Editor for College Composition & Communication, discusses the inaugural edition of CCC Online News from the MOO Lingua Walks the High Wire [deleted quotation] @Whois Kairos Kairos FAQ ...News on Kairos News ... Call For Webtexts ...Personal "Adds" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ COVERWEB Copyright, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property * Diane Boehm and Laura Taggett consider the question of plagiarism in online courses; * TyAnna Herrington offers specific details about legal issues articulated for online environments; * Jeffrey Galin and Joan Latchaw propose a change in the nature of ownership of disciplinary knowledge; * David Porush considers questions of plagiarism and fair use; * "The (In)Citers" offer "The Citation Functions: Literary Production and Reception" Also included are separate editorials on copyright issues in electronic publishing from Mick Doherty and Matt Kirschenbaum, and "Intellectual Property: Q & A." with Johndan Johnson-Eilola. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FEATURES MOO-based Metacognition: Incorporating Online and Offline Reflection into the Writing Process Joel English, Ball State University Reading Subrin's Swallow Jackie Goss, Massachussets Institute of Art Hearings in the U. S. Congress: Ordinary Deliberation in America's Legislature Catherine F. Smith, Syracuse University "The Impossible Dream" An InterMOO with Michael Joyce and Mark Bernstein hosted by Sandye Thompson, Joel English and Mick Doherty ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NEWS NewsWired: All the News that's Fit to "Print" Advice to the Linelorn: Crossing State Borders and the Politics of Cyberspace by Jennifer Jordan-Henley and Barry M. Maid Computers & Writing 1998 Conference preview ... Kairos Best Webtext Award ... Proceedings available in 3.2 Conference Wrapups NCTE ... CCCC ... TCC-L Conversations: Excerpted E-list Dialogues Calls for Participation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ REVIEWS A Rhetorical Evaluation of OWLs by Joan Latchaw and "crossclass" students E-List Review: ACW-L Plagiarism Thread by Bill Marsh Software Review: WebWhacker by Richard Long Book Reviews Connections ... NetLaw ... Nostalgic Angels ... Stolen Words, Copyrighting Culture ... Shamans, Software, and Spleens ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ KAIROS INTERACTIVE Response, Replies, and Commentary Kairos Meet the Authors MOO followups to Kairos publications Hosted by LinguaMOO. Classroom Spotlight David Schelle's high school Honors English class. C-Fest Discussions about "The State of the Profession" as well as other pertinent topics. "Why I Am Not a Postmodernist" by Edward R. Friedlander, M.D. ---------------- **please note: certain versions of Navigator for Windows (v. 4.05 in particular) will not allow for the use of the _Kairos_ Remote Control. All texts in the journal are accessible without use of this feature. *** _Kairos_ is a webbed journal exploring all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext and other web technologies. 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. _Kairos_ is sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing, and hosted by the English Department of Texas Tech University. _Kairos_ is not formally affiliated with Texas Tech or any other individual university, department, publishing house, or academic institution. For more information about _Kairos_ contact Greg Siering: siering@bsu.edu (c) 1995-1998 _Kairos_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/ccmail/d.announce/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Richard Bear Subject: Early English Books Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 14:03:37 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 81 (81) Please pardon the shotgun cross-post, but this seems to be information of interest to us all. (Picked up on MICROFORMS, which is a list I've been hosting): [deleted quotation] -- Richard Bear Coordinator, Microforms Collection University of Oregon Knight Library From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution 2 - Final Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:31:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 82 (82) Call for Delegates [deleted quotation] Final Call for Delegates DAARRC2 - Discourse, Anaphora and Reference Resolution Colloquium Lancaster University, 1 - 4th August , 1998 Invited Speakers - Prof. Michael Hoey "Looking at the Text Linguistics of Certain Words" Prof. Pieter Seuren "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora" Branimir Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics" In this email: Description Draft Programme Registration Form Description Anaphora and problems of reference resolution have received a great deal of attention from workers in linguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and information retrieval for a number of decades. Such problems have proved a major challenge for all of these fields, and a great many differing theories and solutions have been proposed and implemented with varying degrees of success. This colloquium aims to fill a need for researchers in this field to meet. Our hope is that this meeting will allow all of the different strands of work to be identified, with a view to producing an up-to-date review of the field. To this end, a coloquium will take place from the 1st to the 4th of August, 1998 at Lancaster University, UK, organized jointly by the Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University and the Institute for English Studies, Lodz University, Poland. This colloquium is a follow up to the highly succesful DAARC colloquium held at Lancaster in 1996. Our aim this time is specifically geared towards encouraging a cross-fertilization of ideas between theoretical linguistics, corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The DAARC2 Organizing committee Simon Botley, Lodz University, Poland Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK Ruslan Mitkov, Wolverhampton University, UK Pieter Seuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands Andrew Wilson, Chemnitz University, Germany Draft Programme Day 1 2 - 5 Registration 7 Buffet/Wine Reception Day 2 8 - 9 Breakfast 9 - 10 Plenary A - Michael Hoey "Looking at the Text Linguistics of Certain Words" 10 - 11 Session A - Corpus 1 Marco Antonio de Rocha, University of Sussex, UK, "Anaphora, Collocations and Discourse Markers in Dialogues in English and Portuguese" Michael Barlow, Rice University, USA, "Feature Mismatches and Anaphora Resolution" 11 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 1 Session B Computational Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK, "Evaluating Anaphora Resolution Approaches" Suzanne LuperFoy, Mitre Corporation, USA, "Computational Analysis of Indirect Anaphora" S. Azzam, K. Humphreys, and R. Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK, "Extending a Simple Coreference Algorithm with a Focusing Mechanism" 1 - 2:30 Lunch 2:30 - 4:00 Session C - Theoretical Approaches 1 Kris Fletcher, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, "Proactive Versus Retroactive Processing In Pronominal Resolution" Sophia Cormack, University of Sunderland, "Incremental Pronoun Resolution in Discourse Representation Theory" Miriam Eckert, University of Edinburgh, UK, "The German Topic Position and Null Anaphora " 4 - 4:30 Tea 4:30 - 6:30 Session D - Theoretical Approaches 2 Ileana Comorowski, University of Nancy, France, "Wh-Complements and Donkey Anaphora" Evelyn Fogwe, University of Hamburg, Germany, "Anaphora dn Binding in Meta Questions" Seth Minkoff, University of New Mexico, USA, "Structural And Hybrid Binding" Ana Teresa Alves,Univesridade dos Azores, Portugal, "Sentential Anaphora and Restrictions on Temporal Operators" 7:30 Dinner Day 3 8 - 9 Breakfast 9 - 10 Plenary B - Pieter Steuren, Nijmegen University, Netherlands, "A Discourse-Semantic Account of Donkey Anaphora" 10 - 11 Session E - Corpus 2 Ronald Geluykens, University of Munster, Germany, "Conversational Anaphora and Referential Repair in English" Botley & Uzar, University of Lodz, Poland, "Investigating Learner English Anaphora the PELCRA Way" 11 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 1 Session F - Computational Donna Byron and James Allen, University of Rochester, USA, "Resolving Demonstrative Anaphora in the TRAINS93 Corpus" Amit Bagga, Duke University, USA, "The Evaluation of Coreferences and Coreference Resolution Systems" Roland Stuckardt, University of Frankfurt, Germany, "An Efficient Centering-Based Algorithm for Anaphor Resolution" 1 - 2:30 2:30 - 4:00 Session G - Theoretical approaches 3 Fridirique Depain-Delmotte, University of Besancon, "Resolving Anaphoric Reference - A Multi-Strategy Approach" Gary Wilson, University of Lincolnshire & Humderside, UK, "Do Situational or Thematic Roles Provide the best cues to pronoun assignment?" Maarten Jaansen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, "Nominal versus Plain Anaphora" 4:00 - 4:30 Tea 4:30 - 6:30 Session H - Theoretical approaches 4 Tomoko Tsujimoto, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan, "Discourse deixis: this, that and it" Kirsi Hiltunen, University of Joensuu, Finland, "Reflexive Pronouns in Finnish: Syntactic or Pragmatic?" Andrei Popescu-Belis and Isabelle Robba, LIMSI-CNRS, France, "Evaluation of Coreference Rules on Complex Narrative Texts" Antonio Branco, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and University of Lisbon, Germany/Portugal, "A Lean Constraint Based Implementation of Binding Theory" 7:30 Dinner Day 4 8 - 9 Breakfast 9 - 10 Plenary C, Bran Boguraev "Anaphora in Computational Linguistics" 10 - 11 Session I - Corpus 3 Tony McEnery, Simon Botley & Paul Baker, Lancaster & Lodz University, UK/Poland, "Developmental Deixis - deixis in the age range 7 - 11" Antonio Ferandez, M. Palomar and L. Moreno, Alicante University, Spain, "A Computational Approach to Pronominal Anaphora, One Anaphora and Surface-Count Anaphora" 11 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 1 Session J - Computational 3 Claude Belisle and Denis Morell, Universities of Tours & Nantes, France, "The Automatic building of a relationships tranducer between proper names based on relational database system - an example of detection and processing of relationships between names of places and names of inhabitants" Ivadre Parabono and Vera Lucia Strube de Lima, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, "Possessive Pronominal Anaphor Resolution in Portuguese Written Texts" Jan Kuper, University of Twente, Netherlands, "Anaphora in the Case of Universal and Existential Quantifiers" 1 - 2:30 Lunch THE END DAARC2 Registration Form ======================== To register: 1. Send this form by surface mail to: DAARC2, Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YT United Kingdom 2. Or fax it to: +44 - 1524 - 843085 3. Or email it to: mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk Please register BEFORE 5th June 1998, otherwise we cannot guarrantee the availability of accommodation. The fee for DAARC2 includes the following: Attendance at all DAARC2 sessions Conference Pack including Proceedings accommodation on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd August Meals: 1st August: evening buffet and wine reception 2nd August: mid-morning coffee, lunch, afternoon coffee and dinner 3rd August: breakfast plus mid-morning coffee, lunch, afternoon coffee and dinner. 4th August: breakfast, mid-morning coffee, lunch accommodation is provided in single study bedrooms on the Lancaster University main campus. Should you wish to bring a partner and require double or twin room accommodation please contact the organizers as soon as possible. Such accommodation is limited at the the campus and will be given on a first come first served basis. Payment Details: Fees are payable in Pounds Sterling or US Dollars. PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO 'LANCASTER UNIVERSITY'. Sterling money orders can also be used for payment, and must be made payable to 'LANCASTER UNIVERSITY'. US Dollar cheques are also acceptable, using a fixed exchange rate of 1.5 $US to the Pound. Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit card payments. You may pay at the conference in cash. Please indicate clearly on the form if you wish to exercise this option. Early registration discounts do not apply to such registrations, however. ================================================================ REGISTRATION FORM ================= Name: _______________________________________________ Title: _______________________________________________ Department: _______________________________________________ Institution/ Organisation: _______________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________ Postcode/City: _______________________________________________ Country _______________________________________________ Telephone: ____________________________ Fax: ____________________________ Email: ____________________________ Payment before 14/6/98 Residential 280.00 GBP [ ] Student 200.00 GBP [ ] Non-Residential 150.00 GBP [ ] Payment after 14/6/98 [ ] OR Payment at registration [ ] (Tick as appropriate) Residential 300.00 GBP [ ] Student 220.00 GBP [ ] Non-Residential 170.00 GBP [ ] Accompanying persons: Accompanying persons, who will not attend the conference but who are travelling with delegates, may register for the conference for accommodation and meals only at an 80 GBP discount on the full residential price. They should fill in registration form and amend it accordingly, marking it clearly ACCOMPANYING PERSON. NOTE: Students must provide written evidence of their full time student status, such as an official headed letter from their supervisor. Additional accommodation on night of July 31st (including breakfast on 1st of August): 40.00 GBP [ ] Additional accommodation on the night of 4th August (including breakfast on the 5th August): 40.00 GBP [ ] Special dietary requirements: None [ ] Vegetarian [ ] Vegan [ ] Other [ ] Please specify: _______________ ______________________________ Any other comments: From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MLA 98 Session: Orpheus Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:30:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 83 (83) [deleted quotation] MLA has approved a special session for San Francisco on "Orpheus His Journey to Hell." The focus of all three papers will be attribution of this poem to "R.B." Is it Richard Barnfield or not? James Ellis will put the poem in context with the Inns of Court. Kenneth Borris will contrast the poem to poems by Ovid, Lydgate, and Poliziano. Wesley Folkerth will present the results of his stylometric analysis of the poem. Raymond Frontain will serve as responder to the papers. Did Barnfield write the poem? Come to San Francisco and find out! George Klawitter St. Edward's University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: smart materials Date: Wed, 27 May 98 08:53:23 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 84 (84) Sounds like that old `pathetic fallacy' all over again. The concern about `smart materials' is old. I can remember talking to John Bardeen about the possibility of sending messages to the metal skin of a space craft, for example, where the metal might have been fatigued or struck by a meteor. There is probably a sizeable literature on the subject, the only problem being the eternal one of what to call it, what key word to key in to look for it. Claviculars (you heard it here first) have become one of the most important concerns in this age where you can look up anything. I am almost positive that `smart materials' would not do it; one could look up `metal fatigue' and go from there. I remember trying to find literature about nosocomial diseases before I found the key word `nosocomial'. No hits. I found it by looking at a related clavicular, iatrogenic, but you see how such things go. Heinz von Foerster wrote a nice article long, long ago about the metaphors we use in the computer business and how they twist our minds (in Cognition: A Multiple View, ed. Paul Garvin). You might like, out of pietas, to read it; it is up to date. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: digital preservation & sim. Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:54:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 85 (85) Humanists may not know about the excellent collection of resource links provided by the Getty Information Institute, "Digital Preservation Resources", <http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/links.html>. The list is kept under the rubric "Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity", the record of a meeting held at the Getty Center on Feb 8-10, which "produced some remarkable insights into the future uses of digital technologies and their impact on the documentation of cultural heritage". See <http://www.gii.getty.edu/timeandbits/>. The list of resources is organised under the following headings: I. Digital Clearinghouses, Resources and Bibliographies II. Papers and Publications on Digital Preservation III. Institutional Initiatives and Digitial Preservation Studies IV. Social Effects of Information Technology V. Risks and Hazards VI. Data Storage VII. Data Security VIII. Meetings, Conferences, and Events IX. Digital Imaging X. Other Digital Resources & Repositories XI. Do-It-Yourself Digital Preservation XII. Bits 'n Pieces 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/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: UPDATE ON DIGITAL COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:58:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 86 (86) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 29, 1998 UPDATE ON DIGITAL COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION While preparing my own summary of recent developments in Copyright Legislation, I'm forwarding Page Miller's useful update on recent House developments. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]From: [deleted quotation]SNIP.... [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Online Workshops On XML and DHTML Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:54:22 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 87 (87) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 29, 1998 ONLINE WORKSHOPS ON XML & DYNAMIC HTML <http://www.bearfountain.com/arlington/duo.html> June 8 - July 17 *** July 6 - August 14 $30 [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: VROMA -- VIRTUAL COMMUNITY FOR CLASSICS STUDY Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 16:38:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 88 (88) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 29, 1998 VROMA -- VIRTUAL COMMUNITY FOR CLASSICS STUDY <http://vroma.rhodes.edu/> [deleted quotation] VROMA -- VIRTUAL COMMUNITY FOR CLASSICS STUDY The VRoma Project: A Virtual Community for Teaching and Learning Classics is an online "place," modeled upon the ancient city of Rome, where students and instructors can interact live, hold courses and lectures, and share resources for the study of the ancient world. The two-year project, funded by a $190,000 grant from the Teaching with Technology Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities, seeks to address two related issues: "to improve and expand the teaching of classical languages and cultures through technology-assisted collaboration between and among undergraduate and secondary school Classics programs; and to enhance students' learning of these topics through the excitement, immediacy, and 'virtual re-creation of lost contexts' that modern technology can expedite." Project resources include texts, commentaries, images, maps, and teaching materials. Participants can explore a virtual city set in 150 A.D. through Vroma's MOO (an object oriented MUD, a type of multi-player interactive game environment). The project also supports two intensive two-week summer workshop involving college and high school Classics faculty. The second workshop will be held July 14-25, 1998, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. For more information, link to Vroma at http://vroma.rhodes.edu/ From: Eve Trager Subject: The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 06:17:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 89 (89) Dear JEP Subscriber: The June 1998 issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep> is now available for your reading enjoyment. Reflections on the Revolution: Moving from Print to Electronic Publishing "Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt "You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it actually happened." --Leopold von Ranke Guest Editor Bill Kasdorf has brought together the stories of how this revolution in publishing that we are experiencing actually happened. Our authors this issue are the immigrants and revolutionists, those who lived in the world of paper and have taken up the cause of electronic publication. As Bill says, these articles will not give you all the answers, but the experiences and insights of these writers may help you ask the right questions, think the issues through more thoroughly, and assess the options more realistically. Bill Kasdorf, president of Impressions, a company that helps publishers no matter what their medium, looks at recent publishing history and the foxhole mentality that has former competitors sharing their knowledge to everyone's benefit. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/glos0304.html> Sylvia Miller, executive editor of Scribner Reference, explores the ways electronic products impose new managerial and organizational challenges while delivering dynamic and powerful products. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/miller.html> Martin Hensel, president of Texterity, explains how a single electronic product -- in this case Mosby's GenRx -- can change a company's publishing profile and its bottom line. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/hensel.html> On the journal side, Gerry Grenier, director of development for WileyInterscience, reviews Wiley's history from publishing a single electronic journal to a large-scale program for publishing more than 400 print scientific, technical, and medical journals online. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/grenier.html> Kate Wittenberg, editor in chief for Columbia University Press, describes the innovative CIAO project that blurs the traditional distinction among publishing categories, combining working papers, articles, and scholarly monographs. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/ciao.html> Bill Kasdorf's is the first of the three more technical articles, and his reveals the distinctions between SGML and PDF, and where knowledgeable publishers will use each -- or a combination. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/kasdorf.html> Tony Hicks, of the University of California Press, offers a surprisingly engaging, accessible piece on the importance of ISO 12083, a controversial publishing-industry DTD. It is required reading for any publisher considering SGML. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/hicks.html> Chris Kartchner, president of CDIS, INC., uncovers what he believes is the most effective underpinning for a multi-media publishing strategy, the content-management system. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/kartchner.html> Finally, Thom Lieb gives us more practical information about online publishing, this issue exploring accessibility, both logical and technological. He also shows us graphically what tomorrow's technology will bring in "Access Control." <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-04/lieb0304.html>. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463 From: Han Baltussen Subject: THE PROJECT HELLINOMNIMON (fwd) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:56:49 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 90 (90) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: The Getty Information Institute's new Arthur Image Search Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 17:55:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 91 (91) System NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 1, 1998 FEEDBACK REQUESTED ON NEW IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM: ARTHUR <http://www.gii.getty.edu/arthur/> [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Willard McCarty Subject: computer art degrees -- for all? Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 07:00:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 92 (92) [deleted quotation]1998, comes notice of the BFA and MFA degree programmes in computer arts at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, <http://www.sva.edu/mfacad/> (for the MFA degree) and <http://bfaca.schoolofvisualarts.edu/> (for the BFA). The introductory statement for the MFA page is worth some consideration by those whose primary orientation is to words: "Computers are transforming our culture by fundamentally altering the way we communicate. The very nature of what we say to each other is becoming more constituted by computer-aided imagery, and visual information is assuming a larger role in our everyday interactions as well as in specialized disciplines. The challenge of crafting articulate messages will require the skills of visual artists more than ever before - artists who are conversant with electronic technologies and digital media. The innovative Graduate Program in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts seeks to prepare students to play a formative role in the emergence of this new cultural environment." (The fundamental alteration in "the way we communicate" is an interesting assertion carrying along with it an assumption about who constitutes this "we". You and I belong, so there may seem to be no problem here, but what if we ask about whom it excludes? "Vox populi vox dei" means (does it not?) that one either defines the "populus" very carefully or has a very dangerous "deus" on one's case. See Hobbes et al. But more about this later.) That aside, we would do well to think about the second assertion that "The challenge of crafting articulate messages will require the skills of visual artists more than ever before...." Some of you, I know, have spent quite a bit of time thinking about the artefactual and specifically visual aspects of the things from which we often thoughtlessly derive our disembodied notion of "text". One implication of realising the importance of these aspects is that we alter how we train future scholars. If "crafting articulate messages" in the new medium puts greater or renewed emphasis on "the skills of visual artists", then should we not think about how to impart these skills, or at minimum some appreciation of them, in our degree programmes? Isn't the Web, as a scholarly publishing medium, an excellent subject around which to build such training? This suggests that humanities computing take on a strong visual design and artistic component, including the basics of layout, typography, colour and related subjects -- as important means of scholarly expression. Who has done this? Comments? 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/> From: David Green Subject: Two Web sites: Book Arts Web; Investigating the Renaissance Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:34:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 93 (93) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 2, 1998 INVESTIGATING THE RENAISSANCE: Examining Material Aspects of Three Early Netherlandish Paintings Using Digital Imaging Techniques <http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/index.html> BOOK ARTS WEB <http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/> Below are two worthwhile websites of interest to this audience, caught by The Scout Report in its May 22 edition. David Green ============ [deleted quotation] FROM: The Scout Report--May 22, 1998 [deleted quotation] 7. Investigating the Renaissance: Examining Material Aspects of Three Early Netherlandish Paintings Using Digital Imaging Techniques--HUAM [Shockwave] http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/index.html The Harvard University Art Museums provide this fascinating site, a technologically enhanced look at three Netherlandish Renaissance Paintings: _Portrait of a Man_ (Master of the 1540s), _The Virgin and Child_ (Workshop of Dirck Bouts), and _The Last Judgement_ (Jan Provoost). Designed to demonstrate how scientific techniques can aid in both art conservation and education, the site provides images of the paintings with selected details, as well as explanations of infrared reflectography, X-radiography and ultraviolet light. Highlight of the site, however, is the "examples" section, which includes a detailed examination (click in the red boxes), a three step cleaning guide, and a multi-layered view. In the multi-layered view, Shockwave based comparisons of visible light with infrared and x-ray views of the painting are available. [JS] [deleted quotation] 14. Book Arts Web http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/ Peter Verheyen, Conservation Librarian at Syracuse University, has put together this gateway to book arts related web sites. Information is available on letterpress printing, typography, hand book binding and paper making, rare book dealers and conservation of library materials. Included are home pages of individual book artists, printers, and bookbinders and their organizations, several listservs with searchable archives, specialized bibliographies and links to a variety of arts organizations. There is also a gallery with images of handbound books and links to online exhibitions and collections, including a show of miniature books at the University of Iowa, and the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 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Gants" Subject: ECAI-98 #9: EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE - 15 JUNE Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:40:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 94 (94) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE - 15 JUNE http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98 The deadline for early registrations for ECAI-98 is 15 JUNE 1998. The website now contains further details about the programme, full registration and accommodation information, and a web-based registration form which makes registration simple. Many of you will have received a copy of the invitation programme. If you have not received it and would like it, or would like extra copies, please contact the secretariat. If you would like an email summary of the programme and registration form please respond to this email. Note that the schedule in the invitation programme and on the website is provisional and subject to change. In particular, there are a few late-breaking changes to workshop scheduling, which we hope will be finalised by June 8. We will keep you informed on this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ECAI-98 Secretariat Tel: +44(0)1273 678448 Centre for Advanced Software Applications Fax: +44(0)1273 671320 University of Sussex Email: ecai98@cogs.susx.ac.uk Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK URL: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98 ECAI-98 is organised by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and hosted by the Universities of Brighton and Sussex on behalf of AISB. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: BISCA-98 Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:48:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 95 (95) [deleted quotation] BISCA-98 - Bolzano International School in Cognitive Analysis=20 UNFOLDING PERCEPTUAL CONTINUA [deleted quotation] Recent problems raised by artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences such as the perception of forms, the recognition of natural languages, the problems of common sense, naive physics, and consequently the need for direct and non-propositional reference to the objects of experience (as cited, for example by scientists working in robotics) have opened new areas of inquiry for psychophysics. BISCA-98 will analyze the morphogenesis of the perceptive fields of vision, sound and touch, starting from the microstructure of intuitive continua, and therefore from a semiology of primitives as boundaries, points, angles, blobs, pointers, denotators, local signs, etc. The lectures, which from a general point of view will adopt an ecological perspective on perception, will proceed along the parallel tracks of psychophysical experimental research and the conceptual development of a theory of the intentionality of consciousness [material deleted] For more information write to Liliana Albertazzi: alberta@risc1.gelso.unitn.it and see the IMC web site: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:48:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 96 (96) [deleted quotation] Design of Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems ========================================= 5-day course that is half theory and half practice Time: October, 21-27, 1998. Place: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam In this course, the basic concepts and characteristics of agents will be addressed, and a systematic compositional design methodology for multi-agent systems will be presented. [material deleted] More information can be found at the course's Web-site: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~wai/demas/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Wholes and Their Parts Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:50:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 97 (97) [deleted quotation] WHOLES AND THEIR PARTS Castel Maretsch, 17-19 June 1998, Bolzano (Italy) [material deleted] Further information and abstracts of (some of) the talks are available at the IMC web site: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Brad Scott Subject: humanities computing Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 15:26:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 98 (98) [The following is a lengthy commentary on a recently circulated essay, Willard McCarty, "What is humanities computing? Toward a definition of the field", <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/what/>, by Brad Scott, currently a publisher at Routledge (London) and formerly a biochemist whose most recent academic involvement was in history of science and medicine, hence the references in his commentary. --WM] I've just been reading your piece on 'What is Humanities Computing?' and have a few observations, comments and questions. It is interesting that you note that there is little attention given to the role of the computing technology in the creation of humanities knowledges. This does not surprise me too much, it is exactly the same in the sciences. A research paper _may_ note what statistical or other computing tools have been used in the construction or interpretation of the experiment, but will never speculate on the relationship between them and the results presented. However, scientists are well aware of the existence of artefactual 'results' generated through technological aberration since these occur all the time, but they are excluded from the report and any discussion of the methodological approach since these artefacts are to be eliminated through technological mastery. After that, one is silent on the relation between technology and the results it has produced (and especially on the theoretical framework in which those results are placed). Consequently, it is also the case that traditional science education does not encourage thinking about the way technologies construct the knowledges they purportedly 'discover'. That being so, work in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge in recent decades has informed a view of the role of technology in exactly the way you describe as being needed in the humanities, but this work is not even necessarily mainstream within history of science, let alone within science education. I am not sure if anyone has done any work specifically on the way computing technologies construct scientific knowledge, but the people who publish in Social Studies of Science will have a better idea, if you are interested. Compared with the sciences though, I would expect the humanities in the end to be more concerned with issues of the relation between its methods and its 'results', and this may develop in time; at the present moment, I would imagine that these issues are not addressed more widely due to a combination of the relatively low incidence of computing in the humanities and a tendancy on the part of unsophisticated users of computers to believe relatively uncritically the results presented to them in a way that they would deplore if analysing more traditional methods. I agree with you that it is important that people in the humanities using computers need more comprehensive training and teaching, which will include considerations of the way computers inform the shape of the knowledge they produce, as well as the practicalities of using the things. Interestingly, there has been a long-standing debate in history of science and medicine about whether the academic practitioners of the field should previously have actually done science or medicine. There are compelling arguments both ways; many ex-scientists have a rather restricted view of what the shape of their subject may be, and especially of what may have formed it in the past. Non-scientists may well have a much more open mindset when it comes to trying to conceive of other ways of seeing the world. But, often without some experience of the _practice_ of science or medicine (even in its late twentieth century incarnation), one can easily lose sight of the fact that it is the technologies that form the core of the daily activities of the practising scientist or doctor and one does gain a different view of an area and the way its practice can inform theorising when one actually does it. Reading your section on locating humanities computing in the institution, caused me to make parallels with the sitution of electronic publishing units within traditional publishers. At Routledge, we are notionally seamlessly incorporated into the (book) departmental model; I, in editorial, conceive and commission projects, which are produced and handed over to Publishing Services to create in a publishable form, while Marketing and Sales beat their parallel tracks to get the things to market. However, it is not like this linear process at all. With electronic, we have had to reinvent the way projects are managed. There is much more (to begin with, informal) collaboration between departments, and all departments have to be much more involved at all stages of the process. We all have expertises to bring to bear on trying to get these things to work properly (ie technically, and economically). It also happens that we in editorial end up doing parts of the process that for books would have been carried out by other departments; for some projects we manage the data capture, creation and clean up, and have what is arguably a greater involvement in the marketing of electronic products than is the case with books. Conversely, marketing colleagues, for example, are learning about the technical (and hence economic) implications of functionality changes that they suggest for good market reasons. As such, the boundaries of our responsibilities are constantly being tested. So, yes, the relation between humanities computing academic and colleagues in humanities departments needs to be rethought in an entirely analogous way, but surely so does the relationship between the academic, the library, the archive and (dare one say) the publisher. Increasingly we are all involved in the creation of data and technologies for their use and interpretation. And, to do this, we all have to think about the scholarly issues that we are unravelling as we engage in this activity. I am reminded of part of the story of the development of biochemistry as a discipline in the UK; the Biochemical Society when it was first set up in 1911 included people from a wide range of organisations - chemistry, physiology and botany departments, fruit research institutes, commercial horticultural organisations, and breweries. There was no 'big theory' uniting them all together (which is what one of the protagonists was trying to achieve), it was more of a forum for the sort of inter-institutional discussion which was just not conceivable anywhere else. The Society was also set up in a way that was more decentralised, democratic and inclusive than either the Chemical Society or the Physiological Society (after a brief acrimonious debate they even admitted women, the first scientific society to do so, I believe). Biochemistry is of course now a firmly established discipline within the academy, but the traffic between academia and industry continues. Though there will never be the money in humanities computing that there is in biomedical science, I do think that it is important that humanities computing is not just defined as being a preserve exclusively of the academy. The other organisations (eg libraries and publishers) who are involved may not be doing exactly the same thing as the academics, but there is considerable overlap. I think it is in all our interests to collaborate and explore these things together as much as possible. All the best Brad _____________________________________ Brad Scott Electronic Development Manager Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Tel: *44 (0)171 842 2134 Fax: *44 (0)171 842 2299 Email: Web: <http://www.routledge.com/routledge/electronic/default.html> _____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Dear Willard, about this generation's deficiencies, and... Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 15:00:56 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 99 (99) the coming world...I discussed the problem of the alteration of the "aesthetic faculty" in Vienna in 1991, and the talk was just finally published in Germany, in English. Of course, no Anglophone journal would ever think of printing it, as it is not pollyanna or PC. It is a very serious issue, especially because such a Leviathan as Microsoft proposes to teach and give degrees and instruct the world int he knowledge it purveys, and IN THE FORMS IN WHICH IT ALONE purveys it. Etc. But it is more than that, since my take is about the formation of the human individual in the age of the moving image, which grows ever more ineffably contentless, perforce. The medium is the destroyer of delights, to use the euphemism for Death that is used in the 1001 Nights. I append the bibliographical reference to this newly published piece. Cordially, yours, Jascha Kessler "Epimetheus, or, A Reflection on 'The Box,'" ANGLISTIK: Mitteilungen des Verbandes Deutscher Anglisten, 9, Jahrgang, Heft 1, 1998, (Universitaetsverlag, Heidelberg), pages 131-137. ESSAY Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Department of English Box 951530 Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0055 images & the visual imagination Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 21:13:33 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 100 (100) Willard, In response to your query on visual design: I've felt for some time now that graphic design/interface design ought to be understood as no less central to humanities computing than document encoding and text analysis. (And that's an assertion meant to invite debate here, btw.) For a breathtaking range of visual expression, see especially Edward Tufte's books: =Envisioning Information= and =The Visual Display of Quantitative Information=. Steve Johnson's recent =Interface Culture= is also a useful point of departure, better than just about anything else on the pop-cyberculture shelf, though not strictly limited to matters of visual design. If you're asking about curricula that teach the fundamentals of visual expression in a focused and organized way, I suspect you'll want to look not to computer science departments, but rather to design schools such as (in the States) CalArts, the Cranbrook Academy, the Rhode Island School of Design (which sponsors the excellent journal, =Visible Language=), as well as to interdisciplinary multimedia degree programs such as those at Georgia Tech and San Francisco State. I'm less familiar with the UK scene, but am aware of interesting graphic design work coming out of such places as the Royal College of Art. As with the digital arts community (my soapbox from the previous week), I believe the potential for professional interaction with these people is enormous. I can't resist adding that the first thing Michael Joyce writes in =Of Two Minds=, his collected essays, is that "hypertext is, before anything else, a visual from." So there. Yours, Matt : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. 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A TEXT-ONLY ARCHIVE OF THE JOURNAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE AT http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only. FOR FULL HYPERTEXT ACCESS TO BACK ISSUES, SEARCH UTILITIES, AND OTHER VALUABLE FEATURES, YOU OR YOUR INSTITUTION MAY SUBSCRIBE TO PROJECT MUSE, THE ON-LINE JOURNALS PROJECT OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Lyrical Ballads on-line Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:41:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 102 (102) [deleted quotation] To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the first publication of the Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ronald Tetreault and Bruce Graver have great pleasure in announcing the Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary Project website. This project contains e-text and images of the familiar London issue of the first edition, along with text and images of two distinct copies of the prior Bristol issue which is less well-known. We have gathered facsimiles of these rare volumes in one virtual space where they can now be examined together. The first Bristol Lyrical Ballads, based on the copy in the Firestone Library at Princeton, contains the poem "Lewti" and Cottle's advertizements. The second, based on a copy in the British Library, contains "Lewti" along with the poem that replaced it, "The Nightingale". These volumes can be compared with one another or with the London issue, as you the reader choose, at <http://www.dal.ca/etc/lballads/welcome.html> We welcome your comments on this project, corrections of our inevitable errors, and suggestions for further development. --Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Ronald Tetreault Tel: (902) 494-3494 + + Department of English Fax: (902) 494-2176 + + Dalhousie University Home Fax: (902) 453-4786 + + Halifax, Nova Scotia e-mail: tetro@is.dal.ca + + B3H 3J5 CANADA or Ronald.Tetreault@Dal.Ca + + Visit the Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary website at + + http://www.dal.ca/etc/lballads/welcome.html + + learning by the (cyber)sea + From: "Philippe Caron" Subject: New titles in CHWP Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:49:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 103 (103) Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (CHWP) announce the publication of several papers on "Technologising the Humanities / Humanitising the Technologies" from the 1996 and 1997 sessions of COCH/COSH at the Canadian Learneds. URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/ or http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/chwp/ Les Computing in the Humanities Working Papers (CHWP) annoncent la publication de plusieurs articles sur le theme de la technologisation/humanitisation (sic) des humanits/technologies, resultant de communications faites dans des seances COSH/COCH aux Congres des Societs savantes canadiennes de 1996 et 1997. URL: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/ ou http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/chwp/ Russon Wooldridge Co-editor CHWP ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Odin Dekkers Subject: Announcement Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:13:04 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 104 (104) Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (publishers of the Computer Assisted Language Learning journal edited by Keith Cameron) announce the publication of their new book, Language Teaching & Language Technology, edited by Sake Jager, John Nerbonne, and Arthur van Essen. Language Teaching and Language Technology (LTLT) assesses the importance of language technology to increasingly popular Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) work. Language Technology is software that recognises, analyses, produces or otherwise processes language in any of its multimedia forms (sounds, print or digital representation). Some examples are speech recognisers, which translate sound waves to digital text, or lemmatisers, which translate inflected forms to their dictionary entries (broken =AE 'break'). The promise of language technology in CALL is to automate irrelevant, tedious tasks in much the same way math course-ware does, freeing the teacher and learner to concentrate on more essential tasks. CALL software is used in individual self-instruction, in businesses and in (almost all) universities to teach foreign language (or to help in this), but CALL surprisingly relies almost exclusively on non-language technology - hypertext, simple database technology, and networking. LTLT asks how language technology can be further harnessed to improve CALL. This book contains contributions about pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, testing, distance learning and user studies. The contributors include experts on language pedagogy, producers of the leading commercial packages for CALL, and developers of enabling language technology. With its focus on assessing where technology can match educational needs, and its solid contributions from language technology and from language teaching, the book will interest CALL practitioners, language technology developers, language teachers, and computer-assisted instruction experts. Sake Jager, John Nerbonne and Arthur van Essen are all members of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Jager is head of the Centre for Informations and Communications Technology, Nerbonne is Professor of Humanities Computing, and van Essen is Professor of Language Pedagogy. For more information, please contact: ODIN DEKKERS Acquisitions Editor Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers Heereweg 347B 2161 CA Lisse The Netherlands Tel: +31-252-435287 Fax:: +31-252-415888 E-mail: odekkers@swets.nl http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Giulio Lughi on Friday at Noon Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 16:03:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 105 (105) The Brown Computing in the Humanities Users' Group Presents Interactive Tools for Web Applications in Humanities Giulio Lughi Trieste University Noon Friday June 4, 1998 STG Conference Room (Grad Center, Tower E) Web Humanities resources are usually characterized by low-level interactivity: mostly they offer only "link-to-link" navigation , where the reader's options consist basically of choosing the target site. A more advanced level of interactivity can be obtained using the client-side HTML forms and the server-side Common Gateway Interface (CGI): in this way the reader is able to choose among several options and/or send text strings to the server; at the same time, the server is able to activate simple programs that carry out even complex and articulate tasks by using the reader's input data. The outcome of these scripts are eventually incapsulated in a HTML page and sent back to the browser. Three applications which use the CGI scripts in perl programming language will be shown: 1. The accessing and updating of text databases by a virtual community: a project for a Catalog of Italian Texts On Line. 2. Theoretical and methodological problems related to a program for the conjugation of Italian verbs. 3. Small engines to introduce interactivity into narrative texts: the Writing Reader and the Virtual Text. Giulio Lughi [http://www.univ.ts.it/~nirital/personale/lughi.htm] is a Professo of Italian Grammar at the Trieste University (Italy). In the past few years he has been developing applications and tools for humanities computing and on-line interactivity. CHUG provides a forum for discussing the use of computers in the humanities and for sharing ideas and information about computing techniques and applications. We regularly have talks and discussions by members of the Brown community and others about ongoing and future projects, research ideas, and computing techniques. We meet when opportunity arises, as announced on brown.bboard.announce. We always have refreshments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Visual Literacy Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 09:15:58 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 106 (106) Dear Willard, You asked on Humanist who is training people in visual design. The first answer that comes to mind is that there are strong programmes in Graphic Design that do this and that we may not want to duplicate them in Humanities Computing. In Canada these programmes usually take place outside universities in colleges like Sheridan. They emphasize the practical and train people for careers in animation and design. In Humanities Computing we can approach these issues from an academic perspective that builds on the strengths of humanities students rather than duplicating what happens in design school. At McMaster we have introduced a course entitled "The Digital Image: Computer Graphics and Design" which will run for the first time this Fall. This course, along with the existing Multimedia course, are a first step towards offering courses that extend the skills and knowledge humanities students get in their disciplines to engage visual design and its history. The idea is to have courses that have a lot more theory, history, and criticism. The skills are then learned in the context of intellectual inquiry rather than in the context of getting a job at Disney. (Not that I would be ashamed that our students got such jobs.) I would be interested to hear about other such courses. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell Humanities Computing, McMaster University From: Willard McCarty Subject: the atrophy of the spectator? Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:45:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 107 (107) Germane to the current thread of discussion on images, the visual imagination and its effects, the following commentary on the philosophy of Adorno and Horkheimer, referring in particular to their book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1973; first German edn 1944), by Jes=FAs Mart=EDn-Barbero, Communication, Culture and Hegemony: From the Media to Mediations (London: Sage, 1993; orig. De los medios a las mediaciones: Communicaci=F3n, cultura= y hegemon=EDa, Barcelona, 1987). Discussing Adorno and Horkheimer's notion of "the unity of the system" of cultural production, Mart=EDn-Barbero notes that, "...this insistence on 'unity' becomes theoretically abusive and politically dangerous when it is used, for example, to argue that all films, from the most trivial to those of Chaplin or Wells, are the same.... Films are held up [by Adorno and Horkheimer] has one of the best examples of how the culture industries brin= g about the atrophied role of the spectator. The attention of the spectator must move so fast to keep up with the plot that they have no time to think. Because everything must be communicated through visual images, 'the sound film... leaves no room for imagination or reflection on the part of the audiences... the film forces its victims to equate it directly with reality= ' (Horkheimer and Adorno, 1973: 126). Thus, a fundamental dimension of media analysis, the role of the spectator, is cut off from study because of a cultural pessimism that ascribes the unity of the system to its 'technical rationality'. What is but one historical aspect of the media becomes its basic quality" (pp. 41f). Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -=20 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=20 <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: David Green Subject: Fair Use Seriously Endangered Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:35:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 108 (108) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 7, 1998 The spate of copyright legislation appears to be reaching a climax with two bills that contain language that asserts the absolute right of owners of copyright to protect digital works electronically with no fair use defense for circumventing those protections for what have been up until now legal purposes. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (S 2037) and the WIPO Copyright Implementation Act both contain this absolute anti-circumvention language and also do not mention fair use at any point. S2037 was passed last week in the Senate and a Commerce Department hearing took place June 5 on HR 2281. Many organizations in the educational, scholarly and cultural community are calling on members and constituents to contact members of the Commerce Committee to explain why this language and these two bills would be harmful. I am following this brief announcement with a detailed memo from the National Humanities Alliance that fully explains this situation. David Green From: David Green Subject: Help retain fair use in the NII (fwd) Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:36:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 109 (109) [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: Hope for Revision in WIPO Legislation: Call for Action Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 18:18:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 110 (110) NINCH ANNOUNCEMNT June 8, 1998 According to the report below (in the ALAWON newsletter of the American Library Association), the Commerce Committee's hearing on the WIPO Copyright Implementation Act (H.R. 2281) last Friday included many suggestions to change the legislation. According to the ALA report, "Commerce Committee Chairman Thomas Bliley and Ranking Member John Dingell...made opening statements indicating that changes in H.R. 2281 might well be necessary to assure that it did not impede commerce by affording some information owners excessive control over their product to the detriment of other businesses, students and library users." Putting his finger on the heart of the objections from the library and scholarly communities, Prof. Robert Oakley, library director of the Georgetown University Law Center, emphasized that: [deleted quotation] As you can see, the ALA is petitioning constituents to contact legislators and commerce committee members to indicate opposition to the language as currently drafted. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Close to the Machine Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 08:40:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 111 (111) The following is more of a pot-stirring commentary than a proper book review, but in any case I send it along for, I hope, your enjoyment. Comments are always welcome, especially about obtuse wrong-headedness and of course factual errors. Californian readers I hope can be especially forgiving for my using the name of their fine and beautiful State in adjectival form as the label for a particular stereotype. (By such usages we can measure the great cultural impact that Californians have had on the rest of the world. How many of us would understand any of the meanings of "Oregonian", or "Calabrian", for example?) I can only plead that as a multiple ex-pat who was born and raised in California I use the stereotype with full knowledge of its truths, untruths and ironies. Yours, WM ----- Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997). Since 1978 Ellen Ullman has been a software engineer and consultant working in and around Silicon Valley and in a part of San Francisco affectionately known as Multimedia Gulch. She is thus by location and experience eminently qualified to write about the culture of computing where it is most intensively practiced. Her publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, was one of the Beat poets and so (to paraphrase Jack London) had his hands on the crowbar that overturned post-war American life in the cultural revolution from which the origins of Silicon Valley may be traced. Close to the Machine thus has the signs of an interesting account of and meditation on the device that is transforming nearly every aspect of modern life. The book fulfills its promise - though this may not be one's first reaction. Ullman's style is highly confessional, very personal, very Californian. We hear, for example, about her sex life and emotional states in some detail. The confessions are not gratitutous or silly, however; in fact they are quite insightful, sometimes troublingly so. At minimum they give us a peek into a powerfully influential subculture that has formed around computing and provides much of the talent for its development. Her story takes place at the intersection where the machine, the lifestyle of its cutting-edge practice and the emotional concomitants mingle. It raises interesting questions about how these inter-relate. She asks us to consider, for example, her own 'serial monogamy' juxtaposed to the technical life as she has known it - "long periods of intense engagement punctuated by times of great restlessness and searching". New technologies, she observes, irresistably force abandonment of old, deep engagements and so require an abnegation, the "posture of ignorant humility". "There is only one way to deal with this humiliation: bow your head, let go of the idea that you know anything, and ask politely of this new machine, 'How do you wish to be operated?'... Once it tells you, your single days are over. You are involved again... You must now dedicate yourself to that deep slow probing, that patience and frustration, the anxious intimacy of a new technical relationship. You must give yourself over wholly to this: you must believe this is your last lover." Ullman doesn't make the fundamental error of supposing that her means of livelihood has caused her social behaviour or vice versa. (Thankfully she provides no basis for arguing that computers corrupt the morals of the young!) Rather we are provoked to think about two apparently parallel manifestations of something rather more fundamental to the contemporary scene than either. The postmodern focus on "the construction of social reality" (to quote the title of a fine book by John Searle) surfaces later when she discusses the virtual life, "the facade of constructed reality" that telecommunications have made possible and so in a sense unavoidable. Without the physical and temporal props of an office, she finds herself each day making up her existence "from scratch", presenting "to the world the appearance of actual existence. You must seem to be a company in the usual sense of the word, with an office of humming enterprise... It is as if I have projected myself into another universe...some place completely discontinuous with the universe I inhabit...." Furthermore, "once your own electronic existence is established, you start to notice how many of the entities around you are similarly electronic and therefore as suspect in their reality as you are... And what is a corporation these days but an elaborate verisimilitude spun round with the gauzy skin of electrics?" The physical coordinates have ceased to matter. Gone with them is the greater inertia that, one supposes, made it easier to maintain a sense of settled reality in times past. If (to shift from Searle to Heraclitus) the river that we step into is the same as well as constantly changing, wherein lies the continuity? In hardware? To what degree does the computer determine how people use it? "I'd like to think that computers are neutral, a tool like any other... But there is something in the system itself, in the formal logic of programs and data, that recreates the world in its own image. It is a projection of a very slim part of ourselves: that portion devoted to logic, order, rule, and clarity." And control, of course. She recounts the story of working for a company boss who discovers he can now track the keystrokes of his long-time, loyal secretary minute-by-minute and so discover her inefficiencies: "once the system gives you this power, you suddenly can't help yourself from wanting more." Many of us would, I hope, dispute one's powerlessness in the face of such temptation. There are greater temptations, and people still resist them. The question here, rather, is how one uses this "very slim part of ourselves" better to know what isn't so slim, or so easily known. Interestingly, tellingly, Ullman's gloriously sloppy, disordered existence (the 'real' one she lives, in sweat pants behind the ordered facade) gives us the undetermined counterpart. Her very human document of discontent with technophilia one can thus find greatly reassuring, that beyond the simplistic "logic, order, rule, and clarity" of the machine lies a much more interesting order of things which these mechanical virtues push us better to understand. Willard McCarty [Republished from Humanities Computing News, King's College London, <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/hcn/Issue_7.html#Book>.] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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: Toby Burrows Subject: Book review: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 17:32:55 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 112 (112) Rosenfeld, Louis, and Peter Morville. Information architecture for the World Wide Web. Cambridge: O'Reilly, 1998. xix, 202 p. ISBN 1-56592-282-4 US$24.95 Far too many Web site are hard to navigate. The icons are ambiguous. The headings use too much jargon. The conceptual structure is messy and confusing. There are complicated frames within frames. The information you need should be there somewhere, but it's not clear which path to follow to find it. The site, in short, is badly designed. Though there are many books about "Web site design", they invariably deal with graphic or technical design: how to give your Web pages a glossy and colourful appearance, with lots of tricky moving images, or how to use various kinds of clever programming techniques. But the organization and structure of the information contained in a Web site require careful design too. Often taken for granted or ignored, this "information architecture" is critical to the usability of a site. Rosenfeld and Morville discuss organizational schemes for Web sites. They recommend a hierarchical structure with between five and nine options at the top level, and no more than four or five levels before detailed information is reached. The structure should enable the user to create a mental model of the site easily. Hypertextual and database structures can be employed at suitable places within the site but are not advisable as its basic organizational scheme. Exact schemes (with known-item searches) and ambiguous ones (with browsing and associative learning) should both be used wherever possible. Other important structural elements are navigational techniques, search engines, and labelling systems aimed at producing consistent and appropriate headings. The authors emphasize the importance of user-centred structures and terminology, and illustrate their recommendations with a case study and various examples. While this coverage of structural design is thorough and sensible, the book is even more valuable for its realistic treatment of the political aspects of developing a large Web site. "The biggest challenge", according to Rosenfeld and Morville, "is often the degree to which organizational politics intrude into the process." Each section within an organization may want to ensure its presence on the main page, and may try to develop its own Web pages independently of the overall design. Both these tendencies will have a detrimental effect on the quality and usability of the site. The authors recommend a method for combining these "archipelagoes of information" into a cohesive whole, bound together by a clear vision of what the site will be, which audiences it will aim to reach, and how it will work. They recommend extensive discussions within the organization, helped by critiques of other sites, before moving on to conceptual design, architectural blueprints, mockups of major pages, design sketches and mapping of existing content. This book should be compulsory reading for anyone engaged in constructing a Web site, particularly one on a large scale. The wise advice on many points of design and method, combined with an exemplary realism and an emphasis on the user's point of view, make this an indispensable guide. Above all, the value of the book lies in its welcome insistence on the crucial importance of the conceptual structure and information architecture of Web sites. All too often, these features are taken for granted or ignored entirely. Effective Web sites require effective organization and structure. Rosenfeld and Morville show how it should be done. Toby Burrows Scholars' Centre University of Western Australia Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: CATAC'98 Subject: Re: CATaC'98 Conference Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 08:07:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 113 (113) Dear Colleagues We invite you to join us in London, 1-3 August 1998 to participate in an important and exciting conference on the Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication. A brief description of the highlights is attached, however please visit our web sites for detailed information at: http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/ http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac/ Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess Co-Chairs catac98@arch.usyd.edu.au ------------------ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'98) 1-3 August 1998, Science Museum, London catac98@arch.usyd.edu.au CATaC'98 will explore the complex interactions between culture, technology, and communication, as these shape local and global responses to and uses of CMC technologies. CATaC conjoins current theoretical research and praxis of cross-cultural communication mediated by new technologies. We seek to avoid the overt and covert forms of ethnocentrism often at work in current Internet and Web practices and thereby contribute to a better understanding of the limits and strengths of these technologies as global communication media. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI-99, Final Call for Proposals Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:15:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 114 (114) [deleted quotation] [An HTML version of the Call for Proposals will be made available via the FoLLI web page at http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/folli/. The usual apologies apply if you receive multiple copies of this message.] Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-99 August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands FINAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-99 is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). [material deleted] FURTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION: To obtain further information, please visit the web site for ESSLLI-98 (http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/) or FoLLI's home page on the web (http://www.wins.uva.nl/research/folli/). From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Knowing of a Time, Knowing the Time Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:16:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 115 (115) [deleted quotation] Final Call for Papers -- PLEASE POST ----------------------------------------------- Knowing of a Time, Knowing the Time Boston University, Boston, MA November 8 & 9, 1998 The third annual conference of the Center for Millennial Studies addresses two themes: 1) traditions, around the world and at any point in time, which anticipate the transformation of the world; and 2) the role of dating and chronology in inciting and postponing millennial expectations, and the specific effects an imminent date can have on the behavior of apocalyptic believers. [material deleted] For more information on the Center for Millennial Studies, please visit our web site at http://www.mille.org. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for Participation -- IBERAMIA'98 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:17:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 116 (116) [deleted quotation] Call for Participation APPLICATION FOR PREREGISTRATION (by 31 Jul) IBERAMIA'98 6th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (under the High Sponsorship of the Presidencia da Republica Portuguesa) Lisbon, Portugal 5-9 October 1998 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 PRESENTATION ============ The Sixth Ibero-American 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). [material deleted] CONFERENCE ADDRESS ================== IBERAMIA'98 Phone: + 351 1 294-8536 Departamento de Informatica Fax: + 315 1 294 85 41 Universidade Nova de Lisboa E-mail: iberamia@di.fct.unl.pt 2825 Monte da Caparica http://www-ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/~iberamia Portugal From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Coling-ACL'98 Registration Reminder Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:19:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 117 (117) [deleted quotation] COLING-ACL'98 Register Now! Registration is now open for the upcoming Coling-ACL'98 conference, to be held 10-14 August 1998, at the Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Those who register early (before July 1) will benefit from substantial savings. The registration and hotel reservation forms are available on the Web at the following URL: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/ [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Computerm'98 Workshop Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:20:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 118 (118) [deleted quotation] COMPUTERM'98 Workshop announcement First Workshop on Computational Terminology WHEN: August 15, 1998 (just after COLING-ACL98) WHERE: University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada) http://tornade.ere.umontreal.ca/~lhommem/coling/computerm.html CONTEXT The workshop provides a forum to bring together researchers from the fields of computational linguistics, terminology, automated translation, information retrieval and lexicography who share an interest in computational aspects of terminology processing: acquisition, extraction, indexing, machine-aided thesaurus building, dictionary construction, etc. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: TAG+ Workshop Registration and Accommodations Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:21:15 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 119 (119) [deleted quotation] Registration and accommodation information for the TAG+ Workshop (Aug. 1-3) and Tutorials (July 28-31) to be held at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science in Philadelphia, PA is now available on the web at: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/tag98.html. [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: gleanings Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 09:12:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 120 (120) [deleted quotation]<http://online.guardian.co.uk/>. (1) Duncan Campbell, "Hiding from the spies in the sky", a story in the wake of the nuclear tests in India and Pakistan about how the Internet was and can be be used to determine when operations on the ground cannot be detected by the US spy satellites. "Images from space used to provide advance warnings, but not any more. Indian technicians simply calculated when the satellites would be overhead so they knew when to hide... as any nation with data from the Internet can now do." So, if you wish to get up to any potentially very interesting hanky-panky under the open skies, you can now use the Internet in a way you may not have considered. "Whether you're skinny-dipping in Somerset, or harvesting dope plants in the Sierra Nevada [that Californian stereotype again!], or just want a reason to take up watching the sky at night, programs and data about satellites of every kind can be taken from the Net." URLs are provided. If, in consequence of this public exposure, the US were to give up on the shroud of secrecy keeping us from the latest in visual pattern-recognition technology, art history and related fields might take an enormous technical leap forward. (2) Jack Schofield, "The World Cup on the Web", for those of you who care. (3) idem, "Computing and the Net: Netwatch", lists -- URLs for agencies tracking the India / Pakistan nuclear arms race; -- 1998 finalists in the Yell Web-site awards, <http://www.yell.co.uk/yell/yellawards/>; -- Edtech, a WebRing of sites about the use of technology in higher ed, <http://iml.umkc.edu/web-ring/edtech/>; -- EuroPrix Multimedia Art 98 prize contest, <http://www.europrix.org>. Etc. (4) Jane Gregory and Steve Miller, "Making knowledge public property", on how the public is finding out about and making sense of current scientific information, the featured subject being the infamous BSE/CJD (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, a.k.a. "mad cow disease", and its human correlative, Creuzfeld/Jacob Disease) scandal in the U.K. The Internet had and is continuing to have a significant role in the fascinating spread of information, misinformation and propaganda surrounding this and similar issues, e.g. tobacco and, far more politically hot, "post-traumatic stress disorder" (e.g. Gulf War Syndrome). (5) Douglas Rushkoff, "Tilting at Windows", about the US Government's anti-trust suit against Microsoft's "hyper-competitive" practices in the light of the latter's much more ambitious game-plan, at least as Rushkoff reads it. "What will serve the public interest is not greater competition between information architects but greater co-operation.... Protecting the marketplace will not prove nearly as important -- or popular -- as promoting the values that competition doesn't address." (6) Robert Alstead, "Director's cut", a review of Adobe Premiere 5.0. I presume that most Humanists know what a fine piece of work Photoshop is. Has anyone here used Premiere? There's more, but Evelyn the cat wants her breakfast. 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/> ========================================================================= From: Dan Price Subject: Teaching and Training Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 20:13:35 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 121 (121) Willard and others make the point that we (academic in general) need teaching and training in regards to the topic of Computers and the Humanities. Agreed-- BUT who will do this teaching and training? AND more importantly what will they teach? And will the course title be the same though the contents radically different at another campus? We know pretty much what "Intro. To Biology" looks like across the campuses. I am not at all sure about "Computers and the Humanities." In many ways, it seems to me, we are at a stage in which we are really teaching and training each other-through discussions and commentaries such as these. We have yet to sort out what is really important and what not, what processes to use, what works best and what does not. We are still at the first phase of defining the field to begin with. For the moment this is fine as it seems to me that a certain patience is called for in the sorting out of what all this is about and could possibly mean. Personally I would love to take a course or some training in this regard but I have the impression that we are all still at a stage of "bumping into each other" and sharing our insights reflections without a real synthesis coming together. It is that synthesis that would make for a course and the intersection of that course within a recognizable field. Maybe that is part of the problem--my trying to see how it fits into a traditional mold with which I am comfortable and accustomed. Perhaps then it is down the road then that we (who???) can offer such courses and such training. Maybe in two or three years??? 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Director for Collection Development Tel. 816-235-1580 FAX 816-333-5584 E-Mail MCARBONELL@CCTR.UMKC.EDU carbonem@smtpgate.umkc.edu URL http://www.umkc.edu/lib =20 University Libraries (MNL 103), University of Missouri-Kansas City 5100 Rockhill Rd, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: George Aichele Subject: online bookstore? Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 09:23:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 123 (123) Amazon.com lists only books that have North American publishers or distributors. Would anyone here care to recommend an ~online~ bookstore that carries books with British or European (but not North American) publishers or distributors. Thanks. George Aichele ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: The Scout Report -- June 5, 1998 Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 15:58:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 124 (124) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 8, 1998 THE LIFE OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR--CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY WEBSITE <http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/> This site was not only recommended by the current "Scout Report," but was further praised by an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design at the Norwegian School of Management on the DIGLIB list. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]SNIP>>> [deleted quotation] ==================== [deleted quotation]June 20) [deleted quotation]20) [deleted quotation] From: Richard Rinehart Subject: new EAD project Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 11:54:20 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 125 (125) Hello, I'd like to introduce a new project underway to test implementation of the EAD in a museum setting, specific issues of EAD's application to pictorial and object collections, and integrated access to museum/archive/library collections. This is a museum/library collaboration project under the auspices of the California Digital Library's "Online Archive of California" (formerly UC-EAD project), and co-managed by Tim Hoyer of the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library and myself, Richard Rinehart of the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. This testbed project involves 8 institutions of very different sizes, collections holdings and technical expertise in order to test real-world issues of collaboration and scalability. I would love to hear any feedback or ideas from this group as to issues we should be addressing, related projects we should know about, and generally any input. The project has a website with a brief and a full project description, as well as links to some existing instances of museum and pictorial or object collections accesss using EAD. It's at http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/ This description below is taken from the website: Museums and the Online Archive of California Project (MOAC), will investigate one of the most serious problems facing knowledge seekers everywhere, the geographic distribution and limited access to the collections of unique materials -- primary sources for research in all areas of our cultural heritage -- that are held in libraries, museums, and archives around the world. We propose to solve this problem by creating a prototype "virtual museum archive" that integrates standardized "finding aids" for museum and library special collections into a single source, thus providing access to collections held by archives, museums, and libraries throughout the state of California. We will create this prototype within an existing online union database of finding aids, the Online Archive of California (OAC), which is being developed as a primary resource for the public, schools, and universities, enabling cross-disciplinary education and research. The OAC employs Encoded Archival Description (EAD), the standard for archival finding aids (in the form of an SGML DTD) supported by the Society of American Archivists and maintained by the Library of Congress, which will be evaluated for providing collection-level access in the museum community. The MOAC prototype within the OAC will be comprised of EAD finding aids for 20 collections, including 35,000 item records and images. Five California museums (the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the Oakland Museum of California, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, and the UCR/California Museum of Photography) will join the Bancroft Library in developing the testbed. Two other museums (Stanford University Art Museum, Fowler Museum of Cultural History), which will not actively participate in the grant, will also contribute collections to the testbed. Richard Rinehart ---------------- Information Systems Manager & Education Technology Specialist Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive @ University of California http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ ---------------- & President-Elect, Museum Computer Network, http://www.mcn.edu/ From: David Green Subject: Exhibit: Sarah Roberts: Physical Fiction Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 09:36:45 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 126 (126) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 9, 1998 EXHIBITION: SARA ROBERTS: PHYSICAL FICTION Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA <http://www.artcenter.edu/exhibit/williamson3.html> It's rare that we announce art exhibits, but this seemed particularly interesting, even though its web appearance seems uncertain. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]Arts Wire CURRENT is available at <http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/current.html> and an archive of past issues can be found at <http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/www/current/archive.html> ========================================================== >> ARTS EVENTS PASADENA, CA through July 19 Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design SARA ROBERTS: PHYSICAL FICTION In PHYSICAL FICTION, four interactive computer installations by Sara Roberts (http://shoko.calarts.edu/faculty/sroberts.html) explore the emotional frontier of human-machine relations. The works -- EARLY PROGRAMMING; DIGITAL MUSEUM; ELECTIVE AFFINITIES; and UNTITLED, GAME -- span a decade in the development of hypermedia art. "My fascination with mechanism - that is not mechanism as a noun but as the practice of making things that go without our pushing them... relates to the way that throughout history people have used the technology of the time to interpret their own internal and psychological workings," Roberts has stated, in an interview on Arts Wire's Interactive Arts Conference. "....early man tended to think of themselves as types of vessels, alchemical times saw psychology as the result of combinations of substances called humors, In Freud's time the general populace was coming in contact with hydraulic and steam engine technology - mental states were a matter of pressures released and suppressed...now we are on autopilot, in default mode, computer culture provides us with all kinds of metaphors for what's going on inside..people have made mechanistic representations of living things for ages, and I see myself as carrying on in that tradition." For taped gallery information call (626) 396-2244. Directions to the gallery and an exhibition archive can be found on the World Wide Web, at <http://www.artcenter.edu> Interviews with artists who use interactive elements in their work are available on Arts Wire's Interactive Art Conference (Co-hosted by Anna Couey and Judy Malloy) at <http://www.artswire.org/Artswire/interactive/www/guests.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@ninch.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: David Green Subject: "IEEE/Digital Library News" Needs News of Digital Library Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 11:57:47 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 127 (127) Projects NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 10, 1998 NEWS, EXAMPLES, EVENTS NEEDED FOR IEEE "DIGITAL LIBRARY NEWS" <http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln/announce.html> Members of the cultural community are encouraged to send news of any digital projects to the editor of the Digital Library News publication of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. To subscribe to DLN, send an e-mail message to: with the contents: subscribe ieeedln Your Real Name David Green =========== [deleted quotation]Digital Library News The next issue of IEEE/Digital Library News will be distributed in mid-July. We are seeking short descriptions of new digital library research, events, technologies, or projects to include in the newsletter. We will also include announcements of new publications about digital library technology or research. The purpose of IEEE/Digital Library News is to provide a timely, brief overview of research and events related to digital libraries. Descriptions should be no more than one to two paragraphs long, and should include a URL for readers to find more complete information. We will also include any announcement of upcoming digital library-related events in our calendar. Please send us the name of the event, the dates, location, a one to two sentence description, and a name, URL, email and regular address, and phone number to contact for further information. Send announcements and brief articles to the editor, Sue Feldman, sef2@cornell.edu by June 20th. Sue Feldman Datasearch 170 Lexington Dr. Ithaca, NY 14850 607-257-0937 Phone/Fax mailto:sef2@cornell.edu =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News - New resources I Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:41:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 128 (128) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News The ELRA catalogue has been updated with the following resources. ******************************************** * ELRA-S0050 Russian speech database (STC) * ******************************************** The STC Russian speech database was recorded in 1996-1998. The main purpose of the database is to investigate individual speaker variability and to validate speaker recognition algorithms. The database was recorded through a 16-bit Vibra-16 Creative Labs sound card with an 11,025 Hz sampling rate. The database contains Russian read speech of 89 different speakers (54 male, 35 female), including 70 speakers with 15 sessions or more, 10 speakers with 10 sessions or more and 9 speakers with less than 10 sessions. The speakers were recorded in Saint-Petersburg and are within the age of 18-62. All are native speakers. The corpus consists of 5 sentences. Each speaker reads carefully but fluently each sentence 15 times on different dates over the period of 1-3 months. The corpus contains a total of 6,889 utterances and of 2 volumes, total size 700 MB uncompressed data. The signal of each utterance is stored as a separate file (approx. 126 KB). Total size of data for one speaker approximates 9,500 KB. Average utterance duration is about 5 sec. A file gives information about the speakers (speaker's age and gender). The orthography and phonetic transcription of the corpus is given in separate files which contain the prompted sentences and their transcription in IPA. The signal files are raw files without any header, 16 bit per sample, linear, 11,025 Hz sample frequency. The recording conditions were as follows: Microphone: dynamic omnidirectional high-quality microphone, distance to mouth 5-10 cm Environment: office room Sampling rate: 11,025 Hz Resolution: 16 Bit Sound board: Creative Labs Vibra-16 Means of delivery: CD-ROM Price for ELRA members: for research use: 400 ECU for commercial use: 2000 ECU Price for non members: for research use: 800 ECU for commercial use: 4000 ECU ********************************************* * ELRA-S0051 German SpeechDat(II) FDB 1000 * ********************************************* The German SpeechDat(II) FDB 1000 consists of 988 calls over the German fixed network, stored on 4 CD-ROMs in the final SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II) project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications. The following items were recorded: 1 isolated digit (read or prompted) 1 sequence of 10 isolated digit 4 connected digits 4-6 digit number to identify the prompt sheet ca. 10 digit telephone number (read) 14-16 digit credit card number (read, 150 different credit card numbers were found) 6 digit PIN code (read) 1 natural number (read) 1 money amount (read) 3 spelled words (1 spontaneous name spelling, 2 read) 1 time of day (spontaneous) 1 time phrase (read) 1 date (spontaneous) 1 date (read) 1 relative date (read) 2 yes/no questions (spontaneous, not prompted) 3/6 common application words (read) All application words are recorded more than 80 times. These are: 1 application word phrase 9 phonetically rich sentences (read) 4 phonetically rich words (read) 5 directory assistance names (1 spontaneous name (e.g. forename), 1 spontaneous city name, 1 read city name (from a list of 500 most frequent), 1 read company/agency name (from a list of 500 most frequent), 1 read proper name, fore- and surname (from list of 150 SDB names). Price for research use (in ECU) Members Non members German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 15,000 25,000 German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000=20 + German SpeechDat(M) DB1 or DB2 20,000 30,000 Price for commercial use (in ECU) Members Non members German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 18,000 25,000 German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000=20 + German SpeechDat(M) DB1 or DB2 25,000 35,000 SPECIAL OFFERS: 1) Price of German SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 for ELRA members who=20 already purchased German SpeechDat(M) DB1 (ELRA-S0018) : Before 30.06.1998: 10,000 ECU Between 30.06.1998 and 31.12.1998: 11,000 ECU 2) If the purchase of SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 occurs in the same calendar year of DB1 or DB2, the package price will be: for research use: 20,000 ECU for ELRA members and 30,000 ECU for non= members; for commercial use: 25,000 ECU for ELRA members and 35,000 ECU for non members. ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat Savarin 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ******************************************** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News - New resources II Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:45:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 129 (129) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES - Part 2 *** The ELRA catalogue has been updated with the following resources. ************************************************* * ELRA-L0030 Bulgarian Morphological Dictionary * ************************************************* This dictionary contains 67500 entries divided into 242 inflectional types (including proper nouns), morphosyntactic information for each entry, and a morphological engine (MS DOS and WINDOWS 95/NT) for morphological analysis and generation. The data may be used for morphological analysis and synthesis. Structure of entries: Local linguistic variant File format: ASCII; lowercase letters Standard in use: ISO Character set: 8-bit ASCII ASCII codes alphabetically: 160-191 Medium: Floppy disk Price for Research use: ELRA members: 45 ECU Non members: 100 ECU Price for Commercial use: ELRA members: 6,000 ECU Non members: 12,000 ECU **************************************************************** * ELRA-M0014 Bilingual dictionaries (Translation Experts Ltd.) * **************************************************************** Bilingual dictionaries for demonstration and commercial use containing local linguistic variant, local spelling variant, words frequency, usage (familiar, old, slang, etc.) and semantic features. The level of information in each entry varies depending on the word/phrase and on the dictionary. However, all of the above are present in varying degrees in the dictionaries. These dictionaries may be of interest in particular for spell-checking, thesaurus, hyphenation and translation of natural languages. A Level 2 translation engine, also available via ELRA, provides exact translations, output in LOCAL-UCS format, for input words and phrases, input in LOCAL-UCS format, based on the vocabulary stored in a compressed translation file. Each pair of languages may be purchased as different sets or subsets, corresponding to the indicated number of entries. All pairs consist of English to and from another language. The following groups of languages are available: GROUP 1 (English <=3D> Language A): Language A Spanish (25,000, 60,000, 100,000 and 200,000 entries), French (40,000, 80,000, 100,000 and 200,000 entries), German (40,000, 80,000 and 126,000 entries), Italian (20,000 and 40,000 entries), Brazilian Portuguese (40,000, 80,000 and 400,000 entries), Portuguese (40,000, 80,000, 110,000 and 234,000 entries), Dutch (40,000, 80,000 and 110,000 entries). GROUP 2 (English <=3D> Language B): Language B Danish (40,000, 80,000 and 110,000 entries), Swedish (40,000, 80,000 and 110,000 entries), Finnish (30,000 entries), Icelandic (40,000, 80,000 and 100,000 entries). GROUP 3 (English <=3D> Language C): Language C Russian (4,0000, 72,000 and 120,000 entries), Russian Business (60,000 entries), Russian Aerospace (60,000 entries), Russian Automotive (40,000 entries), Russian Minerals & Mining (60,000 entries), Polish (30,000, 80,000, 124,000 and 150,000 entries), Hungarian (30,000, 80,000 and 124,000 entries), Czech (40,000 entries), Romanian Starter (10,000 entries). GROUP 4 (English <=3D> Language D): Language D Croatian (30,000 entries), Bosnian (30,000 entries), Serbian (Latin or Cyrillic) (30,000 entries). GROUP 5 (English <=3D> Language E): Language E Japanese (40,000 entries). GROUP 6 (English <=3D> Language F): Language F Greek (60,000 entries). File format: Text Standard in use: ISO Character set: 8-bit ASCII and UNICODE Means of delivery: CD-ROM, floppy disk or downloaded from the Web. Related tools: Word Translator(TM), NeuroTran=AE, InterTran(TM), MobileTran(TM). Please see http://www.tranexp.com for more information The price per entry is as follows Price for ELRA members: For research use For commercial use GROUP 1 0.06 ECU/entry 0.25 ECU/entry GROUP 2 0.03 ECU/entry 0.18 ECU/entry GROUP 3 0.04 ECU/entry 0.20 ECU/entry GROUP 4 0.04 ECU/entry 0.20 ECU/entry GROUP 5 0.50 ECU/entry 1.00 ECU/entry GROUP 6 0.12 ECU/entry 0.50 ECU/entry Price for non members For research use For commercial use GROUP 1 0.12 ECU/entry 0.50 ECU/entry GROUP 2 0.06 ECU/entry 0.36 ECU/entry GROUP 3 0.08 ECU/entry 0.40 ECU/entry GROUP 4 0.08 ECU/entry 0.40 ECU/entry GROUP 5 1.00 ECU/entry 2.00 ECU/entry GROUP 6 0.24 ECU/entry 1.00 ECU/entry ******************************************** For more information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat Savarin 75013 PARIS Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: info-elra@calva.net http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ******************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Timothy Mason Subject: Re: 12.0063 online bookstore? Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 10:58:44 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 130 (130) You may find : The Internet Book Shop, http://www.bookshop.co.uk useful. They do not seem to be interested in looking for anything that they do not have on their stock-list. Also, I discovered that my CC details were available directly to anyone who took the trouble to work out my personal code - fortunately, they did take them off when I protested. Blackwell's will take orders over the net, but refuse to accept payment over the ether, so you have to open an account by surface mail - they claim, probably accurately, that the Net is not safe enough. Regards Timothy Mason Timothy.Mason@wanadoo.fr From: anthony@ccs.sogang.ac.kr Subject: Re: 12.0063 online bookstore? Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 09:12:14 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 131 (131) The best overall guide to online Bookstores that I know is that at Oxford: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/publishers/bookstores.html and I might add that personally I am very happy with Blackwells, which I always access through their 'Tour of the Oxford Bookshop': http://www.blackwell.co.uk/bookshops/oxtour/oxtour.html They offer the mailing option know as Accelerated Surface Mail which brings books to Korea almost as quickly as Airmail at almost the cost of Surface mail (otherwise we have to wait 3 months). Another possibility is the quickly growing Internet Bookshop. Or any of the innumerable others in the Oxford list, for which we are extremely grateful, be it said... An Sonjae (Br Anthony) Sogang University, Seoul, Korea http://ccsun7.sogang.ac.kr/~anthony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP - Readerly/Writerly Texts Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:47:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 132 (132) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of _Readerly/Writerly Texts_ Texts & Technology Fall/Winter 1999 Guest Editors John F. Barber and Janice R. Walker Special guest editors John F. Barber and Janice R. Walker seek submissions for a special issue of _Readerly/Writerly Texts_ focusing on issues of texts and technology to be published Fall/Winter 1999. Selected essays will also be included in an anthology from a major publisher. Specifically, we are seeking essays that provide innovation and insights covering a broad range of perspectives including, but not limited to, computer-aided instructional design and applications, cyberculture and its manifestations in and out of the classroom, multimedia and hypermedia and their effects on society as well as on our conceptions of literacy as readerly/writerly texts go digital, and ideological constructs and clashes in the world of cyberspace and the cyborg. Essays selected for this special issue should address socio-cultural, ideological, technical, and/or pedagogical concerns surrounding the use of technology in the clasroom and in society as a whole. Manuscripts of 15-20 pages (double-spaced, using Times New Roman 12 point or similar standard font) must be prepared following MLA manuscript format. Include three, double-spaced hard copies, a self-addressed envelope large enough to contain your manuscript, and sufficient unattached postage to mail the copies to three readers. Do not identify the author by name in the manuscript or notes; instead, include a cover letter which contains the author's address and the title of the work. Use the third person to refer to your authorship of previous works. Send three copies of submissions (including a 250-300 word abstract) by no later than December 1, 1998 to: Janice R. Walker Department of English University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, CPR 358 Tampa, FL 33620 Telephone (813) 974-2421; Fax (813) 974-2270 Include contact information for the first author on each submission, with name, address, telephone number, and email address. Authors of essays selected for publication will be notified by January 1, 1999. Completed essays must be received by April 1, 1999. Contact editors John F. Barber at jfbarber@alpha.nsula.edu or Janice R. Walker at jwalker@chuma.cas.usf.edu. See Guidelines for Submissions at http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/cfp.html for more details. ****************************************************************************** Janice R. Walker, Dept. of English Email jwalker@chuma.cas.usf.edu University of South Florida (813) 974-2421 Tampa, FL 33620 (813) 974-2270 (Fax) http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/janice.html "THE TROUBLE WITH THE RAT RACE IS THAT EVEN IF YOU WIN, YOU'RE STILL A RAT." --Lily Tomlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 133 (133) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: OUCS: Position Announcement Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:46:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 134 (134) [deleted quotation] OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT The HCU is establishing a new Humanities Computing Development Team (HCDT) to contribute to its provision of computing support to the Humanities departments at the University. The activities envisaged include development of web-based tutorials, electronic publication of course materials and the development of research databases. Initially the staff will consist of an HCDT Co-ordinator and two Project Officers and we are currently recruiting to fill these posts. Job Title: HCDT Co-ordinator Grade: RS1A Salary: 15,159 - 22,785 [pounds sterling] Applications are invited for the post of HCDT Co-ordinator whose responsibilities will include project selection and planning, supervision of two Project Officers, outreach and liaison activities and financial management of the team. The person we are looking for will be educated to degree level and possess an understanding of the needs of academic researchers in the Humanities, together with experience of Computer Based Learning products. If you can demonstrate good organisational and communication skills and have the creativity to be involved in the formation of this new team we would like to hear from you. Some technical ability and a track record in time-critical project development would be advantageous. Job Title: HCDT Project Officer Grade: RS1A Salary: 15,159 - 22,785 [pounds sterling] The HCDT Project Officers will be recruited at the lower end of the salary scale and will report to the Co-ordinator. They will be responsible for implementation and development of all projects undertaken by the HCDT, and be expected to assist with the overall planning of activities and the definition of work plans for specific projects. Other duties will include software development, consultation with academic collaborators and evaluation of project proposals. Applicants must be graduates with a relevant degree in Humanities or computing. They must have practical experience in some of the following: digitization, encoding, multimedia authoring tools, CBL, interface design, scripting languages, database management, systems analysis, WWW, image management or text retrieval. Good communication skills will be required, together with the organisational ability necessary to undertake and prioritise a variety of duties. Initially these posts are offered on a one year fixed-term contract, however it is envisaged that they will be extended beyond one year depending on the evaluation of the HCDT's activities. For more information about the Humanities Computing Unit, please see http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ To apply for either post, please obtain further details and an application form from Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. (tel: 01865-273230, e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk). Closing date for the submission of applications is 3 July 1998. Interviews will be held during week commencing 13 July 1998. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 12.0070 new on WWW Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 16:51:51 -0600 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 135 (135) [deleted quotation] What on earth is "Leadership and Strategic Design" ? It sounds like something to be avoided at all costs. -- Norman Hinton hinton@uis.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Report: June 5 Copyright Hearing Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 11:07:56 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 136 (136) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 12, 1998 NCC UPDATE REPORT ON COPYRIGHT HEARINGS IN COMMERCE SUBCOMMITTEE "FAIR USE v LICENSING AGREEMENTS" Commerce Committee Mark-Up Scheduled for June 17 It appears that the hearing on H.R. 2281 last Friday held by the Commerce Committee and its House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade and Consumer Protection is having a big impact in opening out the debate in the House about our copyright future. Below is a good, detailed report from Page Miller on the meeting last Friday. Many are hoping that the flaws in the the World Intellectual Property Organization Treaties Implementation Act (H.R. 2281) will be resolved with language from the Boucher-Campbell Bill (HR 3048). David Green =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: fintan culwin Subject: Job - RA in anti plagiarism Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:40:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 137 (137) SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF COMPUTING INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MATHEMATICS (CENTRE FOR INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (CISE)) RESEARCH ASSISTANT IN FREE TEXT ANTI-PLAGIARISM SALARY UP TO #14,373 p.a. (Temporary appointment for 15 months in the first instance) South Bank University is a dynamic institution near the heart of London, only minutes away from the professional, social and cultural facilities of the capital. The School of Computing Information Systems and Design has an immediate vacancy for a research assistant to work in the field of free text plagiarism detection systems. The project will initially develop an administrative mechanism for the secure collection of word processed student coursework submissions. This will provide a corpus that will subsequently be analysed, using a variety of approaches, in an attempt to determine which techniques for the detection of different categories of plagiarised submissions seems the most effective. Applicants should have a good BSc or MSc in a computing discipline and demonstrated skills in systems engineering. Experience of Internet programming CGI, Pearl (or Tcl) Java and HCI would be distinct advantage. The project will be supervised by Fintan Culwin and Dan Hanley and the successful candidate will be encouraged to register for a MPhil award. An application form and further details are available from the Human Resources Department, South Bank University, Borough Road, London, SE1 0AA. Telephone 0171 815 6223 (24 hour answering service) or email harryla@sbu.ac.uk Please quote reference: RA/CISE Closing date for applications: 3 July 1998 The University is an Equal Opportunities Employer ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Charles L. Creegan" Subject: Re: 12.0072 online bookshops Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:50:57 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 138 (138) Contrary to a previous posting, Blackwells do accept credit card orders on the web at <http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk>...been there done that and checked it just now. -- Charles L. Creegan N.C. Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu http://www.ncwc.edu:80/~ccreegan From: Peter Evans Subject: Re: 12.0072 online bookshops Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 17:00:11 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 139 (139) I can recommend BookPages <http://www.bookpages.co.uk> as a British counterpart to Amazon. (In fact BookPages has just been absorbed by Amazon.) I don't have any experience of the Internet Book Shop, but tentatively recommend BookPages over the Internet Book Shop as Timothy Mason portrays it. As for Blackwell's, recommended by An Sonjae, I like the shops in Oxford and have found their mail/Internet service reliable, but have also been continually irritated by the poverty of their web database: I think of a fairly mainstream sort of book (e.g. a Routledge paperback that Blackwell's-the-physical-bookshop had in stock a few months earlier) and Blackwell's website won't have heard of it whereas BookPages will. (My apologies to Blackwell's if they have revamped their site in the last month or so.) Incidentally, MX BookFinder <http://www.mxbf.com/> is worth a look as a sort of (American) meta book dealer. Or rather--since it polls the Advanced Book Exchange <http://www.abebooks.com> and the like--a meta-meta book dealer. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Peter Evans From: Willard McCarty Subject: imaging Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 13:21:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 140 (140) Humanists concerned with imaging may wish to know about the recent book, Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides, Images of the Extraordinary in Science (Chronicle, 1997). Frankel is a photographer "who collaborates with scientists... [and] is an articulate speaker for the power of visual thinking and visual communication, and for their impact on scientific research" (HMS Beagle BioMedNet review by Marina Chicurel and Sally Kuzma, 12/6/98). "Frankel is now engaged in a National Science Foundation project called Envisioning Science and Engineering, where she and colleagues will set standards and methodologies for imaging. The project will, in part, incorporate a visual vocabulary of science into curricula, and develop a guidebook for students and researchers." 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/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series - 2nd Call Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:58:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 141 (141) [deleted quotation] The Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics Presents the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 13 November 9--20, 1998 Prague, Czech Republic SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The thirteenth cycle of the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series, organized by the Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics (Charles University), will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, from November 9 until 20, 1998.... [material deleted] Check our website at http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/vmc/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Geert-Jan M. Kruijff Institute of Formal & Applied Linguistics/Linguistic Data Laboratory Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Malostranske nam. 25, CZ-118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Phone: ++420-2-2191-4255 Fax: ++420-2-2191-4309 Email: gj@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz, gj@acm.org WWW: http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Program Joint Conf. Formal Grammar, HPSG and Categorial Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:04:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 142 (142) Grammar 1998 [deleted quotation] JOINT CONFERENCE ON FORMAL GRAMMAR, HEAD-DRIVEN PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMAR AND CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR August 14-16, 1998 Saarbruecken PROGRAM In August 1998, the Tenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI X) will be held in Saabr\"{u}cken, Germany, August 17-28. The ESSLLI Summer Schools have become a forum for work on formal grammar, encompassing the overlapping interests of work in formal linguistics, computational linguistics, and the role of logic and grammar formalisms. The Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar (FHCG-98), combining the 4th conference on Formal Grammar and the 5th conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, will be held the weekend preceding the Summer School, August 14-16... [material deleted; for more information see <http://www.dfki.de/events/hpsg98/>] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ICGI-98 Call for Papers Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:06:27 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 143 (143) [deleted quotation] Call For Participation Fourth International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI-98) http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~icgi98/icgi98.html Program Co-Chairs: Vasant Honavar and Giora Slutzki, Iowa State University July 12-14, 1998 Iowa State University Ames, Iowa, USA. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd Workshop on Interlinguas CFP Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:06:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 144 (144) [deleted quotation] SECOND WORKSHOP ON INTERLINGUAS: CALL FOR PAPERS FROM TEXT TO REPRESENTATION: SECOND WORKSHOP ON INTERLINGUAS Tuesday, October 27, 1998 (preceding the AMTA 98 conference) Sheraton Bucks County Hotel, Langhorne, Pennsylvania [http://crl.nmsu.edu/Events/FWOI/SecondWorkshop/index.html] The focus of this workshop will be a multi-lingual text and the task of representing aspects of that text using an Interlingual Representation (IL). The format is meant to encourage concrete discussion on how ILs handle particular challenges, including, but not limited to, representation of: basic predicate/argument structure noun phrases/referents proper nouns prepositional meaning non-literal language temporal relations textual organization lexical divergences syntactic divergences [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: levels of involvement Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:41:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 145 (145) This is to draw your attention to one of the online events listed in the NINCH extract from the Scout Report of 12 June 1998 (Humanist 12.79), the Second International Harvard Conference on Internet and Society, at <http://www.events.broadcast.com/edu/harvard/conference/>. RealPlayer is required; if you don't have it and can run it, I recommend you acquire the free player if only to see what this Harvard conference was about. Three quite lengthy streaming videos are included. My intention here is not to comment on the substance of what anyone in the conference said, rather to step back imaginatively from the event and ask where we fit into such activity. By "we" here I mean ordinary computing humanists whose particular talents are at the ground level where the research and applications of humanities computing actually get done. Some of us do in fact appear on stage at events such as the Harvard one, but for purposes of discussion I'm interested in us thinking from the perspective of those whose primary competence is in in the scholarly/technical detail rather than in the broad social issues. The ordinary soldiers in the war of scholarship, the farm-hands in its agriculture, the workers in its industry.... One reaction that people like "us" are likely to have to the Harvard event and its kind is, after the thrill has died away, to feel that the action of humanities computing has really moved out of our hands, that it no longer lies in the specialist areas we inhabit, especially those that are concerned with text-analysis and processing. In general it has become difficult in recent years not to equate the measurable amount of interest in what one does (class-size, qualtity of citations, etc.) with its value, and I suppose that tendency is bound to increase as we focus more on reaching the public if for no other reason than to secure our needed funding. We are apt, I suppose, to feel as a result that the Harvard event and its kind are where we now should be as a body of people if not as individuals. I wonder if like electoral politics the more one ascends to positions of power and influence the greater the distance from the very work that forms the real basis of that power. While the Esther Dysons of the world are making their fame by pronouncing on many matters we are better qualified to know about, there is no one but us to do the research. This would suggest that we should let those who would be media stars do their thing, not be bothered by the utter fatuousness of so much of the performances and do what we are best at doing. 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/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: On The Web: from The Scout Report -- June 12, 1998 Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:53:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 146 (146) NINCH ANNOUNCMENET June 12, 1998 ON THE WEB (from the SCOUT REPORT) Religion and the Founding of the American Republic--LOC <http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html> They Still Draw Pictures: Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the Spanish Civil War, Circa 1938--UCSD MSCL <http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/index.html> The Gateway to Educational Materials US Department of Education <http://thegateway.org/> Second International Harvard Conference on Internet and Society <http://www.events.broadcast.com/edu/harvard/conference/> ======== The Scout Report == ======== June 12, 1998 ==== ======== Volume 5, Number 7 ====== ====== Internet Scout Project ======== ==== University of Wisconsin ======== == Department of Computer Sciences ======== [deleted quotation]Project 1994-1998. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ 3. Religion and the Founding of the American Republic--LOC http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/religion.html This magnificent companion site to a new US Library of Congress exhibit draws upon the holdings of the Library and other archives to illustrate the importance of religion in the founding and making of America during the 17th through 19th centuries. The site is divided into eight parts, including America as a Religious Refuge, Religion and the American Revolution, and Religion and the New Republic. Each section consists of background information and thumbnail images of manuscript fragments, portraits, book title pages, documents, or other artifacts. These images, which users can enlarge by clicking on the thumbnails, are contextualized by the accompanying detailed captions and bibliographical information. In addition to the over 200 images, the site contains a complete object list of the exhibition. [JS] 4. Second International Harvard Conference on Internet and Society [RealPlayer] http://www.events.broadcast.com/edu/harvard/conference/ This conference, recently held at Harvard University, brought together such Internet and computer luminaries as US Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (CEO of IBM Corporation), Scott G. McNealy (CEO of Sun Microsystems), Steve Ballmer (Executive Vice President of Microsoft), Esther Dyson (Chairperson, EdVenture Holdings), Kim Polese (CEO of Marimba, Inc.), and Ira Magaziner (Policy Development Advisor to President Clinton). RealPlayer Speeches and question and answer sessions are available at the site, as well as selected sessions and socratic panels. In addition, the entire three hour and 45 minute proceedings of the first day are available. Note that the most direct access to the audio content is via the day links on the home page. [JS] 5. The Gateway to Educational Materials--NLE, US Department of Education http://thegateway.org/ Spurred by President Clinton's 1997 call to prioritize education in the Information Age, the National Library of Education (NLE) and the US Department of Education collaborated to create this one-stop educational resource. Current sites listed provide information, lesson plans, and activities pertaining to all K-12 subjects. Users can browse sites by subject or keyword, or they can search by subject, keyword, title, or full-text of the site description. GEM sources are derived from a consortium that includes the AskERIC Virtual Library, the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, Math Forum, Microsoft Encarta, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and the US Department of Education. Future plans include the ability to search by state and national curriculum standards. [JR] 10. They Still Draw Pictures: Drawings Made by Spanish Children During the Spanish Civil War, Circa 1938--UCSD MSCL http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/tsdp/index.html Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego, presents this exhibition of 609 drawings made by school children in Spain and in refugee centers in France during the Spanish Civil War. Images of war through children's eyes predominate, but some drawings show scenes unaffected by the war. The Spanish Board of Education and the Carnegie Institute of Spain collected the drawings and, in 1938, published 60 in a book entitled _They Still Draw Pictures_, with a forward by Aldous Huxley, to raise funds for children's relief efforts in Spain. Visitors to the site can view the black and white plates from the book by clicking on published drawings. The hundreds of additional pictures from library collections are arranged by location, and are reproduced in color. Captions include title, artist's name and age, school, and some description. [DS] From: Willard McCarty Subject: sine qua non Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 09:04:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 147 (147) Humanists who collect examples of publications that without the Internet certainly or probably would not exist may wish to record Retiarius: Commentarii Periodici Latini, a early journal publishing articles exclusively in Latin, at <http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/retiarius/>. Among the items listed in the collection of links to other things (Et alibi) is Lupa (sub aegide VRomae, <http://www.colleges.org/~vroma/>), a limited area search engine, which is to say, Subsidia interretialia quae ad Romanos antiquos pertinent. Never very far away, now even from the world of Latin studies, is the Perseus Project, whose e-version of the Lewis and Short lexicon is worth trying out (see <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/newlatin.html>). If you need examples of applications that are difficult or impossible to accomplish in older forms of publication, note the English to Latin word search facility -- but before you try it, if possible either make a list of all Latin words for a given English one, or what may be better, consult one of the old printed English to Latin dictionaries, such as Riddle and Arnold (1854) or Smith (1870). It is illuminating to reflect on the scholarly difference between consulting such a "reverse" lexicon in print, necessarily by headword, and one in electronic form, by all words in every entry. As an aid to the study of literature, especially poetry (as opposed to the writing of compositions, clearly the purpose of the older printed reverse dictionaries), the new tool represents a significant advance, no? When pursuing the occurrence of an idea or image in poetry by text-analytic means, do we not want for our vocabulary at least to know about all words that are even tangentially related? Thus, for example, we find "coquo" (cook, etc.) through the reversed Lewis and Short for "burn", and so are pushed to consider as related the idea of ripening, making mature, or the notion of disturbance of mind. A rather different semantic field than the one expected may by this means come into focus. 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: history of mathematics Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:42:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 148 (148) Many Humanists will be interested in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, <http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/>, based at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). One might, for example, look up the biography of Wilhelm Schickard, who invented a calculating machine in 1623. Since he was professor of Hebrew at the University of Tuebingen, one might be tempted to date the beginnings of humanities computing rather earlier than is usually done. 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/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Q&A guidebook to Copyright in the Visual Arts Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:17:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 149 (149) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 17, 1998 COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION PLANS TO PUBLISH Q&A GUIDEBOOK TO COPYRIGHT IN THE VISUAL ARTS Send questions to: [deleted quotation] From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Computers and the Humanities: Vol 31, No 3 Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:07:26 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 150 (150) *********************************************************************** JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *********************************************************************** COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Volume 31 No. 3 1997 Table of Contents ----------------- FEATURE ARTICLES ---------------- High-quality imaging at the National Gallery: Origins, implementation and applications David Saunders pp. 153-167 PLATA: An Application of LEGAL, a Machine Learning Based System, to a Typology of Archaeological Ceramics Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Marie-Salome Lagrange, Monique Renaud, Jean Sallantin pp. 169-187 Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries Margaret Hedstrom pp. 189-202 Adding New Words into A Chinese Thesaurus Ji Donghong, Gong Junping, Huang Changning pp. 203-227 NOTES AND DISCUSSION -------------------- Language Independent Statistical Software for Corpus Exploration John Sinclair, Oliver Mason, Jackie Ball, Geoff Barnbrook pp. 229-255 BOOK REVIEW ----------- Dickens on Disk Eric Johnson pp. 257-260 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Executive, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Dieke van Wijnen Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lloyd Davidson Subject: Digital Object Identifiers session @ ALA Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:05:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 151 (151) If anybody on this list is going to Annual American Libraries Association meeting in Washington, DC, you might want to attend this session. You can also find out more about DOIs by looking at the Web sites listed below, which includes a paper I recently wrote, with Kim Douglas from Caltech, on the issue. Norm Paskin, director of the DOI Foundation, will be one of the panelists. ============================================================================= Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs): Impacts, Costs and Concerns Introduced and moderated by Kimberly Douglas Director, Sherman Fairchild Library and Technical Information Services California Institute of Technology Program and Business Meeting, RENW (Renaissance Washington) Ren West A and B Sunday, June 28, 1998, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sponsored by: Electronic Publishing/Electronic Journals LITA Special Interest Group http://www.lita.org/igs/epej.htm Overview of session: The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system is currently in development and production for providing a reliable standardized mechanism for identifying, locating, and accessing digital information. Major publishers, particularly those in STM fields, have adopted the DOI system by joining the International DOI Foundation (http://www.doi.org), an organization founded at the initiative of the AAP. The DOI system not only provides a unique identification for content, but also a way of linking users of the materials to the rights holders in order to facilitate automated digital commerce. This session will review the status of policy, technical and business plan issues for robust and persistent implementation of this identifier system. The degree to which this implementation has responded to needs raised by librarians and library-representing organizations will also be covered. Speakers: Bill Rosenblatt Market Development Manager, Media & Publishing Sun Microsystems To address: General description of the genesis of and current DOI system structure focusing on intelligence, affordance, length, integration of metadata and how the DOI relates to copyright management technologies being considered by publishers and other information providers. Norman Paskin Director The International DOI Foundation To address: Governance and business plan of the IDF including costs, formal and informal relationships with other information organizations and clarification of allowed degrees of experimentation. Albert Simmonds Director, Standards/Development R.R. Bowker To address: System maintenance issues from the point-of-view of the Agency/System Manager including context of various standards initiatives linked to DOI, both in the information industry and in other industries dealing with intellectual property. Priscilla Caplan Assistant Director for Library Systems University of Chicago Library To address: Status and membership of working groups and committees regarding development of standards for DOI syntax, metadata, and resolver technology. Dale Flecker Associate Director for Planning and Systems, Harvard University Library and Chair, Technical Architecture Committee, Digital Library Foundation To address: Library-oriented identifier requirements for the DOI to achieve persistence and facilitate unencumbered access. -------------------------- Organized by Lloyd Davidson Life Sciences Librarian, Head, Access Services and Kaplan Humanities Fellow Northwestern University, Mudd Library for Science and Engineering LDavids@nwu.edu Useful URLs for understanding digital object identifiers June 1998 Update: Articles about DOIs (in reverse chronological order): http://www.lita.org/igs/doiieeefp1.pdf Davidson, Lloyd and Kimberly Douglas. "Digital Object Identifiers and their Role in the Implementation of Electronic Publishing," a paper presented at the Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Workshop held in cooperation with the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Advances in Digital Libraries (ADL '98), April 23-25, 1998 in Santa Barbara, California. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april98/04gladney.html Gladney, Henry M. "Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: A Note on Universal Unique Identifiers." D-Lib Magazine. April 1998. http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan/story4.htm Bernstein, Paula. "DOI: A New Identifier for Digital Content". Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, Volume 6, Number 1, January 1998. http://www.bic.org.uk/bic/unicorn2.pdf Bide, Mark. "In Search of the Unicorn: The Digital Object Identifier From a User Perspective". BNBRF Report 89, Book Industry Communication, February 1998. http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/doi.html Rosenblatt, Bill. "Solving the Dilemma of Copyright Protection Online". The Journal of Electronic Publishing, Volume 3, Issue 2, December 1997. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/arms.html Arms, William A. "Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and Clifford Lynch's five questions on identifiers". ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions 194 (October 1997). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/194/identifier.html Lynch, Clifford. "Identifiers and Their Roles In Networked Information Applications". ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions 194 (October 1997). Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries. http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/about/infoident/ Paskin, Norman. "Information Identifiers". Originally published in LEARNED PUBLISHING, Vol 10, No. 2, pp 135-156 (April 1997). http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue8/unique-identifiers/ Powell, Andy. "Unique Identifiers in a Digital World". Ariadne, April 1997. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february97/cnri/02arms1.html Arms, William A. "An Architecture for Information in Digital Libraries". D-Lib Magazine, February 1997. Publisher Demonstrations and Explanations of their work with DOIs: http://www.doi.org The official page of the International DOI Foundation provides links to membership information, explanation of the DOI system and a Gallery illustrating different publisher's implementations of the DOI. http://www.apnet.com/www/doi/gallery.htm Academic Press explanation and demonstration of its work with Dos particularly linking of cited references with articles published in Wiley journals. http://doi.wileynpt.com/gallery.html Wiley's DOI server provides a response page for all 70,000+ registered identifiers. This page has links to show case collaborative projects with Academic Press and the National Library of Medicine. http://link.springer.de/doi/online-first.htm Springer-Verlag recently implemented DOIs as part of its Online-First service to make articles available electronically as they are published. http://www.alcs.co.uk/doidocs/index.htm This site is for the Author's Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) which has linked the DOI system to a text numbering scheme and embedded the DOI in a text watermark using a system developed by the IMPRIMATUR project. This is done to identify any illegal use of the text. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: Recounting of Non-rationale Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:14:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 152 (152) Willard, Recently there appeared on Humanist an announcement for a set of talks to be given at King's on June 11 or thereabouts. [I was not able to locate the message in the Archive.] I was wondering if you could convince some soul that was in attendence to write a few words for Humanist. Much appreciated, Francois ever absently curious [The event to which Francois refers is described at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/electxts.html>. --WM] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: sub rosa Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:06:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 153 (153) In the 1960s I worked as a computer operator at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California. I began with an IBM 7090 (core memory, tape drives, card reader, etc.) and IBM 1170 (primarily cards-to-tape), then moved to the newly designed and constructed Control Data 6600, which I saw being installed. The 6600 arrived with an operating system that -- mirabile dictu -- could run 8 programs simultaneously, using a central processor and 13 independent peripheral processors. The CDC 6600 was fed by a CDC 6400, which handled I/O, storing up work for the bigger machine to do and taking its output and scheduling the printing. With such support the 6600 CPU could keep itself busy for quite a while, unlike the 7090, which had to be given one job at a time, and which would come to an utter halt until its tape requests and the like were handled. I can still remember the moment when, sitting at the console of the new 6600, on the "grave shift", I realised that the machine did not really need me. Not in the same way the 7090 had. That moment of realisation marked for me a turning point in what computers represented -- semi-independent entities, automata. More than 30 years later, a couple of days ago in fact, I had another such experience. For a few months now I have been participating in an experiment to evaluate the utility of ISDN for connection between home, where I run Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, and the College network. The major impact of ISDN on my work is not so much the improved speed but the fact that the dedicated ISDN line allows connection to be made to or from my machine at any time without my having to do anything. The line is simply raised when it is needed, then dropped after a few seconds of idleness. One consequence of this is that anyone anywhere can contact my home computer when it is on; if the call is accepted by the machine, my line is charged the standard connection rate. So, you can imagine my concern when I began to notice that independently of what I was doing the lights on the router near the machine would every once and a while begin to flash and I could hear hard-disk activity. Eventually the network chap at the College began to watch the traffic and discovered that there was a great deal of data coming from a Microsoft site. (Wait, don't jump to conclusions yet!) What puzzled me was that this activity would occur when NO applications were running. It took me many days but finally I was able to catch the machine in flagrante delicto while I had the NT Task Manager running and showing the active processes. I saw something called LOADWC.EXE suddenly jump to life and grab a lion's share of the CPU cycles. What, I wondered, could LOADWC ("LOAD Water Closet"???) be? To find out, I searched the NT registry and found that it was called "BrowserWebCheck". Being suspicious, I guessed that it had something to do with Internet Explorer, which has deep roots into NT. I ran Explorer and discovered that (I then remembered) weeks ago I had subscribed experimentally to a number of news services in Explorer. In other words, NT/Explorer recorded my subscription, then set up automatic acceptance of data from the Microsoft service, which data LOADWC was having stored on my hard disk, all without my needing to be aware of it or to run Explorer. In still other words, the network has taken on a life of its own, just as the CDC 6600 did all those years ago. It's worth pondering what this sort of thing means. I'd be most interested in your thoughts. 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/> ========================================================================= From: "Jan-Gunnar Tingsell " Subject: Disertation on-line Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:05:36 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 154 (154) We have got our first disertation electronically published as a whole. "The Doorkeeper and the Beast - The Experience of Literary Narratives in Educational Context" by Maj Asplund Carlsson. It is available in pdf format at URL=3Dhttp://www.hum.gu.se/~litwww/litmac.html -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell=09=09=09 Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice=09tel:=09+46 (0)31 773 4553 G=F6teborgs universitet=09=09=09fax:=09+46 (0)31 773 4455 URL=3Dhttp://www.hum.gu.se From: David Green Subject: UK Report on Needs of Users of Digital History Resources= Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:02:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 155 (155) =20 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 16, 1998 SCHOLARLY EXPLOITATION OF DIGITAL RESOURCES: A WORKSHOP FOR HISTORIANS DRAFT REPORT AVAILABLE: FEEDBACK INVITED <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/reports/user_needs/draft_report01.stm> Readers will probably be interested in a series of workshops being conducted in the UK under the joint auspices of the Arts & Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the JISC Committee on Awareness, Liaison and Training (CALT). The focus is on defining the needs of users of digital resources in the humanities. The series comprises five discipline-specific workshops (archaeology, history, literary and linguistic texts, the performing arts and the visual arts) together with a "National Expert Workshop" that was held in January (see <http://ahds.ac.uk/users/natrep.html> for a report on that workshop). Below is the announcement of a draft report on the history workshop, organized this April by the History Data Service for the creators and users of historical digital resources. The executive summary of the report identified the following broad needs: * recognition for the scholarship involved in the creation and use of electronic resources in research and teaching * sufficient resources and funding to provide historians with the means to successfully integrate electronic resources in their research and teaching * a programme of key dataset creation which would need to be directed and funded by one or more central authorities * agreed standards concerning project management, data design, data documentation, data management, data preservation and data analysis, plus a framework for standards development * continued development of a consistent support hierarchy from national through to local level to ensure the right support and guidance reaches the user community * appropriate and discipline-specific training aimed at historians and their problems * improved access to data The report usefully discusses the obstacles and opportunities for using digital resources in history as well as the training needs for users of such resources. David Green =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [deleted quotation]e [deleted quotation]m [deleted quotation]e [deleted quotation]n [deleted quotation]f [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Semitic Languages Workshop Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:40:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 156 (156) [deleted quotation] Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages COLING-ACL98 Sunday August 16, 1998, University of Montreal **Call for Pre-Registration** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Although there exists a considerable body of CL research specifically targeted to Semitic languages, much of the work to date has been the result of initiatives undertaken by individual researchers or research establishments. A direct consequence is that there is comparatively little awareness amongst practitioners of either the state of the art as practiced outside their own locality, the common challenges faced by all practitioners, or the potential for developing a coordinated approach. [material deleted] FINAL PROGRAMME: http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/casl/prog.html PRE-REGISTRATION: http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IWCS-3 Call for Papers Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:41:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 157 (157) [deleted quotation] Third International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS - 3) January 13-15, 1999, Tilburg, The Netherlands ------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ------------- The Linguistics Department at Tilburg University will host the Third International Workshop on Computational Semantics, that will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, 13 - 15 January 1999. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the study of computational aspects of the semantics of natural language. [material deleted] Email: Computational.Semantics@kub.nl Phone: +31-13 466 30 60 Fax: +31-13 466 31 10 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Special Issue of JCMC on Higher Education and Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:43:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 158 (158) Computer-Mediated Communication [deleted quotation] Call for Papers: Special Issue of JCMC on Higher Education and Computer-Mediated Communication Edited by: Sheizaf Rafaeli, Margaret McLaughlin, and Eli Noam Deadline for Submission of Proposals: September 1, 1998 Deadline for Draft Manuscripts: November 1, 1998 This special issue of JCMC will revisit the interaction of computer-mediated communication and higher education. What are the roles of computer-mediation in the creation and delivery of university services? What are the impacts of computer-mediated connectivity on academe? What are the goals and values, and what is the efficiency of higher education in the age of the Internet? Is the physical campus circumvented by the virtual information highway? Is the University improved, threatened or challenged by this technology? Should it be? Both the technology and the culture of computer-mediated communication were conceived, nurtured and hatched in universities. The Internet and its use started there. But the Internet and its use have since "graduated" into the much larger worlds of the home and business. Can or will CMC look back? The term "university" evokes images of the lecture, classroom, seminar, book, library, conference and scientific journal. Will computer-mediated communication replace, augment or redefine any of these loci or processes? Is CMC becoming a central mode of carrying out the various responsibilities of the university? Or are CMC technologies and processes still lacking something central to traditional universities? Will CMC higher education just be for the poor masses, while elite universities will retain the face-to-face model? Or, conversely, will CMC only be for the initiated and those fortunate enough to be able to afford bandwidth, leaving out others? Who are the stakeholders? Do researchers, teachers, students and others stand to gain or lose? Almost four years ago, JCMC's first issue (Volume 1, Issue 1) was titled "Collaborative Learning" (Acker, 1995) and devoted to early discussions of the vision. Potential impacts of CMC on higher education were proposed. These included discussions of the time/place tension, the roles of technology and media in design and telelearning, and a restructuring of the (cyber)campus. Many of us have now been through several years of early experimentation. The issue is no longer an academic one of predicting the future. The history of CMC and higher education is by no means over, though the future of universities is questioned by some (e.g. Electronics and the Dim Future of the University, Noam, 1995). This issue of JCMC is an opportunity to shift from vision to accounts. We encourage submission of studies examining the form, suitability, implementation, acceptance, efficacy and utility of CMC innovations in higher education. Papers are solicited which address the dimensions of interest in deciding about CMC: Is CMC in the university about redistributing power and discourse, or is it about cutting costs? Does CMC make higher education less or more accessible, does it increase the reach and speed of diffusion, and/or does it impact the sociology of knowledge? For further information please contact Sheizaf Rafaeli at sheizaf@umich.edu or sheizafr@shum.huji.ac.il or Margaret McLaughlin at mmclaugh@rcf.usc.edu References Acker, S. R. (Ed.) (1995) Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (JCMC) [On-line], 1 (1). Available: http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol1/issue1/index.html or http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue1/index.html. Noam, E. (1995) Electronics and the Dim Future of the University, Science, Vol. 270, pp 247-249, October 13, 1995. [On-line] Available: http://www.asis.org/annual-96/noam.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Guedon Jean-Claude Subject: Re: 12.0081 online diss.; digital history needs Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:31:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 159 (159) Speaking of on-line dissertations, I would like to remind the readers of=20 he Humanists list that two, converging, distributed projects are=20 proceeding even as I write these lines. The first one is Virginia Tech's=20 effort. It is still largely based on pdf but does not seem to be married=20 to that format forever. The other one is based in Quebec for the moment=20 and involves the five universities that produce about 95% of all theses=20 in the Province. Collaboration with French, Brazilian, Chilean and Korean= =20 teams are either negotiated or explored. This project is firmly based on=20 SGML as a storage-production format, whil pdf will be available along=20 with other formats for retrieval purposes. If you know of institutional thesis projects that work in isolation,=20 please let me know as I firmly believe in the virtues of distributed=20 coordination. In other words, let us talk. Best to all, Jean-Claude Gu=E9don Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- =09Jean-Claude Gu=E9don=09=09=09=09Tel. 514-343-6208 =09D=E9partement de litt=E9rature compar=E9e=09=09Fax. 514-343-2211 =09Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al=09=09 =09CP 6128, Succursale "Centre-ville"=09=09Surfaces =09Montr=E9al, Qc H3C 3J7=09=09=09=09 =09Canada=09=09=09http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/=09 See you at INET'98, Geneva, 21-24 July, 1998 http://www.isoc.org/inet98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Chair in AI, University of Sheffield Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:37:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 160 (160) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleague: Usual apologies for any duplicates of this. Below is an advertisement that just appeared for a Chair which we hope to fill with a candidate in AI, broadly interpreted. I am writing to ask if you would pass this message on to anyone good who is seeking such a Chair. Experience in other places seems to have shown that one gets a better field of AI candidates by explicitly mentioning it, rather than assuming it is covered by a catch-all title of Computer Science; logically, it is covered, but not psychologically for many people. Sheffield is a good Department to be in right now, increasing in size, resources and research quality, and it is a good city to live in too. UK Vice-chancellors (i.e. Presidents or Rectors) are now much more flexible when making such appointments, in terms of salary, pensions and equipment, and it is expected that a lecturer (Asst. Professor) appointment would come with this Chair. I would be happy to talk informally with anyone interested. Best wishes #Yorick Wilkks ************************************************************************* The University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science CHAIR IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Applications are invited for a Chair in Artificial Intelligence or Software Engineering. This provides an exciting opportunity to join a Department with an internationally recognised reputation in both teaching and research. Further information about the Department can be obtained from it's Web pages, URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ Informal enquiries can be made to the Head of Department, Professor Colin Smythe, Tel: 0114 222 1801, Fax: 0114 278 0972, Email: c.smythe@dcs.shef.ac.uk Closing date for applications: 17 July 1998. (Ref: R1480) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Further particulars from the Personnel Department, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, Tel: 0114 222 1631 (24hr) or Email: jobs@sheffield.ac.uk Web Site at: http://www/shef.ac.uk/jobs/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0085 defining moments Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 08:23:43 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 161 (161) The Internet hasn't suddenly taken on a life of its own; the polling mechanisms of the whole store-and-forward Internet scheme have always been ready to send things whenever one was open to receive it. What may be new is that the ISDN connection is always active, and Explorer is active too, without being invoked. But many people now set their PC startup sequences to make their Internet connections and start up their browsers to receive email all day, even setting them to give an audible signal when it happens. They do the same to receive the "pushed" content that you are receiving. The difference, it seems, is that "on" and "receiving" has become the default with Explorer when an Internet connection is present. You can probably turn it off? It's easy to see what kind of commercial plans exist to exploit this possibility as more people become unwittingly open to it, but the net itself as a medium has always been capable of carrying such traffic, given a durable connection and client software designed to look for incoming traffic in the background. My defining moment was some fifteen years ago when I took an AT&T UNIX system down for the first time and watched the software turn off the hardware without my intervention. I was moved with wonder at that kind of "decoupled agency." Pat Galloway MS Dept. of Archives and History From: Charles Ess Subject: Re: 12.0080 levels of involvement Date: Fri, 19 Jun 98 14:32:50 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 162 (162) Willard wrote: While the Esther Dysons of the world are making their fame by pronouncing on many matters we are better qualified to know about, there is no one but us to do the research. This would suggest that we should let those who would be media stars do their thing, not be bothered by the utter fatuousness of so much of the performances and do what we are best at doing. == Amen! Charles Ess Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 19, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:41:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 163 (163) Version 19 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 600 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf> Word: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc> The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 190 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm> http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EMLS 4.1 now available Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:41:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 164 (164) [deleted quotation] *Early Modern Literary Studies* 4.1 (May, 1998) http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Articles: * Article Abstracts / R=E9sum=E9s des Articles. * Jonson's Stoic Politics: Lipsius, the Greeks, and the "Speach According to Horace." [1]. Robert C. Evans, Auburn University Montgomery. * Petruchio's Horse: Equine and Household Management in The Taming of the Shrew. [2]. Peter F. Heaney, Staffordshire University. Note: * "Corrupt with goodly meede": Munera and Medusa in Book 5 of Spenser's The Faerie Queene. [3]. Joan Fitzpatrick, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon. Reviews: * John Peacock. The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones: The European Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995. [4]. A.W. Johnson, =C5bo Akademi University. * Harry Keyishian. The Shapes of Revenge: Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities P International Inc., 1995. [5]. Bryan N.S. Gooch, University of Victoria. * Willy Maley. Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity. London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's P, 1997. [6]. Christopher Ivic, University of Western Ontario. * Jeffrey Masten. Textual Intercourse: Collaboration, Authorship, and Sexualities in Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997. [7]. Mary Bly, Washington University in St. Louis. * Curtis C. Breight. Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era. New York: St. Martin=92s P, 1996. [8]. Chris Fitter, Rutgers University-Camden. * Paula Blank. Broken English: Dialects and the Politics of Language in Renaissance Writings. London: Routledge, 1996. [9]. Swen Voekel, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. * James Stokes, ed. Records of Early English Drama: Somerset. (Including Bath, ed. Robert J. Alexander). 2 Vols. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996. [10]. James Cummings, University of Leeds. * James D. Tracy. Erasmus of the Low Countries. Berkeley, California: U of California P, 1996. Desiderius Erasmus. Colloquies. Translated and annotated by Craig R. Thompson. Collected Works of Erasmus, Vols. 39-40. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997. [11]. Romuald Ian Lakowski. * Ann Thompson and Sasha Roberts, eds. Women Reading Shakespeare 1660-1900: An Anthology of Criticism. Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1997. [12]. Christine Mack Gordon, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. * John M. Mucciolo, Editor. Assisted by Steven J. Doloff and Edward A. Rauchut. Shakespeare=92s Universe: Renaissance Ideas and Conventions (Essays in Honour of W.R. Elton). Hampshire and Vermont: Scolar P, 1996. [13]. Steve Cirrone, Center for Higher Education. * Reviewing Information, Books Received for Review, and Forthcoming Reviews. Articles Accepted and Forthcoming in Future Issues: * Literature and Geography, a special issue edited by Richard Helgerson and Joanne Woolway. o "Introduction." Richard Helgerson, University of California, Santa Barbara. o "Civilizing Wales: Cymbeline, Roads and the Landscapes of Early Modern Britain." Garrett Sullivan, Pennsylvania State University. o "'Britannia Insularem in Ocean Maxima': Mapping the Nation in 1599." Emma Smith, Cambridge University. o "A Map of Greater Cambria." Philip Schwyzer, University of California, Berkeley. o "Spenser, Shakespeare, and the Map of Ireland." Bernhard Klein, University of Frankfurt. o "Significant Spaces in Edmund Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland." Joanne Woolway, Oxford University. o "Translated Geographies: Spenser's 'Ruins of Time'." Huw Griffiths, University of Strathclyde. o "'On the Famous Voyage': Ben Jonson and Civic Space." Andrew McRae, University of Sydney. o "John Donne's Use of Space." Lisa Gorton, Oxford University. o "'Upon the Suddaine View': State, Civil Society and Surveillance in Early Modern England." Sven Voekel, Rochester University. o "Anti-geography in Early Seventeenth-Century England." Robert Appelbaum, University of Cincinnati. o "Gutting the Map: Exchange and Abjection at the Cape of Good Hope." Jerry Brotton, University of Leeds. o "Britannia Rules the Waves?: Images of Empire in Elizabethan England." Lesley Cormack, University of Alberta. o "Ruling the World: The Cartographic Gaze in Elizabethan Accounts of the New World." Mark Koch, St Mary's College. o "Internet Resources for Literature and Geography, A Hyper-linked Guide." Rhonda Lemke Sanford, University of Colorado at Boulder. * "The (Self)-Fashioning of Ezekiel Edgworth in Jonson's Bartholomew Fair." Jean MacIntyre, University of Alberta. * "Good Counsel and 'Famylyaryte' in Thomas Starkey's Dialogue between Pole and Lupset." Robert Haynes, Texas A&M International University. * "'The Great Regalio's of a Play': A Note on The Fop as Theater." Andrew P. Williams, North Carolina Central University. ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies:= http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html wk. phone: (403) 492-7801 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: EMLS@UAlberta.ca From: Editor Australia's Cultural Network Subject: ausculture discussion list Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 11:01:42 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 165 (165) Apologies for any cross posting You're invited to subscribe to ausculture, Australia's Cultural Network discussion list. Australia's Cultural Network, at http://www.acn.net.au/ is the online gateway to Australian cultural resources, events, activities, news and websites. 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The purpose of the conference was to "identify concrete action by private companies, nonprofit organizations, educators, government, and kids that will enrich online learning for America's children and teens. Vice President Gore, according to the report below by the American Library Association, "encouraged participants to build more public spaces on the Internet for children such as digital parks, libraries and museums. The Vice President wishes for students to have 'access to every book ever printed, every painting ever painted, and every symphony ever composed.'" The event was sponsored by the Egg Company 2 (EC2, the Annenberg Incubator Project at the University of Southern California), and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. The web site has video and audio archives of ten presentations and panels, including that of the Vice President, delivered via satellite. David Green ============ [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: The Challenge of Image Retrieval: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:24:26 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 167 (167) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 24, 1998 THE CHALLENGE OF IMAGE RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE: February 25-26, 1999, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK CALL FOR PAPERS <http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/conference.html> [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Langues : Appel ` communication - Call for papers Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:24:08 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 168 (168) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS We have the pleasure to announce the setting up of a new journal, LANGUES. This publication, which will mainly publish papers in French and which is partly financed by AUPELF-UREF, aims to facilitate the dialogue between all the people who work on or with language, researchers, teachers of French, etc. It will thus publish papers on various subjects having to do with all the domains or disciplines related to language: linguistics (phonology, morphology, lexical semantics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), sociolinguistics (social and cultural aspects of language and language use, linguistic variations, creole studies), applied linguistics (teaching French as a second language, learning to read), psycholinguistics, language engineering (automatic understanding, automatic translation, man-machine dialogue, production, speech analysis, information retrieval, corpus processing). This is not an exhaustive list. LANGUE will be accompanied by an online web server where one or more paper(s) per volume will be accessible, as well as some services, conference announcements, table of contents for other scientific journals, new publications, theses, etc. It will also be accompanied by an electronic mailing list, which will encourage discussions about papers published in the journal and will allow exchanges on other subjects as well. LANGUE will issue four volumes a year. The journal will be published in French, but submitting papers in English is possible. Papers submitted in English and accepted will be translated in French. CALL FOR PAPERS Papers of 20 pages (30 000 characters) at most in the domains mentioned above or in related domains can be submitted at any time. Papers in French should respect the instructions to authors which are available on the web at <http://www.john-libbey-eurotext.fr> or which can be obtained through Catherine Lavau ((33) 01 46 73 06 65, fax: (33) 01 47 46 81 06 or (33) 01 40 84 09 99). Illustrations or schemas are welcome. Authors who wish to meet the deadline for n=B0 2 (to appear december 1998) should send their papers before the 31rst of august. MAIN INFORMATIONS Papers size: 20 pages (30 000 characters) Electronic format: Word 6 or lower, or ascii (for other formats, please contact us) Email addresses: or Snail mail address: LANGUES LORIA-CNRS BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE (33) 03 83 59 20 37 Fax: (33) 03 83 41 30 79 Deadline for paper reception: 31rst of August 1998 Notification of acceptance: 1rst of october 1998 Final version due on: 21rst of october 1998 Submission of papers by Email is possible at the adresses indicated above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Steve McCarty Subject: Gleanings from Japan Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:55:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 169 (169) How are all of you this summer? It's the sultry monsoon season here in Japan, but for those who may be interested, my recent Web publications and activities are summarized in an Asian Studies e-newsletter out of Ohio State: "Multilingual Initiatives from Southwestern Japan" AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:2 (23 June 1998) <http://asiandoc.lib.ohio-state.edu/v1n2/dbs/Gshikoku.html> Collegially, Steve McCarty Professor, Kagawa Junior College, Japan <http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/presence.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford HCU Lecture Series: Text, Electronic Texts, and Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:22:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 170 (170) the Theory of Mark-Up From: Stuart Lee ******ALL WELCOME********** Lecture Series, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN At the Humanities Computing Unit we are greatly honoured to have Dr. Allen Renear from Brown University visiting for the summer. Dr. Renear is offering a series of three lectures on his work with electronic texts and the theory of mark-up. All welcome! For more information on Dr. Renear see http://www.stg.brown.edu/stg/staff_pages/allen.html Lecture Series: Lecture 1: Text Ontology from Below: The Contribution of Computing Practice to New Theories of Textuality 1.00-2.00pm, OUCS, Wednesday 29th July Lecture 2: Towards a New Theory of Markup 1.00-2.00pm, OUCS, Thursday 30th July Lecture 3: The Revised Standard Theory of "What Text Really Is" 1.00-2.00pm, OUCS, Wednesday 5th August Stuart Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing --------------- Lecture 1: Text Ontology from Below: The Contribution of Computing Practice to New Theories of Textuality 1.00-2.00pm, OUCS, Wednesday 29th July The practice of computer text encoding has turned out to be astonishingly effective at generating insights into the nature of textuality. In particular, over the last decade reflective practitioners of electronic publishing and computer text encoding have developed in succession three very powerful general theories which, perhaps not surprisingly, recapitulate three fundamental metaphysical attitudes towards the world in general: realism, pluralism, and antirealism. Although these theories have deep connections with contemporary debates about the nature of text, their origin in the practical contexts of writing, publishing, typesetting, editing, and researching create a uniquely fresh, straightforward, and practice-grounded perspective on problems which are otherwise notorious for their obscurity and difficulty. This talk reviews the emergence of these theories, looking closely at their social and technological contexts as well as examining in detail the analysis and reasoning deployed to support them. Lecture 2: Towards a New Theory of Markup 1.00-2.00pm, OUCS, Thursday 30th July The computer markup taxonomies of the 1980s were very effective in explaining and systematizing various phenomena of text processing and they played a crucial role in providing the ideology for the campaign to promote the "content object" approach to designing and using text processing systems. But although these taxonomies have been carried over with little or no criticism into the new arenas of modern text encoding, a close examination reveals that the most stable and familiar portion of the received taxonomy is actually deeply flawed. Drawing on the "speech-act theory" of Austin and Searle this talk will analyze some problems with core portions of the standard markup taxonomy and explore some possible revisions which accomodate the problem cases and provide a new categorization with improved explanatory and predictive power. In the process it will attempt to improve our understanding of the fundamental nature of markup in general. It will also suggest that perhaps any attempt to understand how exactly how markup works will quickly encounter unresolved problems in text ontology -- we still do not have a common understanding of what text really is, and until we do peripheral efforts to improve our knowledge of textual features such as markup will be incomplete. Lecture 3: The Revised Standard Theory of "What Text Really Is" 1.00-2.00pm, OUCS, Wednesday 5th August This talk outlines a natural and commonsense view of the nature of text.This theory of what text is, which we will call the "Revised Standard Theory" is defined by these theses: 1) Realism: Texts exist and have properties independent of our theories about them. 2) Structuralism: Texts are structures of objects. 3) Platonism: The objects which constitute texts are abstract. 4) Intentionalism: Texts are created by collective social acts 5) Hierarchicalism: The structure of texts is hierarchical 6) Verbalism: The objects which constitute texts are linguistic objects; renditional features are not parts of texts, and therefore not a proper locus of textual meaning. These theses are explained and then arguments and evidence are adduced to suggest that while the case for the Revised Standard Theory of text may not yet be complete and decisive, it is nevertheless a coherent view, and a plausible one, well supported by the evidence of theory and practice. In the absence of any other well-developed competing account the Revised Standard Theory should be considered the best account of text that we have. Allen Renear, the Director of the Brown University Scholarly Technology Group, is currently Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the the Humanities Computing Unit. --------------------------------------------- Dr. Allen Renear Allen_Renear@Brown.Edu http://www.stg..brown.edu Director, Scholarly Technology Group (on leave, 3/98-9/98) Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912 President, Association for Computing in the Humanities http://www.ach.org 3/98-9/98: Visiting Fellow, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University 13 Banbury Road / Oxford England. OX2 1QZ Tel: +44 (0)1865 2-73221 (9am-5pm) -83294 (5pm-9pm and weekends) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Bill Chandler Subject: WordNet as search software thesaurus Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 19:50:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 171 (171) All: I would like some feedback on my use of WordNet as a thesaurus for the Coastal Information Directory (CID). CID is Internet based search software for locating coastal data and information using Z39.50 client/server technology. The results of a search provides an interface to WordNet that displays related words. A drop down list of synonyms is presented using searchtype -synsn. A hypernym list is displayed for living organisms using searchtype -hypen. What improvements might I try? The URL is: http://www.csc.noaa.gov/CID/ Thank you, Bill -- Bill Chandler * TPMC at NOAA/Coastal Services Center <http://www.csc.noaa.gov> 2234 South Hobson Avenue, Charleston, SC 29405-2413 843.740.1228 * bchandler@csc.noaa.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Neil Beagrie Subject: AHDS Guides to Good Practice Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:18:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 172 (172) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 24, 1998 UK's ARCHAEOLOGY DATA SERVICE PUBLISHES: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS--GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE <http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/goodguides/gis/> First in series of GUIDES TO GOOD PRACTICE PUBLISHED BY ARTS & HUMANITIES DATA SERVICE <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html> First in an ambitious series of "Guides to Good Practice" to be published by the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service, is the Archaeology Data Service's "GIS Guide to Good Practice." Titles currently being prepared in this series, under the auspices of AHDS, include the following: ARCHAEOLOGY * Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing * Archaeological Geophysics * Computer Aided Design * Excavation and Fieldwork Archiving HISTORY * Digitising history: a guide to creating electronic resources from historical documents * Secondary Analysis in Historical Research * History GIS PERFORMING ARTS * Creating digitised audio materials for use in research and teaching * Digital Collections in the Performing Arts: Metadata, Management and Minefields TEXTUAL STUDIES * Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts * Developing Linguistic Corpora * Finding and Using Electronic Texts VISUAL ARTS * Creating digital information for the Visual Arts: standards and best practice * Using digital information in teaching and learning in the visual arts * Why invest in the digitisation of visual arts material? CROSS-DISCIPLINARY GUIDES * Describing Resources: Dublin Core metadata * Guide to Good Practice in Creating a Viable Digital Resource Further information is available on the AHDS webpage at <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html>. Below I include the explanatory introduction to that page: "The AHDS is publishing a series of Guides providing the humanities research and teaching communities with practical instruction in applying recognised standards and good practice to the creation and use of digital resources. "Some of the Guides focus on methods and applications relevant to humanities disciplines, such as history, archaeology, visual arts, performing arts and textual and linguistic studies. Others address those areas which cross disciplinary boundaries. All Guides identify and explore key issues and provide comprehensive pointers for those who need more specific information. As such they are essential reference materials for anyone interested in computer-assisted research and teaching in the humanities. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Harold Short Subject: lectureship at King's College London Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:40:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 173 (173) King's College London School of Humanities Lectureship in Humanities Computing Applications are invited for this lectureship which is available as a 12-month fixed-term appointment from 1 September 1998 or as soon as possible thereafter. The postholder will be a member of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. The duties will include teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, personal research, and involvement in individual and project-based research in the School of Humanities. Applicants will be expected to have research experience in a humanities discipline and in the application of computing techniques in humanities research. Teaching experience and familiarity with a wide range of computing applications with specialist knowledge in one or more of the following areas: text encoding and textual analysis, databases, computational linguistics, electronic publication and hypermedia are also required. This appointment will be made on either the Lecturer A scale, currently 18,500 to 23,570 pounds sterling per annum, or the Lecturer B scale, currently 24,466 to 30,679 pounds sterling per annum (both inclusive of 2,134 per annum London Allowance), depending on qualifications and experience. For further details and an application form please send a self addressed envelope with reference number to Louisa de Beaufort, School of Humanities, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS or via e-mail at louisa.de_beaufort@kcl.ac.uk The closing date for receipt of applications is 15 July 1998. Please quote reference A1/QC/19/98. Promoting excellence in teaching, learning and research Equality of Opportunity is College Policy [We at the CCH will be pleased to receive any enquiries concerning this job posting, the Centre, its teaching programmes, research and collegial support. Please write either to the undersigned or to Willard McCarty, willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk.] ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: NCC Washington Update, Vol 4, #24, June 24, 1998 (fwd) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:59:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 174 (174) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 24, 1998 HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE POSTPONES CONSIDERATION OF THE DIGITAL COPYRIGHT BILL [deleted quotation] From: Dieke van Wijnen Subject: Re: 12.0095 WordNet application to searching Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:19:52 +0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 175 (175) Dear All, You may be interested to know that Computers and the Humanities, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (editors: Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein) will publish a double issue (volume 32) on Wordnet soon. This work will also become available in book form. As usual, Dr. Ide will post the table of contents on HUmanist and Linguist upon publication for thsoe who are interested. Dieke van Wijnen Commissioning Editor Kluwer ---------------------- Ms. Drs. Dieke van Wijnen Commissioning Editor Humanities & Social Sciences Dept. Kluwer Academic Publishers PO BOX 17 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands Fax 31+ 78 6392 254; Phone 31+ 78 6392 264 http://www.wkap.nl Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Electronic Home for Sir Francis Bacon Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:34:22 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 176 (176) My recent inquiry for a site that would like to house the only machine-readable copy of Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" (AL) has received an overwhelming response. I should like to thank everyone for their consideration. Unfortunately, the application server of this university has been down time and again due to reconstruction work undertaken so that access has been difficult for me. I have made use of my spare time setting up a provisional homepage of my own where an HTML copy and an unformatted text of the this important and beautifully written text can be nownloaded. I ask that those who have shown an interest in putting the text on file at their own sites will do so, considering its size of about 490 MB and slow trans-atlantic and trans-pacific communication lines, rather than simply adding a link to their homepages. If you do so, please let me know so that I shall be able to inform you of any modifications that may be necessary, although the text has been tested several times and should suit most everyday uses. Its URLs are http://www1.uni-bremen.de/~kr538/baconadv.html or http://www1.uni-bremen.de/~kr538/baconadv.txt Interested parties may also find a bio-bibliographical directory to writers on the theory, history, and culture of science which is particularly rich in German-language authors that may be hard to trace outside Germany. Since at least one German search-engine refused adoption of my homepage because of its inclusion of English text, I should be grateful for any recommendations or links. Kind regards Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany kr538@zfn.uni-bremen.de The Culture and History of Science Page (http://www1.uni-bremen.de) "Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." (Francis Bacon of Verulam, Essays). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Robin Cover Subject: New Journal on Markup Languages Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 09:51:14 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 177 (177) Journal Announcement and Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------- Markup Languages: Theory & Practice B. Tommie Usdin, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois/Chicago, Editors The MIT Press is proud to announce the launch of Markup Languages: Theory & Practice starting in early 1999. This quarterly, peer-reviewed technical journal will be the first journal devoted to research, development, and practical applications of text markup for computer processing, management, manipulation, and display. Specific areas of interest include new syntaxes for generic markup languages; refinements to existing markup languages; theory of formal languages as applied to document markup; systems for mark-up; uses of markup for printing, hypertext, electronic display, content analysis, information reuse and repurposing, search and retrieval, and interchange; shared applications of markup languages; and techniques and methodologies for developing markup languages and applications of markup languages. The editors invite academics and practitioners to forward submissions on the above topics. Description of forthcoming content material includes: CASE STUDIES The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition An XML-based system for creating wizard-style helps Implementing SGML for Electronic Publications at the ASM ARTICLES DTD Testing Element Type Hierarchies for Document Structure Definition SGML Document Quality Merging Object Oriented Design and SGML Architectures STANDARDS UPDATES XML, XSL, and XLink SGML DOM Quarterly: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall First issue: January 1999 ISSN: 1099-6621 Volume 1 forthcoming For submission information contact: B. Tommie Usdin Mulberry Technologies, Inc. 17 West Jefferson St., Ste 207 Rockville, MD 20850 btusdin@mulberrytech.com tel: 301-315-9631 fax: 301-315-8285 or M. Sperberg-McQueen, Computer Center (M/C 135) University of Illinois/Chicago tei@uic.edu tel: 312-413-0317 or 708-386-3584 fax: 312-996-6834 To order subscription contact: MIT Press Journals Five Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142 tel: 617-253-2889 fax: 617-577-1545 journals-orders@mit.edu http://mitpress.mit.edu/MLANG Editorial board Editors-in-Chief: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (University of Illinois at Chicago) B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies) Book Review Editor Deborah A. Lapeyre, (Mulberry Technologies) Advisory Board: Charles Goldfarb (Information Management Consulting) Bill Davis (Information Architects) Frank Gilbane (CAP Ventures) Steve Newcomb (TechnoTeacher) Norman Scharpf (Graphic Communications Association) Joan Smith, European Advisor, (SGML Technologies Limited) Robin Tomlin (SGML Open) Editorial Board: Winfried Bader (German Bible Society) David T. Barnard (University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan) Michel Biezunski (High Text) David Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh) Jon Bosak (Sun) Elaine Brennan (Information Architects) Anne Brueggemann-Klein (Technische Universitaet Muenchen) Lou Burnard (Oxford University) Francois Chahuneau (AIS) David Chesnutt (University of South Carolina) James Clark Robin Cover (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Steve DeRose (Inso Corporation) David Durand (Boston University Computer Science) Chet Ensign (Mathew Bender) Peter Flynn (University College, Cork, Ireland) Pam Genussa (Database Publishing Solutions) Paul Grosso (ArborText) Lloyd Harding (Information Assembly Automation) Betty Harvey (Electronic Commerce Connection) Susan Hockey (University of Alberta) Ken Holman (Crane Softwrights) Claus Huitfeldt (Wittgenstein Archives) Alan Karben (Wall Street Journal) Richard Light (SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy) Eve Maler (ArborText) James David Mason (Lockheed Martin Energy Systems) Willard McCarty (King's College, London) Murray Maloney (Muzmo) Makoto Murata (Fuji Xerox Information Systems) Dave Peterson (SGML Works) Daniel Pitti (University of Virginia) Lynne Price (Text Structure Consulting) Liam Quin (Groveware) Darrell Raymond (The Gateway Group and University of Waterloo) Allen Renear (Brown University) Helen Schmierer (Brown University) Robert Streich (Schlumberger) Eric Severson (IBM Global Services) Gary Simons (Summer Institute of Linguistics) Henry Thompson (Language Technology Group) Brian Travis (Information Architects) Stu Weibel (OCLC) Jason Williams (Oceania) Lauren Wood (SoftQuad) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Cover Email: robin@acadcomp.sil.org 6634 Sarah Drive Dallas, TX 75236 USA >>> The SGML/XML Web Page <<< Tel: +1 (972) 296-1783 (h) http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html Tel: +1 (972) 708-7346 (w) FAX: +1 (972) 708-7380 From: PMC Subject: Call for Peer Reviewers Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:27:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 178 (178) PMC: Essays Currently Available for Peer Review Self-nominated peer-reviewers regularly participate in the editorial process of _Postmodern Culture_. All submissions distributed for review have been screened by the editors and will receive two other readings from members of the journal's permanent editorial board; _Postmodern Culture_ preserves the anonymity of both authors and reviewers in this process, but the comments of reviewers will be forwarded to the author. If you would like to review one of the submissions described below, and if you think you can complete that review within two weeks of receiving the essay, please send a note to the editors at pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu outlining your qualifications as a reviewer of the work in question (experience in the subject area, publications, interest), and identifying the MS by number as listed below. We will select one self-nominated reviewer for each of the works listed below, and we will notify reviewers within two weeks. Information gathered during this process about potential reviewers will be kept on file at PMC for future reference. Please note: members of the journal's permanent editorial board should not nominate themselves in response to this call. Manuscripts for review: MS #1 An analysis of the female narrator of Julia Kristeva's novel _The Samurai_. The author suggests a connection between Olga, the protagonist, and Kristeva, arguing that Olga's psychoanalytic approach to work and to other people is based on Kristeva's theory and can be seen as a model for the literary critic and novelist. MS #2 A response to Carolyn Forche's poem _The Angel of History_, this essay begins by interrogating the function of responding itself, and in particular, the function of responding to silence. The author proposes that _The Angel of History_ is a poetry of witness, and that the very act of reading it becomes evidence of the reader having been marked by the events of the poem. The author then suggests that words are indexical markers, diachronically entangled with their histories, and as such are subject to trauma once attached to specific historical contexts. The _Angel of History_ might then be approached as a poem of traumatized words--a poem capable, however, of silencing the referents to which its traumatized words refer. References include Saussure, Lacan, and Benjamin. MS #3 An analysis of styles of honor in Malcolm X and Miles Davis. The author argues that by positioning themselves as archetypal black men, X and Davis became champions of the black male-delineated worlds of black religion and black music, spheres in which black mastery, however patriarchal, phallocentric, and sexist, privileged an ethic of "cool." X's and Davis's investments in codes of honor, in "coolness," the author suggests, not only offered a context for their cultural successes, but also provided a basis for the construction of a re-energized and progressive African- American socio-political movement. References include Eldridge Cleaver, bell hooks, Perry Imani, Greg Tate, and Cornel West. MS #4 An analysis of postmodern fiction in the information age, this article explores the paradigm shift from print to digital culture as a defining aspect of postmodernism. The author suggests that the period of overlap between the two media cultures of print and hypertext results in a condition of instability in which competing values and practices coexist, and proposes that this transitional phase offers an ideal opportunity to study the writer's craft. References include Acker, DeLillo, Gibson, and Pynchon. MS #5 A discussion of layered effects in multiplex poetry since Black Mountain. The author posits that the maximization of resources which occurred at Black Mountain have influenced performance art and poetry in the United States since the second world war, especially with the emergence of technology which enables the composer to control human senses within the framework of a performance situation. References include Benjamin, Bernstein, and Michael Joyce. MS #6 Focusing on the single act of choosing literary texts for the classroom, this essay responds to the question: Does the institutionalization of the postcolonial within the academy diminish its effectiveness as a movement of resistance to western imperialism? The author proposes a two-pronged approach to recuperating the postcolonial as a site of cultural and political resistance: while postcolonial critics must continue to take on the broader task of cultural imagination that charts, analyzes, and critiques, as teachers they must also develop a specific set of strategies that will combat institutional and market constraints. References include Spivak, Graff, Chow, and Stuart Hall. MS #7 A discussion of techno music. Noting that many studies have examined techno music from either a biographical or sociological perspective, the author of this article positions the phenomenon of techno or the machinic within the context of writing. Drawing from the various discourses of poststructuralist theory, literature, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, the paper itself participates in techno music's strategy of sampling, of putting heterogeneous elements into a new context. MS #8 An examination of rock music in the discourse of cultural studies. The essay is structured like a 45: the A side provides an anecdotal and autobiographical take on the origins and history of rock; the B side examines the work of Lawrence Grossberg and his speculations about the "death of rock." References include Keith Negus, Neil Nehring, and Evelyn McDonnell. MS #9 This essay explores Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play" autobiographically, re-reading it as Derrida's allegory concerning relationships between Paris and Algeria. The author suggests that Derrida's engagement with colonial and post- colonial Algeria, where he grew up and to which he returned for two years during the Algerian war, may have affected his early work. Situating "Structure, Sign, and Play" in the context of the Algerian war enables us, the author proposes, to recognize a Derridean argument that is much more politically and historically aware than critics have generally thought. References include Alistair Horne, Cathy Caruth, Edward Said, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. MS #10 An interrogation of postmodern identities and Versace's %culto del corpo%. Supplemented by fashion photographs from Versace's menswear catalogues and quotes from the couturiere, this essay explores the ways in which the fashion system has evolved as a public situs for the exploitation and extrusion of the ambivalences produced by the social self, and how fashion photography, in particular, is aimed at postmodern notions of decentered subjectivity. References include Roland Barthes, Joanne Finkelstein, Moe Meyer, Laura Mulvey, Camille Paglia, and Gregory Woods. MS #11 A dialogic enactment of a conversation with the author, Bataille, Haraway, and Arnold Schwarzenager, this piece explores the relationship among animals, humans, and machines. MS #12 An examination of the relation of everyday life to technology through the question of power, this essay proposes that contemporary debates on technology are characterized by starkly opposed dystopian and utopian ideologies. The author shares with both sides an intuition that the increasing pervasiveness of information technology in everyday life is unleashing new forces that are shaping our cultural, economic, and political life in powerful and perhaps unpredictable ways. The author suggests, however, that a philosophical critique of the terms of the debate itself is necessary to understand these new forces. References include Wiener, Lessing, and Foucault. MS #13 An analysis of Peter Greenaway's _The Pillow Book_. Greenaway's incorporation of other art forms in his films has become his trade-mark, and most critics of his work have focused on his pastiche renderings of paintings by famous artists. The author of this essay proposes, however, that what Greenaway redefines through his "art-about-art" is not simply cinema, but more broadly speaking, *representationality* itself. This analysis focuses on two of the representational means which Greenaway explores in his 1996 film, _The Pillow Book_: the written word and the body. References include Baudrillard, Dalle Vacche, Amy Lawrence, and Walter Ong. MS #14 By working from the etymology of the word "cybernetics" and its variants, this paper opens up the question of the ethics of the cyber as its "ethos" in a quite specific sense. That ethos has to do with the ways in which all things cyber are far from being the antithesis of the "human." On the contrary, in Wiener's original sense, which refers to "the entire field of control and communication theory, whether in the machine or in the animal," the cybernetic includes the human. However, this does not mean a complete identity between humans and those few machines that are also and incidentally cybernetic. The human capacity for reflexive accounting marks a critical difference. References include Wiener, Delueze, and Sharrock. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus, -us (n. m.), "opening, abyss, open mouth" Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 08:27:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 179 (179) Dear Colleagues: [deleted quotation]much more recent computing machinery, wending my way through Germany to Debrecen, Hungary, and so out of touch for periods of time. I'll do my best to attend to Humanist while I am in transit and at the ALLC/ACH, but days may go by without the usual stimulating publications. Once was a time when members had serious withdrawal symptoms at even the smallest hiatus, but now the volume if not the quality of material coming to you via the Internet is such that Humanist must take satisfaction in being one among many sources of stimulation. A memorable line from a memorable British movie of the 1960s (The Knack, and How to Get It, VERY politically incorrect now) -- "anything not in constant use atrophies" -- is true of the online world even more so than of the physiological. Virtual things have all the permanence of smoke. I apologise for not being able to keep the smoke signals coming, but be assured that the fire, though dampened down for these two weeks, will continue to burn. Please don't hesitate to send your fresh-cut or seasoned logs; they'll be safe until the fire next time. Hmm, a rather apocalyptic mood. Must go look at the entrails and patterns made by the flights of birds to see what this means. 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/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: that's not paranoia, it's justifiable fear Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 08:31:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 180 (180) A member of Humanist, wishing for obvious reasons to remain anonymous, sent me the following response to my story about unasked for Internet activity. WM ----- [deleted quotation] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 e-mail: Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Antoinette Renouf Subject: Vacancy - Researcher Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:21:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 181 (181) The University of Liverpool Research and Development Unit for English Studies Research Assistant/Associate/Fellow Initial salary within the range 15,462 - 25,092 pounds sterling A vacancy exists for a computer scientist with natural language programming skills. A computational linguist with programming proficiency will also be considered. The post will start as soon as possible and run, in the first instance, for two years. It relates primarily to a major research project concerned with the automatic classificiation of rare new words in text. The precise level of appointment will depend on qualifications, age and experience. Experience of programming in C in a Unix environment is essential; familiarity with Unix tools is desirable, as is knowledge of Unix systems administration. -------------------- Applications by c.v. with the names of three referees, should be received by the Director of Personnel, the University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, by July 17th, 1998. Further particulars may be requested from this address via email: jobs@liv.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Raquel Wandelli Subject: help for paper Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:56:19 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 182 (182) I am so happy to be accepted in your group. I need informations about=20 theory of hypertextual narratives for one paper. Could you help me sending me something about this? I study P=F3s-graduation in Literature at Santa Catarina Federal University and I intend make a paper that analyse one hypertextual novel. I have some novels, but I need hypertextual narrative theory. Thanks and sorry by my terrible English. [Please post any responses to Humanist as well as to Ms. Wandelli -- I'm sure the pointers to bibliographies and individual items would be of interest to several of us. --WM] From: EditorAnn@aol.com Subject: Re: 12.0094 Renear lectures at Oxford Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 09:36:30 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 183 (183) The Oxford lectures by Allen Renear will be available to the rest of us whe= n and where? Please? Gratefully. A fascinated Lurker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: John Bradley Subject: A Text Analysis Software BOF Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:35:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 184 (184) Some readers of this list who are also attending the ALLC/ACH conference in Debrecen might be interested in this meeting, which will be held during the conference: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Text Analysis Software: Birds of a Feather Session Text analysis software forms one of the foundations of Humanities Computing. The most commonly used general purpose programs have been OCP, Tustep, TACT and WordCruncher. More recently other pieces of software have been developed; ranging from straightforward programs such as MonoConc to sophisticated systems such as Cellar, Sarah and TATOE. This BOF session will provide an opportunity for those involved in TA development to describe what they are doing to a potentially significant part of the community, and for everyone interested in the development of text analysis software and techniques to discuss current developments and to express their views. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ The session is scheduled for Tuesday, July 7th, from 5:30 pm through 7:00 pm -- location yet to be announced, although it will be in one of the conference rooms. The BOF meeting has been organised by Harold Short and me, and Harold will chair it. My apologies to those see this more than once from different lists. ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: Charles Ess Subject: summary paper available Date: Mon, 29 Jun 98 07:14:56 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 185 (185) Colleagues: Forgive the immodesty - but in preparation for the upcoming conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (Science Museum, London - 31 July - 3 August), I have developed an introductory summary and list of tentative generalizations to be drawn from the conference papers and research abstracts. This paper (in either html or PDF format) is linked from the conference website: http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/index.html The CATAC conference has drawn papers on the complex interactions between culture and computer-mediated communication from Australia, Austria, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Mexico and Latin America, Norway, Russia, South Africa Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Uganda, and the US (including Hispanics and Native Americans). Out of this array of widely diverse "computing ethnography" (my term) some intriguing patterns emerge concerning how far computing technologies embed and impose culturally-specific values - and how far these technologies may be localized for the sake of preserving distinctive cultural values and communication preferences. Even the striking absences - China, most of the Francophone and Arabic/Muslim countries - are telling: insofar, for example, as Arabic/Muslim cultures are documented as "high context/low content" in communication preference, while extant CMC technologies reflect their origins and extensive use in "high content/low context" cultures - perhaps the lack of reportage from these domains reflects to some degree a clear cultural mismatch between distinctive communication preferences and current CMC technologies? HUMANIST readers are cordially invited to read and reflect. Comments and suggestions very much welcome. Charles Ess Conference co-chair, CATAC'98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Vallee Jean-Francois Subject: Re: 12.0098 hypertext theory? Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:33:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 186 (186) The literature on this subject is growing fast. Here are a few suggestions: _Hyper/Text/Theory_, George P. Landow ed., Johns Hopskins UP, 1994. _Hypertext. The Electronic Labyrinth_, Ilana Snyder, New York UP, 1997. _Cybertext. Perspectives on Ergodic Literature_, Espen J. Aarseth, Johns Hopskins UP, 1997. Search also for works by J. David Bolter, Michael Joyce, etc. -- Jean-Francois Vallee Departement de litterature comparee Universite de Montreal valleej@magellan.umontreal.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Anand K Karalapakkam Subject: OCR s/w Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 10:49:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 187 (187) [The following request for information about OCR software comes at a good time for reviewing any progress in the field. Please send your replies both to Humanist and to the enquirer, who happens not to be a member of this group. Thanks. --WM] Need : I have lot of books (150 +) in Sanskrit , Tamil & mixed language ( ie. Both Sanskrit & Tamil are intermixed in a single sentance ) written by my late Grandfather. The books are in India ( I am here at US for just around past 10 months ) .I wish to protect them since many books are in the verge of decay due to their age . These books are very dear to many of us in our community too. Please do suggest the alternatives in purchasing an OCR software that handles these languages. I don't know head or tail in this area. What type of Scanner should be there ? What type of PC's ( OS ) ? What type of editors( ie. Sanskrit ,tamil & Sanskrit + Tamil word processor ) should be present ? Are there any shareware type products ? What is the current position regarding the OCR technology ? Thanks a lot in advance . Yours sincerely Anand ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Guedon Jean-Claude Subject: Re: 12.0106 hypertext theory Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:31:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 188 (188) Without forgetting the works, in French, by Jean-Pierre Balpe. This is another good source of hypertext theory. Pierre L=E9vy also deals= =20 with it in a number of his books. Best, Jean-Claude Gu=E9don On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: REMINDER: COLING/ACL workshop on Multi-lingual Information Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:21:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 189 (189) Retrieval ******************************************************************** REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER ******************************************************************** Coling-ACL '98 Workshop Multilingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future Abilities August 16, 1998 Universiti de Montrial Montrial/Canada The Coling/ACL workshop on Multilingual Information Management is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an international panel of invited experts considered these questions in an attempt to identify the most effective future directions of computational linguistics research--especially in the context of the need to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The follow-on workshop is intended to open the discussion to the computational linguistics community as a whole. ******************************************************************** * * * REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JULY 1!!!! * * * * TO REGISTER, CONSULT THE COLING/ACL HOME PAGE AT * * * * http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/MainPage.html * * * ******************************************************************** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The development of natural language applications which handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years, a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech recognition, together with core capabilities such as information extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass multi-lingual and multi-modal information. Extending current technologies will require integration of the various capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However, there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information retrieval? The workshop will be organized as a series of panels reporting on the outcome of discussions in the Granada workshop (a report summarizing the discussions at Granada will be available before the Coling-ACL workshop). Ample time for discussion will be included. The discussion will focus on the following fundamental questions: 1.What is the current level of capability in each of the major areas of the field dealing with language and related media of human communication? 2.How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near future, and what kind of systems will result? 3.What are the major considerations for extending these functions to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information, particularly in integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)? In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the following areas: o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.) o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal o machine translation o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information extraction o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics-based) o parsing, generation, information acquisition, etc. o speech recognition and synthesis o language and speaker identification and speech translation Program Committee Khalid Choukri, European Languages Resource Association Charles Fillmore, University of California Berkeley, USA Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Ulrich Heid, University of Stuttgart, Germany Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, USA Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Mun Kew Leong, National University of Singapore Joseph Mariani, LIMSI/CNRS, France Mark Maybury, The Mitre Corporation, USA Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA Akitoshi Okumura, NEC, Japan Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania, USA James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA Peter Schaueble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Oliviero Stock, IRST, Italy Felisa Verdejo, UNED, Spain Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI, Germany Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Italy Organizers Bob Frederking Center for Machine Translation Carnegie-Mellon University Schenley Park Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Tel: (+1 412) 268-6656 Fax: (+1 412) 268-6298 Email: ref@nl.cs.cmu.edu Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 Tel: (+1 310) 822-1511 Fax: (+1 310) 823-6714 Email: hovy@isi.edu Nancy Ide Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA Tel: (+1 914) 437 5988 Fax: (+1 914) 437 7498 E-mail: ide@cs.vassar.edu From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: WORKSHOP: Computationally-Intensive Methods in Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:14:32 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 190 (190) Quantitative Linguistics Apologies for cross-posting - Please note early registration deadline of 15 JULY. SECOND WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Department of Statistics University of Glasgow, UK 7-9 September 1998 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: Harald Baayen; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Large Number of Rare Event Models Walter Daelemans; University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. Linguistics as Data Mining: Using Machine Learning Techniques to Discover Linguistic Generalizations Michael Oakes; University of Lancaster, Unted Kingdom. Multivariate Statistics in Corpus Linguistics Fiona Tweedie; University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Time Series Models in Linguistics The workshop will be held in the Mathematics Building of the University of Glasgow, commencing on Monday 7 September at 1pm. The four workshop sessions will take place on Monday afternoon, Tuesday 8 September and the morning of Wednesday 9 September. There will also be a half day tour on the Wednesday afternoon and a reception in the Hunterian Art Gallery on Monday evening. Accommodation has been arranged in university accommodation with some en suite facilities. The reception, tea and coffee, lunches on 8 and 9 September and evening meals on 7 and 8 September are included in the registration fee. The registration fee, until 15 July, is GBP150.00 and GBP100.00 for students. Participants who are also attending the Digital Resources in the Humanities Conference, 9-12 September are eligible for a discount in the registration fees. 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. Please note that the organisers will be attending the ALLC/ACH conference in Debrecen from 2-11 July, so responses during this time may be sparse. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: COLING-ACL 98 Workshop "Discourse Relations and Discourse Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:30:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 191 (191) Markers" [deleted quotation] COLING-ACL 98 Workshop "Discourse Relations and Discourse Markers" August 15, 1998 Opening 9.00 Session 1: Discourse Structure Parsing Uses Introduction Daniel Marcu (USC/ISI) A surface-based approach to identifying discourse markers and elementary textual units in unrestricted texts 9.10 - 9.30 Simon H. Corston-Oliver (Microsoft Research) Identifying the linguistic correlates of rhetorical relations 9.30 - 9.50 J. Burstein, K. Kukich, S. Wolff, C. Lu, M. Chodorow (Educational Testing Service and Hunter College) Enriching automated essay scoring using discourse marking 9.50 - 10.10 Discussion 10.10 - 10.25 Coffee Break Session 2: Cue Words Introduction 10.40 B. Grote (Otto-von-Guericke Universit=E4t Magdeburg) Representing temporal discourse markers for generation purposes 10.45 - 11.05 L. Degand (University of Louvain) On classifying connectives and coherence relations 11.05 - 11.25 C. Soria, G. Ferrari (University of Pisa and University of East Piemonte) Lexical marking of discourse relations - some experimental findings 11.25 - 11.45 S. Teufel (University of Edinburgh) Meta-discourse markers and problem-structuring in scientific texts 11.45 - 12.05 Discussion 12.05 - 12.20 Lunch Poster session: 13.00 - 14.00 L. Danlos (Universite Paris) Linguistic ways for expressing a discourse relation and lexicalized text generation system A. Knott (University of Edinburgh) Similarity and contrast relations and inductive rules F. Schilder (Universit=E4t Hamburg) Temporal discourse markers and the flow of events N. Ward (University of Tokyo) Some exotic discourse markers of spoken dialogue Session 3: Grammar, Semantics, and Formalism Introduction 14.00 B. Webber, A. Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Anchoring a lexicalized Tree-Adjoin Grammar for discourse 14.05 - 14.25 J. Jayez, C. Rossari (EHESS and Universite de Geneve) Discourse relations versus discourse marker relations 14.25 - 14.45 M. Pery-Woodley (Universite de Toulouse) Textual signalling in written text: a corpus-based approach 14.45 - 15.05 K. Dahlgren (Inquizit Technologies, Inc.) Lexical marking and the recovery of discourse structure 15.05 - 15.25 Discussion 15.25 - 15.40 Break Session 4: Speech and Dialogue Introduction 16.00 M. Kawamori, T. Kawabata, A. Shimazu (NTT Research and JAIST) Discourse markers in spontaneous dialogue: a corpus based study of Japanese and English 16.05 - 16.25 Y. Nakano, T. Kato (NTT Labs) Cue phrase selection in instruction dialogue using machine learning 16.25 - 16.45 K. Fischer, H. Brandt-Pook (Universit=E4t Bielefeld) Automatic disambiguation of discourse particles 16.45 - 17.05 D. Jurafsky, E. Shriberg, B. Fox, T. Curl (University of Colorado and SRI) Lexical, prosodic, and syntactic cues for dialog acts 17.05 - 17.25 Discussion 17.25 - 17.55 Closing -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Eduard Hovy email: hovy@isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute=20 tel: 310-822-1511 ext 731 4676 Admiralty Way=20 fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695=20 project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Info Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:38:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 192 (192) [deleted quotation] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS NLP+IA 98 [deleted quotation] Conference internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles TAL+AI 98 [deleted quotation] AUGUST / aout 18-21, 1998 Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: English and French are the official languages of the conference. Proceedings would be published in the language of the submitted texts. CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION: The conference is organized by GRETAL, Groupe d'etude sur le traitement automatique des langues at the Universite' de Moncton and GETA-CLIPS in Grenoble. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chadia Moghrabi, Professor of Computer Science, Chair Jalal Almhana, Professor and director of Computer Science Julien Chiasson, Professor of Computer Science Sadek Eid, Professor of Industrial engineering, director Manufacturing Technology Centre, Boubakeur Meddeb-Hamrouni, Researcher GETA and Winsoft Paul Tarau, Professor of Computer Science INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland) Roberto Basili (Roma, Italy) Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble, France) Pierrette Bouillon (Geneva, Switzerland) Harry Bunt (Tilburg, Netherlands) Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC/CNR, Pisa, Italy) Remi Chadel (Inxight, Xerox, France) Thierry Chanier (Franche-Comte, France) Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, France) Marcel Cori (Paris-7, France) Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser, Canada) Anne De Roeck (Essex, UK) Chrysanne DiMarco (Logos, Waterloo, Canada) Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague) Henry Hamburger (George Mason, USA) Howard Hamilton (Regina, Canada) Graeme Hirst (Toronto, Canada) John Hutchins (East Anglia, UK) Pierre Isabelle (RALI, Montreal, Canada) Margaret King (ISSCO, Switzerland) Ruddy Lelouche (Laval, Canada) Michael Levison (Queens, Canada) Kathleen McCoy (Delaware, USA) Chadia Moghrabi (Moncton, Canada) Johanna Moore (Pennsylvania, USA) Yael Ravin (IBM, USA) Larry Reeker (National Science Foundation, USA) Mark Seligman (GETA-CLIPS & Red Pepper, USA) Arnold Smith (NRC, Canada) Manfred Stede (TU-Berlin, Germany) John Tait (Sunderland, UK) Paul Tarau (Moncton, Canada) Junichi Tsujii (UMIST & Tokyo, Japan) Thierry van Steenberghe (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium) Eric Wehrli (Geneva, Switzerland) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield, UK) INVITED SPEAKERS: Margaret King: ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland TALKK ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION/ Ressources et evaluation linguistiques Thierry Chanier: Universite Franche-Comte, France Presentation sur le lien entre l'enseignement de la langue et le TAL / TALK ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CALL and NLP MAKE SURE NOT TO MISS THEM...Soyez-la! PAPERS & POSTERS TO BE PRESENTED: (In no special order) Modeles humains dans un systeme multi-agents orientes apprentissage et detection-correction d'erreurs; Jacques Menezo; France Multilingual Lexical Resources for large-scale Text Generation Cornelia M. Verspoor, Vicente Uceda and Cecile Paris; Australia Speech and Language Interaction in a (Virtual) Cultural Theatre A. van Hessen, A. Nijholt, et al.; Netherlands Un syst=E8me d'apprentissage assist=E9 par ordinateur de la g=E9n=E9ration de phrases en Arabe Riadh ZAAFRANI; France Structuring a network of lexical cooccurrences into topic representations by analyzing texts Olivier Ferret and Brigitte Grau; France Producing NLP-based On-line Contentware Francis Wolinski, Frantz Vichot, Olivier Gr=E9mont; France Integration of NLP Tools in an Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning Environment for Basque: IDAZKIDE. D=CCaz de Ilarraza, A. Maritxalar, M. Maritxalar & M. Oronoz; Spain Using constraints for suppressing dead ends in grammars. Cyril Garde & Claude Lai; France Improving Tagging Accuracy by Using Voting Taggers L. M=E0rquez, L. Padr=F3, H. Rodr=EDguez; Catalonia, Spain Translation examples browser: Japanese to English translation aid for news articles Tadashi Kumano, Hideki Tanaka, Noriyoshi Uratani & Terumasa Ehara; Japan A Statistics-based Approach to Chinese Prepositional Phrase Disambiguation Kam-Fai WONG & Wen-Jie LI; Hong Kong Minori-Fra: Logiciel d'enseignement du Francais en milieu minoritaire Chadia Moghrabi; Canada SAFRAN-Grammaire Marie-Josee Hamel & Anne Vandeventer; UK & Suisse Learning Spanish and Catalan verbs Through EuroWordnet M. Antonia Marti & Roser Morante; Spain Error Diagnosis for Language Learning Systems Wolfgang Menzel & Ingo Schroeder; Germany Computer-Assisted Writing System: Improving Readability with Respect to Information Structure Nobo Komagata; USA =C9limination de la redondance dans la g=E9n=E9ration automatique de descrip= tions de comportement de syst=E8mes dynamiques Nicole TOURIGNY et Laurence CAPUS; Canada Un Syst=E8me Automatique de diagnostic d'Erreurs pour l'ELAO Anne Vandeventer; Suisse G=E9n=E9rer De Fa=E7on Automatique Des R=E9sum=E9s Gr=E2ce =C0 Des= Exp=E9riences Similaires Laurence CAPUS et Nicole TOURIGNY; Canada A syntactic verification system for arabic texts based on a robust parser and using a large compressed lexicon Riadh Ouersighni; France Natural Language Technology in Precision Content Retrieval Jacek Ambroziak and William A. 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Roberts; USA TR-AID : A Memory-based translation aid framework Stelios Piperidis, Christos Malavazos, Ioannis Triantafyllou; Greece A Transformational Approach to NL Understanding in Dialogue Systems Danny Lie, Joris Hulstijn, Rieks op den Akker, Anton Nijholt; Netherlands Reluctantly Paraphrasing Text Mark Dras; Australia Improving robust domain independent summarization Jim Cowie, Eugene Ludovik, & Hugo Molijna-Salgado; USA Language Learning Data: Online Confusion Lisa Harper and Florence Reeder; USA NLP and Radiology reports Gees C Stein & Tomek Strzalkowski; USA BLAK, un assistant de d=E9couverte des caract=E8res chinois, fonctionnement par acc=E8s dynamique =E0 des ressources lexicales vari=E9es L. Fischer, G. Fafiotte; France Text Expansion Using Temporal and Causal Relations Yllias Chali; Canada Automatic Generation of On-Line Help: A Practical Approcah Cecile Paris and Keith Vander Linden; Australia &USA To Integrate Your Language web Tools - CALL Web CT Sabine Siekmann; USA L'=E9dition lexicographique dans un syst=E8me g=E9n=E9rique de gestion de bases lexicales multilingues G. S=E9rasset, M. Mangeot; France How the construction of a Computer System may influence language teaching practices: the communication situation variables R. Lelouche, D. Huot; Canada Concordances avanc=E9es sur corpus sp=E9cialis=E9 pour l'enseignement de l'anglais technique P.-Y. Foucou & N. K=FCbler; France Cross-linguistic Resources for MT Evaluation and Language Training Lisa Hale Decrozant, Dr Clare R. Voss; USA NLP for text classification: the TREVI experience R.Basili, M. V. Marabello, L. Mazzucchelli, & M. T. Pazienza; Italy Dictionnaires =E9lectroniques et analyse morphologique Jerzy Sitko; France Integrating language generation and prosody control Pierre Larey, Nadine bigouroux, & Guy P=C8rennou; France MULINEX Multilingual web search and anvigation Joanne Capstick, Abdel Kader Diagne, Gregor Erbach, & Hans Uszkoreit; Germany, Italy, France & Belgium Kurdish Language Technology and Planning Siamak Rezaei Durroei; UK Intonation, vowel length, and 'well': Thhe intersection of phonology and discourse analysis and its effects on meaning interpretation in conversation Jason Miller; USA Repr=E9sentation S=E9mantique Orient=E9e-Objets de Requ=E8tes en Langage Nat= urel Abdelmajid Benhamadou; Tunisia PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES: Tuesday August 18: 19:00-21:00 Registration Wednesday August 19: 8:30-15:15 Opening plenary session Oral presentations 15:30-17:30 Posters and demo sessions 18:30-19:15 CashBar 19:30- Banquet Thursday August 20: 8:30-15:30 Oral presentations 15:30- Outing and dinner =46riday August 21: 8:30-17h30 Invited speaker Oral presentations Closing plenary session EXHIBITS: Anyone wishing to arrange an exhibit or present a demonstration can still send a brief electronic description along with a specification of physical requirements (table size, power, telephone connections, number of chairs, etc.) to nlp+ia-98@imag.fr with the single word EXHIBIT in the subject line. 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Hope to see you in Moncton... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Arts Technology position at NYU Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:58:04 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 193 (193) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE POST MULTIMEDIA ARTIST / DIGITAL FILMMAKER / TECHNICIAN The Arts Technology Group at NYU's Academic Computing Facility operates several digital studios for student and faculty artists working in film and video, music, animation, photography, fine art, performance, and interactive multimedia. Our resources will soon include: * a high-end Macintosh based studio for digital video and audio production * several Media 100 based nonlinear editing suites * an SGI based 3D animation classroom with broadcast quality video recording * tools for web and CD-ROM (and later DVD) multimedia creation * resources for web based streaming media and videoconferencing for artists * an advanced digital imaging studio (with high res film scanning & recording, art quality printers, and a prepress workflow/ColorSync environment) We are seeking a person who is both an active film, video, and/or multimedia artist, as well as an energetic computer technician, to help maintain these facilities and to assist others with their use. The successful candidate will meet the following prerequisites: * A B.A. in a Film program with a significant computer related component, or a B.A. in an arts program with a significant digital video or multimedia component, or equivalent experience. Strong preference will be given to those with graduate degrees. * A reel, CD-ROM, web site, portfolio, or other record of significant artistic accomplishment using computers, new media, and digital production tools. * Strong writing skills and the ability to assist students and faculty. * Strong to moderate Macintosh and/or Windows 95/NT technical skills, including the ability to install and troubleshoot applications, system software, servers, SCSI devices, PCI cards, memory, and other hardware. * Strong technical and artistic skills with as many of the following as possible: Media 100, Avid, or other digital video systems, professional film and video equipment, professional audio equipment, Macromedia and Adobe software for multimedia creation & web design, JavaScripting, and Java applet programming. Any experience with Silicon Graphics systems, UNIX, and related software for animation, multimedia, and motion picture production would be helpful, but is not required. Interested candidates should send a resume, three references, and a salary history to: Philip Galanter Associate Director Academic Computing Facility New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 Please do not call by telephone. Please do not send any items which require return. ascii-only information may be e-mailed to: galanter@nyu.edu New York University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Philip Galanter New York University phone: 212-998-3041 Associate Director 251 Mercer fax: 212-995-4120 for Arts Technology New York, NY 10012 internet: galanter@nyu.edu N Y U A c a d e m i c C o m p u t i n g F a c i l i t y Info, resources, art gallery, and more... http://www.nyu.edu/atg/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 194 (194) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 110. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> Please, Does any one know some reference of book or article about grounded theory written in Portuguese, Spanish or Italian? Thank you in advance for any suggestion Prof. Dr. Ronaldo Baltar Departamento de Ci=EAncias Sociais Universidade Estadual de Londrina Paran=E1 - Brasil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "David L. Gants" Subject: A New Corpus from the LDC Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:31:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 195 (195) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the Linguistic Data Consortium **************************************** 1997 Spanish Broadcast News (HUB-4NE) **************************************** This corpus contains a portion of the acoustic data designated as the training set for the 1997 DARPA HUB-4 Spanish Benchmark. It contains speech and transcripts of 30 hours of broadcast news from the following sources: VOA Univision Televisa All acoustic files are in NIST SPHERE format, without compression. The sample data are 16-bit linear PCM, 16-KHz sample frequency, single channel. Most files contain 30 minutes of recorded material, and some contain 60 or 120 minutes (approximately); the sampling format requires roughly 2 megabytes (MB) per minute of recording, so the file sizes are typically around 60 MB, with some files ranging up to 120 or 240 MB. The transcripts are in SGML format, using the same markup conventions that have been applied to the other 1997 Broadcast News speech corpora (in English and Mandarin), and are transmitted by ftp, not on the cdroms with speech data. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders, this corpus is available to 1998 LDC members only. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: A New Release From the LDC Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:32:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 196 (196) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW RELEASE from the Linguistic Data Consortium ************************************************ TAIWANESE PUTONGHUA SPEECH AND TRANSCRIPT CORPUS ************************************************ This set of data on Taiwanese accented Putonghua (PTH) was recorded in Taiwan from December 1994 to January 1995. Taiwanese accented PTH refers to PTH spoken by people who were born in Taiwan and whose first language is Taiwanese (Southern Min). A total of 40 speakers; ranging in age, education, birth place, and family dialect; were recorded. There were 5 two-speaker dialogues and 30 single-speaker monologues. The dialogues were about 20 minutes each and the monologues were about 10 minutes each. Dialogues were recorded on two tracks, one for each speaker. Monologues were recorded on one track. The recordings were done in ordinary, but quiet rooms. The speakers were asked in advance to speak in conversation style, without notes, on any topic they chose, or no topic at all. Most speakers spoke spontaneously and the topic drifted freely. Some speakers talked about their professional work in a rather formal way. One speaker (#20, a public health official) used notes. We consider this variation in speech style a merit of the data. The recording tools consisted of a portable DAT (Teac) which recorded at a 44.1 kHz sampling rate at 16 bits linear quantization. The microphones were AudioTechnica lapel microphones with a preamp and XLR connection to the DAT. The XLR helped low noise recordings, and the AudioTechnica provided widebandwidth, flat response over the speech range of interest, was unidirectional to minimize cross-talk, and very light in comparison with standard microphones. Both single-speaker monologues and two-speaker dialogues were recorded using this system on standard DAT tape. Before recording, all speakers read and signed the 'Informed Consent Form', which was written in Chinese and which largely followed the standard format approved by the Human Subject Committee of the University of Michigan. The form stated that the participation in the recording was entirely voluntary and that the speech may be used for linguistic teaching and research purposes. The speech data are accompanied by transcripts. The monologues have start and end time stamps. The 5 dialogues are time stamped by speaker turn. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1998 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers can receive a copy of the Taiwanese Putonghua Speech and Transcript Corpus for $750. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ Information is also available via ftp at ftp.cis.upenn.edu under pub/ldc; for ftp access, please use "anonymous" as your login name, and give your email address when asked for password. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - VALIDATION MANUALS Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 16:35:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 197 (197) [deleted quotation] EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ELRA News *** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM ELRA - NEW RELEASE OF THE VALIDATION MANUAL FOR LEXICA *** ELRA is happy to announce that the validation manual entitled "A Draft Manual for the Validation of Lexica", from N. Underwood & C. Navaretta, has been revised and can now be obtained free of charge from the ELRA Web site. Available validation manuals for lexica and corpora are listed below: Lexicon validation: "Towards a standard for the evaluation of lexica", N Underwood & C Navaretta. "A Draft Manual for the Validation of Lexica - Final Report", N Underwood & C Navaretta; Release 1.1, 1st Revision, June 1998. Corpora validation: "An analytic framework for the validation of language corpora", P Baker, L Burnard, A McEnery & A Wilson. "Techniques for the validation of corpora", P Baker, L Burnard, A McEnery & A Wilson. To obtain copies, download them from the ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ***************************************** * ELRA * * 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin * * 75013 Paris, France * * tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 * * fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30 * * email. info-elra@calva.net * ***************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 198 (198) Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 112. Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> [deleted quotation] Dear All, You may be interested to know that Computers and the Humanities, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (editors: Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein) will publish a double issue (volume 32) on Wordnet soon. This work will also become available in book form. As usual, Dr. Ide will post the table of contents on HUmanist and Linguist upon publication for thsoe who are interested. Ms. Drs. Dieke van Wijnen Commissioning Editor Humanities & Social Sciences Dept. Kluwer Academic Publishers PO BOX 17 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands Fax 31+ 78 6392 254; Phone 31+ 78 6392 264 http://www.wkap.nl Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mike Ledgerwood Subject: 12.0107 Re: Hypertext theory Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 20:17:09 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 199 (199) There are also a number of very good web-based resources. Merely go to a search site like "Yahoo" and type "hypertext" as your keyword. Then select whatever field associated with hypertext you would like. One grad. student, for example, has a web site with over 100 titles of books and articles in a very wide variety of fields. His list is not complete, of course, since this is a field in which a large number of articles are appearing frequently. I can also recommend the Eastgate systems site http://www.eastgate.com for its links to George Landow's pages as well as Michael Joyce, etc. In fact there you can buy hypertexts as well, if that interests. Best to all, Mike Ledgerwood Stony Brook, NY MLedgerwood@ccmail.sunysb.edu From: Fotis Jannidis Subject: Re: 12.0107 Re: Hypertext theory Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 11:35:28 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 200 (200) [deleted quotation] An interesting and on many points complementary book to this list of authors and texts is: Jean-Francois Rouet et.al. (ed.): Hypertext and Cognition. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Ass., 1996. Regards, Fotis Jannidis ________________________________________ Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie LM Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Schellingstr. 3 /RG * D-80799 Muenchen Fx: -49-89-2180-3871 http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: philosophical editions Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:05:18 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 201 (201) Humanists will be interested in the Web site of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft philosophischer Editionen (AGphE), <http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/iud/agphe/>, which contains a very useful page of Internet resources for editions (Internet Dienste fuer Editionen) and a page listing the editions. Yours from Tuebingen, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dr Chris Tiffin Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 17:20:52 +1000 (GMT+1000) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 202 (202) *************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************** BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND Annual Conference Brisbane, Australia 8-10 July 1999 *** "Bibliography, Mystery, and Detection" **** Offers of papers (30 minutes' duration) are invited on: * investigative techniques in physical bibliography * attribution, authentication and textual criticism * unsolved bibliographical conundrums * anatomising the electronic text * books and bibliography in detective and crime fiction The conference will be held at the Queensland State Library, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia. Offers of papers (with 300-word abstracts) should be directed by 31 January 1999 to: Dr Chris Tiffin, Department of English, University of Queensland, Australia 4072. Phone: +61 7 3365 2172 Fax: +61 7 3365 2799 Email: c.tiffin@mailbox.uq.edu.au Web Page http://www.uq.edu.au/~enctiffi/bsanz.htm *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** Dr Chris Tiffin Director of Postgraduate Studies Department of English The University of Queensland Australia 4072 Phone (07) 3365 2172 Fax (07) 3365 2799 Intl. +61 7 3365 2172 Intl. +61 7 3365 2799 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: [electronic publication] Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 203 (203) [The following taken from correspondence of the advisory board of Stoa, <http://www.stoa.org/>, quoting an item in the Chronicle of Higher Education (U.S.). Further comments below.] ACADEMICS PUSH FOR ONLINE PUBLISHING A small group of influential academics is pushing to introduce online peer review and publishing of scholarly works, as an alternative source of information to high-price journals. Some journals, particularly in science and technology, can cost as much as $15,000 a year. The group, which includes academic officers from the University of Rochester, Columbia University and the California Institute of Technology, wants professors to publish online rather than in print, and wants universities to recognize online posting as "publishing" for the purposes of career advancement decisions. "We are calling for neither a lessening of the importance of research in the criteria for promotion and tenure, nor a turning away from peer review," says a paper produced by the Association of American Universities and the Association of Research Libraries.. "What we seek is an alternate means of achieving those ends." Under the proposed plan the papers, once posted online, would be peer-reviewed by a panel of experts, just as is now the case with print-published papers. The panels, which would be established by scholarly groups, would give each article a grade or a stamp of approval. The response so far from some disciplinary groups has been lukewarm. (Chronicle of Higher Education 26 Jun 98) [Perhaps if these lukewarm disciplinary groups were to have a grasp of the financial impediments to scholarship in some parts of the world, both compassion and self-interest would heat them up. The loss of human talent, missing because neither individuals nor their libraries can afford the publications on paper, we simply cannot afford. Or so it seems to me. Comments welcome. Yours from the ALLC/ACH in Debrecen, Hungary, WM] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patrick J Camilleri Subject: Internet use in science education Date: Thu, 02 Jul 1998 09:57:09 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 204 (204) [Please respond both to Mr. Camilleri as well as to Humanist. --WM] Sir, my name is Patrick Camilleri. Presently I am lecturing physics in a 16+ institute in Malta. I am reading for a masters' degree in science education with the University of Sheffield. In Malta there is a program to introduce the Internet service in our local schools. For us this is a novelty. Thus in order to contribute my services to the local education system and also as part of my course work I intend to cary out a research program on the application of the internet in science education. Unfortunately information and references is scarce, maybe you could help me to connect to people who are interested in my area of study. Regards Patrick Camilleri From: Vania Cascio Subject: Looking for "stemming" Biblio.. Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:10:24 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 205 (205) Dear colleagues, can anyone address me to relevant books/articles and/or bibliography on the morphogical matter of "stemming" linked to "information retrieval", in general, and applied to the Italian language environment in particular, please? Thanks in advance. Vania Cascio ********************* Dr. Vania Cascio University of Catania (Italy) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: EditorAnn@aol.com Subject: Re: 12.0104 OCR for Sanskrit, Tamil? Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 12:10:19 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 206 (206) To save your books quickly and easily, I'd suggest scanning the pages in as graphics rather than using OCR programs. Unless the capacity to alter the text in some way is apt to be needed, using OCR programs requires that one proofread the product, and correct whatever was not correctly READ by the program. I have done both techniques. Scanning text as a graphic is, though just as tedious, faster. Ann Byrne (editorann@AOL.com) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dita Subject: reflections on ALLC/ACH 98 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 16:35:04 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 207 (207) Dear Colleagues: It is mid afternoon following the conclusion of the ALLC/ACH 1998 conference in Debrecen, Hungary, at Lajos Kossuth University. Most of the delegates have left already for the train west to Budapest, about 2 1/2 hours away, and then the airport. This is not a proper conference report, which I hope to publish here in a few days' time, rather an attempt to capture some fleeting thoughts about the event and the community it represents before ordinary life takes over and these are lost. The first observation is what a fine conference this was, superbly put on by the local organiser, Laszlo Hunyadi, and his team, including several undergraduate students. As John Unsworth (local organiser for ACH/ALLC 99 at the University of Virginia) said, Professor Hunyadi and company have placed the bar very high. This is not to speak only of efficiency, rather more about the thoughtful care manifested in every aspect of the local organisation. The second observation is that having Father Roberto Busa at the conference itself made the trip more than worthwhile. He was here to deliver the keynote address as the first recipient of the new Busa Award, named in his honour, for significant contributions to the field of humanities computing. What a delight his company was! The third sums up the first two. If the ALLC/ACH is a reliable indicator -- I think it must be -- we are part of a truly remarkable community of people. Years ago Allen Renear (STG, Brown) said to me that he found the humanities computing crowd the most intellectually stimulating group of people he had ever had the privilege to associate with. My experience is the same. Looking around at the people gathered here for these last few days I was reminded of Allen's remark, but more than that, of the communal qualities we seem to have developed. Perhaps the harmony I sense is in part due to the fact that in the scale of the mighty we do not make much of a difference -- there's no pot of gold to compete for, and so we are not minded to do each other in. I prefer to think, however, that there's a nobler cause, namely that we do what we do largely for the love of it. "Do what you do only out of love" is, I recall, a Hebrew proverb, one worth writing out and sticking on the wall. However little it may contribute to the progress of our scholarship, I think that sensing its rootedness in such humane intellectual passion as I have seen at play here is worth more than a moment's notice. Why else do anything? Yours from Debrecen, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 12.0118 e-publication Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:04:15 -0600 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 208 (208) [deleted quotation] I wonder if it would be possible to ascertain which disciplinary groups are "lukewarm" (i.e., opposed ?). We could start trying to exert some influence from within. Not that it will be easy -- I bet that some of these groups don't even have web sites, don't normally send e-mail to each other, etc. But even so, the leaders of such groups should start hearing from more enlightened members. One question I cannot recall being raised, though I'm sure it has -- any notion of how much storage space will be necessary to keep back issues forever available on-line ? -- Norman Hinton hinton@uis.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Carl Vogel Subject: job ad Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 19:45:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 209 (209) [For more information on the following, see http://www.tcd.ie/Staff_Office/ad10.htm http://www.tcd.ie/Staff_Office/app.htm] LECTURESHIPS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT of COMPUTER SCIENCE University of Dublin, Trinity College Applications are invited for further Lectureships which have become available in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. The Department is the largest in the College, with a full-time academic staff of 33 and over 1,000 full-time students undertaking both day and evening courses. The Department is also heavily involved in research projects sponsored by the EU, Forbairt and industry. These permanent posts will be tenable from early September, 1998, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are invited from candidates holding degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related discipline who either have completed, or are about to complete, a doctoral degree. Applications from candidates with expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Architecture, Networks and Telecommunications and Information Management will be particularly welcome. Salary Scales: Lecturer Grade II: =A315,988- =A325,362 Lecturer Grade I : =A332,271-=A339,496 Appointments will be made on the Lecturer Grade II scale within the salary range =A315,988-=A322,561 per annum at points which accord with the qualifications and experience to date of the successful candidates. Application forms and further particulars relating to this post may be obtained from: Establishment Officer Staff Office Trinity College Dublin 2 Tel: 353-1-608-1678/Fax: 353-1-677-2169/e.mail:recruit@tcd.ie The closing date for receipt of completed applications will be Friday, 17th July 1998. TRINITY COLLEGE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER Ref: 655 (iv)/98 From: david Subject: Confrence: Afterimages: Reformatting Visual Materials in a= Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:39:20 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 210 (210) Digital World=20 NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 10, 1998 AFTERIMAGES: REFORMATTING VISUAL MATERIALS IN A DIGITAL WORLD September 16-18, 1998 Afterimages: Reformatting Visual Materials in a Digital World Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center September 16, 17 and 18, 1998 At the National Archives and Records Administration Archives II, College Park, Maryland The conference is funded by the National Park Service Cultural Resources Training Initiative and is co-sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Northeast Document Conservation Center is an organization that receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. What is Afterimages? Afterimages is a course designed to teach managers of picture collections how to plan and manage projects to reformat endangered visual materials, including deteriorating cellulose acetate and cellulose nitrate negatives for both black and white and color images. Archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums often hold large collections of photographs and other visual materials, many of which are fragile or relatively inaccessible. Reformatting these images either digitally or photographically can limit future damage to original images, while increasing access to them either over the Web or in other publication forms. The program includes hands-on experience and will teach skills for: 1. planning and managing reformatting projects for visual materials, including contracting an outside vendor; 2. selecting and preparing collections for reformatting, including preservation issues and care and handling; 3. selecting and evaluating copy technologies: including when to make digital copies and when to make photographic copies; 4. understanding best practices, benchmarks, and quality control for color and black and white photographs and digital imaging; 5. ensuring sound cost benefit analysis and containment; and 6. managing contracts, and legal issues. The sessions will introduce photographic duplication options and digital imaging technologies and compare their commonalties and differences. WHO SHOULD ATTEND? If you are an archivist, curator, historic preservation specialist, librarian, or other cultural resources manager dealing with collections including photographic materials, you will be interested in attending Afterimages. WHO ARE THE FACULTY? Karen Brown, Northeast Document Conservation Center; Joan Gatewood, New York Public Library; David Joyall, Northeast Document Conservation Center; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Richard Pearce Moses, Heard Museum; Mary Panzer, National Portrait Gallery; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Andrew Robb, Photograph Conservation and Scanning Consultant; Diane Vogt O'Connor, National Park Service. What does the conference cost? The cost of the conference is $275.00. All participants are responsible for their meal, travel, and lodging costs. The deadline to register is September 1, 1998. To request a flier and registration material, contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810-1494; (978) 470-1010; . Gay S. Tracy Public Relations Coordinator Northeast Document Conservation Center 100 Brickstone Square Andover MA 01810-1494 Tel 978 470-1010 Fax 978 475-6021 www.nedcc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: 12.0116 scanning as graphics Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 22:36:48 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 211 (211) Ann Byrne is totally right in suggesting optical scanning instead of optical character recognition for unusual type fonts like Sanskrit and Tamil, and one might also speak of the difficulty of distinguishing between the letters "s" and "f" in French and old German fonts. But isn't such a solution tantamount to evading the question ? Electronic text offers many advantages to the formats of text that we have got used to during more than two millennia. Whoever had to cope with the capriciousness of electronic text that seems to change or even disappear behind your back,, will agree that graphics (and hardcopy print-outs) will continue to accompany us, as long as security locks and electronic alarms continue to be useless (beware of paranoia!). To begin with, I haven't seen appropriate software that will allow you to comfortably read text graphics: several lines or paragraphs of contextual content should be displayed at a useful size. We know that still photography should be watched at a distance no closer than about twice the length of the diagonal of the picture. Does that apply to electronically displayed pictures as well ? Next, there should be comfortable solutions for scrolling the text and switching to a text editor with the additional option of marking the text graphics, etc., etc. Kind regards Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany Ann Byrne schrieb: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Resources on Science Education Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 10:47:16 +0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 212 (212) In response to Patrick Camilleri's inquiry about internet resources about science education, I happen to be doing a small scale research in this area also. I am preparing a white paper report on the state of science education in Thailand as well as presenting a case for more commitment to science education and science literacy in general. I found these URL's which might prove to be useful for those who are interested in the area. 1. http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/ This is the home page of the book "National Science Education Standard" published by the National Academy Press. You can download the whole book, either in PDF or in plain HTML formats, due to the generosity of the publisher. The book contains a host of useful information about what it is to be scientifically literate, and standards of science education at each level of education in the US. 2. http://www.adsnet.net/iss/ The home page of the Institute for Science and Society. It contains an excerpt of a speech by the Institute's Director, Mike McCormack, on The Need for Increasing Science Literacy. This is a good reference for those who try to justify more state and private fundings for science education, which I am doing. You can also find many links to web pages on basic science for students. 3. http://project2061.aaas.org/ This is the home page of Project 2061, "Science Literacy for a Changing Future". You might be interested in studying the Benchmarks of Science Literacy, which is also a whole book available online. Also of note are tips on curriculum design and some questions on whether your own child's science education is at what it should be. Hope these help somewhat. Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, THAILAND Personal Web Page: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Julie Wilson Subject: AHDS News Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 15:32:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 213 (213) Please post this! ---------------------------------------------------------- The latest Arts and Humanities Data Service news ---------------------------------------------------------- The Summer 1998 edition of the AHDS newsletter can be viewed as of 13th July 1998 on <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl2_2.html>. It contains the latest news of the service, including a report on our recent evaluation. Also, the AHDS has just produced a printed list of all JISC and HEFC funded HE resources. The list is also available at <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/ahleaflet.html>, and details of how to obtain copies are given there. ---------------------- Julie Wilson Project Manager Arts and Humanities Data Service julie.c.wilson@ahds.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: PMC Subject: Call for Reviewers Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:09:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 214 (214) PMC CALL FOR REVIEWS -- DEADLINE AUGUST 5 ------> REPLY TO: p-geyh@nwu.edu _Postmodern Culture_ is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs, plays, TV shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions, conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for the September 1998 issue. Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long, and should follow the journal's format guidelines below. The deadline for submissions is August 5. A selection will be made at that time. All correspondence will be answered and all submissions will be given careful consideration. Send reviews and queries to Paula Geyh, the review editor at p-geyh@nwu.edu, not to the _PMC_ offices. If e-mailing reviews, make sure the document is not encoded, and that it has been stripped of all word-processing codes (i.e, saved as ASCII or DOS text). Submissions can also be sent on floppy disk to Paula Geyh at the Department of English, Faner Hall, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901. All submissions should follow the format guidelines detailed below. FORMAT GUIDELINES FOR _PMC_ REVIEWS You can save us a good deal of work by following these guidelines: Reviews should generally run between 2000 and 3500 words, or about 8-14 ordinary manuscript pages. Set margins to half-inch left, two-inch right, and set your font to Courier 10cpi (or any 10cpi, non-proportional font). This is very important, as it prevents too many characters on a line. Put a title at the top of the first page, and under it your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and mailing address. Center these lines. Number all paragraphs of your text with bracketed numbers. These bracketed numbers should be margin-released into the left-hand margin (this will place them at the 0" spot on the line). Indent (to 1") the first line of each pargraph and all lines of set- off quotations. Single-space the document throughout. Use _this_ for underlining titles, *this* for bold print or emphasis, %this% for foreign words, and ^this^ for superscript. Footnotes, if any, should follow MLA format. Page references in the text, if any, should not be preceded by p., pp., or any other notation; use just the page number itself. ------------------- We'd be particularly interested in seeing reviews of the following books: Altshuler, Bruce. _The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century_. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1998). Amato, Joe. _Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self_. (Binghamton: SUNY P, 1997). Aronowitz, Stanley. _Post-Work: The Wages of Cybernation_. (New York: Routledge: 1997). Bacchilega, Cristina. _Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies_. (Philadelphia: U of P Press, 1997). Biale, David, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel. _Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism._ (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Bornstein, Kate. _My Gender Workbook_. (New York: Routledge, 1998). Brooks, Michael W. _Subway City: Riding the Trains, Reading New York_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998). Butler, Judith. _The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection_. (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997). Chambers, Ross. _Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author_. (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998). Chaucer, Lynn S. _Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism_. (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Cixous, Helene. _Helene Cixous: Rootprints. Memory and Life Writing_. (New York, Routledge, 1997). Davies, Jude and Carol R. Smith. _Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film_. (Keele UP, 1998). Dellamora, Richard and Daniel Fischlin, eds. _The Work of Opera: Genre, Nationhood, and Sexual Difference_. (New York: Columbia UP, 1997). Deleuze, Gilles. _Negotiations 1972-1990_. (New York: Columbia UP, 1997). Dixon, Joan Broadhurst and Eric Cassidy, eds. _Virtual Futures_. (New York: Routledge, 1998). Eaglestone, Robert. _Ethical Criticism: Reading After Levinas_. (New York: Columbia UP, 1998). French, Patrick and Roland-Francois Lack, eds. _The Tel Quel Reader_. (New York: Routledge, 1998). Garber, Marjorie. _Symptoms of Culture_. (New York: Routledge, 1998). Golding, Sue. _The Eight Technologies of Otherness_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Haaken, Janice. _Pillar of Salt: Gender, Memory, and the Perils of Looking Back_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998). Haraway, Donna J. _Modest_Witness@Second Millenium.FemaleMan _Meets_OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Hass, Kristin Ann. _Carried to the Wall: American Memory and The Vietnam Veterans Memorial_. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1998). Heywood, Leslie. _Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women's Body Building_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP 1998). Holland, Patrick and Graham Huggan. _Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing_. (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998). hooks, bell. _Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Horton, Andrew and Stuart Y. McDougal, eds. _Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes_. (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Judovitz, Dalia. _Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit_. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1998). Kirby, Vicki. _Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Kondo, Dorinne. _About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Kristeva, Julia. _Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature). (New York: Columbia UP, 1998). ---. _New Maladies of the Soul_. (New York: Columbia UP, 1997). Kroker, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds. _Digital Delirium_. (New York: St. Martin's P, 1997). Leabhart, Thomas. _Modern and Postmodern Mime_. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). Levinson, Paul. _The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Lury, Cecilia. _Prosthetic Culture_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Masten, Jeffrey, Peter Stallybrass, and Nancy J. Vickers, eds. _Language Machines: Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production_. (New York: Routledge, 1998). Merrell, Floyd. _Sensing Semiosis: Toward the Possibility of Complementary Cultural "logics"_. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998). Mills, Stephen F. _The American Landscape_. (Keele UP, 1998). Moore, Pamela L., ed. _Building Bodies_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998). Nadel, Alan. _Flatlining on the Field of Dreams_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998). Nye, David E. _Narratives and Spaces: Technology and the Construction of American Culture_. (New York: Columbia UP 1998). Pearson, Keith Ansell. _Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). ---, ed. _Deleuze and Philosophy: The Difference Engineer_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Perry, Nicholas. _Hyperreality_. (New York: Routledge, 1998). Raskin, Jonah. _For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman_. (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Robertson, Jennifer. _Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan._ (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Rooks, Noliwe M. _Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1997). Rosenfeld, Michel and Andrew Arato. _Habermas on Law and Democracy_. (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Rotella, Carlo. _October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature_. (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Rothenberg, Jerome and Pierre Joris, eds. _Poems for the Millennium_ V. 2: From Postwar to Millennium. (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Roy, Parama. _Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India). (Berkeley, U of California P, 1998). Sandler, Kevin S., ed. _Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998). Schanke, Robert A. and Kim Marra, eds. _Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History_. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1998). Schroeder, Jeanne L. _The Vestal and the Fasces: Hegel, Lacan, Property, and the Feminine_. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1998). Sheppard, Darren, Simon Sparks, and Colin Thomas, eds. _On Jean-Luc Nancy_. (New York; Routledge, 1997). Shildrick, Margrit. _Leaky Bodies and Boundaries: Feminism, Postmodernism and Bioethics_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Showalter, Elaine. _Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media_. (New York: Columbia UP, 1998). Staples, William G. _The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and Social Control in the United States_. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). Taussig, Michael. _The Magic of the State_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Taylor, Mark C. _Hiding_. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997). Taylor, Timothy D. _Global Pop: World Music, World Markets_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Terry, Jennifer and Melodie Calvert, eds. _Processed Lives: Gender and Technology in Everyday Life_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). Ussher, Jane M. _Fantasies of Femininity: Reframing the Boundaries of Sex_. (New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998). Ward, Brian. _Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations_. (Berkeley: U of California P, 1998). Watkins, S. Craig. _Representing: Hip Hop Culture, and the Production of Black Cinema_. (Chicago, U of Chicago P, 1998). Werbner, Pnina and Tariq Mdood, eds. _Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism_. (New York: St. Martin's P, 1997). Whitely, Sheila, ed. _Sexing the Groove: Sexualities and Identities in Popular Music_. (New York: Routledge, 1997). From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ECAI-98 #10: SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:01:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 215 (215) [deleted quotation] ______ _____ ___ | | / \ /\ | | | ---| | ___| /__\ |___| __ ,- | ---| | | / \ | | / || | |______| \_____/ /______\ |___| `-/ \' / / \ AUGUST 23-28 1998 BRIGHTON UK ( `-' ECAI-98: the 13th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecai98 REGISTER BEFORE 1 AUGUST TO RECEIVE A DISCOUNT OF UP TO 50 POUNDS ON THE FULL REGISTRATION FEE. ECAI-98 takes place in Brighton on 23-28 August 1998. The main technical programme for the conference comprises 158 top-quality research papers in 48 sessions covering the following topics: Analogy, Automated reasoning, Belief revision, Case-based reasoning, Cognitive modelling, Computational linguistics, Constraint reasoning, Diagnosis and intelligent tutoring, Genetic algorithms, Heuristic search, Inductive logic programming, Knowledge representation, Knowledge-based systems, Learning rules and decision trees, Logic programming, Logic-based planning, Logics for KR, Logics for actions, Modelling actions, Multiagent Systems, Nonmononotic reasoning, Numerical methods in machine learning, Numerical methods and neural nets, Ontologies, Planning and scheduling, Possibilistic modelling, Probabilistic modelling, Robotics, Temporal and spatial reasoning, User interfaces [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MIND-III: SPATIAL COGNITION, DUBLIN, IRELAND, AUG 17-19 Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:02:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 216 (216) [deleted quotation] MIND III: Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland Theme: Spatial Cognition Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland August 17-19, 1998 You are invited to participate in the Annual Conference of the CSSI, on the Theme of Spatial Cognition, at Dublin City University from August 17-19, 1998. This conference will bring together researchers from different Cognitive Science disciplines (Psychology, Computer Science, Linguistics, and Cognitive Geography) who are studying different aspects of spatial cognition. The conference will provide a forum for researchers to share insights about different aspects of spatial cognition and from the perspective of different disciplines. The academic programme will begin at 9:00 a.m. on August 17th and end on 19th. The social programme will include a barbecue and ceili (traditional Irish Dance) on Tuesday 18th and a tour and concert on Wednesday after the end of the academic programme. For information on registration and accommodation, please visit the web page at: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/~hegarty/cssi/ The deadline for early registration is July 15th (after that the price increases significantly). [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Info ! NEW ! Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:04:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 217 (217) [deleted quotation] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS NLP+IA 98 [deleted quotation] Conference internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles TAL+AI 98 [deleted quotation] AUGUST / aout 18-21, 1998 Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA [material deleted] for more information, see also : http://www.sciences.umoncton.ca/infoque/dinfo.htm [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "J. McCarty" Subject: History of Medicine (fwd) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:07:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 218 (218) [The following view of the progress of medical science, sent to me by my daughter, is a useful corrective to the promotional view. Bruno Latour, in his review article "Evolution, not revolution: The dangers of over-hyping the influence of the computer" (TLS 4970 3 July p. 5) takes much the same view of Brian Winston's book, Media, technology and society. More about that in a subsequent issue of Humanist, however. --WM] [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Paul Brians Subject: Slang dictionary Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:14:36 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 219 (219) What's the best affordable English slang dictionary out there? Paul Brians, Department of English,Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "by way of Willard McCarty " Subject: Celtic-Latin project news Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:28:18 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 220 (220) [see the qualifying note that follows] ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY DICTIONARY OF MEDIEVAL LATIN FROM CELTIC SOURCES Editor: A.J.R. Harvey, M.A., Ph.D. Project Assistant: J. Power, B.A., Dip.Lib. July, 1998 Dear Colleague, Please accept this message as a cordial invitation to visit the DMLCS project's newly upgraded website at http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/dmlcs/dmlcs.html for up-to-date * details of DMLCS Ancillary volumes * details of the Archive of Celtic-Latin Literature on CD-ROM * details of the Scriptores Celtigenae text-publishing venture * information on the project's future commitments * links to kindred ventures and to browse our lemmatized [deleted quotation] (the Royal Irish Academy's first venture into scholarly publishing on the Internet). Your comments and feedback will be most welcome. Yours sincerely, Anthony Harvey e-mail edu_scully@ccvax.ucd.ie (or use the e-address given at the site) [from a subsequent note] 14th July, 1998 Dear Colleague, Many thanks for your message about being unable to access the Celtic-Latin site. The URL you were trying is correct; the problem is that the relevant Queen's University server has gone off-line at the moment, and holidays in that part of the world mean that it may not be fixed until later this week. It is ironic that, having worked perfectly during tests over the last month, the server should go down the very day that our site was publicly announced. We do appreciate your interest, and ask you not to give up on us; we think you will find the site worth a visit once that is again possible. With apologies for the inconvenience caused, Best wishes Anthony Harvey From: Francois Lachance Subject: 8 on-line hypertheory studies in English Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 15:35:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 221 (221) The following is a list of hypertext theory pieces available on-line, presented in a course syllabus order: Kathleen Burnett <ftp://ftp.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/stacks/pmc/pmc-v3n02-burnett> Toward a Theory of Hypertextual Design Postmodern Culture v.3 n.2 (January 1993) John Tolva <http://www.mindspring.com/~jntolva/heresy.html> The Heresy of Hypetext: Fear and Anxiety in the Late Age of Print (1995) Jay David Bolter <http://www.rochester.edu/College/FS/Publications/BolterSigns.html> Electronic Signs This is Chapter Six of Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991 (pp 85-106) Michael Joyce <http://bion.mit.edu/ejournals/b/n-z/PMC/2/joyce.991> Notes Toward an Unwritten Non-Linear Electronic Text, "The Ends of Print Culture" (a work in progress) Postmodern Culture, v.2 n.1 (September, 1991) Amy Wise.
<http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/hthl2/pards/wise/joyce.html> Good example of an annotated bibligrahpic entry on Joyce article Marie-Laure Ryan <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.994/ryan.994> Immersion vs. Interactivity: Virtual Reality and Literary Theory Post Modern Culture, v5 n.1 (September 1994) John Tolva <http://www.cs.unc.edu/~barman/HT96/P43/pictura.htm> Ut Pictura Hyperpoesis: Spatial From, Visuality, and the Digital Word Nancy Kaplan <http://sunsite.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1995/mar/kaplan.html> Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, v.2 n.3 (March 1, 1995) - acutally presented as a series of nodes and links Jerome McGann <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/public/jjm2f/rationale.html> The Rationale of Hypertext (1995) -- also published in Kathryn Sutherland, ed., Electronic text : investigations in method and theory
New York: Clarendon Press, 1997. [As well in this volume, there is a marvellous study of the hypertextual aspects of Huckleberry Finn which invites readers to entertain a base-superstructure view of the node-link relation (full biblio available upon request -- I'm not anywhere near the library copy or my notes and my memory fails me...)] All links to the above are collected and some of the above are glossed at <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/hyper/hypertoc.htm"> Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: "PROMISING PRACTICES" FOR USING NETWORKED ARTS RESOURCES Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:32:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 222 (222) FOR K-12 TEACHING NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 15, 1998 "PROMISING PRACTICES" FOR USING NETWORKED ARTS RESOURCES FOR K-12 TEACHING The Arts: On-Site and On-Line <http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/iu/> A year-long study of how arts organizations can best use digitally networked resources to engage K-12 students in learning and experiencing the arts has produced a set of "promising practices" as part of its on-line final report. Members of the project, "Arts: On-Site and On-Line," devised seven broad categories as criteria for evaluating on-line and electronic educational materials. Within these categories, the group made recommendations it felt characterized the most promising practices. The seven categories are: 1.Quality of content and its interpretive presentation 2.Diversity of Information 3.Graphic Design 4.Applicability for Teaching 5.Links and Related Resources 6.Engaging and Stimulating 7.Enhancing the Real Experience. The report suggests that the outline of recommendations within these categories could be used by museums developing educational resources on-line, by teachers developing collaborative projects with arts organizations, as a framework for planning and as a list of recommended practices. The web site contains a detailed account of the project, a collaboration between the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, Cal Performances, and K-12 teachers from several schools in the San Francisco Bay Area under the umbrella of UC Berkeley's Interactive University Project. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: Four new "American Memory" collections Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:19:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 223 (223) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 15, 1998 NEW AMERICAN MEMORY RELEASES AT LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WEBSITE Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html> From the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, 1935-1945 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html> Buckaroos in Paradise: Cattle Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ncrhtml/crhome.html> An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, 1490-1920 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dihtml/dihome.html> An eclectic covey of four new digitized collections has recently been announced by the Library of Congress: 19th century railroad maps; 164,000 of the rather famous FSA photographs of depression America; motion pictures and sound recordings documenting Nevadan cattle-ranching practice; and some two hundred social dance manuals. David Green ==================== [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dave Postles Subject: Re: 12.0127 English slang dictionary? Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:37:32 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 224 (224) Eric Partridge's Dictionary of English Slang was published in paperback. [deleted quotation] -- *%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* % Dave Postles, % * Dept of English Local History, pot@le.ac.uk * % University of Leicester e-mail me -- don't 'phone or write % * 5, Salisbury Road, http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/intro.html * % Leicester, % * LE1 7QR * %*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*% ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: patterns Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:43:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 225 (225) Peter Brook begins his recently published autobiography Threads of time: A memoir (Methuen Drama 1998) thus: "I could have called this book False Memories. Not because consciously I want to tell a lie but because the act of writing proves that there is no deep freeze in the brain where memories are stored intact. On the contrary, the brain seems to hold a reservoir of fragmentary signals that have neither colour, sound, or taste, waiting for the power of imagination to bring them to life. In a way, this is a blessing. "At this moment, somewhere in Scandinavia, a man with a prodigious capacity for total recall is also recording his life. I am told that as he puts down every detail that his memory provides, it is taking him a year to write a year, and as he started late he can never catch up. His predicament makes it clear that autobiography has another aim. It is to peer into a bewildering confusion of indiscriminate, incomplete impressions, never quite this, never quite that, in an attempt to see whether, with hindsight, a pattern can emerge." Reading this last night, in the afterglow of a hot bath and on the edge of sleep, it occurred to me that looking for patterns in literature, the basic activity of the literary critic, is mutatis mutandis the same kind of thing. What are the textual symbols but "fragmentary signals... waiting for the power of imagination to bring them to life"? What does an open-minded reading yield if not "a bewildering confusion of indiscriminate, incomplete impressions, never quite this, never quite that" out of which we attempt to find a pattern? And what does this have to do with computing? Once again we are reminded of how heavily we must qualify the vaunted objectivity of computational analysis. As with wetware so with hardware and software. Since these thoughts did not disperse with the dawn but kept their charm late into the afternoon, I decided to post them to you for whatever they may be worth. The book certainly begins in a masterful way. 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: Francois Lachance Subject: habit and boolean searches Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:53:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 226 (226) Willard, I was recently preparing some presentation materials on WWW search engines. My audience included people who had never or rarely used Boolean operators in their searches. I noticed that the Altavista help materials <http://altavista.digital.com/av/content/help_advanced.htm> subtly create user habits that maximize matches. The operators are listed in a table from top to bottom (AND, OR, NOT, NEAR); the use of brackets is mentioned but not explained. I hazard the hypothesis that new learners will tend to use AND alone in their initial searches. To be fair to the folks at Digital, the search engine was first developed to find matches based on "rank" i.e. frequency of occurence; the Boolean operators were added later. I know that Humanist counts many librarians and information studies professionals as subscribers. I was wondering if any of them might wish to comment on how Boolean operators used to be taught and how materials on the WWW now present them. Curious about a historically informed comparison, Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu Subject: Paper > electronic editions Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 22:36:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 227 (227) Does anyone have experience with the problems involved in converting a large-scale, multi-volume scholarly edition, originally conceived of as a purely print product, to an electronic format? I am not concerned with the retrospective conversion, as the librarians call it, of volumes that have already appeared in print, but rather with the problem of converting procedures and formats originally designed for print publication to those suitable for either CD-ROM or web publication. Many thanks, Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: abbreviations Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 07:41:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 228 (228) The following note from Peter Burton raises an interesting point not completely unrelated to computing; it at least involves a language usage issue that users commonly encounter, and that some of us might be able to answer by means of computing. Under what conditions, the note leads me to wonder, do we consider an abbreviation to have become a word in a language into which it has migrated? Abbreviations that do not themselves easily make words (like A.D.) would seem not quite to be acronyms, though the OED does not make the distinction, defining an "acronym" as "A word formed from the initial letters of other words." I would suppose that these conditions vary with the target language. This would seem a question that a corpus linguist might be able to answer. Yours, WM [deleted quotation]the [deleted quotation]<> [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/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: House Commerce Committee Adopts Digital Copyright Bill Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:00:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 229 (229) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 17, 1998 HOUSE COMMERCE COMMITTEE ADOPTS DIGITAL COPYRIGHT BILL "Fair Use" a Major Topic of Debate Below is an extract from today's NCC Washington Update, reporting on the adoption by the House Commerce Committee of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The committee has generally succeeded in making the bill more responsive to more sets of needs than the version of this bill passed by the Judiciary Committee. Fair Use was an especially strong subject for discussion, and was at the heart of an amendment submitted by Representative Scott Klug (R-WI). This amendment "strikes from the bill a section prohibiting an individual's circumvention of technological protection measures, such as encryption used to prevent access to copyrighted material, and calls on the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a two year review of this section, taking into consideration the "public interest," before issuing formal regulations on [its] implementation." The amendment also called for a biennial review "to ensure that 'balance' between creators and users is achieved in the implementation of the law." According to a statement released by the Digital Future Coalition, "H.R. 2281, as passed by the House Commerce Committee, will maintain the owner/user balance and will protect the rights of consumers, students, educators, and scholars to make use of digital works and multi-media for school reports, research, teaching, and a host of other currently permissible activities. The competing bill will impose a "pay-per-use" model of information commerce in the network environment." Page Miller also notes that with pledged support from Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) and others, this bill might finally be "on a very fast track toward passage." David Green =========== =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: Call for Hold on Article 2B Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:20:51 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 230 (230) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 17, 1998 PRESS RELEASE ON RESULTS OF UC BERKELEY CONFERENCE ON ARTICLE 2B <http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b/wrap-up.html> Just as prospects for more user-friendly and more balanced federal digital copyright legislation begin to look a little brighter, we are reminded that the Uniform Commercial Code revisions, governing contract law, are still looking quite bleak, especially with regard to the future of fair use in the digital environment. Below is a University of California, Berkeley, press release, part of the "wrap-up" of the April conference held by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology on "Intellectual Property and Contract Law: The Impact of Article 2B." For background on UCC 2B, see the home page of the conference website: <http://sims.berkeley.edu/BCLT/events/ucc2b/> David Green =========== [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: UK's Visual Arts Data Service: User Needs Workshop Report Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 11:55:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 231 (231) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 20, 1998 SCHOLARLY EXPLOITATION OF DIGITAL RESOURCES: Workshop Report on User Needs from UK's VISUAL ARTS DATA SERVICE (VADS) <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/wkshp1.html> Readers will probably be interested in the latest of the series of reports on "Scholarly Exploitation of Digital Resources," by the five service providers of the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service. The latest is the report on a workshop on user needs by the Visual Arts Data Service and is available at <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/wkshp1.html>. This report is a companion to the report of the History Data Service on the needs of historians <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/reports/user_needs/draft_report01.stm> and of the broad "National Expert Workshop," at <http://ahds.ac.uk/users/natrep.html>. Other reports are in the pipeline. Although much of the report pertains to how VADS does its work, readers will probably be most interested in the recommendations of the report (broken down under Data Use; Data Creation; the User Support Landscape and the Role of the VADS) at <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/wkshp6.html>. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: Guidelines for Digital Imaging Conference (UK) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 13:59:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 232 (232) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 20, 1998 GUIDELINES FOR DIGITAL IMAGING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Joint RLG & NPO Preservation Conference September 28-30, 1998, University of Warwick, England <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/> [deleted quotation]work [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Walter Maner Subject: Re: HUM CONCORDANCE SOURCES? Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 07:19:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 233 (233) Walter Maner wrote to me asking, [deleted quotation] Please post your replies directly to Dr. Maner as well as to Humanist. Thanks. WM From: Francois Lachance Subject: An ABC of AD/CE ? Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 12:47:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 234 (234) Willard, I would like to add to Peter Burton's question about the placement of the date indicator before or after a stated value coupled with your questions about the lexical status of abbreviations, one further consideration. It is an observation that needs to be verified. It seems to me that the expression BCE (before the Christian era) has gained more wide-spread usuage in the presentation of chrono markers than CE. *pause* The question of placement has a descriptive dimension: how did it come to be that the inscriptions preserve the recorded syntax? were there an competitors i.e. different positionings? can the call for placing the abbreviation A.D. before be an artefact of English language usuage "in the year of our Lord, ####"? if the latter is indeed the case then is this a phenomenon similar to the graphic-phonemic-phonetic transference found intralingually for example in the case of Ye which is an abbrevition for "the"? At first glance, it would seem that an acronym that is pronounceable has greater chance of being considered a lexical unit. However just because the acronym is pronounceable does not make it memorable. Consider the names of advocacy groups that produce their names through the figure of the acrostic: CHUM -- Computing Humanists United in Merriment. It seems that our quasi-fictional example would have to not only endure as a social phenomenon but also extend its geographic scope. Still, is a name a word? It may depend on function. The CHUM Declartion of Rights and Responsibilities could take a name as an adjective. The graphemic qualities are here important because there may be purposeful overlap with the semantic field of other lexical markers. Just when does the upper case drop? Consider CD and UFO. I recall some activists struggling with the "screaming" typography of AIDS which in some languages other than English could be reduced to lower case e.g. "sida". Conversely the acronym PWA (Person With AIDS) lead to some interesting connative suggestions when translated into French (PAS: Personne atteinte du SIDA). In short, mnemonics are a function of euphony and position vis a vis a semantic field. We are getting close to the definition of a verbal artefact as a catastrophe in the mathematical sense. Enter the sigil. I could choose the hieorglyph-like inscription used to designate the Artist-formerly-know-as-Prince but I have an example more venerable in age than the name/sign of a popular music icon-idol. Take the Roman letters X, A and P. Of course they can spell the lexical unit "pax". However arranged in a specific pattern they form a sigil with as possible referant The Prince of Peace. Now the word, I would argue, is neither in the material (including electronic) sign nor in the referant but is a function of the relations between them as constantly mediated by a human speach community. The lexical unit would be a special word that points to the relations of mediation and their impact on the temporal and geographic extension of the pre-lexical unit, on the judgements of euphnony (and/or typographic grace) and on considerations of its appropriate position in a system's semantic fields. What is perhaps confusing here is that the pre-lexical unit does not disappear from the horizon once a lexical entry is created. It is a situation remniscent of the relation between encoded text and pre-encoded text. What is not confusing is that the context-sensitive mutable word whether dated by Julian and Gregorian and Mayan calendars, whether existing in a year of thirteen moons, never travels alone. Sometimes it is through multilingual scenes where Latin mingles with English and the dying are given a new lease on life. ex tempore in media res Francois From: Vania Cascio Subject: Do you use the electronic OED as a research tool? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 12:57:22 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 235 (235) Hello everyone, I am researching on the effectiveness of exploiting the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary as a research tool(linguistic, historical, sociological and so on). Have you ever used it in your research? Do you know of colleagues who have used it? What kind of investigation has been doing? To which end? What the advantages? Can you suggest any reading on the topic? Your contribution is very pleased and welcomed!! thanks for your help... Vania Cascio University of Catania ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: re conversions of large text Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 16:36:32 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 236 (236) I wonder if the OED people, who put the whole damn thing on on CD-ROM, all 22+? volumes, from an obviously pre=printed source, might not advise? I couldnt live without the OED on the drive ready to be consulted in editing and writing almost instantaneously, and it cost alas nearly 900$ when I got it, but worth it all. Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature UCLA 218 Sixteenth Street Santa Monica, CA 90402-2216 Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: ALLC/ACH 98: personal photo essay Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:41:03 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 237 (237) [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] Anyone who'd like a look at the 98 ALLC/ACH conference, from the perspective of one set of attendees, might want to see http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/Hungary/=20 (and those who administer humanities computing organizations won't want to miss the "Meanwhile, Back at the Farm" section). =20 Many, many thanks to L=E1szl=F3 Hunyadi, the exemplary organizer of the Debrecen conference, and many thanks also to his wonderfully helpful assistants and students. John Unsworth From: David Green Subject: July 1998 D-Lib Magazine available Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 11:18:06 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 238 (238) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 17, 1998 D-Lib Magazine (July 1988) published <http://www.dlib.org> CONTENTS Towards the Hybrid Library Chris Rusbridge University of Warwick NSF/DARPA/NASA Digital Libraries Initiative: A Program Manager's Perspecti= ve Stephen M. Griffin National Science Foundation Directions for Defense Digital Libraries Ronald L. Larsen US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Electronic Journal Publishing: Observations from Inside Karen Hunter Elsevier Science Archiving Digital Cultural Artifacts: Organizing an Agenda for Action Peter Lyman University of California, Berkeley Brewster Kahle Alexa Internet Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Interim Retrospect and Prospects Henry M. Gladney IBM Almaden Research Center Metadata: The Right Approach, An Integrated Model for Descriptive and Rights Metadata in E-commerce Godfrey Rust Data Definitions Design and Evaluation: A Review of the State-of-the-Art Computer Science and Telecommunications Board National Research Council [material deleted] From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Blake Archive's July Update Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:18:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 239 (239) The latest news of work completed here at the Blake Archive. Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward as appropriate. Matt K. -- The editors of the William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake> are pleased to announce the publicatio= n of six new electronic editions of Blake's illuminated books. They are:=20 _All Religions are One_ copy A _There is No Natural Religion_ copies B, C, G, and L _Milton, a Poem_ copy C Composed and executed in 1788, _All Religions are One_ and _There is No Natural Religion_ are Blake's first works in illuminated printing, though n= o copy of either work survives from this date. The ten plates of _All Religions_ were followed quickly by twenty _No Natural Religion_ plates in two antithetical sets (a and b series). Only one copy of _All Religions_ is extant, now in the Huntington Library, printed c. 1795 with and in the same style as _There is No Natural Religion_ copy L, the only copy consisting exclusively of the ten b-series of plates, now in The Pierpont Morgan Library. The other twelve recorded copies of this book consist of a mixture of the same eight to twelve plates, which appeared to be merely incomplete sets of proofs until it was discovered that six of these copies were 19th-century reproductions. Once the inauthentic impressions were weeded out, it became apparent that what remained was Blake's selection of = a and b plates for an abridged version of the work printed around 1794. We present copies B, C, and G of this twelve-plate work, now in the collection= s of the Yale Center for British Art, Library of Congress, and The Pierpont Morgan Library, respectively.=20 There are only four copies of _Milton_, Blake's most personal epic. Copy C, from the New York Public Library, was Blake's own copy. Printed c. 1811, it was later reconfigured and renumbered by Blake when he inserted extra plates, which he appears to have done on at least two different occasions. All of these editions have newly edited texts and are all fully searchable for both text and images and supported by the unique Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. We now have twenty-two copies of thirteen illuminated books. Over this and next year, we will be adding Blake's last illuminated works, _On Homers Poetry [&] On Virgil_, _The Ghost of Abel_, and _Laocoon_, as well as _Milton_ copy D and _Jerusalem_ copy E. We will also be adding at least si= x more copies of _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_, two copies of _Songs of Innocence_, five copies of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_, four copie= s of _The Book of Urizen_, and two copies each of _America, a Prophecy_ and _Europe, a Prophecy_. In addition, work continues on the SGML edition of David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_.=20 We will continue to post updates on various lists every few months, but readers interested in the progress of the Archive can subscribe to our Blake Update list, which can be found on the Archive's Contents Page. On this page readers will also find that we have opened the top level of the Contributing Institutions Page, which provides contact information and link= s to institutions participating in the Archive. In the coming months, we plan to include color-coded and linked lists of each institution's entire Blake collection to indicate what is and is not in the Archive and what is forthcoming. Morris Eaves Robert Essick Joseph Viscomi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "K. C. Cameron" Subject: EXETER CALL'99 Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:41:19 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 240 (240) EXETER CALL '99 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS September 9-11 1999 Conference on CALL AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY This will be the eighth biennial conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. Many of the papers have been published in Computer Assisted Language Learning. An International Journal (Swets & Zeitlinger), and bear witness to the weighty discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so. The estimated cost, with en-suite accommodation in the new Postgraduate Centre, centrally situated on the University campus, for full board, Conference fee and a copy of the Proceedings is 140 pounds sterling - 95 pounds for non-residents. Proposals are invited by February 28 1999 for papers (25 mins) on any aspect of CALL, but, in particular, topics dealing with CALL and Learning in the Community. Papers will hopefully lead to submissions to the journal, Computer Assisted Language Learning. For further information, please return the form below to : Angela Foster, CALL'99 Conference, Department of French, School of Modern Languages, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK). Tel/FAX: (0)1392 264222 e/mail A.Foster@ex.ac.uk or contact Keith Cameron (K.C.Cameron@ex.ac.uk) CALL '99, Exeter, CALL and the LEARNING COMMUNITY NAME .......................................... .......................................... ADDRESS .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... *I wish to attend the CALL conference September 9-11 1999 *Please invoice me *I wish to propose a paper on: *Please send further particulars about the conference ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts= , Editor of: - Computer Assisted Language Learning, (http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html); - Exeter Textes litteraires, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm); - Exeter Tapes, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html); - EUROPA-on line & European Studies Series, (http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm); - Elm Bank Modern Language Series, (http://www.intellect-net.com/elm-bank) Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.= B. WWW (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/) Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 1392 264221;Fax: 01392 264222 / + 44 (19) 1392 264= 222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@ex.ac.uk From: "K. C. Cameron" Subject: RELIGIOUS PLURALISM Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:52:00 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 241 (241) UNIVERSITY OF EXETER SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 19-21 APRIL 1999 The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France It is intended to hold a three-day colloquium on the above topic (see below for more ample details) at the University of Exeter in April 1999. It will provide an opportunity to discuss more fully issues raised by the celebrations surrounding the quatercentenary of the Edict of Nantes. The organisers (Mark Greengrass, Sheffield; Penny Roberts, Warwick; and Keith Cameron, Exeter) invite you to submit abstracts of papers for consideration as soon as possible. The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France This colloquium is to be held in the year which follows the 400th anniversary of the pacification at Nantes in 1598 which brought the French 'wars of religion' to a close. It cannot be termed however, a conventional 'commemorative' conference (as the date suggests), for there are many, lavishly conceived conferences of this king currently being planned for 1998 in France. Simple commemoration is not a sufficient reason for studying a historical and cultural event. A significant historical - and cultural - problem (and one that is currently exercising the minds of historians and literary historians) is, however, worth defining and studying collectively. This is planned as a working colloquium where the atmosphere will be convivial and informal. It will aim to publish subsequently a volume of studies. The 'problem' is one that has been created by strong historiographical traditions. On the one hand, there is a residual and powerful protestant, confessional tradition that interprets the Edict of Nantes as one of the defining moments in its history. The pacification was the moment when legitimate protestant rights of identity were recognised. At the same time, the edict contained within it the seeds of the later, and inevitable, betrayal and revocation. Bourbon and royalist traditions interpret the edict as a triumphal 'politique' act that enabled the absolute monarchy to reunite France at a critical moment and lay the foundations for the consolidation of the French state in the seventeenth century. The difficulty with these traditions is that they rely for their interpretative weight upon a retrospective writing of the past. Our problem is to recreate the sense of 'adventure' into the unknown that was associated with the edicts of pacification. How was it that the largest and most coherent monarchy in Europe could possibly contemplate the acceptance and integration of a substantial religious minority into the realm? It would have been much easier to have attempted the kind of religious pluralism afforded by the German Reich after 1555, or later in the Netherlands, where religious diversity was eventually secured by degrees of political separation. Integrative pluralism of the kind attempted by the French state was a much more ambitious adventure altogether. The fact that the French state embarked upon such an adventure leads us to ask complementary questions about the nature of that state as well as early-modern French society and its cultural life. How were the edicts of pacification enforced in practical terms? We know that everything in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Europe was mediated and 'brokered'. How did this process work for the edicts of pacification? Were there greater degrees of pluralism in its intellectual life than we have previously imagined? What comparisons can be drawn between the privileges granted to other groups in society and those granted to the Huguenots? Can regional or local examples tell us more about the practical degrees of toleration that existed and upon which the edicts of pacification built? Can cultural and literary historians explain more clearly for us how the conservative legal traditions of France managed to justify to themselves and others this extraordinary adventure into what must have seemed like dangerous plurality? The sessions at the colloquium will depend to some degree on the papers that we secure. We shall invite participants to prepare outline synopses of papers of about 6,000 words in length which they will be asked to summarise in 20 minute presentations. Each session of two or three such papers will have a commentator who will have read the papers in their entirety and prepare a commentary on them to focus our discussion. Those who are interested in participating are also invited to submit synopses independently for consideration by the conference organisers. There may be limited funds available to defray the costs of post-graduate or post-doctoral students. The draft programme will be available in September 1998. The final programme will be circulated in January 1999. Accommodation will be provided in the recently built Post-Graduate Centre situated on the main campus of Exeter University. If you are interested in attending please complete and return the reservation slip. Invoices will be issued on 1 December 1998 and, for administrative reasons, we expect payment by 15 January 1999. If you wish to pay in advance of this date you may do so making your cheque/money order payable to the University of Exeter. The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France April 19-21 1999 NAME =2E.............................................. ADDRESS =2E.............................................. =2E.............................................. =2E.............................................. =2E =2E............................................. =2E.............................................. I wish to attend the The Adventure of Religious Pluralism in Early-Modern France Colloquium on April 19-21 1999 Resident / Non-Resident Please invoice me Total cost for full board and conference fee =A3130 (pounds sterling) Total cost for meals only and conference fee =A385 (pounds sterling) Please return to: Keith Cameron, Queen's Building, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH. Tel: (0)1392 264221 FAX: (0)1392 264222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@exeter.ac.uk ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts= , From: David Green Subject: Conference: The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Ag= Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:25:28 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 242 (242) e NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 21, 1998 THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE September 25-28, 1998: Bergen, Norway <http://www.futurehum.uib.no/> Apologies for the late announcement of this imminent and very interesting conference. Featured speakers include (among many others): * Diane Harley: The Humanities & Technology Project at the University of California, Berkeley * Paul McKevitt: Information Superhighways and IntelliMedia 2000+: bringing together humanities, science and engineering * Espen Aarseth: From Humanities Computing to Humanistic Informatics: Creating a Field of Our Own. * Lou Burnard: Computing for, in, and of the Humanities: an Oxford perspect= ive * Jim Everett: Teaching history in an emerging digital learning environment - A British perspective * Daniel Apollon: Reincarnation or extinction of humanities in the digital = age? * Mark Kornbluh: Building international communities of scholars and teachers: H-Net, the Internet, and the university of the 21st century. The conference will be webcast, so check the website for further details. This conference is a the work of ACO*HUM, Advanced Computing in the Humanities:a "Socrates thematic network project" aimed at developing an international dimension for investigating the educational impact of new technologies in all humanities disciplines. "The SOCRATES/ERASMUS programme of the European Commission has established thematic network projects in order to develop selected themes i= n higher education and give them an international dimension. "Advanced Computing in the Humanities (ACO*HUM) is one of twenty-eight networks started in 1996. The theme of our network is the increasing use of advanced computing in teaching and learning in the humanities, with its problems and possibilities. "About one hundred European universities, professional associations and other organizations find this theme so important that they have chosen to work on it together, rather than individually. In this way, they hope to co= pe with the challenge for universities to change due to the new technologies a= nd their effects on our society. "ACO*HUM is investigating the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICT) on curriculum content, scientific methodology and learning methods at institutions for higher education. The project is also paying attention to the relevance of new technologies for humanities content providers, such as museums, libraries, and archives." <http://www.futurehum.uib.no/> David Green =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES UPDATE Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:57:27 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 243 (243) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 21 1998 CONFERENCES Conferences being added to the NINCH Community Calendar <http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html> include the following: * THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE September 25-28, 1998: Bergen, Norway <http://www.futurehum.uib.no/> * CULTURAL STUDIES, DATA BASES AND EUROPE Sponsored by Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies September 29-October 3, 1998: Debrecen, Hungary. <http://www.adis.at/arlt/institut/english/debrecen.htm> * SCHOOL FOR SCANNING: ISSUES OF PRESERVATION AND ACCESS FOR PAPER-BASED COLLECTIONS December 7-9, 1998: New Orleans, LA <http://www.nedcc.org/sfsno.htm> * KNOWLEDGE: CREATION, ORGANIZATION & USE: ASIS 1999 Annual Conference November 1-4, 1999: Washington, D.C <http://www.asis.org/Conferences/am99call.html> or contact asis@asis.org.] 500-word Proposal Deadline: December 15, 1998. * EVALUATING AND USING NETWORKED INFORMATION RESOURCES AND SERVICES ASIS 1999 Mid-Year Conference May 24-26, 1999, Pasadena, California <http://www.asis.org/Conferences/my99call.html> Program Chair: Charles McClure, Syracuse University. 250-word Proposal Deadline: November 1, 1998 REMINDERS: Registration deadlines approach for * DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES September 9-12, 1998: Glasgow, Scotland <http://http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk> * MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK CONFERENCE: Knowledge Creation-Knowledge Sharing-Knowledge Preservation September 23-26, 1998: Santa Monica, California, USA <http://world.std.com/~mcn/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 12.0136 HUM sources? AD/CE? e-OED use? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 19:11:34 -0600 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 244 (244) [deleted quotation]I don't even use the non-electronic version of the OED if I can possibly avoid it: it's just not a trustworthy source.> -- Norman Hinton hinton@uis.edu From: Richard Goerwitz Subject: Re: 12.0136 HUM sources? AD/CE? e-OED use? Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 20:51:49 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 245 (245) There are several versions of the OED available for online use. Which one is it you are interested in? Or are you interested in them all? -- Richard Goerwitz PGP key fingerprint: C1 3E F4 23 7C 33 51 8D 3B 88 53 57 56 0D 38 A0 For more info (mail, phone, fax no.): finger richard@goon.stg.brown.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI Workshop: Lexical semantics in Context -- Program Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:32:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 246 (246) and Call for Participation [deleted quotation] ESSLLI-98 Workshop on LEXICAL SEMANTICS IN CONTEXT: CORPUS, INFERENCE AND DISCOURSE August 17 - 21, 1998 A workshop held as part of the 10th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-98) August 17 - 28, 1998, Saarbruecken, Germany ** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND PROGRAM ** ----------------- Program: August 17 : Introduction Johan Bos (Universitaet des Saarlandes) and Paul Buitelaar (DFKI) - Introduction Invited Speaker: Daniel Kayser (Universite Paris Nord) - Lexical Adaptation August 18 : Acquisition Dimitrios Kokkinakis (Goeteborg University) - Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Sub-Domains Andrea Setzer (Sheffield University) - Extracting Temporal Information from Newspaper Articles Invited Speaker: Ann Copestake (Stanford University) - Comments on Kokkinakis and Setzer August 19 : Representation Noriko Tomuro (DePaul University) - Semi-automatic Induction of Underspecified Semantic Classes Chungmin Lee, Seungho Nam (Seoul National University) and Beom-mo Kang (Korea University) - Lexical Semantic Structure for Predicates in Korean Paul Buitelaar (DFKI) - Comments on Tomuro and Lee/Nam/Kang August 20 : Analysis Kyoko Kanzaki (Waseda University) and Hitoshi Isahara (Kansai Advanced Research Center) - The semantic connection between adnominal and adverbial usage of Japanese adnominal constituents Mariana Damova and Sabine Bergler (Concordia University) - Inferencing between Aspectual Verbs and Event Descriptions Anne-Marie Mineur (Utrecht University) - Building Bridges August 21 : Systems Mihai-Valentin Tablan, Catalina Barbu, Hortensia Popescu, Roxana-Oana Hamza, Claudia Ciobanu, Ionut-Ciprian Nita, Cosmin-Danut Bocaniala, Maria Georgescul, Dan Cristea (A.I. Cuza University) - Co-operation and Detachment in Discourse Understanding Invited Speaker: Bob Krovetz (NEC Reserach Institute) - Multiple Senses per Discourse From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Last CFP: ACM SAC'99 - Track on Coordination Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:34:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 247 (247) [deleted quotation] *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES *** ========================================== (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) 1999 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '99) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications February 28 - March 2, 1999 The Menger, San Antonio, Texas, U. S. A. (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/SAC99.html) SAC '99: ~~~~~~~~ Over the past thirteen 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'99 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. There will be a number of special tracks on such issues as Programming Languages, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Mobile and Scientific Computing, Internet and the WWW, etc. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IWCS-3 Call for Papers Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:35:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 248 (248) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third International Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS - 3) January 13-15, 1999, Tilburg, The Netherlands ------------- (SECOND) CALL FOR PAPERS ------------- The Linguistics Department at Tilburg University will host the Third International Workshop on Computational Semantics, that will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, 13 - 15 January 1999. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the study of computational aspects of the semantics of natural language. [material deleted; for more information see the following URL] http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Dean, Faculty of Arts Tilburg University P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen) 2568 (Dean's office) 2653 (office, room B 310) Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110 Harry.Bunt@kub.nl WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Studentship Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:30:24 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 249 (249) [deleted quotation] RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP (Current value of bursary 5,500 UK pounds) The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European Studies invites applications for a research studentship in automatic abstracting. The successful candidate will work on developing an automatic abstracting system incorporating various corpus-based, anaphora resolution and term recognition approaches . We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science and with excellent programming skills. Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship on 10 September 1998. For further information about the project, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk. Formal applications must be made to: The Research Support Unit University of Wolverhampton Dudley Campus Castle View Dudley DY1 3HR and must include a completed application form (to be requested from Mrs. Lesley Barlow - tel. 01902 323317, Email L.Barlow@wlv.ac.uk), a CV and a covering letter in which the candidates explain why they apply for the studentship and give details of their research interests/experience, background and programming skills. Please note that the closing date for applications is 1 August 1998. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Early Modern Literary Studies: Opening for an Associate Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:33:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 250 (250) Editor (iEMLS) [deleted quotation] Early Modern Literary Studies: Opening for an Associate Editor (iEMLS) http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html EMLS is currently seeking an Associate Editor, who will share=20 responsibilities for the Interactive section of the journal. The=20 position will begin in late September 1998. Interactive EMLS (iEMLS) intends to explore the potential of=20 the internet as a scholarly medium. It has done so by - offering a venue for circulating useful information widely=20 and quickly, as in our sections for Calls for Papers and=20 Conference Materials; - supporting scholarly resources, such as the *Milton Quarterly* Relational Database and the *SHAKSPER* Discussion=20 List Archive; - providing the means for scholars to interact closely, regardless= =20 of geographical distance, with such projects as the=20 Virtual Seminar. We are presently building upon this base, especially so in areas related to the model of interactivity provided by the Virtual Seminar. The Associate Editor maintains existing iEMLS features while=20 planning, consulting with others, and implementing new features=20 -- fully sharing associated tasks and duties with another Associate=20 Editor (the position is split between two editors). He or she devotes=20 approximately four hours per week to these duties and will be required=20 to have a good knowledge of early modern English literature and a=20 demonstrated competence in HTML, as well as a good knowledge of=20 internet publishing tools such as FrontPage (or the willingness to learn=20 them). Should you be interested in being considered for this position, please send a cover letter and vita to: R.G. Siemens, Editor Early Modern Literary Studies Department of English 3-5 Humanities Centre University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5.=20 Electronic Mail: EMLS@UAlberta.ca Fax: (403) 492-8142 Review of candidates will begin in mid-August. ---------------- About EMLS EMLS (ISSN 1201-2459) is published three times a year for the on-line academic community by agreement with, and with the support of, the University of Alberta's Department of English. EMLS is indexed by the MLA International Bibliography, the Modern Humanities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), the Canadian Index (CBCA), Web-Cite, the Lycos and InfoSeek indexing services and others, as well as being linked to resource pages of scholarly journals, libraries, educational institutions, and others worldwide. EMLS does not appear in print form, but can be obtained free of charge in hypertextual format on the World Wide Web at * http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html The EMLS site is mirrored at Oxford University. EMLS is a participant in the National Library of Canada's Electronic Publications Pilot Project, where it is also archived; it is also archived by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Electronic Journals Collection. 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Cook III, Bowie State University * Patricia Demers, University of Alberta * Roy Flannagan, Ohio University * W. L. Godshalk, University of Cincinnati * Ian Lancashire, New College, University of Toronto * Graham Parry, University of York, England * Paul G. Stanwood, University of British Columbia Advisory Editors: * John Archer, University of New Hampshire * Patricia Badir, University of British Columbia * Richard W. Bailey, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor * Glenn Black, Oriel College, Oxford * Ronald Bond, University of Calgary * Luc Borot, Centre d'Etudes et de R=E9cherches sur la Renaissance Anglaise, Universit=E9 Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France * Douglas Bruster, University of Texas, San Antonio * Thomas Corns, University of Wales, Bangor * Peter Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * A.S.G. Edwards, University of Victoria * Jane Finnan, University of Toronto * Antonia Forster, University of Akron * John K. Hale, University of Otago, New Zealand * Robert S. Knapp, Reed College * F.J. Levy, University of Washington * Lawrence Manley, Yale University * John Manning,University of Wales, Lampeter * Mark Morton, University of Winnipeg * Stephen Orgel, Stanford University * Milla Riggio, Trinity College, CT * Alan Rudrum, Simon Fraser University Editor: * Raymond G. Siemens, University of Alberta Co-Editor: * Joanne Woolway, Oriel College, Oxford (On leave, Fall 1997 - ) Associate Editors: * Paul Dyck, University of Alberta (Interactive EMLS) * Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University (Reviews) Assistant Editors: * James Doelman, McMaster University (Reviews) * Sean Lawrence, University of British Columbia * Mathew Martin, University of Alberta (Dialogues) Editorial Assistants: * Kim Yates, University of Toronto * Laura Bonikowsky, University of Alberta * Jennifer Lewin, Yale University Electronic Editors: * Richard Bear, University of Oregon (Managing Editor, Discussion Groups) * David L. 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Reviews and materials for review may be sent to Lisa Hopkins, the Associate Editor (Reviews), at L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk or by regular mail to the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, UK, S10 2BP. Please note that all unsolicited materials sent to EMLS for the purposes of review must be plainly marked with the word "Donation" on the front of the mailing cover. Brief hard-copy correspondence may also be sent by fax to (403) 492-8142. Materials published in EMLS are =A9 R.G. Siemens (Editor, EMLS). For more information regarding submission of materials, send a message to our Assistant Editor, Sean Lawrence, at seanlawrence@writeme.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Moran Subject: Re: 12.0138 e-OED Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:15:53 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 251 (251) RE: [1] From: Norman Hinton (36) [deleted quotation] Considering the fact that we live in a world in which language is always changing. . .where girls are called "dudes" and "G.I. Jane" (American movie) has a protagonist that throws out one-liners anatomically-impossible to achieve, just to prove she's good at male-bonding. where Walt Whitman and many historical others elevate slang to the sublime. . .. . .and are proved right about the power of these words from the unwashed masses. . . where we keep inventing terms like cyberspace and astronaut, death metal and punk rock. . . The OED isn't perfect, but it's better that than some "trustworthy" source which people have operated on to take out the messy bits. -=-=-=- Pat Moran, Associate Chair, Troy State University--Florida Region's General Studies Department and Ph.D. student at Florida State University -=-=-=- Patricia J. Moran, TSUFL Regional Office, 81 Beal Parkway, Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548. . . Phones: ("home") 850-243-4081 in Mary Esther; OFFICE HOURS: "home" in Tallahassee 850-575-7787; W/Th/F Tallahassee (FWB office voice mail--850-301-2115) S/S/M/T FWB Area Rev. 6-28-98 ****Note schedule change*****TSUFL Office Hours for SU 98: Morning M & T pjmoran@tsufl.edu pjm0362@mailer.fsu.edu From: Hartmut Krech Subject: An ABC of BC/CE ? Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:06:09 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 252 (252) I remember an extended discussion on AEGEAN-L two or three years ago with very well founded arguments to discard the acronyms AD and BC or BCE altogether on ideological grounds (the Aegean being a contact area for a multitude of cultures) in favour of the symbols "-" and "+" placed before the year numbers to designate years before or after the begin of our time reckoning. If I remember well, the discussion was left undecided because of difficulties surrounding a year "0". And who could it be to initiate such a reform which would do no harm watsoever to any serious religious belief ? Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany The Culture and History of Science Page http://www1.uni-bremen.de/~kr538 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" (8) Subject: Software for networking TLG Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 253 (253) **I am sending this question to Humanist for a colleague who is not on the **list. Please reply directly to him: james-julich@uiowa.edu Thank you, Chris Africa History & Social Sciences Bibliographer\ University of Iowa Libraries chris-africa@uiowa.edu --------------------------------------- We have a site license to network the TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) CD-ROM database and are looking into purchasing some good software for either PC or Mac platforms. Any recommendations, success/failure stories would be appreciated. Please respond to me directly & thanks, Jim Julich Humanities & Latin American Studies Bibliographer Univ. of Iowa Main Library james-julich@uiowa.edu tel: 319-335-5173 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: URL: Editio Theodoro-Palatina Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:31:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 254 (254) [deleted quotation] Dear all, I have recently come upon an excellent website which I would like to bring to your attention because it seems not yet to have much publicity in our scholarly networking community: MATEO - Mannheimer Texte Online http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/epo.html It's an initiative for electronic publishing by the University of Mannheim, with a subproject "Editio Theodoro-Palatina" where the following works are available online in graphic digitalized images (most of them available also on a CD which can be ordered at the above address): A. Examples of the history of print: ------------------------------------ 1) Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius. Venezia: Manutius, 1502 (only a few samples -- 8 folios - from this important print) 2) Execution oder Todt Marien Stuarts. Erfurt: s.n., 1587, 16 pp. B. Illustrated books: --------------------- 3) Christophorus Columbus, Epistola de insulis nuper inventis. Basel: Bergmann, 1494, 16 pp. 4) Sebastian Brant, Esopi appologi sive mythologi, cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus Sebastiani Brant, Basel: Jacob Wolff von Pforzheim, 1501, 404 pp., 340 woodcuts (not part of the CD) 5) Michiel Vosmeer, Principes Hollandiae et Zelandiae, Domini Frisiae. Cum genuinis isipsorum iconibus. Antwerpen: Plantin / Galle, 1578. 87 pp., with engravings by Philipp Galle based on drawings by Willem Thibaut. 6) Ge/rard de Jode (texts) & Laurentius Goidtsenhoven (engravings), Mikrokosmos / Parvus mundus, Antwerpen: de Jode, 1579, 157 pp. with 74 ill. and handwritten French translations (not part of the CD) 7) Peeter Heyns, Le miroir du monde, ou Epitome du The/a^tre d'Abraham Ortelius. Amsterdam: Z. Heyns, 1598, 82 fol.; abbreviated compendium of the _Theatrum orbis terrarum_, with engravings by Galle. 8) Abraham Ortelius, Aurei saeculi imago, sive Germanorum veterum vita, mores, ritus et religio, Antwerpen: Galle, 1598, 12 fol., 2 pp. 9) Dominicus Custos, Atrium heroicum Caesarum, regum, ... imaginibus ... illustratum, Partes 1-4, Augsburg: Manger / Praetorius, 1600-1602, 195 fol.; 169 (of 171) portraits reproduced. 10) Kurfuerst Karl von der Pfalz & Paul Hachenberg, Philothei Symbola Christiana. Frankfurt a. M.: Zubrod, 1677, 5 fol., 204 pp. 11) Jean-Jacques Boissard & Theodor de Bry, Bibliotheca chalcographica, hoc est Virtute et eruditione clarorum Virorum Imagines, Heidelberg: Ammon, [1652-]1669, with 438 engravings (not part of the CD) 12) Johann von Schwarzenberg, Bambergische peinliche Halsgerichtsordnung [Constitutio Criminalis Bambergensis], Bamberg: Pfeil, 1507, partial electronic reprint, 32 of 85 fol., with all the illustrations C. Manuscript texts: -------------------- 13) Ulrich Sitzinger, Annotationes in primum librum Institutionum Magistri Ulrici Sitzingeri incepit feliciter anno 1549 3. Julii Sebaldus Muensterer. (partial reproduction, 12 of 316 pp.; the lecture was held in Wittenberg, 1548/49, and the recollect is a curious manuscript aping the layout of a printed book; reminds me of certain things on tv which try hard to look like internet!) 14) Pierre-Daniel Huet, Poemata latina et graeca. Utrecht: Broedelet, 1694, 70+3+21 pp.; exemplar owned by Huet's secretary Valhe/bert and containing, in addition to the printed poemata, unpublished Latin and French poems by Huet. 15) Franc,ois-Joseph Desbillons, Annibal tragoedia. Um 1745(?), 59 pp., Jesuit drama, partial reproduction (11 of 59 pp.), together with a transcript by Wolfgang Schibel. D. Sources regarding the history of Mannheim and Kurpfalz --------------------------------------------------------- 16) Tobias Huebner, Beschreibung der Reisz ... Herrn Friederichen desz Fuenften, Heidelberg: Voegelin, 1613, 304 pp., partial electronic reprint: 20 of 25 engravings and 29 pp. of text 17) Kurfuerst Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz, Privilegien, Den Inwohnern in der Vestung Friederichsburg zu Mannheim in der Churpfaltz gelegen, ertheilt im Jahr 1663, Heidelberg: Walter, 1663, 12 pp., 4 tab. 18) Johann C. Wagner, Der Pfaltz am Rhein Staat- Land- Staedt- und Geschicht-Spiegel, Augsburg: Koppmayer, 1690. 124 pp., 7 tab. 19) Churfuerstlicher Pfaltz bey Rhein etc. Ernewert und Verbessertes Land-Recht, Weinheim: J. Mayer, 1700, partial reprint (98 of 570 pp.) E. Women history and women literature: -------------------------------------- 20) Juan Luis Vives, Von underweysung ayner Christlichen Frauwen ... verteutscht durch Christophorum Brunonem, Augsburg: H. Steiner, 1544, partial reprint, 27 of 257 pp. 21) Fulvia Olympia Morata, Orationes, Dialogi, Epistolae, Carmina, tam Latina quam Graeca: cum eruditoru[m] de ea testimoniis & laudibus. Hippolytae Taurellae elegia elegantiszima [by Baldassare Castiglione], Basel: Perna, 1562, 8 fol., 278 pp., 1 fol., ill. (not part of the CD) 22) Giacomo Filippo Tomasini: Elogia Virorum Literis & Sapientia Illustrium ..... imaginibus exornata, Padova: Sardi, 1640, pp.339-372 of 412, with portraits of Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) and her two sisters Ginevra and Laura and her aunt Angela, Laura Cereti (1469-1499), Hypsicratea a Monte (d. 1584), Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), Modesta Pozzo (1555-1592) 23) Anna Maria van Schurman, Opuscula Hebraea, Graeca, Latina, Gallica, Prosaica et Metrica, 3rd ed., Utrecht: Waesberge, 1652, 364 pp. (not part of the CD) 24) Jacob Thomasius & Johannes Sauerbrei, Diatriben academicam de foeminarum eruditione priorem consensu inclutae facultatis philosophicae in alma Lipsiensi / sub praesidio viri ... Jacobi Thomasii ... d. XIV. Januar. A. O. R. MDCLXXI ... proponit Johannes Sauerbrei. - Revisa & emendatior prodit. - Lipsiae : sumptibus Johannis Erici Hahnii, 1676, 36 pp. (not part of the CD) 25) Johannes Sauerbrei & Jacob Schmalz, Diatriben academicam de foeminarum eruditione posteriorem consensu inclutae facultatis philosophicae in alma Lipsiensi / praeses Johannes Sauerbrei d. VI. Septembr. A. O. R. MDCLXXI ..... proponit respondente Jacobo Smalcio. - Revisa & emendatior prodit. - Lipsiae : sumptibus Johannis Erici Hahnii, 1676, 48 pp. (not part of the CD) F. Erudition and life in schools: --------------------------------- 26) Orationes duae, De ritu et modo depositionis beanorum, Strassburg: Dolhopff, 1680, partial reprint (19 of 56 pp., all 18 engravings); describes the ritual of the "depositio" which older students inflicted to the the "beani" (sophomores, from French "bec jaune" > "be/jaune"). In my opinion a very praiseworthy initiative. The technical presentation is unsophisticated, which I regard as an advantage (no frames, no java, no bullshit). There seem to be plans to add more items, especially to the sections "history of the Pfalz" and "Women history". Personally I would love to have more Sebastian Brant online (with the exception of his Narrenschiff his writings are still much understudied), but it's already like Christmas to have his Aesopus in digital form. For a similar project (with unnecessary presentation in frames, but excellent images) see also the digital library of the University of Bielefeld at the following address: http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/diglib/rara.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Otfried Lieberknecht, Schoeneberger Str. 11, D-12163 Berlin phone & fax: ++49 30 8516675, E-mail: lieberknecht@ber.netsurf.de Homepage for Dante Studies: http://members.aol.com/lieberk/welcome.html Listowner of Italian-Studies: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies/ Listowner of Medieval-Religion: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: A small e-journal project: 'The Hydra' On-line Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:33:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 255 (255) [deleted quotation] Dear All, JTAP 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature' http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ Readers of this list may be interested to know that 'The Hydra', the journal of the Craiglockhart Military Hospital, is now available on-line. The material presented was the personal collection of the poet Wilfred Owen and covers 1917-1918 (18 issues in total). [deleted quotation]is to include colour facsimiles of all of the pages of each edition of the journal (you can follow a link to a report on how these were digitized at preservation quality, and then converted to JPG images for web distribution). These are not searchable as we calculated that the cost of transcribing each page (let alone employing some form of mark-up) would have been prohibitive. Therefore, for our second approach we have been working with Ramot Digital Resources and their IOTA software. Here we have included a selection of issues which can be searched using 'smart-image' technology. It allows for searching, whilst at the same time presenting the user with a facsimile of the page. This is just a small part of the digital archive we are creating for the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars' project, but hopefully will be of interest to some. Point your browser to: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/hydra/ Copyright: The images presented are from Owen's personal collection deposited at the English Faculty Library at the University of Oxford. All images are copyrighted to the Wilfred Owen Estate. Permission to reproduce any material presented here must be sought from the copyright holders. Disclaimer: We have made every attempt to clear copyright on all the text presented here. If you know of any discrepencies, please notify us immediately. Stuart Lee ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Project Manager, JTAP 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature' Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ ****************************************** From: Kitka Hiltula Subject: Aussie arts/culture web site Date: Mon, 22 Jun 98 17:28:49 -0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 256 (256) Hello! If the following info is appropriate for this list, please circulate... I'd like to tell you about the Useum - it is a new Australian pilot web site exploring ways to interact with arts and culture online. The project was funded by our state government and is being managed by EMERGE Cooperative Multimedia Centre. The projects main objective is research into users responses to the site. Activities on the site include collaborative scriptwriting, songwriting and the opportunity to view "treasures" from our cultural institutions, and display your very own treasures as well as an artist's creative journey, and a Koorie (Aboriginal) art section. The results of the project, including an analysis of how the project was completed, and detailed statistics on users' demographics and levels of participation, will be available to Australian arts and culture institutions later this year. I'd like to invite you and your staff to view the site, and would appreciate your feedback, particularly if you are able to complete an online survey in the "Outhouse" section. K i t k a H i l t u l a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Project Manager, The Useum EMERGE Cooperative Multimedia Centre T: + 61 3 9249 5900 F: + 61 3 9249 5911 W: http://www.useum.org.au E: email kitka@emerge.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Arts and Humanities in Education: Conference at NYU Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 17:55:56 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 257 (257) FALL 1998 Conference at New York University --- October 9 -11 "Assessing New Technologies in the Arts and Humanities" Commision for Arts and Humanities in Education, New York University School of Education Conference Website with call for papers: http://www.nyu.edu/education/cahe/caheconf.html "This conference brings together teachers of the arts, education administrators and supervisors, technological innovators and developers of programs, artists, arts therapists, humanists, museum and gallery personnel, foundation directors/personnel, and critics with an interest in technology and education to assess the use of new technologies in : Making Arts (Technology and Creativity) Performing Arts Arts and Humanities Education (Classroom, Studio, Environment, Technologically-Assisted Instruction, and Distance Learning) Creative Arts Therapy (Diagnosis and Treatment) This conference will feature exhibits of educational and arts software, programs, curriculum projects, and special visits to media events, galleries, performing arts spaces, and museums". --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/ From: David Green Subject: Computers and the History of Art Conference Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:50:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 258 (258) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 27, 1998 COMPUTING AND VISUAL CULTURE: Representation and Interpretation September 24-25, 1998: London. [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Job Posting Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:13:39 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 259 (259) Job Posting Electronic Records Archivist Mississippi Department of Archives and History The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is testing real-world strategies and methods for the long-term preservation of state government electronic records, in order to create an electronic records program in the Archives and Library Division. A special unit has been set up under an NHPRC grant, using a protected intranet to experiment with data description, capture, handling, and access methods, applying data warehousing, digital signature, and intelligent agent technologies to management and access tasks, drawing on the expertise of archival and data-mining consultants and working actively with state agencies, historians, and other researchers on access issues. Primary Responsibilities: We seek to fill the electronic archivist position on the team, classified as Business Systems Analyst I. The successful candidate will take responsibility for addressing archival issues such as appraisal of electronic records, electronic file-naming schemes, metadata, and working with other agencies' records management staff, data processing staff, and agency employees to experiment with electronic archiving and the automatic addition of metadata. Qualifications: BS in computer science or library/information science or directly related field, and two years of experience in archival work; other relevant combinations of education and experience can be considered. Special qualifications would include demonstrated familiarity with electronic records issues and best practices plus experience with UNIX, TCP/IP internetwork communications standards, and relational databases; knowledge of data storage methods and media helpful. Salary: Minimum salary for the job classification is $32,016.72; actual salary will be dependent upon qualifications of the applicant. This is a permanently authorized Mississippi State government job in the data processing area, which enjoys a special compensation plan to encourage continuing education. Benefits include health and pension plans and free parking. To apply send a cover letter and CV via fax (601-359-6975) or email (galloway@mdah.state.ms.us) to Patricia Galloway, Special Projects Officer, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. From: Kim Fisher Subject: Digitial Librarian Position Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 16:45:50 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 260 (260) The following ad for a Humanities Librarian for Digital Resources will appear in the August 7 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education Humanities Librarian for Digital Resources Penn State University Libraries The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seek a Humanities Librarian for Digital Resources to direct the Digital Resources center (formerly the Electronic Text Center) in the newly established Arts and Humanities Library at the University Park campus. Responsibilities include reference service, instruction, collection development, and supervision of staff. This librarian fosters communication among Libraries faculty regarding digital projects and resources in the arts and humanities; provides outreach to all humanities and arts departments at Penn State to identify research projects and potential intradepartmental teams, and to share information and offer support and services; and provides innovative leadership for digital projects in the arts and humanities in conjunction with other library departments such as computing services, special collections, cataloging, and preservation. Required qualifications: ALA-accredited MLS; strong academic background in the humanities or arts; demonstrated knowledge of issues in electronic text (such as selection, use by scholars, and access) and experience in the design and implementation of digital initiatives; excellent communication and organizational skills; and strong commitment to public service. Preferred qualifications: demonstrated experience in providing quality instruction, reference service, and collection development; demonstrated knowledge of the Text Encoding Initiative as well as SGML and other tagging systems and digital preservation and access standards for text, images and audio, and video. To apply, send letter of application, current resume, and names of three references to Head, Search Committee, Box CHE-HLDR, Penn State University, C102 Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802. Review of applications will begin on September 25, 1998 and continue until the position is filled. An affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Women and minorities encouraged to apply. Kim Fisher Humanities Librarian 108G Pattee Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Voice 814-865-0670/ FAX 814-865-1015 "Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."-Groucho Marx. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Gary Shawver Subject: Re: 12.0144 OED's trustworthiness Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:03:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 261 (261) Norman is certainly right to question the accuracy of the OED, but I still find it a useful starting point in any English language study. Perhaps its lack of trustworthiness is a function of the nature of lexicography itself which tries to make generalizations about meaning that often do not obtain in individual cases. gary From: Norman Hinton Subject: Re: 12.0144 OED's trustworthiness; BC/CE Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:07:50 -0600 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 262 (262) [deleted quotation]sublime. . [deleted quotation] None of that has anything at all to do with the untrustworthiness of the OED: that is merely common everyday language development. The OED was done by rank amateurs for many years (except of course for Murray, its guiding spirit and splendid editor): much of the work was done at a time when dates and provenances of medieval and early modern materials was unknown or wrongly attributed: linguistic research has had over 50 years of development since OED (1) was finished, and OED (2) added precious little to the mix -- some 5000 new words in 50-60 years ?....I own an OED and use it when I have to, but only as a last resort and with a pinch of salt. -- Norman Hinton hinton@uis.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 20, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:10:19 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 263 (263) Version 20 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 800 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf> Word: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc> The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 170 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History 3.2 Critiques* 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research* 4 General Works 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm> http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: OPEN STUDIO: Lessons Learned Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:19:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 264 (264) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 29, 1998 Training Artists and Arts Organizations in Online Skills: OPEN STUDIO: THE ARTS ONLINE REPORT: LESSONS LEARNED <http://www.openstudio.org/Lessons/> Below is an announcement of a report from Open Studio on lessons learned so far in this NEA/Benton project founded October 1996. Although the report is specifically focused on the constituency of individual artists and arts organizations, there will be lessons here for all involved in training those in the arts and humanities to use the Internet to use and create resources and new communication spaces. This online report also includes a conference space for comments on the report or related experiences with Internet training: <http://webboard.cdinet.com:8080/~lessonslearned> David Green =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: "David L. Gants" Subject: next REINVW Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:50:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 265 (265) [deleted quotation] A N N O U N C E M E N T: A N N O U N C E M E N T: A N N O U N C E M E N T: *Next ReInterView on the PRE/TEXT LIST* With: Johndan Johnson-Eilola and his book _Nostalgic Angels: Rearticulating Hypertext Writing_. New Directions in Computers and Composition Studies. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1997. $24.95 ISBN 1-56750-281-4 (Paper). The status at Amazon.com is "back order." (Johndan is checking to see if this status is incorrect.) A copy can always be ordered from Ablex Publishing Corp. 55 Old Post Road - No. 2 P.O. Box 5297 Greenwich, CT 06831-0504 Voice: 203/661-7602 Fax: 203/661-0792 When: Begins September 1st and will last for three weeks. To Subscribe: Send a request to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.UTA.EDU and send the following message: subscribe pretext your email address your full name The Web site for PRE/TEXT List is http://www.pre-text.com/ptlist/index.html Previous REINVWS have been conducted with Greg Ulmer, Geoffrey Sirc, Rosa Eberly, Jasper Neel, Richard Lanham, David Metzger, Robert Connors, John Schilb, Lynda Haas, Victor Vitanza, Jane Gallop, and Deirdre McCloskey. For all things PRE/TEXT, visit www.pre-text.com/ If you should need any assistance in subscribing, please contact Victor Vitanza at Sophist@utarlg.uta.edu. ******Please repost this announcement to other lists and individuals as appropriate****** From: David Green Subject: House Vote on Digital Copyright Bill Expected Before the Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:38:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 266 (266) August Recess NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 30, 1998 HOUSE VOTE ON DIGITAL COPYRIGHT BILL EXPECTED BEFORE THE AUGUST RECESS Below is a report by Page Miller that a version of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (HR 2281) is expected to come to the House floor for a vote before the August recess that begins August 7. The versions of HR 2281 passsed by the Judiciary and Commerce Committees had substantial differences, but Miller reports that the negotiated version coming to the House floor will substantively include the changes made by the Commerce Committee. It is the Commerce Committee's version that educational and library groups have endorsed for a variety of reasons, not least its inclusion of a "Fair Use" amendment by Chairman Bliley. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Conference: Assessing New Technologies in the Arts and Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 10:37:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 267 (267) Humanities NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 29, 1998 ASSESSING NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES October 9-11: New York University <http://www.nyu.edu/education/cahe/caheconf.html> CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE Sept. 1 A particularly ambitious and wide-ranging conference that includes, apart from plenary and break-out sessions, "mini-sessions, critiques, and exhibits...for special presentations in the various disciplines (visual arts, music therapy, dance therapy, literature, dance, music, etc.) along with scheduled critiques of selected media artworks.)" There is al;so a program of related performances around the city during the conference. I encourage those interested to explore the conference website. David Green =========== [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Coling/ACL Workshop on MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:46:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 268 (268) MANAGEMENT: report From: Eduard Hovy ************************************************************************ REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER NEW INFO NEW INFO NEW INFO NEW INFO NEW INFO NEW INFO ************************************************************************ Coling-ACL '98 Workshop MULTILINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES August 16, 1998 Universite de Montreal Montreal/Canada The Coling/ACL workshop on Multilingual Information Management is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in conjunction with the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998). The goal of the workshop was to consider the recent history and likely near-term future of a number of research areas pertaining to language that are related (but still semi-independent at present). The conclusions have been gathered into a report, to be submitted to the NSF, LE, and other funding agencies in Europe and North America, for their consideration in setting funding policies and goals. THE DRAFT REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE AT http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/mlim/ At the Granada workshop, an international panel of invited experts focused on a set of questions in an attempt to identify the most likely and most effective future directions of computational linguistics research --especially in the context of the need to handle multi-lingual and multi- modal information. The COLING workshop, a follow-on, has the aim of opening the discussion to the computational linguistics community as a whole, to solicit the comments, additions, feedback, and contributions of everyone. TO REGISTER, CONSULT THE COLING/ACL HOME PAGE AT http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/ [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Special Offer: EU Workshop Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:48:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 269 (269) [deleted quotation] *********************************************************** * ESSLLI 98 NOVELTY * For the first time the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information to be held from August 17 - 28, 1998 in Saarbruecken, Germany, offers a special EU workshop: "Preparation and Management of EU-Funded Projects" Transnational R&D funded by the European Commission has become one of the foremost sources for advanced technology and application development in information technology. For the participating research centers such projects offer a unique opportunity for joint R&D in international consortia bringing together partners from industry, academia, contract research, and public administration. Our workshop will provide the participants with information, advice and guidelines for the definition, application and management of EU-projects, both on the administrative and technical level. We will discuss concrete questions concerning available funding programmes, hints for finding or building consortia, advice on the structuring of projects, rules for handling many types of forms, and an overview of relevant financial regulations. A special section will be dedicated to a preview of upcoming opportunities and challenges in the Fifth Framework Program (first call for proposals in January 1999). The speakers of the workshop are highly experienced managers of EU-projects and a representative of the EU Language Engineering Programme, Giovanni B. Varile, DG XIII of the European Commission. There is NO EXTRA CHARGE for this workshop once you have registered for ESSLLI 98. [material deleted; for more information see] http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/esslli/ or contact Sabine Klingner, ESSLLI 98 organization: klingner@dfki.de From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NLP+IA 98 /TAL+AI 98 Registration Info + timetable for Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:49:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 270 (270) posters [deleted quotation] INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS NLP+IA 98 [deleted quotation] Conference internationale sur le traitement automatique des langues et ses applications industrielles TAL+AI 98 [deleted quotation] AUGUST / aout 18-21, 1998 Moncton, New-Brunswick, CANADA [material deleted] for more information, see also : http://www.sciences.umoncton.ca/infoque/dinfo.htm From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP - Special issue of CL Journal- Finite State Methods in Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:52:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 271 (271) NLP [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS SPECIAL ISSUE = ON = FINITE STATE METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Recent years has seen a substantial increase in the use of finite state techniques in many aspects of natural language processing as mature tools for building large scale finite-state systems from various research laboratories and universities become available. This trend was by no means foreseen as late as ten years ago given the well-known demonstration by Noam Chomsky in 1957 that finite-state methods are inherently incapable of representing the full richness of constructions in a natural language. Nevertheless, it is evident now that there are many subsets of natural language that are adequately covered by finite-state means and that there are many other areas where finite-state approximations of more powerful formalisms are of great practical benefit. As a follow-up to the FSMNLP'98, International Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing, it was proposed that a collection of papers in this area be published as a special issue of the Computational Linguistics journal. We would to encourage authors of the papers presented at this workshop, as well as all others who would like to contribute, to submit full versions of their papers for consideration for this special issue. = Guest Editors: = Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Centre Europe,France) Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University, Turkey) Guest Editorial Board Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA) = Eva Ejerhed (Umea University, Sweden) = Ronald M. Kaplan (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) = Martin Kay (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA) = George Kiraz (Bell Laboratories, NJ, USA) = Andr=E1s Kornai (BBN, MA, USA) = Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Labs Research, NJ, USA) = Mark-Jan Nederhof (DFKI, Germany) = Atro Voutilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) = Submission Details Please submit 6 copies of your hard-copy manuscript to Lauri Karttunen Xerox Research Centre Europe 6 Chemin de Maupertuis Meylan, 38240, France by Monday, October 19, 1998. = The format of the submission should follow the general submission requirements of the Journal. Manuscripts for Computational Linguistics should be submitted on letter-size paper (8.5 by 11 inches, or A4), double-spaced throughout, including footnotes and references. The paper should begin with an informative abstract of approximately 150-250 words. Manuscripts must be written in English. From: Ari Kambouris Subject: Call For Papers and Projects for Assessing New Tchnologies Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 10:39:49 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 272 (272) in Arts and Humanities THE FOLLOWING CALL FOR PAPER AND PROJECTS HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED EARLIER IN SEVERAL ADS AND MAILINGS. PLEASE PUT THIS MESSAGE ON ANY APPROPRIATE LISTSERVE SO THAT PEOPLE WHO ALREADY HAVE SUCH PROJECTS UNDERWAY CAN SUBMIT FOR INCLUSION IN THE CONFERENCE. FALL 1998 Conference at New York University --- October 9 -11 Call for Projects and Papers in "Assessing New Tecvhnologies in Arts and Humanities: New Renaissance or Dark Ages?" (http://www.nyu.edu/education/cahe/caheconf.html) Deadline: September 1, 1998. A written one-page abstract of your project including a description of its contents, implementation, the results, and the URL (if applicable). Papers and projects can range from research projects, criticism and evaluation, development projects of hardware and/or software, and creative works which have been produced with the new technologies. Participants whose projects are selected will receive free admission to the conference. Mail abstracts to: Commission on Arts and Humanities c/o Helen J. Kelly, Director of Special Programs Office of Program Development, School of Education New York University Press Building, Room 62 32 Washington Place New York, N.Y. 10003-6644 FAX: 212 995 4923 telephone: (212) 998-5090 (FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION) Abstracts may also be submitted by e-mail: jg12@is2.nyu.edu John V. Gilbert, Director of Doctoral Studies Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions New York University, School of Education 35 West Fourth Street, Suite 777 New York, Ny 10012 (212) 998-5424 FAX (212) 995-4043 Webmaster http://www.nyu.edu/education/cahe (Commission on Arts and Humanities in Education) http://www.nyu.edu/education/music (NYU Dept. of Music and Performing Arts) http://pages.nyu.edu/~jg12 (personal workshop on the web) http://www.nyu.edu/classes/gilbert (class outlines and course materials) _________________________________________ Ari Kambouris Metaphor Group, Inc. Information Architecture and Project Management tel. 212.740.6306 pager 917.243.1548 e-mail From: David Green Subject: REMINDERS: DRH Registration; LC/Ameritech Deadline Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:18:29 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 273 (273) =================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 29, 1998 REMINDERS: LC/AMERITECH COMPETITION: AUGUST 13 WORKSHOP; NOVEMBER 2 DEADLINE <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/> * * * DIGITAL RESOURCES IN HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (DRH) REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 1 <http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm> DETAILED PROGRAM AVAILABLE <http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm> Details on NINCH-Sponsored Session ================= LC/AMERITECH COMPETITION: AUGUST 13 WORKSHOP; NOVEMBER 2 DEADLINE <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/> [deleted quotation] Library of Congress/ Ameritech National Digital Library Competition The 1998/99 guidelines are now available to view or download from the Competition Web page (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/). The deadline for this year is November 2, 1998 (postmark). On August 13th, a one day workshop at the Library of Congress will be given on proposal preparation and technical requirements. The workshop is free but seating is limited to 55 and advance registration is required. For reservations, call (202) 707-1087 or use the registration form accessed through the competition's web site. In addition, LC/Ameritech staff will be available to answer questions at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL on September 3-4, 1998. Open office hours will be held on September 3rd from 1-2 p.m. and individual consultations on September 3-4 by appointment, call (202) 707-1087. ============================================================================== DIGITAL RESOURCES IN HUMANITIES CONFERENCE (DRH) REGISTRATION DEADLINE: AUGUST 1 <http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm> DETAILED PROGRAM AVAILABLE <http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm> Details on NINCH-Sponsored Session A detailed program for the DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES Conference (Sept9-11, 1998, Glasgow, UK) is now available at <http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Programme/default.htm>. The Registration Deadline (to guarantee accommodation and meals) is August 1, 1998. Online registration is available at: <http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Registration.htm>. NINCH has organized one session at DRH: Details and an abstract follow: Coming Together: Three Comparative U. S. Approaches to Networking Cultural Heritage * AMERICAN HERITAGE VIRTUAL ARCHIVE PROJECT, Daniel Pitti, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. * AMERICAN STRATEGY, Kathleen McDonnell, Getty Information Institute. * ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM, Kenneth Hamma, Getty Museum Session Chair: David Green, National initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage This session will report on three exemplary projects from different domains at different stages of development and with different economic, technical and organizational strategies for integrating and providing access to cultural heritage materials in the U.S. Strategies include decisions about centralized versus decentralized delivery systems, SGML against HTML encoding, defining different primary audiences and different funding mechanisms. The American Heritage Virtual Archive Project brings together four university archives to create a shared test-bed database of EAD-encoded finding aids describing and providing access to collections documenting American history and culture. AMICO is a consortium of 23 art museums across North America currently building a testbed library of 20,000 digital images and metadata for licensing to educational institutions. American Strategy is organizing unified access to cultural heritage collections in diverse U.S. Government federal agencies (from the National Park Service to the Department of Defense). ================================================== American Heritage Virtual Archive Project The American Heritage Virtual Archive (AHVA) Project was a collaborative project involving the University of Virginia, Stanford University, Duke University, and the University of California, Berkeley. AHVA was funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities from June 1996 to December 1997. The major objective of AHVA was exploring the intellectual, political, and technical challenges of building a centralized database of archival finding aids providing access to dispersed primary resources documenting the history and culture of the United States. Among the intellectual issues explored were the potential impact of new kinds of users on archival description, and extending and developing descriptive and technical apparatus for linking dispersed but related archival materials. All digital collaborative projects and programs have political dimensions that need to be taken into account if they are to be successful. The AHVA, from this perspective, can be looked upon as an exercise in "community building." A central component of the "community building" was the development of "an acceptable range of uniform practice" in the application of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) in converting a large body of diverse archival finding aids that are mounted in one database. While acknowledging that it would be desirable to base the AHVA on distributed client-server architecture, the project instead focused on centralized publishing of the finding aids at Berkeley, with the creation and maintenance of the finding aids distributed among the collaborators. This approach was taken to allow participants to focus on the complex technical and intellectual issues involved in uniform encoding without being distracted by the more general problems of client-server architecture. AHVA has had a major impact on the University of California Encoded Archival Description Project, and its successor, the Online Archive of California (OAC), as well as on other emerging international, national, and regional archival description projects. The OAC is a cooperative program administered by the California Digital Library in the University of California System. There are now more than 25 archives, libraries, and museums in the OAC, representing all nine campuses in the University of California System, the California State Library, the California State Historical Society, several campuses in the California State Colleges and Universities System, and several private universities and museums. The Research Libraries Group (RLG) is planning to make "Archival Resources" available for subscription early this September. "Archival Resources" will provide union access to finding aids from repositories throughout the world. Rather than mounting all finding aids on its own server, RLG intends to provide a union index to finding aids distributed around the Internet. ================================================== Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) The Art Museum Image Consortium <http://www.amn.org/AMICO/> is one outgrowth of the very fruitful Museum Educational Site Licensing project, sponsored by the Getty Information Institute <http://www.gii.getty.edu/index/mesl.html>. AMICO is a new nonprofit subscription-based organization currently consisting of 23 major art museums in North America, formed with the intent of providing educational institutions with a library of digital images accompanied by rich documenting and contextualizing metadata. Some works will also be accompanied by additional images, audio clips, and moving images. The AMICO Library will grow over time to represent the full range of materials in the collections of member institutions. A preliminary library of 20,000 images and metadata is currently being prepared for a test-bed year (1998-99) working with 22 colleges and universities and full implementation will be available to any higher-education institution for the following academic year. Licenses for public library use are also being developed. In consultation with the academic community, AMICO has developed a license for the use of its digital library that supports traditional academic uses and expands the potential for uses that take advantage of new technology. This license addresses concerns voiced by academic users to enable "electronic reserves", remote access, faculty assemblage of specific materials for student review, and the incorporation of licensed materials into student projects, portfolios and theses. ================================================== American Strategy American Strategy is a visionary partnership initiative joining federal collecting departments and agencies, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the National Park Service, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Department of Defense, with the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the American Association of Museums, and the Getty Information Institute in a collaborative approach to: * improve communication among the federal repositories about their cultural collections; * define and share best practices for providing access to such information on the Internet; * coordinate the development and implementation of information standards; and * initiate unified public-private strategies to develop on-line access to cultural information. The vision of the American Strategy initiative is to extend public service to provide a broad, global audience with deeper, meaningful access to cultural heritage resources held in American federal collections. The Strategy's objectives are to: * demonstrate federal agencies' commitment to develop access to America's cultural resources, realizing the public's right to access their collections; * increase ease of information sharing among agencies; * extend federal cultural technology initiatives beyond wiring and hardware to content and context, and * improve evaluation and audience feedback mechanisms, quality controls, and standards. American Strategy has already begun to meet its objectives. During Summer 1998 more than two dozen federal agencies and museums began participation in a collective gateway to offer access to their digitized collections on the Internet. In conjunction with this, American Strategy participants contributed information and staff expertise to an on-line demonstration project, led by the Getty Information Institute, that will illustrate American ideals, American places, and American accomplishments. Through this proof-of-concept project American Strategy will consider how best to support searching across multiple databases, how sophisticated search methods can be applied to meet a wide range of research needs, how new technologies can use images to seek similar images, and how information might be thematically compiled to create educational resources. The public's demand for more and better quality information will be the continuing impetus for the federal agencies as they work together to integrate their offerings, provide additional context, seek partnerships with technology corporations to develop sophisticated navigation and retrieval tools, and work with teachers to improve educational offerings for the elementary school student to the life-long learner. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: disappearances Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:09:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 274 (274) Dear Colleagues: For reasons yet to be determined a number of Humanists have recently been deleted from the group. Since neither I nor David Gants would do such a thing, and in fact have not, I can only suppose that errant software is responsible. I have started investigating the problem and will let you know when I discover the cause. Meanwhile should you know anyone who has mysteriously stopped receiving Humanist postings (including this one, of course), please encourage them to write to me and I will restore their membership manually. Many apologies to all those inconvenienced. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Jan-Gunnar Tingsell " Subject: Job posting Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 09:19:54 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 275 (275) JOB POSTING Computing Humanist or Computer Specialist with interests in the Humanities Center for Humanities Computing Services G=F6teborg University, Sweden Our center is a service organisation for The Faculty of Arts (Humanities). We have to run the computer network, servers for all the faculty, and computer labs for the students. We now seek a consultant who can act as a link between our center and the more than 20 departments belonging to the faculty. We want this person to inform about our resources and, perhaps the most important thing,=20 investigate the needs at the departments. This person also have to help teachers/researchers/students to choose computer programs and=20 get started with them. It is important to have knowledge about=20 the area of computer programs for the humanities. The job also include giving or planing courses in computer programs related to the humanities. This is a 4 year locum-tenency (maybe prolonged). Qualifications: Academic degree in computer science and/or any=20 directly related humanistic field and experience in similar work. Other relevant combinations of education and experience can be considered. Special qualifications would include familiarity with UNIX, TCP/IP internetwork communications standards, and relational databases. Salary for the job classification is approximately 20,000 SEK (~ 2,600 USD) per month. For more information, please contact me before August 25th. -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell=09=09=09 Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice=09tel:=09+46 (0)31 773 4553 G=F6teborg University=09=09=09fax:=09+46 (0)31 773 4455 Sweden URL=3Dhttp://www.hum.gu.se/humeng.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Roy Flannagan Subject: Greek fonts for Renaissance texts Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:55:45 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 276 (276) First, I found that some of my paranoia about Microsoft was paranoia. It was mostly Norton Utilities buzzing around my harddrive, doing mysterious things I didn't think I had told it to do. When I contacted Dell about it, they told me not to load the various Norton patrolmen on power-up, and that seems to work. Now it is only WordPerfect that throw files around the hard drive indiscriminately. Now, I wondered if off the top of your head you knew of any available Greek fonts, compatible with Corel and Windows 95, that might allow me to show and print characters such as an iota with what appears to be a tilde over top? Someone suggested GreeKey, but that doesn't work with WordPerfect, except for the Mac version. I cannot get WPWIN 7 to call up Greek.tff, a True Type font a friend sent me, either. I also cannot get overstrike to work in Greek! Best to you, as ever, Roy From: Willard McCarty Subject: a parsing problem Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:11:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 277 (277) The title of a book on the spine, glimpsed today through the glass of a cabinet in which it was locked up: "Downs Anaesthetic Electro Medical Post Mortem". ? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Internet Public Library Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:03:20 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 278 (278) Humanists will be interested to know about and to explore the (American) Internet Public Library, <http://www.ipl.org/>, whose purpose is to "serve the public by finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating quality information resources; develop and provide services for our community with an awareness of the different needs of young people; create a strong, coherent sense of place on the Internet, while ensuring that our library remains a useful and consistently innovative environment as well as fun and easy to use; work with others, especially other libraries and librarians, on projects which will help us all learn more about what does and does not work in this environment; uphold the values important to librarians, in particular those expressed in the Library Bill of Rights." 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/ maui gratia From: David Green Subject: BEST PRACTICES: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PAPER: "DIGITAL Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 13:40:54 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 279 (279) FORMATS FOR CONTENT REPRODUCTIONS" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 29, 1998 BEST PRACTICES: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PAPER: "DIGITAL FORMATS FOR CONTENT REPRODUCTIONS" <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/formats.html> Part of LC "Background and Technical Documents" at <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html> As part of its effort to make as widely available as possible documents and decisions behind the creation and development of its "American Memory" project, the Library of Congress has recently added a new paper by Carl Fleischhauer to its "Background and Technical Documents" website. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . From: "David L. Gants" Subject: JTAP 'Virtual Seminars': Three reports Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:51:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 280 (280) [deleted quotation] The JTAP Virtual Seminars Project has published three further reports at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/ The first two reports are the slides from the talks presented at this year's ALLC/ACH conference in Debrecen, Hungary. They are 'The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Archive' (P. Groves) and 'Evaluation of the Virtual Seminars Project' (S. Porter - includes a link to sample evaluation questionnaires.) The third one, 'Forging Links: The Virtual Seminars Project' (by S. D. Lee), provides an overview of the pedagogic aims of the four on-line tutorials to teach literature. This will also appear as part of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies collection on European Literature, and has been reproduced with their kind permission. Stuart Lee Project Manager, JTAP 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature' ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ From: David Green Subject: "SKETCHING THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT IN A NETWORKED WORLD" Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:22:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 281 (281) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 28, 1998 NEW COPYRIGHT OFFICE PUBLICATION: "SKETCHING THE FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT IN A NETWORKED WORLD" by Trotter Hardy <http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/cpypub/thardy.pdf> The Copyright Office is publishing what, at first take, looks like an important, useful and very readable overview of copyright issues in the digitally networked environment. The 300-page report has a 16-page executive summary and a shorter conclusion that highlights "today's legal issues" and "tomorrow's issues." It recognizes the unpredictability, both of technology and of the public's needs and desires, in the near future and the range of business models that may be coming into play. The report is currently available as a .pdf file and will be available in mid-August as a $23 print publication. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . From: David Green Subject: Digitisation Forum Online Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:27:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 282 (282) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 31, 1998 The Digitisation Forum Online (DFO) <http://www.digitisation.net.au> [deleted quotation] Although the following site is designed with an Australian audience in mind, it contains over 200 links (with descriptions) to sites and papers relevant to the digitisation process, and as such I thought it might be useful to people like Shane Beverley who need information on things like scanning resolutions. The site is constantly being updated. International visitors are more than welcome, although the Register of Projects is specifically for Australian projects. http://www.digitisation.net.au The Digitisation Forum Online (DFO) is a web site for those working in Australian art galleries, libraries, museums, archives and other public and private institutions who are engaged in projects involving digitisation. The DFO has been funded by the Commonwealth Department of Communications and the Arts as part of its Australia's Cultural Network Internet project. This web site was developed in South Australia with the support of Arts SA and Ngapartji Cooperative Multimedia Centre. The site helps the target audience keep up to date with the latest developments in digitisation, to locate other institutions within the country who are involved in digitisation activities, and to share expertise and experience in this field. This site features an Australian Projects Register - a list of projects undertaken by cultural institutions that involve digitisation. The thirty or so projects currently listed in the Register can be searched via a number of filters to find those that are of particular relevance to a cultural institution or stakeholder. The site also lists relevant Australian and international conferences, and has links to over 200 websites and papers in the following areas: Technical Standards Cataloguing, indexing and metadata Preservation and Archiving Migration and storage Access, navigation and finding aids Copyright, Intellectual Property, Authenticity Hardware and Software Budgetting General information (Includes Project Information & exemplar sites) Resources (Includes resource groups, e-journals & e-mail lists) Sal Humphreys Editor Digitisation Forum Online http://www.digitisation.net.au Ph 61 8 8232 0839 Fax 61 8 8232 1771 ************************************************************************** DIGLIB is a public service provided by IFLA (http://www.ifla.org) and sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc.: "The Network is the Computer". Sun has three new PDF case studies available on its Education website; http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/success/segment_list.html - Stanford HighWire Press' use of Java to publish STM journals on the Web - JSTOR's development of an electronic journal archive and access system - Pennsylvania's Keystone Project for statewide academic library resource sharing ************************************************************************** =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Willard McCarty Subject: taming of cyberspace Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 21:44:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 283 (283) The Times Literary Supplement, nr. 4970 for 3 July, carries the title "Information technology: The taming of cyberspace". The first 8 articles review the subject and a number of books in our bailiwick. My apologies for not publishing this summary earlier -- there are so many books to mention here, and so little time of late to devote to the task, that it has been unseasonably postponed. The mere fact of so much attention to the digital realm in the TLS is significant, though this is not always the kind of attention we would wish for, as I remark below. [1] Philip E. Agre (Information Studies, UCLA), in "Yesterday's tomorrow: The advance of law and order into the utopian wilderness of cyberspace", discusses cyberspace as "a utopian idea that stands in the main line of a long millennialist tradition", and its particularly American flavour in its idea of community. He cites Jack Green's The Intellectual Construction of America (1993) and Brian Shain's The Myth of American Individualism (1996), concluding that "[c]ausal connection or no, the intellectual construction of both America and cyberspace has proceeded along similar lines: utopian visions projected onto a putatively blank space in the form of consciously designed communities" -- like this one, I suppose. He notes that as the Internet matures, or rather our use of it, this is changing, however. "Border problems" identified by David Johnson and David Post, in Borders in Cyberspace: Information policy and the global information infrastructure (1997), "grow worse as the Internet becomes integrated into the world around it.... The borders between cyberspace and real life are less obvious than they seem, and they are becoming less distinct every day." Where, he asks, are these borders when, for example, "Internet protocols begin flowing in cars and in kitchen appliances?" Hence the shift he documents from utopian vision to an understanding based on the place of cyberspace in the larger institutional world. This world is by nature profoundly conservative. "The concept of institution entered the social analysis of computing partly in an attempt to explain the famous productivity paradox -- the long-standing difficulty of demonstrating clear-cut productivity improvements from industry's vast investments in information technology." None of us, needless to say, ever believed in the productivity argument. Problems with the Internet -- viruses, privacy, spamming, content filtering -- show that "institution building on the net has hardly begun" but suggest that this is inevitable. The outcome, he notes, is as difficult to predict as are the ways in which IT is changing the institutions it has interpenetrated. The process of agenda-setting "by which our global society articulates its values and embodies them in institutions and information technologies" requires "a post-utopian imagination that embraces the complexity of human institutions and a critical technical practice that embraces the coevolution of institutions and technologies. Both the imagination and the practice can be dimly seen taking form around us." [2] Bruno Latour, "Evolution, not revolution: The dangers of over-hyping the influence of the computer", reviews Brian Winston's Media, technology and society: A history from the telegraph to the Internet (Routledge). Winston finds no revolution at all in the history of media, networks, communication and computers. "Sixty years have passed since the alleged 'birth' of computers, and still no truly radical change has been induced by the technology itself." Latour does not object to this conclusion (which would seem possible only if one viewed human activity from a rather high altitude), rather finds the book in the main a useful corrective to the visionary's projection of what he or she thinks should be happening onto actual events. "Whatever dissolves the hype and helps us retain our sanity is to be welcomed." Latour ends with an interesting observation: "What is missing from the book, however, is an explanation of why information technology is especially vulnerable to such inflated claims. One reason may be that, like the printing press, it principally serves intellectuals -- or, more generally, symbol manipulators. Symbol manipulators cannot so easily see through other symbol manipulators. Here lies IT's main danger, because it is more intoxicating than the bicycle or the pressure cooker. Burke would not have liked it any more than the French Revolution." [3] Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot, "Enigma variations", review Andrew Hodges, Turing: A natural philosopher (Phoenix); George Dyson, Darwin among the machines (Penguin); and John L. Casti, The Cambridge quintet: A work of scientific speculation (Little, Brown). Hodges' new biography is an update to his "marvellous 600-page intellectual biography of Turing which marked the end of Turing's relative obscurity"; most of the review article is concerned with recounting the subject's career. The review finds Dyson's book, despite minor errors, "a pleasant introduction to Turing's work". Casti stages a philosophical dialogue between Turing and Wittgenstein, with Schroedinger, Haldane and Snow as minor characters. [4] Keith Miller, "Tough luck for editors", rev. of Kathryn Sutherland, ed., Electronic text: Investigations in method and theory (Clarendon); George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0 (Johns Hopkins). Seldom, in my experience, do incompetent reviews creep into the TLS; this is not so much an incompetent review, rather it refuses to engage with the first book under review. The fact that it does not may be related to my second objection to the kind of review one sees increasingly often as important figures in the cultural establishment examine work in our field. They seem often not to understand either enough of the technical detail or to have read enough of the literature that assimilates it to matters educated non-technical people can grasp. Part of the fault lies simply with the fact that the field is young: we deal often with nascent tendencies in a time when the mindless enthusiasts provide such easy targets for undereducated reviewers. Part of the fault, however, lies with us, who need (amidst everything else) not only to reach and understand what is happening in humanities computing but also to articulate it for the ignorant but highly intelligent audience. But to the review itself.... Miller identifies first what has not changed in one's encounter with printed words, despite the amount of electronic preparation behind the scenes. "It is easy to conclude that the changes wrought by computers are primarily logistical -- that they have changed the landscape of the culture in rather the way that rail travel changed the physical landscape a century or so ago. It is not that you cannot go out into the country without seeing a viaduct, but simply that getting out into the country is a swifter and more comfortable journey than it used to be." A telling comparison, but Miller doesn't make it tell as it could, e.g. by examining the kinds of travel then undertaken, how it affected people's lives, and so on. Two full paragraphs are devoted to "those for whom digitization poses the same kind of threat to our culture today as industrializatopm did to our rural social practices a century and a half ago". The problems are these: -- "the figity indiscipline which high technology allows the culture to get away with, from focus-group politics, to newspapers which redesign themselves every fortnight, to the puzzling assumption that 200 bad television channels will be better than four good ones"; -- "the potential failure of complex technologies which few of us understand, and on which we are coming increasingly, and incredibly quickly, to rely"; -- "humanist/romantic revulsion at a science which believes it is better than society"; -- "digitization [that] seems an inappropriately mechanical, unambiguous and materialist system for the preservation and dissemination of texts in which passionate intellectual investment has been made". There are, to be sure, problems here, but the reviewer does not see past them, or see that anyone in our field does, and at least one of them (the last) in fact points the way to what may be the major scholarly contribution to our understanding of the humanities. Miller takes a sideswipe at electronic text, and so by implication at the books under review, by identifying its acceptance with the postmodernist view, which in its excesses makes a particularly easy target these days. He cites the use of emoticons in e-mail, for example, as an example of mental laziness ("rather than thinking of words to express the feeling"), never asking the question of whether the casual electronic mode of writing is not by nature different, in its current manifestation pushing us to gesture with emoticons toward the gestural mode of face-to-face communication. In other words, he finds problems (not hard, given the juvenile state of the medium) and uses them to dismiss our efforts toward a still distant, and perhaps receding goal. [5] Alexander Masters, "The modern alchemists", rev. of Philip Ball, Made to measure: New materials for the twenty-first century (Princeton), on the so-called "smart materials", about which I wrote in an earlier posting, so I won't spend time summarising the review here. [6] Benjamin Wooley, "Beauty isn't for wimps", rev. of David Gelernter, The aesthetics of computing (Weidenfield and Nicolson), characterises the book by the persistent irritation that so many of us now cannot appreciate the absolute nature of scientific truth. Gelernter (who received one of the Unibomber's letters) "is one of the world's most interesting thinkers in the field of software design. He has some profound ideas about the way we should be interacting with PCs and the Internet, at a time when the computing industry is desparate for them." He invokes the idea of "machine beauty", which apparently remains undefined in the book, and which most software fails to live up to. He proposes to replace the familiar "desktop" with something called "Lifestream", "a time-ordered stack of all the information and documents a user has ever created or received" that takes the form of something like a pile of index cards. The reviewer seems to think rather highly of Lifestream, much less highly of Gelernter's book: "The design is messy, the writing is inelegant, the organisation is confusing" and so on. [7] G.W. Pigman, Searching in vain for some solid flesh", rev. Jonathan Bate, ed., Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM (Nelson) -- at 2,500 pounds sterling! Pigman (who, I recall, was once a member of Humanist) finds numerous things wrong with this expensive product, chiefly that (1) it is obsolete, much work having already been done on the new Arden edn., not included here; (2) it is vexed with many technical problems and design flaws. "Even if the Arden Shakespeare had been reasonably priced, its shortcomings should serve as a warning to editors and publishers preparing electronic books. At 2,500 [pounds sterling], it is a scandal. This is not the way to bring about a revolution in publishing." [8] Mary Beard, "Just like reading a book", rev. Leona Carpenter, Simon Shaw and Andrew Prescott, eds., Towards the digital library: The British Library's "Initiatives for Access" programme (BL). Only one essay in this volume gets individual attention, Lorcan Dempsey's on the relationship between physical space and how one perceives the Library's collection, the different kinds of catalogues (cards, electronic) and how each tends to define a relationship to the books. There is, however, apparently too much of the technological triumphalism in the collection for Ms. Beard. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: michel goldsteen Subject: Re: 12.0153 Greek fonts? book title? Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 10:41:36 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 284 (284) Dear Roy, try this site: http://www.linguistsoftware.com/lgk.htm there you can read about LaserGREEK. The fonts are very good and compatible with WP (the truetype version of the fonts, the type 1 has problems with diacritical marks). I use the fonts and are very happy with them, hope this helps, michel goldsteen mgold@vlijmen.demon.nl Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Chris Powell Subject: Middle English Dictionary now online Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 10:57:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 285 (285) The University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service is pleased to announce the availability of the Middle English Compendium at http://www.hti.umich.edu/mec/ The Compendium provides access to and interconnectivity among three resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse based on the MED bibliographies, and a full-text Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. The MED and the Corpus are encoded in SGML using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines. The first installment (currently online) includes 1,073 HyperBibliography entries covering 1,526 copies of Middle English texts, 15,940 MED entries covering M-U (more than one-third of the projected complete print MED), and 42 searchable texts in the Corpus. The Compendium is currently available for free during this testing period (until December 31, 1998); after this time, it will be available by institutional site license only through the University of Michigan Press. See http://www.press.umich.edu/webhome/mec/siteform.html for details. We would appreciate any questions or comments about the functionality of the Compendium; email us at mec-info@umich.edu. Christina Powell Coordinator, Humanities Text Initiative University of Michigan http://www.hti.umich.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Brad Scott Subject: Re: 12.0157 TLS gleanings (Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 16:13:35 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 286 (286) Willard =20 As you have posted a summary of G.W. Pigman's review of the Arden=20 Shakespeare CD-ROM from the TLS to Humanist, I feel obliged to respond= =20 to the criticisms he makes in it. =20 By way of background, the CD-ROM was developed by Routledge (ie me),= =20 but the entire Arden Shakespeare list was retained by the Thomson=20 Corporation when they sold Routledge a couple of years ago. In so=20 doing, these books and the CD-ROM were given to Thomas Nelson Ltd. =20 Lest your readers think that it is all bad, in his review, Pigman=20 notes that even he thinks that the application has some strong points.= =20 He cites the range of content, and the screen design, layout,=20 impressive array of links and (by and large) the ease of searching.=20 Not a bad start perhaps, though there are several important features= =20 in the program which he does not mention at all. =20 However, let's take the criticisms in turn: =20 1. Obsolescence of the data. The CD-ROM includes all of the second=20 series of the Arden Shakespeare; it does not include any of the Third series. This decision was taken since at the time the product was=20 under development, only three of the Third series had appeared, and=20 the new editions of all the plays were not scheduled to be published= =20 until 2006. Given that, when we were designed the tool with our=20 consultant editor, Jonathan Bate, we decided to create a tool that=20 played to the strengths of the Second series, ie produce a program=20 that would support teachers and researchers explore the construction= =20 of the 'edition'. By providing a range of core sources, such as the=20 Quartos, the First Folio, and the complete text from Bullough, it was= =20 self-consciously designed to show to students and others the relation= =20 between texts. In our minds, the play texts, notes, images and sources= =20 were foregrounded and the Introductions (some of which represented a= =20 different generation of critical thinking) were a less prominent part= =20 of the resource. This criticism of the choice of Arden 2 was also made= =20 by Jean Chothia in Computers and Texts=20 <http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/ct15/chothia.html>, and a= =20 response to it by Jonathan Bate and Nick Kind (the editor now=20 responsible for the project at Thomas Nelson)=20 <http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/ct15/nelson.html>. =20 2. Searching problems. I think there must be a rule that, no matter=20 how much time you spend talking to people about how they will want to= =20 search electronic data, and no matter how much you try and accommodate= =20 all the suggestions you get, you'll not please everyone. By taking the= =20 route that we did -- ie to customise DynaText so that you could have= =20 multiple synchronised frames within the window, thereby minimising the= =20 difficulties of the user getting lost in hyperspace, unable to relate= =20 the source of a link to its target -- we found that there were a=20 number of conceivable search scenarios that could not as a consequence= =20 be supported (that across both glossaries simultaneously is a case in= =20 point). Pigman also points out that you cannot search in both the=20 variant and commentary notes at the same time. True, this is again a= =20 result of the decisions taken about screen layout, but it begs the=20 question - how many people would really want to? Certainly none of the= =20 Shakespeare scholars we consulted. He also notes that one cannot=20 search the variants or commentary notes across more than one play at a= =20 time. Again, this was something that (regretfully) resulted from the= =20 initial choice of screen layouts; to accommodate such a change to the= =20 way DynaText handles search results was in the end felt to not justify= =20 the cost. Though we attempted to meet the functionality needs of as=20 many of our advisers as possible, in the end, some things just come=20 down to economics, and you have to make compromises. =20 3. Images v. text transcripts. Pigman suggests that, without=20 searchable transcripts of the Folio and Quarto texts, "serious textual= =20 work is impossible". This position was not held by a large number of= =20 other scholars we spoke with. In designing software applications for= =20 the academic community, one will never manage to deliver something=20 that will suit everyone. We were trying to develop a tool that served= =20 a purpose that was both different from and yet would support and be=20 supported by, those other electronic Shakespeare projects published by= =20 Chadwyck-Healey and Georg Olms.=20 =20 4. Query language. We did not use TEI for the Arden. In part this was= =20 because it did not support many of the functionality-driven features= =20 that we needed to build into the data. In addition, I did not deal=20 extensively with SGML in the documentation (which, with a Help file of= =20 over a megabyte, was perhaps a good idea); my plan was always to=20 provide that sort of user support on the web site, though since we=20 were not involved in the post-publication development of the project,= =20 I was unable to initiate this. I would contend that the number of=20 users out there who are working with the Arden Shakespeare in a=20 sophisticated enough way to want to know about SGML queries is still= =20 rather small. We designed an application that could be used=20 successfully by those that don't even know what SGML is (yes, there=20 are people out there like that, some readers of Humanist may be=20 surprised to hear). For SGML experts, we also intended to make the=20 complete SGML files available to electronic text centres, which would= =20 support the kind of interrogation that Pigman desires. In addition,=20 Pigman cites the example of CUP's Wife of Bath as a model use of=20 DynaText. It is true it is a wonderful resource, but I remain to be=20 convinced that it is a sustainable model for the development of=20 electronic texts. =20 5. Price. =A32500 is the same price as the Chadwyck-Healey Editions an= d=20 Adaptations of Shakespeare, as well as being comparable with a large= =20 number of other (non-grant-funded) electronic titles coming out of=20 commercial publishing houses. The simple fact of the matter is that=20 data capture and clean-up, and software development are expensive. =20 I would also add that Pigman's review is unusually harsh in comparison= =20 with the others. Andrew Murphy of the University of St Andrews has=20 written one which will appear in a future issue of Computers and the= =20 Humanities in which, though he has some criticisms of the product, he= =20 describes the program as "a package that is beautifully presented,=20 well conceived and very easy to use", and that the development team=20 "deserve considerable praise for mapping out the electronic terrain of= =20 twenty-first century Shakespeare". =20 Rather than read the reviews though, I would just urge people to have= =20 a play with the application and see what they think. Demos can be=20 requested from Nelson at <http://www.ardenshakespeare.com/>. =20 I believe the Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM is an innovative piece of=20 software which attempts to address many of the difficulties of=20 delivering complex textual material in an intuitive fashion. There are= =20 bound to be many issues still to be resolved, many of which we at=20 Routledge have been working on in the development of our new=20 generation of electronic projects, which includes the Routledge=20 Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Wellesley Index to Victorian=20 Periodicals. For these projects (also built using DynaText as their=20 core) we have simplified the screen layouts, and adopt (and extend)=20 TEI. =20 As readers of Humanist are well aware, there are considerable=20 intellectual and resource issues in capturing and tagging data, as=20 well as in designing effective software. I remain convinced that it is= =20 only through a constructive debate between _all_ parties engaged in=20 humanities computing (ie academics, librarians, archivists and=20 publishers) that we can develop and distribute resources that will be= =20 valuable for both teaching and research. =20 I look forward to continuing to participate in such debates at DRH98. =20 Brad =20 _____________________________________ Brad Scott Electronic Development Manager Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Tel: *44 (0)171 842 2134 Fax: *44 (0)171 842 2299 Email: Web: <http://www.routledge.com/routledge/electronic/default.html> _____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Stuart Lee Subject: Challenge: 'To Tag, Or Not To Tag'? Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:51:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 287 (287) Dear All, Listening to the various conversations at the recent ALLC conference in Debrecen, it seemed that there was a fair amount of questioning of the feasibility of marking-up documents, with particular reference to SGML and the TEI. It struck me that it might be fun during the long drawn out summer evenings to issue a challenge (this will undoubtedly bring into question my idea of 'fun'!). As some of you may know I, and my colleague Paul Groves, have been working with the manuscripts of the British poet Wilfred Owen. We are in the process of delivering these on-line as reasonable quality digital facsimiles, but, like everyone, are facing the pressures of meeting our deliverables on-time. Our initial idea was to transcribe all of the manuscripts and mark them up using the TEI. However, it did not take us long to realise that this would have been a ridiculous task to undertake bearing in mind the time/money constraints we were working under. Furthermore, when we looked at the manuscripts themselves it became clear that any attempt to mark them up recording all of the various emendations etc. would have been a considerable intellectual exercise. So much so that we questioned whether such a thing was possible, let alone worth it. After discussing the matter with Lou Burnard we resolved to take the easy route of simply marking-up the metadata associated with each image. However, Lou suggested that it might be interesting to see what other people would have done in our situation. Hence the challenge. At http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/challenge/20F53VA.JPG I have put up one of the extant versions of Owen's poem 'Futility' (an apt title?). A transcription of the manuscript can be found in Jon Stallworthy's 'Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments' (Oxford, 1983), vol II. p320. The image is of British Library, MS 43720 f.53v and is copyrighted to the Wilfred Owen estate. The challenge is to find the best way of conveying the information held on the manuscript page to a scholarly audience, which would accommodate the forseeable needs of the academic research community. Should we simply put the image up and have done with it, or is it better (assuming sufficient time and money) to attempt to mark-up the contents of the page? Can TEI cope with this or should we look to some other scheme? I would be interested to hear how others might cope with this, and to see any attempts at marking up the page (there isn't too much text there, I promise). I will duly report back to Humanist any feedback I receive. Prize: Yes there is one (but it's not much). We will send a copy of Stallworthy's 'Wilfred Owen: The War Poems' to the person who provides the most comprehensive and/or imaginative response. We'll even get it signed by the editor for you. And it is at this point that I think I should put my head below the parapet! Stuart Lee P.S. The text of the poem is as follows: [from Stallworthy, 1983] 'Futility' Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds - Woke once the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Project Manager, JTAP 'Virtual Seminars Project' Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Conference: COLLABORATIVE PLANNING FOR DIGITIZATION Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:42:30 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 288 (288) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 4, 1998 COLLABORATIVE PLANNING FOR DIGITIZATION <http://www.aclin.org/webtele/confer.htm> PLANNING FOR DIGITIZATION BRINGING DOWN ANOTHER BARRIER TO ACCESS Sponsored by: Western Council of State Libraries September 17-19, 1998 Denver Public Library Denver, Colorado Successful digitization projects involve much more than simply scanning documents and mounting them on the World Wide Web. Collaborative digitization projects hold promise and open opportunities, but they also present complications and potential barriers to success. Western Council of State Librarians will present a national two-day conference designed to equip state libraries and museums with knowledge of issues they should address in planning statewide digitization projects. CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS: State Librarians, librarians, museum and archives staff, and other governmental agencies who would logically cooperate in digitizing information in their states. [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Matthew S. Collins" Subject: Re: 12.0153 Greek fonts? Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 21:03:55 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 289 (289) Another good source for freeware greek fonts is the Scholars Press website (shemesh.scholar.emory.edu). They can be found under the section on the Textual Criticism (TC) journal. The fonts were developed by Scholars Press and have been released for public domain use. -- ==================== Matthew S. Collins, Ph.D. Program Area Director Society of Biblical Literature 825 Houston Mill Road, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30329 USA email:mscolli@emory.edu Ph: 404-727-3100 Fax: 404-727-3101 http://www.sbl-site.org/ ==================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: scholarship Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:09:05 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 290 (290) This is not strictly speaking about humanities computing, but if it does not apply, then I quit. In his review of Pierre Verger's Ewe: The use of plants in Yoruba society and The go-between</cite> (TLS 4974 31 July, pp. 5-6), John Ryle notes, "It was this Candomble community of Salvador, still the blackest city in Brazil, that Verger, an exile from bourgeois existence is pre-Second World War France, took as his own. Although he rejected the label 'intellectual', habitually referring to scholars as 'impostors' and 'colourless parrots', he became Candomble's leading chronicler. His historical work on the slave trade and his documentation in writing and photographs, of religious practice in West Africa and north-eastern Brazil, locate him in the world of learning. But for Verger these activities were all ways of drawing closer to black Brazilians, the objects of his admiration and affection." Sad, isn't it, that drawing closer to the objects of one's admiration and affection should not characterise all scholarship? WM ---------- Dr. Willard McCarty Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/">http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/</a> maui gratia From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: ideas about data selection Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 08:27:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 291 (291) Willard, Came across this passage by B.H. Partee, the linguist and philosopher of language, where she states that she is inclined to believe that good ideas about data selection are just as important and difficult to achieve as good ideas about theory-building and problem solving.* A remark akin to those often made by computing humanists. (*_Possible Worlds in Humanities, Arts and Sciences. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65_ ed. by Sutre Allen. New York Walter de Gruyter, 1989. p. 157) -- Francois wonders how machimes make promises in scifi -- <<a href="http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/sd/sd0003.htm">http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/sd/sd0003.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>> ========================================================================= From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Copyright Town Meetings: Report Available Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:33:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 292 (292) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 4, 1998 COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS FINAL REPORT NOW AVAILABLE <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeeting-FinalReport.html">http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeeting-FinalReport.html</a>> A 33-page Final Report is now available on the series of five town meetings on Copyright & Fair Use sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, the College Art Association and NINCH. The Report is a detailed account of each of the meetings; it is accompanied by a shorter analysis: "Themes in the Town Meetings," available at: <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeetingThemes2.html">http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeetingThemes2.html</a>>. [deleted quotation] "The College Art Association in association with the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, with major support from The Kress Foundation, organized a series of five "Fair Use Town Meetings" between February 1997 and February 1998. The meetings grew out of the Conference on Fair Use (CONFU), addressing the growing awareness that, as Susan Ball later put it about art faculty members, there was "woeful, perhaps willful" ignorance on Fair Use and copyright issues in the community. "The five town meetings took place at the annual conferences of the College Art Association (New York, 1997 and Toronto, 1998) and the American Association of Museums (Atlanta) and on the campuses of Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis and Reed College (Portland, Oregon). "The series started by focusing on the proposed Fair Use Guidelines in the context of Fair Use and current copyright law. As the series progressed, the focus shifted more to consider the future of Fair Use in an increasingly important digital environment. While the Conference on Fair Use had the strongest presence for the first meetings, later on in the series the meetings tended to focus on the broader intellectual property legislative proposals in Congress. "This report is one of many forms of reporting and documentation of the meetings. Several of the meetings developed their own websites for publicizing, reporting on and gathering resources for the meeting. The papers from the Indianapolis meeting will be published in a special edition of the "Journal of the American Society for Information Science," and papers from the Portland and Toronto meetings will be published by Gordon & Breach. The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage built a coordinating web-page for the Town Meetings, where hyper-linked individual reports, an interim summary report and a paper addressing the essential themes running through the town meetings could be found (see "Themes in the Town Meetings," enclosed with this report), as well as links to individual Town Meeting web sites. A hyperlinked version of this report will also be available at the NINCH website <<a href="http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeeting-FinalReport.html">http://www-ninch.cni.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeeting-FinalReport.html</a>> .. "Resources gathered and built during the course of the town meetings helped build the NINCH "Fair Use Education" web resources and, in turn contributed to the material available for participants of future Town Meetings. In addition, several sites developed their own packed resource books for the use of on-site participants." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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>> ========================================================================= From: Norman Hinton <hinton@uis.edu> Subject: Re: 12.0159 Arden CD: a defense Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:38:50 -0600 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 293 (293) (THe Arden Shakespear CD-ROM [deleted quotation]and=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation] There is no question that these things are expensive. BUt I can't resist saying that any publication whose charges are comparable to Chadwick-Healey is over-priced by definition. --=20 Norman Hinton=09=09=09=09hinton@uis.edu From: Richard Heinzkill <heinzkil@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> Subject: Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 18:01:41 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 294 (294) Arden Shakespeare CD-ROM - a couple of things: 1) re: Brad Scott's posting 12:0159 of Aug. 4, 1998. I was glad someone has come to the defense of this database, even if it was the designer of it in the publisher's house. I hope users of the this database will share their experiences with this resource. We are just beginning to have it available and would be interested in its strong points. 2) I would like to hear from anyone using searchable Shakespeare texts on the fre part of the Internet. In other words, not just the text, but the capability to look for occurences of love, death and taxes in the full text of a play or uttered by a specific character. Are there Shakespeare sites that offer this capability? 2) The reviewer of this CD-ROM for CHOICE found "the program is easy t= o use". I did too. Although I do not have Pigman's review before me he complained about not enough directions, help screens, etc. As I recall he was not very specific. 3) As good as it was at the time, I am sorry the Bevington bibliograph= y was included because it is so terribley dated, i.e. published in 1978. Nor is that date very clear to users; one has to read the fine print to discove= r one is accessing a bibliography over twenty years old! Although the bibliography of Shakespeare criticism can always stand a good, selective bibliography, I am not sure how well served users are by the older Bevingto= n work. Too bad Routledge did not commission someone to update it. However I suspect most users will bypass it and go to the electronic version of MLA International Bibliography. =20 Richard Heinzkill University of Oregon Library heinzkil@oregon.uoregon.edu =20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 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>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Francois Lachance <lachance@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: seeing the scene Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:55:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 295 (295) Willard, You may recall that I once asked Stuart Lee if he commuted to work via public transit. The question arose beause I noticed with admiration how comfortable he was using a laptop during some demonstration as if he really did use it perched on a lap... I raise the point because I think his recent challenge to find a content model for Owen's aptly entitled textual artefact -- "Futility" may find a solution in a commuter metaphor of text production. What I am proposing as a "solution" does not save time. It is not new. (see the excellent article on morphing in the collection on electronic text edited by Kathryn Sutherland -- praised here recently). Step One Apply some of the enthusiasm one recalls from compilers and hawkers of archives who have displayed much amazment over the transmorgraphic powers of digital imaging software. However do not mistakenly take image processing or the perception of visual stimuli, even the most still of photographs or the most minimalist of abstract paintings, to be timeless. That is, take a page from animation and treat the verbal elements and the graphic elements (e.g. the lines indicating deletion) as elements in an unfolding movie. What you get is a series of shots that mask various parts of the digital image depicting the typescript or manuscript. What you do not get is an ambiguous picture of the sequences between shot of blank page and shot of extant artefact. Like any sufficiently complex urban transit system, you have a series of possible paths. Step Two Use the elements of the TEI tag set for performance to produce a "trunk line" in time. The element <stage> can be defined as a grid to localise other elements such as <caption> <castGroup> <castItem> <role> <actor> and so on. Step Three Choreograph. The hypertext pointers of the TEI just might do. They work well for the presentation of translations as explains Lou Burnard in "TEI Extended Pointers: a brief tutorial" (4 February 1997). Of course, his may mean understanding the Synex Viewport engine and how a browser might implement the mark-up. My own efforts at this kind of work are at very very preliminary stages. I am trying to master the Macromedia Director authoring environment and its scripting language called Lingo. There are other multimedia software tools that may do the job. Even a little time spent viewing demos of these tools might help improve thinking about concurrent structure as spatially co-ordinated but temporally disjunctive. As window is to stage is to timeline, discursive syntagms are reparsable -- some of us start with the marks of deletion, privileging the deleting over the deleted. I must admit by reframing the challenge in terms of developing a content model for a specific instance of a textual artefact using some of the insights from Gremassian semiotics (the very abstract notion of actant), I am not quite meeting Dr. Lee on the ground of tagging. At some junction we may be able to meet and wonder if when the great stroke of a snaking line in the Owen artefact does not transect the <title>Futility does it mean that the line began in its vicinity or ended on the tip of a word or even at the base of the letter "U" and then we could ponder the meaning of those options. endlessly techno-semiotic, Francois regrets that he cannot ride a bicycle and use a laptop simultaneously ponders the unicycle... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Call for Panelists on Intellectual Property Issues (fwd) Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:59:41 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 296 (296) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 5, 1998 Call for Panelists on Intellectual Property Issues October 24-25, 1998: Seattle Bookfest [deleted quotation] =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: Conference: CONVERGENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:23:18 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 297 (297) FOR LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & ARCHIVES NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 5, 1998 CONVERGENCE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CHALLENGES FOR LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS & ARCHIVES August 13-14, 1998: Amsterdam <http://www.w-projects.net/ifla/> The full program is now available for the very interesting IFLA pre-conference event to be held at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences in Amsterdam. The website also contains a registration form for late registrants. David Green =========== [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: David Green Subject: Workshop: Visual Representations & Interpretations Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:35:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 298 (298) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 6, 1998 VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS & INTERPRETATIONS WORKSHOP September 22-24: Liverpool, England <http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ien/VRI/> CALL FOR PAPERS A very interesting workshop on the visual representation of knowledge, bringing together researchers from across the arts, humanities and sciences is being organized by Ray Paton and Irene Neilson of the Department of Computer Science of Britain's Liverpool University. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]Apologies for cross-posting The VRI '98 Workshop - September 22nd - 24th. Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, UK ADVANCE NOTICE AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We warmly extend an invitation to colleagues to participate in VRI'98, an international workshop on Visual Representations & Interpretations being held at the Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool from Tuesday September 22nd to Thursday September 24th. The main aim of the workshop is to promote inter-disciplinary awareness across a range of disciplines where visual representations and interpretations are exploited. Contributions were invited from researchers in any discipline who are actively investigating visual representations and interpretations, including though not limited to:- artists, architects, biologists, chemists, clinicians, cognitive scientists, computer scientists, educationalists, graphic designers, linguists, mathematicians, philosophers, physicists, psychologists and social scientists. We are pleased to report that all these disciplines are represented in the papers chosen for presentation at the workshop. We have also had interesting submissions which have been accepted from researchers in Film and Media studies, Philosophy of Science, Molecular and Cellular Science, Theatre Studies, Art and Textile design, Engineering and other design disciplines. This excellent response means that the conference will be a truly multi-disciplinary event. DURATION OF WORKSHOP The considerable interest that has been expressed in the workshop has also led us to extend its duration. The workshop will now run from Tuesday 22nd September until lunch-time on Thursday 24th September. In order to give a potential participant some idea of the programme, session titles include:- Just Visualising; Visualising the Information Retrieval Process; Visualisation for Effective Communication; Technology, Change and Visualisation; The Language of Symbols; Visual Representations: from Molecules to Cells; Articulating the Design Process; Visualising the Abstract; Language and Form across Domains. The detailed programme for the conference is published on the VRI '98 WWW site:- http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ien/VRI/ Programme details at:- http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ien/VRI/programme.html REGISTRATION AND BOOKING DETAILS Registration details and a downloadable booking form are available from:- http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ien/VRI/call_papers.html#registration This form together with with a cheque for 75 UK pounds or a request for an invoice (see form for details) should be sent to Beth James, Connect, Foresight Centre, 3 Brownlow Street, Liverpool, L69 3GL. Beth will be dealing with the registration for the conference. All queries in respect of registration should be made, ideally by email, to Beth at beth@csc.liv.ac.uk VISIT TO TATE GALLERY (LIVERPOOL) After the end of the workshop, on the afternoon of the 24th September, the Tate Gallery, Liverpool has very kindly invited VRI'98 participants to a guided tour of the Willie Doherty Exhibition "Somewhere Else" , showing as part of Revolution98 (the 9th International Symposium on Electronic Art, 2nd September-11th October). Numbers are restricted so those interested in participating in this tour are requested to email vri98@csc.liv.ac.uk expressing interest in this tour as soon as possible. Preference for places will be given to overseas visitors. Acknowledgements VRI '98 is co-sponsored by Connect, Department of Computer Science, The University of Liverpool, Unilever Research and Barclay's Bank. Visual Representations & Interpretations Foresight Centre c/o Dr Irene Neilson, 3 Brownlow Street Liverpool L69 3GL http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~ien/VRI/ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: CONFERENCE REMINDERS Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:19:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 299 (299) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 6, 1998 CONFERENCE REMINDERS <http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html#september> Especially if you are in Europe this September, there is a plenitude of potentially very rich conferences to attend, related to networking cultural resources. As a reminder of what's coming up, here's the listing from NINCH's conference page, which also contains links to the conference web-sites. Please send conference information to . David Green =========== SEPTEMBER September 9-12 Digital Resources in the Humanities: DRH '98 Glasgow, Scotland September 13-16 The Sixth ACM International Multimedia Conference Bristol, UK September 23-26 Museum Computer Network Conference: Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Preservation Santa Monica, CA September 22-24: Visual Representations & Interpretations: Multidisciplinary Workshop Liverpool, England September 24-25 Computers & the History of Art (CHArt) 14th Annual Conference COMPUTING AND VISUAL CULTURE: Representation and Interpretation London, UK September 25-28 The Future of the Humanities in a Digital Age Bergen, Norway September 28-30 Guidelines for Digital Imaging: International Working Conference University of Warwick, UK September 29-October 3 Cultural Studies, Databases & Europe Research Institute for Austrian and International Literature and Cultural Studies Debrecen, Hungary. October 8-11 Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies: State of the Arts: Production, Reception & Teaching in the Digital World College Park, MD October 9-11 Commission for Arts and Humanities in Education, New York University School of Education "Assessing New Technologies in the Arts and Humanities" New York University, NYC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "[iso-8859-1] G=E9rard GAUTIER" Subject: Re: 11.0557 CALL for French call Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 01:54:01 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 300 (300) At 21:48 02/02/98 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation] [rest of msg deleted] Bonjour, Je me demandais dans quel num=E9ro avaient =E9t=E9 publi=E9es ces contrib= utions (je ne suis plus abonn=E9 a CALL) car j'aurais bien fait l'acquisition de celui-ci... J'esp=E8re ne pas abuser de votre temps en vous demandant de me donner ce petit renseignement ! D'avance, merci. G=E9rard GAUTIER, Paris -----------------------//-Centre-for---------------ggautier@ --- Gerard v v // Kurdish | v . club-internet.fr =20 Gautier " \ Studies | . .=20 _/\__) O__\ \ | \___) \ ---------(__)''----__/ ---------- _/ _/ .. _/ --------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Willard McCarty Subject: mea maxima culpa! Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 08:40:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 301 (301) Dear colleagues, A few times in the past year or so all current messages to Humanist have during my processing of them suddenly vanished. The great fault which I confess is not to have acted on my suspicion of what the cause might be. When it happened again just a few moments ago I finally did, so you may rest assured that the problem will not recur -- at least not in its present form.... It seems that a small script that I use in the digesting wipes out all messages when the "sentmail" folder reaches a certain size. Very odd, and very vexing, most of all to those of you whose messages have been wiped out. Hence, again, but I very much hope not after this time, I must ask those whose messages were destroyed to send them again. My apologies fall like rain. I also apologise for obvious signs on Humanist of my neglect, several days going by without a single message despite your faithful attention and interesting contributions stockpiling here. I can only plead a late summer's sudden, astonishing efflorescence in my garden, as surprising as poetry was to Neruda and as disruptive to the duties, however otherwise pleasant, of an ordinary life. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Edinburgh Seminar Programme Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 15:19:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 302 (302) Apologies for cross-posting -------------------------------------------------------------- LITERATURE, PHILOLOGY AND COMPUTERS An international seminar=20 University of Edinburgh School of European Languages and Cultures (Italian) =20 7-9 September 1998 =20 <http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/seminar.htm> The seminar is running back-to-back with DRH98 in Glasgow=20 (http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/), and offers an excellent=20 opportunity to flavour the best of the European school of=20 Humanities Computing (see programme below) combined with a visit to Scotland's historic capital city. =20 Conference fees: =A335 per person (academic) / =A325 (associated institutions) / =A315 (post-graduate). This includes a buffet lunch on 8 September. Venue: Edinburgh University, Adam Ferguson Building, George Square.=20 For further details please contact either Domenico Fiormonte at Domenico.Fiormonte@ed.ac.uk. or Dr Anna Middleton at Anna.Middleton@ed.ac.uk=20 [material deleted] From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: WORKSHOP: Computationally-Intensive Methods in Quantitativ= Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:45:55 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 303 (303) e Linguistics Apologies for cross-posting - There are still some places left for this workshop, please see contact details at the end of this message. SECOND WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS Department of Statistics =20 University of Glasgow, UK 7-9 September 1998 Final 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. [material deleted] For more information about the workshop and to register, please consult the web site at http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql, or contact the Conference and Vacation Office (tel: +44 141 330 5385, fax:+44 141 334 5465). From: Mike Fraser Subject: Digital Resources in the Humanities '98 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:20:56 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 304 (304) Apologies for cross-posting.=20 DRH98=20 Digital Resources in the Humanities 1998=20 University of Glasgow, 9-12 September 1998 Conference Website: http://drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ ** The full programme is on the web and it's not too late to register ** ** Keynote speakers include Paul Langford (Chairman, AHRB); Jon Tolansky (MPRC); Charles Henry (Fondren Library, Rice University) ** ** CIMQL-II (Second Workshop in Computationally-Intensive Methods in Quantitative Linguistics, 7 - 9 September 1998, is being run=20 as a pre-conference workshop for DRH98. There is a discount=20 in the registration fee if you register for both DRH98 and=20 CIMQL-II. There are still some places left at the workshop.=20 http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/~cimql/ ** Registration & accommodation enquiries for both DRH98 and CIMQL-II should be addressed to:=20 Conference and Vacation Office, University of Glasgow, 81 Great=20 George Street, GLASGOW G12 8RR, UK. Tel: +44 141 330 5385. Email: conf@gla.ac.uk General DRH98 enquiries should be addressed to: J.Lim@drh98.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk=20 ______________________ DRH98 The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow Preliminary Information The Third International Conference brings together the creators, users, distributors, and curators of Digital Resources in the Humanities will be held in Glasgow in 1998.=20 DRH98 is the internationally recognised forum for all those involved in and benefiting from the digitisation 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 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 characterises contemporary culture and scholarship.=20 Conference Themes Creation and management of digital resources (e.g. textual, visual, and time-based). Integration of digital resources as multimedia. Policies and strategies for electronic delivery, both commercial and non-commercial. Cataloguing and metadata aspects of resource discovery. Implications of digital resources and electronic delivery for teaching, learning, and scholarship. Encoding standards. Rights management (e.g. intellectual property rights). Funding, cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms. Digitisation techniques and problems. Conference format The conference will take up three intensive days of papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, between the evening of 9th September 1998 and lunchtime on the 12th September 1998. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage a lot of energetic discussion, both formal and informal. Leading practitioners of the application of digital techniques and resources in the humanities, from the worlds of scholarship, librarianship, and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0168 apologies Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:27:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 305 (305) Willard, One does understand, but I suspect that I am not the only non-academic who looks forward to a shot of Humanist to add something to year-round daily work. It's remarkable how all the academic lists go listless in the summer; perhaps we ought to discuss the research that allegedly finds that students actually lose intellectual sharpness when they take long vacations... Pat Galloway MS Dept of Archives and History ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Stuart Lee Subject: Tagging Challenge: An Update (fwd) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 10:23:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 306 (306) Many thanks to those who replied to my challenge about tagging Owen's 'Futility'....so far! (I have enclosed the original 'challenge' at the end of this message for those of you who missed it). I was particularly struck by Francoise's recent posting which likened the creation of the text on the manuscript to a performance. Obviously though, with this 'play', the jury is out as to which order the scenes and acts should (or did) follow. However, what is striking from the responses I've received is a reluctance to embrace any SGML encoding (to put it politely). When I spoke to our resident TEI-expert here at Oxford, his reply was 'I'm not surprised looking at the document'. This leads me to raise the following questions: Is it that certain documents are simply too complicated for SGML-based text encoding? If so, at what point does a document cross this boundary? I suppose an answer to this might be 'a document is only as complicated as you make it'. So, to clarify, if I wished to record all of the alterations by the poet in machine-readable (AND machine-searchable) form what should I do? My worry is that the document I am using for the challenge is not unique in its complexity, indeed I would go further by saying that anyone dealing with cursive manuscripts which record a creation process (as opposed to simple transcriptions) would say that this is very representative of the bulk of documents out there. Thus, if this does prove too difficult to mark-up using the TEI guidelines, shouldn't we be telling people that this may be the case for their material as well ? (I know some of us already are!). So come on you TEI gurus, Stuart ************ Original posting follows: From: Stuart Lee Subject: Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 16:51:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 307 (307) Dear All, Listening to the various conversations at the recent ALLC conference in Debrecen, it seemed that there was a fair amount of questioning of the feasibility of marking-up documents, with particular reference to SGML and the TEI. It struck me that it might be fun during the long drawn out summer evenings to issue a challenge (this will undoubtedly bring into question my idea of 'fun'!). As some of you may know I, and my colleague Paul Groves, have been working with the manuscripts of the British poet Wilfred Owen. We are in the process of delivering these on-line as reasonable quality digital facsimiles, but, like everyone, are facing the pressures of meeting our deliverables on-time. Our initial idea was to transcribe all of the manuscripts and mark them up using the TEI. However, it did not take us long to realise that this would have been a ridiculous task to undertake bearing in mind the time/money constraints we were working under. Furthermore, when we looked at the manuscripts themselves it became clear that any attempt to mark them up recording all of the various emendations etc. would have been a considerable intellectual exercise. So much so that we questioned whether such a thing was possible, let alone worth it. After discussing the matter with Lou Burnard we resolved to take the easy route of simply marking-up the metadata associated with each image. However, Lou suggested that it might be interesting to see what other people would have done in our situation. Hence the challenge. At http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/challenge/20F53VA.JPG I have put up one of the extant versions of Owen's poem 'Futility' (an apt title?). A transcription of the manuscript can be found in Jon Stallworthy's 'Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments' (Oxford, 1983), vol II. p320. The image is of British Library, MS 43720 f.53v and is copyrighted to the Wilfred Owen estate. The challenge is to find the best way of conveying the information held on the manuscript page to a scholarly audience, which would accommodate the forseeable needs of the academic research community. Should we simply put the image up and have done with it, or is it better (assuming sufficient time and money) to attempt to mark-up the contents of the page? Can TEI cope with this or should we look to some other scheme? I would be interested to hear how others might cope with this, and to see any attempts at marking up the page (there isn't too much text there, I promise). I will duly report back to Humanist any feedback I receive. Prize: Yes there is one (but it's not much). We will send a copy of Stallworthy's 'Wilfred Owen: The War Poems' to the person who provides the most comprehensive and/or imaginative response. We'll even get it signed by the editor for you. And it is at this point that I think I should put my head below the parapet! Stuart Lee P.S. The text of the poem is as follows: [from Stallworthy, 1983] 'Futility' Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds - Woke once the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? ************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: CAA 2000: Call for Papers; DRH98: Conference Update Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:20:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 308 (308) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 20, 1998 CALL FOR PAPERS/DRH UPDATE CAA 2000 CONFERENCE SESSION: "IMPACT OF ARTISTIC IMAGINATION ON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN 20th CENTURY" [deleted quotation] Technological and scientific achievements from the conquest of space to genetic cloning have transformed daily and intellectual life during the latter half of the twentieth century. Yet science and technology do not progress in a vacuum; diverse cultural developments have paved the way for discoveries and achievements that have shaped our understanding of the world we inhabit. The role that art has played in expanding the realm of the imagination, critical to scientific and technological "discovery," has been particularly important during the last half-century. Art does not merely react to conceptual shifts brought about by revolutions in science and technology, it also inspires new ways of thinking and working in these fields. This panel, proposed as a studio art session for the College Art Association's annual meeting in 2000, seeks to explore the nature of artistic/scientific/ technological collaboration during the second half of the twentieth century. In particular, we would like to consider how artists have helped scientists and technologists to devise new tools, models, or paradigms with which to explore the natural world. Proposals for participation might address the following questions: What can artists bring to science and technology? Under what circumstances are collaborations most successful? What does society at large stand to gain from these partnerships? Anne Collins............ in collaboration with ASCI Ph.D. candidate U. Texas, Austin Cynthia Pannucci Founder/Director Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) ****Celebrating its 10th Anniversary**** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: time enough for training and learning Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 08:19:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 309 (309) Willard, This may be of interest to those engaged in stratetizing the future situation and situating of humanities computing within and beyond the general academic landscape. Brad Fortner, Operations Manager, Rogers Communication Centre, Ryerson Polytechnical University, in "Industry Leaders Review Government's Role in New Media", an article appearing in new media.pro July 1998 quotes William Buxton While we live in a world that talks of interactive media, be very clear that 99% of the students graduating from computer science programs have never produced a program to be used by other human beings, and are not evaluated on their ability to do so. As long as that is the way it is, and the people who are creating this technology have no background in sociology, anthropology or anything that's relevant, we have a problem. (p. 24) Buxton is a researcher specializing in human-computer interaction and technology-mediated collaborative work. He has edited collections and may be well-known to Humanist readers for Readings in human-computer interaction: a multidisciplinary approach which he wrote and edited with Ronald M. Baecker (1987). I'm intrigued by the underlying metaphor of ownership ("we have a problem") and its rhetorical suitability since it always leaves the listener/reader an out: what do you mean "we"?. Sometimes I wonder if a more impersonal formulation such as "the skill mix in the labour pool is proving inadequate" or such as "poor design practices are replicated by accounting practices that fail to capitalize development costs over a sufficiently extended period of time". Of course, it then becomes less easy to fall for scenarios that pit the disciplines one against the other. It becomes easier to admit to one's imaginative ken working organizations based on team models with a place for the "translators" to go between the technically specialized and the technically bewildered; it becomes easier to factor long life (sic) learning and make Buxton's one percent grow. Long life learning as opposed to life long learning is learning that is willing to interrogate quality of life issues. Too often "life long learning" in the literature poses as a synonym for training and is rarely parsed as "long life = learning". Francois wonders how machines make promises in scifi -- <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/sd/sd0003.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Antoinette Renouf Subject: vacancy Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:22:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 310 (310) THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Research and Development Unit for English Studies Post of Research Assistant/Associate A vacancy has arisen in the Unit for a computer science graduate with an interest in language. The starting date will be as soon as possible and the post will, in the first instance, run until the end of September 2000. It relates primarily to the main Unit activity for that period, namely an EPSRC funded research project known as APRIL, concerned with the development of an automated system of classification for the rare, newly-occurring words in journalistic text. There will also be some involvement with other aspects of Unit work as required. The Research Assistant/Associate will work under the supervision of the Research Fellow responsible for the computing tasks in the Unit, reporting also to the Director of the Unit. Skills Required for the APRIL Project - at least one year's full-time (or equivalent) experience of programming in C in a Unix environment is essential - experience in programming in PERL is desirable - familiarity with Unix tools, such as `awk', is also desirable Duties Associated with the APRIL Project - familiarisation with Unit computing resources and software - development of project software - attendance and presentation at conferences as required Other Duties within the Unit will include: - familiarisation with Unit approach to large-scale text handling and corpus creation - revision and improvement of existing text manipulation software - some systems administration tasks - occasional provision of data for people outside the Unit Further particulars and details of the application procedure may be requested from the Director of Personnel, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX. The closing date for applications is Sept. 8th, 1998. The University of Liverpool is committed to Equal Opportunities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Fwd: _Brave New Word: Navigating Meaning in Digital Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:53:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 311 (311) Collections_ NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT AUGUST 20, 1998 ASSISTANCE NEEDED WITH SURVEY OF USE OF THESAURI AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF MANAGING CONCEPTUAL NAVIGATION ON WEB A request from Gerry McKiernan for information from those working on applying thesauri or other methods of managing conceptual navigation on the Internet: David Green =========== [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Michael Popham Subject: Re: 12.0169 The Tagging Challenge: an update Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:18:02 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 312 (312) I thought I'd respond to Stuart Lee's recent challenge(s) via the list, despite the fact that our respective desks are only about 20 metres apart! Readers are warned that this reponse is somewhat(?) *L*O*N*G*, and will probably be of interest only to those concerned with the debate about the merits (or otherwise) of using SGML/TEI encoding. On Mon, 17 Aug 1998, Stuart wrote: [deleted quotation] I think Stuart has correctly answered his own question -- although I'd want to put more emphasis on what seems to me to be the essential issue which underlies his response: namely, that in the process of making *any* representation of a pre-existing object, the creator of that representation is obliged to make certain choices (and, therefore, compromises). Producing a representation by SGML/TEI encoding is certainly no worse -- and, for some purposes I would argue it's much better -- than the alternatives currently available (e.g. scanning to produce a page image). As long as those choices/compromises are documented and/or known to anyone who subsequently makes use of that representation, then I don't see a problem. I've included my quick and dirty efforts to answer Stuart's challenge at the end of this message, for the "amusement" of whoever cares to look. *However* before anyone starts scrolling ahead, I'd like to make a number of points. Software ======== I began by using the TEI's Pizza Chef to build a DTD which would support all the features I thought I would want to mark up. I used Emacs+psgml to parse and validate the DTD, and then produced a compiled version which I could use with Emacs to edit the text of the poem. I freely admit that due to my ignorance of Emacs+psgml, I ended up having to cut and paste the DTD into the start of my file in order to get the thing to parse and validate without errors. Total cost of software = $0.00 (or 0.00 ecu if you prefer). Aim === In his second message, Stuart summarized his challenge in the following words: [deleted quotation] .....which made me realize that my DTD was overly sophisticated, and I could have got away with using just the additional tags for the transcription of primary sources (but I was too lazy to "rebake" my DTD). As Stuart wished to record alterations, I felt I could do this primarily by using just four tags: and (unsurprisingly, for additions and deletions), plus and -- which would allow me to encode longer alterations which spanned several lines of text. How I "cheated" =============== In his original challenge, Stuart included "the text of the poem" (as published in Stallworthy, 1983), the URL for a scanned image of the MS, and a bibliographic reference to Stallworthy's transcription of the MS. Having the benefit of geography on my side, I was able to go around to his desk, borrow a copy of Stallworthy's transcription, and use that to inform my encoding of the MS (I suspect that no-one else who has attempted this challenge has consulted Stallworthy's transcription -- and in so doing, have made a great deal more work for themselves, and ignored a pre-existing and relevant intellectual asset). That said, and copyright issues aside, I think Stuart should have mounted Stallworthy's transcription on his website as well as the scanned image of the MS. By obtaining Stallworthy's transcription, I was effectively stealing the results of his (Stallworthy's) "considerable intellectual exercise" -- noting that it was the prospects of having to do such (not inconsiderable) work for themselves, according to his original challenge, which had so perturbed Stuart and Paul that it had caused them to question the possibility and worth of using SGML encoding to transcribe such a document. For the purposes of this challenge, I didn't see the point in trying to transcribe the MS again from scratch (i.e solely from the scanned image of the MS), particularly when an eminent Owen scholar such as Stallworthy had already done the work of identifying the alternations made to the text, what words had been added/deleted, and so on. Thus in the process of encoding "the text", I was continually switching between the MS image that Stuart had supplied, and the printed text of Stallworthy's transcription. If you've read this far, then it will no doubt be obvious to you that Stallworthy's transcription (dare I say "encoding"), whilst it did an excellent job of recording many features of the MS (especially the poet's alterations to the text), was clearly the product of certain implicit editorial choices (i.e. particular features of the MS had not been transcribed, such as the fact that it was written in blue pencil, the relative weights and exact positions of some of the alterations, the exact path of crossings out, the fact that some words have been struck out horizontally, diagonally, scribbled out, etc. etc.). Therefore, my encoding of the MS was both informed and guided by the "considerable intellectual exercise" that Stallworthy had invested in his transcription -- and I did not feel that it would be appropriate for me to question his decisions about the alternations made to the text. The only exception to this was the phrase "life-warm", which occurs 2/3 of the way through the text of the MS -- which Stallworthy has transcribed as unaltered, although it looks to me (using the scanned image of the MS), as if it has been faintly struck out. Results ======= My SGML/TEI encoded transcription of the MS is intended to meet Stuart's request that the results of any encoding should be "in machine-readable (AND machine-searchable) form" ......which is another way of my saying that it's not very pretty to look at, nor is it supposed to be. SGML encoding is meant to facilitate information interchange between different machines and applications over time -- but I'd still want to point out that a human being is likely to be able to get more out of looking at a "raw" SGML file than, say, a raw JPEG file containing an image of the same text. Although I tried to use the attribute values of the and tags to give some indication of where on the page such additional text was placed, I never intended that any piece of software should be able to recreate a "reasonable" representation of the MS, not even to the standard of Stallworthy's transcription. Besides, Stuart has already produced an excellent image of the relevant MS, and accurate representation of the visual representation of the document wasn't the purpose of this exercise. Instead, what I wanted to transcribe was the apparent nature of an alteration (drawing on Stallworthy's interpretation) e.g. whether a piece of text had been added and then deleted, which groups of words/lines appear to have been added/deleted together, and so on. Despite the fact that the resulting (*machine-readable*) text is peppered with tags, I believe that there's enough encoding present to allow suitable software to answer such questions as: "Where does the author delete a word, then replace it with the same word?", "Are there more supralinear additions than sublinear additions?", "How many words of the text have not been altered?", "What's the ratio of added text to original text?" etc. Whilst none of these questions might be particularly interesting in the case of a single MS, I can imagine that if all the existing MSs of Owen's work were similarly transcribed (perhaps drawing on Stallworthy's "Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments"?), it would be possible to identify which of the MSs had been most heavily revised, and perhaps tie this in with known patterns of creative energy or stress in Owen's life -- or search the corpus of MS with questions such as "Did Owen ever use, then delete, the phrase 'glorious war' in any of his poems?"). I have absolutely no idea whether or not these are the kinds of questions that Owen scholars do, or may ever want to ask -- but having access to well-encoded machine-readable transcriptions of his work would make such things possible. Comments ======== Building the DTD and producing an SGML/TEI encoded transcription of the MS took only slightly longer than it took to produce this email! (but maybe I'm just a slow typist). I don't make any claims for the quality of my SGML/TEI encoded transcription, other than the fact that I believe it addresses the essential point of Stuart's challenge. I'm sure there are many vastly superior ways of producing much more useful, machine-readable transcriptions using SGML and the TEI scheme in particular -- but I leave that to others more knowledgeable. If I had been working *solely* from the scanned image of the MS then (a) things would have been alot more difficult because I wouldn't have been able to draw on the expertise and knowledge of Owen's work that Stallworthy brought to his transcription; (b) despite the image being of reasonable quality, the resolution wasn't sufficient to resolve certain textual issues which I was only able to solve by turning to Stallworthy's transcriptions. However unpleasant the appearance of the raw, machine-readable SGML/TEI transcription of the MS that I have produced, it is machine-searchable and thus offers functionality which is not available through either the scanned image or, indeed, Stallworthy's conventional print-based transcription (though of course with a certain amount of effort, it would be possible for a researcher to answer the sample questions I posed above by working from high-quality print-based transcriptions). The SGML/TEI transcription contains some basic (okay, *very* basic) header information. This forms an essential part of the transcription, and without it, I would not have produced a conforming TEI document. The scanned image contains no equivalent metadata -- and although it could be attached in some fashion, there would always be the danger that the two may become separated. The resulting machine-readable/searchable SGML/TEI transcription, including the DOCTYPE declaration is only 4KB in size, whilst the mid-resolution non-machine-readable/searchable JPEG scanned image weighs in at 174KB. Even so, the two items could be made available electronically in a package less than 200KB in size ..... which represents a lot of intellectual content when compared to the size of some of the junk flying around the net. Moreover, by virtue of this posting to HUMANIST, more copies of this electronic transcription of MS 43720 probably now exist in the world, than do copies of Stallworthy's printed transcription (although I wouldn't necessarily argue that this is a good thing!). If Stuart believes that my SGML/TEI encoding of the text has not captured "...all of the alternations by the poet", then I suspect that the fault lies with me and my ignorance of the TEI, rather than an inherent failing of either TEI or SGML. Even if it were to be shown that the TEI is *not* capable of capturing the information that Stuart desires, that only suggests to me that the TEI needs to be revised or extended -- rather than junked wholesale. Futhermore, if the TEI could not be so adapted, then this would still not have shown the limitations of using an SGML-based markup scheme, but would simply imply that an alternative markup scheme should be devised. Whether using the existing TEI scheme, adapting or extending it, or replacing it with anything else might make the work any less "difficult", seems to me to be an issue best left to the individual encoder/transcriber to judge. An SGML/TEI Transcription of the MS =================================== Whatever the merits of my response to Stuart's challenge, I wouldn't want to pretend that there is a definitive answer to his suggestion that there may be material that is "...too difficult to mark-up using the TEI guidelines". I'm sure there are TEI zealots who would happily tackle the encoding of any document you'd care to throw at them (which *isn't* an open invitation!) -- but I have a sneaking suspicion that the terribly dull answer is that it will all come down to a straightforward cost/benefit analysis, and that the "cost" (difficulty expressed in terms of time, money, learning curve etc.) must be weighed against the anticipated benefits (machine readability/searchability, non-proprietary encoding, capturing an interpretative encoding of a text, drawing on the work of TEI etc. etc.). So, for those of you that have read this far (or simply jumped ahead from the start of this message!), here's my attempt at producing one possible transcription of the MS. I don't claim that it's particularly good or pretty, but I hope it shows the general principle that (in this case at least), it's possible to produce a machine-readable/searchable SGML/TEI transcription of the MS which captures all the alterations made to the text. (NB. I don't think it would be useful to get into a discussion about how good, bad, or indifferent my encoding may be -- but I would be happy to see people continuing this thread in general terms, responding to Stuart's challenge). I apologize in advance for any errors which this transcription contains, but I hope I've done enough to demonstrate the principles, answer Stuart's challenge.....and win the free book! %isolat1; ]> Futility MS 43720 f53.v as appearing in (<title>Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments)A machine-readable transcription Owen, Wilfred 1893-1918 Stallworthy, Jon Wilfred Owen Estate Dr Stuart Lee Owen, Wilfred 1893-1918Futility Futility Move him into the sun. -and his brow's snowThe snow will melt soon Gently its touch awoke him once At home whispering ofEasily called him toCalled him out to fields of half-sown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. YetAreArelimbs, perfect almostat last, and sides Almost life-warmAnd heart still warmtoo hard toit cannottoo hardstir?. Are limbs - prickedbled with a little sword Yet limbs - still warm - too hard to stir? Are limbs, so ready for life, full grown, Nerved and still warm, too hard to stir? Full-nerved, still warm Was it for this the clay grew tall? OOWhatfatuity made the fatuoussun toilbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? Michael ------------------------------------------------ Michael Popham - Head of the Oxford Text Archive Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 6NN, United Kingdom TEL: +44-(0)1865-273238 FAX: +44-(0)1865-273275 WEB: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Skeleton at the Feast - ed Chris Hann Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:15:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 313 (313) Readers of the review of Chris Hann's collection 'The Skeleton at the Feast' which has just been published in JRAI may be interested to read more. A sample chapter as well as the table of contents is available at http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csacpub/skeleton/ The full list of other CSAC monographs is available from http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/csacpub/ yours sincerely davidz Dr David Zeitlyn, Hon. Editor Anthropological Index Online Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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/AIO.html http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ (personal research) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: agon not appetite Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:30:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 314 (314) Humanists will be amused as well as interested to learn that a piece of humanities computing research has hit the daily news, at least in the U.K. Thanks to his textual collation software, Peter Robinson and colleagues are now able convincingly to argue that Chaucer's Wife of Bath "was really a woman struggling to keep her appetites within the confines of Christian marriage" rather than, as previously thought, a "coarse [woman], with an indiscriminate sexual appetite". For the hot news, see the Daily Telegraph, 27 August 1998, online at <http://www.telegraph.co.uk> (where you register, then search for "Wife of Bath"); and on the BBC News site, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_159000/159352.stm>. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Judith Wusteman Subject: Postdoctoral Fellowship Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:20:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 315 (315) Library and Information Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship Department of Library and Information Studies UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Postdoctoral Fellowship H. W. Wilson Newman Scholar in Library and Information Studies Applications are invited for the H. W. Wilson Newman Scholarship in Library and Information Studies, open to all research topics in Library and Information Studies. This is a prestigious three year postdoctoral appointment which will allow the candidate to conduct substantial research in the area of Library and Information Studies. Applicants should hold a doctoral degree or have equivalent research experience or professional qualification and will be required to submit a research proposal. Further details and application forms can be obtained from the Personnel Office, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4. Telephone: +353 1 706 1409. Fax: +353 1 269 2472. Email: acadrec@listserv.hea.ie Closing date for receipt of completed applications is Thursday, 1 October, 1998. The fellowship is funded by the H. W. Wilson Foundation. Further Details: Consistent with the general intention of the Newman scholar programme, the H. W. Wilson Scholar in Library and Information Studies will have an excellent academic record. Ideally the candidate will have completed a Ph.D. (or be near completion) in an academic discipline appropriate to the study of Library and Information Studies. However, applications are also welcome from individuals with demonstrated research ability who are in the early stages of their Ph.D. research. The candidate^=D2s proposed research focus should demonstrate strong theoretical underpinnings to established reference disciplines that are appropriate to the study of Library and Information Studies. International experience and affiliations with international scholars and institutions would be desirable. Evidence of previous scholarly activity (publications, conference presentations, research awards) and future scholarly output (including working papers, research proposals, and the ability to outline a research programme for the future) will also be expected. Candidates should also demonstrate their ability to effectively manage research activity and to collaborate as part of an interdisciplinary research team. While the brief is primarily a research one, the scholar will be invited to make some contribution to teaching. Therefore, some evidence of teaching ability and experience would be beneficial. Within the broad realm of Library and Information Studies, neither the University nor the Sponsor have a specific research agenda in mind. It is our intention to appoint the best qualified individual with the most interesting research proposal, and to afford that individual the scope to conduct high quality research and writing in any area that broadly encompasses the discipline of Library and Information Studies. It is expected that the knowledge developed by the H. W. Wilson Newman Scholar will be disseminated to the academic and professional communities through publications in academic journals, professional publications, presentations at international conferences, and executive education programmes. The scholar will be based in the Department of Library and Information Studies in the Arts Faculty. The Department was established in 1977 and has since served as the national centre for education and research in Library and Information Studies in the Republic of Ireland. The academic staff comprise three professors, five full-time lecturers, and a number of visiting and part-time lecturers. Further information on the Department is available at http://www.ucd.ie/~lis or from Dr Lee Komito, a former Newman Scholar who is now a full-time lecturer. Telephone: +353 1 706 7594. Fax: +353 1 706 1161. E-mail: Lee.Komito@ucd.ie ------------------------------------------------- Dr Judith Wusteman Department of Library and Information Studies University College Dublin Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland http://www.ucd.ie/~lis/wusteman/index.html phone: +353 1 706 7612 fax: +353 1 706 1161 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Lorna Hughes Subject: OCR software query Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 15:11:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 316 (316) Hi Willard, I would be grateful if you could post this to the list. Thanks, L. Dear Humanists, Does anyone out there have the address/phone number of a supplier of TextPert OCR software? Or a suggestion for a similar program for multi-lingual scanning? Cheers, 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 http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/ From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Unique NLP Technology? Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:43:44 -1000 (HST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 317 (317) As part of our due dilligence in researching our NLP work, I am looking to see if anyone has seen technology similar to that being offered (for Free) by our company at http://www.haptek.com. The free dowload is called "ChatterBox" and it is intended for use with the 3-D animations that are available at that site. It is quite fun actually so if you enjoy "talking computers" you might want to take a look. The product allows you to chat with the animations in the following manner. You (or the designer) enter in information statements and then later you query the character for that information such as: my appointments are at 5 pm and 6 am your name is roswell you live in new york the man who has the gun lives in the park the tall dark stranger was killed by the man with gun the tall dark stranger was jogging through the park your fax number is 8085393924 John's web address is john.com when are my appointments? what is your name? what was the stranger doing? what is your fax number? what is john's web address? and so on. I would like to be know as accurately as possible if there are any other such products anywhere else either as a commercial product or research project. If so I would like to the url's or email addresses of those who make them. I will post a summary to the list. Phil Bralich ______________________________ Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 12.0177 response to The Tagging Challenge Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:24:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 318 (318) Stuart Lee wrote: [deleted quotation]Francoise's recent posting [deleted quotation] While reluctant to try my hand at encoding the Owen text, thank you for the challenge because it brings up a problem I've been wrestling with. I'm searching the literature (various online searches, ACH/ALLC conference abstracts, and back issues of Computers and the Humanities) looking for. . .well, let's be honest, looking for things to use in evangelizing efforts. (will soon be doing a series of talks for our faculty on electronic texts, TEI, etc. trying to recruit interested parties to give it a whirl) Some of the scholarly benefits for encoding texts, particularly in ways that provide meta data and web-accessibility, are pretty obvious by now. Accessibility issues like making rare materials available, making multiple versions available, bringing obscure works to light, making materials findable and searchable, and standards issues, have all been treated pretty thoroughly. Contributing to the emerging global brain is usually seen as a good thing. The benefits of collaboration, both in the creation of these projects and as a result of their creation, are also generally accepted as being positive. The jury is still out on how working with electronic texts impacts things like promotion and tenure, although the question is at least acknowledged as legitimate. There are also the teaching reasons: providing texts for your students to work with, helping your students learn the process involved in encoding because they'll need to know for the future, etc. These should probably be enough reasons for a reasonable person. Sometimes I'm not reasonable. Most of the text encoding projects I have encountered have been "big projects" dealing with how to put large collections online, often undertaken by libraries, humanities computing groups, or specially funded projects. That is, they have fit well with the accessibility, collaboration and teaching angles. It seems obvious that libraries and other groups should be providing these texts. But what of the individual scholar? and students? Is there a benefit beyond those mentioned in encoding a text? a "personal" benefit? At lunch the other day, while trying to convince a computing colleague that we should be pouring more resources into helping faculty and students learn about creating these texts, I said something like "there is value in encoding a text because you engage it in more meaningful ways than other forms of studying it." I'm glad he didn't ask for clarification because I realized a moment later I didn't KNOW what I meant by that, and certainly didn't have any basis for assuming that to be true. Is there a fundamental and important difference between the close work you do with a text when you encode it and the close work you do with a text in other ways? Or is it that encoding a text is just one of many ways to "get into" a text, and one that just happens to have all the added benefits of making it more accessible to others, or using it as a focal point for collaboration and teaching? Is there something intrinsically valuable about "encoding as performance art?"I would hope this group has some ideas on this, as many have worked on texts through a variety of computing models (yes, Stuart, I was at your "Break of Day in the Trenches" ACH/ALLC'93 presentation!). According to Rogers (The Diffusion of Innovations) and Geohegan (What Ever Happened to Instructional Technology), technology leaders and early adopters need little encouragement to work with new technologies, but the majority of scholars need personally compelling reasons to disrupt their usual practices and use new technologies. What can I tell faculty and students to convince them that they themselves, not their libraries or publishers or computing staff, but they themselves should experience the "joys" of encoding? (Beyond saying "this is the way to get your favorite obscure works out in the public eye and make them available for posterity?") Or to put it another way, if I wanted to compile a bibliography on "how the TEI makes me a better scholar" and didn't want to include the accessibility, collaboration and teaching issues, what could I put on the list? (I've got McGann/Rosetti and the Orlando Project) - Hope ------------ hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont, http://www.uvm.edu/~hag (and experiments temporarily at 132.198.103.233:6336/dynaweb) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Education Program Grant Opportunities Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:57:21 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 319 (319) [deleted quotation] Please post 1998 and 1999 DEADLINE DATES FOR NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION GRANTS The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following programs: *National Education Projects* Includes materials development projects, curricular development and demonstration projects, and dissemination projects of national scope and significance Application deadline: October 15, 1998 and October 15, 1999 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Humanities Focus Grants* Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with colleagues from your school building, school district, college or university. Work with humanities scholars. Application deadlines: April 15, 1999 and April 15, 2000 Funding available: up to $25,000 For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call: Education Development and Demonstration Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.gov TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: http://www.neh.gov (under Applying for a Grant, Application Forms) From: AL SHOAF Subject: WWW Supplement to _The Testament of Love_ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:20:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 320 (320) *** Cross-posted to Several Lists -- Apologies for Duplication *** As part of ongoing experimentation with the relationship between electronic and print technologies, I have posted a WWW supplement to my edition of the (14th-c.) _The Testament of Love_ by Thomas Usk (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998). My goal is to try to integrate e- and print-publication in such a way as to exploit the Internet's speed and dispersion for updating and correcting material appearing concurrently in less mobile and less flexible print format. This page can be accessed at http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf/folia.html and it contains the following items: Links to the METS and the Medieval Institute Publications Websites A link to an e-copy of a facsimile of Thynne's 1532 imprint of _TL_ A link to an e-copy of Skeat's text of _TL_ (with prefatory warning) A brief excerpt from my Introduction to the edition A link to my modernization of the "Prologue" of _TL_ A link to an _Addenda_ page A link to a _Corrigenda_ page A link to a _Comments_ page A mail-to link to post messages to me Other links will be added in the course of the coming academic year, and the above links will be regularly updated (and METS will post the complete hypertext version of the edition to the WWW in 1999). I would be interested in hearing any responses to this page -- items for the bibliography, corrections, format suggestions, etc. -- users may wish to communicate to me (I hope to maintain the page and its links indefinitely). I would also be grateful if list subscribers mention the page to colleagues not subscribers who might have some interest in _TL_ and/or WWW re-presentation of textualities. Thank you, Al R. Allen Shoaf Alumni Professor of English University of Florida P.O. Box 117310 Gainesville, FL 32611-7310 352.392-6650 x 264 FAX 352.392-0860 http://www.clas.ufl.edu/~rashoaf/ Editor, EXEMPLARIA http://www.clas.ufl.edu/english/exemplaria/ From: "Judith A. Turner" Subject: The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 06:06:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 321 (321) Dear JEP Subscriber: The September 1998 issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep> is now available for your reading enjoyment. JEP ECONOMICS 102: Current Thinking on the Economics of Electronic Publishing Three years after JEP first explored the economics of electronic publishing, a new review. Guest Editor Michael Jensen has scoured the electronic universe, seeking out the best recent articles on scholarly electronic publishing. In addition, we offer for your reading enjoyment a look at another kind of electronic publishing, the online newspaper. And be sure to catch the first-person story of how decisions at one online business were made about users and their needs, and an article on one contributor's summer reading. Michael Jensen, writing from so many years of experience in electronic publishing that it's hard to remember it's still a new field, describes the matrix of influences affecting publishing decisions in this environment. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/jensen.html> Colin Day, director of the University of Michigan Press (our benefactor!) questions whether publishing monographs electronically solves economic problems or merely shifts costs. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/day.html> Scott Bennett, Yale University Librarian, demonstrates a users view of the business of just-in-time scholarly monographs. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/bennett.html> Marlie Wasserman, director of Rutgers University Press, tells us the story of a book by Mona Graff to demonstrate the real costs of monographic print publishing in contrasts with digital publication. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/wasserman.html> On the journal side, Hal R. Varian, dean of the school of information management and systems at UC Berkeley, speculates that the economics that drive e-publishing will inevitably drive changes in the form of the scholarly journal. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/varian.html> Andrew Odlyzko, head of the mathematics and cryptography- research department at AT&T Labs, applies his algorithmic thinking to online-journal publishing and economic models. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/odlyzko.html> Those who think advertising may save online publishing need to read Dave Wilson's article, reprinted from the San Jose Mercury News. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/wilson.html> Arnold Arcolio and Bruce Washburn reveal the philosophy -- and the work -- behind Eureka, the Research Libraries Group's online search-and-retrieval system. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/arcolio.html> Two authors look at online newspapers: Shayla Thiel explores the online-reader's relationship to online newspapers in the context of modern history, concluding that the online newspaper is the perfect postmodern medium. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/thiel.html> And Mike Cuenca asks what happened to the multimedia in the supposedly multimedium of online journalism. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/cuenca.html> For something completely different, Willis G. Regier analyses scholarly press Websites, finding the winners -- and the losers. <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/regier.html> Finally, Thom Lieb shows us the ways publishers can help people find their way around their Web sites in "Visitor Information." <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-01/lieb0401.html>. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463 From: Boyd Davis Subject: new site: community language collection Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 18:17:56 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 322 (322) This message announces a new web site, Community Language Collection: http://www.uncc.edu/english/clc The site presents audio and text clips, graphics, and full transcripts from 40 oral interviews with senior citizens in 1979, illustrating several varieties of American English, with the majority from the Southeastern U.S., and the Charlotte, N.C. region. Speakers self-reported themselves as male and female, black and white, with a range of education and occupations. Narratives may be searched by theme or by speaker birthdates, 1885-1923. To make the site available to the largest number of viewers/visitors, including schoolchildren taking NC history, the site does not use frames and includes a dual track for streaming compressed audio. Although the original tapes were made under less than desirable conditions, a range of regional features is accessible via the audio segments selected for display. Clips from the tapes were selected to present one or more features of pronunciation within a narrative segment of the interview. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Postmodernism, Primitivism, Nostalgia Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:54:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 323 (323) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Now inviting submissions for HENRY STREET vol. 8.1 Special issue: Postmodernism, Primitivism, Nostalgia _Henry Street_, now in its seventh year of publication, is an inter- national forum for graduate students of English and related disciplines. We invite contributions of critical essays, short fiction and poetry from graduate students in English or a related discipline. We also welcome essays on pedagogy, the job market, graduate programs, and other topics of interest to graduate students. We aim especially to publish and promote innovative criticism that, in the words of one of our contributors, "combines the personal with the scholarly." _Henry Street_ is indexed by the MLA and the Canadian Periodicals Index. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Essays should not exceed 7000 words, and must follow MLA guidelines for citation and presentation. All submissions, except poetry, should be double-spaced on standard 8.5" x 11" bond. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Send two copies of submissions, and include a self-addressed return envelope accompanied either by Canadian stamps or international reply coupons. Manuscripts submitted without SASE cannot be returned. The cover letter must indicate the author's degree status and university affiliation. Send your submission to: _Henry Street_ Department of English Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 You can also send e-mail inquiries to henry.street@dal.ca. Please note that this address is for inquiries only, not submissions. *** We welcome submissions at any time, but the deadline for our next *** issue is November 15, 1998. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 7.1 includes: * Michele Hilton, "_Tristram Shandy_ and the Cant of French Criticism" * Steven Dougherty, "Dreaming the Races: Biology and National Fantasy in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'" * Thom Satterlee, "In Our Own Words" * Tamas Dobozy, "Those Dynamic Duos: The Hegemony of Individualism in the Late Twentieth Century and its Cumulative Effect on Partnership, the Cooperative and Marital Union" :) Fiction by Sumanth Muthyala and Tim Conley; poetry by Mitchell Andrew and K. I. Press; reviews, and more. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Konvens98 Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 14:55:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 324 (324) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION KONVENS 98 Computer, Linguistik und Phonetik zwischen Sprache und Sprechen - Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech 4. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache - 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing Oct. 5-7, 1998, University of Bonn, Germany http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 Organized by: Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV)(responsible in 1998) Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI), FA 1.3 "Natuerliche Sprache" Informationstechnische Gesellschaft/Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Akustik (ITG/DEGA) Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeGAI) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Subjects of the conference are all areas of language processing dealing with language in its written or spoken form. Special attention will be paid to approaches focussing on the structural and the phonological/phonetic aspects of computer-aided/based language research and aimed at bridging the gap between both aspects. Conference languages are German and English. [material deleted] WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 (Participants of the conference who would like to attend one of the tutorials are asked to send a short message to the conference office (konvens98@uni-bonn.de) until Sept., 25.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: Re: 12.0178 response to Tagging Challenge Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:02:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 325 (325) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Although I think the jury is still out on whether encoding makes a text more or less accessible (at least in the short term), there is surely a value to the encoder that is difficult to duplicate in any other way, or at least there should be. Back in the olden days (1982) when I was writing dBase II programs to analyze Old English metrical patterns, I came to the conclusion that one of the main benefits of doing so (besides consistency and accuracy) was in the process of setting down my own knowledge of the text in a rigorous way (the program as expert system). If encoding a text fosters that process, more power to the encoders. Those Humanist readers who've done a significant amount of encoding will have to tell us whether the grief was worth it. DLH -- David L. Hoover, Assoc. Prof. of Engl. David.Hoover@nyu.edu 212-998-8832 Webmaster, NYU English Dept. http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."--Groucho Marx ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Fwd: Position Available: AMICO Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:35:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 326 (326) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT August 31, 1998 POSITION AVAILABLE: AMICO COORDINATOR OF MEMBER & CLIENT SERVICES [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: 12.0181 Wife of Bath: agon not appetite Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:35:56 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 327 (327) Peter was also interviewed on National Public Radio in the U.S. Public recognition at last! Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] From: Leslie Burkholder Subject: Re: 12.0181 Wife of Bath Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 17:25:05 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 328 (328) This also made the front page of _The Vancouver Sun_, a Vancouver BC newspaper last week. Leslie Burkholder University British Columbia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Thomas Donnebrink Subject: Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:55:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 329 (329) CALL FOR HELP; ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION CONCERNING THE VISUALIZATION OF LEXICAL ENTRIES Dear members of the list I have subscribed to your active list about three months ago. My name is Thomas Donnebrink and I am a student at the university of Munster to the north - west of Germany. I am working on a paper for my final exam about the "strategies and limitations of visualization of lexical entries looking at the Picture Duden and modern monolingual english dictionaries" In some dictionaries, drawing, photos and other types of visualization are used to 'illustrate' the meaning of a certain lexical entry, but it seems, that the way certain 'types' of visualization are used and certain lexical entries are chosen for visualization is far away from being systematically and uniform. The practice rather seems to be intuitive and arbitrary. The scope is quite limited and the parts of the lexicon illustrated include barely other words than non-abstract nouns. I would like to look into the possibility of outlining a language which is based on visual signs (avoiding the phonological principle) and in this way hoping to bypass the arbitrarity of the linguistic sign (Arbitraritat des sprachlichen Zeichens). The aim would be to create (to outline) a system of visual signs that could be understood by everybody regardless of the speech community they belong to; and therefore serve as an auxiliary language in "written" communication. This visual sign language should meet the following criteria: - A high percentage of the visual signs should be self-explanatory. - The inventory of the visual signs that are not self-explanatory should be as limited as possible, logical and serve as compound words to build other expressions (but not too complex), so that not much learning would be required. - Due to the morpho-syntacticle differences in many languages the visual sign language would have - among other things - to break with the linear arrangement of the sentence parts (using a circular arrangement so somethink like that). But this does not interest me at this point. I am searching desperately for some information concerning this topic for more than two months now, but I cannot find very much information which really deals specifically about the visualization of language in general and of lexical entries in particular. I have searched the OPACs, libraries and travelled the cyberspace, but it seems that there is nothing out there. So far I just found one book (Hupka 1989) and a couple of short articles dealing with this subject. So I was hoping that maybe someone of you is interested in the same or a similar topic or that one of you knows somebody who might be. If you have a tip, a hint, a link, a source, an idea, a title, an E-Mail address or something alike that could help,I would reeeaaally appreciate it, if you could mail it to me. Thanks a thousand times !! I would also like to post a short questionnaire concerning this topic on this list in a few weeks, provided that nobody objects. sincerely Thomas Donnebrink Munster, Germany donnebr@uni-muenster.de From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Intelligent Software Agents for E-Serials Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 18:42:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 330 (330) _Intelligent Software Agents for E-Serials_ In a recently complete, soon-to-be-published Think Piece for a major Technical Services newsletter, I speculate on the potential application and use of Intelligent Software Agents for Collection Development. For a companion article due later this Fall for a major Serials journal, I will expanding this vision to consider the potential and possible application of Intelligent Agents for identifying, organizing and managing E-Serials. For my review, I am greatly interested in learning about any and all commercial or experimental efforts on the part of vendors (or Others) to automate various processes associated with the identification, organization and management of e-journals through the use of Software Agents, or like technologies. For a good overview of Intelligent Software Agents, Interested Folk are invited to visit my LibraryAgents(sm) project that provides links to key Intelligent Software Agent resources at the following URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Agents.htm As always, Any and All citations, sources, queries, questions, comments, critiques, etc. are Most Welcome Joy! Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian and Curator, CyberStacks(sm) Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/ "The Best Way to Predict the Future is To Invent It!" Alan Kay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: two items of significance Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 23:24:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 331 (331) Dear Colleagues: For reasons related to the demands placed on my time by my garden (see Humanist 12.0168) I am so far behind in current preparations for the teaching year about to commence that I may not get the chance adequately to deal with the following two items. If anyone here would care to review them at length I would be personally most grateful. The first is John Keane's article in the Times Literary Supplement for 28 August, "The humbling of the intellectuals", which concerns, as the subtitle notes, "Public life in the era of communicative abundance". Just to tease you into volunteering a close review, allow me to quote a single passage: "These various examples suggest that a combined effect of communicative plenty is to call into question the royal, solar and tribunal ('enlightenment') metaphors of the early modern period, that is, to weaken claims to a transparent society based on rational communication of the truth. A common sense of contingency and disorientation spreads. Profusion also breeds confusion." The second is a majesterial study of the material culture of microphysics, Image and Logic, by the historian of science Peter Galison. Thanks to a review in the TLS, mentioned here earlier, I acquired the book and have immediately burrowed into the methodological analysis at the end, "The Trading Zone: Coordinating Action and Belief". As the TLS review pointed out, Galison has adapted anthropological observations on the interaction of disparate cultures, and in particular on the formation of pidgins (artificial languages formed to serve these interactions), and in some cases creoles (pidgins grown into languages that serve the range of human needs). Galison has thus gone beyond the common idea of translation, which I have used in thinking through the consequences of textual markup, to something that appears to me to be a much more powerful notion. It deserves, I think, considerable attention. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: where lies the meaning? Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:18:35 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 332 (332) Last night I attended a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet by the Ninagawa Company in the Barbican (London). Those of you who know Yukio Ninagawa's work (e.g. Macbeth, The Tempest, Midsummer Night's Dream) will not be surprised to hear that his Hamlet was ravishing, powerful, magical. Those who are not familiar with his Shakespeare productions, on hearing that they are done in traditional Japanese costume, and entirely in Japanese, will rush to the fundamental question of how, possibly, such a bold experiment could work? This is precisely the question I wish to raise here in the context of computing. The Japanese community of London turned out in force, but I would guess that like me at least 2/3 of the audience had little if any of the language. Yet at the end of the performance the reaction of the whole audience (standing ovation, raining of flowers on stage &c) made it quite clear that somehow it had worked, brilliantly. I guess the closest I can come to an explanation is that Ninagawa manages so to externalise meaning in gesture, dramatic choreography and stage design that the words recede into the background. Considering the importance of words in Shakespeare (!), this is quite some achievement, and considering further the kind of play that Hamlet is, even more so. That Midsummer Night's Dream should have worked as brilliantly (here, at the Mermaid, two years ago) is perhaps slightly less of a surprise, but still, but still.... This gets us to the question, once again, of what we are doing when we compute texts, to some finer realisation of the limits within which we work. At least I find it useful -- morally, to maintain some humility about the enterprise; pragmatically, to keep the limits within sight -- always to have in mind good examples of what doesn't compute. Comments? 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: IFETS Subject: IFETS Forum discussion announcement Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 10:42:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 333 (333) New formal discussion has started in IFETS forum on the topic: "Does the web offer solution to many old problems but create new ones in turn?" Moderator: Ashok Patel Director, CAL Research & Software Engineering Centre, United Kingdom Summariser: Samantha Hobbs Lecturer, Open University, United Kingdom (Pre-discussion summary below) ------------------------------------------------------------------ International Forum of Educational Technology and Society (IFETS) http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/ The forum aims to bring together the developers of educational systems, and the educators who implement and manage such systems. If you have not joined the forum yet, but would like to do so, please follow these steps: 1. Please subscribe to the forum discussion mailing list by sending a message to ifets-Request@gmd.de with the following in the body of the message (no subject needed): subscribe ifets 2. Please fill out registration form at forum's website http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Pre-discussion summary "Does the web offer solution to many old problems but create new ones in turn?" The Web technology offers a relatively standard user interface through the Web Browser. It has multi-media capabilities and can communicate with the user through multiple channels of communication. It is link based and therefore has a flexible structure enabling subsequent addition or deletion of material much less painful than the 'hard-coded' programs. With increasing support for interaction through scripting and programming languages, it is possible to add the 'intelligence' so that we can now start designing Web-Based ITS (Intelligent Tutoring Systems). It can now be considered quite possible, excepting problems of intellectual property and payments, that with appropriate authoring shell and indexing mechanism, teachers across the globe can co-operate in incrementally building/revising/updating tutoring material to cover all the possible parts of the curriculum. It is also possible, that the web will follow the 'printed book' so that one or more author/s might cover a range of topics in a webbook (as opposed to textbook and where 'book' represents an organised collection of learning resources) and the teachers would recommend the webbook that has a teaching approach which matches with their own teaching style. Unlike a printed textbook, the digital webbook has the flexibility of carrying different sets of links, so that, say, depending on the index you choose, you might get a top-down or bottom-up perspective, holistic or serialist approach to material presentation etc. In short. standardised interface, multiple channels of communication, flexible structure, ease of amendment, possibility of division of labour ... the benefits of web technology surely overcomes many of the old problems. But before we are seduced by this very enticing technology, we should think about the new set of problems it might bring with it. The forum is invited to discuss whether the web technology has indeed solved or offers better mechanism to solve any of the old problems and what are the new problems that the web technology is likely to bring with it. From: David Green Subject: Fwd: The Future of the TEI Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:25:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 334 (334) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 3, 1998 THE FUTURE OF THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE Call for Bids to Host a Consortium for Longer-Term Support <http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Kinshuk Subject: Reminder: Call for Papers - Intelligent Tutoring and Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 10:43:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 335 (335) Learning Envs. CALL FOR PAPERS Special Session : Intelligent Tutoring and Learning Environments 8th Int. Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCI International '99, August 22-27, 1999 Munich, Germany Deadline for extended abstract : Nov. 30, 1998 A special session is taking place under the auspices of the conference dealing with various issues of Intelligent Tutoring and Learning Environments (ITE/ILE). The focus of the session will be on: - Domain related, organisational and technical contexts in designing ITEs/ILEs - Involvement of teachers (such as instructors and domain representatives) in ITE/ILE life cycle - HCI related innovations (such as interaction methods, animations, simulations and virtual environments) in ITE/ILE Submissions Deadlines: Extended abstracts (1000 words): Nov. 30, 1998 Notification of review outcome: Jan. 30, 1999 Deadline for receipt of accepted papers: April 30, 1999 Submissions should include a statement of objectives and significance of the work to be presented, a description of the methods or technical approach used, and a discussion of results. Please send your abstract submissions to : Dr Kinshuk GMD-FIT, Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 Sankt Augustin Germany Email: kinshuk@ieee.org Tel: (49) 2241 14 2144 Fax: (49) 2241 14 2065 Email submission of abstracts are preferred. Please use one of the following file formats: Word for Windows, WordPerfect or ASCII (Do not encode or compress the text). Please include postal and e-mail addresses, phone and fax numbers with all submissions. Prospective presenters are advised to contact in advance if they are in doubt about suitability of their submissions. Up-to-date information for the special session is available at: http://zeus.gmd.de/~kinshuk/hcii99/cfp.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mike Fraser Subject: Humanities Computing Positions Available Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 14:33:43 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 336 (336) Humanities Computing Positions at Oxford Oxford University's internationally renowned Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) is currently seeking to fill a range of exciting new posts in IT support and development. Brief details of each of the five posts are given below, but also see our web site at http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/jobs.html. * Oxford Text Archive Computing Officer You will play a major role in helping the Oxford Text Archive meet its obligations as a Service Provider for the national Arts and Humanities Data Service by designing, implementing, and maintaining state of the art electronic text management and delivery systems. You should have practical experience of technologies such as: SGML/XML, Perl, web authoring and management, UNIX, Windows 95/98 and/or NT. Available for one year in the first instance. * Humanities Computing Unit Project Officer You will work in the CTI Centre for Textual Studies assisting the Centre Manager in all aspects of the Centre's work, in particular the TLTP3 ASTER Project. You should have a strong interest in applying C&IT to humanities teaching and learning, good communication skills, and some experience of web authoring or desktop publishing. Available for one year in the first instance. * English Faculty/Oxford Text Archive Project Officer In this joint post, you will combine provision of high level advice and support for academic members of the University English faculty with promotion and development of the OTA's extensive collection of digital literary and linguistic corpora. You should be enthusiastic about electronic texts and their applications in teaching and learning, able to work independently, and communicate well at all levels. Available for three years in the first instance. * Humanities Computing Unit Information Officer You will help develop the extensive web- and print-based publication programme of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies. You should have experience of managing a large web site, desktop publishing expertise, and a keen understanding of research and teaching within the humanities. Available for one year in the first instance. * CEDARS Project Officer You will work with OTA and Oxford library staff on the eLib funded CURL Exemplars of Digital ArchiveS project (see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars) in developing guidelines and best practices for the long-term preservation of digital resources. You should be aware of current metadata activities and able to work independently, with some experience of library cataloguing systems, existing and emerging standards for electronic metadata, and other relevant practical IT skills. This is a two year fixed-term post. Background information on the HCU is available from our web site at http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/. Candidates for all the above positions must have a degree in a relevant subject, and should expect to be appointed on the RS1A scale (15,462 to 23,241 pounds). The closing date for all positions is 18 September 1998, For further details and application forms, please contact Mrs Nicky Tomlin, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel: 01865 273230, fax:01865 273275, email: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk Informal enquiries about any of the above posts or the work of the HCU are also welcome: contact lou.burnard@oucs.ox.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Joseph Saponaro Subject: New Site: Humanities Computing at New York University Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:59:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 337 (337) The Humanities Computing Group at New York University, the newest subject-specific group of NYU's Academic Computing Facility, is pleased to announce that it has developed its Web site. The collection of pages is intended to be a resource for the humanities computing community; it includes information about the HCG's computing services, software resources, and staff as well as links to the online newsletter and to announcements of our popular on-campus seminars and other events. A large section of the site serves as an annotated, selective meta-list of links to other humanities computing sites, arranged by subject and cross-referenced to lists of relevant journals, mailing lists, newsgroups, conferences. http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/ Any comments or questions are welcome and should be addressed to Lorna Hughes, Assistant Director of the Humanities Computing Group (lorna.hughes@nyu.edu). From: maureen donovan Subject: new online journal: The Book and The Computer Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:27:11 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 338 (338) New online journal: Title: The Book and The Computer: The Future of the Printed Word http://www.honco.net/ **************************************************************** August 1998 Premier Issue Languages: English and Japanese ************* Contents: Editor's Note: Muro Kenji The Internet as a Vast Sheet of Paper Global Clippings: Thailand A CD-ROM Sutra Sweden Sweden's Writers Become Entrepreneurs Korea The Effects of Recession on Computer Education Japan Text Is Meaningless If You Can't Read It Articles: Kogawa Tetsuo The Global Transformation of Books and Reading Lin Hao China Takes the Plunge into the Digital Age Interview : Tsurumi Shunsuke Language that Crosses Cultural Barriers Roundtable: "What is the Future of the Book in the Digital Era?" Roger Chartier (France) Liu Zhiming (China) Howard Rheingold (USA) Ueno Chizuko (Japan) Thanes Wongyannava (Thailand) Japanese in the Age of Technology: Preview Kida Jun'ichiro Introduction Letters to the Editor Contributors Links ********************************************************* with best wishes, Maureen Donovan Ohio State University Libraries donovan.1@osu From: David Green Subject: Noesis: Philosophical Research On-Line Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:34:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 339 (339) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 3, 1998 NEW SEARCH ENGINE FOR PHILOSOPHY MATERIALS ONLINE <http://ialab.evansville.edu/ei/pi/> [deleted quotation] Cynthia Freeland Professor of Philosophy University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3784 (713) 743-2993; (713) 743-2990 (Fax) CFreeland@UH.edu; http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan =============================================================== David L. 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Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Dublin Core Element Set Achieving Recognition Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 08:33:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 340 (340) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 4, 1998 DUBLIN CORE ELEMENT SET REACHING STABILITY AS A RECOGNIZED STANDARD <ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2413.txt> [deleted quotation] From: Neil Beagrie Subject: "Creating a Viable Scholarly Data Resource" Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:50:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 341 (341) A new Information Leaflet from AHDS "Creating a Viable Scholarly Data Resource" is now available on the AHDS website at: http://ahds.ac.uk/deposit/viable.html This Information Leaflet is intended to inform humanities researchers and teachers about steps they can take to ensure that data resources they create today are accessible to them,and possibly to others in future despite numerous and unpredictable changes in computer technologies. The good practices recommended in these pages are generic and as such intended for application to digital resources of any type (text, database, image, sound, multimedia,etc.) and from any discipline (linguistics, visual arts, music, history,philosophy, archaeology). Signposting to more detailed advice from AHDS Service Providers about applications as appropriate to particular data types and subjects, and to particular computer applications, is provided in the appendix. ************************************************************************ 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 ************************************************************************ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D David L. 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The WOrking Group is keen to enlist as much participation in this survey prior to September 14. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] SURVEY ON PHYSICAL PREPARATION OF MATERIALS TO BE DIGITIZED *** All responses welcome! Please submit by 14 September *** The Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the National Preservation Office (NPO UK/Ireland) are jointly sponsoring a conference 28-30 September which has the overall theme, Guidelines for Digital Imaging. In order to gather information about the processes employed in the preparation of materials for digital imaging, the Working Group on Preparation has devised a public survey tool. This survey is web-based and is available through the conference site: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/preparation_survey.html or http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/joint/preparation_survey.html (from Europe) The following brief description is taken from the introduction to the survey: "The Working Group on Preparation is trying to assess current practice relating to preservation aspects, prior to, and during, digital image capture. It is hoped, eventually, to produce best practice guidelines which will reflect preservation needs/concerns during digital image processing." "As part of this project, we would be grateful for answers to the following survey, together with any additional information you think may be helpful in compiling these best practice guidelines. N.B. All responses/information will be treated in confidence." The Working Group would like to encourage *all those* involved with digital imaging projects to visit the Joint Conference site and complete the survey - **whether you will be able to attend the conference or not**. The more survey responses submitted, the better the chance the conference will have at identifying current practices, identifying consensus or dissension, and moving forward towards codifying best practices where possible. The Working Group on Preparation will need to have survey responses in hand by Monday, 14 September in order to process and include the information in their papers. It is estimated that the survey will take approximately 15 to 20 minutes to complete. The Joint Conference planners and speakers would like to encourage **all** people involved in digital imaging projects to visit the conference Web site and to complete the survey. We thank you in advance for your assistance. Conference Organizers and members of the Working Group on Preparation: Alison Horsburgh (Scottish Record Office), Ann Swartzell (Harvard University) and John McIntyre (National Library of Scotland). ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Background on the Joint Preservation Conference The conference has several objectives: - To provide a venue where preservation specialists and digital project managers may gain an understanding of the several US and UK efforts related to imaging for preservation, particularly those efforts that are resulting in the development of guidelines; - To create an opportunity for exchange of ideas on the content and focus of the guidelines; - To reach consensus on purpose, scope, and practical implementation implications of the guidelines and evolving best practices. The following topics will be covered: - Guidelines for the selection of collections; - Guidelines for the preparation of materials; - Guidelines for digital image capture; - Issues and approaches to preservation metadata; - Progress toward evolving best practices in digital archiving. For each of the sections addressing "guidelines," working groups have been formed by the speakers in order to gather information in regard to the current state of each topic from an international perspective. It is through this information gathering and sharing process that we may begin to identify areas in which consensus might exist as well as areas where further research and development may be needed. For more information on the conference, visit the web site at: http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/joint/index.html (from Europe) http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/index.html (from North America). p://www.sun.com/edu/solaris to place an order. From: David Green Subject: PROPOSAL DEADLINES: Museums and the Web; ICHIM '99 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:22:20 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 343 (343) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 6, 1998 CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION: MUSEUMS & THE WEB 1999: DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 30, 1998 INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATICS MEETING (ICHIM) DEADLINE NOVEMBER 30, 1998 Below are two calls for participation with upcoming deadlines. MUSEUMS & THE WEB, 1999, will be held in New Orleans, March 11-14. Proposals for papers, on-line activities, and workshops on Web-related issues for museums, archives, libraries and other cultural heritage institutions are invited by the deadline of September 30, 1998. The 1999 INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATICS MEETING (ICHIM) will be in Washington, DC, September 23-26. Proposals must address methods of access to cultural heritage information, with specific attention to the interaction between users, information resources and providers. The deadline is November 30, 1998. David Green =========== ***** Museums and the Web 1999 ***** ***** New Orleans, Louisiana, USA ***** ***** March 11-14, 1999 ***** ***** http:/www.archimuse.com/mw99 ***** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (note deadline extension) Proposals are invited for the Third Annual Museums and the Web Conference. The 1998 conference in Toronto attracted over 450 attendees to hear 100 presenters from 20 countries. (Conference papers are still online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw98/.) The deadline for proposals, papers, on-line activities, and workshops has been extended from August 31, to September 30, 1998. (Note that Proposals received earlier will be given preference.) All proposals are subject to peer review by the Museums and the Web Program Committee; papers will be selected on the basis of the quality of the abstract. Selected speakers will be notified by October 15. Full papers are required by January 15, 1999. Papers will be published. All speakers must register for the meeting, and are eligible for a 50% discount. Proposals for demonstrations (informal opportunities to show features of a site without an explicit thesis) will be accepted until December 31, 1998 and are not subject to the peer review process. Proposals must address Web-related issues for museums, archives, libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. Topics of interest include: Social * Applications of the Web by Museums * Web Publication of Museum Content * Use Of Museum Webs in Schools and Education * New Ways of Reaching Old, and New Communities * Evaluation of Web Programs Organizational * Internal Management of a Web Presence * Multi-Institutional Ventures * Sales, Advertising and Editorial Control * Contracting Development and Maintenance Technical * Database Publishing * Multi-media and webcasting * New standards, protocols and tools * Interface design and beyond Proposal Format All proposals must include the name, job title, institution, address, phone, fax and email for the presenter. In an Abstract of at least a paragraph (max. 500 words), summarize the thesis of the presentation, and cite relevant URLs. E-mail proposals to: mw99@archimuse.com Museums and the Web is organized by Archives & Museum Informatics. Conference Co-Chairs, David Bearman and Jennifer Trant. ============================= International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ICHIM) Sept. 23-26, 1999: Washington, DC <http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/> Call for Participation: DEADLINE NOVEMBER 30, 1998 Paper proposals are invited for the Fifth ICHIM Conference (formerly known as the International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums). Since its beginning in 1991 with a strict focus on interactivity, ICHIM has broadened its scope to include the full range of issues having to do with Cultural Heritage Informatics. The 1997 ICHIM conference at Le Louvre in Paris, attracted over 650 attendees from 25 countries. . Proposals will be accepted until November 30, 1998. All papers are subject to critical peer review and will be judged on the basis of the quality of the abstract. Selected speakers will be notified by December 15, 1998. Full papers are required by May 15, 1999. Papers will be published. All speakers must register for the meeting. Proposals must address methods of access to cultural heritage information, with specific attention to the interaction between users, information resources and providers. Topics of interest include: SOCIAL Impact of Information Technology on Existing Institutions Authenticity and Quality in Cultural Heritage Information Outreach and New Modes of Communication Public Policy and International Issues ORGANIZATIONAL New Institutional Models Economic and Political Issues Collaborations, Partnerships & Income Production TECHNICAL Converging Technologies Implications Methods for Promoting Interactivity Presentation and Display Standards Dissemination and Access Methods Proposals must include speaker's name, job title, institution, address, phone, fax and email, and explain the thesis of the proposed presentation in a full abstract. Email proposals to: ichim99@archimuse.com =========================================================== -------- J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Co-Chair www.archimuse.com/mw99/ Museums and the Web Archives & Museum Informatics 5501 Walnut St., Suite 203 ph. + 1-412-683-9775 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15232 fax + 1-412-683-7366 -------- =============================================================== 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: David Green Subject: CONFERENCE & EVENTS ROUND-UP Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:26:24 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 344 (344) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 6, 1998 1. American Association of Museums Seminar CURRENT ISSUES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY December 3-5, 1998; San Francisco, California <http://www.aam-us.org/profed.htm> 2. SOUTHEAST COLLEGE ART CONFERENCE 1998 VISUAL RESOURCES SESSIONS October 29-31: Miami Beach <http://www.valdosta.edu/secac/conference.html> 3. ASIS 1998 ANNUAL MEETING October 24-30: Pittsburgh <http://www.asis.org> 4. Fourth Digital Storytelling Festival September 17-20: Crested Butte, Colorado <http://www.dstory.com/> ==================================== 1. American Association of Museums Seminar CURRENT ISSUES IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY December 3-5, 1998; San Francisco, California <http://www.aam-us.org/profed.htm> As creators, owners, and users of intellectual property, museums today are grappling with an array of issues surrounding copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, and patents. This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on clarifying some of the confusion and misinformation associated with copyright and trademark law and the appropriate uses of such materials, managing intellectual property in the digital environment, illuminating the fair use debate, reviewing new copyright developments in Congress and the courts, and other intellectual property issues of interest to the museum community. Confirmed speakers: * Howard Besser, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Information and Management Systems, University of California, Berkeley * Kenneth D. Crews, Associate Professor of Law and of Library and Information Science, Director, Copyright Management Center, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis * Leslie Kurtz, Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California, Davis * Karren M. Shorofsky, Partner, Member of the Intellectual Property, Multimedia, and Litigation Groups, Steinhart & Falconer, LLP, San Francisco * Stephen E. Weil, Senior Scholar Emeritus, Center for Museum Studies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Registration fees: $300 AAM Member-early registration (received by October 26, 1998) $350 AAM Member-standard registration $425 Non-member Host hotel: Radisson Mikayo Hotel, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94115 (800) 533-4567 or (415) 922-3200 $129 per night single/double occupancy (plus applicable taxes) special negotiated rate available until November 11, 1998 TO REGISTER (or for more information on registration fees, agendas, travel discounts, etc.,) please contact Professional Education Programs, American Association of Museums, 1575 Eye St. N.W., Suite 400, Washington, DC 20005, 202/289-9114; fax 202/289-6578; or email: ==================================== 2. SOUTHEAST COLLEGE ART CONFERENCE 1998 VISUAL RESOURCES SESSIONS October 29-31: Miami Beach <http://www.valdosta.edu/secac/conference.html> [deleted quotation]******************************************* Thursday, October 29: VRC Lunch/Business meeting at a local restaurant (TBA). P.M. session: VRC Tour of the Wolfsonian Institution-FIU on Miami Beach, housing diverse collections of decorative and propaganda art. Friday, October 30: A.M. SESSION: (2 hours) *VRC PAPERS: "Into Hot Water? The Digital Dilemma: Issues and Answers" Chair: Christina B. Updike, James Madison University Speakers: [deleted quotation] NOON SESSION: VRC networking meeting for members of the Associated Colleges of the South Organizer: Robert Craddick, Rollins College P.M. SESSION: (2 hours) VRC ROUNDTABLE: "VISION, REACH, and the Core: Implementing a National Cultural Heritage Database." Discussion Leader: Linda McRae, University of South Florida A description of the VRA Core Categories Version 2.0 will be followed by a discussion of the joint Research Libraries Group (RLG)/Visual Resources Association VISION project. Speaker: "The South Carolina Botanical Garden Site-Specific, Nature-Based Sculpture and a Critique of the MARC Mapping of the VRA Core Categories," Phyllis Pivorun, Media Resources Specialist II, Clemson University [deleted quotation] ==================================== 3. ASIS 1998 ANNUAL MEETING October 24-30: Pittsburgh <http://www.asis.org> [deleted quotation] ASIS 1998 Annual Meeting October 24-30, 1998 Pittsburgh Hilton, Pittsburgh, PA For complete conference description, schedule and registration information, see <http://www.asis.org>, email meetings@asis.org, call (301) 495-0900, or write to the address below. Information and knowledge are rapidly becoming available to anyone, located anywhere, at any time. Information science has provided many of the key elements in making global information accessible to those who need it. The ASIS 1998 Annual meeting will examine information access and what it means in a global information economy. * Featured Sessions * HERBERT A. SIMON. Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the National Medal of Science; the A.M. Turing Award of the Association for Computing Machinery (with Allen Newell)... recognized as part-founder of Artificial Intelligence, of *cognitive science and of computer science. HAL R. VARIAN, Dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley; also Professor in the Haas School of Business & the Department of Economics. PERSPECTIVES ON UNIVERSAL SERVICE: MYTHS, REALTIES, AND MADNESS. Charles McClure, John Carlo Bertot, Jean-Claude Burgelman (invited), Andrew Magpantay, Milton Mueller and others. SAMPLE TOPICS: * New Interfaces for Information Visualization * UNICODE: Standards, Implementation Issues, & Future Directions * Using the Web for Global Business Intelligence * Designing Discipline-Oriented Information Systems * Classificatory Structures: Applications & Integration * Intellectual Property * Digital Libraries in the K-12 Environment * Retrieval of non-Textual Documents * The Ethics of Access: Global Perspectives * Knowledge Discovery in Databases -- Tools & Techniques for Collaboration * User Modeling Research & IR Systems Design * Information Retrieval Technology * Organizing Images/Visuo-Spatial Data for Retrieval: From Indexing to Metadata * Web Effects on Global Economies * Electronic Scholarship * International Classification and Subject Analysis Research * Web Searching * Economics of Web Link Collections * Cross Language Applications & Large Scale Vocabularies * Evaluating Services * Accessing Full-text: Integrating Electronic Resources * Social and Organizational Informatics Pre Conference Seminars (All courses 9-5 unless specified. Separate registration required.) Saturday, October 24 * Finding the Right Stuff: Using and Evaluating Internet Search Engines (Half Day, 9:00am - 1:00pm) * Vocabulary Management and Thesaurus Development Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML)Part 1: JavaScript (Presented in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh.) Sunday, October 25 * Introduction to Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Part 2: Cascading Style Sheets (Presented in cooperation with the University of Pittsburgh.) * Delivering Databases via the World Wide Web * Introduction to Image Databases * Digital Libraries: Computer Concepts & Technologies for Managing Library Collections * Building the Virtual "Intranet" Knowledge Center * The Role of Information Management In Knowledge Management - Stimulating Creativity and Innovation Through Information. * Statistics for Practitioners and Readers of Research: A Practical Update (Half day, 9:00am - Noon) * 9th Classification Research Workshop ( 8:30 am - 5:00 pm) Richard Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501 Silver Spring, MD 20910 http://www.asis.org rhill@asis.org ==================================== 4. Fourth Digital Storytelling Festival September 17-20: Crested Butte, Colorado <http://www.dstory.com/> Hosted by the Center for Digital Storytelling, the FOURTH DIGITAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL celebrates current and the future digital storytelling -- with Joe Lambert & Nina Mullen: "Stories from the Digital Boot Camp"; "Interactive Campfire Stories" by Dana Atchley; Magdalena Donea: "COLORS: bedtime stories for big kids"; a Digital Story Bee and scheduled presentations from Mark Bernstein, EastGate Systems; Brenda Laurel, Purple Moon; Abbe Don, Abbe Don Interactive; Nathan Shedroff, Vivid Studios and many others. For more information, visit http://www.dstory.com/ From: David Green Subject: Calls for Papers: "The Culture of the Copy;" "New Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:50:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 345 (345) Paradigms in Information Visualization." NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 8 CALL FOR PAPERS: VISUAL RESOURCES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION "The Culture of the Copy" <http://www.gbhap.com/Visual_Resources/> WORKSHOP ON NEW PARADIGMS IN INFORMATION VISUALIZATION AND MANIPULTATION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 15 <http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/1998> [deleted quotation]------------------------ VISUAL RESOURCES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION is seeking article-length manuscripts on "The Culture of the Copy." Subjects might include various uses of reproductions, the relationships of copy to original, issues of authenticity, or the identification of "the real thing." VISUAL RESOURCES is a quarterly, edited by Helene E. Roberts and Christine L. Sundt, devoted to the history of visual documentation and the dissemination of images. Inquiries and manuscripts can be sent to Helene E. Roberts, Art History Department, 6033 Carpenter Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755. Phone: 603-643-8461; FAX: 603-643-3428; EMail: helene.roberts@dartmouth.edu. See our Web Page: http://www.gbhap.com/Visual_Resources/. Christine L. Sundt Visual Resources Curator Architecture & Allied Arts Library University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 - USA 541-346-2209 / FAX: 541-346-2205 http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/index.htm ========================================== [deleted quotation] Call for Papers Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation November 5-6, 1998 Bethesda, Maryland In Conjunction with the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM'98) The CIKM'98 Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation will be a forum for presentation and discussion of new ideas and techniques for accessing, visualizing and manipulating information. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: * applications of virtual reality, including VRML * shared virtual environments and simulations * dynamic data visualization * visualization of multidimensional information spaces * visualization of large, dynamic information collections * applications of Internet tools such as MUDs, MOOs, and IRCs * document and corpus metrics; * multi-modal information displays * visual data mining and knowledge discovery * Web or network-based visualization * applications in document analysis * software and hardware architectures to support information visualization * social interaction in multi-user information visualization systems. We are particularly interested in reports of work in progress, implementation techniques, and practical experience with visualization of information collections of all sizes. A significant portion of the workshop agenda will be devoted to discussion of pending research questions, and directions for future work in this area. Prospective participants are invited (but not required) to submit position papers. The suggested maximum length is four pages. The position papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee, and accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Some of the accepted papers will be selected for informal presentation at the workshop. Accepted papers that were submitted electronically will be available via WWW by early November. Final Proceedings will be published by ACM Press after the workshop. Mail papers in either ASCII or HTML to ebert@cs.umbc.edu by September 15, 1998. We prefer e-mail submissions, but authors who lack e-mail access may send papers to Dr. David Ebert, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA. Submissions should include the title, author(s), author's affiliation, e-mail address, fax number and postal address. In case of multiple authors, please indicate which author is responsible for correspondence. For more information on the NPIV'98 conference, please see the NPIV'98 Web page http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/npiv For more information on the CIKM'98 conference, please see the CIKM'98 Web page: http://www.cs.umbc.edu/cikm/1998 IMPORTANT DATES: Position paper submission deadline September 15, 1998 Notification of acceptance October 10, 1998 Workshop date November 5-6, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Summary of Responses to "UNIQUE NLP" (and CONCLUSION) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:34:58 -1000 (HST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 346 (346) SUMMARY About two weeks ago I requested information concerning NLP software that offered the ability to do a q&a exchange between animations and a user similar to the "ChatterBox" software (free) we have at http://www.haptek.com. Here is a summary of the responses I got and a short commentary on each. In addition, I have added a few that I have found via Microsoft concerning a parrot named "Perdy" and similar characters. Take a look for yourself and you can see the degree to which these different companies and research institutions are making it possible to chat with computers and animations for fun, internet searches, and information exchange. 1. You should have a look at the work by Boris Katz at the MIT AI lab. He's been working on a system called START for some time that does such things and more. See the web page at http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/ for more info. 2. The Information Science Institute at USC (www.isi.edu) did a lot of work in that area about 10 years ago, using, I believe, their PENMAN syntax analyzer. I think the project was lead by Ed Hovy, who was still a director there last year but seems to have left since. There was also a Dr. Christiensen (spelling?) but he has returned to Australia, probably at McQuarrie University with MAK Halliday. Not much help, but you can try emailing ISI staff: some may remember. 3. Kevin Lenzo has a bot named url which stores information and answers questions online, from multiple users, phrased similarly. url hangs out in MUSHes, but I don't remember which ones. It seems that you developed a kind of chatterbot or digital secretary. There are many chatterbots developed. You can see the other chatterbots 'http://www.toptown.com/hp/sjlaven/' 4. The Microsoft and several other industry sites for this research are at: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/ui/persona/home.htm http://www-csli.stanford.edu/csli/projects/interface9495-srct.html http://merl.co.jp http://www.csl.sony.co.jp http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/cmu.edu/misc/mosaic/common/omega/web/frontdoor. html http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gva/gvatop.html http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/projects/cait/index.html CONCLUSION While all these sites have interesting applications for speech and animations they do not have the ability to put in factual information and then query for that information. Usually they have a key word search ability which allows them to return particular paragraphs from a body of data based on the key words of a query. However, to ask and answer questions like the following only seems to be possible with ChatterBox at http://www.haptek.com. There were no announcements of the development of such technology at these other companies. Who was the first president of the United States? Who invented the telescope? When did Columbus come to America? Hey Mickey, Where did you find that treasure map? What is your email address? What is your fax number? and so on. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Thomas Donnebrink Subject: Re: 12.0182 visualisation? software agents? Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 19:55:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 347 (347) CALL FOR HELP; ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION CONCERNING THE VISUALIZATION OF LEXICAL ENTRIES Dear members of the list I have subscribed to your active list about three months ago. My name is Thomas Donnebrink and I am a student at the university of Munster to the north - west of Germany. I am working on a paper for my final exam about the "strategies and limitations of visualization of lexical entries looking at the Picture Duden and modern monolingual english dictionaries" In some dictionaries, drawing, photos and other types of visualization are used to 'illustrate' the meaning of a certain lexical entry, but it seems, that the way certain 'types' of visualization are used and certain lexical entries are chosen for visualization is far away from being systematically and uniform. The practice rather seems to be intuitive and arbitrary. The scope is quite limited and the parts of the lexicon illustrated include barely other words than non-abstract nouns. I would like to look into the possibility of outlining a language which is based on visual signs (avoiding the phonological principle) and in this way hoping to bypass the arbitrarity of the linguistic sign (Arbitraritat des sprachlichen Zeichens). The aim would be to create (to outline) a system of visual signs that could be understood by everybody regardless of the speech community they belong to; and therefore serve as an auxiliary language in "written" communication. This visual sign language should meet the following criteria: - A high percentage of the visual signs should be self-explanatory. - The inventory of the visual signs that are not self-explanatory should be as limited as possible, logical and serve as compound words to build other expressions (but not too complex), so that not much learning would be required. - Due to the morpho-syntacticle differences in many languages the visual sign language would have - among other things - to break with the linear arrangement of the sentence parts (using a circular arrangement so somethink like that). But this does not interest me at this point. I am searching desperately for some information concerning this topic for more than two months now, but I cannot find very much information which really deals specifically about the visualization of language in general and of lexical entries in particular. I have searched the OPACs, libraries and travelled the cyberspace, but it seems that there is nothing out there. So far I just found one book (Hupka 1989) and a couple of short articles dealing with this subject. So I was hoping that maybe someone of you is interested in the same or a similar topic or that one of you knows somebody who might be. If you have a tip, a hint, a link, a source, an idea, a title, an E-Mail address or something alike that could help,I would reeeaaally appreciate it, if you could mail it to me. Thanks a thousand times !! I would also like to post a short questionnaire concerning this topic on this list in a few weeks, provided that nobody objects. sincerely Thomas Donnebrink Munster, Germany donnebr@uni-muenster.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Joseph Saponaro Subject: New Site: Humanities Computing at New York University Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 13:59:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 348 (348) The Humanities Computing Group at New York University, the newest subject-specific group of NYU's Academic Computing Facility, is pleased to announce that it has developed its Web site. The collection of pages is intended to be a resource for the humanities computing community; it includes information about the HCG's computing services, software resources, and staff as well as links to the online newsletter and to announcements of our popular on-campus seminars and other events. A large section of the site serves as an annotated, selective meta-list of links to other humanities computing sites, arranged by subject and cross-referenced to lists of relevant journals, mailing lists, newsgroups, conferences. http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/ Any comments or questions are welcome and should be addressed to Lorna Hughes, Assistant Director of the Humanities Computing Group (lorna.hughes@nyu.edu). ************************************************************************** 4. UK's MUSEUM DOCUMENTATION ASSOCIATION RELAUNCHED <http://www.mda.org.uk/> [deleted quotation] Relaunched mda Web Pages The mda's Web Pages have just been redesigned and updated. Please note that the URL for the Home page has changed to: http://www.mda.org.uk/ New features are: 1. mda Relaunch - A discussion of the new remit for mda; 2. What's in a Name? - How we came to choose our new look; 3. How big is mda - We're bigger than you thought!; 4. National Grid for Learning - News on how this important Government initiative affects the sector; 5. European Museums Information Institute? - A proposal to set up a European focus for cultural information management; 6. Carnegie UK Trust Grants for IT Innovation - Information on this scheme for independent museums; Also update pages: 1. About mda; 2. Advice Point; 3. SPECTRUM Adviser Network; 4. The Cultural Grid: Content & Connections (mda Conference); 5. UK Museum E-mail Directory; 6. Term-IT Web site 7. UK Virtual Library Museum Page [please check that you are on] ************************************************************************** 5. CHADWYCK-HEALEY EXPANDS ArchivesUSA DIRECTORY http://update.chadwyck.com/update/email.htm. [deleted quotation] Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. [www.chadwyck.com] is continuing to expand its online database, ArchivesUSA, which is a directory of more than 4800 repositories and over 105,000 collections throughout the United States. We now offer the ability to submit your collection information via email. For instructions, please visit our website at http://update.chadwyck.com/update/email.htm. This service is at no cost to your institution. As always, we continue to accept updated and new collection or repository information through our submission form at http://update.chadwyck.com/update/subform.htm. Feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. Sincerely, Paul Wcisel Project Coordinator (703)-683-4890 paulw@chadwyck.com ************************************************************************** 6. ART & SCIENCE UPDATES [deleted quotation] ORGANIZATION: - EYEBEAM ATELIER (http://www.eyebeam.org) is a not-for-profit cultural and educational organization dedicated to the digital arts. Founded in 1996 by filmmaker John S. Johnson, Eyebeam promotes artistic exploration, education, and critical discussion of emerging technologies. The work produced by Eyebeam is disseminated via gallery and online exhibitions, education programs, lectures, and workshops. CONFERENCES: - The IEEE Visualization Conference: "Vis98" will focus on Interdisciplinary methods across all of science, engineering, medicine, and commerce. October 18 for entire week. For info contact: Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Lockheed Martin, U.S. EPA Scientific Visualization Center http://www.erc.msstate.edu.vis98 - THE SEVENTH BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY "Minds and Machines and Electronic Culture"; March 4-7, 1999 presented by The Connecticut College Center for Arts and Technology. The symposium will consist of paper sessions, panel discussions, art exhibitions, music concerts, animations, mixed media works, video, dance, experimental theater and scientific visualizations. Selected papers and presentations will be published by the Center and abstracts will be available on line. For full details: cat@conncoll.edu EXHIBITION: - Leonardo Electronic Almanac Launches New Work by Tina LaPorta..... "Translate { } Expression, 1994," uses the technology of 3-dimensional rendering in conjunction with sound and interaction to engage us in an investigation of the complex interplay between technology, the body, and female subjectivity. <http://mitpress.mit.edu/LEA/>. WEBSITES: - Useum - is a new Australian pilot website exploring ways to interact with arts and culture online, funded by the Australian government, and maintained by EMERGE Cooperative Multimedia Centre. http://www.useum.org.au - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem launches.....Revolutionary New 3D Virtual Museum Tour now on-line. A photo-realistic 3D gallery tour, streamed at 15 frames per second over standard dial-up modems. Embedded 3D-hyper links enabling viewers to interact with the movie, ideal for navigating in virtual environments. Plug-in for pc downloads and installs automatically. http://www.imj.org.il/vrmenorah Cynthia Pannucci Founder/Director Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) ****Celebrating its 10th Anniversary**** 718 816-9796; pannucci@asci.org PO Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301 URL: http://www.asci.org From: David Green Subject: The Scout Report: selection Aug 7-Sept 4 Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 23:23:50 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 349 (349) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT Sept 6, 1998 SCOUT REPORT AUGUST 7-SEPT 4, 1998 Below is a compendium of selected sites from the University of Wisconsin's weekly "Scout Report," from August 7 to September 4, 1998. This opens with a simple list of sites and URLs, followed by Scout Report reviews. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ CONTENTS Middle English Compendium [deleted quotation]Disc-O-Logue--French Language Popular Recording Catalog [deleted quotation]A Collector's Vision of Puerto Rico--SI [deleted quotation]Corbis Picture Experience [deleted quotation]The FPLC Intellectual Property Mall http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature http://www.uib.no/neolatin/ Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/ _Choice_ Web Reviews URLs http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.html _Choice_ Special Issue Purchasing Information http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/98sup.html The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library [IPIX] http://www.frick.org/ Council of European Social Science Data Archives http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/index.html Three New Titles--JSTOR _The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs_ (continued by _China Journal_) http://www.jstor.org/journals/01567365.html _The Philosophical Review_ http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318108.html _Population Studies_ http://www.jstor.org/journals/00324728.html Participating JSTOR Sites http://www.jstor.org/about/charter.html Medieval Feminist Index http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html Logic Resources at Texas A&M University Logic Primer http://logic.tamu.edu/Primer/ [frames] The Logic Daemon Proof Checker http://logic.tamu.edu/daemon.html [frames] http://logic.tamu.edu/checker.html [no frames] The Logic QuizMaster http://logic.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/quizmaster Semiotics for Beginners http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/semiotic.html The Heuneburg Museum: Early Celts on the Upper Danube [frames] http://www.dhm.de/museen/heuneburg/indexe.html National Museum of the American Indian Conexus [QuickTime] http://www.conexus.si.edu/ Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html The Nordic Metadata Project: Final Report http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm Second Release of George Washington Papers--LOC http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html NASA's Fortieth Anniversary: Pioneering The Future http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/40thann/40home.htm Two From American Memory--LOC The Leonard Bernstein Collection (Preview) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html Mark Rothko Web Feature http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html The Household Cyclopedia of General Information http://members.xoom.com/mspong/ Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts [.pdf] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/ ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art http://www.artlex.com/ Scholarly Articles Research Alerting (SARA) http://www.carfax.co.uk/SARA.htm MoMA Online Projects [RealAudio, RealVideo] http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/index.html SELECTED REVIEWS [deleted quotation] August 14, 1998 ==== 4. The FPLC Intellectual Property Mall http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu Law Librarian and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Jon R. Cavicchi created and manages the Intellectual Property Mall at the Franklin Pierce Law Center (FPLC), a law school in New Hampshire renowned for its focus on intellectual property law, issues, and policies. The IP Mall serves as a centralized resource for information about patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets. The site provides tools and strategies for IP research, a listing of IP holdings at the FPLC library, and online copies of previous United States Patent & Trademark Office patent exams. The site's newest feature is the IP Mall Pointer Box, a comprehensive index of IP resources available on the Internet. The Pointer Box is divided conveniently into ten subject categories to help attorneys, academics, and entrepreneurs quickly locate relevant IP resources. The index includes resources related to publishing and electronic commerce as well as global directories for patent and trademark offices, IP agencies, and non-governmental organizations. [AO] 5. Database of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature http://www.uib.no/neolatin/ Originating from a research project that involved latinists from all five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden), this database is currently maintained and edited by professors Lars Boje Mortensen and Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Department of Greek and Latin, University of Bergen, Norway, and Peter Zeeberg, Institut for Graesk og Latin, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. It lists selected Latin texts, written between the reformation (c. 1530) and 1800, that pertain to Nordic people or locations. Scholars can search the database by keyword or by author, place of publication, language, and dedicatee. Visitors can also browse a list of current Neo-Latin scholars, consult a bibliography, view an historical map of Scandanavia, and read a brief note on the historical background of the region. [JR] 10. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/ Dr. James Fieser (general editor) of the University of Tennessee at Martin, together with Dr. Bradley Dowden (philosophy of science and logic editor), has put together this online compendium of information about philosophy. The encyclopedia can be searched or browsed by keywords or browsed via a timeline of philosophical movements and thinkers. In addition, the site features a selection of texts, from Lao Tzu to Locke, which can be read online or downloaded. Currently, the articles are either adapted from public domain sources or from Feiser's course material or they are contributed by professional philosophers. In the future, the editors hope to replace all of the adapted articles with original contributions. [TK] ========= ======== The Scout Report == ======== August 21, 1998 ==== 3. _Choice_ Web Reviews URLs http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/supurl1.html _Choice_ Special Issue Purchasing Information http://www.ala.org/acrl/choice/98sup.html The second annual edition of _Choice_ magazine's Web supplement is available, and this site contains links to 482 reviewed sites. Of these, 390 are compiled from reviews in the magazine dating back to the August 1997 Web supplement, and 93 are newly reviewed. Twenty-five major topics are covered in the areas of Reference, Humanities, Science & Technology, and Social & Behavioral Sciences. "Teaching faculty and librarians at academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada" choose and review sites relevant to undergraduate academic libraries. _Choice_ is a product of the Association of College & Research Libraries, part of the American Library Association. Note that this site contains URLs only. For the reviews, three special articles, and a listing of forthcoming Internet related books, magazine purchasing information is provided. [JS] 4. The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library [IPIX] http://www.frick.org/ IPIX Navigation Instructions http://www.ipix.com/support/fmnavsupport.html FRESCO Online Catalog telnet://fresco.frick.org Telnet to: fresco.frick.org One of the great steel and railroad barons of the last century, Henry Clay Frick used some of his wealth to amass an awesome collection of art, which he bequeathed to the public upon his death in 1919. Visitors to the Frick site can browse through over 120 of the 1,100 artworks in the collection, including paintings (an eclectic selection of works by Bellini, Constable, Gainsborough, El Greco, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, among others), sculpture, and decorative arts. This can be most easily accessed through the Collection link (select The Frick Collection from the homepage). Each image is accompanied by an annotation and bibliographic information. Those with higher bandwidth connections can take the Virtual Tour and browse the collection via the IPIX Virtual Reality plug-in. Links from the art to the annotations are available. The site also features a link to the Frick Collection's Art Library (select Art Library from the homepage), which is highlighted by the availability of FRESCO (Frick Research Catalog Online), a telnet resource with bibliographic information about more than 40,000 books, periodicals, and exhibition catalogs in the library. [JS] ====================== ======== The Scout Report for Social Sciences == ======== August 25, 1998 ==== 1. Council of European Social Science Data Archives http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/index.html Integrated Data Catalogue UK Mirror: http://dasun3.essex.ac.uk/Cessda/IDC/ Integrated Data Catalogue Australian Mirror: http://ssda.anu.edu.au/Cessda/IDC/ The Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) facilitates the distribution of electronic data for social science education and research in Europe. CESSDA promotes data sharing by providing the Integrated Data Catalogue (IDC) at its Website. The multilingual IDC allows users to conduct a broadcast search of up to eleven social science data catalogs located all over the world, including catalogs in Israel, Australia, the US, and Europe. The IDC's simple catalog design--based on a Z39.50-WAIS protocol--and interface make it easy to use. The clearly displayed search results are ordered in accordance to the amount of hits per record in proportion to the total size of the record. Mirrors for the IDC are available in both the UK and Australia to foster quicker searching around the globe. In addition to the IDC, the CESSDA site supplies three clickable international maps that link users to the sites of 32 other data archives. [AO] 3. Three New Titles--JSTOR _The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs_ (continued by _China Journal_) http://www.jstor.org/journals/01567365.html _The Philosophical Review_ http://www.jstor.org/journals/00318108.html _Population Studies_ http://www.jstor.org/journals/00324728.html Participating JSTOR Sites http://www.jstor.org/about/charter.html JSTOR has recently added three titles to its collection of full-text online journals: _The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs_ (continued by _China Journal_) issues 1-33, covering 1979 to 1992; _The Philosophical Review_ volumes 1-103, covering 1892 to 1994; and _Population Studies_ volumes 1-48, covering 1947 to 1994. Note: access to JSTOR contents is currently available only on a site license basis to academic institutions. A list of institutions with site licenses is available. [AO] 5. Medieval Feminist Index http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html The librarians and scholars who maintain the Medieval Feminist Index (MFI) compile citations for journal articles, book reviews, and essays relating to women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 CE to 1500 CE). Currently, MFI contains over 2500 citations from over 350 journals and essay collections, covering publications in English, French, German, and Spanish from 1994 through 1997. The entire MFI is searchable by title, author, subject, source, and date. In addition to these standard search fields, the descriptive indexing provides searchable fields for geographic region, century, and article type to facilitate detailed cross-field searches. Searching the MFI is quite simple, but users should note the following peculiarities: vague or allusive titles are appended with a summary sentence to enhance description; subject headings are controlled by a customized thesaurus, which can be viewed but not browsed; and some full citation records supply abstracts, but abstracts are not searchable by keyword. [AO] 7. Logic Resources at Texas A&M University Logic Primer http://logic.tamu.edu/Primer/ [frames] The Logic Daemon Proof Checker http://logic.tamu.edu/daemon.html [frames] http://logic.tamu.edu/checker.html [no frames] The Logic QuizMaster http://logic.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/quizmaster Associate Professor Colin Allen and Professor Michael Hand, both of Texas A&M University, have created an online version of their introductory logic textbook, _Logic Primer_ (The MIT Press), to supplement the instruction of formal logic at the university level. The online text consists of four chapters that provide students with definitions, comments, examples, and exercises about natural deduction systems, truth tables, and the basic ideas of model theory. To accompany their text, Allen developed The Logic Daemon, an automatic proof checker. Students can enter logical proofs into the form fill-in interface of The Logic Daemon to test the validity of their arguments. This is an excellent method for immediate feedback on course assignments. In addition to the primer and the proof checker, the philosophy department at Texas A&M University offers The Logic QuizMaster, an interactive question generator produced by Associate Professors Christopher Menzel and Colin Allen. Students wishing to test their knowledge of logic can select among several quiz topics, and QuizMaster will offer help to students who need it. Both instructors and students of logic will benefit from this integrated learning experience. [AO] 8. Semiotics for Beginners http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/semiotic.html US Mirror Site: http://www.argyroneta.com/s4b/semiotic.html Daniel Chandler, lecturer in Media Theory at the Department of Education in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and developer of the Media and Communications Studies (MCS) Site (discussed in the June 28, 1996 issue of the Scout Report), has written and updated an online introductory textbook for the study of Semiotics. This very accessible hypertext consists of fifteen chapters covering the basics of sign creation, sign analysis, and sign-using behavior, including chapters entitled Modality, Paradigms and Syntagms, Metaphor and Metonymy, Codes, and Intertextuality. The text also has a comprehensive linked index, a list of references and suggested readings, and a list of relevant Websites for further study of Semiotics. [AO] 9. The Heuneburg Museum: Early Celts on the Upper Danube [frames] http://www.dhm.de/museen/heuneburg/indexe.html The Heuneburg on the upper Danube near the town of Hundersingen provides an on-site archaeological museum that exhibits the history and culture of the early Celts who were settled in the region from the eighth to fifth centuries BC. The museum also documents the region's 120 year archaeological history. This well designed Website demonstrates the potential for online education and documentation. The online Heuneburg Museum provides expository information about the early Celts, a chronology of the Heuneburg region, information about the latest research conducted on or about the archaeological site, and a virtual Hiking Trail, which allows visitors to take a detailed tour of the burial mounds and settlements along the upper Danube. [AO] 10. NMAI Conexus [QuickTime] http://www.conexus.si.edu/ NMAI Conexus, the online component of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), shares the collection of the NMAI "beyond the Museum's walls" to preserve and exhibit the life, art, history, and literature of Native Americans. The exhibits currently featured at the site are "Indian Humor," "Memory & Imagination: The Legacy of Maidu Indian Artist Frank Day," and "To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions." The work of visiting artists Mario Martinez, a Yaqui painter, and Susie Silook, a Southern Yup'ik and Inupiaq sculptor, are also highlighted in the Artist-in-Residence Program. Most of the exhibits at NMAI Conexus consist of a series of photographic slides accompanied by a brief explanatory narrative, although one exhibit requires QuickTime. For teachers of all levels, a free curriculum comprised of four lesson plans to support the Native Quilts exhibit is available by request. [AO] 11. Victorian Women Writers Project http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/index.html The objective of the Victorian Women Writers Project (VWWP), an initiative affiliated with Indiana University's Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS), is to transcribe the written work of nineteenth-century British women authors using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) according to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. The Victorian texts in the collection are selected by an intercollegiate advisory board of experts. The scope of the project encompasses novels, poetry, verse drama, political pamphlets, religious tracts, and children's books. The VWWP collection currently contains over 100 complete works by over 30 different writers. More texts are being processed, and the site maintains a list of proposed transcriptions. Users can access and view the collection in both HTML and SGML. [AO] 15. The Nordic Metadata Project: Final Report http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.htm Word 97 version: http://linnea.helsinki.fi/meta/nmfinal.doc The final report of the Nordic Metadata Project is now available in two formats. The collaborative Nordic Metadata Project created an indexing and retrieval system based on the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set. The report evaluates the existing uses of metadata, recommends enhancements to the Dublin Core, and discusses three of the project's initiatives: the creation of Dublin Core to MARC converter, the development of a metadata template for end-users, and the construction of a metadata-compliant search engine. [AO] ============== ======== The Scout Report == ======== August 28, 1998 ==== 2. Second Release of George Washington Papers--LOC http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html The Library of Congress (LOC) National Digital Library has recently made the second Web release of the George Washington Papers. The first release (discussed in the Scout Report for February 20, 1998--http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/archive/scout-980220.html#1) featured Series 2, a collection of 41 letterbooks dating from 1774 to 1799. This second release contains Series 2 and also incorporates Series 3, 44 letterbooks from the Revolutionary War Period, and Series 5, 34 volumes of financial papers dated 1750 to 1796 (most of which have not been published previously). Together, these new additions total approximately 23,000 images offering excellent insights into both the Continental Army and Washington's private, public, and military households. All three series can be searched by keywords or phrases. Additional resources at this unparalleled online resource for studying Washington and the young American republic include a comprehensive bibliography, a timeline, and three essays on the Washington Papers. [MD] 9. NASA's Fortieth Anniversary: Pioneering The Future http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/40thann/40home.htm Since its inception on October 1, 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been a forerunner in many areas of advanced scientific research, especially in the fields of space exploration and aeronautics. NASA celebrates forty years of "Pioneering the Future" with a site that chronicles its illustrious history by providing access to numerous publications, including detailed biographies of influential people and declassified government documents. Together, the texts detail the scientific origins, objectives, and achievements of NASA. Audio and video clips of the Apollo missions and archived photographs from the dawn of the space age complement the rich textual history offered at the site. [AO] 10. Two From American Memory--LOC The Leonard Bernstein Collection (Preview) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lbhtml/lbhome.html American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/mhsdhtml/aladhome.html The US Library of Congress American Memory site has added two more features to its burgeoning digital historical collection. The first new offering is a preview of the online Leonard Bernstein collection. With over 400,000 items, the Bernstein collection is one of the largest held by the LOC Music Division. This preview offers 85 photos, a complete Finding Aid (SGML viewer required), a Chronology, and a Bibliography. The second new addition to American Memory is a collection of approximately 2800 lantern slides of American buildings and landscapes constructed between 1850 and 1920. Users can view slides of cities, specific buildings, public and private parks and gardens, as well as plans, maps, and models. Special features include a history of Boston's Park System, an exhibit on New York City Parks in Use in 1912, and a history of Lantern Slides. Users can search the photo database by keyword or browse by subject, state, or name. [MD] 12. Mark Rothko Web Feature http://www.nga.gov/feature/rothko/rothkosplash.html Not a virtual exhibition, the Mark Rothko Web Feature by the National Gallery of Art is really a reference work, providing context and background information on the artist. The Web Feature was produced in conjunction with the exhibition, Mark Rothko, at the National Gallery from May 3 through August 16, 1998, now travelling to the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 17-November 29, 1998. The resemblance to a reference book is enhanced by the design of the site, which encourages visitors to page through images of over 30 paintings in chronological order. The Gallery has divided Rothko's career into five periods, and a highlighted navigational bar shows visitors where they are in the chronology. Rothko's explanations of the philosophies behind his work and photographs of the artist help to place the work in context. The actual application of the paint on the canvas is important in Rothko's work, as in that of other abstract expressionists, and some of this nuance is not visible in the Web Feature. In fact, three paintings reproduced as flat black squares, but it is doubtful that these pictures would reproduce any better in the type of art reference book the Web Feature emulates. [DS] 14. The Household Cyclopedia of General Information http://members.xoom.com/mspong/ This 1881 reference book was designed to help nineteenth-century households stay healthy and productive. Need to know how to winter your bees? Build a barometer? Bleed a patient with leeches? Your answers are here. The site, a part-time project of freelance webmaster Matthew Spong, evokes a time when many households were largely self-sufficient, and the value of a book explaining how to amputate a limb, for example, could be immeasurable. Spong discovered Henry Hartshorne's wonderful compendium in a market in Sydney and has almost completed scanning the text and converting it to HTML. We look forward to the final chapter, Miscellaneous, containing everything from Proof-reading to Dialysis. [TK] ====================== [deleted quotation] 4. Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts [.pdf] http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/ This catalog, maintained by Eric Lease Morgan, a systems librarian at North California State University, specializes in American literature, English literature, and philosophy. Alex is particularly helpful because the search interface allows researchers to both look for documents and search the content of those documents. Users first search standard fields such as author, title, or publication date; then they can search the content of documents they select from their returns list. Though returns in content searches would be more convenient were they hyperlinked to the complete record for the text, such a search nonetheless has obvious utility for someone writing on, for example, flower imagery in Shakespearian sonnets or Emerson's vision of democracy. Another nice feature of the catalog is the ability to convert documents to .pdf files on-the-fly (with the font and spacing customizable). Alternately, users can download the whole collection of American or English literature or philosophy texts and the tools to search the texts. [TK] 6. ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art http://www.artlex.com/ Michael Delahunt, an elementary school art teacher, began ArtLex in 1996 "to contribute to the Web's enrichment with an art site both rich with meaning and dense with links." Currently, ArtLex is a browseable collection of terms and definitions, often accompanied by images, graphics and links to museum sites. For example, the definition of papyrus is accompanied by an image of a fragment of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Clicking on its caption takes you to the Michael Carlos Museum at Emory University, where you can view more ancient Egyptian art if you wish. Artists' names are not included within ArtLex's terms and definitions, but art styles and movements are, so you can find Monet and at least three example of water lilies under "Impressionism." Elementary and high school students and teachers will find ArtLex particularly helpful.[DS] 8. Scholarly Articles Research Alerting (SARA) http://www.carfax.co.uk/SARA.htm Carfax, a UK publisher specializing in academic journals, offers this free service to help academics stay current in their fields. Although the service is limited solely to journals published by Carfax, users have hundreds to choose from. Subscribers can select individual titles or subjects and receive tables of contents by email before the print version is released. Registration information is provided at the site. [MD] 13. MoMA Online Projects [RealAudio, RealVideo] http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/index.html The Museum of Modern Art presents this listing of online projects. Two featured sites are Stir-Fry and InterNyet, by Associate Curator of Film and Video, Barbara London. Like the musicologists of the 1930s, who set off to discover and record blues and folk music in the rural American south, London travelled to China in 1997 and Russia in 1998, sending back these "dispatches" on the local arts scenes. She embarked on these journeys equipped with a laptop computer, Hi-8 video camera, digital still camera, and cassette tape recorder. Stir-Fry and Internyet are online scrapbooks, chronicling her experiences via written journal entries, still photographs of artists and their work, and audio and video clips. Also included are a time capsule made for the tenth anniversary of World AIDS Day, Peter Halley's Exploding Cell, and Technology in the 1990s, an ongoing series of symposia that explore the promise and impact of new technologies on contemporary culture. [DS] From: Nbeagrie@aol.com Subject: HDS User Needs Workshop Report Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 06:31:53 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 350 (350) Apologies for cross-posting Scholarly Exploitation of Digital Resources: a Workshop for Historians Workshop Report In April 1998 the History Data Service (HDS) held a user needs workshop. The report which summarises the findings of this workshop is now available from http://hds.essex.ac.uk/reports/user_needs/final_report01.stm A draft version of this report was widely circulated for review and comment during June and July 1998. The workshop was attended by a cross-section of actual and potential end-users of digital resources, including both data creators and secondary analysts of historical data. It was also attended by two other groups of stakeholders: local and national library and computing support staff; and representatives from historical organisations and funding bodies. The participants met to explore, assess and prioritise the information, support and training needs of end-users in the historical community and to evaluate how and by whom these can be best addressed. In particular the group identified the need for: * recognition for the research and scholarship involved in the creation and use of electronic resources in research and teaching, particularly in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) and Teaching Quality Assessment (TQA) * sufficient resources and funding to provide historians with the means to successfully integrate electronic resources in their research and teaching * a programme of key dataset creation which would need to be directed and funded by one or more central authorities * agreed standards concerning project management, data design, data documentation, data management, data preservation and data analysis, plus a framework for standards development * continued development of a consistent support hierarchy from national through to local level to ensure the right support and guidance reaches the user community * appropriate and discipline-specific training aimed at historians and their problems * improved access to data, for example, online browsing, sub-setting, combining and downloading facilities ************************************************************************* =============================================================== 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: David Green Subject: AHDS WORKSHOP REPORTS Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:50:33 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 351 (351) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 4, 1998 MORE AHDS WORKSHOP FINAL REPORTS ON USER NEEDS AVAILABLE: Performing Arts, Archeology and History Data Services <http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/padsUserNeedsWorkshop1> <http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/workshop/workshop2_report.html> <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/reports/user_needs/final_report01.stm> The Final Reports of three more user needs workshops conducted by service providers of the UK's Arts & Humanities Data Service are now available. We announced the release of the draft reports earlier this year. A report on all six workshops, giving an overview and recommendations will be available later this year. David Green ************************************************************************* PERFORMING ARTS DATA SERVICE [deleted quotation] In March 1998 the Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) held a user needs workshop in which a representative group of performing arts academics, library and technical support staff met to discuss and identify user needs for the exploitation of digital resources in music, film and TV, theatre and dance. The report which summarises the findings of this workshop is available from http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/padsUserNeedsWorkshop1. The group identified the need for: * a greater number of high-quality resources * awareness, training and support activities with a performing arts subject focus * allocation of time for users to experiment with new approaches to research and teaching with digital resources * research and development of performing arts-specific guidelines on copyright and standards * practical, detailed advice and support on digitisation projects, supplied by a specialist agency. ************************************************************************* ARCHAEOLOGY DATA SERVICE Dear all, The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) invited archaeologists from all sectors of the discipline - contract units, government agencies, museums, national bodies, site and monument records offices, and university departments - to meet in York on the 27th of May 1998 to discuss user needs with respect to digital data in archaeology. The report is now available at the following URL: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/workshop/workshop2_report.html This user needs workshop was the last in a series of six workshops organised by the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the parent organisation for the ADS. The workshop series was funded by the Committee on Awareness, Liaison and Training (CALT) of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). If you have any comments or queries, please contact Frances Condron at the address below. Thank-you Dr Frances Condron Archaeology Data Service, University of York, King's Manor, YORK YO1 2EP email: fc6@york.ac.uk phone: +44 1904 433 975 ************************************************************************* HISTORY DATA SERVICE From: Pierre Godefroy Subject: ISSN Online : the ISSN Register is now available on the Web Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:49:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 352 (352) Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused by potential cross-posting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- --- The ISSN Register was already available on CD-ROM (ISSN Compact) : ISSN Online is now (as from August 1998) one of the fundamental bibliographic resources available over the Web. The ISSN Register is a comprehensive tool which can be used for several purposes : - world-wide bibliographic searches on serial publications - cataloguing (records can be downloaded and re-used for specific purposes) - constitution of controlled authority files based on ISSN (database management) The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is universally accepted as the prime means of identifying serials (journals, magazines, periodicals of any kind), a vital first step for the management of the articles or contributions they contain. Its use is essential throughout the information chain, from publisher (and from the author of every single contribution or article) to the reader, through document delivery utilities, abstracting and indexing services, subscription agents, libraries, union catalogues, newsagents...., for the efficient management of research, ordering and cataloguing. To date, some 900,000 serials published in 180 countries have been registered and have had an ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) assigned. The ISSN network, an intergovernmental organization, is based in 67 National Centres which obtain data at source in the framework of national bibliographies and legal deposit. Each year, it identifies more than 40,000 publications. The ISSN International Centre in Paris, which is responsible for the coordination of the network, registers itself titles published by international institutions (United Nations, Unesco, OECD, European Community...) and international associations (scientific unions, learned societies, etc.) i.e. currently more than 13,000 titles. The sustained growth of electronic serials is reflected in ISSN Online. More and more e-serials (whether online or on different magnetic or optical media) are being added to the ISSN Register. ISSN Online is updated frequently (at least on a monthly basis). 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Mann) <http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/forum/copyright/intro.htm> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== From: archonnet Subject: Archaeology on the Net - Site Update and Books Database Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:03:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 354 (354) Archaeology on the Net - Site Update and Books Database http://www.serve.com/archaeology Archaeology on the Net web site has been updated with the addition of an extensive books database and addition of 150 new sites to the resources index. The books database is an extensive collection of academic literature on archaeology and closely related subjects. More than 6000 books are collected in a searchable database which is divided into 72 categories including: American Archaeology - American Great Plains, American Southwest, Latin America, Mississipian Archaeology, South America Ancient History Anthropology - Anthropology, Human Origins, Gender Studies Archaeology / General: Computing, Method and Theory, Cultural Heritage Management, Ethnoarchaeology, Field Archaeology, GIS and Remote Sensing, Historical Archaeology, Industrial Archaeology, Underwater Archaeology Artifacts and Monuments - Artifacts, Ceramics, Lithics, Megalithic Monuments, Rock Art Classical Archaeology - Greek Art and Archaeology, Greek Architecture, Greek Sculpture, Greek Vase Painting, Roman Art and Archaeology, Roman Architecture, Roman Sculpture, Byzantine Archaeology. Cultures - Assyrians, Etruscans, Hittites, Inca Archaeology, Maya Archaeology, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Persians, Sumerians, Troy. Near Eastern Archaeology - Biblical Archaeology, Egyptology, Islamic Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology Prehistory - Paleolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic Regional - Aegean, Africa, Anatolia, Arctic, Asia, Australia, British Isles, Europe, India and Pakistan, Pacific Islands, Scandinavia, Turkey Related - Agriculture and Pastoralism, Archaeometry, Conservation, Dendrochronology, Faunal and Floral Studies,Linguistics, Numismatics Tools - Bibliographies, Biographies, Excavation Reports, Maps and Atlases, Museums. Located at http://www.serve.com/archaeology/books/index.html. Archaeology on the Net is an annotated index of archaeology and related resources. At present there are links to 1500+ sites categorized under the following 33 subject headings: Academic Departments, Bibliographies and Documentation, Course and Teaching Material, Discussion Groups, Field Projects and Reports, Fieldwork Opportunities, Journals, Maps and Atlases, Museums, Newsgroups, Organizations, Institutes, Other Resource Lists, Anthropology, Archaeological Computing, Conservation, Archaeometry, Cultural Heritage Protection, Dendrochronology, Ethnoarchaeology, Faunal and Floral Studies, GIS and Remote Sensing, Linguistics, Lithics, Rock Art, Underwater Archaeology, Regional: Anatolia, Africa, North and Central/South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Near East. You can add a resource to the listed categories from the main index page. The main index page is at: http://www.serve.com/archaeology Archaeology on the Net http://www.serve.com/archaeology archaeology-www@mail.serve.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: gleanings Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:18:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 355 (355) [deleted quotation]4980. (1) John Kerrigan, "The country of the mind: Exploring links between geography and the writer's imagination", rev. of 5 books on the cultural dimensions of mapping. The review, and the books it takes up, are about geography becoming the study of "situated knowledge", and its transformation to that from the post-WWII spatial science, "free from the approximations of language and the bias of subjectivity", to something more like Strabo, as Kerrigan notes. As with computing, mensuration is one thing, done with instruments; producing a representation from these measurements is quite another and involves many interpretative, selective choices. Then there's the rich area of study in which an author's geographical engagement is the subject for investigation, his or her geographical imagination. Although Kerrigan doesn't mention Milton, he provides a perfect example in his detailed use of 17th-C geographical knowledge when, for example, plotting Satan's approach to the earth. The reason I picked out this review and subject for our notice was the negotiation between mensuration and interpretation. Anyone working in that trading zone deserves our attention, no? (2) Alberto Manguel, "For the virtual reader", rev. of James J. O'Donnell, Avatars of the word: From papyrus to cyberspace. Fellow Humanist Jim O'Donnell, a classicist now serving as Vice-Provost for information technology at the University of Pennsylvania (apologies if I got that wrong), is an inspiring and eloquent lecturer on the subject, as I have had the pleasure of rediscovering several times. This book of his, what Manguel calls a "collection of random thoughts", is therefore welcome. The impression that the reviewer leaves is that these thoughts are quiet, unpretentious and well informed, though he reads in them "similar fumbling good intentions" to those of Cassiodorus (about whom O'Donnell has written "the most complete study to date"). "My own view", Manguel quotes O'Donnell here, "is that we can expect no simple change, that all changes will bring both costs and benefits, loss and gain, and that those of us fortunate enough to live in such exciting times will be put on our mettle to find ways to adapt technologies to our lives and our lives to technologies." And a brief note why "gleanings" from the Guardian Online have quietly disappeared, at least to date. There's my garden, of course, but I'd find time if I found much of interest in the Online section. Is there significance here? Does the relative decline in the number of special items on computing indicate its progressive assimilation into mainstream news? Such as the publication of the infamous U.S. Presidential affair on the Internet.... Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Re: 12.0198 visualisation Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:19:47 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 356 (356) There was a review article, "Illustrations in Dictionaries," by Gabriele Stein, in the International Journal of Lexicography, 4(2), 1991. -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-482-0237 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 9208 Gue Road Damascus, MD 20872-1025 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: BU Conference on Language Development Subject: BU Conference 1998 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 22:48:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 357 (357) 23rd ANNUAL BOSTON UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT November 6, 7 and 8, 1998 The 1998 Conference will be held at Boston University in the George Sherman Union. This announcement includes a preliminary schedule of talks and electronic registration materials. To receive electronic copies of the Conference program, general and travel information, and the registration form, send a blank message to "info@louis-xiv.bu.edu". This information is also available on our web page at: http://www.bu.edu/LINGUISTICS/APPLIED/conference.html Please feel free to contact the Conference Office at (617) 353- 3085, or e-mail at langconf@louis-xiv.bu.edu if you have any questions. Please note that hotel prices continue to rise. We have secured a few blocks of rooms at conference rates, and have found a travel agent and consolidator who can help you find the lowest prices. Their names and numbers are included at the end of this announcement. For more details, see our web page or send email to info@louis-xiv.bu.edu. If you are on our mailing list you should receive this information by surface mail sometime before September 25. [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: problems Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 06:43:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 358 (358) Dear Colleagues: In recent months, on and off, various members of Humanist seemed to have been removed from the list, apparently by the software; this may have been related to three entries that somehow acquired angle brackets where none should be. Or it may not be. Some individuals seem to have stopped receiving Humanist though they remained on the list. How the thorns crept in amidst the soft grass no one knows, but they have been removed. We're now alert for any continuing problems and would be grateful for notice of them. If anyone says to you that he or she has not been receiving postings, ask that person to write to me please. Less than daily mailings are a different, wetware problem, having to do with the devotion to other duties that beginning of term entails. Of which speaking.... Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jean G Anderson Subject: Project Manager wanted Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 14:01:35 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 359 (359) -------------------------------------- Project Manager - Courseware for History Implementation Consortium (CHIC) School of Law, Arts and Humanities University of Teesside Middlesbrough, UK Salary Pounds 23,381 As the Opportunity University, the University of Teesside is committed to enabling people from every section of the community to study and work in the University and encouraging excellence in research, teaching and consultancy. You will be responsible for co-ordinating and supporting the activities of the Consortium, helping to bring their plans to fruition. The aim is to introduce computer-aided learning modules/programmes for History and related disciplines, and you will assist in the design, implementation, evaluation and staff training for the system, delivering workshops, reports and support material as required. You will have a good Honours degree in History or a related discipline along with experience of both teaching at HE level and of computer assisted teaching in arts subjects. You will also be fully conversant with current innovations and have a genuine enthusiasm for this rapidly developing area of education. For an informal discussion please contact Mr Derek Harding, School of Law, Arts and Humanities on (01642) 384063. Job Reference: 732. Application forms and further details are available from Personnel Department, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough TS1 3BA. Tel: (01642) 342200 (24 hours). Closing date: 28 September 1998 12.00 noon. Interview date: Mid October 1998. THE OPPORTUNITY UNIVERSITY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "H-CLC (Barbara Diederichs)" Subject: Book Review: _Internet Culture_ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 07:05:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 360 (360) As announced, H-CLC finally has an editor devoted specifically to reviews, and here is a first example of his work. Thank you, David! This review is copyrighted (c) 1998 by the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs>. It may be reproduced and redistributed electronically for educational and scholarly use. (Contact: David Silver // rccs@otal.umd.edu). _________________________________________________________________ David Porter, editor, _Internet Culture_. New York: Routledge, 1996. Reviewed by David Silver. Like the contributors to _Virtual Culture_ and _Cyberspace: First Steps_, the scholars assembled for _Internet Culture_ are well aware of the breadth and diversity of their topic [1]. This awareness both shows and works: _Internet Culture_ is perhaps the most diverse anthology on cyberculture to date. Although the collection's overall cohesion suffers from such breadth, the anthology proves successful in generating a healthy plate of ideas. The anthology begins with a brief introduction by the editor, David Porter, an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan. The rest of the collection is divided into four sections: Virtual Communities; Virtual Bodies; Language, Writing, Rhetoric; and Politics and the Public Sphere. The first section, Virtual Communities, relies more on writings about cyberculture than explorations into the digital realm. For example, Shawn P. Wilbur's "An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, and Identity" is concerned primarily with wrestling with the writings of Howard Rheingold, while Derek Foster's "Community and Identity in the Electronic Village" spends more time with Toennies' (too) often invoked notion of Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft. Unfortunately, when Foster does discuss electronic villages, he selects Santa Monica's Public Electronic Network (PEN), a nearly-retired online network, instead of such vibrant community networks as the Blacksburg Electronic Village in Blacksburg, Virginia or the Boulder Community Network in Boulder, Colorado [2]. Along the same lines, Dave Healy's contribution, "Cyberspace and Place: The Internet as Middle Landscape on the Electronic Frontier," is more concerned with contextualizing cyberspace than exploring it. The result, however, is quite effective. Healy argues that the Internet embodies a version of the "middle landscape" (a space between civilization and wilderness) that allows individuals to exercise their desires for both separation and connectedness. Drawing heavily from the classics of American literature (Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman), American studies (Tocqueville, Turner), and modern sociology (Bellah et al.), Healy argues that the Internet, like the railroad before it, presents users with a conflicting set of choices: a pathway towards self-reliant alienation or a forum for interdependence and cultural coherence. Although the author relies too heavily on the works of Rheingold at the expense of "going native," he is successful in contextualizing the Internet within a set of particularly American obsessions. The scholars in the second section, Virtual Bodies, get their hands dirty. In "Flesh Made Word: Sex, Text and the Virtual Body," for example, Shannon McRae theorizes ways in which MUD users can tweak their genders and sexualities within online environment to explore how and why they do it. McRae begins with a brief overview of virtual reality, along with a short description of MUDs. Next, drawing from a number of interviews with MUDders, the author argues that within online environments "gender becomes a verb, not a noun, a position to occupy rather than a fixed role" (80). Interestingly, while the contributors of the first section refer too often to published work, McRae practically ignores key scholarship in the field of virtual identities. The work of Amy Bruckman, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, and Sherry Turkle is mysteriously missing and much needed. Complementing McRae's essay is Mizuko Ito's "Virtually Embodied: The Reality of Fantasy in a Multi-User Dungeon," an excellent blend of theory, ethnography, and online experience and expertise. While interesting, the third section, Language, Writing, Rhetoric, is concerned largely with the rhetorical and communicative practices of online culture. Jargonistic and at times overly theoretical, the section includes Charles J. Stivale's "Spam: Heteroglossia and Harassment in Cyberspace," William B. Millard's "I Flamed Freud: A Case Study in Teletextual Incendiarism," Brian A. Connery's "IMHO: Authority and Egalitarian Rhetoric in the Virtual Coffeehouse," and James A. Knapp's "Essayistic Messages: Internet Newsgroups as an Electronic Public Sphere." The anthology's final section, Politics and the Public Sphere, takes on a more critical tone. Following Mark Poster's "Cyberdemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere" -- a chapter previously published in the journal _Lusitania_ and circulating online for a few years now -- is Joseph Lockard's "Progressive Politics, Electronic Individualism and the Myth of the Virtual Community." More rant than research, this chapter's message is clear: "Because the obvious so clearly needs restatement: cyberspace is expensive space" (220). Lockard begins by critiquing the Net-as-free market-frontier rhetoric that can be heard from all sides, from Newt Gingrich to Al Gore. Next, he enumerates the costly elements needed to access cyberspace, noting that the Net not only resembles a mall, it requires one. The author continues by blasting the notion of virtual communities, noting that "cyberspace is to community as Rubber Rita is to human companionship" (225). Lockard concludes by questioning the overly-idealized concept of the global community, arguing that the Net is composed largely of white, middle to upper class Americans. Although the chapter could certainly use more research to back up its assertions, the questions put forth are both relevant and pressing. While a bit incohesive, _Internet Culture_ is an important and well-written anthology on cyberculture. With an interesting mix of graduate student and faculty contributors, the collection tackles important issues regarding online communities and identities, as well as theoretical perspectives of online virtuality. ___________ 1.Steven G. Jones, editor, _Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety_ (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997) and Michael Benedikt, editor, _Cyberspace: First Steps_ (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991). 2.It is important to note that as you read this review there is a movement to rejuvenate Santa Monica's Public Electronic Network (PEN). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dr. Ryszard Pankiewicz [mailto:ryszard@pankiewicz.bo.uunet.de] Subject: New address for Classics Site Pomoerium Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 06:29:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 361 (361) Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 10:47 AM Dear Listmembers: I have the pleasure to announce that the base address for the Pomoerium has changed and is now on the Web at URL: http://pomoerium.com. Please change your bookmarks, as the old address will expire within the next weeks. Looking forward to receiving your comments. Thank you Dr Ryszard Pankiewicz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: Call for papers: ACH-ALLC '99 Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 00:38:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 362 (362) Call for Papers: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/cfp.html Association for Computers and the Humanities Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Joint International Conference of the ACH/ALLC in 1999: Digital Libraries for Humanities Scholarship and Teaching JUNE 9-13, 1999 University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia, USA The ACH and ALLC invite submissions of 1,500 to 2,000 words on any aspect of humanities computing, defined broadly as the use of computing methodologies in humanities research, teaching, or archives. The ACH and the ALLC have held joint conferences, alternating between North America and Europe, for the last 18 years. This conference is the premier forum for presenting innovative work in the humanities that makes use of computing methodology. The conference welcomes work across the humanities disciplines, including (but not limited to) languages and literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, and art history; the creative arts, such as creative writing, art and music; cultural studies and anthropology; computational linguistics and corpus linguistics. We encourage submissions from scholars, teachers, librarians, museum professionals, editors, publishers involved in the creation, maintenance, delivery, and use of digital information. We especially encourage submissions from those new to the ACH and the ALLC. Recommended characteristics of submissions: In the interests of fostering lively debate, we invite: * sessions or papers which illuminate (or incite) debates within a field of humanities computing * papers which situate projects with respect to current debates and previous work, or explore the theoretical ramifications of new developments * sessions which dramatize methodological differences, or which explore a variety of approaches Suggested topics for submissions: * significant issues of creation, representation, discovery, delivery, teaching, management and preservation of digital resources relevant to the humanities * hypertext, markup, text corpora, statistical models, linguistic text analysis, humanities computing as a discipline * the role of humanities computing in undergraduate and graduate training, and institutional support for humanities computing * analytical discussions of software applications and implementations for teaching humanities content, and evaluations of such uses Deadlines: Submission of paper/panel: December 1, 1998 Notification: February 1, 1999 Submission of Posters/Demos: January 7, 1999 Revisions of accepted papers for the Conference Proceedings: May 1, 1999 Format of Proposals Proposals may be of four types: papers panel sessions posters software demonstrations The type of submission should be specified in the header of the proposal. Papers Proposals for papers (1,500 words) should take into consideration the recommended characteristics for submissions, above. 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 have been or might be 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, and should indicate a familiarity with previous work in the area. Paper proposals are due: December 1, 1998 Panel Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: 1. Three papers on a topic, either exploring it in depth, or presenting differing views on it. The panel organizer should make sure the session schedule leaves room for discussion. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, plus 1,000-word abstracts for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or 2. A panel of four to six speakers on a topic. The speakers should either present different facets of the topic or they should introduce a debate on it. In either case, the panel organizer should make sure that there is enough time left for discussion among the panelists and the audience. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1,500 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. Panel Session proposals are due: December 1, 1998 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. Proposals for posters and demos should be about 750 words long, and should indicate the type of hardware, if any, that would be required if the proposal were accepted. These proposals should also include an indication of the relation of this research to previous and related work. Poster and Demo proposals are due: January 7, 1999 Format of Submissions All submissions must be sent electronically, either by email to achallc@stg.brown.edu with the subject line " Submission for ALLCACH99", or through the web at http:/www.stg.brown.edu/ach99/submit Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format may well 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, panel session, poster or software demonstration. TITLE: title of paper, panel session, poster or demo AUTHOR: name of first author (used for contact purposes) AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or organizer for panel session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author PHONE NUMBER: of first author If submitting a paper, poster or demo proposal, give the additional following information: AUTHOR: name of second author AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) If submitting a panel session proposal consisting of three papers, please include, at the start of each participant's section, the title of the paper and the name, affiliation and email of each author. All panel sessions, even if consisting of three papers, will be treated as a unit. Proposals should take the form of ASCII or HTML 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. 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: (1) 804-982-2363 The cover page should reproduce the header from the electronic submission. Equipment Availability Mac or PC computers with internet connections, and LCD projectors, will be provided for each conference session, and for poster sessions, as required. If you require special software, we recommend that you bring that software on your own laptop computer, and allow time before your session or demo to test-drive the LCD projector. If you wish to bring data on standard media (floppy disk, CD, Zip or Jazz drive), but do not require special software to be installed, simply let us know what your requirements are, and we will make the necessary equipment available. If you have questions or requirements not covered above, please let us know. 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://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ A selection of papers from the conference will be published in Computers and the Humanities, a Kluwer journal. International Program Committee Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee. Members of that committee are: Elizabeth Burr, Gerhard-Mercator-Universitat GH John Dawson, University of Cambridge Julia Flanders, Brown University Elli Mylonas, Brown University (Program Chair) Mark Olsen, University of Chicago Thomas Rommel, University of Tubingen David Seaman, University of Virginia Local Organizers: The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia http://etext.lib.virginia.edu The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia http://www.iath.virginia.edu The Instructional Technology Group, University of Virginia http://www.itc.virginia.edu/itcweb/support/instruction/intech.html 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 pounds sterling 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. Full details of the bursary scheme, and an on-line application form, will be available from the conference web site. Other opportunities for the subvention of travel and registration, for students and for those from developing nations, may become available after this announcement: please check regularly at the conference web site. Location The conference will be held at the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a little over one hundred miles south of Washington D.C., in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. For more information on facilities, excursions, travel, and housing, please check the conference web site: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ Further Information Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the format or content of papers should be addressed to: iath@virginia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Otfried Lieberknecht Subject: Computer, literature and philology Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 19:37:40 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 363 (363) Forwarded on behalf of Giuseppe Gigliozzi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nei giorni tra 7 e il 9 settembre 1998, organizzato dalla School of European Languages and Cultures dell'Universita' di Edimburgo (e grazie al lavoro di Anna Middleton, Domenico Fiormonte e Jon Usher) si e' svolto un seminario internazionale dal titolo "Computer, literature and philology" [...]. L'elenco dei partecipanti e' risultato estremamente qualificato e i lavori hanno preso fin dalle prime battute un andamento di franca discussione, di confronto di idee e di posizioni. La documentazione del seminario puo' essere trovata all'indirizzo: <http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/seminar.htm> Nel corso delle tre giornate si sono alternate presentazioni di iniziative e di realizzazioni in diversi settori della letteratura e della linguistica a interventi d'impostazione maggiormente teorica. Gli argomenti affrontati hanno toccato i piu' rilevanti temi del nostro settore. Dalla linguistica computazionale si e' passati a riflessioni sul testo dal punto di vista teorico ed epistemologico, dalla proposta di punti di vista operativi (che pur non volevano perdere di vista l'aspetto scientifico della questione), si e' arrivati a tentativi di riflessione e definizione della materia dal punto di vista della ricerca e del suo insegnamento. La cosa che maggiormente ha colpito i partecipanti all'incontro e' stata la convergenza di problematiche e di proposte che studiosi con formazione diversa, con obiettivi differenti e di paesi lontani tra loro andavano via via mettendo sul terreno. Quasi che, dopo ormai non piu' pochi anni, gli operatori del settore abbiano accumulato un "sapere" che li porta a confrontarsi ovunque e comunque con le stesse problematiche. La riflessione, quindi, muoveva dalla necessita' di una definizione degli oggetti che sono al centro del nostro lavoro per arrivare al tentativo d'individuazione delle corrette vie d'intervento sia nel settore della ricerca, sia in quello della didattica. Per quello che riguarda il lavoro sul testo, tema centrale e' stato sicuramente il problema della codifica e della corretta conservazione dell'informazione nel momento della memorizzazione. Molto si e' discusso sulle potenzialita' delle norme proposte dalle TEI Guidelines e sui i problemi che si incontrano quando si cerca di applicare questo set di marcatori (che ovviamente costituiscono un linguaggio formale) a documenti la cui organizzazione strutturale e' di cosi' difficile comprensione da farli apparire "privi di struttura", se non addirittura appartenenti a piu' strutture in competizione tra loro. La certezza acquisita che l'operazione di codifica costituisce il nodo centrale del lavoro sul testo s'affianca alla constatazione delle difficolta' attuali e alla necessita' di individuare strade per il futuro. Parallelamente la consapevolezza che la realizzazione di testi elettronici pone in grande evidenza la questione della validita' scientifica del testo, della sua molteplicita' e - in una certa misura - della sua stessa realta' e' servita a introdurre la questione del rispetto dell'originale, accompagnata dalla richiesta d'una sorta di "deontologia", di "codice etico" dello studioso in era multimediale. Per quello che riguarda l'insegnamento (sia delle materie tradizionali con l'ausilio del computer, sia dell'informatica umanistica) tutti gli interventi hanno insistito sull'esigenza che, a fianco alla necessita' di offrire agli studenti - studenti d'area umanistica oltretutto - le necessarie competenze pratiche per utilizzare nuove tecnologie, deve rimanere viva l'attenzione all'aspetto teorico-metodologico per garantire una corretta interpretazione del fenomeno. Questa consapevolezza pone in grande risalto la necessita' d'intreccio tra didattica e ricerca e, quindi, l'importanza d'utilizzare anche per la didattica prodotti standard che garantiscano agli studenti la corretta comprensione dell'operazione che si sta compiendo. Piu' volte si e' affacciata l'ipotesi di un'indissolubile legame del futuro delle discipline umanistiche con quello dell'informatica umanistica, affiancata alla richiesta di accendere, nelle varie Universita' e situazioni, insegnamenti che consentano una maturazione e una completa definizione della disciplina e del suo insegnamento. Altro tema interessante ha riguardato la difficolta' di rendere disponibili e valutare allo stesso modo lavori, prodotti e riflessioni nati in aree linguistiche diverse da quella inglese. Ovviamente non c'e' stato nessun arroccamento preconcetto, ma la presa d'atto d'una difficolta' oggettiva e l'impegno di cercare soluzioni. Nelle giornate edimburghesi si e' anche progettato di dare stabilita' e periodicit=D3 a questi incontri, mantenendoli interdisciplinari, ma focalizzati, per quanto riguarda le applicazioni, sugli Italian Studies. Roma e Madrid sono due delle possibili future sedi. Giuseppe Gigliozzi ------------------ Giuseppe Gigliozzi Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Andrea Cesalpino, 12 - 14 - 00185 Roma Italia Piazza Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma Italia Tel. ++.6.44239405 - ++.6.44243482 - ++.6.4991.3183 Fax. ++.6.44240331 - ++.6.4991.3575 e-mail GIGLIOZZI@AXRMA.UNIROMA1.IT - gigliozz@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 21, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:40:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 364 (364) Version 21 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 800 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf> Word: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc> The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 170 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History* 2.2 General Works* 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm> http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Fwd: Web broadcast of Clinton Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 12:49:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 365 (365) This is the "other" Clinton Webcast taking place today.... [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 http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL-99 Call for Theme Proposals Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:28:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 366 (366) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR THEME PROPOSALS ACL-99 Conference: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Maryland June 22--27 1999 The Association for Computational Linguistics would like to encourage the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. A particular aim for the 1999 conference is a broadening of both the thematic coverage and geographical origin of submissions; to this end, we are experimenting with a new format. Some proportion of the conference will be given over to special sessions, somewhat like a special issue of a journal, organised around themes proposed by members of the NLP community. Our aim is to incorporate some of the intensity and excitement of the traditional post-conference workshops, without replacing those workshops---we expect, as has become traditional, that there will also be a set of post-conference workshops that will remain separate from the main meeting. This call invites proposals for thematic sessions in accordance with the considerations below; a final Call For Papers will be sent out in early November. WHAT IS A THEMATIC SESSION? We are soliciting proposals for themes that will provide 4--8 high quality papers, typically forming one or two sessions in the main conference. Proposers of accepted themes, who will become the chairs of those sessions, will have similar responsibilities to those of workshop organisers in terms of arranging reviewing and the delivery of camera ready copy; however, the papers will be scheduled as part of the main sessions and will be published as part of the main conference proceedings. In terms of subject area coverage, we expect thematic sessions will be closer to workshop topic areas in focus. FORMAT OF THEME PROPOSALS Please specify the following: - Chair Details: Name, address, email, telephone number, fax - Title - Summary: At most one page describing the proposed subject area, citing evidence that there is sufficient interest in the area to generate enough high quality submissions to populate up to a half-day's worth of presentations. - Proposed Review Committee: Each paper submitted should be reviewed by at least three people. As part of your proposal, you should suggest a potential review committee of around 12 people who will be asked to serve on the committee if the proposal is accepted. Your list should demonstrate the spread of interest in the area in the community, encouraging both international participation and the participation of a broad range of researchers, including both senior members of the community and graduate students. Theme proposals should be submitted to the email address provided below. Informal enquiries as to what might work as a theme can also be directed to this address in advance of the submission date. Possible themes might be topics like: NLP and Data Mining; Word Segmentation in Asian Languages; Reconciling Functional and Formal Approaches to Syntax; Approaches to Concept to Speech. We provide these examples only as indications of the variety of topic areas that will be considered. IMPORTANT DATES This call issued: September 14, 1998 Theme submissions deadline: October 12, 1998 Notification of selected themes: October 26, 1998 Call for papers: Early November 1998 Paper submissions deadline: January 25, 1999 Notification of acceptance: March 22, 1999 Camera ready papers due: May 3, 1999 GENERAL SUBMISSION QUESTIONS Chairs for the ACL-99 program are Ken Church and Robert Dale. All queries regarding the program should be sent to acl99@mri.mq.edu.au; this forwards to both authors. SUBMISSION FORMAT Theme proposals should be of approximately two pages in length, ideally submitted in ascii by email to ACL99@mri.mq.edu.au with the subject: "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". More complicated formats such as standalone LaTeX (not requiring additional style files), PostScript, and Word will be accepted if they print on the first try. Hardcopy proposals should be faxed or mailed to *both* of the chairs, clearly labeled "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". Proposals should be received by 5pm GMT on October 12th 1998. Ken Church (Co-chair) Robert Dale (Chair) AT&T Labs - Research Microsoft Research Institute 180 Park Ave, Office D235 School of MPCE PO Box 971 Macquarie University Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971, USA Sydney NSW 2109, Australia kwc@research.att.com Robert.Dale@mq.edu.au Tel: +1 973-360-8620 Tel: +61 2 9850 6331 Fax: +1 973-360-8077 Fax: +61 2 9850 9529 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: UPDATED conference announcement and program: AMTA-98 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:29:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 367 (367) [deleted quotation] AMTA-98: MACHINE TRANSLATION AND THE INFORMATION SOUP (MT in a growing field of language technologies) October 28-31, 1998 The Sheraton Bucks County Hotel Langhorne, Pennsylvania http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/AMTA98.html [deleted quotation] **NEW>> Conference Program Schedule Included! **NEW>> New Tutorial Added on Ontological Semantics! **NEW>> New Workshop Added on Chinese Treebank construction! **NEW>> "MT in the Corporate Setting" Workshop cancelled Conference organized by AMTA - Association for Machine Translation in the Americas The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to convene its third conference in the biennial series, to be held at the Sheraton Bucks County Hotel in Langhorne, PA, on 28-31 October, with tutorials and welcoming reception on Wednesday, October 28, and pre-conference workshops scheduled for Tuesday October 27th. [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Kevin Kiernan Subject: Position in Humanities Computing Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:27:37 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 368 (368) PLEASE POST / RECIRCULATE Humanities Computing, Department of English, University of Kentucky Tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level, begininng August 1, 1999, in Humanities Computing. PhD in English required. Also required are training and experience in the uses of information technology in scholarship (e.g. SGML and HTML encoding, databases, concordances, image-processing) as well as experience and evidence of potential in teaching. Candidates should be prepared to engage in research projects and to teach collaboratively with computer scientists in a cross-disciplinary graduate level program as well as to teach in the English department. Minority and women candidates are encouraged to apply. Send letter of application, vita, abstract of dissertation or current project AND placement file by Nov 23, 1998 to Recruitment Committee, Department of English, 1203 Patterson Office Tower, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506. (AA/EOE) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Humanities IT Post in History: University of Oxford Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:30:57 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 369 (369) [deleted quotation] RS1B: Humanities IT Officer, Modern History, Oxford #15,462-19,568 [sterling], rising to #15,735-20,107[sterling] on 1 October 1998 The Board of the Faculty of Modern History seeks to appoint its first fulltime IT Support Officer. The person appointed will provide crucial technical support and advice on information technology for all aspects of the Modern History Faculty's work, including its teaching, research, library, and administration. The post will provide the appointee with the opportunity to be involved in all aspects of the development of IT in a major arts subject in a stimulating academic environment. The appointment will be for a fixed period of five years in the first instance. Mid way through the five year period there will be a review and the appointment may then be renewed for a further period of five years, with similar provision for review and renewal thereafter. Further particulars are available from the Administrator, Modern History Faculty, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BD (tel.01865 277253, email: administrator@mohist.ox.ac.uk). Applications should be made by letter of application and CV, and include the names and addresses of two referees, to reach this address by 18 September 1998. ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ ****************************************** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Humanities IT Post: Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:25:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 370 (370) Oxford [deleted quotation] [Apologies for cross-posting] Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Studies The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art invites applications from post-doctoral equivalent researchers who have substantial experience in fine art project management and expertise in IT support to assist in the further development of research and postgraduate studies, and the day to day management of the department's research area called The Laboratory. The successful applicant would be expected to have at least eight years of professional experience comprising periods of working in a major museum or gallery and periods of IT support in Higher Education. The appointment will be paid on the RS2(D32) scale (#21,815 - 29,048 pa [sterling]) A letter of apllication, including a cv and the names of two referees, should be sent to the Ruskin Master, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 74 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG; Tel 01865 276940; e-mail: stephen.farthing@ruskin-school.ox..ac.uk, from whom further particulars can be obtained. Your e-mail should include your postal address. The closing date is Tuesday 1 October and interviews will take place on 11 October 1998. ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ ****************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Kevin Ward Subject: Student Reviewers Needed for KSR! Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 14:38:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 371 (371) Call for Student Reviewers Katharine Sharp Review (ISSN 1083-5261) http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review The Katharine Sharp Review, the first electronic journal featuring scholarship and research by students in the field of library and information science, is seeking volunteers to participate on the peer-review board for the next year. The review process needs reviewers to make this a true 'peer-review' and the opportunity to participate in the editorial process first hand will be both enjoyable and educational. The due date for applications is Thursday, October 8. The review board will be responsible for the selection and review of all submitted articles. The length of commitment to the editorial board will be for a full year (actually from now through July) and will comprise two issues (April and August). Each reviewer will be responsible for returning complete critical reviews in a timely manner that will provide guidance as to the acceptability of any one submission. In order to be considered as a potential board member/reviewer, you must currently be enrolled in a LIS program (both MLS and PhD students are encouraged to consider), have ready access to e-mail as this will be the primary means of communication, ability to view documents in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, and preferably a graphical WWW browser (e.g., Netscape or Internet Explorer). A strong command of English, knowledge of the library and information science field, and a strong desire to take part in a unique and ground-breaking publication is also recommended! If you are interested in applying for this unique opportunity, please send: 1) your name and institution, 2) a description of your general interests within the field, 3) a *brief* paragraph describing your interest in participating in the review process, and 4) perhaps three or four keywords describing your specific interests in LIS (these are used to send you papers related to your interest), 5) the approximate date you will be graduating from your program to the editor, Kevin Ward, at review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu. The due date for all applications is Thursday, October 8. For more information regarding the Katharine Sharp Review, please e-mail the editor or see the Review's WWW site, which includes the past seven issues from 1995-98, at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review. The site is also mirrored at http://hosted.ukoln.ac.uk/mirrored/lis-journals/review/review/ for Europe and elsewhere. + + Kevin Ward Editor Katharine Sharp Review review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: hair shirt doesn't itch Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 21:17:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 372 (372) Dear Colleagues: For some months now strange events have dogged Humanist: members suddenly being deleted (not by us, honest), members not receiving their postings despite not having been deleted. For a time I suspected the software -- it has been so often GUILTY AS CHARGED, and I have always been carrying the can for it and so have been morally compelled to apologise for something not even alive. Unless one is very clever about defining what is life (see Schroedinger's essay). But I was wrong, so I am now in the position of contemplating whether I should apologise to Listproc. Then of course there's the problem of HOW I apologise to it, should I decide to purge my guilt in that way. However, thanks to Chris Dietrich of Computing and Information Technology, Princeton, who did the detective work, it seems that I'm the probable culprit, and that the software is simply rather lax in checking what I tell it to do before it follows orders. Chris has cleaned up the mess, I am chastened and now even hopeful that a slight change to the code will keep me from inadvertently sinning in the future. In the darkness of the Starr Report, however, I wonder if anyone will notice my sins. I'm more than happy to say that I'm too busy rejoicing (and I don't mean in Mr. Clinton's troubles) to notice them, but I do promise to pay closer attention in the future to what I tell obedient software to do. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Kevin Ward Subject: !! KSR Student Reviewers Change of Email !! Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:56:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 373 (373) Due to an email problem, the usual email address for the Katharine Sharp Review has been changed. The new address is review@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu Please send your applications for the review board to the new address. The website URL will remain the same for the time being -- http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review Apologies for the inconvenience. Kevin + + Kevin Ward Editor Katharine Sharp Review review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review + + From: David Green Subject: NHA ALERT ON COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:55:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 374 (374) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 22, 1998 NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE ALERT ON COPYRIGHT TREATIES Database Legislation Included in House Bill [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Daniel Traister Subject: Preliminary announcement: Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 10:13:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 375 (375) ***PLEASE EXCUSE CROSS-POSTINGS*** This notice is a *preliminary announcement* about the Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, to be presented at the University of Pennsyl- vania's Van Pelt-Dietrich Library this spring, by Professor Brian Stock of the University of Toronto. Full announcements will be posted again as the dates for these lectures draw near. Professor Stock will deliver three lectures, now entitled "Minds, Bodies, Readers," on March 23, 24, and 25, 1999. He is the author, among other works, of *Augustine the reader: meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation* (Harvard University Press, 1996); *Listening for the text: on the uses of the past* (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990; rpt. in paperback by the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996); and *The implications of literacy: written language and models of interpretation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries* (Princeton University Press, 1983). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Charles Ess Subject: call for papers - AI & Society Date: Tue, 22 Sep 98 14:29:37 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 376 (376) Colleagues: Please copy and distribute as appropriate - apologies for cross-postings! *** Call for Papers Special Issue for AI and Society Journal on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication Over against the presumption that technology - including hardware and software - is culturally neutral, mounting evidence suggests that technologies may embed and convey specific cultural values and communicative preferences. In this light, the rapid spread of CMC technologies such as the Internet and the World Wide Web may issue less in a utopian, democratic electronic global village and more in a homogenized "McWorld" which threatens to override local cultural values and communicative preferences. On the other hand, striking examples of localization - of reshaping hardware and software systems to more closely reflect specific cultural values and preferences - also exist. Successful localization suggests that specific cultures _can_ resist the tendency towards technological homogenization. For a special issue of AI and Society, we invite papers which explore the intersections between culture, communication, and technology so as to address such questions as: * what is "culture," and how does culture/s shape the development and use of communication technologies? * what is "communication", and how do communicative practices influence the development and use of communication technologies or vice versa? * how does gender - as defining specific roles in different cultures - interact with patterns of technological implementation and use? * what theoretical frameworks - postmodern, hermeneutic, technology-diffusion, social construction, etc. - best describe and predict what is known of the appropriation and use of communication technologies? * how can software and hardware designers and users develop systems more readily adaptable to a variety of cultural and communicative preferences? * what can be done to improve access to information and communication technologies in developing countries, particularly in respect to cultural, communication, cognitive, religious and philosophical issues? (See the CATaC'98 conference web site for additional information and overview essays: <http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/~fay/catac/index.html>) ABOUT THE JOURNAL AI and Society is a refereed international journal, established in 1987, focusing on the issues associated with the policy, design and management of information, communications and media technologies, and their broader social, economic, cultural and philosophical implications. SUBMISSION Papers - preferable in electronic format - will be accepted until January 2, 1999. Submissions will be PEER reviewed by an international and multi-disciplinary committee. The special issue is scheduled to appear in late 1999. Please forward submissions and inquiries to the co-editors: Charles Ess (ejcrec@lib.drury.edu) Fay Sudweeks (fays@arch.usyd.edu.au) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Sue King-Smith." Subject: RE: Magazines that talk Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:54:54 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 377 (377) Dear Humanist list members [Please do not send replies to this e-mail to the entire list] I wonder if Humanist discussion members would take time out to answer a few questions about arts/cultural/literary 'CD-Rom' magazines. As you probably all know the publishing of ordinary literary magazines is often a recipe for personal poverty and many come and go on the international literary scene like shooting stars ... to try and avoid this unfortunate personal outcome (poverty!) in the area of publishing electronic magazines editors of various online journals (and hardcopy arts magazines) are currently trying to ascertain the likelihood of dare I say it 'economic success' in the electronic magazine area. I personally co-edit an online Australian ezine 'The Animist' [http://www.diskotech.com.au/asphodel which features various of the new media formats. Before we invest money in bringing out a CD-Rom version (on subscription) we are trying to gauge the current attitudes toward this new arts/cultural media. We'll be sharing these findings generally with Australian arts funding bodies in particular (but also with a large number of international ezine editors) and all replies will be treated with the strictest confidentiality. I want to make it clear that we are not constructing a mailing list, we are simply trying to work out whether artists, academics, intellectuals etc. are positive or negative about the possibilities of the new media. The questions are listed below. General comments are also welcome if you feel you don't have much time. If you think your comments may be of interest to the entire list feel free to post generally otherwise, could your direct answers straight to us at asphodel@iaccess.com.au so as to not clog up the line You are also free to ignore any questions you wish - we're mainly looking to gauge the overall attitude to the new technologies. 1) How do you feel about/view the literary/arts possibilities represented by the new multimedia technologies? [Especially in relation to normal printed magazines/books etc.] 2) Do you currently subscribe to any electronic arts/cultural journals (downloaded from the web or made available on CD-Rom or disc)? 3) What kind of features do you look for in purchasing these journals? [Do you enjoy innovative Multi Media literary/arts pieces, audio presentations (audio interviews), video, socio/cultural animations, 3d art galleries, music etc. or do you prefer straight text with little else] 4) What problems have you encountered in purchasing/subscribing to electronic arts magazines (CD-Rom, Disc etc) ? 5) What do you think is a reasonable price for an electronic arts magazine on CD-Rom which features both conventionjal text/pictures and various multimedia works which cannot be replicated by magazines (paper) or online? 6) Could you see yourself subscribing to such magazines if they became generally available? [Do you have a general like or dislike of the medium as a whole? 7) Do you make use of 'internet shopping' to pay for your international subscriptions, or do you prefer the more established methods of payment? 8) Are you interested in the new 'literary and discursive forms' currently being born in the multimedia field? [Any philosophical comments about these new forms will be particularly useful]? Thank you for your time! As I said above PLEASE send your replies to our e-mail address asphodel@iaccess.com.au ... we don't want to clog up the Humanist list with replies. Best wishes Ian Irvine Co-editor The Animist Electronic Journal fo the Arts [The Animist is archived by the Australian National Library Canberra and the Australian Cultural Network as a site of National Cultural significance] From: Ted Knab Subject: Humanities and Computing: Research Short Cuts? Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 11:57:31 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 378 (378) Hello, I am having difficulty using the internet as a humanities research tool. Could someone refer me to an internet site that would provide a quick and efficient means of finding contemporary literary abstracts? Thank you. Ted Knab ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: AHDS Draft Report: "Scholars' Information Requirements Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 14:51:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 379 (379) in a Digital Age" NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 22, 1998 AHDS DRAFT REPORT: SCHOLARS INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS IN A DIGITAL AGE <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/uneeds/un0.html> [deleted quotation]* "A Strategic Policy Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Collections" * "Discovering Online Resources Across the Humanities. A Practical Implementation of the Dublin Core" [deleted quotation] From: Jim Coleman Subject: New Web Site Devoted to History of Science Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:39:58 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 380 (380) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE MAKING The Internet is becoming an ever more important resource for scholars and students. Although many faculty members make increasing use of the World Wide Web for teaching, it is less frequently used for primary research. Science and Technology in the Making (STIM), a project supported by a two-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, experiments with exactly that: historical research over the Internet. The participating primary investigators from Stanford, UCLA, MIT, Brown, and UC Berkeley ence and technology) are interested in finding out if, and to what degree, Web-mediated scholarship is possible. Tim Lenoir, Professor of History, organized the original grant. Stanford University Libraries provide project coordination, and editorial and technical support. STIM uses the Web and network technology to develop innovative approaches for investigating and documenting recent events in science and technology. The five sites are devoted to the history of the mouse, theNew York blackouts in the '60s and '70s), the making of PCR, the Boston Artery Project (Big Dig), and Electronic Vehicles. The main goal of the five STIM projects and their associated Web sites is to use the interactive capabilities of the Internet to gather survey information and personal histories, encourage dialogue among the makers of history, and provide an (inter-)active archive in which focus groups are invited to contribute material. The "In the Making" part of STIM 's title is a result of the fact that major players in STIM projects are still alive and serving as active creators and participants. Their contributions in the form of stories, artifacts, and written accounts are part of the history presented on the Web sites. According to Lenoir, this leads historians "to multiply the perspectives of contemporary history and engage the community who made the technology in a collaboration to write their own history." Thus, the traditionally silent subjects of a historical study become personally involved in the writing of their community's history. Each project team is building an online archive to make "core" material such as journal articles, archival documents, and government publications available in electronic, hyper-linked formats. For instance, the Big Dig site employs a unique bibliography of key documents in the history of the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel project. Those documents are also linked to a chronology of events that helps contributors recall the sequence of events. Project coordinators are also taking special care to index the archives so that they are searchable in the same ways as other library collections. STIM is expected to contribute to Stanford's various and multi-institutional attempts at defining the role of computing in the humanities. The project will conclude with an international invitational conference to be held next year at Stanford. If you would like to learn more about STIM, visit the Web at http://sloan.stanford.edu, or contact Jim Coleman (jim.coleman@stanford.edu). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 381 (381) | Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:54:54 +1000 | From: "Sue King-Smith." | | | |Dear Humanist list members |[Please do not send replies to this e-mail to the entire list] | |I wonder if Humanist discussion members would take time out to answer a few |questions about arts/cultural/literary 'CD-Rom' magazines. As you probably What a pity to see that Humanist is now being used for market research purposes. Or maybe I should be pleased to see evidence that it's being taken seriously by the marketeers. contentiously, Lou ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Conference: IEEE Metadata '99 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:22:32 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 382 (382) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 22, 1998 [deleted quotation] =09=09=09=09IEEE Meta-Data'99 =09=09=09The Third IEEE Meta-Data Conference =09=09=09=09April 6 & 7, 1999 =09=09=09Natcher Building & Conference Center =09=09=09NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland, USA =09=09(http://www.llnl.gov/liv_comp/metadata/md99/md99.html) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society - Mass Storage Systemss and Technology Technical Committee and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration= =2E Information for Participants * The Call for Papers * Information for Authors * Intent to Submit Form * Conference Location Scope The goal of the IEEE Meta-Data Conference is to encourage discussion of metadata-related issues. Papers that contribute to practical understanding, with an emphasis on best encouraged. Innovative metadata projects or approaches that have achieved maturity are welcome. Papers presenting a vision that builds on the evolution of current capabilities (e.g.,advanced search capabilities; data mining; knowledge management for the novice and the expert; role of metadata in enabling novel and sophisticated applications exploiting digital data across heterogeneous environments) are of great interest. Survey papers, short tutorial papers, and product or project experiences are also requested. Previously published papers will not be considered. Panel proposals should describe the topic, intended audience, and list the likely participants. Panels should discuss topics that involve the audience rather than being mini-paper sessions. Proposals for poster displays and/or demonstrations should focus on presenting novel and interesting technical aspects of metadata research or development. Soon-to-be products that emphasize substantial technical support for metadata are also welcome. [material deleted] From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: CFP: Science in Thai Culture Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 15:46:09 +0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 383 (383) Papers are invited for the panel session on Science in Thai Culture, which is a part of the upcoming 7th International Conference on Thai Studies, to be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from July 5 to 8, 1999. More information can be found at the conference website, <http://www.pscw.uva.nl/icts7/>. Deadline for submission of abstracts and returning registration form -- December 31, 1998. Abstracts (max. 250 words) should be sent to the Conference Secretariat via e-mail or regular mail. Conference Secretariat thaistud@pscw.uva.nl Universiteit van Amsterdam Department of Anthropology Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185 1012 DK Amsterdam The Netherlands ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Panel organizer: Dr. Soraj Hongladarom (Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand) -------------------------------------------------------- Thailand, to say what is obvious, is a developing country. It was hailed as a new economic ^=CCtiger=B9 just a few years ago, before the economic crisi= s hit it and many countries in the region hard. Various factors have been pointed out as probable causes of the crisis, chief among which is Thailand=B9s lac= k of competitiveness in its business and industrial operations. This lack of competitiveness is not only due to the rising value of the US dollar and the peg between it and the baht maintained by the Bank of Thailand. The real cause appeared to be the fact that Thailand relied on cheap labor and imported raw materials, and there were little attempts to put higher added values through indigenous research and development. Most industrialists preferred just to purchase ready made technologies rather than producing them on their own.=A0 The situation alluded to above points to many of the major concerns of this panel: To what extent is Thailand's lack of global competitiveness due to the issue of the absorption or non-absorption of science and technology into the fabric of Thai culture? Is the current economic crisis ultimately linked to the fact that a significant number of Thais still view science and technology as something alien, something brought up to them from outside, something foreign? Could the educational system that emphasizes rote learning and solving problems through preset rules and algorithms be the real culprit? Is it the case that in order to solve the education problem some salient aspects of the Thai culture itself need to change forever? How could one remain a ^=CCThai=B9 while at the same time embracin= g scientific attitudes, beliefs, habits of mind, etc., that together constitute the ^=CCscientific literate=B9 person? How could one understand = this aspect of Thai society in its relation to science and technology?=A0 In short, this panel aims at understanding how science and technology relates to Thai culture and society. The questions in the previous paragraph are only intended to provide some hints as to the scope and interest of the panel and are not exhaustive. The following subthemes (also not exhaustive) should provide a clearer picture of the aim and scope of the panel:=A0 =A0 * History of science in Thailand * Scientific culture vs. Thai culture * ^=CCWestern=B9 science and ^=CCThai=B9 science? * Science and the Thai belief systems * Science in an emerging economy * Thai public=B9s understanding of science * Social, cultural and polit= ical problems arising from attempts at integrating ^=CCscientific beliefs= =B9 or 'scientific attitudes' into the Thai ^=CCcultural universe=B9 * Science and Civil Society (e.g., the role of scientific attitude or critical thinking in fostering a strong civil society, etc.) It is expected that this panel will be an interdisciplinary forum embracing such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, philosophy, education, the natural and biological sciences, and others. As there is now little research on the social, cultural and political aspects of science in Thai society, this panel will clearly act as a jumping board toward more substantive and expansive research in this area. Moreover, a close look at the role of science in Thai society will help contribute to the overall theme of the 7th ICTS through its examination of how science as the most powerful knowledge system of humans today relates to the attempts to understand the emerging civil society as a counterbalancing force within the Thai political context.=A0 Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, THAILAND Personal Web Page: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Willard McCarty Subject: gleanings Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:28:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 384 (384) [deleted quotation] (1) Michael Cross, "A very peculiar practice", the lead story, on the computerisation of the U.K. National Health Service. The problems reported in the article with the way records are kept here is no exaggeration, as I discovered one winter's night two years ago in a decayed surgery (doctor's office) deep in the wilds of Poplar. But the real difficulties, at least the ones that have international appeal, lie in the nature of the problem of computerising medical information. It's the absence of computing at the "point of care", i.e. at the doctor's fingertips when interviewing the patient, rather than as a backroom storage device for the bureaucratic transcribing of information long after the patient has left. (2) Jack Schofield, "Free Net service hits high street", on the rise of completely free online services -- free, that is, except for the price of the telephone call. The companies providing these free services make their money through the connect charges (of which N Americans are blissfully ignorant). (3) Dan Jellinek, "Just one last hit", on a paper by Janet Morhan-Martin, professor of psychology at Briant College, Rhode Island, to be presented at the Addictions '98 conference (entitled "comorbidity across the addictions"), opening in Newcastle tomorrow, for which see <http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/addictions98/>. It seems that some people are now arguing for compulsive Internet use as an addiction, e.g. also Dr. Kimberly Young, founder of the Center for Online Addiction, <http://www.netaddiction.com/>. The online-addiction theorists have found, or think they have found, an exact match between the criteria defining substance-abuse addiction and compulsive online use. The following are listed: 1. You promise to cut down time online but are unable to do so 2. You lie about the time spent on the computer 3. You experience negative consequences as a result of time spent online 4. You participate in high-risk behaviour 5. You have an over-developed sense of your computer's importance 6. You have mixed feelings of euphoria and guilt from being online 7. You have feelings of anxiety when something shortens your time online 8. You are preoccupied with computer activities 9. You use the computer to avoid problems in your life and feelings of inadequacy 10. You have financial problems as a result of computer use The problem I have with the above criteria is that all of them mutatis mutandis are equally satisfied, for example, by being deeply, passionately in love. Is totally absorbing devotion to another person an "addiction"? We do speak of "love sickness", and have for a very long time (see Ciavolella and Beecher's edition of Nicholas Ferrand's treatise), but I cannot but help be reminded of my son's statement in primary school one day that he was "allergic" to skates. Of course the question of what is sickness and what health is not so easy to answer. At least here some people seem to have invented a relatively harmless industry for themselves. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: BEST PRACTICES: LESSONS LEARNED IN NATIONAL DIGITAL Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 16:41:19 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 385 (385) LIBRARY COMPETITION NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT SEPTEMBER 22, 1998 DIGITIZATION LESSONS LEARNED IN FIRST ROUND OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/lessons.html> This webpage is a very useful survey of some of the lessons learned from the 1996-97 winners of the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition, based on the tracking reports of implemented projects. Below I reproduce the introduction to the webpage. David Green =========== "LC/Ameritech award winners from the first round of the competition have already learned many lessons about digitization projects. To help other award-winners and applicants take advantage of this experience, the competition staff have summarized, extracted, and paraphrased points from some of the six-monthly reports submitted by awardees. "The extracts are organized by topics that correspond to required sections of the application: * Formats and Specifications for Digital Reproductions * Production Workflow and Project Management * Intellectual Access "Links from project titles are to descriptions of the projects prepared by competition staff when awards were made. In several cases, links from those pages lead to web-based presentations of proposals, previews, or the resulting digital content by the awardee institutions." .. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Peter Evans Subject: twelve-stepping Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:48:55 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 386 (386) I thank Dr McCarty ["12.0222 gleanings"] for alerting me to the possibility that I might have Internet addiction. I rushed straight over to the Netaddiction site, decided that, yes, I could be addicted, and took The Test <http://www.netaddiction.com/resources/test.htm>. I scored an alarming 53 (where 0% is I suppose scored by blowpipe-toting Amazonians and 100% by those who take their LAN cables intravenously). The general comment for those scoring between 50 and 79 is "You are experiencing occasional or frequent problems because of the Internet. You should consider their full impact on your life." After contemplating the particular set of scores with which I reached a total of 53, Dr Kimberly Young or her robot surrogate derived additional advice for me, personally: "You are experiencing occasional or frequent problems because of the Internet. You should consider their full impact on your life." One of the questions had been: "How often do you choose to spend more time on-line over going out with others?" "Frequently", I had shamefacedly answered. I think I'll consume less Internet and more alcohol. +++++ A perceptive and darkly humorous book that may be relevant to the notion of "Internet addiction" is: Wendy Kaminer, *I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions* (Addison-Wesley, '92). Read it and the "Psychology" section of your local bookstore will appear even more gruesome. +++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Evans evans@i.hosei.ac.jp From: Willard McCarty Subject: addiction defined Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:41:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 387 (387) Two clicks of my mouse and a small bit of typing yields the following from my trusty OED on CD-ROM: addiction. [ad. L. addiction-em, n. of action f. add_c-ere; see addict.] 1. Rom. Law. A formal giving over or delivery by sentence of court. Hence, A surrender, or dedication, of any one to a master. 2. a. The state of being (self-)addicted or given to a habit or pursuit; devotion. b. The, or a, state of being addicted to a drug (see addicted ppl. a. 3 b); a compulsion and need to continue taking a drug as a result of taking it in the past. Cf. drug-addiction s.v. drug n.1 1 b. 3. The way in which one is addicted; inclination, bent, leaning, penchant. Also in pl. Obs. Hence in the context of the Internet we must now consider various submissive states (surrender, bondage) as well as those that involve a giving of self (inclination, devotion, adoration) but are not submissive, or not necessarily, as the lovers among us will know. Perhaps, then, we should consider use of the Internet to conduct a love affair as the norm, of which all other uses are attenuated versions. (What other use would press the medium more ferociously?) If so, then perhaps a policy change on the priority of use for public-access workstations in university computing centres is in order. We could also introduce a new prerequisite for enrolment in basic computing courses ("must be madly in love..."). Or perhaps just addicted. Helpfully yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Sue King-Smith." Subject: Re: 12.0221 a complaint Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:48:00 +1000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 388 (388) [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] A Response to Lou's Comments which were: [deleted quotation] This was not the reason for our questionnaire. As you could appreciate it is extremely time consuming and expensive to put out quality online arts/humanities journals for nothing. The only way to make it viable ... and thus to further the humanities and the arts in general is to find a way to sell something (a magazine, a CD_Rom) and ... thus find a way a) to feed ourselves for our effort and b) to pay the artists/academics etc. who submit their intellectual and creative works to us. Here at The Animist we are unfunded at present and thus are unable to pay the many excellent creative people who kindly send us their material for publication. Apart from that, responses from our research (which have come from many concerned artists, poets and academics world wide) will also be forwarded to arts/humanities funding bodies, editors of arts e-zines etc. so that they can assess the need among artists/writers etc. for income support/etc., and also to save ezine and small press editors what little spare cash they possess before they founder on the shores of multimedia magazines that no body wants to buy (the sad history of small press poetry worldwide). As you will appreciate, unlike many tenured academics, most artists, poets and writers live at or below the poverty line. Here in Australia our tenured humanities academics are being sacked in droves at the same time as our government is withdrawing funds to arts related projects like 'online ezines' and 'writing grants' - it amounts to a full scale attack on the arts and intellectual endevours in general, and represents a significant threat to cultural and intellectual freedom in this country. The trend is not only Australian, however, the impulse to 'gettign and spending' seems to be endemic to many Western nations. Just the other day students stormed the campus of Monash university Melbourne as a protest against massive cuts to the university arts faculty. La Trobe, the university I am most familiar with, has lost about 1/3rd of its arts lecturers. Around the country whole classics departments have been routed in the name of economic rationalisation. The goal of The Animist is to promote the arts and the humanities to a more general audience and to raise the consciousness of general public to the arts and humanities generally and in the new mediums. As an editor, published poet/essayist and recently layed off humanities academic I do not feel myself to be one of the 'marketeers' you refer to ... though I can understand your dislike of such people. Best wishes Dr. Ian Irvine, PhD (Human Relations), BA (Hum), BA (Hon) Co-Editor, The Animist http://www.diskotech.com.au From: Dan Price Subject: RE: 12.0221 a complaint Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:01:06 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 389 (389) Agreed. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, 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 http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html *********************************************************** [inclusion of Humanist 12.221 deleted] From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Re: 12.0221 a complaint <= Should this be a closed list Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:18:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 390 (390) server? lou.burnard@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk ==>> Let me relate a similar incident to you. As a person in Computer Science whose major effort goes into Computer Science Education, I belong to SIGCSE, which is the A.C.M. special interest group on education. Some weeks ago, we were "spammed" with an ad for Toyotas! The outrage was enormous, and several dozen messages flew back and forth that day. (Needless to say, the sender used a "spoofed" address to which we could not reply.) By the end of the day, the group moderator had closed the discussion to allow only people who were members of SIGCSE and were sending E-mail from their registered E-mail addresses to post to this conference. We regarded that step as unfortunate but necessary to prevent similar occurrences in the future. What we lost was the input from interested non-members who might have valuable contributions and comments. Henceforth, their contributions will have to be "vetted" and posted by members. I do not know how Willard has this listserve organized, but perhaps a comparable step might be in order. Although I have been subscribing for at least a decade, this is the first instance of this abuse which I can recall. Sadly, it may not be the last. djw _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cse.msu.edu Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 432-1061 Comp. Sci., Michigan State http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Dawson Subject: Browsings, June/July 1998 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:44:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 391 (391) [Noted in the _Independent on Sunday_, 12 July 1998] << Marx/Engels Internet Archive >> Information about the life and works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, on a South African based website linked to a search engine in the U.S. The link to South Africa was exceedingly slow from the UK at midday UK time, but the presentation and content of the site are excellent. See http://leftside.uwc.ac.za << Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy >> A dynamic encyclopedia, with each subject assigned to one or more researchers to write and keep up to date. At present not many of the subjects are covered, but this will develop with time. See http://plato.stanford.edu [Noted in _Time_ magazine, June 29, 1998] Digital Cities: a virtual twin of Helsinki on the Internet. Anyone can view Helsinki online ( http://www.helsinkiarena2000.fi ) but only residents of the real city can make full use of it. Naturally, all the labelling is in Finnish, but a summary is available in Swedish and English. John Dawson JLD1@cam.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Dawson Subject: Text Handling Software - a Proposal Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:43:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 392 (392) [This proposal arose out of the discussions held at ALLC/ACH'98 in Debrecen, Hungary.] TEXT HANDLING SOFTWARE A Proposal That John Bradley [King's College London, UK] and Geoffrey Rockwell [McMaster University, Canada] be asked to do the following: (a) Invite a small number of suitably qualified and experienced colleagues to form a Text Handling Software Working Group (THSWG). In collaboration with the THSWG: (b) To prepare an object-oriented specification describing the external interface for text handling software programming modules. (c) To identify (and, at a very broad level, to specify) a central core of modules, the programming of which could form the basis of fund-raising proposals. (d) To identify one or more possible centres where the programming of the core modules could be based. (e) To investigate programming languages and programming systems in which the core modules could be implemented. Note that it is not strictly necessary that all modules be written in the same programming language. (f) To identify the platforms for which front-end user interface modules should be written in the first instance (these modules should be the only ones which are platform-specific). The advantage of this approach is that, as soon as (b), (c), and perhaps (e) have been decided, other individuals and institutions can announce their intention to prepare additional compatible modules. The THSWG will act as a clearing-house for such proposals. Debrecen, Hungary, July 1998 brucerob@chass.utoronto.ca Bruce Robertson University of Toronto, Canada JLD1@cam.ac.uk John Dawson University of Cambridge, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Claire Jones Subject: Electronic Publishing Discussion Forum Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:19:07 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 393 (393) Electronic Publishing Discussion Forum Internet Free-Press http://www.free-press.com -------------------------------------------------------- For those of you involved or interested in the field of electronic publishing why not take a look at 'Talkback', the online discussion forum of the Internet Free-Press. Previous discussions have included topics such as: 'What Makes a Good E-Journal?' 'Netiquette' 'Internet at Work' 'Death of the Music Industry?' 'Tangible Information' 'Best of the Web' 'Hoax E-mails' 'How Do You Get There?' And selected quotes from postings include: "... a different angle on the PDF v HTML debate" "There seems to be an epidemic of these hoax e-mail messages" "... e-drums in Cyberspace" "I hope books will always be around - curling up in bed with a floppy disk just wouldn't be the same!" Why not take a look in and post your own comments and queries? Access the site at http://www.free-press.com then follow the links to 'Forums' and 'Talkback'. ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was posted to the VPIEJ-L@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU list. From: David Green Subject: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:54:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 394 (394) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 28, 1998 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL Senate/House Conference Committee Reports This Week I'm forwarding the ALA Call for Responses to the current WIPO Copyright Bill now before the conference committee. The two principal issues are that the resultant bill a) should keep the House version's protection of Fair Use (the Senate version had no such protection) and b) that it drop the added "database protection" legislation. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: IMLS Announces First National Leadership Grants Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:49:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 395 (395) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT September 28, 1998 IMLS ANNOUNCES FIRST NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS <http://www.imls.fed.us/nlg98list.htm> An important new funding source for museums and libraries announced its first grants today. Forty-One National Leadership Grants awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services totaled $6,487,750. I've highlighted eight of the 41 grants that might particularly interest the NINCH community, followed by the official announcement and the complete list (also available at the above cited URL) David Green ===== Duke University Library Durham, North Carolina $91,188 For a one-year project to demonstrate the use of Encoded Archival Description for finding aids in conjunction with large-scale digital imaging projects, using as a case study the collection of photographs, journals and notebooks of documentary photographer William Gedney. Oregon Historical Society Portland, Oregon $100,000 For a two-year project to convert a program about Portland neighborhoods from a stand-alone interactive video exhibit to an interactive Web-based database, and to promote its use by K-12 educators and students for researching local history. Cornell University Ithaca, New York $200,000 For a two-year project to plan and implement an archiving solution for more than 2.5 million digital images created by Cornell in its pioneering imaging projects carried out over the last decade. Missouri Botanical Garden Library St. Louis, Missouri $225,281 For a two-year project to develop a database of plant images and associated data from the Missouri Botanical Garden's library and make it available on the institution's Web site; create a repository for plant images to which other botanical organizations can contribute; and develop a model program with software for connecting images of any type with associated data. Northeast Document Conservation Center Andover, Massachusetts $82,300 For a two-year project to produce and disseminate an easy-to-use handbook on managing digital projects to meet the needs of libraries and museums. Council on Library and Information Resources Washington, D.C. $72,990 For a one-year project, in partnership with the Chicago Historical Society, to host a conference on content development in the digital environment for museums, libraries, and archives. IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis) University Libraries Indianapolis, Indiana $290,000 For a two-year project, in partnership with the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), to provide access on a trial basis to AMICO's digital image database for the K-12 educational and public library communities in the greater Indianapolis area. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois $157,981 For a two-year project in partnership with three museums, two libraries, and three elementary schools to build a model and a test electronic database of historical information to be made available via the Internet and World Wide Web. **************************************************************************** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 28, 1998 Press Contacts: Giuliana Bullard (202) 606-8339 Mamie Bittner (202) 606-8339 New National Leadership Grants: Advancing the Field of Library Science Washington, DC - The Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services announced today 41 grants totaling $6,487,750 for its first ever National Leadership Grant awards. These pioneering awards will support nationally replicable library projects that address education, research, preservation and library-museum partnerships. Diane Frankel, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, noted, "Libraries and museums are more important than ever in this age of information, helping Americans navigate the many information resources and find meaning in an increasingly complex world. We are proud of these forward-thinking National Leadership projects that will increase access to information and help libraries and museums better serve the public." The competition, which was open to all types of libraries, garnered more than 250 applications. The four categories of competition were: 1) EDUCATION & TRAINING in library and information science 2) RESEARCH & DEMONSTRATION projects to increase access to resources 3) PRESERVATION OR DIGITIZATION of library materials and 4) MODEL PROGRAMS OF COOPERATION between libraries and museums to improve community service. The funding will support initiatives that can serve as national models, including: * the development of courses for librarians on new technologies; * the production of a handbook for library and museum professionals on managing digital projects; * projects to help public libraries evaluate and improve Internet services; * a project in cooperation with four Chinese research libraries to deliver Chinese-language academic journals via the Internet; * projects to digitize library and archival resources and make them available via the Internet and World Wide Web; * cooperative projects among libraries and museums to share resources and provide public programs drawing on the strengths of each type of institution; * an artist residency program for public library branches, developed collaboratively by a museum of art and a public library Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, IMLS is an independent Federal grantmaking agency that fosters leadership, innovation and a lifetime of learning by supporting museums and libraries. For more information, including grant guidelines, contact: Institute of Museum and Library Services, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506, (202) 606-8536, or http://www.imls.fed.us/. ************************************************************************ 1998 National Leadership Grant Awards EDUCATION & TRAINING. Model programs to provide education and training for the use of emerging technologies in the field of library and information science and to attract individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds to the field. Florida State University, Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center, Tallahassee, Florida. $240,782 for a two-year project to develop a marketing research continuing education course for librarians to prepare them to use new technologies to effectively market library services. Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science, River Forest, Illinois. $165,622 for a two-year project, in collaboration with the Chicago Public Schools' Department of Libraries and Information Services, to prepare a selected group of classroom teachers for endorsement as elementary school library media specialists. Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. $43,502 for a one-year project to develop an archival training course to be offered through interactive compressed video to librarians in Arkansas and Louisiana. University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services, College Park, Maryland. $94,400 for a two-year project to recruit individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds to the master's degree program in library science, focusing on part-time students and on the provision of mentoring as well as financial assistance to students. University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies, Norman, Oklahoma. $151,416 for a two-year project to support master's degree students in the Library and Information Science Education Project to Enhance Cultural Diversity, focusing on recruitment of minority students, training in information technologies, and mentoring by peers and faculty. The University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science, Denton, Texas. $226,791 for a two-year project, in partnership with the African American Museum in Dallas, to train library professionals in digital imaging technologies and information networks leading to Certificates of Advanced Study in digital image management. RESEARCH & DEMONSTRATION Model projects to enhance library services through the use of appropriate technologies and to create methods to evaluate the contributions to a community made by institutions providing access to information services. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. $17,335 for a one-year project, in partnership with the Society of American Archivists and others, to convene a meeting to finalize a formal set of Application Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description, a tool to expand access to archival materials by making finding aids effectively accessible via the Internet and the World Wide Web. University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan. $189,026 for a two-year project to investigate the role of librarians in assisting users to find community information on the Internet, using case studies of libraries in Florida, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, and to identify best practices for providing community information electronically. St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri. $208,550 for a two-year project, in partnership with public libraries in Baltimore, Birmingham, Phoenix, and Seattle, to refine a case-study methodology to communicate the economic benefits of services provided by large public libraries and to provide a means for libraries to estimate the direct monetary return on annual taxpayer investment. New York Public Library, New York, New York. $225,000 for a one-year project to improve electronic access to the library's rare book, arts, and Judaica collections. University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York. $176,138 for a one-year project to develop and test a descriptive list of national core data elements, statistics, and performance measures to describe public library network uses and produce a manual describing the resulting elements, statistics and measures and recommending data collection techniques. Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina. $91,188 for a one-year project to demonstrate the use of Encoded Archival Description for finding aids in conjunction with large-scale digital imaging projects, using as a case study the collection of photographs, journals and notebooks of documentary photographer William Gedney. Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon. $100,000 for a two-year project to convert a program about Portland neighborhoods from a stand-alone interactive video exhibit to an interactive Web-based database, and to promote its use by K-12 educators and students for researching local history. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. $189,215 for a two-year project, in cooperation with four Chinese research libraries, to deliver digital copies of articles from Chinese-language academic journals via the Internet to researchers throughout the United States, with the goal of making the service viable as a cost-recovery operation. Washington State Library, Olympia, Washington. $114,040 for a one-year project to demonstrate the effectiveness of a Government Information Locator Service tool developed by the Washington State Library to connect people with government, in partnership with the states of Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Oregon. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. $172,611 for a one-year project to digitize field research materials from the university's African studies program and to make the information accessible for teaching and research purposes via a Web-based public domain database. PRESERVATION OR DIGITIZATION Projects to preserve unique library resources of national significance, emphasizing access by researchers beyond the institution undertaking the project, and projects that address the preservation and archiving of digital media. University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Honolulu, Hawaii. $100,438 for a two-year project to develop a digital library of Hawaiian and Pacific Islands materials, using Hawaiian-language newspapers and historical photographs, for use as a teaching tool for Hawaiian-language immersion schools and other purposes. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. $108,682 for a two-year project to digitize a large collection of League of Nations publications published between 1919 and 1939 and make the materials available via the Internet and the World Wide Web. Alliance Library System, Pekin, Illinois. $101,400 for a one-year project to create a regional digital library of archival resources relating to the history of Illinois from 1818 to 1918, in collaboration with the Illinois State Historical Library and other libraries within the state. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. $166,000 for a two-year project to digitize materials in various formats from the Hoagy Carmichael jazz collection (including sound recordings, photographs, and printed and textual materials) and make them available via the Internet and World Wide Web. Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts. $82,300 for a two-year project to produce and disseminate an easy-to-use handbook on managing digital projects to meet the needs of libraries and museums. Nah Tah Wahsh Library, Hannahville Indian Community, Wilson, Michigan. $38,549 for a two-year project to provide information about the Hannahville Indian Community, the Potawatomi tribe, and the Woodland Indians of Upper Michigan-including digital copies of documents, photographs, and video and audio clips of interviews with tribal elders-via the Internet and the World Wide Web. Missouri Botanical Garden Library, St. Louis, Missouri. $225,281 for a two-year project to develop a database of plant images and associated data from the Missouri Botanical Garden's library and make it available on the institution's Web site; create a repository for plant images to which other botanical organizations can contribute; and develop a model program with software for connecting images of any type with associated data. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. $200,000 for a two-year project to plan and implement an archiving solution for more than 2.5 million digital images created by Cornell in its pioneering imaging projects carried out over the last decade. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. $30,725 in supplemental funding for a two-year project to investigate the effects of fluctuating environments on library and archival materials. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. $138,938 for a two-year project to create a full-text database, "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," consisting of an extensive collection of digitized and encoded printed works and manuscripts, maps, illustrations and other materials documenting southern life during the Civil War, and make them available via the Internet and the World Wide Web. College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. $175,000 for a two-year project to conserve rare materials in the College's historical library. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. $241,306 for a two-year project to digitize, identify, arrange, describe, and conserve a collection of photographs of African-American educational scenes taken by photographer Jackson Davis in the southern United States between 1915 and 1930. West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, West Virginia. $101,578 for a one-year project to digitize and create catalog records for a manuscript collection containing the largest known assemblage of records relating to the abolitionist John Brown and make the materials available via the Internet and the World Wide Web. MODEL PROGRAMS OF COOPERATION. Projects that develop, document and disseminate both the processes and products of model programs of cooperation between libraries and museums, with emphasis on how the community is served, technology is used, or education is enhanced. Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix, Arizona. $150,545 for a one-year pilot project, in partnership with the Heard Museum and the state libraries of Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah, to increase library, archive and museum expertise in tribal communities and to improve access and services among tribal and other participating institutions. Florida Center for Library Automation, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. $235,803 for a two-year project to create a virtual library of Florida ecological information, in partnership with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the libraries of the University of Florida, Florida International University, and Florida Atlantic University. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois. $157,981 for a two-year project in partnership with three museums, two libraries, and three elementary schools to build a model and a test electronic database of historical information to be made available via the Internet and World Wide Web. IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis) University Libraries. Indianapolis, Indiana. $290,000 for a two-year project, in partnership with the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), to provide access on a trial basis to AMICO's digital image database for the K-12 educational and public library communities in the greater Indianapolis area. Montana State University Libraries, Bozeman, Montana. $138,346 for a one-year project to create a database, Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains, which will make access to important source material on the Plains Indian cultures accessible via the Internet and World Wide Web. Kit Carson Historic Museums, Taos, New Mexico. $103,833 for a two-year project in partnership with the Zimmerman Library and Harwood Museum of the University of New Mexico and the Millicent Rogers Museum of Northern New Mexico, to establish the Southwestern Research Center of Northern New Mexico to make information about valuable collections available to national and international researchers. Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn, New York. $297,900 for a two-year project, in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Public Library, to expand a cooperative project to increase educational services to the Brooklyn community and to develop a national model for attracting and training people from diverse backgrounds in information technology, library science, and museum programs. Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, North Carolina. $309,484 for a two-year project in partnership with the Mint Museum of Art to create a program entitled "Weaving a Tale of Craft," uniting computer technology, the arts, humanities, and educational resources so the public may learn about North Carolina history and crafts. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. $325,513 for a two-year partnership with the Providence Public Library for an initiative designed to expand audiences for contemporary art and interest in current issues through artists' residencies in library branches, an exhibition at RISD, and a traveling Art & Text Mobile. The Children's Museum of Houston, Houston, Texas. $194,000 for a two-year project, in partnership with the Houston Public Library System, to open a Library for Early Childhood at the Children's Museum as a resource for information on early childhood, parenting and family learning, and as a partner learning space of the "Tot Spot" exhibit gallery dedicated to children 6 months to three years. Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C. $72,990 for a one-year project, in partnership with the Chicago Historical Society, to host a conference on content development in the digital environment for museums, libraries, and archives. Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin. $95,542 for a two-year project in partnership with the Marathon County Public Library to link original art and literacy by focusing on extraordinary exhibitions of children's book illustrations. The exhibition, Down Under and Over Here: Children's Book Illustration from Australia and America, will showcase a model program of cooperation. ************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Peter Evans Subject: The Spam Song Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:08:04 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 396 (396) Dr Donald Weinshank (12.0223 complaint & defense, 27 September) is clearly incensed at having his news group [?] spammed by an ad for Toyotas. I'm no spammer, I'm no friend of spammers, and I neither drive a Toyota nor have shares in that company, but I must say that for a single spammessage (after "at least a decade" of spamlessness) to provoke an "enormous" outrage, and for "several dozen messages [to fly] back and forth" about it, suggests an extraordinary degree of excitement. [deleted quotation] The procedure that I had to go through to in order to join would have easily thwarted any straightforward spammer. And if, having presented or faked my credentials, I were now suddenly to attempt to pushing Toyota, Amway, Tupperware, or whatever on the list, I'm sure my messages wouldn't appear and I suspect that my name would be promptly (and rightly) removed. That's not to say that Humanist may not inadvertently and indirectly assist would-be spammers. Old messages are openly available on the Web (see <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>. The message of Dr Weinshank's to which I reply will itself presumably become available there. Now, if I were selling lists of personal mail addresses to Toyota dealers, I'd simply send a "bot" to scrounge them off pages such as Humanist's. Should Humanist therefore not be available on the Web? Well, the better search engines will demonstrate that Dr Weinshank's address is already available on other, Humanist-unrelated pages. Indeed, spammers can be infuriating, but they're not all that efficient -- I haven't suffered much and it seems that neither has Dr Weinshank -- and even a change of mail address isn't an impossibly arduous procedure. +++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Evans evans@i.hosei.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Neuman Subject: Re: 12.0225 text-analysis software Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:56:28 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 397 (397) I'm writing to second the motion from Bruce Robertson and John Dawson for a Text Handling Software Working Group. At the same time, I would like to encourage the involvement of Gary Simon, whose call (also from ALLC-ACH98 in Debrecen) for a modular, web-based approach to constructing text-analysis software was very convincing. A context for this development (at least on this side of the Atlantic) could be provided by the Instructional Management Systems Project (www.imsproject.org) of EDUCAUSE's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative. The IMS Project seeks to foster, by means of open standards and metadata, the creation of tools and content modules that plug and play in the context of the web. Mike Michael Neuman, Director neuman@gusun.georgetown.edu Research, Curriculum, & Development Group 202-687-6283 (voice) Academic & Information Technology Services 202-687-8367 (fax) Georgetown University www.georgetown.edu/acs/people/neuman 314 Car Barn 3520 Prospect Street N.W. Washington, DC 20057 From: John Bradley Subject: Re: 12.0225 text-analysis software Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:19:34 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 398 (398) John Dawson's note to HUMANIST (Vol 12 No 225) has encouraged me to briefly comment on developments that I am aware of in the TA Software area. Since Debrecen, I have been involved in some preliminary discussions with friends and colleagues in both North America and Europe. The issues under discussion have been essentially the ones John mentions in his note. So far, the discussions have not matured to an extent that it is possible to make anything public. However, the intent of everyone I have spoken to is to have something more to say, if at all possible, by next year's ALLC/ACH conference; and perhaps before that. Unfortunately, I believe that all that can be said today however is "watch this space!" ... john bradley ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0224 Internet addiction & other devoted states Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:29:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 399 (399) Willard and HUMANISTS: The thread on Internet addiction struck a chord with me, reaching an age where I can begin to feel I've tried it all -- the Internet, love affairs, Internet love affairs, drinking, gambling, video games, blockbuster novels and what-have-you. What strikes me as odd about discussions about net addiction (and what Willard points out by indirection, in his canny way) is their forgetfulness that we are talking about a medium, not a substance. Net users typically log in so that we may receive something, not the Internet "itself," but something across it. Are we addicted to the medium or its messages? I don't think McLuhan's paradox is wrong to invoke here, since this is a question we may well raise about any addiction. The stuff imbibed may not, to the bibulous, be more than a means of receiving something: alcohol is merely a medium for spirits. The course of addiction treatment, in fact, may include reflection on what that something is (communion? confirmation? transubstantiation?), an examination of why it is so important to the addict, and a consideration of how else (by what means less exclusive or destructive) that something-so-important, that sacrament, may be acquired or touched. Inevitably such reflection must cut through the good/evil dichotomies within which "addiction" is commonly judged, often by that single word. Scoring 53% (which is probably around what I myself would post) may well be an occasion for us, individually and personally, to reflect (again!?). But there's also another side to this. Presumably readers of HUMANIST are on the net, at least in part, because we're interested in and concerned with the messages conveyed by this medium. Will it be spam, advertisements and marketing polls? Or will it be something more valuable to the ordinary run of us, less directly serviceable to one interest or another but more valuable to all of us for that reason? What does it mean to be _human_ on the Internet? Sure, human beings make spending decisions. At times, we may even welcome the chance to exert a kind of ambiguous influence by answering a poll. But we also seek insight, perspective, contact with each other, connection with past and future, and of better quality than is possible from filling out forms of checkboxes and accounting codes, whether on insurance applications or find-a-mate questionnaires. Seeking something so grand and so important, it's understandable if we sometimes get confused about media and messages, figures and ground, means and ends. --Wendell Piez ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street, Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 12.0224 Internet addiction & other devoted states Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:18:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 400 (400) You write: "We could also introduce a new prerequisite for enrolment in basic computing courses ("must be madly in love..."). Or perhaps just addicted." We have been looking for enrollment controls due to the huge increase in students brought on by their interest in the Internet. I'll pass along your suggestion to the Computer Science faculty! 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@cs.utexas.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Konvens98 Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:53:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 401 (401) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION KONVENS 98 Computer, Linguistik und Phonetik zwischen Sprache und Sprechen - Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech 4. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natuerlicher Sprache - 4th Conference on Natural Language Processing Oct. 5-7, 1998, University of Bonn, Germany http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 Organized by: Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische Datenverarbeitung (GLDV)(responsible in 1998) Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI), FA 1.3 "Natuerliche Sprache" Informationstechnische Gesellschaft/Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Akustik (ITG/DEGA) Oesterreichische Gesellschaft fuer Artificial Intelligence (OeGAI) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Subjects of the conference are all areas of language processing dealing with language in its written or spoken form. Special attention will be paid to approaches focussing on the structural and the phonological/phonetic aspects of computer-aided/based language research and aimed at bridging the gap between both aspects. Conference languages are German and English. PROGRAMME *** Monday, Oct., 5 1998 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Tutorials: Christian Otto: Sprachtechnologie fuer das Internet (Participants of the conference who would like to attend the tutorial are asked to send a short message to the conference office (konvens98@uni-bonn.de).) 2:00 p.m. Opening 2:30-4:00 p.m. Section 1: Prosody Kai Alter, K. Steinhauer, A. D. Friederici, J. Matiasek, H. Pirker: Exploiting Syntactic Dependencies for German Prosody: Evidence from Speech Production and Perception Erhard Rank, Hannes Pirker: Realization of Prosody in a Speech Synthesizer for German Maria Wolters, Petra Wagner: Focus Perception and Prominence 2:30-4:00 p.m. Workshop: Evaluation of the linguistic performance of commercial machine translation systems Part 1: Results of the evaluation of commercial machine translation systems Rita Nuebel, Uta Seewald: Zur Relevanz linguistisch orientierter Evaluationen ^V Grundlagen des vom AK "Maschinelle Uebersetzung" der GLDV initiierten Evaluationsverfahrens Stephan Mehl, Martin Volk: Zur Problematik der maschinellen uebersetzung von Nebensaetzen zwischen den Sprachen Englisch und Deutsch Ulrike Ulrich: Probleme bei der maschinellen Uebersetzung mit domaenentypischen sprachlichen Phaenomenen von appellativen Texten mit kommerzieller Intention (Internetseiten der Hotelbranche) 4:15-4:45 p.m. Workshop: Part 1 (continued) Rita Nuebel: Phaenomenspezifische Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzung am Beispiel von Koordinationen Workshop Part 2: Methods and tools of MT evaluation Judith Klein, Sabine Lehmann: MUe-Evaluation mit DIET Joerg Schuetz: Blueprint: Evaluation im Usability Lab 4:30-6:00 p.m. Section 2: Grammar Engineering Brigitte Krenn: A Representation Scheme and Database for German Support-Verb Constructions Jonas Kuhn: Towards Data-intensive Testing and Applications of a Broad Coverage LFG Grammar ^V Partial Target Specifications As a Filter on Parser Output Stefan Mehl, Hagen Langer, Martin Volk: Statistische Verfahren zur Zuordnung von Praepositionalphrasen 6:15 p.m. Plenary Session Manfred Pinkal: Von der Sprachphilosophie zur Sprachtechnologie ^V Stand und Perspektiven der semantischen Verarbeitung 7:30 p.m. Reception *** Tuesday, Oct., 6 1998 09:00^V10:30 a.m. Section 3: Speech Recognition/Synthesis Thomas Portele: Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion for Speech Synthesis Tanja Schultz, Alex Waibel: Das Projekt GlobalPhone: Multilinguale Spracherkennung Christian-M. Westendorf, M. Wolff: Automatische Generierung von Aussprachewoerterbuechern aus Signaldaten 09:00^V10:30 a.m. Workshop Part 3: Results of the evaluation of commercial machine translation systems Uta Seewald: Textsortenspezifische Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzung am Beispiel von Instruktionstexten Martin Volk: Probleme bei der maschinellen Uebersetzung von idiomatischen Wendungen Jutta Marx: Bewertung von MT-Systemen aus Benutzersicht: Evaluierung im Projekt MIROSLAV 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Plenary Session Gerrit Bloothooft: A European Masters in Language and Speech 12:00-1:00 p.m. Presentation of Posters Posters see below 2:00-3:00 p.m. Section 4: Parsing Hagen Langer: Experimente mit verallgemeinerten Lookahead-Algorithmen Stefan Riezler: Statistical Inference and Probabilistic Modeling for Constraint-Based NLP 2:00^V3:00 p.m. Workshop Part 4: Reports from industrial users Carmen Andres Lange: Erfahrungen mit Logos Ursula Bernhard: Bemerkungen zur Evaluation maschineller Uebersetzungssysteme aus Anwendersicht 3:30^V5:00 p.m. Section 5: Dialogue and Semantics Bernd Ludwig, Guenther Goerz, Heinrich Niemann: User Models, Dialog Structure, and Intentions in Spoken Dialog Manfred Stede, Stefan Haas, Uwe Kuessner: Understanding and Tracking Temporal Descriptions in Dialogue Bernhard Schroeder: Unifikation hoeherer Ordnung und strikte syntaktische Abhaengigkeit 3:30^V5:30 p.m. Workshop Teil 5: Evaluation from provider and user perspective Margaret King: Evaluation Design: the EAGLES Framework Juergen Kinscher: Vor- und Nachteile elektronischer Uebersetzungshilfen und Uebersetzungsprogramme, von der Textbausteinsammlung bis zur automatischen Voll|bersetzung Hans Haller: Maschinelle (Roh-)Uebersetzung als Vorlage bei einer Fachtextuebersetzung: Bericht |ber ein Experiment Rita Nuebel, Uta Seewald: Resuemee und Ausblick auf weitere Evaluationsaktivitaeten 5:00-6:00 p.m. Poster Forum *** Wednesday, Oct., 7 1998 9:00^V10:30 a.m. Section 6: Grammar and Tagging Kordula De Kuthy, Walt Detmar Meurers: Reducing the Complexity of a Theory of Unbounded Dependencies: Evidence Against Remnant Movement in German Stefan Langer: Zur Morphologie und Semantik von Nominalkomposita Martin Volk, Gerold Schneider: Comparing a Statistical and a Rule-based Tagger for German 9:00^V10:30 a.m. Section 7: Translation and Generation Munpyo Hong: Treating the Multiple-Subject Construction in a Constraint-based MT-System Juergen Wedekind: Probleme der ambiguitaetserhaltenden Generierung 11:00 a.m. ^V 12:00 Section 8: Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Reinhard Rapp: Das Kontiguitaetsprinzip und die Simulation des Assoziierens auf mehrere Stimuluswoerter Adrian P. Simpson: Characterizing the Formant Movements of German Dipthongs in Spontaneous Speech 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 Section 9: Information Retrieval Michael Hess: Antwortextraktion ueber beschraenkten Bereichen T. Kemp, M. Weber, P. Geutner, J. Guertler, P. Scheytt, M. Schmidt, B. Tomaz, M. Westphal: Automatische Erstellung einer Video-Datenbank: das View4You-System 12.00 (noon) Plenary Session N.N. 13.00 p.m. Closing Session POSTERS Istvan S. Batori, Krisztian Nemeth, Holger Puttkammer: Lautrepraesentation in etymologischen Woerterbuechern anhand der Uralischen Etymologischen DatenBasis Gregor Buechel: Ein WWW-gef|hrtes System zur datenbankgestuetzten Segmentierung von Satzteilen und zur Analyse praepositionaler Phrasen Karl Ulrich Goecke, Jan-Torsten Milde: Situations- und Aktionsbeschreibungen durch einen teilautonomen Montageroboter Johannes Heinecke, Ingo Schroeder: Multilevel Representation of the Robust Analysis of Language Alexandra Klein, Matthias E. Koelln, Soenke Ziesche: Towards Generating Dialogue Contributions Under Resource Constraints Jacques Koreman, Bistra Andreeva, William J. Barry: Die Abbildung akustischer Parameter auf phonetische Merkmale in der automatischen Spracherkennung Doris Muecke: CMC: Prosodische und extralinguistische Notationsformen in textbasierten Konferenzsystemen Sandro Pedrazzini, Pius ten Hacken: Centralized Lexeme Management and Distributed Dictionary Use in Word Manager Barbertje Streefkerk, Louis C.W. Pols: Prominence in Read Aloud Dutch Sentences as Marked by Naive Listeners Petra Wagner: Mutual Constraints at the Phonetics-Phonology-Interface EXHIBITION Parallel to the conference there will be a book and industry exhibition. LOCAL ORGANIZERS Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders Dr. Thomas Portele Dr. Bernhard Schroeder PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Dr. Ernst Buchberger, Wien (OeGAI) Dr. Stefan Busemann, Saarbruecken (GI) Prof. Dr. Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hoeppner, Duisburg (GI) Prof. Dr. Roland Hausser, Erlangen (GLDV) Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hess, Bonn (ITG/DEGA) Prof. Dr. R. Hoffmann, Dresden (ITG/DEGA) Dr. Tibor Kiss, Heidelberg (DGfS) Prof. Dr. Winfried Lenders, Bonn (GLDV) Dr. Harald Trost (OeGAI) CONFERENCE OFFICE Gisela von Neffe Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik der Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Internet: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98/index.en.html Email: konvens98@uni-bonn.de Phone: +49-228-735638 Fax: +49-228-735639 LOCATION KONVENS 98 will take place at the University of Bonn's Central Building, which is situated in the city's centre, in walking distance from the main railway station. WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/Konvens98 (Participants of the conference who would like to attend the tutorial are asked to send a short message to the conference office (konvens98@uni-bonn.de.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: lost messages Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:58:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 402 (402) Dear Colleagues: For reasons I cannot explain a few of the messages in this lot for Humanist disappeared while I was processing them. Mea culpa, probably. Many apologies to those whose deathless or even mortal prose I inadvertently scuppered. Please resubmit! Your messages will be treated with my most special care. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New LDC Corpus: Voicemail Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:50:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 403 (403) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW CORPUS from the LDC ************************* Voicemail Corpus - Part I ************************* The Voicemail Corpus - Part I was created by the following researchers at IBM: M. Padmanabhan, G. Ramaswamy, B. Ramabhadran, P.S. Gopalakrishnan, and C. Dunn. This CD-ROM corpus consists of 1801 voicemail messages, collected from volunteers at various IBM sites in the United States, comprising the training data set and 42 messages in the development test set. The average voicemail message is 31 seconds in duration, and has about 100 words. Approximately 38% of the messages correspond to male speakers; the remainder correspond to females. All messages were transcribed by IBM. During the collection period, volunteers were asked to forward some of their voicemail messages to a local extension number set up for the purpose of collecting this data. The messages were then collected periodically from the voicemailbox of this local extension and added to the database. DirectTalk6000 (DT6K) software was used to transfer the voicemail messages to the computer. DT6K is an application that runs under the AIX operating system on a host computer, and can interface to a phone line through special hardware on the host computer. Note that the data was collected from IBM sites all over the US whereas the host computer that the DT6K application was running on was located at a single IBM site. Consequently, when the application dialed into the phonemail system of an IBM site in a different state, the voicemail messages were played out over a long distance line before they were recorded on the host computer. The data was sampled at 8 KHz, and recorded in 8-bit u-law compressed format onto a local disk of the host computer. The messages were compressed by the proprietary compression techniques used by the ROLM phonemail system, which is the phonemail system in use at various IBM locations. IBM would like to acknowledge the support of DARPA for funding this data collection effort under Grant MDA972- 97-C-0012 and is also extremely grateful to George di Simone and Ira Ellis (Watson telephone system support) for their help in setting up the data collection process. IBM would also like to thank Dr. Ellen Eide for helping with the verification of transcripts and Dr. Salim Roukos, Dr. David Nahamoo, and Dr. Lalit Bahl for their help and support. Finally, thanks are due to the various volunteers who contributed their voicemail messages to the database. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1998 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New LDC Corpus: JURIS Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:49:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 404 (404) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW CORPUS from the LDC ******************************************************************* JURIS (Justice Department Retrieval and Inquiry System) Text Corpus ******************************************************************* The text data contained on this two-CD-ROM set represent a release of the JURIS (Justice Department Retrieval and Inquiry System) data collection that has been made available to the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) by the U.S. Department of Justice. The time span of the text ranges from the 1700's to the early 1990's. There are 1664 individual text files in the corpus, 1011 on the first CD-ROM, and 653 on the second. The original archive consisted of 219 files ranging between less than 1 MB and nearly 70 MB in size. In order to make the data more accessible for research use, we chose to divide the larger files into pieces, such that the average file size was about 2 MB when uncompressed (the largest uncompressed file size is about 4.5 MB). Divisions of the files were done at document boundaries, so all files contain whole documents. There are a total of 694,667 document units in the corpus, and these can be categorized to some extent with regard to their content. The following is a partial list of categories and their descriptions drawn from JURIS documentation contained in the corpus. The terminology and organization of categories are those used in the JURIS documentation: * ADMINISTRATIVE LAW Published Comptroller General Decisions; Unpublished Comptroller General Decisions; Opinions of the Attorney General; Office of Legal Counsel (US Dept. of Justice Board of Contract Appeals; ADP Protest Report (Summary of ADP Procurement Protests before the GSBCA); Federal Labor Relations Authority Case Decisions; FLRA Administrative Law Judge Decisions; Federal Service Impasses Decisions; Decisions and Reports on Rulings of the Assistant Sec. of Labor for Labor Management Relations; Federal Labor Relations Council Rulings on Requests of the Asst. Sec. of Labor for Labor Management Relations; HUD Administrative Law Decisions; Merit System Protection Board Decisions; Decisions under Immigration and Nationality Laws; Environmental Protection Agency General Counsel Opinions; Equal Opportunity Commission Decisions; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Policy Statements; US Office of Government Ethics Decisions; HHS Department Appeals Board Decisions. * DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BRIEFS Office of the Solicitor General; Civil Division; Civil Division Trial; Environmental and Natural Resources Division; Tax Division Criminal Appellate; US Attorney's Offices; US Trustees' Offices. * CASE LAW U.S. Supreme Court; Federal Reporter, 2nd Series; Court of Appeals Unpublished Decisions; Federal Supplement; Federal Rules Decisions; Atlantic 2nd Reporter (DC only); Bankruptcy Reporter; Courts of Military Review; Military Justice Reporter; Court of Claims. * FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT FOIA Update Newsletter; DOJ Guide to the FOIA Case List Publications. * FEDERAL REGULATIONS Code of Federal Regulations; Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations; Defense Acquisition Regulations. * TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS United States Treaties and Other International Agreements; Department of Defense Unpublished International Agreements. * INDIAN LAW Opinions of the Solicitor (Dept. of Interior); Ratified Treaties; Unratified Treaties; Presidential Proclamations; Executive Orders and Other Orders Pertaining to Indians. * IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION LAW Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality Law; Title 8 - Code of Federal Regulations; Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1988, Legislative History; Equal Access to Justice Act, Legislative History. * STATUTORY LAW Public Laws; United States Code; Executive Orders; Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988; Section-by-section analysis of anti-drug abuse act of 1988; Criminal Division Handbook on CCCA; The Organic Laws of the United States. * TAX LAW US Tax Court Decisions; US Board of Tax Appeals Decisions; Tax Division's Summons Enforcement Decisions; Tax Division's Tax Protester Case List; Tax Division's Criminal Tax Manual; Tax Division's Criminal Tax Indictment/Information Forms; Tax Division's Standardized Criminal Tax Jury Instructions; Tax Division's Criminal Section Newsletter; Tax Court Memorandum Decisions; IRS Cumulative Bulletin; Tax International Acts; IRS News Releases; IRS General Counsel Memoranda; IRS Actions on Decisions; IRS Technical Memoranda. * MANUALS United States Attorney's Manual; United States Trustees' Manual; Federal Personnel Manual; Federal Acquisition Regulations; Federal Acquisition Circulars; Federal Travel Regulation; Federal Information Resources Management Regulation; Federal Property Management Regulations; Principles of Federal Appropriations Law; Justice Department Acquisition Regulation; Justice Property Management Regulations. * DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE WORKPRODUCTS Civil Division Monographs; Civil Division Torts Branch Handbook on damages under FTCA; Criminal Division Monographs; Criminal Division Forms; Criminal Division Guidelines for Drafting Indictments; Criminal Division Narcotics; Forfeiture, Prosecution Manual; Criminal Division Directory of Services; Asset Forfeiture Manuals; Obscenity Enforcement Reporter; Environmental and Natural Resources Division Monographs; US Sentencing Commission's Guidelines Manual; Sentencing Guidelines Updates. The text files are all formatted using a set of SGML tags to mark document boundaries, and to mark major structural features within documents. As with file organization, the markup is derived from the document structures as provided by the Justice Department. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1998 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers may purchase JURIS for $1500. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New LDC Corpus: Speaker Recognition Evaluation Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:52:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 405 (405) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW CORPUS from the LDC ******************************************** 1998 Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test-Set ******************************************** The 1998 speaker recognition evaluation is part of an ongoing series of yearly benchmark tests conducted by NIST. These tests are intended to provide a stable reference point for measuring and comparing the performance of diverse methods for text-independent speaker recognition over the telephone, and should be of interest to all researchers working in this area of speech technology development. The test sets and evaluation protocols have been designed to be simple, to focus on core technology issues, to be fully supported, and to be accessible. In 1996 and 1997 handset variation was featured as a prominent technical challenge to be addressed. While handset variation remains a formidable challenge, the 1998 evaluation directs greatest attention toward speaker recognition performance for the case in which both training and test data are from the same source. The speech data were recorded by the LDC between January and March, 1997; most of the speakers recruited for this collection were college students from the Great Lakes (Northern Mid-West) region of the U.S. Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 1998 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus in the same manner as all other text and speech corpora published by the LDC. Nonmembers may purchase the 1998 Speaker Recognition Evaluation Test-Set for $600. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New LDC Corpus: Mandarin Broadcasts Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:51:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 406 (406) [deleted quotation] Announcing a NEW CORPUS from the LDC *************************************************** 1997 Mandarin Broadcast News Speech and Transcripts *************************************************** This collection consists of 30 hours of recorded broadcasts and transcripts that have been drawn from the following sources: Voice of America (VOA): United States Information Agency Radio People's Republic of China Television (CCTV) Commercial radio based in Los Angeles, CA. (KAZN-AM) Of these three sources, the first two comprise the bulk of the collection, and are represented in roughly equal amounts; only a relatively small sample of KAZN-AM recordings are included, owing to the relatively high proportion of unusable material (commercials, local traffic reports loaded with California place names, etc). The transcripts were created by native speakers of Mandarin working at the LDC; they are in GB-encoded form, with SGML tagging to identify story boundaries, speaker turn boundaries, and phrasal pauses; these tags include time stamps to align the text with the speech data. Word segmentation (white-space between words) is included. A working DTD is provided, and the markup is consistent with that of the 1997 English and Spanish Hub-4 collections. Because of restrictions imposed by the copyright holders, this corpus is available to 1998 LDC members only. Members who wish to receive this corpus must sign the 1997 Mandarin Broadcast News license. This license can be retrieved from the LDC website at: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ldc/catalog/nonmem_agree/agreements.html If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215) 898-0464. Further information about the LDC and its available corpora can be accessed on the Linguistic Data Consortium WWW Home Page at URL: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Announcement: Summer Seminars and Institutes Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:45:12 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 407 (407) [deleted quotation] NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES PROGRAM Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study opportunities for educators to strengthen humanities teaching and scholarship in the nation's schools and colleges. Now is the time to begin planning a proposal to direct a seminar or institute in the summer of 2000. The application deadline is March 1, 1999. Contact a program officer now to discuss a topic for a *seminar* or an *institute*. Seminars and institutes are offered either for school teachers or for faculty who teach undergraduates. The program officers listed below are available to advise applicants on choice of topic, format, and audience. Samples of successful proposals and application guidelines are available upon request. Thomas M. Adams 202/606-8396 Douglas M. Arnold 202/606-8225 Wilsonia E. D. Cherry 202/606-8495 F. Bruce Robinson 202/606-8213 Seminars and Institutes Program Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities Washington, DC 20506 E-mail: sem-inst@neh.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Draft Guidelines for Providing Web-Site Information Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:47:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 408 (408) [deleted quotation] The MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research solicits comments on its draft Guidelines for providing Web-Site Information. These draft gidelines recommend conventions for providing online information about Web sites intended for use by students, teachers, and scholars in the modern languages. The draft guidelines are available on the World Wide Web at http://www.english.ohio-state.edu/People/Ulman.1/guidelines/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MLA Computer-Support Statement and Evaluation Guidelines Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:48:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 409 (409) [deleted quotation] The MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research is updating the "Guidelines for Evaluating Computer-Related Work in the Modern Languages" and the "MLA Statement on Computer Support." The committee welcomes comments and suggestions. It is particularly interested in seeing examples of university regulations covering faculty evaluation that effectively address the concerns raised in the guidelines. The committee would like to hear from colleagues who have applied the guidelines and statement to individual cases, and it invites colleagues to identify portions of the guidelines and the statement that could be removed because they are now outdated or obvious. The guidelines and statement can be found in the Fall 1996 ADE Bulletin and the Spring 1997 ADFL Bulletin; the guidelines also appear in Profession 96. Please send comments and suggestions to Douglas Morgenstern, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 14N-329, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; dmorgen@mit.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: 12.0225 text-analysis software Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:46:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 410 (410) [deleted quotation] I'm writing to second the motion from Bruce Robertson and John Dawson for a Text Handling Software Working Group. At the same time, I would like to encourage the involvement of Gary Simon, whose call (also from ALLC-ACH98 in Debrecen) for a modular, web-based approach to constructing text-analysis software was very convincing. A context for this development (at least on this side of the Atlantic) could be provided by the Instructional Management Systems Project (www.imsproject.org) of EDUCAUSE's National Learning Infrastructure Initiative. The IMS Project seeks to foster, by means of open standards and metadata, the creation of tools and content modules that plug and play in the context of the web. Mike Michael Neuman, Director neuman@gusun.georgetown.edu Research, Curriculum, & Development Group 202-687-6283 (voice) Academic & Information Technology Services 202-687-8367 (fax) Georgetown University www.georgetown.edu/acs/people/neuman 314 Car Barn 3520 Prospect Street N.W. Washington, DC 20057 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Lesk at King's London Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:49:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 411 (411) PLEASE POST / CIRCULATE Seminar in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London How Much Information Is There in the World? Michael Lesk 12.00 Tuesday, 13 October 1998 room 17B King's College London Strand The amount of information in the world seems to be a few thousand petabytes, adding up over everything written, spoken over the phone, recorded, photographed or filmed (except amateur video). In a few years there will be so much disk space that the average piece of computer information will never be seen by a human being. So the most important research topics will be summarization and filtering; the scarce resource will be attention, not information. There will be impacts on privacy (what if every public-space TV camera record is saved forever), on science (perhaps more data mining and simulation, less actual experimenting), on book storage (libraries may be worth less, but librarians may be worth more), and on culture (will we have more or less diversity of content). In centuries past people reacted to information overload by inventing indexes and catalogs. How should we react now? ----- Dr. Lesk is Division Director, Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation (U.S.), and Visiting Professor in Computer Science, University College London. Currently his interests range over digital libraries, library preservation, information retrieval and networks. His most recent book is Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes and Bucks (Morgan Kaufmann, July 1997). ----- Equiries to the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, 0171 873-2784. ---------- 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: PMC Subject: Postmodern Culture 9.1 Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 06:09:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 412 (412) -------------------------------------- POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 9, Number 1 (September 1998) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [material deleted] --------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE AT http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.998 UNTIL RELEASE OF THE NEXT ISSUE. A TEXT-ONLY ARCHIVE OF THE JOURNAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE AT http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only. FOR FULL HYPERTEXT ACCESS TO BACK ISSUES, SEARCH UTILITIES, AND OTHER VALUABLE FEATURES, YOU OR YOUR INSTITUTION MAY SUBSCRIBE TO PROJECT MUSE, THE ON-LINE JOURNALS PROJECT OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS. From: David Zeitlyn Subject: New electronic publications at CSAC Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 11:09:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 413 (413) I am writing to draw your attention to a variety of electronic publications at CSAC including a new electronic-only publication. In chronological order they are A C19th End of Books scare: Uzanne 1894 Jerry Eades 'The Yoruba Today' 1980 Machin's life of Rattray 1988 (electronic-only) These can all be accessed from a summary page linking online readings on the CSAC web site http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/online_pubs.html yours sincerely david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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: Boyd Davis Subject: in reply to LOST MESSAGES Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:37:14 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 414 (414) This message announces a new web site, Community Language Collection: http://www.uncc.edu/english/clc The site presents audio and text clips, graphics, and full transcripts from 40 oral interviews with senior citizens in 1979, illustrating several varieties of American English, with the majority from the Southeastern U.S., and the Charlotte, N.C. region. Speakers self-reported themselves as male and female, black and white, with a range of education and occupations. Narratives may be searched by theme or by speaker birthdates, 1885-1923. To make the site available to the largest number of viewers/visitors, including schoolchildren taking NC history, the site does not use frames and includes a dual track for streaming compressed audio. Although the original tapes were made under less than desirable conditions, a range of regional features is accessible via the audio segments selected for display. Clips from the tapes were selected to present one or more features of pronunciation within a narrative segment of the interview. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Patrick W. Conner" Subject: Publishing e-Dissertations Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 00:59:17 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 415 (415) I have a question which is causing much controversy here, and I've promised my colleagues to ask those publishers with whom I'm on speaking terms. I know you're not a publisher, but I rather think there might be pertinent publisher-ness on HUMANIST. So, I'll ask here as well: Our university has just made it a requirement of graduate students to file their theses and dissertations electronically. This means that all theses and dissertations sit on a server, and they may be accessed (according to privileges set by the student at the time) only by persons with a computing account at this university, or by anyone on the Internet. Some students are convinced that no publisher will ever publish a dissertation which has been made available electronically locally, let alone one which has been available to the whole internet. I rather think that dissertations have always been available freely to members of the home institution, and often to a wider audience as well. I've also never seen a dissertation which didn't need to be thoroughly rewritten for publication. Does anyone know of a publisher with a policy not to publish books derived from dissertations which may have been locally available on the Web? Do you expect good publishers to have such policies? Do you have any opinion about how electronic dissertation publication affects subsequent hard-copy publication? Many thanks for any contribution to this debate.--Pat Conner ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0238 e-dissertations? Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:21:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 416 (416) I have been told informally by representatives from several academic presses that they would not consider or would consider only with prejudice a manuscript that had been previously "published" online as a thesis or a dissertation. (That information is anecdotal at best.) But I put scare-quotes around the word "published" here because I think it demonstrates the real issue at hand: the need to sophisticate our understanding of what publication actually entails. To me, publication entails a great deal more than simply the act of making public. Certainly the provision of general public access to a manuscript is an essential part of what constitutes publication, but it is finally only _one_ part of a process that also includes peer review, editing, publicity and advertising, various legal obligations, remuneration, a commitment to continuing dissemination, and so forth. All of these things are typically part of the model of distriubtion and access we have historically termed "publication," but _not_ all of them are necessarily part of a university-based ETD initiative, such as the one now in place at Virginia Tech (even if one particular objective of such initiatives is to make a thesis or a dissertation publicly accessible). Likewise, a university-based ETD initiative itself suggests a very different model of distribution and access than if I, as an individual, were simply to place a dissertation-length monograph on my own personal homepage, served off of a commercial ISP. To flatten all of the above -- a personal homepage, a university-based ETD initiatve, and academic and/or commercial publication (themselves two very different endeavors) -- reveals to me a crude imagining of what publication actually entails. It would be disappointing if publishers, particularly academic publishers, were unable or unwilling to do better. Matt : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Department of English Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ From: "Strahorn, Dr. Eric" Subject: RE: 12.0238 e-dissertations? Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:14:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 417 (417) I think the fundamental question here isn't the potential publication of the dissertation, but control over intellectual property. It is my opinion that student work of any kind should not be posted on the Internet without the permission of the student. Administrators should not require students to give up their rights, but should make publication on the Internet optional. I know that I personally would not want my dissertation on the Internet. My dissertation may or may not be publishable, but I want to reserve the right to decide whether it should be posted on the Internet. Eric Strahorn Assistant Professor of History Florida Gulf Coast University 10501 FGCU Blvd. South Fort Myers, Fl 33965-6565 (941) 590-7214 estraho@fgcu.edu From: "Wouden A. van der" Subject: Re: 12.0238 e-dissertations? Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:52:33 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 418 (418) I can only speak from my own experience. My dissertation has been available to the world since its defence - and in fact, it still is, as you may learn from my home page - and that hasn't been a problem for Routledge, who published the commercial edition (after thorough revision, in which their reviewers and copy editor have been very helpful & influential). T [deleted quotation]promised my [deleted quotation]theses and [deleted quotation]dissertation [deleted quotation]has [deleted quotation]have [deleted quotation]often to a [deleted quotation]need [deleted quotation]derived from [deleted quotation]expect [deleted quotation]publication? [deleted quotation]---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ton van der Wouden VNC-Project "Partikelgebruik in Nederland en Vlaanderen" Afdeling Nederlands, Fries en Nedersaksisch, Groningen en ATW Leiden Postbus 9515 2300 RA Leiden tel. 071 5171089 (thuis) 071 5277983 (werk) 071 5272615 (fax) email vdwouden@let.rug.nl http://www.let.rug.nl/~vdwouden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: retrieval tools for music, multimedia? Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:35:22 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 419 (419) A colleague not on Humanist is attempting to make the case "that tools for musical data-retrieval are urgently needed by the academic and commercial communities (everything from scholarly thematic catalogues to copyright infringement control, etc, etc)." He notes that anecdotal evidence is not lacking but needs "a reference to some authoritative statement that there is a lack of useful content-based search and data-retrieval tools for music (or for multimedia in general)." Does anyone on Humanist know of such a statement? Please reply to the group. Many thanks. 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Tumay Asena Subject: Site Update - New Books on Linguistics Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 14:04:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 420 (420) http://www.serve.com/archaeology/books/index.html Archaeology on the Net - Books Database ------------------------------------------------------- Searchable database of archaeological publications is updated with the addition of new titles on linguistics. At present there are 7500+ books listed under 80 categories. More information is available at: http://www.serve.com/archaeology/books/index.html -- Tumay Asena Archaeology on the Net - Editor archaeology@mail.serve.com =============================== Archaeology on the Net - Archaeology Resources Index http://www.serve.com/archaeology ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Tom Horton Subject: Elta Software Initiative (text-analysis software development) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:58:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 421 (421) We wish to announce the establishment of the Elta Software Initiative. Elta is a collaborative effort to encourage and support the development of software tools for the analysis, retrieval and manipulation of electronic texts. Our focus (at least initially) is on tools to support the needs of the humanities computing community, but we hope our results are useful for anyone interested in computer processing of texts marked up with SGML and XML. We have organized Elta in response to continued interest and need for such software, most recently expressed at the birds-of-a-feather session at ALLC/ACH'98 in Debrecen. At this time Elta provides Web resources and an email list to support those interested in the Initiative's goals for promoting software development. The Web site for Elta is: http://www.cse.fau.edu/~tom/elta There is a mirror site in at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/elta which may provide better response for European users. The initiative is open to all, and participants become involved by: a) subscribing to the email discussion list; b) describing their interests and activities in the text software area on the Web site's discussion forums; c) and by attempting to collaborate and/or cooperate with others in this area in order to produce better software more quickly. Anyone (software developer or not) is welcome to visit the site and leave a message describing user needs for text analysis software in the "user requirements" area. "Elta" stands for "encoded literary text analysis", and is the Old Norse word meaning "to knead" or "to work". We hope that Elta will contribute to those developing a set of modern tools with similar capabilities to past and existing text analysis tools, such as OCP (The Oxford Concordance Program), Tustep, TACT, and similar tools. A number of needs for modern versions of such tools have been discussed: sharing common user and data interfaces; support for SGML, XML and TEI standards for text mark-up; use of modern windowed operating systems (like Windows); and, when appropriate support of client-server and distributed models of interaction (like the Web). If you're interested, please visit the Web site, and consider joining the email list. Any suggestions about the project and its goals may be posted at the Web site or emailed to John or me (see below). We will make occasional reports to Humanist on the project's progress. Dr. Tom Horton Florida Atlantic University, tom@cse.fau.edu John Bradley King's College London, john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk P.S. Bruce Robertson and John Dawson recently posted a proposal on the Humanist discussion list, 12.0225, calling for a "text software handling working group". The Elta Software Initiative is basically the same kind of idea, and in fact was planned and developed over the last few months with John's proposal in mind. We saw it at the ALLC/ACH'98 conference in July. John Dawson has reviewed the Elta Web site and states that Elta "will be a perfectly good way of achieving what I proposed." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Stuart Lee Subject: JOB ADVERT: IT Post, Modern Languages, University of Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:39:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 422 (422) Oxford (fwd) [Please cross-post accordingly] ---------------------------------- IT SUPPORT OFFICER ACADEMIC-RELATED RESEARCH STAFF GRADE 1B: Salary 15,735 - 20,107 p.a. (from 1 October 1998) Applications are invited for the joint post of IT Support Officer for the Modern Languages Faculty Board and for the Language Centre. The position is available immediately, for a period of three years in the first instance, with the possibility of extension if continued funding can be secured. The appointee will provide provide low and intermediate level technical support to staff and students, and will be actively involved in the development of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). The post is funded departmentally, 80% by Modern Languages and 20% by the Language Centre, and time spent on duties for the two units will reflect this division. The work for Modern Languages will include hardware and software installation and troubleshooting, as well as the development of CALL and on-line information and teaching resources. The Language Centre requires IT support for its computer-based learning and teaching, for its research work in language maintenance and development, and for its administration. The work will include liaison with the University Computing Services to maintain the Language Centre Windows NT server. Above all, we need someone who is flexible and prepared to operate at all levels. In all activities, the post holder's contribution will be advisory, technical and educational. For informal discussion about the post contact Mr A. Slater (e-mail andrew.slater@phonetics.oxford.ac.uk; tel: 01865 270448). Further details are available from the Modern Languages web site (http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) or from Dr. P.R. Gambles, Modern Languages Administration, 37 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JF (e-mail peter.gambles@modern-languages.oxford.ac.uk), to whom applications (five copies), comprising a c.v. and the names and addresses of two referees, should be sent to arrive by 31 October 1998. From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Patent Translator/Syntacticians needed at Ergo Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:29:37 -1000 (HST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 423 (423) Our U.S. patent on our NLP technology was allowed just several months ago and we now need to find translations of the patent document for international patents. The patent is 114 pages in length (including drawings and abstract), and it must be translated into the major languages of the world for International Patents in the major countries of the world. Please send bids along with a resume which includes experience with theoretical syntax and patents. Be sure and include an estimate of the time required to complete the translation and a track record of completed translations. Necessary languages will include French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese (of the three districts), Japanese, Korean, German, Thai, etc. Please send bids and resumes to the address below. Bids from organizations which can handle more than one of the required langauges would be welcomed. You may preview our software on our web site at http://www.ergo-ling.com. You can also download some of our products there as well. A copy of the patent will be provided to those who submit acceptable bids and resumes. The job will begin in late 1998 or early 1999. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 12.0240 retrieval for music, multimedia? Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:22:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 424 (424) I referred the question from Humanist 12.0240 concerning "tools for musical data retrieval" to Perry Roland, in the Library's Digital Media and Music Center. Here's his reply: [deleted quotation] From: James Bower Subject: Re: Music Retrieval Tools Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:32:37 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 425 (425) In response to Dr. McCarty's request for references to "definitive statements" about the need for retrieval tools for music and multimedia, I would refer him to the document, "Research Agenda for Networked Cultural Heritage," published by the Getty Art History Information Program (now Getty Information Institute) in 1996. Among the eight sponsored research papers, those by Gary Marchionini ("Resource Search and Discovery") and Donna Romer ("Image and Multimedia Retrieval") refer directly to the need for such tools. In addition, there are potentially useful references larded throughout the introductory Overview and Discussion Points. The full text of the publication is available on the Information Institute's web site at . James M. Bower Head, Institutional Relations Getty Information Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles CA 90049-1680 ========== [deleted quotation]the group. [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: instrumentation as prosthesis? Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 10:04:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 426 (426) This is a request for suggestions on where to look for discussions of scientific instrumentation as mental/intellectual prosthesis. I would prefer the discussions to be rather solidly in the history of science rather than just romps with the idea through fields of dream. I have no objections whatever to romps, through fields or anywhere else ;-), but I need some foundational material to strengthen an argument, or to convince my readers that the argument is strong -- because Real Scientists have made it too. (Does anyone have an emoticon for tongue-in-cheek?) Thanks. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Stuart Lee Subject: NEW: Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive (fwd) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:39:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 427 (427) The final deliverable of the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Project' is now available! Please take a look at: ****FREE****FREE****FREE**** The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive (http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/jtap/) ****FREE****FREE****FREE**** This archive contains: digital facsimiles of all of the war poetry of Wilfred Owen; a selection of his letters and photographs; and his personal records held at the UK's PRO. In addition, the archive is aimed at teachers of the history of World War One as it also contains: c.50 Video Clips from the 1916 films 'The Battle of the Somme' and 'The Battle of the Ancre: The Advance of the Tanks' (QuickTime and MPEG) 100 Audio Clips from interviews with veterans from the Great War [needs a RealAudio Player] 250 Photographs of the Western Front (1914-1918) 250 Modern Photographs of the Western Front c.30 Modern Video Clips of the Western Front We would also like to point users to the innovative 'Path Creation Scheme' which allows lecturers/students etc. to create personalised annotated paths through the archive. This was developed by Chris Stephens and is available from the main archive page. New users may like to look at the existing four on-line tutorials which have been available since October 1997 to teach WW1 poetry. In addition there is a complete run of the journal 'The Hydra' produced at the Craglockhart War Memorial hospital. We look forward to your comments, Stuart Lee, Project Manager Paul Groves, Project Officer ------------------------------------------------------------ MAIN JTAP 'VIRTUAL SEMINARS' SITE: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ DIGITAL ARCHIVE: http://firth.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/jtap/ ON-LINE TUTORIALS: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/ 'THE HYDRA': http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/hydra/ PROJECT REPORTS: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/index.html WORLD WAR ONE POETRY DISCUSSION BOARD: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/tutorials/intro/comments.html ************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN Tel: 01865-283403 Fax: 01865-273275 E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk Web: http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ ****************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Computers and the Humanities 32:2-3 : Special Issue on Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:28:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 428 (428) EuroWordNet *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein, Editors-in-Chief Volume 32 Nos. 2-3 1998 *********************************** Double Special Issue on EuroWordNet *********************************** Guest Editor: Piek Vossen Table of Contents ----------------- PIEK VOSSEN Introduction to EuroWordNet 73-89 ANTONIETTA ALONGE, NICOLETTA CALZOLARI, PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, IRENE CASTELLON, MARIA ANTONIA MARTI and WIM PETERS The Linguistic Design of the EuroWordNet Database 91-115 HORACIO RODRIDGUEZ, SALVADOR CLIMENT, PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, WIM PETERS, ANTONIETTA ALONGE, FRANCESCA BERTAGNA and ADRIANA ROVENTINI The Top-Down Strategy for Building EuroWordNet: Vocabulary Coverage, Base Concepts and Top Ontology 117-152 PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, ANTONIETTA ALONGE, ELISABETTA MARINAI, CAROL PETERS, IRENE CASTELLON, ANTONIA MARTI and GERMAN RIGAU Compatibility in Interpretation of Relations in EuroWordNet 153-184 JULIO GONZALO, FELISA VERDEJO, CAROL PETERS and NICOLETTA CALZOLARI Applying EuroWordNet to Cross-Language Text Retrieval 185-207 CHRISTIANE FELLBAUM A Semantic Network of English: The Mother of All WordNets 209-220 WIM PETERS, PIEK VOSSEN, PEDRO DIEZ-ORZAS and GEERT ADRIAENS Cross-linguistic Alignment of Wordnets with an Inter-Lingual-Index 221-251 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Dieke van Wijnen Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. From: David Green Subject: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:22:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 429 (429) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 8, 1998 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH <http://www.cimi.org/documents/NSF_ann_1098.html> Proposal Target Dates: January 15, 1999 (first year competition) January 15 (following years' competition) Following is a National Science Foundation press release about a new grant program funding international research in digital libraries. (Proposals must involve a team with at least one researcher working in another country.) This will be of interest to a few NINCH subscribers. Specific research areas falling under this program include: * multi-lingual information systems, cross-language retrieval systems, language translation, and language teaching software * multi-national digital libraries including sound, data, image, multimedia, software, and other kinds of content * interoperability and scalability technology to permit extremely large world-wide collections * metadata techniques and tools * geospatial, environmental, biological, historical and other information systems in which location is highly relevant, including consideration of best organizations for such systems * preservation and archiving of digital scholarly information, including technology and procedures for long-term information asset management * social aspects of digital libraries and cross-cultural context studies * utilization of digital libraries in educational technology at all levels of instruction * economic and copyright issues: authentication, payment, rights formalism, trust and fair use * electronic publishing and scholarly communication technology, including collaboratories, online repositories, and new methods of organizing scientific knowledge distribution. [deleted quotation]99-2. [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AMICO Announces New Members Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:50:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 430 (430) [deleted quotation] PRESS RELEASE: September 24, 1998 ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES THREE NEW MEMBERS Art Museum Image Consortium announces three new members: * The Frick Collection (including the Frick Art Reference Library) New York, NY * The Library of Congress, Washington, DC * Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. "We're delighted to welcome these new members into the Art Museum Image Consortium", said Robert P. Bergman, Director of the Cleveland Museum of American Art, and Chairman of AMICO's Membership Committee. "Developing membership in AMICO is key to our success. The AMICO Library draws its strength from the quality and diversity of the collections of AMICO's members." These prestigious institutions join the twenty-three art museums from Canada and the USA that founded AMICO in the fall of 1997. "This is an unprecedented collaboration among art museums," said Maxwell L. Anderson, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. "Working together, through the use digital technology, we're able to provide a level of access to our collections that hasn't been available to anyone before." Harry S. Parker, Chairman of AMICO, and Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco concurred: "It has been less than a year since we formed AMICO. In that time, we've made tremendous strides towards achieving our goal of creating the best source for digital information about works of art." AMICO is a not-for-profit consortium, dedicated to enabling educational use of the multimedia documentation of museum collections. Its members are together creating a digital library that documents their collections, and making it available for educational use. Samuel Sachs, II, the Director of The Frick Collection said, "moving within the consortial structure enables the Frick to forge ahead on its own projects secure in the understanding that our work will mesh with that of other institutions." Patricia Barnett, the Andrew W. Mellon Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library added, "We'll be able to see much more clearly the inter-relationships between the works of art that we hold and the text and image research collections that document and support them. Already, in a beta testbed, university campuses in the USA, Canada and The Netherlands are using the AMICO Library. Almost 20,000 works from 22 AMICO Members are being made available by the Research Libraries Group (RLG) to 18 select university campuses; on each campus, teams of faculty, librarians and students are engaging in research about the changing nature of art and image collections in the digital age. Musing on the impact of the beta AMICO Library, Jeffery Howe of the Boston College Fine Arts Department, said "This resource is going to change our perspective on the practice of teaching art history, and although I can't foresee all the effects, it will be interesting to see how it affects us during the coming year. =8A the selection of images and artists is extensive and well chosen, and with enough unfamiliar works to keep me browsing for hours at a time. I can foresee this collection serving my students well for paper topics and personal enrichment as well as giving them the chance to study the required material." Background information about the AMICO Consortium (including copies of its agreements, technical specifications), sample AMICO Library records, and a catalog of thumbnail images of all the works in the testbed Library, can be found on the AMICO web site at http://www.amico.net/ AMICO MEMBERS: FALL 1998 1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario 3. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 4. Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY 5. Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ 6. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 7. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA 8. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 9. The Frick Collection (including the Frick Art Reference Library), NY 10. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 11. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 12. The Library of Congress, Washington, DC 13. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 14. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 15. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN 16. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 17. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montr=E9al, Quebec 18. Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al, Montr=E9al, Quebec 19. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 20. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 21. National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC 22. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 23. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 24. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 25. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN 26. Whitney Museum of American Art Membership in AMICO is open to institutions with collections of art. Please see www.amico.net for full details. The AMICO Library is available through the Research Libraries Group (RLG). If you are a not-for-profit interested in distributing the AMICO Library for educational use, please contact info@amico.net. MORE INFORMATION: =46or further information about the Art Museum Image Consortium, please cont= act: Jennifer Trant David Bearman Executive Director Director, Strategy and Research Email: jtrant@amico.net Email: dbear@amico.net Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA Phone: 412 422 8533 =46ax: 412 422 8594 J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant Archives & Museum Informatics 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __________ J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Kevin Ward Subject: Student Authors -- 1st Call KSR! Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:15:00 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 431 (431) Call For Papers Katharine Sharp Review GSLIS, University of Illinois ISSN 1083-5261 (This information can also be found at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review) This is the first call for submissions to the Winter 1999 issue of the Katharine Sharp Review, the peer-reviewed e-journal devoted to student scholarship and research within library and information science. Articles can be on any topic that is relevant to LIS--from children's literature to electronic database manipulation to library marketing. Please take a look at previous issues for a sample of what is possible--but do not let that be your only guide! If you care passionately about some facet of LIS or have produced a research paper of which you are proud, consider submitting it to KSR. All submissions should be received by Monday, December 14, 1998. Although it is not required for submission, we would appreciate an abstract (of 150-200 words) or indication of intention to submit. Submitted articles must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. For more information, including instructions for authors, please see the KSR webpage at either http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/call.html or http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/review/review/ or you can email us at review@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu + + Kevin Ward Editor Katharine Sharp Review review@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review + + From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:47:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 432 (432) From: Sebastien Jean Humanities and Computing: Who's Driving? Articles must be submitted before December 1st 1998. See the section Submission of texts in our WWW page for submission guidelines. Send submissions to: sebastij@ere.umontreal.ca Computers are ever more present. They have an impact on many aspects of our work in the humanities. Can we follow Regis Debray in pointing out, that the new media and, in the humanities, the growing prominence of the 'electronic book' are making clear the degree to which our disciplines are contingent on what he calls the "media-sphere"?(Debray 1994) The last time _Surfaces_ published a collection on computing in the humanities, we focused our attention on scholarly publishing. (see Volume IV, 1994) Today, a larger question needs to be asked: are the forms of knowledge associated with humanities affected by computing? To some extent, through the use of computers, boundaries between the disciplines become porous; viewed as data, all the source material of the arts and humanities become increasingly similar objects of knowledge. The rigidity of the machine demands the same systematicity of all its users. Data and analytic procedures, as Willard McCarty has pointed out, rendered explicit for computing, become sharable in ways not possible before. (McCarty 1998) As William Winder puts it, we might possibly have entered a different paradigm of research in the humanities, which he calls the neo-Wissenschaft era, in which accumulation of data, often under the guise of reuse and retrieval, has become of paramount importance. (Winder 1997) These are largely questions of sociology and epistemology of knowledge. But they carry many practical questions, especially in a time when the survival of the humanities appears to be at stake. Training colleagues and students in Information Technology (IT) springs to mind as a priority. However questions need to be raised as how to both balance such training with other curricular activities and how to link IT to other preoccupations of scholars in the humanities. To this day, much of the work in humanities computing has been done by senior academics who can afford to risk putting time on a long-term project. But many a project has been that of a Don Quixote lacking the basic institutional commitment. Can humanities computing truly become an interdisciplinary forum and foster exchange and collaboration? Among the system-wide effects of computing in the academy is, as Jaroslav Pelikan has observed (Pelikan 1992), a weakening of the boundary separating those who use information from those who provide it. Can it produce this reconfiguration of the academy? Debray, Regis. 1994 _Manifestes medialogiques_ Paris: Gallimard. McCarty, Willard. 1998. What Is Humanities Computing? Toward a Definition of the Field. (Talk given in the Spring of 1998) http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/what Pelikan, Jaroslav. 1992. _The Idea of a University: a Re-examination_ New Haven: Yale University Press. Winder, William. 1997. "Texpert Systems" in _Computing in the Humanities Working Papers_ http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/winder2/ Surfaces' URL: http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Humanites et informatique=CA: qui conduit=CA? Les articles doivent etre soumis pour evaluation avant le 1er=20 decembre 1998. En ce qui a trait aux normes de presentation, voir la section=20 Soumission d'article sur notre site W3. Faire parvenir a: sebastij@ere.umontreal.ca Les ordinateurs sont de plus en plus presents. Ils ont un impact sur de nombreux aspects de notre travail dans le champ des humanites. Faut-il avec Regis Debray relever la contingence de nos disciplines, que rendraient perceptible les nouveaux medias et en particulier pour les humanites la presence grandissante du "livre electronique", en regard de ce qu'il appelle la "mediaspere"? (Debray 1994) La derniere fois que _Surfaces_ a publie une collection traitant de la place de l'informatique dans les humanites, nous avions mis l'accent sur l'edition electronique (voir volume IV, 1994) Aujourd'hui, il faut poser une question plus vaste: les formes des savoirs propres aux humanites sont-ils touches par le developpement informatique? Dans une certaine mesure, les frontieres interdisciplinaires s'assouplissent avec l'utilisation de l'ordinateur; l'ensemble des objets de recherche et d'etudes dans les champs des arts et des humanites se trouvent des similarites lorsque considerees comme donnees. La rigidite de la machine impose un meme esprit de systeme a l'ensemble des usagers. Suivant en ceci des intuitions de Willard McCarty, il est possible que le fait d'avoir a rendre explicite les procedures d'analyse et les modes de traitement des donnees les rendent plus facilement partageables qu'elles ne l'ont jamais ete. (McCarty 1998) Ou encore suivant William Winder, on peut poser l'hypothese que nous venons, dans le champ des humanites, de changer de paradigme de recherche pour entrer dans ce qu'il appelle l'ere du neo-Wissenschaft dans laquelle l'accumulation des donnees, mettant tres souvent l'accent sur la reutilisation et la recuperation, est de premiere importance. (Winder 1997) Il s'agit la de questions de sociologie et d'epistemologie des connaissances. Mais elles ont de nombreuses implications concretes, en particulier dans une epoque ou la survie des humanites est en jeu. Parmi ces implications, la formation des collegues et des etudiants en technologie de l'information saute a l'esprit. Mais avant de se lancer dans un effort de formation, il est important de soupeser les questions de l'equilibre d'une telle formation avec l'ensemble des autres activites curriculaires et du lien entre technologies de l'information et les autres preoccupations des etudiants et chercheurs du champ des humanites. A ce jour, une part importante du travail impliquant l'informatique dans les humanites a ete realisee par des professeurs seniors qui pouvaient prendre le risque de se consacrer a un projet a long terme. Mais du fait meme plusieurs de ces projets sont le travail d'un Don Quichotte ayant peu ou pas d'appui institutionnel. Est-il possible par l'implication de l'informatique dans les humanites de creer un veritable forum interdisciplinaire et de favoriser l'echange et la collaboration? Parmi les effets systemiques de l'utilisation de l'informatique en milieu universitaire, on peut noter avec Jaroslav Pelikan, une evanescence des frontieres entre ceux qui fournissent l'information et ceux qui l'utilisent. (Pelikan 1992) Un tel effet peut-il produire une reconfiguration complete de l'universite? Debray, Regis. 1994 _Manifestes medialogiques_ Paris: Gallimard. McCarty, Willard. 1998. What Is Humanities Computing? Toward a Definition of the Field. (Talk given in the Spring of 1998) http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/what Pelikan, Jaroslav. 1992. _The Idea of a University: a Re-examination_ New Haven: Yale University Press. Winder, William. 1997. "Texpert Systems" in _Computing in the Humanities Working Papers_ http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/epc/chwp/winder2/ L'URL de Surfaces : http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces From: "David L. Gants" Subject: TEI report, call for proposals Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:49:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 433 (433) [deleted quotation] The Future of the TEI Report and Final Invitation for Proposals 1 Background information As reported on this list in early September, the Text Encoding Initiative is considering options for its future organization and funding, and is actively exploring the possibility of a consortium or cooperative organization to support the maintenance and extension of the TEI Guidelines. On 3-4 October, the TEI executive committee met with representatives of the TEI's sponsoring organizations (ACH, ACL, and ALLC) and of some prospective host institutions. The purpose of this note is - to report to the community on the steps being taken toward the goal of a new organization for the TEI, - to outline for all concerned the current schedule of events leading toward a final decision, and - to reiterate the invitation for institutions interested in hosting a TEI organization to contact the TEI as soon as possible, in order to ensure that any proposals can receive full consideration. 2 Issues List In the course of the meeting, we elaborated a list of issues which must be resolved in the course of any decision on the TEI's future organization and structure; any proposal for organizing and hosting a TEI structure is expected to address these questions. - Intellectual property rights: the TEI's sponsoring organizations are taking steps to clarify the current status of rights in the TEI; any new structure needs to make clear how those rights are to be managed in the future. There is a strong conviction that in any new organizational structure the results of the TEI's work must remain publicly accessible, as they are now. - The governance and legal status of the proposed organization must be described. It is essential that the legal structure be one that allows full participation by institutions and individuals from all countries; in particular, institutions in the European and North American countries where TEI activity and use are currently most common should be on an equal footing. - Proposals need to specify a plausible business plan and indicate the level of fees and other funding needed to make the proposed organization self-sustaining. The executive committee and sponsoring organizations have no particular requirements on this topic (beyond the hope that membership fees not be prohibitively expensive); prospective hosts must take into account the cultural differences between Europe and America as regards fees for membership in consortia and cooperative organizations. - Geography: there is a strong wish that the international flavor of the TEI be maintained with regard to the membership, governance, and provision of service by a TEI organization. - The TEI has developed a structure and a set of procedures for organizing and carrying out the intellectual work of maintaining the Guidelines; proposals for the TEI's future need to specify in how far these procedures will be retained, and how they will be changed. - Proposals for a TEI organization should contain provisions describing what is to happen if the organization is unsuccessful; such a fall-back plan should provide among other things for the reversion of the TEI to the original sponsoring organizations. - The future role of the current sponsoring organizations in the future guidance of the TEI must be spelled out. There is, in principle, a broad range of possibilities here; in practice, the current sponsoring organizations wish to have some active role in the governance of the TEI, at least for some initial period -- both in order to ensure continuity in the project and to demonstrate their continuing support for the TEI and its goals. - The scope of the proposed organization or cooperative must also be clear -- where 'scope' may be described in terms of discipline, or of type of activity, or of the common bases or foci of activities. The sponsoring organizations recognize that standards of many kinds may be relevant to the activities of their members, and they expect to continue collaborating with each other on standards of mutual concern. Whatever institutional and organizational framework is set up for the TEI must be in a position to collaborate flexibly with future initiatives of the sponsoring organizations (as well as continuing the TEI's involvement in work on related standards like XML). 3 Timetable The timetable for the decision about the future organization of the TEI is as follows: 31 October 1998: Initial proposals should be received from prospective hosts. November 1998: A Review Committee consisting of the TEI executive committee and additional representatives from the sponsoring organizations will review and discuss the proposals and ask proposers for explanations and clarification of matters of detail in the proposals. 30 November 1998: cut-off for the discussion process, and deadline for submission of revised proposals, with full institutional commitments. Early to mid-December 1998: a short list of proposals will be selected, and proposers will be notified and invited to give final presentations at a meeting in January 1999. Mid-January 1999: Meeting of Review Committee to receive final presentations, following which the sponsoring organizations will decide the future arrangements for the TEI. 31 January 1999: Public announcement of the decision made by the sponsoring organizations will be made by the end of January. 4 Invitation Institutions interested in proposing to organize and host a TEI organization (or to make any other proposal for the future of the TEI) should contact the TEI secretariat as soon as possible at the address below for further information, since initial proposals are expected at the end of October, and final proposals, including full institutional commitments, are due 30 November. Members of the sponsoring organizations, or other users of the TEI, who would like to express their views on any of the issues outlined above, or to suggest other issues that should be considered, are invited to comment on TEI-L, or to contact the appropriate bodies within their association, or to write directly to the TEI executive committee in care of the address below. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, University of Illinois at Chicago Lou Burnard, Oxford University TEI secretariat: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, tei@uic.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'99 Theme Final CFP Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:03:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 434 (434) From: Priscilla Rasmussen FINAL CALL FOR THEME PROPOSALS ACL-99 Conference: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Maryland June 22--27 1999 The Association for Computational Linguistics would like to encourage the submission of papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics. A particular aim for the 1999 conference is a broadening of both the thematic coverage and geographical origin of submissions; to this end, we are experimenting with a new format. Some proportion of the conference will be given over to special sessions, somewhat like a special issue of a journal, organised around themes proposed by members of the NLP community. Our aim is to incorporate some of the intensity and excitement of the traditional post-conference workshops, without replacing those workshops---we expect, as has become traditional, that there will also be a set of post-conference workshops that will remain separate from the main meeting. This call invites proposals for thematic sessions in accordance with the considerations below; a final Call For Papers will be sent out in early November. WHAT IS A THEMATIC SESSION? We are soliciting proposals for themes that will provide 4--8 high quality papers, typically forming one or two sessions in the main conference. Proposers of accepted themes, who will become the chairs of those sessions, will have similar responsibilities to those of workshop organisers in terms of arranging reviewing and the delivery of camera ready copy; however, the papers will be scheduled as part of the main sessions and will be published as part of the main conference proceedings. In terms of subject area coverage, we expect thematic sessions will be closer to workshop topic areas in focus. FORMAT OF THEME PROPOSALS Please specify the following: - - Chair Details: Name, address, email, telephone number, fax - - Title - - Summary: At most one page describing the proposed subject area, citing evidence that there is sufficient interest in the area to generate enough high quality submissions to populate up to a half-day's worth of presentations. - - Proposed Review Committee: Each paper submitted should be reviewed by at least three people. As part of your proposal, you should suggest a potential review committee of around 12 people who will be asked to serve on the committee if the proposal is accepted. Your list should demonstrate the spread of interest in the area in the community, encouraging both international participation and the participation of a broad range of researchers, including both senior members of the community and graduate students. Theme proposals should be submitted to the email address provided below. Informal enquiries as to what might work as a theme can also be directed to this address in advance of the submission date. Possible themes might be topics like: NLP and Data Mining; Word Segmentation in Asian Languages; Reconciling Functional and Formal Approaches to Syntax; Approaches to Concept to Speech. We provide these examples only as indications of the variety of topic areas that will be considered. IMPORTANT DATES This call issued: September 14, 1998 Theme submissions deadline: October 12, 1998 Notification of selected themes: October 26, 1998 Call for papers: Early November 1998 Paper submissions deadline: January 25, 1999 Notification of acceptance: March 22, 1999 Camera ready papers due: May 3, 1999 GENERAL SUBMISSION QUESTIONS Chairs for the ACL-99 program are Ken Church and Robert Dale. All queries regarding the program should be sent to acl99@mri.mq.edu.au; this forwards to both authors. SUBMISSION FORMAT Theme proposals should be of approximately two pages in length, ideally submitted in ascii by email to ACL99@mri.mq.edu.au with the subject: "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". More complicated formats such as standalone LaTeX (not requiring additional style files), PostScript, and Word will be accepted if they print on the first try. Hardcopy proposals should be faxed or mailed to *both* of the chairs, clearly labeled "ACL99 THEME PROPOSAL". Proposals should be received by 5pm GMT on October 12th 1998. Ken Church (Co-chair) Robert Dale (Chair) AT&T Labs - Research Microsoft Research Institute 180 Park Ave, Office D235 School of MPCE PO Box 971 Macquarie University Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971, USA Sydney NSW 2109, Australia kwc@research.att.com Robert.Dale@mq.edu.au Tel: +1 973-360-8620 Tel: +61 2 9850 6331 Fax: +1 973-360-8077 Fax: +61 2 9850 9529 From: David Green Subject: Working Together workshop Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:24:44 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 435 (435) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 9, 1998 Although not specific to arts and humanities concerns, this workshop might be of interest to many readers. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] **ANNOUNCING** WORKING TOGETHER A WORKSHOP FOR ARCHIVISTS, RECORDS MANAGERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS Sponsored by the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) with support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) December 16-17, 1998 Georgetown University Conference Center Washington, DC DESCRIPTION: In an intensive, participatory workshop, archivists, records managers, and information technologists will look at the issues of digital preservation and access, and discuss the management of electronic records in their own institutional context. Sessions will include presentations, small group work, and a keynote by CNI's Executive Director Clifford Lynch. The purpose of the workshop is to promote the inclusion of archival and records management issues in systems development projects, create incentives for supporting electronic records management concerns, remove organizational barriers that prevent archivists from implementing electronic records programs, and educate archivists and information technologists about their shared responsibilities and interests in preservation of and access to electronic records. Through collaboration among information professionals, we hope to realize these goals. The emphasis of this workshop is on *teamwork* -- bringing together teams of archivists, records managers, and information technologists who will begin to develop practical plans for electronic records management that can be implemented at their own institutions. Librarians with archive or records management responsibilities are also eligible and encouraged to participate as part of an institutional team. Individuals from higher education institutions, national, state and local archives and agencies, the corporate sector, and non-profit institutions are eligible to attend. FACILITATORS: Gerry Bernbom, Special Assistant for Digital Libraries and Distance Education, Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, Indiana University, is one of the original developers and facilitators for CNI's Working Together Program. Bernbom has led efforts at Indiana on information architecture and co-directed an NHPRC-funded project on archiving electronic records. Fynnette Eaton currently serves as Director of the Technical Services Division within the Smithsonian Institution Archives. She joined the Smithsonian last year to establish an electronic records program at the SI Archives. Previously, she served as Chief of the Technical Services Branch at the Center for Electronic Records at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), where she was responsible for developing a preservation program for electronic records created by Federal agencies. REGISTRATION: Participants must register as institutional teams - one or more archivists or records managers and one or more information technologists per institution. REGISTRATION IS LIMITED. CNI and NHPRC are subsidizing the costs of the meeting. Each participant is responsible for his/her transportation, lodging, and non-conference meals. There is no registration fee. In addition, participants from outside the Washington, DC area may be eligible for a $200. travel stipend. The registration form will be available next week at www.cni.org. -- Joan K. Lippincott, Associate Executive Director Coalition for Networked Information 21 Dupont Circle, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 296-5098 FAX: (202) 872-0884 Internet: <http://www.cni.org/> =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Glenn Everett Subject: RE: 12.0241 e-publishing of dissertations Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 10:01:36 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 436 (436) Note that this issue is being somewhat clouded; the requirement at Conner's university (West Virginia?) was simply that "graduate students . . . file their theses and dissertations electronically," and Conner goes on to say that the accessibility ("privileges") is under the control of the student. The fear that "no publisher will ever publish a dissertation which has been made available electronically locally" sounds like normal graduate student paranoia. A document's mere residence on a computer-even a fileserver-cannot possibly be construed as publication or even distribution. Now of course if the author decides to actively distribute, widely, a work, I suppose there might come a point where a publisher might have some legitimate concerns. Glenn Everett English Dept. U of Tennessee at Martin geverett@utm.edu --------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation]and [deleted quotation]computing [deleted quotation]dissertation [deleted quotation]has [deleted quotation]have [deleted quotation]to a [deleted quotation]need [deleted quotation]from [deleted quotation]expect [deleted quotation]publication? [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: 12.0241 e-publishing of dissertations Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:04:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 437 (437) [deleted quotation] He may not be aware of it, but Dr. Strahorn's dissertation is already available electronically on the Internet for a fee. Most US universities send one copy of all dissertations they receive to UMI, publisher of Dissertation Abstracts. In the past, UMI microfilmed them and sold copies. Now, UMI is making copies of all dissertations they receive (after 1997) available in PDF format <http://wwwlib.umi.com>. They claim to have over 70,000 dissertations available already. I don't think that they are giving authors a choice in the matter. Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University PWILLETT@indiana.edu From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 438 (438) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Job Advert: Educational Multimedia Developer Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:05:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 439 (439) [deleted quotation] Job - Multimedia Developer Middlesex University requires a Multimedia Software Developer to work on a European Funded project `Open and Work Based Learning in Advanced Telecommunications' (OWLATEL). =20 The developer will work as part of a team developing, testing and evaluating a multimedia platform for the interactive, computer-assisted delivery of scientific and technical knowledge to employees the telecommunications sector. Candidates should have commercial experience of developing multimedia products (ideally educational courseware) to meet tight deadlines and given specifications. Competence in using the Macromedia Suite of Development Tools would be an advantage (Authorware, Director, Flash, Dreamweaver) together with a good knowledge of digital audio and graphic production. For further information and an informal chat please contact Jane Garner (Project Manager) 0181-880-4269 or email j.garner@leevalley.co.uk. Grade: AO1 (=A317,536-=A322,277 pa with a maximum starting salary of=20 =A319,938) Campus: Lee Valley Centre of Middlesex University Full-time Temporary 1 year in first instance Closing date: 16 October 1998 Application forms can be obtained from the Middlesex University Recruitment Office, Bounds Green Campus, Telephone 0181-362-6110, Job Reference: LV8 ___________________________________________________________________ Jane Garner ADAPT Project Manager Lee Valley Centre of Middlesex University 221 Lee Valley Technopark Ashley Road London, N17 9LN UK Tel: +44-(0)181-880-4269 =09Fax: +44-(0)181-880-4268=09http://www.leevalley.co.uk/adapt/ From: "James J. O'Donnell" Subject: position at Penn Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 07:17:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 440 (440) The following position is not a traditional academic position and has a limited term, but offers rich and rewarding opportunity for involvement in shaping the nature of the undergraduate experience at a research university. I pass this along with particular interest because the individual hired will be chief operating officer of the house where I serve as residential faculty master. Applications to be directed as below, but I would be happy to answer questions or supply further information. Ideal start date for the position is 1 December 1998. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D University of Pennsylvania Hill College House HOUSE DEAN Hill College House is one of the longest established units in Penn's now comprehensive system of College Houses. The House is integrated into the University' academic support systems and offers a wide variety of educational and co-curricular programming for about 500 undergraduate residents, many of whom are first-year students. Hill's activities emphasize the development of student leadership and self governance. This is an opportunity for an energetic leader who is interested in contributing to Penn's academic community at an important time in its history. Primary responsibilities include the in-residence academic support and personal advising of undergraduates and the administrative leadership of the House and its staff, including 17 Graduate Associates=20 and 15 undergraduate Managers. The House Dean collaborates closely with th= e Faculty Master in the overall administration of the House. Ideal candidates will possess an advanced degree (Ph.D. preferred), and will have experience working with college students and faculty as teachers, advisors, or residential staff. Strong background in and commitment to the contemporary liberal arts is required, and familiarity with one or more professional curriculum is desired. Also=20 required: understanding of the educational mission of research=20 universities and academic residential systems; demonstrated ability to=20 further the University's efforts to foster a living environment=20 supportive of all groups and individuals; managerial/administrative=20 experience, including staffing, budgeting, financial management, program=20 planning, and program development; familiarity with the operations of a=20 large facility; excellent communications skills; computer facility;=20 ability to serve in a twelve-month, live-in position. Term: normally a three-year appointment with the first four months of service as an introductory or probationary period. Renewable, after revie= w, for one additional three-year term. For further information on Penn's College Houses and Hill College House, see http://www.upenn.edu/resliv/ -- on Hill specifically, http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~hillch/ Applicants should forward a cover letter, including salary requirements, and a resume/CV to: Alicia Brill, Job Application Center, Human Resources, University of Pennsylvania, 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 521A, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6205. Review of applications will begin on October 30 and continue until the position is filled. The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action=20 employer.=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Joseph Raben Subject: Music retrieval software Date: Thu, 08 Oct 98 12:52:46 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 441 (441) In the response to the query regarding music retrieval software, reference is made to the pioneering work of Barry S. Brook, Jan Larue, and George Logemann but I see no mention of Brook's Plaine and Easy system, one of the efforts to standardize music input for computers. Another omission is the work of Harry Lincoln at Binghamton to develop a system for not only inputting but also printing incipits, which he used for his monograph on Renaissance melodies. Of course, all printed music today depends on computerized printing, so that the input problem must have been solved in the commercial, if not the academic field. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Julie Wilson Subject: For moderation: AHDS newsletter - latest edition Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:58:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 442 (442) Dear all The latest edition of the AHDS newsletter can be found at: <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl2_3.html> ---------------------- Julie Wilson Project Manager Arts and Humanities Data Service julie.c.wilson@ahds.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Old English Corpus Online Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:04:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 443 (443) [deleted quotation] The University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service is pleased to announce the availability of the Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form at http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/oec/ The Dictionary of Old English Corpus in Electronic Form, compiled by Antonette diPaolo Healey, Joan Holland, David McDougall, Ian McDougall, Nancy Speirs and Pauline Thompson, is an online database consisting of at least one copy of every extant Old English text. In some cases, more than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date. As such, the Corpus represents about three million words of Old English and another two million words of Latin, or about six times the collected works of Shakespeare. Users are able to search not only on strings and whole words but also on phrases as well as conduct Boolean searches on both the Old English and Latin vocabulary. Searches can be restricted to specific short titles and through them to particular authors (e.g., Aldhelm, AElfric, etc.) and genres (e.g., the laws, charters, chronicles, etc.). The results are delivered with a full sentence of context which can then be opened up into a three-sentence context (composed of the sentence before and after one's hit). As an aid to searching the Corpus, an index of spellings (both Old English and Latin) is provided. Compiled as part of the Dictionary of Old English project at the University of Toronto, the Corpus is now available to scholars worldwide. The interface for the Corpus was developed by the Humanities Text Initiative at the University of Michigan. The texts in the Corpus are SGML encoded and are fully conformant with the 1994 Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines. The Corpus is currently available for free (until December 31, 1998); after this time, access to the Corpus will be available through institutional site license only through the University of Michigan Press. For terms and conditions of the site license: <http://www.press.umich.edu/webhome/doec/sitelic.html> For information on purchasing a site license: <http://www.press.umich.edu/webhome/doec/siteform.html> For further information: site-licenses@umich.edu Phone: (734) 764-4388 A publication in the University of Michigan Press Series SEENET: The Society for Early English and Norse Electronic Texts <http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/seenet/home.html> We would appreciate any questions or comments about the functionality of the Corpus; e-mail us at corpus@doe.utoronto.ca. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Unix as Literature Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:45:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 444 (444) Greetings, Thomas Scoville's "The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature" (http://www.wenet.net/~scoville/PCarticle.html) may be of interest to readers of the Humanist list. Scoville notes in part: "a suspiciously high proportion of my UNIX colleagues had already developed, in some prior career, a comfort and fluency with text and printed words." Whether considering a second career or not, this article raises important questions about the limitations graphical tools impose upon users. Enjoy! Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology, Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu (work), pdurusau@mediaone.net (home) Co-Chair, SBL Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: TOM DILLINGHAM Subject: Re: 12.0247 instrumentation as prosthesis? Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 08:29:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 445 (445) This is probably a bit of a stretch, but Alexander Marshack's _The Roots of Civilization_ clearly presents the earliest retrieval/storage technologies as mental prostheses. Whether his work has support in the scientific community is a question I can't answer. Tom Dillingham From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0247 instrumentation as prosthesis? Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 11:32:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 446 (446) Willard-- This doesn't fit your criteria exactly, but Christopher Alexander's work on architecture (see *The Timeless Way of Building*) makes a very strong implicit argument for seeing technology as a "natural" extension of the organic. And the work is absolutely seminal in the area of computer programming, where object-oriented programmers now write using explicit "patterns," an idea derived from Alexander -- so in that set, at least, this will be an Authority (at least for Those Who Know). (The second book in the series is called *A Pattern Language* and is also worth a look -- in part because it declares its own document model, albeit in English, not code.) Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street, Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Re: 12.0247 instrumentation as prosthesis? Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 14:37:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 447 (447) Dear Willard, While this is not a scientific reference you might start with Plato's discussion of the invention of writing as a intellectual (memory) aide. It is in the _Phaedrus_ when Socrates tell the story of Thamus and Theuth inorder to explain why he does not thinking writing (technology) will make people wiser. Moving forward to this century you could look at Douglas Engelbart's article "A Conceptual Framework for the Augmentation of Man't Intellect" (found in _Vistas in Information Handling_ v. 1, Spartan Books, Washington, 1963). Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Joe Raben Subject: Book on history of telescope Date: Thu, 08 Oct 98 15:29:12 EDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 448 (448) Today's NY Times reviews enthusiastically Richard Panek, _Seeing and Believ- ing: How the Telescope Opened Our Eyes and Minds to the Heavens_ (New York: Viking), which it quotes as follows: "The relationship between the tele- scope and our understanding of the dimensions of the universe is in many ways the story of modernity." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Henry Street Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:42:32 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 449 (449) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------- Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Study Invites submisssions for upcoming issues: 7.2 General issue deadline: November 1, 1998 8.1 Postmodernism, Primitivism, Nostalgia deadline: December 15, 1998 _Henry Street_, now in its seventh year of publication, is an inter- national forum for graduate students of English and related disciplines. We invite contributions of critical essays, short fiction and poetry from graduate students in English or a related discipline. We also welcome essays on pedagogy, the job market, graduate programs, and other topics of interest to graduate students. _Henry Street_ is indexed by the MLA and the Canadian Periodicals Index. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Essays should not exceed 7000 words, and must follow MLA guidelines for citation and presentation. All submissions, except poetry, should be double-spaced on standard 8.5" x 11" bond. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Send two copies of submissions, and include a self-addressed return envelope accompanied either by Canadian stamps or international reply coupons. Manuscripts submitted without SASE cannot be returned. The cover letter must indicate the author's degree status and university affiliation. Send your submission to: _Henry Street_ Department of English Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 You can also send e-mail inquiries to henry.street@dal.ca. Please note that this address is for inquiries only, not submissions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 7.1 includes: * Michele Hilton, "_Tristram Shandy_ and the Cant of French Criticism" * Steven Dougherty, "Dreaming the Races: Biology and National Fantasy in 'The Fall of the House of Usher'" * Thom Satterlee, "In Our Own Words" * Tamas Dobozy, "Those Dynamic Duos: The Hegemony of Individualism in the Late Twentieth Century and its Cumulative Effect on Partnership, the Cooperative and Marital Union" :) Fiction by Sumanth Muthyala and Tim Conley; poetry by Mitchell Andrew and K. I. Press; reviews, and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP (ACH at the MLA, 1999): The 'New' Computer-Assisted Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:40:58 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 450 (450) Literary Criticism: What Does it Look Like? What Will it Look Like? [deleted quotation] The 'New' Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism: What Does it Look Like? What Will it Look Like? A session sponsored by the Association for Computing and the Humanities at the 1999 meeting of the Modern Language Association This panel will explore computer-assisted literary criticism in a context which, though dependent upon earlier conceptions of what the computer can bring to literary criticism and scholarship, ultimately is situated in the present and looks toward the future. Topics may include, but need not be limited to, the following: [1] examinations of ways in which critical discourses facilitated by the computer have a significant, and will continue to have an increasing, presence in contemporary critical culture; [2] explorations of ways that the discourse of computing has and/or will have a significant place, explicitly or implicitly, in many approaches to literary studies; and [3] considerations of the underpinnings of the increasingly interdependent relationship between extant literary critical discourses and humanities computing theory and practice. Paper proposals or completed papers for consideration to be sent by February 15 to: Ray Siemens Department of English U of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca Additional details to be posted, as they arise, at http://www.ualberta.ca/~rgs3/mla99-cfp.htm>. ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html wk. phone: (403) 492-7833 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm * Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 1998: #7 Stewart St., Oxford, UK. OX1 4RH. Ph: (01865) 726.865. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI-99 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 08:44:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 451 (451) [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------- ESSLLI-99 WORKSHOP: FOUNDATIONS OF INTENSIONAL LOGIC AND NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS CALL FOR PAPERS The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. It is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-99 will take place at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 9-20. In its first week it will feature a worskshop on FOUNDATIONS OF INTENSIONAL LOGIC AND NATURAL LANGUAGE SEMANTICS. Its aim is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work on the following issues. Intensional logic lies at the heart of a Montague-style natural language semantics. It involves a representation of properties, relations and propositions (PRPs). In traditional Montague Grammar, PRPs are characterized in terms of possible worlds, and the logico-semantic paradoxes are avoided by using a Russellian hierarchy of types. The problems with this traditional approach (e.g., logical omniscience and expressive limitations) have led to the flourishing of more fine- grained notions of PRP, and to type-free solutions to the paradoxes (Gupta and Belnap, Barwise and Etchemendy, Cocchiarella, Bealer, Asher and Kamp, Chierchia and Turner, etc.). The new approaches have problems of their own and no new framework has become standard. This workshop thus will explore and compare well- known or newly proposed foundational approaches for an intensional logic that can serve the purposes of natural language semantics. If you are interested in presenting your research, please send a two page abstract to: Francesco Orilia orilia@unimc.it Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Umane ph. +39 (0733) 258 305 Universit=E0 di Macerata fax +39 (0733) 235 339 62100 Macerata Italy The submission deadline is: March 15, 1999. Workshop speakers will pay a reduced ESSLI-99 registration fee, which will entitle them to attend all other courses and workshops. It may be possible to allocate a sum of about 100 ECU to partially cover the expenses of each workshop speaker. There will soon be an ESSLLI'99 web page at: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/. From: Charles Ess Subject: CFP-Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Date: Tue, 13 Oct 98 14:52:40 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 452 (452) Conference Please post and distribute (with apologies for cross-postings) The second annual Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference will be held on the campus of Drury College, (Springfield, Missouri, USA), Feb. 5-6, 1999. Submissions from all disciplines and programs are welcome. For the Undergraduate Conference: We seek papers which will evoke discussion among liberally educated undergraduates by establishing a thesis or claim regarding important issues (ethical, political, religious, etc.), and supporting that claim through appropriate research. These papers will also serve as models for subsequent undergraduate interdisciplinary research. For the Faculty Conference: We seek papers which describe and critique faculty efforts to incorporate interdisciplinary research in the undergraduate humanities - especially as those efforts focus on the intersection between liberal arts and pre/professional education. These papers will encourage faculty to develop and implement new approaches to incorporating interdisciplinary research in their teaching. Submissions are due by December 18, 1998. All papers will be blind/peer reviewed; accepted papers will be posted on the conference website for participant review at least three weeks prior to the conference date. Hotel accommodations are available at a very favorable conference rate. The conference registration fee ($20.00 for faculty, $10.00 for students) includes the conference proceedings and banquet. See the conference website for further details: http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/cfp99.html. Our first conference attracted students and faculty from twelve colleges and universities, including participants from Washington State and Connecticut. Student presentations explored the intersections between psychology, political science, economics, philosophy, and history. Faculty presentations included both theoretical considerations and exemplary projects in the practice of interdisciplinary education. (See <http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/program.html> for last year's papers.) Both formal presentations and informal exchanges were highly productive for students and faculty alike. Participants were also uniformly pleased with the conference atmosphere: one visiting faculty offered a characteristic comment, "I've been going to conferences for eight years, and never have I felt so welcomed as here." The organizing committee hopes to achieve that level of hospitality again. For further information, please contact: Dr. Charles Ess, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College, Springfield, MO 65802. e-mail: cmess@lib.drury.edu voice: 417-873-7230 fax: 417-873-7435 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Virginia Danielson Subject: music retrieval Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:13:31 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 453 (453) In response to the request from Humanist, I, too, have my share of anecdotal evidence for the lack of music data retrieval tools, but know of no authoritative statement of the problem. I am not completely sure what the inquirer means by "music data" or what kinds of "music" he wants data about. (An obvious problem in the construction of search tools is the breadth of the subject and the disparate nature of the resources: are scores what is wanted? audio files? information about musics? and so forth.) It might help to know more specifically what the desideratum is. Indiana University has a good online set of references for music information (about which you probably know). I suspect, however, that even this site is more limited in scope than is wanted. Virginia Danielson Acting Music Librarian Harvard University From: Dana Beth Subject: Re: Fwd: Music Retrieval Tools Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:05:41 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 454 (454) Re music retrieval: The simple answer is to use the same tools musicians use. (This is comparable to saying "using the same tools native lonaguage speakers use"). That means all info should be in a notation format available and searchable to all comers (does html ring a bell??). Ghost writer is one such for music; Finale exists in different platforms. MIDI is a simple access (either musical or in data bits) and has the advantage that -- given the easily accessible software -- any file can be translated into MIDI transportable format. Timothy V Clark music director Synchronia modern American music group ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dana Beth dana-beth@library.wustl.edu Art & Architecture Library phone: 314-935-5218 Washington University fax: 314-935-4362 Campus box 1061 St. Louis, MO 63130 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Timothy Vincent Clark dana-beth@library.wustl.edu 2359 S. Compton Ave. phone: 314-664-9313 St. Louis, MO 63104 fax: 314-664-9313 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0249 instrumentation as prosthesis Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:44:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 455 (455) See practically anything by Donna Haraway on "cyborg-ness". -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: BRUNI Subject: CFP: (Per)Forming Diasporas Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 10:40:26 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 456 (456) Please Forward (Per)Forming Diasporas: Movements Mediations and Meanings APRIL 2-4, 1999 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas, USA The American Studies Program at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, invites submissions for papers or panel presentations on the above topic. We welcome presentations that consider the topic in material and elastic terms, specifically as the concept of "Diaspora" may relate to "American" experiences. Submissions may explore (but are by no means limited to) the following aspects of (Per)Forming Diasporas: -- "Virtual" and "Real" diasporas -- National (be)longings -- Diasporic identities/spaces/limits -- Cultural dispersions and (dis)appearances -- Border realignments and imaginings -- In(corporate)ing bodies -- Knowing bodies/knowing borders -- Moving desires -- Queer diasporas -- "Foreign" bodies/"foreign" agents -- Critical and theoretical diasporas -- Framing Otherness -- De-territorrializations -- Authorizing authenticities -- Nativ(e)ity scenes -- Re-configuring Race -- E(race)sures -- Law, subjectivity and the diaspora -- Transcultural gender codes Michael Warner will be keynoting the conference along with other unconfirmed guests. The deadline to send a 1 page (250 word) abstract is January 15, 1999. E-mail submissions and inquiries are welcome. Please send electronic submissions to: diaspora@raven.cc.ukans.edu or hard-copy submissions to: Graduate Student Conference, American Studies Program, 2120 Wescoe Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66044. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Stewart Unwin Subject: Survey of the National Library of Australia Electronic Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 06:11:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 457 (457) Journals Website The National Library of Australia is currently seeking feedback on the usefulness of its Australian Electronic Journals website, which it has provided since May 1995. The site is intended to provide access to all Australian journals which are published on the World Wide Web. It is meant to be as comprehensive as possible, but we realise that not all journals will be listed - we rely heavily on the publishers and our users to inform us if a new title has become available, or if the details of an existing title have changed. The site is organised into 3 main sub-divisions, all accessible from the main page at http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/ausejour.html: 1. Electronic journals organised alphabetically by title 2. Electronic journals organised by subject 3. Promotional sites for print journals which have minimal online content - organised alphabetically by title If you would like to comment on our existing website, please fill in the survey form accessible at http://www.nla.gov.au/survey/ozej/. If your browser does not support forms, please e-mail sunwin@nla.gov.au to request a text version. Stewart Unwin WWW Information Server Team National Library of Australia Tel: +61-2 6262 1544 Fax: +61-2 6273 3648 E-mail: sunwin@nla.gov.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ron Tetreault Subject: Digitization of Rare Materials Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 16:18:51 -0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 458 (458) I have heard a few special collections librarians express the opinion that digitization of rare materials might lead to much more consultation of the original materials by scholars, rather than less. At first sight, you'd think that having digital copies readily accessible online would spare the originals, but it is possible that such access would increase awareness of the richness of collections and hence the rate of their use. Does anyone know if a study has been published on the impact of digitization on the use-rate of the source materials? I wonder if the anecdotal reports I hear can be documented. --Ron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Ronald Tetreault Tel: (902) 494-3494 + + Department of English Fax: (902) 494-2176 + + Dalhousie University Home Fax: (902) 453-4786 + + Halifax, Nova Scotia e-mail: tetro@is.dal.ca + + B3H 3J5 CANADA or Ronald.Tetreault@Dal.Ca + + Visit the Lyrical Ballads Bicentenary website at + + <http://www.dal.ca/etc/lballads/welcome.html> + + learning by the (cyber)sea + From: Gudrun Oberprieler Subject: On-line computer training courses Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:19:17 SAST-2 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 459 (459) This is not strictly humanities related, but maybe someone can make some useful suggestions. At the University of Cape Town, we are planning to introduce on-line training courses for Microsoft applications (Windows 95, Word97, Excel97, possibly others) on a campus-wide scale. We are currently investigating two products (CBT and NetG), but both of them do not appear to be entirely suitable to our needs. We are looking at both Web-based and LAN-based courses. Does anybody know about other such courses and has any experience with them? Many thanks Gudrun Oberprieler ********************* Dr. Gudrun Oberprieler University of Cape Town Academic Development Programme Private Bag, 7701 Rondebosch Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-650 3477 / 2251 Fax: ++27-21-650 3793 E-mail: oberprie@socsci.uct.ac.za UCT: http://www.uct.ac.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: New AT Guest editorial now available via RAI website Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:07:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 460 (460) The October 1998 Anthropology Today Guest editorial by KENNETH MADDOCK "The dubious pleasures of commitment" is now available via RAI website http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/at.html Other RAI pages have also been updated yours sincerely david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Blake Archive's October Update Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 23:04:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 461 (461) The latest news of work completed here at the Blake Archive. Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward as appropriate. Matt -- 16 October 1998 The editors of the William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake> are pleased to announce the publication of four new electronic editions of Blake's illuminated books. They are: _The Ghost of Abel_ copy A (The Library of Congress) _On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil_ copies B (The Fitzwilliam Museum) and F (The Pierpont Morgan Library) _Laocoon_ copy B (collection of Robert N. Essick) These three works are Blake's final illuminated books, their composition dateable between 1822 (_The Ghost of Abel_, _On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil_) and c. 1826-27 (_Laocoon_). In the words of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, they offer Blake's "Last Testament" on subjects ranging from aesthetic theory to political economy, from forgiveness to apocalyptic judgment. A drama in miniature, _The Ghost of Abel_ addresses "Lord Byron in the Wilderness" (plate 1) and, more specifically, the issues of vengeance and forgiveness raised by Byron's _Cain: A Mystery_ (1821). The broadsheet _On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil_ challenges these representative figures of classical learning, with special emphasis on concepts of unity as an artistic ideal, identity, and the destructive consequences of imperialism. There are five copies extant for each of these works, which, like most of Blake's illuminated books, were produced in relief etching; the _Laocoon_ plate, which is an intaglio etching/engraving, is extant in two copies. Through a careful representation and restoration of the famous Hellenistic sculptural group, Blake attempts to return the _Laocoon_ to its supposed Hebraic origins and its allegorical meanings, revealed by the terse yet intellectually expansive texts with which Blake surrounds the central image. All of these editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and are all fully searchable for both text and images and supported by the unique Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. We now have twenty-six copies of sixteen illuminated books in the Archive. Late this year and early in the next, we will add _Milton_ copy D and _Jerusalem_ copy E. We will also be adding at least six more copies of _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_, two copies of _Songs of Innocence_, five copies of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_, four copies of _The Book of Urizen_, and two copies each of _America, a Prophecy_ and _Europe, a Prophecy_. In addition, by the end of 1998 we will provide a fully-searchable SGML edition of David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_. In the coming weeks we will also be opening a brand-new wing of the Archive, consisting of an extensive array of supporting materials: an updated and expanded Plan of the Archive, a statement of Editorial Principles and Methodology, a summary of the Archive's technical design and implementation, a list of Frequently Asked Questions, an in-depth illustrated Tour highlighting the Archive's features and some ways to use its resources, and more. Our hope is that these extensive documentary materials will prove valuable both to our own growing user community as well as to scholars interested in the theory and practice of electronic editing more generally. We will make a separate announcement when these materials are available on the site. Finally, on our recently opened Contributing Collections page, we plan to begin adding color-coded and linked lists of each institution's entire Blake collection to indicate what is and is not in the Archive and what is forthcoming. In addition to providing a convenient index of the scope and contents of the Archive, these lists should also be useful to scholars in planning research trips. Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, Joseph Viscomi ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CFP: Humanities Computing and Literary Criticism: Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 22:29:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 462 (462) Considering the Implicit [x-posted; please re-distribute, & please excuse duplication] Humanities Computing and Literary Criticism: Considering the Implicit A Joint ACCUTE-COCH/COSH panel at the 1999 Congress of Learned Societies, Canada Is there a Humanities Computing that is, now, of direct relevance to literary studies? Papers in this panel will work towards answering this question, in part: specifically, they will explore and comment upon (generally or in detail) the underpinnings of the increasingly interdependent relationship between extant literary critical discourses and humanities computing theory (hypertext, informatic semitiocs, &c.) and practice -- in a context which, though dependent upon earlier conceptions of what the computer can bring to literary criticism and scholarship, is ultimately situated in the present and looks toward the future. Paper proposals or completed papers should be sent to Ray Siemens or Andrew Mactavish by 1 November 1998 for consideration. Ray Siemens Department of English U of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. fax: (403) 492-8142 Additional details to be posted, as they arise, at http://www.ualberta.ca/~rgs3/cc99-cfp.htm>. ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html wk. phone: (403) 492-7833 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm * Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 1998: #7 Stewart St., Oxford, UK. OX1 4RH. Ph: (01865) 726.865. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: gleanings Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 08:24:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 463 (463) [deleted quotation]words and dictionaries. (1) Erich Segal, "Not quite immortal", rev. of Who's Who 1998. 150th edn., on CD-ROM, pub. A and C Black. This, I find, is a very odd review from the computing perspective. Segal, a classicist, does add to our stock of wit by identifying this as a fifth in the traditional scheme of the ages: gold, silver, bronze, iron -- and now silicon. He is considerably less clear about the nature of this new age, however. Consider this: "...the electronic media (the word 'cyberspeak' denotes the raw material used for data storage) are indestructible.... Henceforth, the text will endure immutable." Segal also sees the CD as threatening notable individuals' passports to posterity in the immutability of print, because "a CD-ROM may be changed at minimal expense". Is this an example of a cultural pundit whose authority in other realms greatly outstrips actual experience of his subject? (2) Geoffrey Miller, "Looking to be entertained: Three strange things that evolution did to our minds". Commentary. This, it seems to me, is a very fine discussion of two approaches to evolution, by stages and by adaptation. Allow me, however, to cut directly to the passage I think has most relevance to us, or at least to those of us who express our love for language in computing it -- "Sexual selection seems to have liberated human ideologies from the need to have any epistemological relevance to the real world. How did this happen? Most animals produce courtship displays that play upon each other's eyes and ears more than their brains. Their simple signals activate sensations but not concepts. Humans are different. We load our courtship displays with meaning, to reach deeper into the minds of those receiving the signals. From this angle the evolution of language was driven not so much by survival advantages of communicating useful information, but by the reproductive advantages of activating more complex ideas in the heads of potential mates. Through deftly modifying exhaled breath (that is, speaking) humans can conjure imagined worlds full of engaging characters and memorable stories. The importance of language as a sexually selected medium for fiction may be equal to its importance as a naturally selected medium for non-fiction." (p. 15) The term "information technology" (IT) seems to me to put the stress altogether in the wrong place. If communication is important to the humanities (rhetorical conditional!), then we need to think not so much about information as what happens with it when we "reach deeper into the minds of those receiving the signals" and activate "more complex ideas in the heads of potential mates", whether these be sexual or intellectual mates, or both. Like the notion of "productivity", which so vexed discussions of computing a few years ago, the terminology of IT pollutes the water before we drink it. As in the terminology of accounting, which has infected thinking about what our institutions of higher education should be about. Some here will remember the slogan, "make love not war". Slogans are anathema, but perhaps chanting "make love not information" would be better than tacit agreement with the tendency to reduce humanities computing to mere IT? End of mischievous sermon. Comments, and serious ones, most welcome. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: vocabularies and accounting Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:01:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 464 (464) Willard, A bit unfair in your last "gleanings" to the discourse of accounting. Though I supose it is with purpose of gentle provocation. Unfortunately you give no examples of how the terms of accounting have dominated certain quarters of the academy. I do like the fine distinction that accountants make between "expense" and "cost". It enables us to argue with some authority (when a superb set of data is presented) that the expense of investing in humanities, computing and otherwise, is fully rewarded and then some by the savings realized (i.e. the cost if expense had been spared). I am willing to wager that some econmists can even make the positive case that labour forces with higher levels of general arts education not only adapt better to changing market place conditions but also sustain higher productivity. Watching the bottom line is moot without a proper scheme for capitalization. I need not remind you that Eurpoean humanities culture arose along side banking or that learned societies also rose contemporaneously with corporations (e.g. the Royal Society and the East India Company) and the newly emerging infrastructures served both. Knowldege production like commerce is a gamble. And both depend upon exchange. Tyche has never been far from technology and its deployment. Technologies of communication are especially open to chance. Scholarship is but the reading of the aleatory history of the archive. Consider the analogy between the insurance industry's actuarial tables and the "longue duree" of the Annales school of history. Amazing how the singular becomes repetitive over time. Quite amazing too how periods of amortization are open to negotiation. The struggle is of course to gain the public's good will for projects that extend beyond the span of a single human lifetime. Not an easy feat for a university system still in many respects nostalgic for accomplishments of the gentleman scholar - the man of leisure and wealth. How did Erasmus manange? Is the computing humanist to be a mendicant milites? Francois From: Dan Price Subject: RE: 12.0265 gleanings Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:47:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 465 (465) Willard, I love the phrase "Make love not information." Is it copyrighted? As for "What is it when we "reach deeper into the minds of those receiving the signals" and activate "more complex ideas in the heads of potential mates", whether these be sexual or intellectual mates, or both? Like the notion of "productivity", which so vexed discussions of computing a few years ago, the terminology of IT pollutes the water before we drink it." The terminology, the information, is part of the whole process. It is like trying to separate language from thinking. The communication or the expression (and when we use those words, the process seems more palatable than that of transmitting information) is part and parcel of the doing what you describe. Thanks for the stirring of the pot. --Dan Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, 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 http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Tony Meadow Subject: Humanities computing journals for donation Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:14:05 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 466 (466) Many years ago (perhaps it just seems that way...) I published the Newsletter for Asian and Middle Eastern Languages on Computer. Some years prior to that I had my first paying job working with computers helping a religion professor work with Sanskrit on an IBM mainframe (UNC Chapel Hill - mid 1970's). This background may explain the varied collection of humanities computings journals that I have accumulated. Unfortunately I am running out of space and would like to donate the following journals. My preference would be to donate the entire lot to a college or university library or computer center. If that is not possible, I would be willing to split it up. All that I ask is reimbursement for postage. This set of journals fills four standard size "banker's boxes". ACH Newsletter various issues ALLC Bulletin Vol 1, 6, 8,9,10,11,12,13 - complete (3 issues per volume) Vol 4 issue 3 Vol 5 issue 1 Vol 7 issues 2, 3 ALLC Journal Vol 1-6 (2 issues per volume, I think 4#1 is missing) Apple Library Users Group various issues Bits & Bytes Review vol 1 - issues 1-10 (complete?) vol 2 - issues 1-7 Computer Processing of Chinese & Oriental Languages vol 1-3 (4 issues per volume) Computers & the Humanities vol 10 issue 1 vol 18 issues 2, 3+4 vol 19-22 complete (4 issues per volume) vol 23-29 complete (6 issues per volume) Literary and Linguistic Computing Vol 1-9 (4 issues each volume) Research in Word Processing vol 1#1 through vol7#5 (some might be missing) SCOPE (Scholarly Communications and Online Publishing & Education) vol 1-5 - various issues SESAME bulletin (UK publication on multilingual computing) various Text Technology vol 1, 2 complete (6 issues each volume) vol 4 issues 1, 3, 4 vol 5 issue 1 TUGBoat (newsletter of Donanld Knuth's TEX typesetting software) vol 1#1 through vol 16#2 along with most issues of TEX+TUG News Miscellaneous - such as several reports on the Hershey character sets (early 1970's vector fonts) Please contact me at my work preferably by email at . Tony Meadow Bear River Associates, Inc., 505 14th Street, Suite 600, Oakland, CA 94612 Telephone: 510 834 5300 ext 108 Fax: 510 834 5396 Internet: tmeadow@bearriver.com Web: http://www.bearriver.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: PMC Subject: Call for Reviews Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:09:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 467 (467) PMC CALL FOR REVIEWS -- DEADLINE NOVEMBER 9 ------> REPLY TO: pgeyh@siu.edu _Postmodern Culture_ is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs, plays, TV shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions, conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for the January 1999 issue. Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long, and should follow the journal's format guidelines below. The deadline for submissions is 9 November. A selection will be made at that time. All correspondence will be answered and all submissions will be given careful consideration. Send reviews and queries to Paula Geyh, the review editor at pgeyh@siu.edu, not to the _PMC_ offices. If e-mailing reviews, make sure the document is not encoded, and that it has been stripped of all word-processing codes (i.e, saved as ASCII or DOS text). Submissions can also be sent on floppy disk to Paula Geyh at the Department of English, Faner Hall, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901. All submissions should follow the format guidelines detailed below. FORMAT GUIDELINES FOR _PMC_ REVIEWS You can save us a good deal of work by following these guidelines: Reviews should generally run between 2000 and 3500 words, or about 8-14 ordinary manuscript pages. Set margins to half-inch left, two-inch right, and set your font to Courier 10cpi (or any 10cpi, non-proportional font). This is very important, as it prevents too many characters on a line. Put a title at the top of the first page, and under it your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and mailing address. Center these lines. Number all paragraphs of your text with bracketed numbers. These bracketed numbers should be margin-released into the left-hand margin (this will place them at the 0" spot on the line). Indent (to 1") the first line of each pargraph and all lines of set- off quotations. Single-space the document throughout. Use _this_ for underlining titles, *this* for bold print or emphasis, %this% for foreign words, and ^this^ for superscript. Footnotes, if any, should follow MLA format. Page references in the text, if any, should not be preceded by p., pp., or any other notation; use just the page number itself. --- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 CFP Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:55:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 468 (468) [deleted quotation] We are pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for EACL '99, to be held in Bergen, Norway from 8 through 12 June 1999. The call (text version below) can be found at http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/call-for-papers.html The conference home page is at http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/ Henry S. Thompson, Programme committee chair Alex Lascarides, Programme commitee co-chair Koenraad de Smedt, Local arrangements chair John Nerbonne, EACL president [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop Announcement & First Call for Papers Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:06:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 469 (469) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI-workshop on DEIXIS, DEMONSTRATION and DEICTIC BELIEF in MULTIMEDIA CONTEXTS ================================================================ Workshop held in the section 'Language and Computation' as part of the 'Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information' ESSLLI-99 August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION ORGANISERS: Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken) Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh) Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360) Questions concerning the workshop may be addressed to any of the organizers. BACKGROUND: Deixis has always been at the heart of reference research as widely known literature in semantics and pragmatics (H.H. Clark, S.C. Levinson, H. Kamp, D. Kaplan, W.V. Quine) demonstrates. Being fundamental, it is in the common focus of several disciplines: Cognitive science, linguistics, philosophical logics, AI, and psychology. Until recently, little was known about the role of pointing and demonstration in deixis, especially about the coordination of speech and gesture in deictic contexts. The situation has now changed due to research in linguistics, ethnomethodology, vision, neuro-computation, gesture analysis, psychology, and computer simulation. At present, research is going on at various places, aimed at the integration of deixis information from e.g. the visual and the auditory channel. Relevant topics in this new field are e.g. saliency, focus-monitoring, types of gestures and demonstrations, and especially the emergence and structure of composite signals but it also has intimate connections with problems of long standing such as grounding, mutuality or agents' coordination in discourse. The workshop will integrate different methodologies, experimental paradigms, computer simulation including virtual reality approaches and formal modelling alike. It is addressed to Master-students, PhD-students and scholars working on philosophical, linguistic or computational aspects of deixis including gesture. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-99 please visit the ESSLLI-99 home page at http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ ADDRESSES: Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken): Elisabeth.Andre@dfki.de Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh): poesio@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360): rieser@lili.uni-bielefeld.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: teaching invitation (American Bestsellers) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:50:43 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 470 (470) This is an invitation to coordinate teaching activities and contribute student work to an online database on American bestselling fiction. If you teach 20th-century American literature, American Studies, publishing history, bibliography, or library research skills, this might be of interest to you. Course Description: During the spring of 1998 I taught an upper-level undergraduate lecture course at the University of Virginia on 20th-century American best-sellers, with 75 students. In support of this course, I set up a web-accessible database to which students submitted their assignments. Each student chose one best-seller at the beginning of the course, and during the semester completed the following: --a bibliographic description of a first edition (first editions of many of these books can be found and bought in good condition over the web, for less than $50--often for around $20) --a publishing history --a reception history --a brief author bio --a critical essay on the book OR (copyright permitting) a full-text electronic edition (done in TEI, contributed to the Etext Center's publicly accessible collections). Six students chose to do full-text electronic editions. In addition, we read (and I lectured on) one bestseller from each decade of the 20th century. Actually, two from the forties.... The syllabus and the results of the students research can be found on the web at: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses/entc312/s98/ The students did some remarkable work--the combination of doing original research and having it published seemed to motivate them to go to great lengths in their use of library reference resources and also in using the web, mailing lists for librarians and special collections, and any other resource they could get their hands on. The course also provided a good way to survey the American 20th century. Invitation: I will be teaching this course again in the spring off 1999, and with the top ten fiction bestsellers for each year from 1900 to 1994, there are nearly a thousand books to choose from. I expect to have another 75 students, so we'll be 150 books into that number by the end of the spring. If, during the coming spring or in some other semester, you would be interested in teaching a course in which your students contribute to this database, I would be very happy to coordinate the effort. Since the assignments go into a database whose table and column structures are already in place, it would be necessary for students to work off the same assignment forms that I have used--these are not difficult to use, and I spent very little time either in class or in office hours doing technical support or hand-holding. Students need to be able to cut and paste, and they need to be able to use fill-out forms in web browsers, but that's about it--a pretty low bar, technically speaking. If you're interested, please drop me a line. John Unsworth jmu2m@virginia.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Job Announcement Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:59:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 471 (471) [deleted quotation] From: vogel@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Lectureship in Computational Linguistics, Trinity College, Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:53:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 472 (472) Dublin Please consider this ad regarding a lectureship available at Trinity College. Further particulars are available from the Staff Office, but I'll be happy to field informal queries (vogel@tcd.ie). Applicants to previous posts should definitely consider re-applying. Carl Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Computer Science University of Dublin, Trinity College Applications are invited for the following appointment in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. The appointment will be tenable from the earliest convenient date. The person appointed to this post will be committed to research and teaching. The principal lecturing duties will be associated with the degree in Computer Science, Linguistics and a Language. Candidates should be prepared to teach a comprehensive course in natural language processing, as well as contribute to courses in other areas such as artificial intelligence, logic and complexity, formal semantics and statistical methods. The appointment will be made on contract for two years within the salary range 15,531-21,915 per annum (Lecturer Grade II) at a point commensurate with qualifications and experience to date. Application form and further particulars relating to this post may be obtained from: Establishment Officer Staff Office Trinity College Dublin 2 Tel: 608-1678 Fax: 677-2169 e.mail:recruit@tcd.ie Electronically available application forms: http://www.tcd.ie/Staff_Office/app.rtf The closing date for receipt of completed applications will be Friday, 6th November, 1998 TRINITY COLLEGE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER Ref: 655(iv)/98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: music retrieval Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:53:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 473 (473) [deleted quotation] Joseph Raben wrote "all printed music today depends on computerized printing, so that the input problem must have been solved in the commercial, if not the academic field." Yes, the goal of printing music by computer has been achieved. Getting music into and out of the computer is not a problem except for the massive amounts of time needed for input. In the corporate world the expense of input can be justified by the profits. We're not so lucky in the academic world. We can only hope that optical music recognition will help alleviate this burden in the future. The major problem is the lack of a standard representation for the music _inside_ the computer. There is a vast number of representation schemes and it seems like someone invents a new one every day. So the problem is not that music (or at least the vast majority of it) can't be represented. The problem is the investment that individuals and corporations have in each of their own representations. Timothy Clark suggested that we "use the same tools musicians use", but when musicians use so many different and proprietary tools, how do we pick which one? Mr. Clark suggests Finale because it exists on several platforms. I remember the days when the same argument was used against implementing a standard markup language for text. The argument then was: "We have WordPerfect, why do we need SGML?" But where is WordPerfect now? And what wond'rous things has SGML/HTML wrought? MIDI also fails as an interchange format because of its performance orientation. MIDI just can't represent all the data that researchers require. Our best hope for ever achieving parity with the markup and interchange efforts taking place in the text world is to create a general purpose music markup language. Better yet, how about a meta-language for creating music representations? David Huron's Humdrum Toolkit is a model for this kind of thing. You can read more about humdrum at http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dmmc/Music/Humdrum. The ideal meta-language would combine the best parts of SMDL (Standard Music Description Language), already an international standard, and Humdrum. -- Perry Roland pdr4h@virginia.edu Digital Media Center University of Virginia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: etymological data base Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 10:12:31 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 474 (474) I am searching for an etymological data base accessible on the WWW an= d would be grateful for any information in this regard. Thanks a lot, Jan Christoph Meister ****************************************************** Jan Christoph Meister Arbeitsstelle zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur Universit=E4t Hamburg Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar von Melle Park 6 20 146 Hamburg E-Mail 1: jan-c-meister@rrz.uni-hamburg.de E-Mail 2: jcm-sa@pixie.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "Lissa Lord " Subject: Exhibit On Preservation Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:52:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 475 (475) http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/ref/exhibit The University of Iowa Libraries announces a virtual exhibition which focuses on the preservation of scholarly resources in various formats. This Web Page is the virtual version of the Libraries' exhibition, "Keeping our Word: Preserving Information Across the Ages." Most digitized images are from the exhibition as shown in the North Exhibition Hall of the Main Library on the University of Iowa campus from October 1998 to January 1999. The presence of this exhibition on the Internet extends the space and resources available to the on-site visitor. The space grows beyond library walls. The resources expand into major preservation research centers as well as into small, specialized collections the world over. The virtual exhibit forms a continuing research page for the study of library preservation. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Lissa Lord lissa-lord@uiowa.edu Team Leader, Research Services Information, Research, & Instructional Services (IRIS) University of Iowa Libraries 100 Main Library Iowa City, IA 52242 319/335-5403 It's like Deja Vu all over again...Y.Berra * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * From: Ian Butterworth Subject: Conference, 'Electronic Communication and Research in Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 14:57:59 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 476 (476) Europe' Colleagues The Proceedings of the Conference:"Electronic Communication and Research in Europe",which was organised by the Academia Europaea and took place in Darmstadt/Seeheim on the 15th to 17th of April 1998 within the framework of the European Commission's European Science and Technology Forum has now been published on the Web by the Forum with the help of the German National Research Centre for IT-Integrated Publications and Information Systems Institute (GMD-IPSI). The Proceedings were edited by Jack Meadows and can be found at: http://academia.darmstadt.gmd.de/seeheim/thebook/index.html The printed version will be available from the Forum soon. Regards Ian Butterworth ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Ian Butterworth CBE FRS MAE Vice-President, Academia Europaea The Blackett Laboratory Imperial College Prince Consort Road London SW7 2AZ UK Tel: +44 (0)171 594 7851 Fax: +44 (0)171 823 8830 E-Mail: i.butterworth@ic.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Prague Dependency Treebank Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:08:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 477 (477) [deleted quotation] The Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (UFAL) at the Charles University, Prague, proudly announces that the first version of the PRAGUE DEPENDENCY TREEBANK has been made available to the research community. The Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT) is a morphologically and syntactically annotated corpus of Czech as a representative of inflectionally rich free-word-order languages. (E.g., all the Slavic languages such as Russian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian and many others spoken together by more than 350 million people have similar typological properties as Czech in both morphology and syntax.) The current version of PDT (0.5) contains 456705 tokens (words+punctuation) in 26610 sentences and 576 files. For keeping results of NLP applications comparable the data has been divided into a training set (19126 sentences), a development test set (3697 sentences) and a (cross-)evaluation test data set (3787 sentences). The Prague Dependency Treebank is - to a certain extent - modelled after the Penn Treebank but it uses the dependency syntax representation of sentences. It has three layers: 1.morphological (uses word forms, tags, lemmas) 2.analytical, or surface syntax (uses dependencies and analytical functions of dependencies) 3.tectogrammatical, which captures linguistic meaning (contains tectogrammatical functions such as Actor, Patient, Addressee, etc.) The Prague Dependency Treebank is a long-term project which should end in the year 2000. At the moment (October 1998) we have at our disposal roughly half the material (at levels 1 and 2) while the level 3 is still in the specification phase and rules of transition between the representations on level 2 and level 3 are being formulated. The current version is thus preliminary and identified as "PDT version 0.5" (reflecting mostly the amount of material currently available). The text material contains samples from the following sources: 1.Lidove noviny (daily newspapers), 1991, 1994, 1995 2.Mlada fronta Dnes (daily newspapers), 1992 3.Ceskomoravsky Profit (business weekly), 1994 4.Vesmir (scientific magazine), Academia Publishers, 1992, 1993 The electronic source has been provided by the Institute of the Czech National Corpus, in a format jointly developed by the ICNK and UFAL. The Treebank has been supported by the following grants and projects: Grant Agency of the Czech Republic No. 405/96/0198 (Treebank Definition and Procedures Specification) Grant Agency of the Czech Republic No. 405/96/K214 (Tools and Level 1 Annotation) Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic Project No. VS96151 (Tools and Structural Annotation on the Level 2) National Science Foundation grant No. #IIS-9732388 (Version 0.5 Preparation for the Workshop 98) The documentation of PDT is linked from its main page at UFAL. Go to the UFAL home page, http://ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/, then click on "Projects" and "Treebank". The PDT Version 0.5 is freely available for research purposes providing you fill in and submit a licence agreement. The appropriate form is also linked from the PDT web page. -- Daniel Zeman, UFAL MFF UK, Praha zeman@ufal.mff.cuni.cz http://www.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~zeman/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Vocabularies and accounting Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:33:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 478 (478) I take issue with Francois! The singular never becomes repetitive over time except when you turn the binoculars backward. -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: gaertnek@mailer.uni-marburg.de Subject: Re: 12.0273 etymol. database? Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:42:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 479 (479) For inquiries into the etymology of German try the hompage of a project by Professor Seebold, University of Munich: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/ahdeutsch ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof.Dr. Kurt Gaertner FB II Sprach- und Literaturwiss. office: Tel. 0651-201-2323 Germanistik Fax 0651-201-3909 Universitaet Trier secretary: Tel. 0651-201-2321 D-54286 Trier private: Tel. 06421-35356, Fax 06421-35415 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michel Bernard Subject: [iso-8859-1] Programme de s=E9minaire : Claude Simon, num= Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:11:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 480 (480) =E9riquement [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] Veuillez trouver ci-dessous le programme du s=E9minaire doctoral "Claude Simon, num=E9riquement". Les s=E9ances sont ouvertes =E0 tous. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= - Universit=E9 de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III) - Ann=E9e universitaire 1998-1999 DEA. S=E9minaire de M. B=C9HAR avec le concours du Centre de recherche Hubert de Phal=E8se (JE 420) Mardi 18-20 h (par quinzaine) salle 516 =E0 Censier. CLAUDE SIMON, NUM=C9RIQUEMENT : R=C9TROLECTURE DU JARDIN DES PLANTES AU TRICHEUR. La num=E9risation des donn=E9es favorise une approche nouvelle des ^=DCuvre= s litt=E9raires. Le Centre de recherches Hubert de Phal=E8se ayant num=E9ris= =E9 la totalit=E9 des =E9crits de Claude Simon, nous =E9tudierons son dernier roma= n, Le Jardin des plantes, en le mettant en relation avec l^=D2ensemble de l^=D2^= =DCuvre, =E0 l^=D2aide des diff=E9rents outils d^=D2analyse disponibles. Il va de soi qu= e ces instruments techniques ne sont que des auxiliaires de recherche. Aucune connaissance de l^=D2informatique n^=D2est requise. Deux pistes de r=E9flexion : * Place du roman dans l^=D2^=DCuvre de Claude Simon * Utilit=E9 des outils informatiques pour l^=D2=E9tude litt=E9raire (=E0 c= et =E9gard, les premi=E8res s=E9ances seront consacr=E9es =E0 des questions int=E9ressa= nt autant l ^=D2=E9quipe de recherche que les =E9tudiants de DEA). 1. 3 novembre Directives. Pr=E9sentation du programme. G=E9n=E9ralit=E9s= sur l^=D2 ELAO et sur Claude Simon 2. 17 novembre Lecture dynamique d^=D2un texte litt=E9raire (s=E9ance an= im=E9e par J.-P. Goldenstein). 3. 1er d=E9cembre Les postulats d^=D2Hubert de Phal=E8se : Beckett =E0 l= a lettre, avec Michel Corvin. 4. 15 d=E9cembre Po=E9tique et informatique, par Alckmar Luis dos Santos (Universit=E9 F=E9d=E9rale de Santa Catarina, Br=E9sil) 5. 12 janvier Le vocabulaire simonien 6. 26 janvier Th=E9matique(s) 7. 9 f=E9vrier Intratextualit=E9 8. 9 mars Intertextualit=E9 9. 23 mars R=E9f=E9rentialit=E9 10. 6 avril Chronographie 11. 4 mai Place dans l^=D2histoire litt=E9raire 12. 18 mai Images et rh=E9torique (s=E9ance anim=E9e par Pascal Mougin) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:30:05 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 481 (481) [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News=3D20 ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES *** We are happy to announce new speech resources available via ELRA: 1) ELRA-S0052 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus= =3D - DB1 2) ELRA-S0053 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus= =3D - DB2 3) ELRA-S0054 Chilean Spanish FDB-250 4) ELRA-S0055 Russian SpeechDat-like FDB-1000 5) ELRA-S0056 Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 6) ELRA-S0057 Shanghai Mandarin FDB-1000 7) ELRA-S0058 RVG1 (Regional Variants of German 1, Part 1) Below a description of each resource: 1) ELRA-S0052 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus DB1 Phonetically rich sentences & application oriented utterances The Italian Fixed Network Speech Corpus version 1.0 was recorded within the scope of the SpeechDat(M) project (LRE-63314), funded by the European Commission. Recording was done by using a primary rate ISDN interface, yielding 8 kHz, 8 bits per sample, A-law coded signal. The data files are formatted according to the SAM European project. The speech data are compressed with= =3D the GNU gzip program. All software needed to use the corpus is provided on the CDs. The corpus contains the speech of about 1000 speakers (about 500 male and= =3D 500 female) and was designed to support the creation of voice-driven=3D teleservices. The callers spoke at least 39 items, comprising: =3DB7 isolated and connected digits, =3DB7 natural numbers, =3DB7 money amounts, =3DB7 spelled words, =3DB7 time and date phrases, =3DB7 yes/no questions, =3DB7 city names, =3DB7 common application words, =3DB7 application words in phrases, =3DB7 phonetically rich sentences. Most items are read, some are spontaneously spoken. The recordings come with extensive and standardised documentation. All=3D speech is carefully transcribed at the orthographic level; in addition, a number o= f clearly audible non-speech events are included in the transcription.=3D Moreover, age and regional background of the speakers are provided. A pronunciation dictionary is added, containing all words that occur in the corpus, with a corresponding SAMPA broad-class phonemic transcription. Validation and premastering of the CD-ROMs were performed by the Speech Processing Expertise Centre (SPEX), Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Price for ELRA members: for research use: 11000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU Price for non members: for research use: 20000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ 2) ELRA-S0053 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus DB2 Phonetically rich sentences sub-set See ELRA-S0052 for description. DB2 is a sub-set of DB1; it contains only= =3D the phonetically rich sentences items. Price for ELRA members: for research use: 8,800 ECU for commercial use: 14,000 ECU Price for non members: for research use: 14,000 ECU for commercial use: 20,000 ECU ____________________________________________ 3) ELRA-S0054 Chilean Spanish FDB-250 This speech database gathers Spanish data as spoken in Chile. All=3D participants are native speakers. The corpus consists of read speech, including digits= =3D and application words for teleservices, recorded through an ISDN card. The whol= e database consists of 6.45 hours of speech, with 24 utterances per speaker. There is a total of 250 speakers (68 male, 80 female, 102 untagged). Except for the 102 untagged speakers, the age class is divided as follows: 15 speakers are less than 16 year old, 72 speakers are between age 16 to 30, 44 speakers ar= e between age 31 to 45, and 14 speakers are between age 46 to 60 (and 102 untagged). The callers spoke 74 different items in total: =3DB7 isolated digits, =3DB7 yes/no, =3DB7 common application words. The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 6,000 utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. A phonetic lexicon=3D with canonical transcription in SAMPA is also included. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. Dat= a are stored in a SAM file format. Price for ELRA members: 5,000 ECU Price for non members: 7,500 ECU ____________________________________________ 4) ELRA-S0055 Russian SpeechDat-like FDB-1000 This speech database gathers Russian data. The corpus consists of read and spontaneous speech, recorded through an ISDN card, and was validated and accepted according to the SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The whole database consists of 72 hours of speech, with approx. 49 prompted utterance= s per speaker. A total of 1000 speakers was recorded (500 male, 500 female). These are native speakers from 5 regions, mainly from Moscow and St. Petersburg (803 speakers). The speakers age class is divided as follows: 16 speakers= =3D are less than 16 year old, 340 speakers are between age 16 to 30, 345 speakers= =3D are between age 31 to 45, 255 speakers are between age 46 to 60, and 44 speaker= s are above age 60. The callers spoke the following items: =3DB7 isolated and connected digits, =3DB7 natural numbers, =3DB7 money amounts, =3DB7 spelled words, =3DB7 time and date phrases, =3DB7 yes/no, =3DB7 city names, =3DB7 common application words, =3DB7 application words in phrases, =3DB7 phonetically rich sentences. The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 48,812 utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. A phonetic lexicon with canonical pronunciation is also provided. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. The data is stored in a SAM file format (4 CD-ROMs). Price for ELRA members: 14,000 ECU Price for non members: 20,000 ECU ____________________________________________ 5) ELRA-S0056 Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 The Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 consists of read and spontaneous=3D speech, recorded through an ISDN card, and was validated and accepted according to= =3D the SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The corpus includes about 1000 speakers (about 500 male and 500 female) who called over the Slovenian fixed network= =2E All are native speakers of Slovenian from all dialect regions of Slovenia. The callers spoke the following items: =3DB7 isolated and connected digits, =3DB7 natural numbers, =3DB7 money amounts, =3DB7 spelled words, =3DB7 time and date phrases, =3DB7 yes/no, =3DB7 city names, =3DB7 common application words, =3DB7 application words in phrases, =3DB7 phonetically rich sentences. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. The data is stored in a SAM file format (CD-ROMs). A phonetic lexicon with canonical transcriptions in SAMPA is also provided. Price for ELRA members: 14,000 ECU Price for non members: 20,000 ECU ____________________________________________ 6) ELRA-S0057 Shanghai Mandarin FDB-1000 This acoustic database gathers Mandarin data, as spoken in Shanghai as a=3D first or second Chinese dialect/language. The corpus consists of read speech, including digits and application words for teleservices, recorded through a= n ISDN card. A total of 70 utterances was prompted by each speaker. About 100= 0 speakers were recorded (500 male, 500 female). The callers spoke the following items: =3DB7 isolated digits, =3DB7 yes/no, =3DB7 city names, =3DB7 common application words and phrases. The data is provided with Chinese characters and English translation, canonical Pinyin transcription including tone markers, and several categories of non-speech events. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples.=3D Signal and annotation files are stored separately. Price for ELRA members: 10,000 ECU Price for non members: 15,000 ECU ____________________________________________ 7) ELRA-S0058 RVG1 (Regional Variants of German 1, Part 1) The corpus consists of single digits, connected digits, phone numbers, phonetically balanced sentences, computer command phrases and spontaneous speech. Each speaker has read a subcorpus of 85 items: =3DB7 11 single digits (0-9, with the two pronunciations of 2 (=3D91z= wei=3D =3D92, =3D91zwo=3D92)), =3DB7 19 connected digits (10-19, 20-100 in steps of ten), =3DB7 12 computer command phrases, =3DB7 30 phonetically balanced sentences, =3DB7 5 6-digit phone numbers, =3DB7 5 7-digit phone numbers, =3DB7 2 phone numbers with area code, =3DB7 1 minute spontaneous speech (monologue). The speaker was placed in front of a standard IBM-compatible PC. The=3D backround noise was limited to the usual noise in office environment, eg. door slam, backround crosstalk, phone ringing, paper rustle, PC noise, etc. The head o= f the speaker is in a range between 2-4 feet to the screen, 1-2 feet from the desktop microphones. The speaker is not forced into a special position. The speaker is wearing a Sennheiser HD 410 and is free to use the keyboard or= =3D the mouse in front of him. The three desktop microphones are: Sennheiser MD 441= =3D U, Telex (Soundblaster) and Talk Back (AT&T). Speakers were selected to achiev= e the demoscopic density of the German spoken areas in Europe (including=3D Austria and Switzerland). The recorded sound samples are stored in NIST SPHERE format. The resolution= =3D is 16 Bits. The sampling frequency is 22.050 Hz except for speakers 001 to 036 which were recorded with 11.025 Hz. Each microphone channel is stored into = a separate file. A transliteration of spontaneous speech according to=3D Verbmobil Format is also provided. RVG1, Part 1 contains 197 speakers recorded through 2 microphones. (RVG1, Part 2, with 303 speakers recorded through 2 microphones will be available from the beginning of 1999.) Price for ELRA members: for research use: 4,949 ECU for commercial use: 8,198 ECU Price for non members: for research use: 5,838 ECU for commercial use: 9,898 ECU =3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D= =3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D =3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D=3D3D For further information, please contact : ELRA/ELDA Tel : +33 01 43 13 33 33 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30 F-75013 Paris, France E-mail : mapelli@elda.fr or visit our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Partenariat / simulation /prototype Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:26:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 482 (482) [deleted quotation] Bonjour, Avant de finaliser ses produits, notre soci=3DE9t=3DE9 recherche trois =3D entreprises pour effectuer trois manipulations de qualification du =3D Semiographe. Les soci=3DE9t=3DE9s retenues pourront =3DEAtre soit : - des utilisateurs TAL avertis, avec une =3DE9quipe disponible - des soci=3DE9t=3DE9s agissant dans le secteur TAL. Les manipulations de qualification sont des r=3DE9alisations de prototypes = =3D op=3DE9rationnels dans les secteurs suivants, une d=3DE9finition pr=3DE9cis= e =3D pouvant =3DEAtre adapt=3DE9e aux besoins du partenaire : - Polys=3DE9mie : d=3DE9termination du sens d'un mot en contexte; application possible : choix d'une traduction. - R=3DE9sum=3DE9 de texte/indexation/Diffusion s=3DE9lective d'informations= : =3D d=3DE9termination des mots cl=3DE9s importants d'un texte du point de vue = =3D th=3DE9matique application possible : indexation plein texte d=3DE9sambigu=3DEFs=3DE9e et = =3D enrichie - Diffusion s=3DE9lective d'information/acc=3DE8s =3DE0 des nomenclatures application possible : routage, indexation automatique sur un plan de =3D classement, acc=3DE8s =3DE0 des nomenclatures. Le sch=3DE9ma fonctionnel de ces trois applications sera pour nous assez = =3D semblable, aussi est-il possible pour nous d'op=3DE9rer dans une m=3DEAme = =3D unit=3DE9 de temps. Les fonctions utilis=3DE9es par les partenaires seront les API JAVA du =3D s=3DE9miographe pour ces applications ainsi que l'outil de gestion du =3D dictionnaire int=3DE9gral (=3DE9galement =3DE9crit en Java). Le s=3DE9miographe sera finalis=3DE9 courant novembre. Une version 5 langue= s =3D existe -moins riche que pour le fran=3DE7ais. Pour le fran=3DE7ais, la =3D version actuelle g=3DE8re 185.000 mots-sens. Dans le cas o=3DF9 le partenaire est un =3DE9ventuel client final du =3D syst=3DE8me, ce dernier pourra b=3DE9n=3DE9ficier de conditions =3D particuli=3DE8res de vente. Nous saluons amicalement ceux de cette liste avec lesquels nous avons =3D d=3DE9j=3DE0 travaill=3DE9 et adressons nos meilleures salutations aux autr= es=3D20 Dominique Dutoit Mail :dutoit@info.unicaen.fr The INTEGRAL DICTIONARYtm DICOLOGICtm The largest world model for =3D linguistic computing and semantic analysis.=3D20 LEXIDIOMtm SEMIOGRAPHtm Computational semantic for five languages =3D (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish)=3D20 and... Phonetic (French, English), morphology (French, English, =3D German, Italian, Spanish), Syntactic parsing (French).... Full-text Indexing (Bibiotexttm), resources for search =3D engines... =3D20 =3D20 Adresse : MEMODATA - 17 rue Dumont d'Urville - 14000 CAEN (FRANCE) =3D Tel: (33)02.31.35.75.21 - fax: (33)02.31.35.75.28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Patrick Leary Subject: Call for Papers: SHARP '99 (final call) Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 00:05:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 483 (483) Dear SHARPists, Attached is the final call for papers for SHARP's seventh annual conference in Madison, Wisconsin in July. With the deadline coming up in a few weeks (November 19) I'm particularly eager to have your help in giving this CFP as wide a distribution as possible. Please forward this to any colleagues or students that you think might be interested. Those of you who wish to post a printed copy on your department bulletin board can print one from SHARP Web at http://www.indiana.edu/~sharp/sharp99.html And, of course, those of us here who have been mulling over proposals of our own should think about getting something in the mail pretty soon. As anyone who has been to a SHARP conference can tell you, SHARP brings together a stimulating variety of scholars who seldom or never meet otherwise, with results that are always interesting and fun. I don't doubt that the Madison conference will be an exciting one, and I look forward to seeing many of you there. Patrick Leary listowner, SHARP-L pleary@indiana.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF AUTHORSHIP, READING, AND PUBLISHING Call for Papers for SHARP '99 JULY 14-17, 1999 MADISON, WISCONSIN The seventh annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing will take place July 14-17, 1999, in Madison, Wisconsin, under the auspices of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, a joint program of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In keeping with SHARP tradition, we welcome proposals from researchers interested in the creation, diffusion, and/or reception of the written or printed word in any historical period and in any region of the world. Because of the multicultural, geographic and chronological focus of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, we especially welcome proposals for papers and sessions that investigate: * print culture history in the United States since 1876 * the role print has played in and among groups historically outside dominant cultures * traditions of the written word in non-English languages in the Western Hemisphere Keynote addresses will be delivered by Dr. Nicholas Kanellos, Director of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston, and Dr. Janice Radway of the Literature Department at Duke University. Conference proceedings will be in English. We encourage submissions from graduate students and members of all scholarly communities interested in print culture studies. We welcome proposals for individual papers, or for complete sessions. While in Madison conference attendees will have access to the superb collections of the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Proposals (one page maximum per paper) should be sent to: SHARP 1999 c/o James P. Danky, Co-Director Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America 816 State Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706-6598 USA fax: (608)264-652 email: james.danky@ccmail.adp.wisc.edu Although proposals by e-mail and fax will be accepted, original hard copy is greatly preferred. Deadline for submission of proposals is November 19, 1998. Proposals will be considered by an interdisciplinary subcommittee of the Advisory Board of the Center for the Study of Print Culture in Modern America. For information about the Center for the Study of Print Culture in Modern America, visit its website at http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/printcul/ or contact Wayne A. Wiegand, Co-Director, Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, 4226 Helen C. White Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706. The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) is a growing global network of scholars from a variety of disciplines who study the social, economic, and cultural history of written and printed communication. More information about SHARP can be found, with much else of interest, on SHARP Web at http://www.indiana.edu/~sharp From: IFETS Subject: Call for Authors and Reviewers Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:43:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 484 (484) Apologies for cross-posting --------------------------- "Educational Technology & Society" (ISSN 1436-4522) is a new peer-reviewed electronic periodical of the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society (IFETS). The periodical will be freely accessible at: http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/periodical/ The periodical is currently seeking authors for academic peer-reviewed articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems. The aim of the periodical is to help both these communities to foster greater understanding of each other's role in the overall process of education, problems faced by each and how they may support each other. The articles will be refereed by at least two reviewers with expertise in the relevant subject area. The Educational Technology & Society is a quarterly periodical, but the articles will be published as soon as they are ready for publication (benefit of the electronic medium!), so that the issue will be built up and at any moment, one issue of the periodical would be available to accept the articles. Details regarding submission procedure and authors' guidelines are available at: http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/periodical/ * Current deadlines: For second issue: 20 November 1998 (Issue coming out end of January 99) For third issue: 01 February 1999 (Issue coming out end of April 99) (In case of major revisions, the article will be published in a later issue) --------------------------- The periodical is currently building up its reviewers team. To show your willingness to be a part of it, please fill out 'Call for Reviewers' form at IFETS website http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: "Negotiations" (_Henry Street_) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:27:25 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 485 (485) [deleted quotation] Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Study Invites submissions for a new feature section: "Negotiations" _Henry Street_ is proud to announce the inception of a new feature. This section of the journal will present both a graduate student essay foregrounding or critiquing the ideas of a well-established scholar and that scholar's reply. "Negotiations" is intended to be a stimulating meeting point for the ideas of graduate students and senior members of the profession. We invite graduate students from English and related disciplines to submit essays that critique, comment on, or otherwise address the work of a prominent scholar, from whom _Henry Street_ will then solicit a response. Please note that we are not trying to promote interpretive hostility, but rather spirited, attentive, and mutually respectful debate. Should we be unable to obtain a response from your chosen interlocutor, your essay will proceed to publication as a regular article. The first "Negotiations" feature will appear in issue 7.2. Robert Lesk's essay "Untenable Imaginings and Imagined Communities: Robert Lecker on the Failings of Criticism" critiques institutional imperatives informing the book _Making it Real: The Canonization of Canadian Literature_ by well-known McGill University professor Robert Lecker; Prof. Lecker's reply addresses the inevitability and the ambivalence of such institutional imperatives. _Henry Street_ is in its eighth year of publishing the work of graduate students from all over the world, and is indexed by the Modern Language Association and the Canadian Literary Periodicals Index. Submissions should not exceed 7000 words, must conform to MLA style, and may be addressed to: Henry Street Department of English Dalhousie University 1434 Henry Street Halifax NS B3H 3J5 Canada _Henry Street_ also welcomes the submission of critical and occasional articles by graduate students in English or related disciplines at any time. Specific submission deadlines for upcoming issues are as follows: 7.2 General issue Deadline: November 1, 1998 8.1 Postmodernism, Primitivism, Nostalgia Deadline: December 15, 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Fwd: 1999 IEEE Digital Libraries Conference Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:52:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 486 (486) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 27, 1998 CALL FOR PAPERS: IEEE CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES OPPORTUNITY FOR INCLUSION OF PAPERS FROM CULTURAL COMMUNITY There is an opportunity for the presentation of papers on research and achievements in networking cultural heritage at the 1999 conference on Advances in Digital Libraries organized by the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Reports on previous years' conferences can be obtained from http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln/july1997v1n1.html http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ieeedln/july1998v2n1.html David Green ============ [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: VEXTAL 1999 - Venezia (Italy) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:01:40 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 487 (487) [deleted quotation] % VExTAL = % % Venezia per il Trattamento Automatico delle Lingue = % Universita' Ca' Foscari - Auditorium S.Margherita = % % dal 20 al 22 settembre 1999 = % % Per informazioni guardate la pagina web: = % % http://byron.cgm.unive.it/eventi/VEXTAL = % [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Joe Raben Subject: Stop lists Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:03:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 488 (488) I would appreciate receiving a list of stop words for a simple concordance program I am having written. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Harvey L. Sharrer" Subject: Fwd: Reply to Computer Editing of Medieval Texts Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 11:25:46 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 489 (489) Charles, Here is Dan O'Donnell's posting of yesterday giving more specifics about his own project and the reasons for his original query. The URL he gives of his own site is in error. It should be http://home.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/caedmon-job.html Harvey ________________ [deleted quotation]Harvey L. Sharrer Department of Spanish and Portuguese University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Ergo Talks with Microsoft Agents (Free Software) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:22:30 -1000 (HST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 490 (490) Microsoft has recently made some of its agent technology available on the web at http://www.microsoft.com/agents. Most well-known is a 3 D Parrot called "Peedy." Ergo Linguistics has just modified their patented "ChatterBox" technology to make it possible to speak with "Peedy" and the other agents. For those who are interested in viewing this talking desktop agent, we can provide the necessary files for a user that will set everything up and put the "Peedy" icon on the desktop. The "ChatterBox.exe" file will set up ChatterBox which will automatically allow you to speak to Peedy. Once you set up ChatterBox and the "Peedy" in this setup file Just type in sentences like the following and you can ask the corresponding questions. John gave mary a book because it was her birtbday did John give mary a book what did john give mary who gave mary a book who did john give a book why did john give mary a book the tall dark stranger is carrying a bloody knife what is the stranger doing what is the stranger carrying was the stranger carrying a knife you saw the tall dark stranger in the park where did you seen the stanger what did you see what did you see in the park thomas jefferson is the third president of the United States who is the third president of the United States The Yankees won the 1998 World series WHAT won the 1998 World Series *currently the program does not know that the "Yankees" are people so it is necessary to use "What" for this question. and so on. Of course you could build a variety of story or educational files to talk to Peedy about, but for this early version it is just fun to put in a few sentences and chat with him. This is also available with the Virtual Friend technology at http://www.haptek.com. Our web site is http://www.ergo-ling.com if you have any further interest in our NLP technology. Or... if you have a WIN95 animation of your own we would be happy to show you how to connect ChatterBox to it. I will be showing this in Boston at the SBIR National Conference November 3-5th. I will also be giving a lecture and demonstration of this technology at Northeastern University (Thursday at noon room 415 in the Classroom Building) while I am there. If you have anyone in town at that time or at that conference, ask them to stop by and I will give them a more thorough introduction to the ChatterBox technology and our other NLP tools. Because my company is an SBIR grantee we will have display space in the SBIR section near the main entrance. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com From: David Green Subject: Hallowe'en Greetings Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:59:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 491 (491) NINCH ANNOUCNEMENT October 30, 1998 GHOSTS ON THE WEB Ghost Sites: <http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.htm> International Ghost Hunters Society at <http://www.ghostweb.com/> [deleted quotation]SNIP>>>>>................................................................... ... [deleted quotation] From: Maureen Donovan Subject: AsianDOC E-Newsletter 1:3 published Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 23:20:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 492 (492) Apologies for cross-posting -- AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:3 (October 1998) is available at: http://asiandoc.lib.ohio-state.edu/ In addition to articles and notices in each department (Databases, Conferences/Meetings, Technical Corner, Reviews, Interest Groups), this issue includes a searchable index of authors, titles and cited websites. AsianDOC (Asian Database Online Community) supports communication among scholars, researchers, librarians, and others developing and/or interested in electronic resources for Asian Studies. It is the official publication for Scholars Engaged in Electronic Resources (SEER), an organization supporting developers of electronic resources in Asian Studies. The deadline for submissions to be published in the next issue is December 13th. Maureen Donovan AsianDOC Publisher/Editor The Ohio State University Libraries donovan.1@osu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: M.Mariani Subject: SEMCOM:First Announcement ECCS'99 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:59:52 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 493 (493) First Announcement ECCS'99 ===================================================================== The European Conference on Cognitive Science - ECCS'99 will be held in Siena (Tuscany, Italy) October 27-30, in the beautiful Pontignano: a XV century Certosa in the Chianti valley. The Conference scope will range from theoretical works to applications, and from experimental methods to computer simulation and field research. A preliminary Call for Papers will be sent next week, including the selected topics of this year, the Advisory Board and Program Committee, instructions and deadlines for submission. The Conference Chair Prof. Sebastiano Bagnara University of Sienna ===================================================================== =============================================================== Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. TELNOS: main off: 818-677-2853 Professor, Communication/Linguistics direct off: 818-677-2874 Department of Communication Studies California State University, Northridge home: 818-366-3165 COMMS-8257 CSUN FAX: 818-677-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 INTERNET email: ALAN.HARRIS@CSUN.EDU WWW homepage: http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005 =============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Joe Raben Subject: Re: 12.0276 stop lists? Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:05:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 494 (494) I would appreciate receiving a list of stop words for a simple concordance program I am having written. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some years ago, the late Paul Barrett and I (and some other people) published four concordances to Darwin's works. Weinshank, D.J., Ozminski, S., Ruhlen, P., and Barrett, W., A Concordance To Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1989. Barrett, P., Weinshank, D.J., Ruhlen, P., and Ozminski, S., A Concordance To Darwin's The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1987, 1136pp, ISBN 0-8014-2085-7 Barrett, P., Weinshank, D.J., Ruhlen, P., Ozminski, S., and Berghage, B. A Concordance To Darwin's The Expression of The Emotions in Man and Animals, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1986, 515 pp., ISBN 0-8014-1990-5 Barrett, P., Weinshank, D.J., and Gottleber, Timothy T., A Concordance to Darwin's Origin of Species, First Edition, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1981, 8355 pp., ISBN 0-8014-1319-2 For this purpose, we created a suppression list ("stop words") which I am forwarding to Joe Raben. If anybody else would like this list, which is somewhat sui generis because of the nature of the concordances, I would be happy to send it. djw _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cse.msu.edu Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 432-1061 Comp. Sci., Michigan State http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0275 editing medieval texts Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:58:07 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 495 (495) It has been a long time since I have done medieval text analysis, but I thought that if there was one field where people had a reasonable level of computer sophistication, that was it. But that was twenty years ago, and apparently a lot can be forgotten in that time. Does this mean that the text archives are so invisible that people don't check them first of all for guidance? Because it would seem that the text archives would be the ideal centers for text-editing and -markup expertise. Is that not part of their missions? Pat -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: orlandi@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it Subject: Re: 12.0275 editing medieval texts Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 09:20:28 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 496 (496) +------------------------------------------------------+ | WARNING! (friends or foes) | | I stick to ASCII 128. Keep special characters off. | | I will not read MSWord originated attachements. | +------------------------------------------------------+ [implicit in O'Donnell's queries:] "... and all this in English." Otherwise, someone may be interested in my reflections (in Italian) on such problems, in my web page (cp. below), especially: "Teoria e prassi della codifica dei manoscritti". "Ripartiamo dai diasistemi". Others are coming... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Fwd: Communications-related Headlines for 11/04/98 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 11:49:10 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 497 (497) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 4, 1998 SURVEY SHOWS DRAMATIC INCREASE IN INTERNET USE ON U.S. CAMPUSES <http://www.campuscomputing.net/> [deleted quotation] Parts of the 1998 Campus Computing Project survey <http://www.campuscomputing.net/> were released this week reporting that college professors are embracing the Internet as a tool for teaching. The survey of 571 technology officials at two- and four-year colleges around the country reports that 44% of college courses use e-mail in some way -- that number was 32.8% last year and just 8% four years ago. 23% of college courses use Web pages to post class materials and other resources; four years ago, the figure was less than 5%. About 43% of respondents said their institutions had a computer competency requirement for undergraduates; in 1992, the figure was 30%. Computer ownership among students is up: this year the figure was 42% of students, more than double the figure five years ago. The biggest problems faced on campus is still assisting professors to integrate technology use into the classroom and intellectual property questions. [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Lorna Hughes Subject: Groden Talk Text Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 14:30:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 498 (498) All are welcome to attend the latest NEACH Talk at NYU, organized by the Humanities Computing Group at NYU's Academic Computing Facility James Joyce's _Ulysses_ in Hypermedia: Presenting the Novel of the Twentieth Century in the Twenty-first Michael Groden Department of English University of Western Ontario Friday, November 13, 1998 at 2:00 PM Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall 251 Mercer Street, at West Fourth New York NY 10012 James Joyce's _Ulysses_ is an ideal literary work to present in hypermedia. With its stream-of-consciousness technique to reveal its characters thoughts; its many allusions to works of literature, art, and music, both high and popular; and the library of criticism and scholarship that it has inspired, it is no wonder that many people have been referring to it lately as a hypertext before its time. Presenting _Ulysses_ in hypermedia format will give readers, students, and scholars a new context in which to read and study the book. It will also teach us a lot about the differences between presenting a literary work in print and on a screen and about the ways in which a work originally written for print changes when it is put into an electronic hypermedia environment. James Joyce's _Ulysses_ in Hypermedia will include the text of _Ulysses_, in several versions; published and newly written definitions and annotations; an archive of major published critical books and articles; source works such as _The Odyssey_ and _Hamlet_; basic help for students; original commentaries on _Ulysses_, written in hypertext; maps; photographs; video or film versions of passages from _Ulysses_; an audio version of the book; recordings of songs mentioned, quoted, or sung; an aural pronunciation guide; searching and indexing features; and space for users to add comments and links. Over 100 _Ulysses_ critics and scholars are contributing to make this enormous project a reality. In his talk Michael Groden will show the prototype and will also discuss the intriguing issues and problems that have come up in the process of transforming the prototype into a full presentation. About the Speaker: Michael Groden is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. He is the director of the ongoing _Ulysses_ hypermedia project, the prototype of which was produced at NYUs Interactive Telecommunications Program. Visit his Web site: http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/ For further information, please contact Lorna Hughes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/ From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: New Book: EuroWordNet Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 00:02:17 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 499 (499) *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ NEW BOOK NEW BOOK NEW BOOK NEW BOOK NEW BOOK NEW BOOK *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Kluwer Academic Publishers EUROWORDNET A Multilingual Database with Lexical Semantic Networks Piek Vossen, Editor Reprinted from Computers and the Humanities, 32:2-3 (1998) Table of Contents ------------------ PIEK VOSSEN Introduction to EuroWordNet 73-89 ANTONIETTA ALONGE, NICOLETTA CALZOLARI, PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, IRENE CASTELLON, MARIA ANTONIA MARTI and WIM PETERS The Linguistic Design of the EuroWordNet Database 91-115 HORACIO RODRIDGUEZ, SALVADOR CLIMENT, PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, WIM PETERS, ANTONIETTA ALONGE, FRANCESCA BERTAGNA and ADRIANA ROVENTINI The Top-Down Strategy for Building EuroWordNet: Vocabulary Coverage, Base Concepts and Top Ontology 117-152 PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, ANTONIETTA ALONGE, ELISABETTA MARINAI, CAROL PETERS, IRENE CASTELLON, ANTONIA MARTI and GERMAN RIGAU Compatibility in Interpretation of Relations in EuroWordNet 153-184 JULIO GONZALO, FELISA VERDEJO, CAROL PETERS and NICOLETTA CALZOLARI Applying EuroWordNet to Cross-Language Text Retrieval 185-207 CHRISTIANE FELLBAUM A Semantic Network of English: The Mother of All WordNets 209-220 WIM PETERS, PIEK VOSSEN, PEDRO DIEZ-ORZAS and GEERT ADRIAENS Cross-linguistic Alignment of Wordnets with an Inter-Lingual-Index 221-251 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EuroWordNet: A Multilingual Database with Lexical Semantic Networks Piek Vossen, Editor ISBN 0-7923-5295-5 For information, consult the Kluwer web page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Dieke van Wijnen Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:26:12 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 500 (500) [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News=20 ___________________________________________________________ *** SPEECHDAT DATABASES *** Dear colleagues, As many of you expressed a strong interest in the SpeechDat databases, ELRA is pleased to announce the list of SpeechDat and SpeechDat-like databases currently available. Other languages to be issued soon are: Swedish, Norwegian, German SpeechDat(II) FDB-4000, Spanish. The following SpeechDat and SpeechDat-like databases are currently= available: =B7 ELRA-S0010 Dutch Polyphone Database =B7 ELRA-S0011 English SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 =B7 ELRA-S0012 English SpeechDat(M) database - DB2 =B7 ELRA-S0016 FRESCO French SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 =B7 ELRA-S0017 FRESCO French SpeechDat(M) database - DB2 =B7 ELRA-S0018 German SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 =B7 ELRA-S0018 German SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 =B7 ELRA-S0030/01 Swiss-French polyphone database - 1000 speakers =B7 ELRA-S0030/02 Swiss-French polyphone database - 4000 speakers =B7 ELRA-S0040 Danish SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 =B7 ELRA-S0041 Danish SpeechDat(M) database - DB2 =B7 ELRA-S0051 German SpeechDat(II) FDB 1000 =B7 ELRA-S0052 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpu= s - DB1 =B7 ELRA-S0053 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpu= s - DB2 =B7 ELRA-S0054 Chilean Spanish FDB-250 =B7 ELRA-S0055 Russian SpeechDat-like FDB-1000 =B7 ELRA-S0056 Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 =B7 ELRA-S0057 Shanghai Mandarin FDB-1000 Below a description of each database: ELRA-S0010 Dutch Polyphone Database The Dutch Polyphone corpus contains telephone speech from 5050 speakers. The corpus comprises 222,075 speech files (based on 44 or, in a few cases 43 items per speaker), which all have been orthographically transcribed. The data were collected in 8-bit A-law digital form, directly off an ISDN telephone line interface.=20 The corpus contains both read and extemporaneous items. Items to be read consist of isolated digits, numbers (one telephone number, two bank accounts or credit card numbers, and the participation number), a postal code, guilder amounts, time, date, amounts, application words, sentences with application word, phonetically rich sentences, spelled words, city names. Several questions were asked to get the spontaneous part of the speech (questions like Is Dutch your native language?, Did you ever live in another country than the Netherlands, In which cities did you grow up?, Are you a man or a woman?, Are you calling from your home phone?, etc.). Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use. 12000 ECU for research use. 20000 ECU for commercial use. 25000 ECU for commercial use. 35000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0011 English SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 The (polyphone-like) English SpeechDat(M) database was recorded by GEC-Marconi within the framework of the SPEECHDAT(M) Project. It consists of 1,000 speakers, chosen according to their individual demographics, who were recorded over digital telephone lines using fixed telephone sets. The material to be spoken was provided to the caller via a prompt sheet. The database is divided into two sub-sets: the phonetically rich sentences (one CD) known as DB2, and the application-oriented utterances (two CDs) known as DB1. The recorded material in DB1 comprises immediately usable and relevant speech, including number and letter sequences, common control keywords, dates, times, money amounts, etc. This provides a realistic basis for evaluating these resources for the training and assessment of speaker-independent recognition of both isolated and continuous speech utterances, employing either whole-word modeling and/or phoneme based approaches. The sample rate for speech is 8 KHz, quantisation is 8 bit, and a-law encoding is used. This results in a data rate of 64 kB/s. Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 11000 ECU for research use: 20000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0012 English SpeechDat(M) database - DB2 See ELRA-S0011 for description. DB2 is a sub-set of DB1; it contains only the phonetically rich sentences items Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 6000 ECU for research use: 10000 ECU for commercial use: 12000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0016 FRESCO - DB1 FRESCO, a polyphone-like telephone speech database in French, was produced by Philips and SPEX as part of the SpeechDat(M) project. Containing approximately 35,000 utterances recorded from 1,000 callers over the terrestrial telephone network in France, it offers immediately usable and relevant speech for the training, assessment and deployment of speaker-independent speech recognisers based on phoneme models or word models. In addition to a speech and annotation file for every utterance, the database contains a pronunciation lexicon for all 13,000 different words recorded. The database consists of two two subsets DB1 and DB2. DB1 contains the complete set of data (phonetically rich sentences and application oriented data). DB2 contains only the phonetically rich sentences.=20 The speaker set is balanced with respect to gender and adheres to a predefined age distribution, while the geographic distribution roughly resembles the demographics of France. Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 11000 ECU for research use: 20000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0017 FRESCO - DB2 See ELRA-S0016 for description. DB2 is a sub-set of DB1; it contains only the phonetically rich sentences items Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 6000 ECU for research use: 10000 ECU for commercial use: 12000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0018 German SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 The database consists of read speech. A prompt sheet with a unique identification number has been distributed to the potential callers.=20 The speech data is recorded with digital lines (ISDN), resulting in A-law format (8 bit), 8 kHz sampling rate. The data collection comprises 1000 speakers, with a particular care of a balance with respect to gender. The age of the callers were to be between 16 and 65 (No controlled= distribution). Callers could call from any kind of acoustic and network environment: home, business, mobile phone, phone booth, wired or cordless phone, etc. (No controlled distribution).=20 The regional distribution was expected to fit within the following scheme: from each of the 16 German states there were to be 32 speakers. Speakers from Austria, Switzerland and other countries were not be controlled. The utterances to be gathered have been specified and consisted of several speech sequences, including sentences from different sources (local newspapers, existing corpora, law articles, etc.) to ensure a good phonetic coverage, application words from a defined list of command words, digits (isolated digits, connected digits, and natural numbers), currency amounts, quantities, credit card numbers, spelled words (mainly names), time of day (spontaneous) and time phrase (prompted, word style), city of call/birth,= etc. Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 11000 ECU for research use: 20000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0019 German SpeechDat(M) database - DB2 See ELRA-S0018 for description. DB2 is a sub-set of DB1; it contains only the phonetically rich sentences items Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 8800 ECU for research use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0030/01 Swiss-French polyphone database - 1000 speakers Like the Dutch and German polyphone corpora this is a Polyphone-like database recorded in Switzerland to cover the French language as spoken in the Roman area.=20 Recording has been carried out by IDIAP in cooperation with Swiss TELECOMM-PTT. They collected 5000 speakers who answered several questions (around 10), leading to spontaneous speech, and reading about 28 items from a form supplied by IDIAP. This form contains several speech sequences, including sentences from different sources (local newspapers, existing corpora, law articles, etc.) to ensure a good phonetic coverage, application words from a defined list of command words, currency amounts, quantities, credit card numbers, spelled words (mainly names), etc.=20 The database is divided into two subsets: the first one comprises 1,000 speakers and the second one 4,000 speakers (1,000 speakers are not available). Each subset is divided into two subsets: the phonetically rich sentences and the application-oriented data. Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 9600 ECU for research use: 16000 ECU for commercial use: 12000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0030/02 Swiss-French polyphone database - 4000 speakers See ELRA-S0030/1 for description. Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 12000 ECU for research use: 20000 ECU for commercial use: 30000 ECU for commercial use: 38000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0040 Danish SpeechDat(M) database - DB1 The Danish SpeechDat(M) database is the speech database collected within the SpeechDat(M) project. It consists of polyphone-like data recorded by 1,523 speakers. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bit 8 kHz A-law samples. Each prompted utterance is stored within a separate file and the associated label files are stored in SAM file format. An ASCII file is attached and is listing information about each speaker: speaker code, sex, age, region, prompt number.=20 The lexicon is presented in a TAB delimited ASCII file containing an alphabetically ordered list of distinct lexical items occurring in the database. Each entry contains a frequency count and corresponding pronunciation information. Example: WORD FREQUENCY PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTIONS =E5bnede 104 O b n @ D | O b n @ D @ adresseangivelse 97 a d R a s @ a n g i: u l s @ The complete Danish SpeechDat database consists of 5 CD-ROMs. The first three CD-ROMs contain the application oriented sub-set. The last two CD-ROMs contain the phonetically rich sentences. The included items are:=20 =B7 5 application word phrases (semi spontaneous)=20 =B7 12 connected digit strings with 8 digits=20 =B7 24 natural numbers (3-4 digits)=20 =B7 27 application words=20 =B7 3 dates, D3 spontaneous (birthday)=20 =B7 3 spelled words=20 =B7 2 money amounts, M1 small, M2 large=20 =B7 City name (spontaneous)=20 =B7 3 yes/no questions (spontaneous)=20 =B7 22-25 sentences=20 =B7 T1 time phrase, T2 time of day (spontaneous)=20 There are 1,523 speakers in the SpeechDat database from 11 linguistic regions of Denmark and five age groups (under 16, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60, over 60). 78% of them are between 16 and 60 years old. Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 11000 ECU for research use: 20000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0041 Danish SpeechDat(M) database - DB2 See ELRA-S0040 for description. DB2 is a sub-set of DB1; it contains only the phonetically rich sentences items Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 6000 ECU for research use: 10000 ECU for commercial use: 12000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0051 German SpeechDat(II) FDB 1000 The German SpeechDat(II) FDB 1000 consists of 988 calls over the German fixed network, stored on 4 CD-ROMs in the final SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The speech databases made within the SpeechDat(II) project were validated by SPEX, the Netherlands, to assess their compliance with the SpeechDat format and content specifications. The following items were recorded: =B7 1 isolated digit (read or prompted) =B7 1 sequence of 10 isolated digit =B7 4 connected digits=20 =B7 4-6 digit number to identify the prompt sheet=20 =B7 ca. 10 digit telephone number (read)=20 =B7 14-16 digit credit card number (read, 150 different credit card numbers were found) =B7 6 digit PIN code (read) =B7 1 natural number (read) =B7 1 money amount (read) =B7 3 spelled words (1 spontaneous name spelling, 2 read) =B7 1 time of day (spontaneous) =B7 1 time phrase (read) =B7 1 date (spontaneous) =B7 1 date (read) =B7 1 relative date (read) =B7 2 yes/no questions (spontaneous, not prompted) =B7 3/6 common application words (read) =09 All application words are recorded more than 80 times. These are: =B7 1 application word phrase =B7 9 phonetically rich sentences (read) =B7 4 phonetically rich words (read) =B7 5 directory assistance names (1 spontaneous name (e.g. forename), 1 spontaneous city name, 1 read city name (from a list of 500 most frequent), 1 read company/agency name (from a list of 500 most frequent), 1 read proper name, fore- and surname (from list of 150 SDB names). Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 15000 ECU for research use: 25000 ECU for commercial use: 18000 ECU for commercial use: 25000 ECU Special offers: =B7 For ELRA members who already purchased German SpeechDat(M): [deleted quotation]=B7 Purchase with German SpeechDat(M): Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 20000 ECU for research use: 30000 ECU for commercial use: 25000 ECU for commercial use: 35000 ECU =B7 Purchase in the same calendar year as German SpeechDat(M): Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 20000 ECU for research use: 30000 ECU for commercial use: 25,000 ECU for commercial use: 35000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0052 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus DB1 Phonetically rich sentences & application oriented utterances The Italian Fixed Network Speech Corpus version 1.0 was recorded within the scope of the SpeechDat(M) project (LRE-63314), funded by the European Commission. Recording was done by using a primary rate ISDN interface, yielding 8 kHz, 8 bits per sample, A-law coded signal. The data files are formatted according to the SAM European project. The speech data are compressed with the GNU gzip program. All software needed to use the corpus is provided on the CDs. The corpus contains the speech of about 1000 speakers (about 500 male and 500 female) and was designed to support the creation of voice-driven teleservices. The callers spoke at least 39 items, comprising: =B7 isolated and connected digits, =B7 natural numbers, =B7 money amounts, =B7 spelled words, =B7 time and date phrases, =B7 yes/no questions, =B7 city names, =B7 common application words, =B7 application words in phrases, =B7 phonetically rich sentences. Most items are read, some are spontaneously spoken. The recordings come with extensive and standardised documentation. All speech is carefully transcribed at the orthographic level; in addition, a number of clearly audible non-speech events are included in the transcription. Moreover, age and regional background of the speakers are provided. A pronunciation dictionary is added, containing all words that occur in the corpus, with a corresponding SAMPA broad-class phonemic transcription. Validation and premastering of the CD-ROMs were performed by the Speech Processing Expertise Centre (SPEX), Leidschendam, The Netherlands. Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 11000 ECU for research use: 20000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0053 FIXED0IT - Italian Fixed Network Speech (SpeechDat(M)) Corpus DB2 Phonetically rich sentences sub-set See ELRA-S0052 for description. DB2 is a sub-set of DB1; it contains only the phonetically rich sentences items Price for ELRA members: Price for non members for research use: 8800 ECU for research use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 14000 ECU for commercial use: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0054 Chilean Spanish FDB-250 This speech database gathers Spanish data as spoken in Chile. All participants are native speakers. The corpus consists of read speech, including digits and application words for teleservices, recorded through an ISDN card. The whole database consists of 6.45 hours of speech, with 24 utterances per speaker. There is a total of 250 speakers (68 male, 80 female, 102 untagged). Except for the 102 untagged speakers, the age class is divided as follows: 15 speakers are less than 16 year old, 72 speakers are between age 16 to 30, 44 speakers are between age 31 to 45, and 14 speakers are between age 46 to 60 (and 102 untagged). The callers spoke 74 different items in total: =B7 isolated digits, =B7 yes/no, =B7 common application words. The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 6,000 utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. A phonetic lexicon with canonical transcription in SAMPA is also included. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. Data are stored in a SAM file format. Price for ELRA members: 5000 ECU Price for non members: 7500 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0055 Russian SpeechDat-like FDB-1000 This speech database gathers Russian data. The corpus consists of read and spontaneous speech, recorded through an ISDN card, and was validated and accepted according to the SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The whole database consists of 72 hours of speech, with approx. 49 prompted utterances per speaker. A total of 1000 speakers was recorded (500 male, 500 female). These are native speakers from 5 regions, mainly from Moscow and St. Petersburg (803 speakers). The speakers age class is divided as follows: 16 speakers are less than 16 year old, 340 speakers are between age 16 to 30, 345 speakers are between age 31 to 45, 255 speakers are between age 46 to 60, and 44 speakers are above age 60. The callers spoke the following items: =B7 isolated and connected digits, =B7 natural numbers, =B7 money amounts, =B7 spelled words, =B7 time and date phrases, =B7 yes/no, =B7 city names, =B7 common application words, =B7 application words in phrases, =B7 phonetically rich sentences. The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 48,812 utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. A phonetic lexicon with canonical pronunciation is also provided. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. The data is stored in a SAM file format (4 CD-ROMs). Price for ELRA members: 14000 ECU Price for non members: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0056 Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 The Slovenian SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 consists of read and spontaneous speech, recorded through an ISDN card, and was validated and accepted according to the SpeechDat(II) database exchange format. The corpus includes about 1000 speakers (about 500 male and 500 female) who called over the Slovenian fixed network. All are native speakers of Slovenian from all dialect regions of Slovenia. The callers spoke the following items: =B7 isolated and connected digits, =B7 natural numbers, =B7 money amounts, =B7 spelled words, =B7 time and date phrases, =B7 yes/no, =B7 city names, =B7 common application words, =B7 application words in phrases, =B7 phonetically rich sentences. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. The data is stored in a SAM file format (CD-ROMs). A phonetic lexicon with canonical transcriptions in SAMPA is also provided. Price for ELRA members: 14000 ECU Price for non members: 20000 ECU ____________________________________________ ELRA-S0057 Shanghai Mandarin FDB-1000 This acoustic database gathers Mandarin data, as spoken in Shanghai as a first or second Chinese dialect/language. The corpus consists of read speech, including digits and application words for teleservices, recorded through an ISDN card. A total of 70 utterances was prompted by each speaker. About 1000 speakers were recorded (500 male, 500 female). The callers spoke the following items: =B7 isolated digits, =B7 yes/no, =B7 city names, =B7 common application words and phrases. The data is provided with Chinese characters and English translation, canonical Pinyin transcription including tone markers, and several categories of non-speech events. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. Signal and annotation files are stored separately. Price for ELRA members: 10000 ECU Price for non members: 15000 ECU For further information, please contact : ELRA/ELDA Tel : +33 01 43 13 33 33 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30 F-75013 Paris, France E-mail : mapelli@elda.fr or visit our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Summer Teacher Seminars Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 09:42:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 501 (501) [deleted quotation] NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 1999 SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES FOR COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHERS Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports study opportunities for educators to strengthen humanities teaching and scholarship in American colleges and universities. Nature and society in Africa and the Americas, Roman Egypt, the philosophy of experimental inference, Black film studies, nineteenth-century Spanish realism, and the Cold War are a few of the topics that college and university teachers will address this summer as participants in 23 seminars and institutes offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. View the complete slate of summer study opportunities for college and university teachers on the NEH home page: http://www.neh.gov/html/awards/seminar2.html Information and application forms for specific seminars and institutes are available from their directors. Participant applications are due March 1, 1999. For printed copies of the slate of seminars and institutes: 202/606-8463; sem-inst@neh.gov. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for papers Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:18:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 502 (502) [deleted quotation] Call for Papers Communications of COLIPS- an International Journal of The Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society will publish a special issue on Machine Translation INTRODUCTION The International Journal of Communications of COLIPS is devoted to the publication of original theoretical and applied research in Chinese and oriental languages computing(languages). In particular, this special issue focuses on the field of "Machine Translation". In recent years, many researchers, both in academia and in industry, have taken up the challenge to build systems capable of translating oriental languages and the other languages, both written text and spoken languages. This special issue is dedicated to reporting the state-of-the-art and/or state-of-the-practice in Machine Translation (MT). Original papers in all areas of research in this field, including, but not limited to, the following are invited: - Methodologies for MT (rule-based, statistics-based, knowledge-based, function-based, etc.) - Automatic or Semi-Automatic Acquisition of Translation Knowledge - Practical MT Systems - Translation Aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.) - Speech and Dialogue Machine Translation - Natural Language Analysis and Generation Techniques - Dictionaries and Lexicons for MT Systems - Text Corpora for MT - User Interfaces - Evaluation Techniques - Mutil-Linguages MT - Translation Corpora - MT and Related Technologies GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Original papers which are not submitted to, under reviewed by and published or to be published in other journals or conferences in any areas of MT are invited to this special issue for possible publication. The publication language is ENGLISH or CHINESE. Paper submissions to the special issue should be in the Communications COLIPS format. Information for the format authors can be found at: http://www.comp.nus.sg/~colips/commcolips/ We need electronic copies in WORD, rtf, PostScript or Latex. Authors should send FOUR copies of their paper to the following special issue editor Prof. Ren by January 20, 1999: Dr. Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences Hiroshima City University 3-4-1, Ozuka-Higasi, Asa-Minami-Ku Hiroshima, 731-3194, Japan Tel:+81-82-830-1584 Fax:+81-82-830-1584 or +81-82-830-1792 Email:ren@its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 20, 1999. Author Notification: March 20, 1999. Final Version: May 5, 1999. Publication : June, 1999. SPECIAL ISSUE EDITOR: Dr. Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences Hiroshima City University 3-4-1, Ozuka-Higasi, Asa-Minami-Ku Hiroshima, 731-3194, Japan MORE INFORMATION: Updated information on the special issue as well as the Communication COLIPS is available at: http://www.comp.nus.sg/~colips/commcolips/ Authors also can contact with chairman of COLIPS: Dr. Lua Kim Teng School of Computing, National University of Singapore Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119260 Fax 65-7794580 Tel 65-8742782 Email: luakt@comp.nus.edu.sg From: "David L. Gants" Subject: TWLT 14: Language Technology in Multimedia Information Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:20:17 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 503 (503) Retrieval [deleted quotation] 14TH TWENTE WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY IN MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL December 7-8 1998, University of Twente, The Netherlands PROGRAM AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION On 7 and 8 December 1998, the fourteenth international Twente Workshop on Language Technology (TWLT14) will take place at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. The topic of this workshop will be "Language Technology in Multimedia Information Retrieval" TWLT14 will focus on the increasingly important role of human language technology in the indexing and accessing of written and spoken documents, video material and/or images, and on the role of language technology for cross-language retrieval and information extraction. The workshop will address the role of language and speech processing both in terms of existing approaches and implementations, in terms of theoretical foundations, and/or emerging directions of research. http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt14.html [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI-workshop on CABS Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:21:13 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 504 (504) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI-workshop on Foundations and Applications of Collective Agent Based Systems (CABS) ===================================================================== Workshop held in the section 'Computation' as part of the 'Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information' ESSLLI-99 August 16-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Wiebe van der Hoek (Utrecht University) John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University) Cees Witteveen (Delft University) Mike Wooldridge (University of London) INVITED SPEAKER: Christiano Castelfranchi, University of Siena ORGANISERS: Wiebe van der Hoek (Utrecht University) wiebe@cs.uu.nl John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University) jj@cs.uu.nl Cees Witteveen (Delft University) witt@cs.tudelft.nl Questions concerning the workshop may be addressed to any of the organizers. BACKGROUND: This workshop concerns the description of, specification of and reasoning about collective agent-based systems, i.e. multi-agent systems in the sense of co-ordinated networks of autonomous agents. Typical issues to be addressed are logic-based approaches to communication, synchronisation co-ordination, co-operation, conflict handling and negotiation, collective intentions / goals, goals and commitments. Other topics include incident handling and fault-tolerant behaviour of such systems. Finally, applications of collective agent-based systems in e.g. transportation, trade and e-commerce will be subject of discussion in the workshop. KEYWORDS: - theories, logics and specification formalisms for Multi-Agent Systems - models for agent communication, co-ordination, co-operation, competition, collective intentions, contracts, delegation, (social) commitment, roles etc. - models and specification of emergent behaviour - theories for agent negotiation and argumentation - coalition formation - conflict handling/resolution - models and methods for conflict resolution - multi-agent programming - approaches dealing with incident handling and fault-tolerance in MAS - applications in e.g. transport, trade and e-commerce HOW THE WORKHSOP WILL BE ORGANISED: The workshop will consist of five sessions (90 min. each) of presentation and discussion of contributed papers. It will take place during the second week ESSLLI-Summer School and will be open to all members of the LLI- community. SUBMISSIONS: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encouraged to submit an abstract (hard copy or e-mail) of not more than 12 pages to the following address: Wiebe van der Hoek Department of Computer Science PO Box 80089 3508 TB Utrecht The Netherlands wiebe@cs.uu.nl SUMMARY OF DATES: March 15, 99: Deadline for submissions May 1, 99: Notification of acceptance May 31, 99: Deadline for final copy Aug 9, 99: Start of ESSLLI'99 Aug 16, 99: Start of workshop REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-99. FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about the workshop, please go to http://pds.twi.tudelft.nl/cabs/esslli_99.htm The ESSLLI-99 home page is at http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI'99 Student Session First Call for Papers Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:24:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 505 (505) [deleted quotation] FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands Deadline : March 15th, 1999 http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/todirascu/esslli-fr.html We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99) organized by the University of Utrecht under the auspices of the European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FOLLI) and located at the University of Utrecht in August 1999. We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'99 Student Session and appearance in the proceedings. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ICCS'99 CFP Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:27:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 506 (506) [deleted quotation] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- First Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES ICCS'99 http://www.ee.vt.edu/~iccs99/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- July 12-15, 1999 Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Theme: Knowledge Science and Engineering with Conceptual Structures Since 1993, ICCS has been the annual conference and principal forum for theorists and practitioners in conceptual structures. We invite all researchers and users of conceptual structures, knowledge representations, ontologists, formal logics and related disciplines to participate in ICCS'99. Previous conferences on conceptual structures have spanned theory, application and the demonstration of software tools. ICCS'99 looks to extend this foundation with knowledge engineering using conceptual structures. Conceptual structures, based in the conceptual graphs introduced by John Sowa, are rooted in semantic networks and the existential graphs of C. S. Peirce. Conceptual structures have been widely used in several domains, such as natural language processing, knowledge based systems, knowledge engineering and database design, among others. Researchers have developed a sizable software base and continue to build upon it. Our particular desire for ICCS'99 is to encourage presentation of software tools and interesting applications of conceptual structures. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 Student CFP Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:28:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 507 (507) [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** EACL'99 CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS *** Student Sessions at the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL'99 June 8 - 12, 1999 University of Bergen Bergen, Norway http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/eacl99-student/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PURPOSE: The goal of these sessions is to provide a forum for student members to present WORK IN PROGRESS and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. The sessions will consist of paper presentations by student authors. The accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings. Note that the existence of the student sessions does not influence the treatment of student-authored papers submitted to the main conference. Rather, the aim of the student sessions is to provide a separate track emphasizing students' work in progress rather than completed work. [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Daniel Boyarin Subject: French dictionary on disk Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 17:08:04 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 508 (508) Does anyone know of a good French-English dictionary on disk? thanks db ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: JR Subject: Re: 12.0275 editing medieval texts Date: Wed, 4 Nov 98 00:05:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 509 (509) - B. Cerquiglini and J.-L. Lebrave have written an interesting paper on electronic philology: "Philectre: Ein interdisziplinaeres Forschungsproject im Bereich der elektronischen Philologie", Zeitschrift fuer Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 27 (1997-106) 85-93. - Interesting examples of electronic editions can be found at the following site: <http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/cete/cete.html> JR ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Re: 12.0274 vocabularies, etymology Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:22:56 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 510 (510) Willard, Patricia Galloway has provoked me to rethink a certain formulation. [deleted quotation] I had to go back and check what I had written. I had indeed used the verb "to become" [deleted quotation] Too bad I hadn't written "is" instead of "becomes" and invoked a definitional versus a developmental stance. For indeed some of the unique patterns accessible to analysis with computing involve the traces of particular beings living through particular periods and composing a corpus of text (One thinks of the "music" of Cicero in the orations; the evidence gathered regarding Jane Austen's novels, each one centre thematically centred on a particular anatomical focus.) In short, a body leaves traces through repetition and each body is, although composite, singular. There are two temporalities here: the one that holds the composite elements together as a singular body the other that picks out the presence of that body's effects. Of course I could also plead that "the singular" refers to the abstract concept and not a particular singularity. I could try to work out the nuance between "repeated" and "repetitive". But I'm intrigued by the analogy (metaphor?) of the backwards binoculars as an emblem of the humanist's art and as a counterpart to the computer's metronome. However I do detect some mischevious displacement: an adverb turned adjective not so subtly introducing a an element of indeterminacy: is that one set of binoculars or are there more backward binoculars. singularly regressive, .. -- Francois "reading is not required; re-reading is a must" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Hoover" Subject: English Department Home Pages Worldwide Update Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 17:05:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 511 (511) This is just to announce a major update to my "English Department Home Pages Worldwide at <http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/links/engdpts.html>. When I did the first version a couple of years ago, I was able to scrape together about 300 home pages of English Departments. I was expecting to find more this time, but not a fourfold increase to nearly 1300! Any corrections, additions, etc. will be appreciated. DLH -- David L. Hoover, Deputy Chair & Webmaster, NYU English Department david.hoover@nyu.edu 212-998-8832 http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/ A metaphor is a lie that becomes true in the telling. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP Nations and Networks Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:46:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 512 (512) [deleted quotation] Nations and Networks: Cultures in Contact Through Technology A joint Session by COCH/COSH and the Comparative Literature Society Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Sherbrooke, Canada, June 3-4 1999 What kind of interaction will develop between the traditional communities we call nations and the rapidly growing network communities? How does technology reinforce or undermine national boundaries? How will network culture affect traditional cultural institutions, such as national literatures? Does the new medium require new approaches to comparative studies? The nation is sometimes described as a fleeting social structure, dwarfed by mobile, multi-national (non-national) corporate entities and soon to disappear under the wave of globalization. Is it that simple? The French sociologist Zaki Laidi recognizes five dimensions of our societies affected by globalization: the market, communication, culture, politics, and ideology. The nation, as the primary regulatory instance at the intersection of these dimensions, defines itself through the distinctive way it assigns value within and between these dimensions. How will nationhood be shaped by technology? Papers for this joint COCH/COSH- Compartive Literature session will consider, from a theoretical and/or practical point of view, how national cultures are adapting to the networked, technological world, and, inversely, how technology is adapting to cultural diversity. R=E9seaux et Nations: La rencontre des cultures par la voie de la technologie. Une s=E9ance co-parrain=E9e par COCH/COSH et l=92Associatiocanadienne de=20 litterature compar=E9e. Congr=E8s des sciences sociales et humaines, Sherbrooke, Canada, June 3-4, 1999 Quel type d=92interaction se d=E9veloppera entre ces communaut=E9s traditionnelles appel=E9es nations et les communaut=E9s qui prolif=E8rent sur les r=E9seaux =E9lectroniques? Dans quelle mesure la technologie mettra-t-elle en question les fronti=E8res nationales ou, au contraire, les renforcera? Quel effet aura la culture =E9lectronique sur les institutions culturelles traditionnelles, telles que celle d=92une litt=E9rature nationale? Le nouveau m=E9dium demandera-t-il une nouvelle approche aux =E9tudes compar=E9es? La nation semble =EAtre de plus en plus une structure sociale =E9ph=E9m=E8r= e, =E9clips=E9e par les corporations multi-nationales (non-nationales) et bient=F4t submerg=E9e sous la vague de globalisation. Est-ce aussi simple que cela? Le sociologue Zaki Laidi reconna=EEt cinq dimension de nos soci=E9t=E9s qui sont influenc=E9es par l= a globalisation: l=92=E9conomie, la communication, la culture, la politique et l=92id=E9olog= ie. La nation, comme la principale instance r=E9gulatoire situ=E9e au carrefour de ces dimensions, se d=E9finit par la fa=E7on distinctive dont elle distribue la valeur, =E0 la fois =E0 l=92int=E9rieur de ces dimensions et entre celles-ci. Comment la nation se d=E9finira-t-elle =E0 l=92avenir? Les conf=E9rences de cette s=E9ance (co-parrain=E9e par COCH/COSH et l=92association de lit=E9rature compar=E9e) traiteront d=92un point de vue th=E9orique et/ou pratique la fa=E7on dont les cultures nationales sont en train de s=92adapter au monde technologique et connect=E9, et, inversement, la mani=E8re dont la technologie est en train de s=92adapter =E0 la diversit=E9 culturelle. Works Cited/ Ouvrages cit=E9s Laidi, Zaki. Malaise dans la mondialisation. Paris: Editions Textuel, 1997. ---. Le Temps mondial. Bruxelles: Complexe, 1997. Please send proposals for this session and a 250 word abstract by January 1 to either: / Veuillez envoyer des propositions pour cette s=E9ance et un r=E9sum=E9 de 250 mots avant le 1 janvier soit =E0: Jean Sebastien D=E9partement de litt=E9rature compar=E9e Universit=E9 de Montr=E9al. C.P. 6128, Succ. A Montr=E9al, Qc Canada H3C 3J7 sebastij@ere.umontreal.ca ou/soit =E0 : Bill Winder Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies #797-1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1 Tel/T=E9l: (604)822-4022 Fax/T=E9l=E9c.: (604) 822-6675 Internet: winder@interchange.ubc.ca ; http://interchange.ubc.ca/winder See also the web site /voir =E9galement le site Toile pour COCH/COSH : http://purl.oclc.org/net/cochcosh.htm -- W. Winder, Dept. of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies U. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z1 Tel: 1(604)822-4022; Fax: 1(604)822-6675 Internet: winder@interchange.ubc.ca; http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/winder ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: 12.0286 Frenc-Englishh e-dictionary? Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 10:31 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 513 (513) [deleted quotation] I haven't tried it as yet, but in England Oxford is selling one which may be purchased alone or in combination with a German and a Spanish, i.e., all three on a single cd-rom. I have tried the German and a Russian (also by Oxford but not available in combination with other languages), and find them both quite handy. Especially as the German may be loaded onto one's hard disk, and thus may be used without the necessity of carrying the cd-rom. I have not found these on sale in the United States, but ordered them on-line via what was then the UK online bookstore Bookpages, now Amazon UK or some such. Delivery took a week or so to New Jersey. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: messages accidentally deleted Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:57:27 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 514 (514) Dear Colleagues: Due to my own careless rapid typing, a number of recently submitted messages were deleted and cannot be recovered. All my fault this time -- though I do privately blame UNIX for doing exactly what I requested rather than what I wanted it to do. Would those whose messages do NOT appear in this mailing please resubmit them and forgive me? Thanks. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: old walls, new growth Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 22:10:20 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 515 (515) Humanist has been coming out somewhat fitfully of late because I have been in Georgetown, Washington DC, five time-zones and too much competing Internet activity away from home. For which all apologies -- for the sporadic issues, not for the beautifully autumnal Georgetown. The turning of the leaves, a striking sight to a resident of London, led me early this morning to reflect on the cycle I've observed in my own thinking, by which ideas first spring into the mind, grow with great vigour, then turn, fall and rot. Or, to put the matter another way, intellectual claustrophobia seems to set in almost as soon as the walls of a new intellectual structure have been put into place. The unwelcome, uncomfortable time is surely a sign of mental health, but I find it most difficult to admit that the new structure has walls, and that I am bumping into them. Take, for example, our own field, how we conceptualise what we're doing. At first I was charmed by the thought that rendering a complex text into something the computer can process (marking it up) was like translation, with the inevitable loss, and that the really interesting thing about it was this loss, what slipped through the net of computation. Then I ran into Peter Galison's great study of instrumentation, Image and Logic: the Material Culture of Microphysics, which showed me that the translation model is only part of the story: from the perspective of the instrument, our computer, the activity is more like the creation of a pidgin or interlanguage between two cultures, in an interdisciplinary "trading zone". Galison's borrowing of the anthropological notion has the virtue of recognising the integrity of our field, for the study of loss really belongs to the discipline from the perspective of which there has been such a loss. We do the interlanguage, or more broadly, deal in all the pidgins that arise from the intersections of the humanities with computing. Charming as Galison's model is -- and I am still in the phase of an intellectual adoration -- experience is whispering in my ear that I should be holding my arms out to feel for the wall I am about to bump into. Unlike adoration of other kinds, this sort seems always to serve when one realises that it points beyond itself to a more inclusive kind. What might a better model be? I have difficulty with the idea that, as one especially intelligent colleague has argued, the computational representation of a text, for example, is simply another representation, not necessarily a lesser one. I can see that what we study is (to quote the title of Antonioni's last great film, completed by Wenders) "beyond the clouds", i.e. that all forms of what we study are representations triangulating on the unsayable. I wonder if the next step is to turn our attention to what happens when we read, i.e. to the process rather than to the artefact. Reflections (in a mirror, in an enigma) would be most welcome. While you're eating the chutney you've made from the tomatoes that never ripened in the garden that erupted beyond all expectation, taking joy in the taste of what has resulted from a most vigorous season of growth, please give some thought to this problem I'm having, let me know where the next wall might be, and what a more generous structure might be like. And save some of that chutney for the solsticial celebrations. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Heyward Ehrlich Subject: Nov 13 NEACH: Ulysses Date: Tue, 10 Nov 98 19:52:19 EST X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 516 (516) NEACH and the NYU Academic Computing Facility invite you to attend a talk on James Joyce's "Ulysses" in Hypermedia by Michael Groden, Department of English, University of Western Ontario Friday, November 13, 1998 at 2:00 PM Room 101, Warren Weaver Hall 251 Mercer Street, at West Fourth St. New York University, Washington Square, NY NY Michael Groden is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario and the director of the ongoing "Ulysses" hypermedia project. Over 100 "Ulysses" critics and scholars are contributing to make this enormous project a reality. His Web site is at http://publish.uwo.ca/~mgroden/ James Joyce's "Ulysses" is an ideal literary work to present in hypermedia. With its stream-of-consciousness technique to reveal its characters thoughts; its many allusions to works of literature, art, and music, both high and popular; and the library of criticism and scholarship that it has inspired, it is no wonder that many people have been referring to it lately as a hypertext before its time. Presenting "Ulysses" in hypermedia format will give readers, students, and scholars a new context in which to read and study the book. It will also teach us a lot about the differences between presenting a literary work in print and on a screen and about the ways in which a work originally written for print changes when it is put into an electronic hypermedia environment. James Joyce's "Ulysses" in Hypermedia will include texts of several versions of "Ulysses"; published and newly written definitions and annotations; an archive of major published critical books and articles; source works such as "The Odyssey" and "Hamlet"; basic help for students; original commentaries on "Ulysses", written in hypertext; maps; photographs; video or film versions of passages from "Ulysses"; an audio version of the book; recordings of songs mentioned, quoted, or sung; an aural pronunciation guide; searching and indexing features; and space for users to add comments and links. In his talk Michael Groden will show the prototype and will also discuss the intriguing issues and problems that have come up in the process of transforming the prototype into a full presentation. For further information, contact Lorna Hughes (Lorna.Hughes@nyu.edu) Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Academic Computing Facility New York University 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012-1185, USA Phone: (212) 998 3070 Fax: (212) 995 4120 http://www.nyu.edu/acf/humanities/ From: PMC Subject: Call for Peer Reviewers Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:21:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 517 (517) PMC: Essays Currently Available for Peer Review Self-nominated peer-reviewers regularly participate in the editorial process of _Postmodern Culture_. All submissions distributed for review have been screened by the editors and will receive two other readings from members of the journal's permanent editorial board; _Postmodern Culture_ preserves the anonymity of both authors and reviewers in this process, but the comments of reviewers will be forwarded to the author. If you would like to review one of the submissions described below, and if you think you can complete that review within two weeks of receiving the essay, please send a note to the editors at pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu outlining your qualifications as a reviewer of the work in question (experience in the subject area, publications, interest), identifying the MS by number as listed below, and specifying the manner in which you would like to receive the essay (electronic mail or World-Wide Web). We will select one self-nominated reviewer for each of the works listed below, and we will notify reviewers within two weeks. Information gathered during this process about potential reviewers will be kept on file at PMC for future reference, and may be made available for online searching by PMC subscribers seeking expertise in a particular field. Please note: members of the journal's permanent editorial board should not nominate themselves in response to this call. Manuscripts for review: MS #1 Through a critical reading of some of the most influential historiography of the Vietnam war, including Coppola's film "Apocalyse Now" and Robert McNamara's memoir _In Retrospect_, this essay analyses the way in which "Vietnam" constitutes one of the late twentieth century's most revealing cultural tableaux--both a political, strategic and mythological crisis for the United States, and a stage for some of the most profound ontological anxieties of western modernity. In particular, the essay takes up the theme of politics and violence through the way reason (as a complex formation of geopolitical power, a seductive locus of identity and a movement of historical progress) has been problematized within these texts. References include Stanley Karrow, Neil Sheehan, J.F. Lyotard, and Michel Foucault. MS #2 An inquiry into the act of critically encountering HIV, and the ideological complexities germane to that act, this essay attempts to apprehend some of the object-specific, but nonetheless general and representative, mechanisms which hold HIV, method, and truth in functional relations to each other. References include Roland Barthes, Eve Sedgwick, David Halperin, Slavoj Zizek, and Stanley Fish. MS#3 This essay maps the boundaries of Andreas Huyssen's concept of the post-avant-garde as the "hope" of postmodernism by reading _Spin_ magazine's reporting and dissemination of contemporary "alternative"/Gen X youth culture scenes in a Cultural Studies context. Other references include Michael Berube, Clint Burnham, Douglas Crimp, Cary Nelson, and Andrew Ross. MS#4 This essay seeks to initiate the adaptation of some methods of textual scholarship to postmodern studies by considering how approaching a literary text as a sequence of material events occurring over time affects understanding of that text and its multiple contexts. The essay focuses on a single illustration--adapting the old-style practice of publication history to what might be considered the grand-daddy of postmodern texts: William Burroughs's _Naked Lunch_. References include Fredric Jameson, Allen Thiher, Steven Shaviro, and David Cronenberg. MS#5 An interrogation of the political and economic implications of mapping, this essay seeks to unpack the seeming naturalness of various cartographic representations of the Internet. The author critiques the complicity of common techniques of scientific visualization with the contrasting invisibility of political and economic systems, as evidenced in phenomena like the worldwide diffusion of digital networks. These and similar depictions of global network activity, the author proposes, are embedded in unacknowledged and pernicious metageographies--sign systems that organize the geographical knowledge they purport to demonstrate into visual schemes which seem straightforward, but which depend on historically and politically inflected misrepresentation of underlying material conditions. References include Roland Barthes, Joseph Conrad, Martin Lewis and Karen Wigen, Mark Monmonier, David Turnball, and Denis Wood. MS#6 An analysis of Zizek's theories of feminine depression. The author argues that Zizek's application of Lacanian film theory presents real political problems concerning the way gender and ethnicity are aesthetically coded, intellectualized, and spun into highly politicized although seemingly benign narratives. Zizek's discursive disempowerment and dehumanization of women, the author proposes, makes it difficult to distinguish his leftist agenda from some of the most pernicious racial theories of the late 19th century. Zizek re-installs Woman into all narratives as a metaphor for everything that is other than man. In other words, woman becomes man's therapy. References include Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Feliz Guattari, Luce Irigaray, and Steven Shaviro. MS#7 An exploration of how the application of literary constraints as practiced by the group Oulipo builds and alters literary consciousness. The author explores the ways in which contemporary neurobiological research modifies consciousness. Biologically speaking, constraints define a species, much like literary constraints define a genre. As molecules reorder themselves they participate in biological evolution; literary constraints provide order, catalyze, and help literature to evolve. Focusing on Raymond Queneau's use of alexandrines in _Petite cosmologie portative_, the author argues that the alexandrine functions as would a "poetic molecule": innovative manipulation of its syllables strengthens and transforms literature's consciousness of its own methods of construction. References include Marcel Benabou, Henri Meschonnic, and Jacques Roubaud. MS#8 An examination of Joanna Russ's _The Female Man_. The author proposes that understanding Russ's novel as an exploration of the social meanings of women's work requires that we regard it not only as a postmodern novel, but as a postindustrial one. In these terms, by illuminating the dilemma automation posed to women's efforts to associate themselves with the traditionally empowering concept of work, _The Female Man_ historicizes and complicates Donna Haraway's celebration of the "cyborg" as a progressive icon for contemporary female workers. References include Susan Ayres, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Betty Friedan, Bob Gottlieb, Fredric Jameson, and Andrew Ross. MS#9 An examination of Susan Howe's _Articulation of Sound Forms in time_, considered in light of Heidegger's condition of an "openness to mystery." The author argues that the importance of Howe's work lies in its testing of the conditions of mastery and control, and that as such any critical impulse to re-assemble a narrative from Howe's fragments constitutes a normative method that must be resisted. References include Gerald Bruns, Marjorie Perloff, and Linda Reinfeld. MS#10 A Foucauldian analysis of Malaysia's role in Southeast Asian politics. Focusing on the political rhetoric of Malaysia's top two leaders, prime minister Mahathir and his deputy and former Islamic youth leader, Anwar Ibrahim, the author suggests that the extent and impact of political narratives on the polity is dependent on prevailing hierarchies of power within its territories: the greater the political power, the stronger the political narrative, the higher the chances of its survival as "fact" and as "truth." References include Max Weber and Michel Foucault. MS#11 Focusing on George Herriman's _Krazy Cat_, this essay argues that a methodology for reading the comic page does exist and should be encouraged in the classroom. By examining one page of Krazy Kat, the author explores Herriman's use of meaning and non-meaning in order to not define what the text means or is about but rather to understand the various processes at play in the reading of a comic page. References include Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Walter Ong, Edward Shannon, Greg Ulmer, and Slavoj Zizek. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: New on-line journal and Call for Papers Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 07:46:11 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 518 (518) [deleted quotation] [ Part 2: "Included Message" ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Brad Scott Subject: Re: 12.0286 French-English e-dictionary? Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:48:08 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 519 (519) You may be interested to know that we have published a number of specialist bilingual dictionaries in French, German and Spanish, which are available electronically. The French ones are: French Technical Dictionary French Dictionary of Telecommunications French Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance Further information is at <http://www.routledge.com/routledge/electronic/biling.html> ____________________________________ Brad Scott Electronic Development Manager Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE Tel: * 44 171 842 2134 Fax: * 44 171 842 2134 Email: Web: <http://www.routledge.com/routledge/electronic/default.html> ____________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: job at Virginia Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:02:13 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 520 (520) Director and Chair of the University of Virginia Program in Media Studies We are seeking a senior scholar with impressive academic credentials and a record as an innovative and energetic administrator, to chair a new, interdisciplinary undergraduate program in media studies at the University of Virginia. The director will have a major role in designing and developing the program, and in organizing its core faculty. The successful candidate will be an accomplished teacher and a scholar with significant publications in at least one (and preferably more) of the following areas: television, radio, print and journalism, film, photography, and digital media. A Ph.D. is desirable. Please submit a letter of interest and a curriculum vitae to Professor Mark Edmundson, Department of English, Bryan Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903. Deadline, January 2, 1999. The University of Virginia is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Price-Wilkin Subject: Report from meeting: TEI and XML in Digital Libraries Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:15:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 521 (521) On June 30th and July 1st, 1998, the Digital Library Federation sponsored a meeting on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and Extensible Markup Language (XML), held at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. The meeting focused, for the first time, on library applications of the TEI Guidelines, specifically in the digital library setting. Invited guests included Michael Sperberg-McQueen (co-editor TEI Guidelines and co-editor XML specification; University of Illinois, Chicago) and Lou Burnard (co-editor TEI Guidelines; Oxford University). Final reports and recommendations from the three workgroups are now available online at: http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf/ The organizers of the meeting, LeeEllen Friedland (Library of Congress) and John Price-Wilkin (University of Michigan), wish to thank the Digital Library Federation for its generous support. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Iain D. Brown" Subject: Digital Millennium Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:20:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 522 (522) Can any of Humanist's American readers inform me whether the Digital Millennium Act has been passed in the US (H.R. 2281)? On the 26th of October it left the House of Representatives and from the Congress web page I cannot establish if this Act is Law now (presumably it becomes law once the President signs it). Many thanks. Iain. Iain D. Brown Xerox Lecturer in Electronic Communication and Publishing School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT Tel: (0171) 504 2476 (direct) (0171) 380 7204 (SLAIS office) Fax: (0171) 383 0557 E-mail: iain.brown@ucl.ac.uk ICQ#: 18044300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Rossen Rashev Subject: Discussion: Old vs. New Technology in Education Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:32:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 523 (523) Apologies for cross posting Please forward it to whoever may be interested ---------------------------------------------- New formal discussion is starting on 23 November in IFETS forum on the topic: "The 'next generation', like tomorrow, never comes" (Shouldn't we be learning how to make tried and tested 'old' technologies work for us and our students, in reliable and pedagogically effective ways, instead of being seduced by the blandishments of the technocrats?) Moderator: Chris O'Hagan Dean of Learning Development, University of Derby, United Kingdom Summariser: Karen Allnutt Instructional/training software developer, University of Iowa, USA (Pre-discussion summary below) ------------------------------------------------------------------ "International Forum of Educational Technology and Society (IFETS)" http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/ The forum aims to bring together the developers of educational systems, and the educators who implement and manage such systems. If you have not joined the forum yet, but would like to do so, please follow these steps: 1. Please subscribe to the forum discussion mailing list by sending a message to majordomo@gex.gmd.de with the following in the body of the message (no subject needed): subscribe ifets-digest 2. Please fill out registration form at forum's website http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets ------------------------------------------------------------------ * Pre-discussion summary "The next generation, like tomorrow, never comes" With each successive generation of new educational technologies the dawn of a revolution in teaching and learning is heralded. There have been many such dawns in the last 30 years, during which the desktop computer and the Internet have been developed; but there have been similar dawns throughout the century - film, radio, records, broadcast television, audiotape, videotape, programmed learning machines etc. Each time enthusiasts have announced the transformation or even the end of the school/college/university. In fact, the impact on the bulk of teaching and learning has been minimal. Developments in paper/printing technologies have had far more influence, with the consequence that face-to-face discussion and paper resources still dominate public education. Audio-visual media have been treated more as an icing-on-the-cake than as something at the very heart of learning - and likewise their long-suffering support services (though the new media, particularly video, have fared somewhat better in the development of corporate training programmes). Is the current information and communication technology (ICT) revolution different from earlier audio-visual `revolutions'? Possibly. Probably. But its success in public education may be compromised (yet again) by a failure to learn from past mistakes. As usual we have the problems of compatibility, standards changes, reliability, portability, flexibility, costs of access, obsolescence, inappropriate use etc. These are probably not insoluble. More deeply entrenched we have next-generationitis (hang on in, the solution is just round the corner) which impedes proper investment and embedding; we have failure to empower teachers (with those who provide and support technologies manoeuvring to retain their control, often only interested in working at the next technological frontier) which impedes autonomous use and wide diffusion; we have teaching staff who cannot use an overhead projector effectively, never mind use text-based cmc or combine text and images in a computer package (and who have never even learned to design reliable multiple choice tests on paper, for example) - which discredits change through poor quality and failed effort. I exaggerate for effect - but not much. There is, of course, excellent practice around on a continuum from the use of paper-based technologies through to today's frontiers on the Internet. There has always been excellent practice, but it has tended to remain, stubbornly, in limited pockets of expertise - often widely acknowledged, but still pockets nonetheless. My question is, will we ever make ICT work for us ubiquitously in education - not just for interpersonal communication and data transfer, but in core teaching and learning - if we fail to make `old' technologies work ubiquitously first? In other words, is in-depth pedagogical experience using old technologies (text, graphics, audio, film, video etc) a precondition for effective use of today's ICT? After all, multimedia is itself a mixture of all these old technologies, combining familiar methods with an unfamiliar rigour. And what implications for strategy, for investment, for staff development, for implementation, emerge from the different ways this question is answered? ------------------------------------------------------------------ More details about other forthcoming discussions in the forum are available at forum website: http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/ ============================================================== Rossen Rashev E-mail: Rossen.Rashev@gmd.de http://zeus.gmd.de/hci/pages/rossen.rashev.html Phone: +49 2241 14 28 70, FAX +49 2241 14 20 65 GMD FIT Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH German National Research Center for Information Technology D-53754 Sankt Augustin, GERMANY (near Bonn) From: Willard McCarty Subject: forgotten technologies Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:03:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 524 (524) [deleted quotation]article by Hugh Kenner, "Journals on the Internet", specifically mentioning Jacket, Richmond Review, Slate (p. 35), this paragraph: "But -- computerized? Then, goes the outcry, it can't be literary! It's (shudder) -- Technological! But, ah, so were Gutenberg's presses. So, for that matter, were ink, and the quill pen, even the manufacture of parchment. The only pre-tech bard will have been some Homer, reciting; and he too is pre-tech only if we assume he didn't smite a high-tech lyre." Now, while briefly we are surfaced to the realisation that our knowledge is mediated, let's make the best of the opportunity. Perhaps we could say that the purpose of humanities computing is to keep our minds afloat in that sense. Perhaps, to carry Kenner's thought further, we might view the tongue as (anatomical) technology, and the opposed thumb, and that which allows us to walk upright, and the bodyparts of joy that give us access (as Blake said) to knowledge of beauty. The idea obviously can be extended until it embraces everything, and so in a sense becomes useless. But perhaps the notion that mediation is all is not entirely a waste of time. For us computing humanists it would seem that the indissolubility of form and content is fundamental. Comments? WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Blinkers, Binoculars & Walls Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 23:09:08 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 525 (525) Willard, Sometimes I do believe your nifty deletion trick is an wonderful opportunity for re-threading postings. Case in point: I was quoting a piece from Gregory Bateson's _Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity_ in the aftermath of the binocular bit sent by Patricia Galloway when your wall image was erected upon the screen and thought with dismay you were about to bump into the artefact/process dichotomy and then thought but the bumping itself is a reified event and I do like the sermo humilitas tone of the bump in its story telling setting ["crash" just wouldn't do. "Bump" has a child-like learning feel.] Allow me to jump over the wall of my digression and quote a framing epigraph from Andrew Hodges's biography of Turing: Alan Turing himself did not stick to his original abstract term "configuration", but later described machines quite freely in terms of "states" and "instructions", according to the interpretation he had in mind. Now that that artefact/process dichotomy is properly framed in a computing history anecdote rather than in a passage from Marx on Hegel, I turn to Bateson, master of the cybernetic model applied to the cultural: [...] problem was solved by the use of an instrument which astronomers call a _blinker_. Photographs of the appropriate region of the sky were taken at longish intervals. These photographs were then studied in pairs in the blinker. This instrument is the converse of a binocular microscope; instead of two eyepieces and one stage, it has one eyepiece and two stages and is so arranged that by the flick of a lever, what is seen at one moment on one stage can be replaced by a view of the other stage. Two photographs are placed in exact register on the two stages so that all the ordinary fixed stars precisely coincide. Then, when the lever is flicked over, the fixed stars will not appear to move, but a planet will appear to jump from one position to another. There were, however, many jumping objects (asteroids) in the field of the photographs, and Tombaugh [discover of the planet Pluto] had to find one that jumped _less_ than the others. After hundreds of such comparisons, Tombaugh saw Pluto jump. The analogy with humanities computing is I believe particulary apt especially in the way the discursive universes intersect or the fashion in which the literal and metaphoric representations weave their magic so very much like those wonderful collisions diagrammed by Arthur Koestler in _The Act of Creation_. Anyone sensitive to the changing numbers of eyepieces and alert to the theatrics of stage permutations cannot but help but understand that the jump of comparison is suspended over the dialectic of artefact and event showering us with so much delightful noise ****** -- Francois jumps-with-blinkers From: pjmoran Subject: Re: 12.0299 old walls, new growth Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:03:29 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 526 (526) .. . . though much is taken, much abides. .. .the next wall is always ignorance. . ..an arch where-through gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades. . ..we, sitting well in order, just need to look for chinks in that wall, so we can slip through. . ..strong in will. . . not to yield. . . Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News - Correction Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:37:33 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 527 (527) [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News=20 ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES - CORRECTION *** In the previous ELRA news, we announced the availability of the Chilean Spanish FDB-250 speech database which included 250 speakers. Today, we are happy to announce that this database has been increased with 257 more speakers and is now offering a complete set of 507 speakers. Below the description and prices of the modified database. ELRA-S0054 Chilean Spanish FDB-500 This speech database gathers Spanish data as spoken in Chile. All participants are native speakers. The corpus consists of read speech, including digits and application words for teleservices, recorded through an ISDN card. There is a total of 507 speakers (272 male, 235 female). Each speaker pronounced a total of 24 utterances. The age class is divided as follows: 33 speakers are less than 16 year old, 215 speakers are between age 16 to 30, 207 speakers are between age 31 to 45, 51 speakers are between age 46 to 60, and 1 speaker is over 60. The callers spoke 74 different items in total: =B7 isolated digits, =B7 yes/no, =B7 common application words. The data is provided with orthographic transliteration for all 12,168 utterances including 4 categories of non-speech acoustic events. A phonetic lexicon with canonical transcription in SAMPA is also included. The speech files are stored as sequences of 8 bits 8 kHz A-law samples. Data are stored in a SAM file format. Price for ELRA members: 6,000 ECU Price for non members: 10,000 ECU ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Colleen Seifert Subject: SEMCOM:Cognitive Science Conference 1999 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:29:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 528 (528) COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY CONFERENCE Call for Papers and Proposals We are pleased to announce the twenty-first annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society on August 19-21, 1999. The conference site is Vancouver, British Columbia, on the downtown campus of Simon Fraser University. Our goal in organizing this conference is to reflect the full spectrum of the many research areas in Cognitive Science. We welcome all submissions, and trust that multiple research themes will emerge naturally. We are especially interested in submissions in areas that have been under represented at recent conferences. There are six categories for submissions: [material deleted] website: http://www.sfu.ca/cogsci99/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL99 CFP: General and Thematic Sessions Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:30:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 529 (529) [deleted quotation] ACL '99 Call for Papers 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 20--26 June, 1999 University of Maryland [You may find it easier to read this information on the Web at http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99] [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL99 Call for Tutorials Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:32:31 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 530 (530) [deleted quotation] Call for Tutorial Proposals Tutorials Chair: Richard Sproat Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies rws@research.bell-labs.com Call The ACL '99 Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for ACL '99, to be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, June 20--26, 1999. The tutorials for ACL '99 will be held on June 20th. [material deleted; please see above Web site] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: SEMCOM: ICLA CFP Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:34:22 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 531 (531) [deleted quotation] Tfrom: cogling@ucsd.edu Theme Session Call for Papers 6th International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) Conference (Stockholm, July 1999) Typological Research on Signed Languages: Cognition and Discourse Structure Session Coordinators: Sherman Wilcox and Terry Janzen Several hundred signed languages are known to exist in the world, used within communities in which the signed language is the primary language. Most grammatical description of these languages, however, is not extensive, and is confined to no more than a handful of these languages. There is speculation that signed languages may share a significant number of linguistic features even when such languages are genetically unrelated, due in part to their common use of the hands and body as articulators and the eyes, rather than ears, as perceptual organs. Very little actual work, however, has been carried out with respect to which specific grammatical features are shared, and which may differ. Many questions surrounding the relationship between cognition and signed language structure involve the cross-linguistic typology of structural and semantic categories. It is not yet clear, however, whether certain linguistic features of signed languages emerge cross-linguistically because users of these languages employ similar articulatory and perceptual systems, and how much variation between and within particular categories exists. The purpose of this session is to focus on information processing and discourse structure as typological features among signed languages. A cognitive approach to this topic assumes that signers will structure their discourse to best represent and convey what is cognitively salient, and that the grammar that emerges within a community of language users will reflect this cognitive motivation. We invite papers which focus on cognition and features of discourse structure in a variety of signed languages, with the intention of facilitating discussion among researchers regarding typological features. Abstracts (700 to 1400 words) are invited, and should be submitted by November 31 to each of the following: wilcox@unm.edu tjanzen@post.rrcc.mb.ca =========================== Sherman Wilcox, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Linguistics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 http://www.unm.edu/~wilcox From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Conference on Consciousness and Cognition Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:43:29 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 532 (532) [deleted quotation] The 4th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland Dublin, Ireland, Aug 16-20, 1999 (aka mind-4) Theme: "Two Sciences of Mind" Confirmed invited speakers include; Bernard Baars Stuart Hammeroff Kathy McGovern Program Committee Bernard Baars Mark Bickhard Robert Campbell Terry Dartnall Christian de Quincey Stuart Hammeroff Phil Kime Paul Mc Kevitt Yoshi Nakamura Sean O Nuallain Max Velmans Lucien T. Winegar Stream 1: Outer and Inner Empiricism in Consciousness Research Chair: Sean O Nuallain Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland (sonualla@compapp.dcu.ie) This stream will feature papers that attempt to show how "inner" states can be elucidated with reference to external phenomena. "Inner empiricism" designates experience, or qualia. Qualia are shaped (somehow) by brain processes or states which sense and interpret the external phenomena. The physical nature of these processes or states may tell us much about consciousness. Likewise, the argument that we are conscious of only one thing at a time because of the gating action of the nuclei reticularis thalami (Taylor, Baars, etc.) is indicative of the kind of thinking we are trying to encourage. In this vein, pain experience and its imperfect relationship to neural activity is similarly relevant. We particularly welcome papers that feature empirical data, or, if purely theoretical in nature, show a grasp of the range of disciplines necessary to do justice to the topic. Papers are also invited that - Interpret qualia in terms of panpsychism based on quantum mechanics (or, in current terms, pan-protopsychism) - Establish links with Whitehead's pan-experientialism - Establish links with an account of the emergence of cognitive processes out of self-maintenant processes that are non-cognitive - Interrelate physiological processes at the neural level with current thought in quantum mechanics - Emphasize "relational empiricism," i.e., second-person considerations - Investigate the brain processes or states giving rise to qualia at whatever level the writer considers appropriate (eg intra-cellular cytoskeletal activities and/or quantum-level phenomena). - Involve studies of central pain states as well as other curiosities like allodynia, spontaneous analgesia, pain asymbolia, and hypnotic analgesia. Stream 2: Foundations of Cognitive Science Co-chairs: Sean O Nuallain Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland (sonualla@compapp.dcu.ie) Robert L. Campbell Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC USA (campber@clemson.edu) WHAT THE FOUNDATIONS STREAM IS ABOUT Though deep and contentious questions of theory and metatheory have always been prevalent in Cognitive Science--they arise whenever an attempt is made to define Cognitive Science as a discipline--they have frequently been downrated by researchers, in favor of empirical work that remains safely within the confines of established theorizing and customary methods. Our goal to is redress the balance. We encourage participants in this stream to raise and discuss such questions as: * the adequacy of computationalist accounts of mind * the adequacy of conceptions of mental representation as structures that encode structures out in the environment * the consequences of excluding emotions, consciousness, and the social realm from the purview of cognitive studies * the consequences of Newell and Simon's "scientific bet" that developmental constraints did not have to be studied until detailed models of adult cognition had been constructed and tested * the relationship between cognitive science and formal logic A wide range of theoretical perspectives is welcome, so long as the presenters are willing to engage in serious discussion with the proponents of perspectives that are different from their own: * Vygotskian treatments of culture and cognition * Dynamic Systems theories * Piagetian constructivism * interactivism * neuroscience accounts such as those of Edelman and Grossberg * theories of emergence in general, and emergent knowledge in particular * perception and action robotics * functional linguistics * genetic algorithms * Information Procesing * connectionism * evolutionary epistemology ********** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR STREAMS 1 and 2 Contributors will be asked to submit short papers (3000 word limit) in the form of HTML files. Submissions to Stream 1 should be emailed to Sean O Nuallain. Submissions to Stream 2 should be emailed to Robert Campbell. The deadline for submissions is February 1, 1999. All submissions accepted for presentation during the streams will be given as 20-minute spoken papers. *********** The "MIND" conferences have normally had their proceedings published by John Benjamins. We have already been approached by prospective publishers for mind-4. All accepted papers and posters will be included in a preprint. Robert L. Campbell Professor, Psychology Brackett Hall 410A Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-1511 USA phone (864) 656-4986 fax (864) 656-0358 http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html Editor, Dialogues in Psychology http://hubcap.clemson.edu/psych/Dialogues/dialogues.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd International Conference on Information Fusion Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:44:39 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 533 (533) [deleted quotation] The 2nd International Conference on Information Fusion will be held on 6-8 July, 1999 at Sunnyvale Hilton Inn, Silicon Valley, CA, USA with the URL http://www.inforfusion.org/fusion99. Please forward to the researchers who want to present the work related to "Fusion" or the three subjects: Person Identification, Multi-Agent, and Advanced Voice Recognition Data Fusion. Thank you in advance for contributing the papers. Dr. Khanh Q. Luong khanh.q.luong@lmco.com 315-456-2664 LMCO, OR&SS P.O. Box 4840, EP7-222-MD27 Syracuse, NY 13221-4840 [material deleted] From: David Green Subject: ichim99: Call for Papers - last call Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 12:31:00 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 534 (534) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 23, 1998 *** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: ICHIM '99 *** [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting (ichim99) http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Washington, DC, USA Sept. 23-26, 1999 ***DEADLINE REMINDER: November 30, 1998 *** Proposals are invited for the Fifth ICHIM Conference (formerly known as the International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in Museums). Since its beginning in 1991, with a strict focus on interactivity, the scope of ICHIM has broadened to include a full range of activities related to Cultural Heritage Informatics. The 1997 ICHIM conference at Le Louvre in Paris, attracted over 650 attendees from 25 countries. Paper proposals will be accepted until November 30, 1998. All papers are subject to critical peer review and will be judged by an international Program Committee on the basis of the quality of the abstract. The Proceedings of ichim99 will be published. Please see the conference web site at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ for full details. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Resource logics and minimalist grammars Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:59:43 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 535 (535) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI`99 workshop on RESOURCE LOGICS AND MINIMALIST GRAMMARS (deadline for submissions: March 15th 1999) Utrecht, 16-20 August 1999 Organizers: Christian Retor=E9 (IRISA, Rennes)=20 Edward Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles) URL: http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG E-mail: rlmg@irisa.fr A workshop held as part of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI`99), August 9-20 1999, Utrecht [material deleted] From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: COCH/COSH call for papers Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 15:38:26 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 536 (536) CALL FOR PAPERS / APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS (version française suit) A Session by COCH/COSH at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Sherbrooke, Canada, June 3-4, 1999 Teaching Humanities Computing: Programmes, Resources, and Course Designs More and more universities are offering courses in the area of Humanities Computing. The introduction of such courses, and in some cases entire programmes, raises interesting questions regarding their place in the Humanities curriculum. Some of the questions that need to be addressed are: What is the place of Humanities Computing courses in the Humanities curriculum? How should such courses and programmes be designed? Should such courses be offered for credit or not? At what level should they be offered? Should they be offered as part of departmental offerings or as interdisciplinary courses? How are university courses in the area of multimedia, computer graphics and text technology different (if at all) from college courses? What theories, readings, skills and technologies do we expect such courses to cover? What instructional resources from text books to CD-ROMs are needed or have been developed? What has been the reception of such courses so far among students and faculty? COCH/COSH welcomes papers that address these questions for a session dedicated to the teaching of Humanities Computing. Papers that deal with theoretical issues in the light of actual university practice are encouraged. ==== Une séance parrainée par COCH/COSH au Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines, Sherbrooke, Canada, 3-4 juin, 1999 Enseigner l'informatique pour les sciences humaines: Programmes, ressources et conception de cours De plus en plus les universités offrent des cours d'informatique appliquée aux sciences humaines. La présence de tels cours, voire de programmes complets soulève des questions intéressantes concernant leur rôle parmi les études en sciences humaines. Les questions les plus pressantes sont: Quel rôle doivent jouer les cours d'informatique pour sciences humaines dans les programmes universitaires? Comment structurer de tels cours et de tels programmes? Doivent-ils compter vers le diplôme? À quel niveau d'études doivent-ils s'offrir? Doit-on les offrir comme cours départemental ou plutôt comme cours interdisciplinaire? Les cours des collèges techniques qui portent sur le multimédia, les graphiques par ordinateur et la technologie des textes se distinguent-ils des cours offerts à l'université? Quelles théories, lectures, connaissances pratiques et technologies doivent normalement faire partie de tels cours? Quelles ressources éducatives - allant des manuels de classe jusqu'aux CD - sont déjà disponibles ou à élaborer? De tels cours sont-ils bien reçus jusqu'ici parmi les enseignants et les étudiants? COCH/COSH sollicite des propositions de conférence qui traitent de ces questions dans le cadre de l'enseignement de l'informatique destiné aux sciences humaines, et en particulier les propositions de conférences qui traitent des problématiques théoriques en prenant comme point de départ la pratique universitaire actuelle. === Priority will be given to proposals (with a 100 word abstract) sent by January 1 to either: / La préférence sera accordée aux propositions envoyées avant le 1 janvier. Veuillez envoyer un résumé de 100 mots soit à: Geoffrey Rockwell Director, Humanities Computing Department of Modern Languages TSH 312, McMaster University1280 Main St. W. Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M2 Tel/Tél: (905)525-9140 x 24072 Fax/Téléc.: (905) 577-6930 Internet: grockwel@mcmaster.ca ; http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hccrs/grockwell.htm ou/soit à : Bill Winder COCH/COSH Secretary Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies #797-1873 East Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1 Tel/Tél: (604)822-4022 Fax/Téléc.: (604) 822-6675 Internet: winder@interchange.ubc.ca ; http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/winder See also the web site /voir également le site Toile pour COCH/COSH : http://purl.oclc.org/net/cochcosh.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: Online dictionaries Date: Wed, 18 Nov 98 09:27:22 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 537 (537) There are all kinds of French-English, English-French dictionaries available online; just browse. My favorite CD-ROM type dictionary is _Languages of the World_, street price under $50.00 (I bought my last copy [for Windows] for under $10.00). It offers keystroke availability for words in several different languages: French, German, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese (displays the last two in their own scripts), and I am sure I have left out some. The French is not their best, but it is good enough. I am looking at a copy (it is put out by everybody) which calls itself SONY CD-ROM Series by PDSC. It is copyrighted 1989 by CD-ROM Multilingual Dictionary Database Group. Just look around; it is undoubtedly listed in Bowker's _CD-ROMs in Print_ (also available on CD-ROM). It is one of the best buys in the CD-ROM business. If you frequent old computer shops, you will be able to get one cheap; I don't know why, but no one seems to use it. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Paul F. Schaffner" Subject: re:Digital Millennium Act Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:07:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 538 (538) [deleted quotation] Both H.R. 2281 and its fellow in perfidy, S.505, passed, were signed, and have been assigned "Public Law" numbers. S.505 is now P.L. 105-298 and H.R. 2281 is now P.L. 105-304. pfs -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schaffner | pfs@umich.edu | http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/ SGML Production Coordinator, Middle English Compendium ('the e-MED') University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service From: "Susan B. White" Subject: Re: 12.0304 Digital Millennium Act? Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:40:58 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 539 (539) Thursday Morning 19 November 1998 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act became law in the United States on 28 October 1998 as Public Law 105-304. The legal reference for the Act is 112 Stat. 2860. Regards, Sue Susan Bennett White United Nations Librarian Online Coordinator in the Social Sciences Princeton University Library 609 258-4814, 258-3701 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: OnnO Subject: kavanagh query Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 10:35:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 540 (540) I am looking for the source of a poem by Patrick Kavanagh, in which he refers to James Joyce's _Portrait_. The opening lines run as follows: Away, away on wings like Joyce's Mother Earth is putting my brand new clothes in order Praying, she says, that I no more ignore her The poem (untitled, as far as I know) is not included in his _Complete Poems_, nor can I find a reference in Jonathan Allison's _PK: A Reference Guide_. Any help will be greatly appreciated. OnnO *** Onno Kosters Vakreferent Reference Librarian Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden Leiden University Library Witte Singel 27 P.O. Box 9501 2311 BG Leiden 2300 RA Leiden Nederland The Netherlands Kosters@Rulub.LeidenUniv.nl (+31) (0)71-5272879 / 5272801 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Recompiling the ELRA catalogue - make your views known Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:26:36 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 541 (541) [deleted quotation] Dear All, I am currently working with a few people here at Lancaster on a new version of the catalogue of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA). Our wish is to make the catalogue as useful as possible to a wide range of users. To that end we have mounted a web questionnaire so that you can make your views known about what should be included in the new catalogue. You can get to the questionnaire at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/nick/elra_intro_q1.htm Thanks in anticipation of your cooperation, Tony McEnery ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0299 old walls, new growth Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 14:19:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 542 (542) Dear Willard, Your meditation on a sense of confinement, possibly a sense of loss, as we consider what these instruments we build are actually capable of doing, really resonates with me. I think you have got onto your answer yourself: [deleted quotation] This is the same conclusion I came to in a study I did of Walter Pater in the context of an e-text publishing project (one product of which was a print article, "Inhabiting the Electronic Text?" in _Nineteenth-Century Prose_ -- is it Fall 1996 or Winter 1997? the recent special Walter Pater issue). Not only because of the central issues, but because of the resonances. "Butting up against walls" is exactly what this is all about. I agree that the next problem is the intersection of material and phenomenal within the processes of consciousness (a fancy way of referring to the old problems of empiricism, and yes, I treat reading as a kind of "consciousness"). The barriers we face, not only to our sense of making progress on our journeys, but also to understanding and communication with others (as we try to explain why we bother to do what we do), can only be breached if we "get real" about reading, "reading" being clearly different in different media (as it is in different modes, genres, contexts, for different purposes etc.). To recognize this really undoes the dichotomy you (rightly) question in that key paragraph: [deleted quotation] Well, this position is inescapable, and yet students of poetry may recognize it's not the whole story -- and thus your canny difficulty. Why do poets love occasions of the concrete and the found poem? A found poem can provide us with a joyful, startled recognition of the interdependency, to the point of identification, between content and form, form and function (yes, Francois, "process and artefact") -- and that such a recognition is near the core of the artistic motive, which may begin in a romance with the material. To say "the computational representation of a text ... is simply another representation" argues there is something "behind the veil," more essential than the medium of presentation (the print or the screen). An old question in editorial theory: should a new edition seek to represent an extant text; or should it be something "truer" than that (which any texts extant themselves only represent imperfectly)? Whether something "truer" should itself be posited is an even older question. Maybe one reason Plato didn't want the poets in his ordered Republic is because they say "No, nothing more essential is necessary. Close your eyes and listen to the text for a moment -- is it words, an echo, or silence and the intermittent clicking of a disk drive, the hum of a fan? Straighten your spine in your chair. There's your reality." No need to wander pathless and confused, confined within the walls of a garden of abstractions. As is frequently remarked on this list, a well-crafted book, framed by the occasion of its reading, also seems to argue that there can be something more to the experience of reading than a mere murmuring of a sequence of words, and then passing on to the next thing. Not only can't a poem be captured by its concordance; it can't even be captured by talking about it. Your e-mail missives keep trying to hint at something beyond them -- that our experience may be, not just of your prose, but also of tomato relishes, or maybe squashes, mince pie and pumpkins, in this season of darkening, departures and homecomings. The fallacy may be even to suppose the essence has to be in one place: maybe an essence arises even out of an awareness of these phenomenal interpenetrations. Without accounting for more of what is happening when we read, we are just counting the bricks in the garden wall. Best regards, --Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street, Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Review of Cameroon Studies now online Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:05:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 543 (543) A recent review of the Berghahan Cameroon Studies series concludes that the essays in the African Crossroads volume are "a most valuable contribution to the current theoretical debates in anthropology". The full text of the review is now available (along with the text of the introduction) from the "Mama for story" web page devoted to the celebration of the work of Mrs E.M. Chilver http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/mama.html Best wishes davidz Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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: Willard McCarty Subject: directory of e-resources Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 14:40:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 544 (544) Many of you may not be aware of the Microinfo Electronic Media Directory, <http://www.microinfo.co.uk/>, which covers "electronic media solutions for Higher education, Corporate and Government organisations". The Electronic Media Catalogue covers 58 titles under "literature", for example. 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/ maui gratia From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 22, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 23:09:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 545 (545) Version 22 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 800 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf> Word: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc> The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes a collection of links to related Web sites that deal with scholarly electronic publishing issues http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm>. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 180 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 3.4 General Works 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm> http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: Financial Aid and Deadlines for ACH-ALLC '99 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:26:59 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 546 (546) The organizers of the 1999 joint international conference of the Association of Computers and the Humanities and the Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing are pleased to announce the following: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation has provided generous support for the 1999 ACH-ALLC Conference's operating expenses. Chadwyck-Healey will underwrite the conference registration fees for the first five graduate students who register to attend the conference. 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 are members of the Association and who have papers accepted for presentation at the conference. The local organizers for the 1999 ACH/ALLC conference (the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, the Electronic Text Center, and the Instructional Technology Group) will provide $1,000 apiece in travel funding for the five scholars from developing countries who submit papers ranked highest by the program committee's review process. More financial aid for conference participants may be announced in the future. For full details, online registration, and other conference information please see the conference web site: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ Deadlines: Submission of paper/panel: December 1, 1998 Notification: February 1, 1999 Submission of Posters/Demos: January 7, 1999 Application for ALLC Bursary Award: January 31, 1999 Revisions of accepted papers for the Conference Proceedings: May 1, 1999 John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Richard Bear Subject: Re: 12.0314 confinement, loss, growth Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:47:01 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 547 (547) In a sense, what we're doing when reading is downloading a program. Because of our capacity for running the subroutines as we go, we feel we're comprehending the text, but actually we're simply compiling and running the subset of the program consisting of sentences read up to the present moment along with associations and references ("links" if you will) unique to each of us (but in some cases, perhaps many cases, common to a reading community). Once we have read, say, Paradise Lost and set down the book, we can now run the entire program (which requires those "natural tears" for its full impact) almost as a kind of extratemporal (as well as hypertextual and experiential) gestalt. The poem is never actually on the page, except as code, perhaps analogous to machine language; it is something, different upon each downloading, that moves from author to reader, and lives fully only in the life, individually and collectively, of its readers -- of whom the author is but one. .. -- Richard Bear Publisher, Renascence Editions <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm> Microforms Coordinator <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micropg.htm> University of Oregon Library <http://libweb.uoregon.edu/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Steve McCarty Subject: NEWS RELEASE: World Association for Online Education Date: Wed, 25 Nov 98 08:49:33 JST X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 548 (548) NEWS RELEASE: World Association for Online Education (WAOE) With apologies to those who see this announcement elsewhere, please forward the message to colleagues who may be interested. The World Association for Online Education (WAOE) is a new educators' organization dedicated to turning online education into a professional discipline. WAOE is being incorporated as a non-profit organization in California which nevertheless operates almost entirely online. Elected officers hail from four regions of the world, east and west coast U.S. WAOE is now open to all committed to pedagogical principles and interested in networking with other online educators worldwide. Currently WAOE offers free trial memberships at least through June 1999. Educators concerned with online education in the broadest sense see their institutions cutting deals and their scholarly judgement over the curriculum undercut. Web-literate educators have their regional and disciplinary organizations, but when they reach out to the wider world through the Internet, they sense that the new medium holds great promise, but also that essentials are lacking in comparison to the face-to-face medium. Wandering from list to list, Website to Website, like so many nomadic masterless samurai, what online educators have been missing is a real organization. This need was realized at the Third Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference based at the University of Hawaii, particularly the April 7th, 1998 Keynote Address by Professor Steve McCarty in Japan. As a result of continuing online discussions, international Steering Committee members have submitted Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws to the State of California in Sacramento. California has already recognized WAOE as a nonprofit, tax exempt organization, evidently approving bylaws stating that WAOE will be fully operational in electronic media. Its acronym WAOE is thus pronounced "Wowee!" WAOE plans to bring online educators together for mutual support as well as to evaluate online courses and resources in any branch of learning. With the cooperation of many institutions already, a minimum of expenditures on material things, and the voluntaristic spirit of educators, dues are waived for the time being, and expertise can continue to be provided in lieu of dues. WAOE aims to be most global and accessible to non-Westerners and non-native users of English, promoting multilingualism and intercultural understanding. Focusing on online education since the advent of Web-based approaches, WAOE is working to turn online education into a new professional discipline. Please register your interest or questions by e-mail to or visit Websites including <http://www.waoe.org>. ******* TO JOIN the World Association for Online Education (WAOE), which is currently free of charge, please fill out the membership form as explained below. Among many WAOE activities there is a discussion list WAOE-VIEWS and an announcements list WAOE-NEWS. Both are archived on the WWW, while members have the option of joining both or, to receive a minimum of e-mail, just WAOE-NEWS, as it is moderated. To join WAOE, please go to: http://www.waoe.org/membshp.html and click on: Show Me The Membership Registration Forms For more information see: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/WAOE-founding.html and the WAOE home page: http://www.waoe.org/ WAOE-NEWS is a moderated list for occasional WAOE announcements. To subscribe to WAOE-NEWS, send an e-mail message to: Majordomo@uidaho.edu with only the following as the body of your message: subscribe waoe-news WAOE-VIEWS is an unmoderated list for general WAOE discussions of interest to all members. To subscribe to WAOE-VIEWS, send an e-mail message to: Majordomo@waoe.org with only the following as the body of your message: subscribe waoe-views Both lists will automatically ask for confirmation, so please REPLY with only the following as the body of your message: ok ******* WAOE is thankful to the following institutions for their supportiveness, aside from mentioning volunteers, donors and WAOE's virtual domain (http://www.waoe.org/): New York University -- Journal of Online Education (JOE): http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/waoe/waoej.html California State University, Sacramento -- officers' discussion list and WAOE Incorporation documents: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/seehaferj/waoe/index.htm Quinebaug Valley Community-Technical College, Connecticut -- http://155.43.48.225:2020/walnklst.html (and WebBBS, etc.) University of Idaho -- WAOE-NEWS list, archived on the Web: http://www.uidaho.edu/list-archives/waoe-news/ MIKSIKE, Estonia -- http://www.miksike.com WAOE-VIEWS discussion list archived on the Web by eGroups: http://www.egroups.com/list/waoe-views/ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University -- e-mail WebBoard and real-time Web chat rooms: http://www2.ec.erau.edu:8080/~waoe Kagawa Junior College, Japan: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/WAOE-founding.html ******* Collegially, Steve McCarty Professor, Kagawa Junior College, Japan E-mail: steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp English-Japanese Guidebook to Shikoku Island, Japan: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/shikoku/ French Guide to Shikoku (also of book length): http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/french_shikoku/ Publications: http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Evans-Pritchard Lecturership -Oxford 1999-2000 Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:27:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 549 (549) A notice for the Evans-Pritchard Lectureship has now gone up on the ISCA web site: http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/eplect.html yours sincerely david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: attitudes toward data Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 16:56:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 550 (550) Dear Colleagues: This being an interdisciplinary seminar it seems just the right place to ask a question about from whom we as computing humanists can learn about data. My own background, among other fields, took in at one time the disciplines of physics and mathematics. In my first year at Berkeley I had a class in relativistic mechanics, taught by one Walter Knight, and another in calculus, taught by Henry Helsen. (Forgive me if I have these names wrong, this is entirely from memory.) One day in the physics lecture, Professor Knight walked up to the chalkboard and wrote in very large letters, PI = 3 (i.e. the Greek letter). He saw immediately that we were all puzzled, probably to a student having memorized PI to several decimal places and proud of it -- at least I was. So he returned to the board and wrote, PI = 3.000000000000000 and so on until he wrote off the end of the board. He saw that we were even more puzzled. He exclaimed, "This is physics! PI = 3 is good enough for us!" In the very next lecture (I swear this to be true) I went into the calculus lecture. Professor Helsen, a very passionate man, strode to the edge of the stage, his eyes burning with fervour for mathematics, and declared in a loud voice, with no preamble, "PI is a concept, an idea! It cannot be approximated to any number of decimal places!" Ah, I suddenly realised, physics and mathematics! It seems to me that in our relationship to data we are much like physicists, or at least those of the "good enough" school. Data is important but not sacred, not untouchable. Those of us who deal with words are more than a little familiar with the apparent fact that language, esp. poetic language, stretches toward, triangulates on the unsayable. (If you don't believe this, fall passionately in love, then write a love letter, or talk to a poet, All is and is not and it all falls apart on the page in silence (Octavio Paz, Vrindaban, from A Tale of Two Gardens, tr. Lysander Kemp) We may find ourselves altering data to get at the truth of it, bringing certain things into focus, stressing them more, for whatever reason. Playing with the data. Can we then learn from the physicists, who have consciously been working with data as such for a long time. Or should we look to other fields as well? Comments? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: job(s) at Edmonton Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:17:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 551 (551) The Department of English, University of Alberta, invites applications for two tenurable positions at the Assistant Professor level in any of the following areas: Victorian literature, Critical race theory, African literatures in English, Theory and practice of cyber-culture (successful applicants for this position should have some hands-on experience with computing in humanities disciplines and research interests in any of the following areas: the WWW, politics and economics of access to cyber-culture, virtual reality, technology and pedagogy, bibliography and editing, media history. Applicants should have a completed PhD or be close to finishing it by the time of appointment, teaching experience, and publications. Appointments commence July 1, 1999. The University of Alberta (www.ualberta.ca) is one of Canada's five largest research-intensive universities, with annual re-search income from external sources of more than $112 million. The University is located in Edmonton, the vibrant, cosmopolitan capital city of the province of Alberta. The Edmonton area has a population of about 875,000. Opened in 1908, the University of Alberta has a 90 year tradition of scholarly achievements and commitment to excellence in teaching, research and service to the community. Almost 30,000 students are served by more than 60 programs and 165 specializations. The Department of English (www.ualberta.ca/~english/enghome1.htm) has 55 tenured or tenure-track members, approximately 135 graduate students, 100 Honors programme students, and over 700 majors. The Department houses major research initiatives like The Orlando Project (www.ualberta .ca/ORLANDO/) and research institutes like the Medieval and Early Modern Institute (www.ualberta.ca/~englishd /memi.htm). The University of Alberta is engaged in a five-year process of faculty renewal which will result in refilling 35% of continuing faculty positions by the year 2000. New appointments to the Department of English will help to shape the future of literary studies in a vital, energetic department. In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. If suitable Canadian citizens and permanent residents cannot be found, other individuals will be considered. Candidates should ask three referees to send letters directly to: Dr. Jo-Ann Wallace, Chair, Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E5. Candidates should also send the Chair a letter of application, a writing sample, a complete curriculum vitae, and the names of referees, and should arrange for the Chair to receive graduate and undergraduate transcripts. Only complete applications received by February 15, 1999 will be considered; candidates are responsible for ensuring that transcripts and letters of reference are received by the Department. The University of Alberta is committed to the principle of equity in employment. As an employer, we welcome diversity in the workplace and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities.=20 ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.h= tml wk. phone: (403) 492-7833 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm * Oct. 1 - Nov. 30, 1998: #7 Stewart St., Oxford, UK. OX1 4RH. Ph: (01865) 726.865. From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Professorship in Social Anthropology at UKC Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:33:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 552 (552) Professorship in Social Anthropology Applications are invited for a Professorship in Social Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology. The appointment will run from 1 September 1999, or as soon as possible thereafter. At this stage we are seeking candidates from any field of social anthropology with a strong research profile and demonstrated experience of research management and leadership. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to both undergraduate and graduate teaching in the Department and to undertake administrative duties appropriate to the rank of Professor, including, and subject to normal University and Departmental procedures, the headship of the Department at an appropriate point. The appointment will be on the Professorial Scale, beginning at =A334,791, and subject to the qualifications of the person selected. Informal enquiries may be made to Professor R. F. Ellen (tel: 01227 764000 extn 3421). Please telephone the Personnel Office for further particulars on tel. 01227 827837 (24 hours) or 823674 (Minicom), or write to The Personnel Office, The Registry, University of Kent, Canterbury. Kent CT2 7NZ. Please quote reference A99/26. Closing date: 15 January 1999 The University is committed to implementing its Equal Opportunities Policy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: John Unsworth Subject: Deadline extension for ACH/ALLC '99 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 11:59:38 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 553 (553) Deadline extension for ACH/ALLC '99: Holiday pressures and a desire to be fair to everyone led us to extend the deadline for the ACH/ALLC'99 paper and panel submissions to Friday Dec. 4. For guidelines on paper and panel topics and submission formats see: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/cfp.html In order to make it easier for us to process and acknowledge your submission, please make every effort to use the online submission form: http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/ach99 If you find that you cannot use the online form, please send your submission to: achallc99@stg.brown.edu For more information on the conference, which will take place at the University of Virginia from the 9th to the 13th of June, 1999, please see the conference web site, at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ Thank you very much, [Elli Mylonas Scholarly Technology Group Box 1885-CIS Brown University Providence, RI 02912 http://www.stg.brown.edu ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: IATH publishes Research Reports, sixth series Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:22:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 554 (554) The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities announces the publication of its sixth annual series of research reports, now available at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/reports.html This year's reports include: Michael Levenson, "Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London" (includes preliminary VRML Models of the Crystal Palace, full-text SGML editions (using the TEI DTD) of _London: A Pilgrimage_ by Dore and Jerrold and _London Labour and the London Poor, Volume One_ by Henry Mayhew, as well as extracts from the London Times, London Mortality Statistics, and London Population Statistics) Kirk Martini, "Patterns of Reconstruction at Pompeii" (a study of the Forum at the civic center of Pompeii, using digital photogrammetry to document the geometry and construction of key areas of the building, plus three dimensional modelling to depict the state of the building in various states of damage and repair) Katherin Wentworth Rinne, "Aquae Urbis Romae: The Waters of the City of Rome" (An interactive archive of the hydrological history and urban development of the city of Rome from 753 BC to the present day. The study is based on completely new computer maps created especially for this project. The cartographic material is supplemented by historic photographs, maps, prints and texts.) Marion E. Roberts, "The Salisbury Project" (an archive of color photographs designed for teachers, students and scholars who wish to study the cathedral and town of Salisbury. Phase I of the project consists of views of the exterior of the cathedral, in an SGML data structure that uses the EAD DTD). Significant new material is also available in some of the previous series of research reports, in particular the fifth series (see the Blake, Whitman, and Dickinson projects), the fourth series (see the Mayan Epigraphic Database and the Sixties project), the third series (See the Waxweb project), and the first series (see the Valley of the Shadow project). Also, new software packages are available (with more coming soon) at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/software.html John Unsworth / Director, IATH / Dept. of English ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Judith Turner Subject: The December Issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 08:05:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 555 (555) Dear JEP Subscriber: The December 1998 issue of "The Journal of Electronic Publishing" <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep> is now available for your reading pleasure. REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE: The Socioeconomic Dimensions of Electronic Publishing Guest Editors Joseph R. Herkert of North Carolina State University and Christine S. Nielsen, Rollins College brought us six papers from their NSF/IEEE Workshop on the ways social and economic factors influence electronic publishing. And in their introduction <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/glos0402.html> they report on the workshop and its findings. Designing Electronic Journals With 30 Years of Lessons from Print <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/king.html> Carol Tenopir, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Donald W. King of the University of Michigan have been studying the use of paper and electronic information sources for some 30 years. They review their work, and make some solid suggestions for those involved in e-publishing today and in the future. Digital Object Identifiers: Promise and Problems for Scholarly Publishing <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/davidson.html> Lloyd A. Davidson, Northwestern University, and Kimberley Douglas, California Institute of Technology, wonder whether the major scientific and technical publishers haven't bitten off more than they can chew in establishing the DOI system. Although they see the system as necessary, they think it may have some fatal flaws. Archival Journals: Perspectives Gained by E-Publishing IEEE Transactions on Education <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/hagler.html> Marion O. Hagler and William M. Marcy of Texas Tech University; Janet C. Rutledge of the National Science Foundation; and Ted E. Batchman of the University of Nevada at Reno worked together on a series of experimental publications on CD-ROM. They write about what led to their success. Living Reviews in Relativity: Thinking and Developing Electronically <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/wheary2.html> Long-time JEP readers will remember that "Living Reviews in Relativity" was the subject of a September, 1997 article. Now that electronic-only journal is actually up on the Web, and Jennifer Wheary, Lee Wild, Bernard Schutz, and Christina Weyher, all from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam, Germany, tell how the reality of being "live" changed their approach. Into a Glass Darkly: One Scientist's View <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/raney.html> Geoscientist R. Keith Raney of Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory feels "more angst than enthusiasm" about e-publishing, and tells why he sees it offering little advantage and many problems. Logins and Bailouts: Measuring Access, Use, and Success in Digital Libraries <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/bishop.html> Ann Peterson Bishop was one of the principal researchers on the Digital Library Initiative project at the University of Illinois, and she was surprised to find that she is one of the few researchers anywhere to look at the most obvious problem with using electronic information -- not being able to get in the door. In addition to the socioeconomics reports, we bring you an article on math, and one on poetry, plus our own Thom Lieb: The Demands on Electronic Journals in the Mathematical Sciences <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/steinberger.html> Mark Steinberger of the State University of New York at Albany, is editor in chief of the "New York Journal of Mathematics." He says there are simply not enough good ways to represent math on the Web, and writes about the accommodations math journals have to make. Tagging the Rossetti Archive: Methodologies and Praxis <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/stauffer.html> Andrew Stauffer, newly at California State University at Los Angeles, was a major contributor to the University of Virginia's Rossetti Archive, and he helped that group come up with inventive ways to mold SGML and HTML to the special needs of the romantic artist and poet. Where Do You Think You're Going Today? <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-02/lieb.html> Thom Lieb, JEP's contributing editor, challenges Web authors and publishers to create links that help readers understand what their clicks will do. As usual, his research has led him to some good ideas that you can incorporate immediately. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463 From: Merrilee Proffitt Subject: Bancroft's Honeyman Digital Archive now On-line (fwd) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 12:01:18 -0800 (PST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 556 (556) ANNOUNCEMENT: Bancroft's Honeyman Digital Archive now On-line BERKELEY, CA - December 1, 1998 -- The Bancroft Library of the University of California is pleased to announce the completion of The Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection Digital Archiving Project. This project, the first digitization project funded by the Library Services and Technology Act through the California State Library, has made the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material available on the internet. This important research collection, which has never before been published in its entirety, has now been made accessible through high resolution digital representations of each item in the collection accompanied by detailed descriptions and subject and format indexing. The Honeyman collection is comprised of over 2300 items dated from ca. 1790 to ca. 1900, including original oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, ephemera and other materials related to the old West, with emphasis on the early California and Gold Rush periods. Included are sketches from important early expeditions, the changing landscape of the West under the impact of westward migration, the development of towns and cities, early settlements, California missions, railroads, Gold Rush scenes, pioneer and frontier life, native populations, social history and other topics. The Honeyman project is the first major contributor to the Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) project which seeks to establish best practices for including museum collections within the California Digital Library's Online Archive of California (OAC). The Honeyman project uses the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard, an SGML descriptive standard maintained by the Library of Congress, and will serve, in collaboration with other MOAC participants, as a model implementation of the EAD standard for museum and special collections. As the newest entry into the Online Archive of California - a union database of primary resources available in repositories throughout the state - the Honeyman Digital Archive will become part of the California Heritage Collection. Residing within the OAC, the California Heritage Collection is a digital repository comprised of over 30,000 images related to the history of California and the West from selected collections held by The Bancroft Library and will now be the home of the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection digital archive. The Robert B. Honeyman, Jr. Collection can be browsed within the California Heritage Collection at: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage Mary W. Elings, Project Archivist (melings@library.berkeley.edu) Eva Garcelon, Project Archivist (egarcelo@library.berkeley.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Kevin Ward Subject: KSR: Final Call for Student Authors Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:22:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 557 (557) **Please forward to your local student bulletin board!!** See our current issue at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/7/ Attention Students!! Final Call For Papers Katharine Sharp Review GSLIS, University of Illinois ISSN 1083-5261 (This information can also be found at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review) This is the final call for submissions to the Winter 1999 issue of the Katharine Sharp Review, the peer-reviewed e-journal devoted to student scholarship and research within the interdisciplinary scope of library and information science. Submitting to KSR not only gives you the chance to publish some of your work, but gives you the opportunity to take part in the academic publishing process. All submissions should be received by Monday, December 14, 1998. For more information, including instructions for authors, please see the KSR webpage at <http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/call.html> or email us at . + + Kevin Ward Editor Katharine Sharp Review review@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Julie Wilson Subject: FOR MODERATION ***Availability of Prototype Gateway Servic= Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 19:49:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 558 (558) e*** Apologies for cross posting The AHDS in association of Fretwell Downing Informatics is=20 please to announce the availability of its prototype Gateway=20 Service (from <http://prospero.ahds.ac.uk:8080/ahds_live/>) Through the Gateway, you can search the AHDS Service=20 Providers' online collections catalogues as a virtual=20 uniform catalogue. You may also register as an AHDS user, and=20 registered users may, through the Gateway, browse, order, or=20 otherwise acquire access to data resources which are managed by=20 the AHDS. Although still a prototype service, the Gateway demonstrates=20 exciting possibilities for discovering and acquiring access to=20 quality information resources irrespective of where they=20 are located and how or by whom they are managed. The Gateway service is based upon the AHDS's use of two=20 emerging standards: the Dublin Core, and the Z39.50 network=20 applications protocol.=20 The AHDS wishes to take this opportunity to thank the many=20 individuals and organisations who have been involved in helping=20 it to define implementations of the Dublin Core, develop=20 an appropriate information architecture and Z39.50 enabled=20 systems. It wishes in particular to thank the staff of: - Fretwell Downing Informatics - Indexdata - Systems Simulation - the UK Office for Library and Information Networking - and participants in the Cheshire project The AHDS is interested in your feedback on any aspect of the=20 Gateway. Feedback may be sent by email to info@ahds.ac.uk ---------------------- Daniel Greenstein Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service Executive King's College London Library Strand London WC2R 2LS UK phone: +44 (0)171 873-2445 fax: +44(0)171 873-5080 email: daniel.greenstein@ahds.ac.uk URL: http://ahds.ac.uk From: Michel BERNARD Subject: [iso-8859-1] Les oeuvres compl=E8tes de Lautr=E9amont en l= Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:45:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 559 (559) igne Le centre de recherche Hubert de Phal=E8se (Universit=E9 de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris III) a le plaisir de vous annoncer la mise en lign= e des oeuvres compl=E8tes de Lautr=E9amont/Ducasse. Outre le texte int=E9gral= des =E9ditions originales des Chants de Maldoror, des Po=E9sies et de la correpondance, vous y trouverez des documents divers sur Ducasse et ses sources, une iconographie d'=E9poque, une bibliographie, les variantes du chant I, etc. Le texte est pr=E9sent=E9 sous forme d'un hypertexte int=E9gr= al : chaque mot donne lieu =E0 une fiche lexicale indiquant les autres occurrenc= es, mais aussi, dans certains cas, sa d=E9finition, des explications, un commentaire. Adresse directe du site : http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/phalese/MaldororHtml/Page%20d'accueil.htm From: "David L. Gants" Subject: SigGEN Coordinates Change Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:47:48 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 560 (560) [deleted quotation] The Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Text Generation, SIGGEN, has a new home. The web page is located at:=20 http://www.cmis.csiro.au/siggen/=20 The SIGGEN mailing list has also moved to: siggen@cmis.csiro.au If you want to become a member of the SIGGEN mailing list, perform the following steps: send mail to Majordomo@cmis.csiro.au with the following in the BODY of the message: subscribe siggen or: subscribe siggen your.email@address If you have any problems, send email to siggen-owner@cmis.csiro.au From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Release of the ICE-GB Corpus Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:49:46 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 561 (561) [deleted quotation] The Survey of English Usage, University College London, is pleased to=20 announce the release of the ICE-GB corpus, the British component of the=20 International Corpus of English (ICE). =20 ICE-GB is a fully parsed corpus of adult British English from the 1990s. I= t=20 contains 300 spoken texts and 200 written texts - a total of 1 million=20 words. The texts are distributed across 32 categories, including private=20 conversations, telephone calls, court proceedings, broadcasts, social=20 letters, examination scripts, and academic writing.=20 ICE-GB has been grammatically analysed at wordclass level, and at the=20 function and category levels. The analyses are presented as labelled=20 syntactic trees - 83,419 trees in total.=20 The corpus is distributed with its own dedicated retrieval software, ICECUP= =2E =20 ICE-GB and ICECUP are available now on CD-ROM.=20 A Sample Corpus of ten parsed texts, together with ICECUP, may be downloade= d=20 free from our website, at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/ With apologies for cross postings.=20 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Survey of English Usage Department of English University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK Telephone: 0171-419-3119 Marie Gibney (Administrator) 0171-419-3120 SEU Research Unit Email: ucleseu@ucl.ac.uk Fax: 0171-916-2054 -------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES: Scholarly Publishing & Intellectual Property Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:29:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 562 (562) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 30, 1998 International Symposium on the Changing Character, Use & Protection of Intellectual Property. Dec. 3-4, 1998, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. <http://www.gaac.org/> New Challenges for Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era: Changing Roles and Expectations in the Academic Community March 26-27, 1999: Washington, DC <http://www.arl.org/scomm/conf.html> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: Dec 7, 1998 The Third ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing May 10-12, Ronneby, Sweden <http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf> [material deleted] =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Glen Worthey Subject: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: A Symposium at Stanfor= Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:49:00 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 563 (563) d University [excerpted from <http://unrev.stanford.edu/introduction/introduction.html>] Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: A Symposium at Stanford University December 9, 1998 Try to imagine "personal" computing without the following: -The mouse and pointer cursor=20 -Display editing=20 -Outline processing=20 -Multiple remote online users of a networked processor=20 -"Linking" and in-file object addressing=20 -Multiple windows=20 -Hypermedia=20 -Context-sensitive help=20 These features, which we take for granted in 1998, were unheard of before Doug Engelbart's inquiries into "Augmented Human Intellect" led to a revolutionary vision of the computer, a vision which was revealed to the computer world on December 9, 1968 ...=20 On that day Doug Engelbart and a small team of researchers from the Stanford Research Institute stunned the computing world with an extraordinary demonstration at a San Francisco computer conference. They debuted: the computer mouse, graphical user interface, display editing and integrated text and graphics, hyper-documents, and two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces. These concepts and technologies were to become the cornerstones of modern interactive computing Stanford University Libraries and the Institute for the Future will present a day-long, public symposium that will bring together Engelbart and members of his historic team, along with other computer visionaries, to consider the impact of Engelbart's work on the last three decades of the computer revolution, to explore the challenges facing us today, and to speculate about the next three decades. See <http://unrev.stanford.edu/> for program, participants, history,=20 context, and contact information. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Glen Worthey Stanford University Libraries / Academic Information Resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 14 Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:46:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 564 (564) [deleted quotation] The Vilem Mathesius Centre for =09Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics =09=09=09Presents the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 14 March 1 - 12, 1999 Krystal Hotel, J. Marty Street Prague, Czech Republic CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE & PROGRAM [material deleted] Check our website via http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Geert-Jan M. Kruijff Institute of Formal & Applied Linguistics/Linguistic Data Laboratory Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Malostranske nam. 25, CZ-118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Phone: ++420-2-2191-4255 Fax: ++420-2-2191-4309 Email: gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, gj@acm.org WWW: http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 Call for Papers Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:48:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 565 (565) [deleted quotation] EACL '99 Call for Papers, Demos/Posters, Student Papers, Tutorials and Workshops, 2nd edition http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/call-for-papers.html ______________________________________________________________________ 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 8--12 June, 1999 University of Bergen Bergen, Norway [material deleted] From: Julian Morgan Subject: Classics Symposium at Oxford Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 11:24:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 566 (566) Julian@JPROGS.source.co.uk http://www.source.co.uk/users/jprogs/ 81 High St, Pitsford, Northants, NN6 9AD, United Kingdom Tel (01604) 880119 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 1998 MLA Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:13:14 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 567 (567) Some Humanist readers may be attending the 1998 MLA convention in San Francisco at the end of December. There are a number of talks on humanities computing and related subjects at the MLA, and to help those interested in finding them, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide to these talks, based on the convention program. It is available at: http://www.ach.org/mla98/guide.html John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: TEI-Workshop in Tuebingen Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 15:49:01 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 568 (568) The Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen / Germany offers a further TEI Workshop: "Praxis der SGML-konformen Textauszeichnung nach den Richtlinien der Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)" Tuebingen, 17. - 20. Februar 1999 This will be the 4th TEI workshop held at Tuebingen. It differs from the previous ones in so far as it will focus not on the introduction into TEI but on the training of encoding and markup according to the Guidelines of the TEI. The lectures given in German language by Michael Sperberg-McQueen PhD (cmsmcq@uic.edu) and Dr. theol. Winfried Bader (bader@dbg.de) will be accompanied by hands-on training in handling structured text. For further information see http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/tei_ws.html or send a mail to Matthias Kopp: kopp@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-2970210=20 Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-295912 Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Waechterstrasse 76 D-72074 Tuebingen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Willard McCarty Subject: the solsticial holidays Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 18:08:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 569 (569) Dear Colleagues: THIS YEAR, for good and joyous reasons, your editor's preparations for Christmas begin earlier than usual and involve a sojourn to foreign parts -- if an ex-pat's return to his native land can be framed in those terms. The denizens over there are civilised and technologically quite advanced :-) , but the distance between where I will be and the machine where postings to Humanist come is great, and I am likely to be quite taken up with activities appropriate to the occasion, and so not always able to get to a computer when Internet traffic is most favourable. For that reason I am exercising my privilege of sending out a universal holiday greeting, otherwise reserved for the solstice, rather earlier than usual. The solstice and Humanist are closely bound up together in my mind because of the occasion when I left the editor's chair, and I took the occasion immediately after a solsticial party in Kensington Market (Toronto) to announce the sad event. Sad for me at least. Many years have passed since then, we all and the world have changed in many ways, some of them unimaginable until they happened, but Humanist continues -- and, thank God, so do I. On two yearly occasions (the birthday of Humanist, 7 May, and the solstitial holidays) I take the opportunity of their return to reflect on all manner of things related to our seminar. Since coming to King's London, where mirabile dictu I am paid to teach and do research in humanities computing, I have been thinking hard about the nature of the field and working on a kind of manifesto. At the core of my effort has been an attempt to construct a cogent model for how computing interacts with the humanities. Models are powerful precisely because they limit thought and shape it, but they are also meant to be played with. They are devices we use to reach what otherwise we cannot, not true but useful. I have mentioned before Peter Galison's wonderful study, Image and logic: A material culture of microphysics, which I have found invaluable for the model he adopts: the "trading zone" between disparate cultures, where pidgins are created to facilitate exchange of goods. Our field is like that, I think: an open commons where methods are traded, where techniques of research in one field are carried over to others. Perhaps more of this happens on Humanist than I think -- as in teaching, it's hard to know who benefits, who remembers, who is changed. Men and women of experience will know that it's miraculous that any intellectual exchange ever happens -- more radically, that any real communication ever happens. I have certainly felt that when it did it justified all the nonsense involved in the daily life of our institutions and ourselves. There are such moments. In my experience they have involved taking great risks -- leaping off a cliff in order to learn how to fly. Deciding to chance being thought a fool, or worse, of the ridicule that comes so easily. Years ago I remember a conversation with a now prominent member of our field, who expressed to me the great trepidation about saying anything on Humanist -- all those people would read what he typed! My undergraduate training (at Reed College) got me started with the intellectual rough-and-tumble, and I've never looked back. How can you learn anything if you only speak when you know you're right? It seems to be the same with love as well -- terrifying risks, but what rewards! So, your exhortation for the day: write to Humanist, and fall in love. The latter is, of course, your concern entirely, but as it (or some approximation) is far commoner than writing to Humanist, I make the parallel for the benefit of our seminar. I think also, however, of a Hebrew proverb: "Do what you do only out of love." And this is why doing Humanist is no burden but an honour and a privilege. Allow me, then, from my position of honour and privilege :-) to offer you my very best wishes for the holidays -- Chanukah in 5 days, the solstice 7 days later, Christmas 4 days after that and several other celebrations I simply don't know about but am unwittingly enriched by. Happy Christmas! Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Training in Ergo's NLP for other languages Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:00:07 -1000 (HST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 570 (570) In order to spur the development of the Ergo NLP tools for other languages we are seeking individuals, departments, and companies who would like to have training to create patented NLP tools like those of Ergo in other languages. We are currently not offering any funding for this, but we would be willing to be partners in such developments with other companies. We would also be willing to serve as consultants as the parsers are developed for other languages. We estimate that it will require from 18 to 24 months of work for 2 or 3 individuals to extend the Ergo tools to another language. Derek Bickerton and myself will both be available for the training and consultation. The tools that we have developed offer improvements in Navigation and Control, Dialoging, and Web and Database searching through enhanced grammatical analysis. Demos of the technology are available at http://www.ergo-ling.com. A more detailed discussion of the sorts of abilities that will be possible is presented at the VRML Consortium Web site as standards for the development of NLP tools for animations (http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/NLP-ANIM.) We recently won the Best Technology award at the VSMM '98 Multi Media and Virtual Reality conference in Japan. The languages we would most like to do first are Spanish, German, Russian, and Japanese. Though we will work with whatever languages serious researchers would like to work with. Our main requirement is that these be serious inquiries only and we would like to establish that the individuals or groups who would like this training are capable of completing the project. Please respond privately to the numbers below. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: ACH-ALLC Keynotes Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:22:37 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 571 (571) The organizers of the 1999 joint international conference of the Associatio= n for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing are pleased to announce that the conference's two keyn= ote speakers will be Cathy Marshall and George Farr. Cathy Marshall is a member of the research staff at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She has led a series of projects investigating analytical work practices and collaborative hypertext, including two system development projects, Aquanet (named after the hairspray) and VIKI. Her recent publications include "Making Metadata: a study of metadata creation for a mixed physical-digital collection" in Proceedings of the ACM Digital Libraries '98 Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (June 23-26, 1998) pp. 162-171. (winner of 1998 Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award), and "Toward an ecology of hypertext annotation" in Proceedings of ACM Hypertext '98, Pittsburgh, PA (June 20-24, 1998) pp. 40-49. (winner of 1998 Engelbart Best Paper Award). More information about Ms. Marshall can be found at http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/ George Farr is the Director of the Division of Preservation and Access at t= he National Endowment for the Humanities. This division provides support for projects that will create, preserve, and increase the availability of resources important for research, education, and lifelong learning in the humanities. It is from this division that NEH makes its grants for textbases in the humanities and research and demonstration projects that focus on the use of digital technology in the humanities. Mr. Farr has also been the principal NEH representative to the second round of the Digital Library Initiative, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation, NEH, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, The National Library of Medicine, The Library of Congress, and The National Aeronautics & Space Administration. At the request of the Library of Congress, Mr. Farr also designed and helped implement the evaluation of proposals submitted to the Ameritech/LC National Digital Library=20 Competition. More information about the Division of Preservation an=20 Access is available at: http://www.neh.gov/html/div_pres.html From: David Green Subject: PUBLICATIONS: DIGITAL ARCHIVING: New issue of RLG DigiNews Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:14:53 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 572 (572) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT December 21, 1998 December RLG DigiNews Available <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/> "Digital Archiving: Approaches for Statistical Files, Moving Images, and Audio Recordings." The December 1998 (Volume 2, Number 6) issue of RLG DigiNews is now available at: http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from all points other than Europe) or http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ (from Europe) Oya Rieger, Co-Editor of RLG DigiNews, opens this issue's feature article, "Digital Archiving: Approaches for Statistical Files, Moving Images, and Audio Recordings." The article addresses digital archiving from a different viewpoint - responding to the digital preservation needs presented by different types of digital material. A set of co-authors describe the problems and issues associated with their specific material (statistical files, moving images and audio files) in: - Archiving Statistical Data: The Data Archive at the University of Essex by Simon Musgrave and Bridget Winstanley; - Universal Preservation Format (UPF): Conceptual Framework by Thom Shepard; and - Norwegian Digital Radio Archive Initiative by Svein Arne Brygfjeld and Svein Arne Solbakk. This issue's technical feature addresses a question often raised at the beginning of digital imaging projects - "What kind of digital camera or scanner should I use?" Peter Hirtle, Assistant Director, Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, and Carol DeNatale, Registrar, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, relate their experience in "Selecting a Digital Camera: the Cornell Museum Online Project." Rounding out this issue is a current calendar of events, project announcements, a highlighted web site, and a FAQ regarding technical issues associated with UMI's Digital Vault Initiative. For more information about RLG or PRESERV, please contact Robin Dale (Robin_Dale@notes.rlg.org). ------------------------------------------------------------- |Robin L. Dale | |Member Programs & Initiatives | |Research Libraries Group, Inc. | |1200 Villa Street Voice: (650) 691-2238 | |Mountain View, CA 94041-1100 Fax: 650.964.0943 | | | | Email: Robin_Dale@notes.rlg.org | | | ------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Ergo's 1st ANNUAL PARSING CONTEST Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:35:45 -1000 (HST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 573 (573) Ergo Linguistic Technologies would like to announce its first annual parsing contest based on a fixed set of sentences and a fixed set of tasks to be performed on that set of sentences. The area of NLP to be explored is that of increased syntactic analysis to provide: 1) improvements in navigation and control technology through more complex grammar, 2) improvements in the implementation of question/answer, statement/response dialogs with computers and computer characters, and 3) improvements in web and database searching using natural anguage queries. =20 The contest will be based on a comparison of results for parses of a fixed set of sentences (included at end of this message) and various tasks that can be performed as a result of those parses. That is, the comparison will be based on the actual parse tree and the ability to use that parsed output to generate theory independent parse trees and output and to perform various NLP tasks. The judging will be based on the standards for evaluating NLP that have been proposed previously on this list by myself and Derek Bickerton and which are currently being developed into an ISO standard for the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) as part of the VRML Consortium's development efforts (http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/ NLP-ANIM). The standards proposed are theory and field independent standards which allow both linguists and non-linguists to evaluate NLP systems in the areas of navigation and control, question/answer dialogues, and database and web searching. I will also be at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America this week in Los Angeles for those who would like to discuss this in more detail. =20 The sentences chosen for this contest are rather simple, but as we find more and more parsers that can accomplish the tasks on this list, we will add more complex sentences and tasks to the list. Please, be aware that systems that may be designed for large corpora of unrestricted text actually cannot work in this domain. Thus, while such systems may be useful for certain searching tasks, they are not useful in the domain explored in this contest ^=D7 and this is evidenced by their inability to perform on tests such as the one provide here. =20 The full contest instructions and an HTML document of Ergo's results in this area can be found at http://www.ergo-ling.com. The standards were designed to allow the developers of a parsing system (statistical or syntactic) to demonstrate the thoroughness and accuracy of the parses they produce by using the parsed output to perform a number of straightforward, traditional syntactic tasks such as changing a statement to a question or an active to a passive as well as demonstrating an ability to create standard trees (Using the Penn Treebank II guidelines) and standard grammatical analyses. All the standards chosen were chosen to be theory independent measures of the accuracy of a parse through the use of standard and ordinary grammatical and syntactic output. =20 The contest officially begins on January 15th and will be closed on March 31st. This will allow developers 2.5 months to develop tools and to work with trouble spots that they may have with the set of sentences offered in this contest. The contest will be offered in subsequent years from January to March. As time develops we hope the parsers, the contest rules, and the test sentences will all grow in sophistication and scope. However, as most parsers have existed many more years than ours, it is reasonable to think these tools exist already. =20 THE CONTEST RULES: Anyone who joins must submit an HTML document and the parser (source code only) that created it. The parser can be in any format but it must require a minimum of effort for the contest judges to set up and run. For example, a WIN95 Interface that takes input files and produces the html output file would be considered a minimum effort parser. There will be tests to ensure that the output is genuine parsed output rather than a synthesis such as a series of print calls that merely present the correct output for a particular string rather than generating it. =20 The HTML files of all contestants will be made available at the Ergo web site (http://www.ergo- ling.com). Those who wish to join even though their parsing system is not robust or complete enough for all the tasks or all the sentences in the contest are also welcome to join. Reviewers will then look at these documents as promising parsers for future contests. Their results will be posted on our web site as well. =20 Judging will be based on the percentage of sentences that parsed, the percentage of the tasks that are completed and on the accuracy of the parse= s that result and the success on the parsing tasks. Currently, the judges wi= ll be Derek Bickerton and myself, but we will welcome others to join in the ta= sk. Because of the home court advantage of the judges, there will be printed reports of the judging available on the Ergo web site for review by the overall community of professionals in this area. Complaints or criticisms will also be posted. =20 Anyone who would like to review the judging and the comments on the judging are welcome to do so. Anyone who wishes to be a volunteer judge may also contact us. However, the criteria for all judging will be the accuracy of the parser in creating a correct parse of all the sentences and completing all the tasks set forth in the test materials. =20 We would like this contest to remain open not only to challengers but also to those who would like to design and improve the contest itself through th= e addition of more sentences or more tasks added to the parsing task. There = is one condition, however, on being able to this, we will hold rigidly to the rule that those who would improve on or add to the contest must first meet the original challenge at a minimum level of 75% accuracy before being allowed to contribute. We are starting with a small set of relatively sim= ple sentences to make this as available as possible to as many people as possib= le. In this manner researchers in industry, academia, and government will be ab= le to compare their results without exposing any proprietary or confidential information. We also do not want the contest to be unduly influenced by th= ose who would like to target some ideal of parsing that is not thoroughly groun= ded in what is currently possible in these domains. =20 At a Virtual Reality and Multi-Media Conference in Japan (VSMM ^=D198), Erg= o was awarded the "Best Technical Award" for its NLP technology. I believe the main reason that judges and others were able to notice this is because I wa= s able to point out that "THE ENTIRE FIELD OF VIRTUAL REALITY AN D MULTI-MEDI= A IS BEING HELD HOSTAGE BY GRAMMAR." And then I went on to explain that the main reason many VR and Multi-Meida sites and programs are not catching on is because their users cannot ask even a simple question of the characters = or about the objects they encounter. Thus, a UNESCO virtual world such as reconstructed cathedral will receive many visitors but they will not stay and explore because they cannot ask even the simplest questions like "How many stairs in this Cathedral?" "When was the Nave built?" and so on. I then pointed out that while speech and graphics were actually ready to work with such projects, the fact that their grammatical abilities is so limited= , no one is using them with these products. The missing link between speech, = VR and multi- media and users actually talking to avatars and sites is GRAMMAR= =2E When I then demonstrated that this was so with the use of the Ergo tools, w= e won the award. The main reason I am sponsoring this contest is so that al= l linguists and NLP researchers who would like to paticipate in this very lar= ge future source of jobs can do so as soon as possible. So in order to stimulate research and interest this contest is proposed. =20 WE WOULD ESPECIALLY LIKE TO INVITE PROFESSORS, STUDENTS, AND STAFF AT CARNE= GIE MELON, STANFORD, XEROX PARC, MICROSOFT, IBM, DRAGON, LEARNOUT AND HAUSPIE, PHILIPS, MIT, SUN MICROSYSTEMS (JAVASPEECH GROUP), NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, AND GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY TO SUBMIT ENTRIES TO THIS CONTEST. WE WILL BE HAPPY = TO POST THEIR RESULTS AND WOULD ALSO BE HAPPY TO TELL THE WORLD IF THEY CAN GENERATE A PARSE THAT IS BETTER THAN OURS ON THE STANDARDS PROVIDED HERE. THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS AND JUNIOR STAFF TO WORK WITH EXTA= NT PARSERS TO COMBINE AND EXTEND TOOLS INTO THESE VERY USEFUL AND PRACTICAL AREAS. =20 =09THE SENTENCES The full set of sentences for the contest is available at the=20 http://www.ergo-ling.com web site. This list contains five from each of th= e three sections: 1) theory independent parsing, 2) navigation and control, a= nd 3) Question/answer, statement/response repartee. The full list contains 10= 5 sentences and will grow and be modified over the years as this annual conte= st takes root. =20 Section 1:=09Theory independent parsing. =20 =091.=09there is a dog on the porch =092.=09John's house is bigger than mary's house =093.=09the tall thin man in the office is reading a technical report =094.=09the man who mary likes is reading the book that john gave her =095.=09learning how to cope with stress is of primary importance in the wo= rk world Section 2:=09Navigation and Control. =091.=09Erase all files that end in .doc =092.=09print the file called teach.doc =093.=09send an email to bob that says "meeting at eight" =094.=09send a fax to bob that says "there is a meeting at eight tonight" =095.=09go to yahoo and find information about golf courses in Georgia Section 3:=09Question and Answer/Statement Response Repartee. =20 =091.=09bill's email is bill@server.com =09=09what is bill's email address =09=09what is bill's email =092.=09john has romantic books =09=09what kind of books does john have =093.=09My appointment with bob is at six o'clock =09=09what time is my appointment =09=09what time are my appointments =094.=09the tall thin man in the office is reading a technical report book =09=09what is the man reading =09=09what is the man doing =09=09is the man reading a report =09=09who is reading a report =095.=09John gave mary a book because it was her birthday =09=09who gave mary a book =09=09who did john give a book =09=09what did john give mary =09=09why did john give mary a book =09=09did john give mary a book =09=09did john give mary a book because it was her birthday =09=09did john give mary a pencil =09=09did john give mary a book because it was bob's birthday Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com From: Costis Dallas Subject: Entopia: Museums, Cultural Heritage and IT (GR/EN) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 23:15:56 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 574 (574) [Apologies for cross-posting] Announcing Entopia: Museums, Cultural Heritage and Information Technology [= EN] Athens, 3 January 1999. - Entopia is a new web site, mostly in the Greek language, hosting news, personal commentary and brief presentations of resources in the domain of museums, cultural heritage, archaeology, cultural management and policy, new media and information technology. It is intended as a communication medium for Greek museum professionals, archaeologists and cultural information specialists on relevant national and international developments. The notices section summarises and point to items of interest (interactive exhibits, conferences etc.) as reported in the major mailing lists of the field. A selective index of web sites relevant to these subjects, with brief presentations, is planned for the future.=20 You may visit Entopia at the following address: http://entopia.future.easyspace.com/ You may also subscribe to the entopia mailing list, providing a regular digest of the web site: http://www.eGroups.com/list/entopia/=20 Information items of interest to potential Entopia visitors, written contributions, and comments on the content and form of the site, are especially welcome. 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Papandreou, Ministry of Foreign Affairs # Office 503, 1 Vass. Sophias Str., Athens, Greece - Tel. 301-3394075 # mailto:dallas@mfa.gr ; http://users.hol.gr/~dallas/ From: Toby Burrows Subject: Recent books: XML, SGML, and Web sites Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 14:46:50 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 575 (575) Recent books: XML, SGML, and Web sites If the number of books about it is any indication, XML - the eXtensible Markup Language - is one of the most important recent developments in computing. In the last twelve months, no less than 24 books on XML have been published; another 15 will be appearing in the first half of 1999. The good news is that XML is expected to revolutionize Web publishing. It is much more sophisticated and flexible than HTML but less complicated than th= e full SGML standard. The bad news is that there is as yet comparatively little software for creating and viewing XML documents. XML has major implications for computing in the humanities, but you may prefer to ignore it until the Web browsers support it. On the other hand, if you want to anticipate its effects and explore its implications now, here are some places to start. Most are comparatively technical, but some are more approachable than others. Dr Toby Burrows Scholars' Centre, University of Western Australia tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au http://docker.library.uwa.edu.au/~tburrows/=20 Flynn, Peter. Understanding SGML and XML tools: practical programs for handling structured text. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. xxvi, 432 p. + 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 0-7923-8169-6 US$84.00 Flynn introduces and discusses a wide range of software applicable to SGML and XML documents, including editors, parsers, converters, and viewers. A selection of these programs - mostly freeware - is on the accompanying CD-ROM. Though he also provides an introduction to SGML and XML, Flynn's book is perhaps not the best starting-point for complete novices. But it's = a remarkably valuable and very practical resource for the slightly more experienced user. A bonus for humanities scholars is the inclusion of helpful material on the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Goldfarb, Charles F., and Paul Prescod. The XML handbook. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998. xliv, 639 p. + 1 CD-ROM. (Charles F. Goldfarb series on open information management) ISBN 0-13-081152-1 US$44.= 95 Goldfarb - the main force behind the development of SGML - now turns his attention to XML. This is really two books in one: an authoritative, if somewhat technical, exposition of the XML specifications, and a series of case studies using specific commercial software. The case studies, sponsore= d by the software companies involved, are descriptive rather than evaluative, but they give a good idea of the range of realistic and practical applications for XML. The accompanying CD-ROM contains no less than 55 different pieces of free software, as well as demonstrations from the sponsors and copies of XML-related standards and specifications. Harold, Elliotte Rusty. XML: Extensible Markup Language. Foster City, CA: IDG Books, 1998. xxiii, 426 p. + 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 0-7645-3199-9 US$39.99 This XML guide is aimed at Web site developers, and assumes a familiarity with such tools as HTML and JavaScript. Harold provides a thorough, but fairly technical, explanation of the main features of XML, including the us= e and creation of Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and style sheets. Among th= e other topics covered are links and pointers, and the Channel Definition Format (CDF). The full text of the XML specification is included in an appendix. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the examples from the book. Jelliffe, Rick. The XML & SGML cookbook: recipes for structured information= =2E Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998. xxvii, 621 p. + 1 CD-ROM. (Charles F. Goldfarb series on open information management) ISBN 0-13-614223-0 US$55.00 Document structures and patterns - as expressed in terms of SGML - are Jelliffe's focus in this book, which is pitched at a specialized technical level. He discusses techniques for designing and building Document Type Definitions (DTDs), with helpful advice drawn from practical experience. Th= e second half of the book deals with character sets and the representation of special characters in SGML. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the DTDs developed in the text, as well as various character sets and some SGML- and XML-based software. Leventhal, Michael, David Lewis, Matthew Fuchs. Designing XML Internet applications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998. xxxii, 582 p= =2E + 1 CD-ROM. (Charles F. Goldfarb series on open information management) ISBN 0-13-616822-1 US$44.95 Though this book is intended mainly for programmers with experience in constructing dynamic Web sites, the brisk introduction to XML concepts and tools could prove very useful for a less technical audience. Leventhal and his colleagues focus on ways of using Perl and Java to build XML Internet applications, with six worked examples which include a bulletin board, a search engine, and a document conversion tool. The explanations are clear and detailed, and the broader architectural issues are nicely brought out. The accompanying CD-ROM contains Java and Perl tools, as well as XML material and software. McGrath, Sean. XML by example: building e-commerce applications. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998. xlviii, 470 p. + 1 CD-ROM. (Charles F. Goldfarb series on open information management) ISBN 0-13-960162-7 US$49.95 XML is expected to have a significant impact on electronic commerce. Sean McGrath's book gives managers and developers of commercial Web sites a detailed look at the XML specifications, including hypertext links and formatting with style sheets. He also discusses several current application= s of XML in the area of electronic commerce, as well as looking at the benefits and commercial advantages of using XML. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a selection of XML-based software, together with some sample Document Type Definitions (DTDs) and various documents about XML. Megginson, David. Structuring XML documents. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998. xxxvii, 420 p. + 1 CD-ROM. (Charles F. Goldfarb series on open information management) ISBN 0-13-642299-3 US$39.95 Document Type Definitions (DTDs) are crucial to both XML and SGML, and provide specific markup languages for particular types of documents. Megginson offers a detailed and exhaustive look at DTDs: how to analyse them, how to build them or adapt existing models, and how to link DTDs usin= g the "architectural forms" methodology. Five DTDs are analysed, including HTML 4.0, the Text Encoding Initiative's TEI-Lite, and ISO 12083 - the publishing industry's DTD for books, serials, and articles. The treatment i= s very thorough, but definitely for experts. The accompanying CD-ROM includes the five DTDs, plus a selection of XML-related software. Powell, Thomas A., with David L. Jones and Dominique C. Cutts. Web site engineering: beyond Web page design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998. x, 324 p. ISBN 0-13-650920-7 US$39.95 As Web sites have grown bigger, their technical characteristics have become more complex. Dynamic, programmed sites are replacing static collections of HTML pages. Powell and his co-authors look at ways of designing and engineering large Web sites, from defining the problem and analysing requirements through to building, implementation, and testing. With its pragmatic and realistic approach, pitched at a level which is not too technical, this is a very valuable guide for managers who need to make strategic decisions about Web site projects.=20 Simpson, John E. Just XML. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998= =2E xiv, 381 p. ISBN 0-13-943417-8 US$34.99 Simpson gives a straightforward introduction to the main features of XML, with plenty of material on links and pointers, and styles and stylesheets. Document Type Definitions (DTDs) are also covered quite fully. XML-related software is listed and discussed. An entertaining example runs through the book: using XML to describe and catalogue "B" movies. This is a clearly written guide to the basics of XML, which is not overly technical in approach. But the wider context is not covered: current and future applications of XML are not examined in any detail, and there is little attempt to relate it to HTML or SGML.=20 St. Laurent, Simon. XML: a primer. Foster City, CA.: MIS:Press, 1998. xix, 348 p. ISBN 1-5582-8592-X US$24.99 St. Laurent's introduction to XML is aimed at people with substantial experience in using HTML and developing Web sites. Though there is a succinct explanation of XML's main features - particularly Document Type Definitions (DTDs) - the main focus is on potential applications for XML, and on its relationship to existing tools like HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Especially interesting are the author's comments on the likel= y effects of XML on Web browser software and the architecture of Web sites. Tittel, Ed, Norbert Mikula & Ramesh Chandak. XML for dummies. Foster City, CA: IDG Books, 1998. xxviii, 377 p. + 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 0-7645-0360-X US$29.= 99 This is one of the best guides to XML for non-technical people. Tittel and his co-authors provide a lively and clear account of the main features of XML, as well as a good explanation of its value and its relationship to SGM= L and HTML. There is also an extensive look at the ways in which XML is already being applied in various disciplines. All this is presented in the familiar "Dummies" style, with easy-to-read layouts and plenty of graphics. The accompanying CD-ROM contains the text of the book and examples from it, together with a range of free and evaluation software tools for XML. Vinf, Danny R. SGML at work. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall PTR, 1998. xvi, 845 p. + 1 CD-ROM. ISBN 0-13-636572-8 US$55.00 Vinf covers the major stages of a publishing process based on SGML documents: developing a Document Type Definition (DTD), converting non-SGML ("legacy") documents, constructing and editing SGML documents, delivering documents in printed or on-line form, and managing documents. Each section is closely linked to the use of specific software, with worked examples. Technical knowledge and familiarity with SGML are assumed. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a variety of free and shareware software tools, and sample documents for use with commercial programs. From: SJ Stauffer Subject: Platform Independent Perseus 2.0 Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 17:19:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 576 (576) [Forwarded with thanks -- WM] 4. Platform Independent Perseus 2.0 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Dev/PerseusTkb2.html Classics Technology Center [.pdf] http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/ Perseus Project -- Tufts University http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ The Perseus Project at Tufts University (discussed in the October 17, 1997 Scout Report) is an ongoing initiative to create a comprehensive, interactive, multimedia digital library for the study of Archaic and Classical Greece. Recently, the Perseus Project released a free beta version of Platform Independent Perseus 2.0. PIP2 is a graphical user interface for the Perseus 2.0 database, the latest version of the digital library. Once users install the interface locally, they may seamlessly access and navigate the numerous texts, maps, and images available on the Perseus server via an Internet connection. The benefit of PIP2 is that users are provided with a specialized interface for the online database and are able to avoid the annoying encumbrances encountered when using an unwieldy Web browser. Installation requirements and downloading instructions are posted at the site for both Mac and Windows operating systems. The Classics Technology Center, provided by Able Media, offers a collection of free materials to help educators and students make the most of Perseus. Provided in .pdf format, these include instructions for each Perseus component, tips and tricks, curriculum guides, teachers's companions, and a showcase of published works from students and educators around the world. [AO], [MD] From: Willard McCarty Subject: online dictionaries Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 17:31:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 577 (577) Humanists may wish to know of the Online Dictionary page maintained by the Neuroscience department, Florida State University, <http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/diction.htm>. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -=20 Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder: Museums and the Web Deadlines Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:35:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 578 (578) [deleted quotation] MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM MW MW MW Museums and the Web MW MW March 11-14, 1999 MW MW New Orleans, Louisiana MW MW http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ MW MW MW MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM Dear Colleagues, Two deadlines for the Museums and the Web Conference are fast approaching. DEMONSTRATIONS Proposals are invited from museum staff to demonstrate their web sites in the MW99 demonstration hall. This popular venue provides one-on-one contact with the visitors to your site, and gives you an opportunity to showcase your latest developments, and try out new ideas. Proposals are due December 31, 1998; see http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/mw99.call.html EARLY REGISTRATION The deadline for receipt of your registration at the early registration rate is December 31, 1998. When combined with the MW98 Money that some of you may still have from last year's conference, this is a significant discount over regular registration rates. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE You can see the full program for MW99, including speakers' biograpies and abstracts, online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ With warm wishes for a Happy Holiday Season, and a succesful New Year! jennifer and David ________ J. Trant and D. Bearman mw99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web New Orleans, Louisiana Archives & Museum Informatics March 11-14, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Best of the Web 99 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:36:15 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 579 (579) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues, We've come a long way since the first Museums and the Web Conference in Los Angeles, in March of 1997. But we still don't have consensus about what makes a good museum web site. You can help us discover the unknown treasures of the Museum Web. Once again, an international panel of judges will pick the Best of the Web for museums and cultural heritage. Awards will be given at the Museums and the Web annual meeting, in New Orleans, March 11-14, 1999. See the full program online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw99. Nominate your Favorite Museum or Related Web Sites for the Best of the Web 1999. Awards will be given in a number of categories: * Online Exhibitions * Educational * Membership * Professional * Research You can find the nomination form linked to http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/best/index.html All nominations will be reviewed by a panel of judges, and they will make the final decision on awards. The judges particularly value collaboration, as it offers many benefits, enhancing creativity and sharing resources efficiently. Judges Maria Economou Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) University of Glasgow, UK Norbert Kanter Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Steve Dietz Walker Art Gallery, USA Greg Van Alstyn Museum of Modern Art, USA Ecaterina Geber Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada Slavko Milekic Hampshire College, USA Thank you very much for your input. We hope to see you at MW99 in New Orleans. Happy Holidays! jennifer and David. ________ J. Trant and D. Bearman mw99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web New Orleans, Louisiana Archives & Museum Informatics March 11-14, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Interactions in Virtual Worlds Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:37:01 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 580 (580) [deleted quotation] WORKSHOP Interactions in Virtual Worlds May 19-21, 1999 Parlevink Research Group University of Twente/CTIT Enschede The Netherlands INTRODUCTION The Parlevink Research Group of the Centre of Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) is pleased to announce a 3-day workshop on interactions in virtual reality (VR) environments. Anyone dealing with theoretical, empirical, computational, experimental, sociological and anthropological aspects of VR environments that are either purely artificial or use real world characteristics is invited to participate in this workshop. In this workshop the emphasis is on VR environments that provide means for interacting with the objects in the environment, with embedded information sources and services (possibly represented as agents) or with other users and visitors of the environment. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact Olaf Donk (donk@cs.utwente.nl). Updated information will also be available at http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/ Conferences/twlt15.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: new conference in Cosenza Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:38:10 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 581 (581) [deleted quotation] University of Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza)is pleased to announce an International Conference: "Manoscritti, ecdotica e filologia elettronica" (Manuscripts, text edition and electronic philology) Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza)- Rossano- Arcavacata di Rende (Cosenza, 20-22 gennaio 1999. Speakers: F. Altimari(University of Calabria), P.W. Conner (University of W.Virginia), M.A. D'Aronco (University of Udine), R. Frank (University of Toronto), G. Gigliozzi (University of Roma1), K.S. Kiernan (university of Kentucky), F. Iusi (University of Calabria), C. Morini(University of Calbria), P. Pulsiano (University of Villanova), B. Seales (University of Kentucky), H. Staub (Hess. Landes u. Hochschulbibibliothek, Handschriftenabteilung, Darmstadt),L. Teresi (University of Palermo), G. Zampolli (University of Pisa). Full programme:http://www.arber.unical.it/linguist/seminari.htm From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'99 Call for Workshop Proposals Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:40:11 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 582 (582) [deleted quotation] ***** ACL'99 Call for Workshop Proposals ***** the call for worskhops is at http://www.issco.unige.ch/staff/susan/acl/ - -- Susan Armstrong | E-mail: Susan.Armstrong@issco.unige.ch ISSCO, University of Geneva | WWW: http://issco-www.unige.ch/ 54 route des Acacias | Tel: +41/22/705 71 13 CH-1227 GENEVA (Switzerland) | Fax: +41/22/300 10 86 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: into the same river... Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 11:25:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 583 (583) To signify my return to the editorial chair here in Leyton, London E10 (where roses are blooming though the days are sparing of light) I send along evidence of imaginative play where it might least be expected. I also make bold to suggest a possible addition to the humanities computing curriculum. To wit, the following message, in response to an attempt to reach a page no longer maintained by "a worldwide network of meditation centers" known as Shambhala, at <http://www.shambhala.org/centers/04gampoabbey/gampo.html>, gets my nomination for the gentlest, most peaceful error message ever delivered by a computer: "You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here." Other nominations eagerly awaited. I wonder -- would Heraclitus be pleased? Should we include his fragmentary writings in courses that deal with the Web? Yours, with a Happy (premillennial) New Year's greeting, and apologies for so many delightful days spent otherwise than attending to Humanist, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: SGML browsers & market lobby Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 15:42:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 584 (584) Willard, I have often heard you and Susan Hockey urge humanists and scholars to think about what type of software would best meet their pedagogical and research needs. Plan for the future. Somewhere soon there must be an alliance between a computing department and a humanities discipline to produce sgml-aware software for the reader. Of course, I will continue to address my plea to commercial interests. Witness a copy of a letter I have sent to some commercial software developers:=20 [deleted quotation] There are larger issues here about ownership, stewardship and fair remuneration for the building of infrastructures. There is also an historical question: what has happened since the promising crest of 1996? Or was that crest mere illusion? Has the advent of XML slowed development and deployment of sgml-aware software? --=20 Francois "cohorts become a matter of ecology" From: Willard McCarty Subject: manipulations=20 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:54:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 585 (585) An attentive Humanist, attending a dinner-party recently, heard about a technique by which clever people conspire to raise the probability that Internet search-engines will place their pages at the top of the list for any search on the relevant key-words. The example he gave was for "Darwin o= r evolution", which in the results of a Web crawler produced a list the first dozen or so of which were references to creationists' pages. I just tried a search on these terms in AltaVista and did not get the same results, but this hardly matters for the point to be made. I would assume that the technique in question is to use the META element to set multiple instances of the relevant keywords in order to run up a high score on the number of hits/page for these keywords. I've seen this done before. A clever person certainly could get around any simple checks based on the contents of the META element or proximity.=20 What are the implications for one's reliance on the Internet as a source of information? It certainly doesn't take much of an imagination to see how an unscrupulous person could in effect drown out a competing view of some subject, such as evolution, by making sure that the first 100 hits would always be to his or her own. Is this a real worry? If so, what do we do about it? 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/ maui gratia From: Raquel Wandelli Subject: help Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:43:05 -0600 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 586 (586) I'm student of Literature from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florian=F3polis, Brasil. I'm making a research about hipertext and I would like very much to seek works about Kazar Dictionary (Dicion=E1rio Kazar, in portuguese). I have just found works in islamic languages. Please, could yo= u help me advising me how to find works about in french, portuguese, english or spanish? I need also works or any kind of texts about the films "Before of raining" and "Through of the Olive Trees" (Atrav=E9s das Oliveiras, in portuguese) by director, Abbas Kiarostami. Sorry for my english. Thank you, very much.=20 Happy new year! Raquel Wandelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: John Unsworth Subject: Deadline for ACH/ALLC posters and demos Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:19:11 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 587 (587) Just a reminder: Today (January 7th) is the deadline for submission of proposals for poster and demo sessions at the 1999 joint annual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, to be held June 9-13 in Charlottesville, Virginia. We will accept late proposals, within reason (a week late, not a month...). 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. Proposals should be about 750 words; further details on the format for poster-session proposals are available at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/cfp.html We hope you will consider submitting a proposal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Season greetings Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 12:28:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 588 (588) As is appropriate for the season, the CSAC elf has reappeared on our web si= te http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ If you just want to view the image it is http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/michaelcsac.gif I take the occasion to point out that the CSAC web server has now had our 5 millionth access (and that the Anthropological Index Online was accessed 40 thousand times in November alone) seasonal greetings dz for the CSAC team Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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: Carlos Alberto Teixeira Subject: << My Heart >> (use 'Courier New' font) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 01:33:22 -0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 589 (589) 'Hello !!! Let's hope this Inter=20 net can be used more and more to spread Love around the planet, because that's only what *really* counts. I wish You and your Family a wonderful Christmas and a healthy and successful 1999. Plenty of new projects, huge motivation to impl ement them and,above all, a lot of inspiration. Best wishes and energy from Carlos Alb erto Teixeir a - Rio, Brazil Eart h. |\ _,,,---,,_ =20 Carlos Alberto Teixeira /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' http://stop.at/c= at BRASIL '---''(_/--' `-'\_) +(55-21) 556-66= 20 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: RE: Season greetings Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:39:34 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 590 (590) [deleted quotation]web site [deleted quotation] Not a very interesting image. Any recommendations for something to send electronically for greetings which might make more of an impression????? =20 Like flashing lights on Xmas trees. A seasonal but *humanist* message. A poem expressing the joys and reservations that liberal capitalism seems to have taken over the world. An image which captures today - 50th anniversary of the Day of human rights, the day Jack Straw decided to allow the extradition of Pinochet - and my birthday. =20 Congratulations to CSAC, BTW, on 5 million accesses. Ray Thomas, Social Sciences, Open University Email: r.thomas@open.ac.uk Tel: 44-1908-679081 Fax: 44-1908-880292 Post: 35 Passmore, Tinkers Bridge,=20 Milton Keynes MK6 3DY, England =20 From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: For all who surf the Web at night Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:52:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 591 (591) In the festive season, I thought it would be appropriate to forward,=20 with his permission, this pearl posted a few weeks ago on the=20 medievalists' list MEDTEXTL by Siegfried Wentzel. Evidently Thomas Brinton, OSB, bishop of Rochester, anticipated our delight when, in 1382, he said in a sermon: "Nocturnum tempus ad tria principaliter adaptatur: primo spiritualiter ad computandum." Sermon 101; ed. Devlin 2:462. The other two things night-time is ideal for are: "Secundum adaptatur=20 tempus nocturnum temptacionibus ad resistendum... Tercio adaptatur=20 tempus nocturnum ad orandum vel cum Deo secrecius ad loquendum."=20 _Tout un programme!_ All the best to Humanists for the last year of=20 the Millenium and beyond. Francois C-R F.Crompton-Roberts@qmw.ac.uk From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254@compuserve.com> Subject: 12.0327 greetings for the solstitial holidays! Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 10:43:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 592 (592) Willard, thank you for your wishes, greetings, and exhortations! You wrote, among other nice thoughts: [deleted quotation]latter is, of course, your concern entirely, but as it (or some approximation) is far commoner than writing to Humanist, I make the parallel for the benefit of our seminar. I think also, however, of a Hebrew proverb: "Do what you do only out of love." I have to acknowledge that since I left my university, and even more since I started up a new project in electronic publishing, I hardly find the time to even read all my mail... ;-) which makes me a Humanist lurker!=20 (Those who can't believe it could compare the date of this post-solstitial messsage with that of Willard's pre-solsticial greetings...) A Spanish saying I remember is: "A=F1o nuevo, vida nueva" (New year, new life). So, as a good (you'll appreciate?) new year's resolution, I'll comment on another part of Willard's message: [deleted quotation]my very best wishes for the holidays -- Chanukah in 5 days, the solstice 7 days later, Christmas 4 days after that and several other celebrations I simply don't know about but am unwittingly enriched by.=20 It is a well known fact, I think, that the solstices are seeing important clusters of celebrations in many cultures. Would'nt it be interesting and fun to collaborate within this savvy group in trying to establish some kind of a calendar of this sort, provided it was not already built a hundred times since the birth of Humanist? (I'm only with you since 91, if memory serves!) =20 I'm certainly no specialist of the subject, and all I can do is get into my memory and try to list, in addition to Hanukkah (is this form acceptable?), the (northern) winter solstice, and Christmas, the following: - pretty early in hte season, there is Halloween, a celebration which seems to be of celtic (Irish?) origin, but is now coming back to Europe as a re-exportation from the USA... - Saint Nicolas (in Belgium) or Santer Klaus (in Germany), is in charge of bringing gifts to good children on 6 dec. (In Belgium at least, there is some specialization, as P=E8re Fouettard will take care of the bad ones...)= =2E Does this date hold elsewhere too? - Saint Sylvestre, who has a priviledge too, that of closing the year, 31 dec. - the first of January, of course, as someone made it the first day of the year - the Epiphany, much awaited in Spain, as the Kings (los Magos) bring gifts to children on that day (6 jan). By the way, is'nt it intresting to note that there are different special days for children in different places? As far as I know, in France P=E8re No=EBl makes no distinction between childre= n and grown-up and only comes on Christmas eve; the same holds true for UK, I believe? What about other countries or regions? - the orthodox Christmas is celebrated some time early january, I think; is it on the same Epiphany day, or is it moving, and how? Speaking of moving dates, we can't forget cultures using the moon as a calendar pointer, rather or in addition to the sun: - the Chinese, Vietnamese and probably other asian calendars begin with a new moon, usually in february I think (but why?); this year it is the 16th feb. if I'm well informed: it will be the year of the cat (or the rabbit, a quasi-synonym!), coming after the tiger last year.=20 - the muslim 'ramadan' begins with a much discussed fist crescent of the moon (but what are the other specifiers?) as seen from a specific place (the Mecca?); what is the relation to the arabic calendar, known to be lunar so that the current year is numbered with some hundreds of difference with ours? (This year the ramadan begun on the 18th of december, again if I got it right.) Now, a more general remark about the nature of the celebrations: is it not that many celebrations have indeed a ever growing comercial / consumerist smell, which can tend to shadow the genuine / traditional nature of the celebration? I noted again this year that many people around here launch chinese fires and rockets during the Christmas eve (not commenting on Clinton's deeds), as if it was the same as New Year's eve... ("Stille nacht...", where are you?). And another one about their diversity: should one not worry about the "globalization" which does'nt really just improve the mutual knowledge of people's cultures, but tends to mix things up with the risk of completely loosing their meanings, as the example of Halloween show? I've been long: now you know why I'd better shut up and keep lurking...;-) Shall we let the (northern) summer solstice for immediately after the Humanist birthday? I for one would be most happy to get comments and additions. In the mean time, best wishes to all and in particular to Willard, irrespective of whenever you decide to begin *your* year! Thierry ________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe t_vs@compuserve.com Bruxelles - Belgium ________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: David Green Subject: COPYRIGHT: Webcast Discussion Thurs. Jan 14, 4-4:45pm (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:37:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 593 (593) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 13, 1998 WEBCAST ON "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & OTHER I.T. LEGAL ISSUES" Thursday, January 14 at 4:00-4:45 pm (EST) <http://seminars.cren.net/events/intelprop.html> (RealAudio required) Cornell University's Steve Worona and Margie Hodges Shaw, Co-Directors of Cornell's Computer Policy and Law Program will answer questionson intellectual property issues, with a particular focus on "who owns what" on university campuses. Questions may be submitted ahead of time or asked during the webcast. This webcast is part of the Corporation for Research and Educational Networking's series "TECH TALK WITH THE EXPERTS. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: The Public Domain and the Copyright Term Extension Suit Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:06:46 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 594 (594) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 14, 1998 COPYRIGHT TERM EXTENSION ACT CHALLENGED Harvard's Lawrence Lessig Sues Congress on behalf of Eldritch Press <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/eldredvreno> Below are two reports on the remarkable suit conducted by Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law Professor and faculty member at the Berkman Center for the Internet & Society, on behalf of Eldritch Press, a notable non-profit press that posts public domain literary works onto the Internet (<http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/>), one from PRNewswire <http://www.prnewswire.com>; the other from NCC "Washington Update <http://h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/>. See http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/open_source_books.html for details of the OPEN SOURCE BOOKS CAMPAIGN to preserve the Public Domain and plans for creating a Digital Copyright Conservancy Center. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] * * * * [deleted quotation] From: SJ Stauffer Subject: IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:26:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 595 (595) ************************************************************ Edupage, 14 January 1999. Edupage, a summary of news about information technology, is provided three times a week as a service of EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming higher education through information technologies. ************************************************************ IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, BREAKING-IN'S NO CRIME IN NORWAY The Supreme Court in Norway has ruled that it's not a crime to try to break into someone else's computer system, because people should expect others to try to invade their systems, and take measures to protect themselves. There is a crime, ruled the court, only if the system is actually breached. The case developed out of an attempt by a computer security company to break into the University of Oslo's computers through the Internet, to contribute to a feature story by the Norwegian state broadcasting network. Apparently the security company mapped holes in the university's computer security, but did not break in, tamper with, or steal any information. (USA Today 13 Jan 99) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 12.0329 season's greetings (belated by WM) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:14:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 596 (596) Let me just add that in Germany there is Nikolaus and not Santa Klaus the 6th of December. And there always was Knecht Ruprecht, too, with his 'Rute' for bad children. For what concerns Christmas, when I was small, our gifts where braught by a 'Christkind' which is neutre in gender, not male as the 'Weinachtsmann' of today. I still stick to it, seems so much more adequate. There is a different personality in Italy: la befana, a good witch who brings a piece of black sugar and other gifts. I think, it is the 6th of January, the day of 'los magos'. The Italians will know better. Yes, winter has many rich traditions and it would be really good not to forget them or better get to know them, their similarities and differences. I was really amazed this Christmas when our children (quite grown up by now) still wanted to listen to a story and as the real grown ups didn't really know what to do, they took the book themselves and read: "Das Hanukka-Licht". We are not religious but when they where small we always had a story sitting round the Christmas tree. Perhaps, there is a bit more to Christmas or winter time celebrations if we want it to be. 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Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm Editor of: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/DRV/home.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES: Scholarly Communication; Information Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:29:04 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 597 (597) Visualization NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 12, 1999 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS Remember to check NINCH's Community Calendar at <http://www-ninch.cni.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html> NEW CHALLENGES FOR SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION IN THE DIGITAL ERA: CHANGING ROLES & EXPECTATIONS IN THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY March 26-27, Washington, DC <http://www.arl.org/scomm/conf.html> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION July 14-16, London <http://www.it-link.demon.co.uk/IV99/> * * * * * [deleted quotation] New Challenges for Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era: Changing Roles and Expectations in the Academic Community March 26-27, 1999 Washington, DC Sheraton City Center Hotel <http://www.arl.org/scomm/conf.html>. Sponsored by: American Association of University Professors American Council of Learned Societies Association of American University Presses Association of Research Libraries Coalition for Networked Information The academic community has been deeply affected by the changes brought about by the digital era. The individual sectors of the community face seemingly unique challenges that are in fact interconnected in the broad system of scholarly communication. This conference, sponsored by organizations representing faculty, publishers, librarians, and learned societies, will explore the nature and scope of the challenges and seek to define new roles that build on the strengths and needs of all sectors. This conference is a sequel to the successful conference on the Specialized Scholarly Monograph in Crisis held in September 1997. The exciting and frank discussions at that meeting led the organizers to plan a follow-up opportunity to bring these groups together on a broader set of topics. Conference Topics: Getting Ahead in the Digital World - Faculty are being encouraged to employ digital technology in the classroom, develop digitally-based distance learning courses, submit manuscripts to electronic journals, and mentor graduate students and junior faculty during this time of incredible transition. This panel will address how these pressures and some current initiatives, such as electronic dissertations and the separating of peer review from publication, affect faculty careers and opportunities for advancement. Distance Education - Many universities are moving into distance education, some with enthusiasm and some feeling driven by necessity. This panel will address the issues and challenges presented by the delivery of instruction to students outside the physical campus classroom, including expectations for faculty, changing teaching roles, ownership of the courses developed, quality of the learning experience, academic freedom, library support, and potential roles for societies and presses. What Does it Mean to Publish? - The ability of authors to post their own work on their websites and the introduction of electronic dissertations have created intense discussions of what it means to "publish" in the digital era. Do online preprints and electronic dissertations constitute prior publication? If so, what are the implications for tenure and promotion? How do faculty balance the desire to get their ideas out with the need for review for tenure? Economics of Scholarly Communication - There is a disjunction between the sociology and economics of scholarly publishing, primarily in the sciences, that has affected the access to scholarship in all disciplines. Can the new technologies provide better and more cost-effective solutions for scholarly communication? Do solutions vary by discipline? What new economic challenges does the electronic environment introduce? Preservation and Access - The new technologies bring great opportunity for expanded access to a wide array of electronic resources which can be searched with powerful search engines across distributed systems. This panel will examine how we can assure that the electronic publications and data resources of 1999 will be accessible years, decades, and centuries from today. Keynote speakers include: Daniel D. Barron, College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina Richard Ekman, Secretary, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition of Networked Information Teresa Sullivan, Vice President and Graduate Dean, University of Texas at Austin Conference Schedule The conference will begin at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, March 26. A light lunch will be available at noon. Friday's session will conclude at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception from 6:00-7:00 p.m. On Saturday, March 27, the program will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude at 5:00 p.m. A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. Details of the program and confirmed speakers will be available at <http://www.arl.org/scomm/conf.html>. Hotel Information: (Reservations to be made by attendees) Sheraton City Centre Hotel 1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20037 Reservations: (202) 775-0800 Specify: ARL New Challenges Conference Rates: $125 single; $145 double Cut-off date for reservations: March 4, 1999 Registration: $300 for an individual $250 for three or more individuals from the same institution. $150 for graduate students. Deadline for registration is: March 15, 1999. Registration includes continental breakfast, two lunches, and a reception on Friday evening. To register online, go to <http://www.arl.org/scomm/conf.html> OR Mail or fax your name, institution, address, and credit card information to: Association of Research Libraries Mary Jane Brooks - New Challenges 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington, DC 20036 phone: 202-296-2296 fax: 202-872-0884 email: maryjane@arl.org ========================================================================= INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION http://www.it-link.demon.co.uk/IV99/ July 14-16 1999 London International Conference on Information Visualisation There is a growing demand in establishing processes through which data and information can be best captured, archived, shared and explored. Visualisation of data, information and knowledge is at the forefront of these activities that has led to a convergence in the use of computing among various disciplines. The diversity and complexity of information and its applications has consequently created a domain of erosion of boundaries between information users and information originators. This revolution has in turn created new contexts, needs, and potential for interaction between users and information. Now the core question is, how will humankind tame this boundless potential? Theme The theme chosen for this conference is "A PROGRESS FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE". Information Visualisation'99 (IV'99) conference aims to focus on the interdisciplinary methods and affiliated research done among various science disciplines, medicine, engineering, media and commerce. This three day event will focus on the research and developments conjured to meet the roaring demand of today's "Information Transfer" through the medium of computing, accentuating on the linkage that shapes academia and industry with the goal of stimulating views and providing a forum where researchers and practitioners can discuss the latest developments linked to Information Visualisation. Scope The conference will feature application, research and review, poster papers, workshops, keynote lectures, plenary sessions, tutorials, computer animation and digital art shows, reviewing the future state of art and discussing future directions within the context of Information Visualisation. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Charles L. Creegan" Subject: Re: 12.0334 into the same river Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:44:48 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 598 (598) This was of course one of the notorious "Salon 21st" haiku: <http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html> Do hope it was attributed... -- Charles Creegan NC Wesleyan College ccreegan@ncwc.edu <http://www.ncwc.edu/~ccreegan> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: JOB: Benton/NEA "Open Studio" Project Manager Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:53:29 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 599 (599) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 14, 1999 [deleted quotation]AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY Project Manager Open Studio: The Arts Online The Benton Foundation is a nonprofit philanthropic organization that works to realize the social benefits made possible by the public interest use of communications. A partnership between Benton and the National Endowment for the Arts, Open Studio: The Arts Online is a network of art and technology sites nationwide that serves as a laboratory to create tools and techniques for arts and cultural organizations as they prepare for the networked environment of the next century. The Benton Foundation seeks an individual to plan and manage all aspects of Open Studio, including partnership relations with the National Endowment for the Arts, team time management, all outreach and education activities, developing and monitoring of project budgets, contracts, and vendor relationships. The Open Studio Project Manager reports to the Director of Grantmaking Programs. Responsibilities include: Supervising all project activities, including coordination of Open Studio sites nationwide, and editorial and conceptual oversight of all Open Studio online and print publications, including project=EDs national Web site; Acting as primary project liaison of project with the project=EDs national advisory group and representing the project and foundation at national conferences and other related meetings; Managing all aspects of the proposal process, including a timeline for funding cycles, RFP=EDs and final report worksheets, and reports of funding allocations for publication; Developing future directions of project based on needs of participating sites, programmatic lessons learned during its initial phases, and other factors, such as the ever-changing landscape of networked technology, and potential partnership opportunities; Preparing and monitoring various budgets, creating timelines, and initiating and supervising vendor contracts; Working with Director of Grantmaking Programs in both local and national fundraising and outreach activities for project, and; Acting as primary liaison with other Benton programs to exchange information regarding project activities. Education, Skills, and Qualifications BA required as well as interest in arts and/or technology.=DD Candidates should have at least five years of project management background, preferably in the arts, with experience managing contracts, budgets, and staff. Familiarity with arts institutions is highly desirable, including nonprofit sustainability issues and how the nonprofit arts community has adopted network technology. Knowledge about computer-based information and communications technology in a public service context is required. She or he should also have a demonstrated ability to delegate work and have strong writing and communication skills. Candidate should also have excellent organizational skills and attention to detail. Also required: general administrative and office skills, experience with word processing and accounting programs such as MS Word, Excel and Access, Internet experience and ability to use email and PowerPoint. Background with relational databases preferred. Compensation We offer a competitive, negotiated salary, commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits, including employer paid health and dental insurance, four weeks vacation a year, 403(b) plan, and opportunities for professional development. Send or fax resume, cover letter, related work products, and salary requirements to Open Studio Search, Benton Foundation, 1634 Eye Street NW, 11th Floor, Washington DC 20006. Fax: 202-638-5771. Email: monica@benton.org; put Open Studio Search in subject line. No phone calls, please. The Benton Foundation is an equal opportunity employer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Willard McCarty Subject: love bytes Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:37:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 600 (600) The phenomenon of romance-by-Internet is now very well known and, I presume and hope, well studied, since it seems to me rich with potential for understanding the medium. One such study, "Love at First Byte", has recently been published in the alumni magazine for my alma mater, Reed College, and is available online at <http://web.reed.edu/community/newsandpub/nov1998/byte/>. The article, by Susan G. Hauser, reports on research by psychiatrist Esther Gwinnell, who has written a book on the subject, Online Seductions: Falling in Love with Strangers on the Internet (Kodansha International). See her Web site, <http://www.nocouch.com/>, which provides a summary introduction to the topic. Gwinnell uses e-mail in her psychiatric practice. "She also recommends email interaction to married couples whose communication skills have broken down. If one spouse needs to travel, she or he should keep in touch via the internet. It is as good as writing in a journal for expressing personal feelings, but those feelings can be shared with little or none of the anxiety associated with face-to-face communication." Gwinnell seems to be thinking about a possible sequel, so if you have a story to tell.... Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0328 SGML-aware? WWW manipulations? Kazar? Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:20:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 601 (601) Willard, Since I have shifted my efforts from an academic venue into the commercial world (I now work for a tiny, but effective, vendor-independent SGML/XML consultancy), I may be in a position to address Francois' question. (Warning: it's a bit long, four screens or so): [deleted quotation] Well, not really. In many respects, the Panorama browser (that Francois mentions) was an anomaly, a piece of "bait-ware" released by a company then led by a visionary, Yuri Rubinsky, who had his eye on the big picture and the long term and was willing to take business risks to achieve greater goals than business (though business too, no doubt). Unfortunately, Rubinsky died in 1996, and took much (thankfully not all) of his vision with him. (I never got the chance to meet him.) But really opening the web to generic encoding, such as that represented by the TEI, proved to require quite a bit of tightening of the SGML specification before it could be feasible. Even in its successes, Panorama projects demonstrated this. (Semi-proprietary style specification language; associated limits to presentation semantics; no capability to link from a web page _into_ an SGML file or perform queries on SGML files via CGI-style URLs and thus embed queries in documents; a few others -- these are walls we bumped up against.) Without a trim, tight set of standards, such as SGML and its family (HyTime/DSSSL) is not, any efforts the programmers or implementors made could never achieve web-like ubiquity. One analogy I've heard from people then involved was that trying to pass rich SGML across the web turned out to be like trying to get a snake through a garden hose -- it could sometimes be done, but it wasn't pretty. Far from slowing things down, XML was conceived explicitly to address these issues. And it was motivated, in part, through the direct involvement of a handful of key TEI people -- blessings eternally upon you! you know who you are -- as well as other friends of the Humanities. If it weren't for XML, all of us fans of descriptive encoding would be largely dead in the water, playing with proprietary implementations, or doing up fancy hacks to HTML/CSS/CGI (with which you can do alot -- but it doesn't scale or port, and it's hell to maintain), in order to build generic markup systems. So the short answer to Francois is: thank goodness for XML: if they didn't have it, SGML users would have to invent it to make possible the software we humanists want. And they did. But XML isn't there yet, and it remains to be seen whether this effort will succeed in altering the landscape so much that vendors will think it worthwhile to try and reach the poor cousin academic humanist. Much has still to be decided, including in particular the XML-related specifications for a style-sheet language (XSL) and a hypertext linking specification (XLink/XPointer), both of which are crucially important, and still in draft. Yet there's already a great deal more interest and competition in generic markup at the low end than has ever been the case with SGML, and many, many more small and independent developers directly engaged (whose budgets look more like academics' than they do like those of corporate shops). So I'd suggest to Francois and others in his situation, that they look to XML not as a usurper, but as an opportunity. It is surprisingly close to SGML, close enough so the "lay user" looking at the data would probably never know the difference. Getting your TEI-conformant scholary publishing project into XML will mean a few tweaks, and probably backwards-engineering an XML DTD for it. (Expressing the Whole TEI in XML is no walk in the park, for technical reasons stemming from TEI's requirement for inclusiveness. But your data set does not include everything in the TEI universe.) But it can be done: XML is an SGML subset. Then you will be able to use XML tools on your data as well as what you've already got. I'd also suggest we be more radical in imagining how we and our audiences could get software to do what we need. On the functional side, Java has taken off as a favorite platform for instruction in computer science departments; there is no reason the same could not happen with XML on the data-encoding side. Writing parsers and processors that conform to the XML spec -- and making them building blocks that can be readily repurposed for other applications -- is easier by an order of magnitude than supporting its granddaddy SGML. Demonstration code is already being made available -- by academics, independents and companies -- often including source code, always on the net -- with which projects can get started. Much of it is in Java, but not all: pick your platform and language, there's already someone doing XML on it somewhere, and XML was designed, in part, with the "DPH" (desperate Perl hacker) in mind, with precisely the intention that college students, or anyone on a shoestring, should be able to code to it. And the Open Source movement will be a friend to generic encoding, precisely because it means the user (not the software vendor) can own, control and support the data format. But Rome wasn't built in a day -- and not by an outside contractor, either (at least not till they started expanding :-). Why not free academic projects altogether from exclusive dependency on commercial software? Write your letter to the computer science department -- or better, to your favorite free-thinking CS professor who wants to herd cats and is looking for cool ideas. "I have a large, rich XML dataset and a bunch of things I want to do -- and it's not database integration" might just sound like catnip to her. Or find a rogue grad student who wants to stay up till morning being passionate with a workstation.... [deleted quotation]Exactly! -- Wendell "Everybody thinks of their ideas as if they were private property: but they're not. They're currency." (Loosely translated from Heraclitus, with a bow to Willard) ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Blake Archive's January Update Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:11:28 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 602 (602) 13 January 1999 The editors of the William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/> are pleased to announce the opening of a major new wing of the site, devoted to documentation and supplementary materials "About the Archive." Available as the first entry on our main table of contents page from the URL above, the "About the Archive" materials consist of: A brief overview of the Archive for first-time or hurried users, entitled The Archive at a Glance; A statement of Editorial Principles and Methodology; A Technical Summary of the Archive's design and implementation; A Frequently Asked Questions list; A reference page listing articles by members of the project team, as well as reviews and notices of the Archive by others; An updated and expanded version of the article-length Plan of the Archive, providing additional detail about our intentions with regard to Blake's non-illuminated works. Also included is information about the editors, an account of the Archive's collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and a link to our extensive Help documentation. In addition, we will shortly be adding a Tour of the Archive to these materials (combining textual narration, graphical screenshots, and suggestions as to how to use the Archive). We would also like to take this opportunity to announce the Archive's recently convened Advisory Board and to thank those who have agreed to serve: Ann Bermingham Professor of the History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara David Bindman Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art University College London Frances Carey Associate Keeper, Department of Prints and Drawings British Museum, London Ruth Fine Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Nelson Hilton Professor of English University of Georgia Steven Jones Associate Professor of English Loyola University, Chicago Karl Kroeber Mellon Professor of the Humanities Columbia University Alan Liu Professor of English University of California, Santa Barbara Jerome J. McGann John Stewart Bryan University Professor of English University of Virginia Morton D. Paley Professor in the Graduate School (English) University of California, Berkeley Daniel Pitti Project Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia Duncan Robinson Director Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, England G. Thomas Tanselle Vice-President John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation John Unsworth Director Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia We have an ambitious publication schedule planned for the spring, focused on adding additional copies of the illuminated works already available in the Archive. In the immediate future we plan to publish the _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_ (copies C, F, and L) and _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ (copies C and F), followed by multiple copies of _The Book of Urizen_, _America: A Prophecy_, _Europe: A Prophecy_, _The Book of Thel_, and _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_, as well as further copies of the separate and combined _Songs_ and the _Marriage_. We hope to follow these works with _Jerusalem_ copy E by the summer, thus completing the illuminated canon. This spring we will also be releasing the electronic Erdman edition in beta form and publishing detailed lists documenting the complete contents of the various U.S. and U.K. Blake collections (now nine of them) contributing works to the Archive. Finally, we list below the electronic editions already in the Archive (26 copies of 16 separate illuminated books) for the benefit of those teaching Blake in the spring semester. _All Religions are One_, copy A _There is No Natural Religion_, copies B, C, G, and L _The Book of Thel_, copies F, H, and O _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_, copy D _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_, copies C, F, and J _America: a Prophecy_, copies A and E _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_, copy Z _Europe: a Prophecy_, copies B and E _The First Book of Urizen_, copy G _The Song of Los_, copy B _The Book of Los_, copy A _The Book of Ahania_, copy A _Milton, a Poem_, copy C _On Homers Poetry [and] On Virgil_, copies B and F _The Ghost of Abel_, copy A _Laocoon_, copy B Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, Editors Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager The William Blake Archive From: "M. Salimian" Subject: Announcing Multimedia Instructional Design Course Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:14:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 603 (603) Greetings and Happy New Year I would to share with you the following is a short announcement for the Multimedia Instructional Design course offered through the Department of Industrial Engineering at Morgan State University. I would appreciate if you could make the announcement available to your students in case they were interested in participating in the course. I would also dearly welcome your participation in the current course, your advice or possible co-operation for a joint course in this area on a distant learning basis. Peace, Masud Salimian,PhD Interim Director, Center for Multimedia Instructional Technology & Design Department of Industrial Engineering School of Engineering http://jewel.morgan.edu/~salimian ------------------------------------------------------ COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT IEGR 485: MULTIMEDIA INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN SPRING 1999 Tuesday 5:00pm-7:50pm In response to a petition by a large number of students to the Dean of Engineering and the Chairperson of the Industrial Engineering Department, the Multimedia Instructional Design course has been added to the Spring 1999 semester. The course is most useful for undergraduate, or graduate students as well as faculty in a variety of technical and/or multidisciplinary fields including those who plan to use computer based training or Internet in their careers. Teachers, researchers, trainers, graphic designers, media specialists, and a whole array of other multidisciplinary fields can benefit from the course. Although many different techniques will be introduced in the class, the main theme of all of them is "how to better present your work such that a wide variety of audience with different learning styles can learn from it" The main medium of communication in this course is World-Wide Web. The course will be offered to audiences around the world that may chose to participate on an active/interested distance learning basis. Morgan students require the permission of their advisors and the course instructor to register in the class for credit. Faculty are most welcome to participate in the course either by attending the classes or on a distance learning basis. All other participants will participate in the course on a non-credit basis. To see part of the work that students did in the class last semester, please check: http://jewel.morgan.edu/~salimian and select the link to Fall 98 Multimedia Class. Then click on Active Participants' link. At the active participants' page, click on the thumbnail pictures of the participants to visit their individual pages. Internet Explorer 4.0+ or Netscape Navigator 4.0+ with 800x600 resolution will give you the best results when browsing the Web pages. To participate in the course, please contact Dr. Masud Salimian at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Morgan State University, 443-885-3135, or send email to salimian@eng.morgan.edu. From: Doug Beeferman Subject: Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:20:03 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 604 (604) Lexical FreeNet 2.0 - ------------------- Announcing an update of Lexical Freenet, the Web-based thesaurus and word discovery/connection program: http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/lexfn/ Lexfn 2.0 incorporates several features suggested in feedback over the last year, including: - - New relations. New "biographical relations" describe and connect the lives of over 27,000 famous people from the past and present. Based on data provided by s9.com, these relations deal with the occupations, nationalities, birth and death dates, eponyms, and collaborations of famous scientists, politicians, artists, authors...you name it, they're in there. They sit on top of the existing semantic relations in Lexical Freenet to make a wide variety of connections possible. Ever wanted to know exactly which people were born in 1902 and died in 1974? Probably not, but now you can. And maybe you *did* want to know what Albert Einstein had to do with mozzarella. Or how he was influenced by Oliver Heaviside. Or what his relationship was with Michele Besso. Or which famous directors are Australian. - - New search functions. Find words reachable within a specified number of links using a specified subset of lexical relations. Shortest path queries now output multiple results at a time, and you can view as many as you like. Intersection queries can be parameterized by a search depth. New substring queries can be used to find biographical names and other phrases covered by the database. - - New search constraints. Include or exclude obscure words and various parts of speech from your searches to allow you to focus in on specific intended uses of the system when part-of-speech ambiguity interferes with your success, or when you get back words that are just too weird. - - Improved interface. Simplified front page and results presentation, with ubiquitous cross-referencing. "Show related" function links to dictionary, picture, and biographical info lookups when applicable. Clicking on trigger pairs yields a Web search that often helps explain them. Search constraints chosen at the front page persist as you navigate the semantic net. - - Improved speed and coverage. There are now over 250,000 lexical types (nodes) and over 8.2 million links in the base graph. Acknowledgments - --------------- Thanks to those who have provided feedback over the last year about their applications of the program. A special thanks to Eric Tentarelli and others at s9.com for generously providing me with data from the Biographical Dictionary, and to Mike Turniansky for his continued testing and bug reports. Slated future work - ------------------ - - New "emitpath" games parameterized by the biographical relations. e.g. try the following URL to generate a game in which you must guess the common death year of two famous people: http://cuff.link.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/lexfn/lexfn-cuff.cgi?sWord=BDX&tWord=B DI&query=emitpath - - Fresh triggers, derived from the Web - - Constrain triggers by "strength" - - Phrasal triggers and phrasal phonetic links - - Refresh of Cinema Freenet database Mailing List - ------------ Let me know if you'd like to be taken off this announcement list. (There probably won't be more than one message every few months). Software - -------- Lexical Freenet is free software, an academic project. Contact me if you would like pieces of the source code or data for research purposes. All of the data is in the public domain except the biographical data from s9.com, for which I received special permission to include in the program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Gary W. Shawver" Subject: Re: WWW manipulations and Meta-jacking Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:45:15 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 605 (605) [deleted quotation] Perhaps the most infamous, and most thorough-going, manipulation of this search-engine vulnerability was the Web-page for the Heaven's Gate cult. They not only included hundreds of repetitions of the most commonly-requested search words (sex, etc.) in the META element, but also repeated these words in the body of the page using 0-sized font. In both cases, the words were invisible yet exerted a powerful influence on search engines. Apparently, this practice (shall we call it "meta-spoofing") is so common that it has generated another practice, meta-jacking, the copy-paste of such code from one page to another. Has anyone else heard anything more on the vocabulary of this practice? [deleted quotation] Actually, I just glad to see SOMEONE using the tag. Many sites, created by people whom one presumes would know better, contain no hint of content in the META tag and seem to rely on the vagaries of search-engine algorithms and the gritty determination of its potential audience to be found by same. The practice of meta-spoofing at least implies an awareness of the need to be found and an understanding of how search-engines work. I only wish I saw it applied more often, and more honestly. We should not abandon speech for liars. gary From: Toby Burrows Subject: Re: 12.0328 WWW manipulations Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:59:58 +0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 606 (606) Dear Colleagues, Stephen Pinfield ("Cure for hype on the cards" Times Higher Education Supplement 9 October 1998, 12-13) also drew attention to this problem of "Web page stuffing". Doctoring the tag is only one way of doing it; tinkering with the text of the page is another. Pinfield claims that some Web pages have these artificial keywords written in the same colour as the background of the page - the electronic equivalent of invisible ink, perhaps? As Pinfield says: "The problem with self-created metadata is that it can be cynically fixed." We need people other than the authors compiling metadata for Web pages. We don't get authors to create their own catalogue entries for their books, or their own database records for their journal articles... We should avoid using Web search engines which are compiled by robots and have no powers of intellectual discrimination. We should use searchable databases which contain entries selected on consistent principles. The results of a search won't be nearly as extensive, but at least the quality of the entries will be reasonably consistent. Toby Burrows + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Dr Toby Burrows Principal Librarian, The Scholars' Centre The University of Western Australia Library Nedlands 6907, Western Australia E-mail: tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au Facsimile: + 61 8 9380 1128 Telephone: + 61 8 9380 2358 Web: http://docker.library.uwa.edu.au/~tburrows/ From: Peter Evans Subject: WWW manipulations? (12.0328) Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:17:22 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 607 (607) Willard McCarty wonders about how it is that, for example, creationists can boost their twaddle to the top of a search engine's hit list for "Darwin or evolution", and says: [deleted quotation] Er, no. Well, possibly, but if this worked, it would indicate that the designers of the search engine hadn't taken even the simplest of precautions against what might be called search engine spamming. For a brief summary of how search engines rank the pages they find, see <http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/rank.html>; and for a lot more on closely related subjects, spend time looking on other pages of <http://searchenginewatch.com/>. (I could attempt to summarize what's said there, but there seems little point as it's said so well.) There is certainly a danger that a fanatical and energetic faction can go some way to elbowing out alternative, intelligent points of view from the top of hit lists. I can't offer any solution, but suggest that the danger isn't as great as it might have been back at the genesis of some horror stories that still make the rounds of dinner parties. +++++++++++++++++++++ Peter Evans evans@i.hosei.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Computing in Philosophy Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:52:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 608 (608) PLEASE CIRCULATE / POST =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Computing in Philosophy King's College London (Strand) Committee Room 19 February 1999 9.30 am to 5.30 pm Dr Sylvia Berryman (King's College London):=20 "Results from Data-Base Research in Ancient Greek Philosophy"=20 Professor Peter Gibbins (University of Exeter):=20 "The Digitization of Philosophy" Professor Donald Gillies (King's College London):=20 "How Philosophy has Helped Computing"=20 Professor Shalom Lappin (School of Oriental Studies London):=20 "Computational Approaches to Natural Language"=20 Dr Peter Millican (University of Leeds):=20 "Using Computers in Philosophy" This one-day colloquium will address the philosophical implications of computing and its uses and consequences for philosophical studies. It will focus on three main areas: artificial intelligence, cognitive science and philosophy of mind; teaching of ethics, logic and argumentation; and analysis of text. It will provide an overview for the non-specialist as wel= l as a concise summary of current problems and projects. It is intended for all who are interested in the effects of the computer as idea, model and machine on how we think, learn, teach and construct ourselves. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Centre for Philosophical Studies, King's College London. For more information contact Dr A. J. Dale or Dr W. McCarty, . ---------- 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/ maui gratia From: Charles Ess Subject: Conference Announcement - Please Distribute Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:36:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 609 (609) CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE AS APPROPRIATE (and apologies for duplicate postings) The students and faculty of Drury College invite you to attend the 2nd Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference, to be held on the Drury campus February 5 and 6, 1999. The preliminary program is available at http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/program99.html and includes links to most of the student papers and all of the faculty presentations. Students from Principia College (Elsah, IL), (Kansas) Newman University, Kenyon College (Ohio), and Drury College will present as part of the Undergraduate Conference. Topics include postmodernism, "What Has Philosophy Forgotten About Lived Experience?", a dialogue between the Adam of Genesis and Enkidu from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a web-based tour of hell as conceived in diverse religious traditions, "Victorian Age Literature, Marxism, and the Labor Movement," and "Racial Gerrymandering: Enfranchisement or Political Apartheid?" Disciplines represented include literature and literary theory, political science, religious studies, and philosophy. Faculty from Pittsburg State, Central Missouri State, and Butler University (Indiana) will be making presentations on Interdisciplinary Research in Predicting Academic Success, Web- based resources for interdisciplinary approaches to the human genome project, and an analysis of Service-learning and Interdisciplinary teaching from a standpoint inspired by Paulo Friere, among others. [material deleted] The conference represents a rare opportunity to learn what students and faculty at diverse institutions are doing to undertake interdisciplinary approaches and to integrate these into their teaching. The dialogue and exchanges will be rich and exciting. I very much hope that you will find one or more presentations to be worth your and/or your students' time. Please address any queries to: Charles Ess Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College 900 N. 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In the course of finding out what she had been doing for some years, I got from her several pages by email of a horrendous tale, much of which lacked important explanatory subtexts. Suffice it that she began by saying she had been much shaken up upon being arrested at Kennedy some months back in early 1998, to be held i safe custody as a crucial material witness in a case. It seems that in her various unhappinesses she had conducted a very pleasant email affair, all friendship and such. Upon losing her apartment after a breakup in NYC, and in despair, she had contacted her pal, who kindly, in NYC, offered her his place to stay for a weekend or so. They had dinner, and he was off to his weekend, but she woke up in his bedroom, duct-taped and tied down to his bed, whereupon he began to conduct slow but awful experiments and such. After a day of horrors, he went out, telling her she would never leave alive, but she managed to break free enough to do 911 and get freed by the police, upon which she fled to France. It seems she was arrested on her return some months later, because they had finally got to the man, and found that he had on his computer a whole scenario of "love" letters in a progression from distant to intimate in content. And that he was running a whole series of women by the same letters step by step, and was indeed a serial torturer and worse. That got him 20 years to life, on her testimony, etc. Talk of CYRANISM, as it 'twere? It was a shocking story, and she has been writing it or has written it, and was grateful to get it out to me to hear it from herself objectively to an old prof who indulged her vagaries in poetry writing over the course 6+ years, in an out of seminars. Little did I know much of her oddity came because she was either on speed or cocaine or meth, or whatever. There is a very dark mirror side to all this personal impersonality, I expect, only the difference between the old penpal seducers and Rippers is that a killer can run any number of women on the same string of letters and send by the speed of light, choreographing the rising intensity like a maestro. If it had happened to me, I doubt if I could have recovered even what little equanimity a neurotic drug abuser and drunkie might have residual after coming back to "cleanness." Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: basic problems? Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:51:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 612 (612) Dear Colleagues: A close friend and colleague, visiting me recently here in London, suggested indirectly that one good way of understanding what our field is, in particular the quality of its intellectual integrity, would be to identify the basic scholarly problems with which it is engaged or should engage. A prior problem -- one we would have to deal with but not get forever stuck on -- is what the nature of these problems would be. I suggest tentatively that we proceed on the assumption that they are broadly interdisciplinary and that we not get bothered about their nature until we have considered a list of candidates. Let me risk a beginning. [deleted quotation]squarely in our court is to determine the mechanical primitives of textual analysis -- so that, for example, better text-analysis software can be written -- though that's only one reason for tackling the problem. One approach is to ask, in the scholarly analysis of a literary text, what happens and how much of what happens can be reduced to mechanical terms? This is at its beginning, it would seem to me, essentially a sociological approach, and I would guess that it would involve a well-crafted survey of working scholars. (A number of these have already been done, some by people who read Humanist; I'd hope they would comment on such an undertaking.) The danger with the approach is, however, in the tendency to assume that computing mimics what we already do, that it is purely utilitarian. The falsity of this assumption would be proven if the sociological project were thoughtlessly undertaken, software then written and put out into the field, but it seems to me we can save much grief by prior thought about the questions we'd want to ask. Wouldn't the trick be to conduct the survey at a sufficient level of generality and to concentrate on objectives rather than narrowly on procedures? Another approach, complementary to the first, might be to imagine primitives, beyond the ones we now have, that would help literary-critical analysis along. This would begin with those existing primitives to ask where the deficiencies lie; what do our colleagues want to do that they cannot now do with the computer? Again the servey might be useful to deal with the dissatisfactions, collect the wish-lists and actually examine them analytically. Then, on the way to imagining the new, we might consider bridging efforts to bring into the fold of the approachable those techniques that in fact currently exist but are inaccessible for one reason or another. I am thinking of statistical techniques, which to the untrained seem to require a suspension of all disbelief, and work in computer science, frequently alluring but so often not quite in any form that an ordinary literary critic can use. I have the persistent notion that the way to imagine these primitives is to think about the problem while engaging in literary-critical analysis -- to become self-aware (in the operational sense), watch oneself work and project imaginatively beyond the currently possible. In other words, the best people to do this work are computing humanists. Are the primitives a closed set? I don't see any way of knowing, especially because the tools we have affect how we think about our material, and so a newly imagined and implemented primitive is likely to change the terms of the question. This is, in other words, a real problem, requiring pure research. (Oh yes, remember "pure research"? I shudder to think how many will consider this a quaint notion.) What, then, would an art historian consider to be a fundamental problem in humanities computing? A philosopher? An historian? Do the disciplines as such make any difference to the question, or is the difference made by the kind of data and the basic questions being asked? By "basic questions" am I begging the question? Comments? 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Re: 12.0335 WWW manipulations Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:57:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 613 (613) In a message dated 99-01-15 14:08:52 EST, humanist@kcl.ac.uk writes: << Perhaps the most infamous, and most thorough-going, manipulation of this search-engine vulnerability was the Web-page for the Heaven's Gate cult. They not only included hundreds of repetitions of the most commonly-requested search words (sex, etc.) in the META element, but also repeated these words in the body of the page using 0-sized font. In both cases, the words were invisible yet exerted a powerful influence on search engines. Apparently, this practice (shall we call it "meta-spoofing") is so common that it has generated another practice, meta-jacking, the copy-paste of such code from one page to another. Has anyone else heard anything more on the vocabulary of this practice? << Using Meta tags used to be the best way to get your page noticed, and to a certain extent, they still are. The 0 size font was one method, as was including lots of keywords in the ALT TEXT for a graphic. However, most search engines no longer give that kind of weight to pages loaded with meta tags, and some will actively penalize pages with those tricks by forcing them to a lower ranking internally. Now page rank, particularly on Yahoo, is based on a complex formula containing keywords, how often a page is accessed through the search engine (so if Pinnacle Wireless and Pinnacle Micro are both pinnacles, the search engine will rank whichever has more hits higher in the absence of other differentiating keywords.) Some search engines have begun to give pages which customers pay a fee for a higher ranking than pages which are simply submitted for review. The search engines can gain quite a bit of cash from doing this, but it also skews the results. The implications for using the Internet as a useful data source are interesting. Certainly, we can't be unquestioning consumers of information (and perhaps we never could). Kids in school especially need to be taught information literacy and must learn to question what they see. If you begin your search as an information consumer asking who the source is, what they have to gain from their point of view, if they have corroboration, you'll do well. In fact, I would say learning how to do this will be one of the major skills of the information age. David Reed haradda@aol.com From: Rachel Spungin Subject: Re: 12.0335 WWW manipulations Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:54:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 614 (614) [forwarded message] Iain I remember when I was in the States looking for information on US government encryption policies, the link from the web site nominated by Yahoo as 'government encryption policy' (or something) sent you to the anti-encryption site. I expected to see the bill itself and was taken to a site that slated the bill. I don't think this hijacking did anything for the cause of the pro-encryption people. I was more annoyed that I didn't receive the information I expected to. Rachel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson Subject: Position: Computer-assisted Writing Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:43:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 615 (615) English Composition and Rhetoric. Full-time position starting August 15, 1999, teaching all levels of composition and rhetoric at Dakota State University. Master's degree in English required. Ph.D. in English desired. Tenure track available for candidate with Ph.D. degree. Familiarity with computer-assisted writing essential. Experience teaching computer-assisted composition beyond graduate assistantship highly desired. Responsibilities may also include Acting Writing Director. Salary competitive and based on qualifications and experience. For information about Dakota State University's English program, visit http://www.dsu.edu/departments/liberal/english/ To apply, send letter of application, resume, graduate transcript, and three letters of reference to Dr. Eric Johnson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799; email: JohnsonE@jupiter.dsu.edu; fax: 605-256-5021. Review of applications will begin on February 22, 1999, and review will continue until the position is filled. Disabled applicants are invited to identify any necessary accommodations required in the application process. EOE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Re: 12.0346 basic problems in humanities computing? Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:44:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 616 (616) Just a note to say that your comments were extremely informative and thought provoking. I intend to look more into the interdisciplinary aspect of textual analysis. I am working in both literature and philosophy as co-disciplines at this time. Thank you very much for your insights. Mike Sollars at the University of Missouri at Kansas City From: Francois Lachance Subject: prime primitives Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:44:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 617 (617) Willard, I am wondering if the search for primitives should not begin with the language that contstructs the object of study. I here am reminded of an assertion by William Gass to the effect that "Modern criticism has lived like a shrew upon paraphrase and explanation." There is, and Gass would admit this, pedagogic value to paraphrase and back translation especially if they part of an set of exercises in variation (I have here in mind Erasmus's _De Copia_). I also have in mind a more recent example, "Coda - is it morphin' time?" by David Greetham in Kathryn Sutherland (ed), _Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory_ (Oxford, 1998). Gass, of course goes on to distinguish between art which is concerned with the signifier or, in his terms, the shape and sound of words and communication which is concerned with semantics or, in structralist terms, with the signified. Gass's remarks were collected a little over 40 years ago and even then he recognizes that the distinction upon which this division relies (the physical token --- conceptual type distinction) involves many subtlties. Tokens, types and their transformations. One is tempted to invoke music and mathematics as the template disciplines. But any discipline that asks of its materials "how could they be arranged otherwise" in order to understand how they came to be arranged as they are can serve as the exemplar of method. There does remain the meta-primitive: when is it appropriate to ask the question of the otherwise in order to ascertain the what-might-have-been. This is, of course, to infuse the search for primitives with an ethical dimension -- deontology displaces ontology. It may be a mere aesthetic preference for a time beyond and behind the _what is_. The seminar - the collective working through of questions - may indeed be the most primitive of primitives but then I may be semantically shifting the word, -- Francois "structure, content, format" -- not just nouns -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Julian Morgan Subject: Classics Symposium at Oxford Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:43:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 618 (618) Julian@JPROGS.source.co.uk http://www.source.co.uk/users/jprogs/ 81 High St, Pitsford, Northants, NN6 9AD, United Kingdom Tel (01604) 880119 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: California Digital Library opens Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:42:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 619 (619) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 19, 1999 CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY OPENS <http://www.cdlib.org> [deleted quotation] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, January 19, 1999 CALIFORNIA DIGITAL LIBRARY OPENS The California Digital Library (CDL) opens its public "digital doors" January 20, 1999 by making available an integrated web gateway to digital collections, services and tools at http://www.cdlib.org. When launching CDL's organization in October 1997, University of California President Richard Atkinson described the electronic library as the beginning of "a future when our libraries, at the press of a button, can come to us, wherever we are, whenever we wish." Complementing the physical libraries on the nine campuses of the University of California system, the CDL focuses on selecting, building, managing, preserving, and providing access to shared collections of high-quality digital materials for the University and its partners. Browsing and searching tools at the website provide enhanced access to more than 2,000 electronic journals from major scholarly publishers and information providers such as the Web of Science, JSTOR, the American Chemical Society, Highwire Press, the Association for Computing Machinery, Academic Press, Elsevier, Springer, Kluwer, and many more. More than 3,000 inventories or "finding aids" for special and archival collections throughout the state are also represented, along with dozens of journal abstracting and indexing databases as well as reference databases. Through its "Directory of Collections and Services" the new CDL website provides a single point of entry for access to these collections. It complements the Melvyl® Union Catalog of UC-owned print and non-print material, as well as campus-based catalogs and websites, by directing patrons to a catalog or database search or directly to electronic journals, finding aids, and other digital material. The directory is designed to be collaboratively maintained by staff across the UC system and to allow a "local view" of available digital resources at the user's choice. Specific views, including subject-based views, can also be created for a particular "entrance" to UC shared collections. Using the CDL, a patron using a computer with access to the Internet can digitally discover and view a variety of scholarly information resources. For example, the patron could discover the latest books acquired by UC in mechanical engineering. With a few more mouse clicks, the patron could find a journal on technology and culture, and in many cases link to its full contents. Finally, the same patron in just a few seconds could view an inventory and selected digitized photos of the Golden Gate Bridge in a collection of construction photographs held by the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. The CDL and its partner libraries on each University of California campus are also using digital technologies to enhance sharing of the university's 30-million volume print collection. Debuting with the CDL website is "Request," a new service for UC faculty, graduate students, and staff to request material located anywhere in the nine-campus university system. Authorized users will be able to request materials with a simple click of a web "Request" button. Led by University Librarian Richard Lucier, the CDL not only operates in close collaboration with the UC campuses and their libraries -- it is often described as a "co-library" -- but also collaborates with other California universities and organizations to create and extend access to digital material to UC partners and to the public at large. The Melvyl Union Catalog, the California Periodicals database which lists 863,000 unique titles held in more than 555 libraries, and the Online Archive Of California are freely available to any visitor to the CDL. The CDL is also collaborating with the California State Library to build the Library of California, a digitally constructed library that could eventually link all of the state's public, private, school, and academic libraries -- as well as many of its museums and think tanks -- into one of the world's largest electronic information-sharing networks. "The University of California stands ready to help bring together the talents and resources of the state's colleges and universities and our public libraries with the entrepreneurial energies of the private sector to build these links for sharing information," said President Atkinson. In addition to building these shared collections and services, the CDL plans to apply digital technologies to directly support the university's faculty as they develop new ways to disseminate their scholarship. More information can be found at http://www.cdlib.org/. # # # For additional information on the CDL, please call John Ober, CDL Assistant Director for Education & Communication, (510) 987-0425; or contact him by email at John.Ober@ucop.edu. Additional information about the California Digital Library may be found at the CDL website, http://www.cdlib.org. For information about other UC technology innovations, contact Terry Colvin, Senior Public Information Representative in the UC Office of the President at (510) 987-9198; or contact him by email at terry.colvin@ucop.edu. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: "David L. Gants" Subject: deadline extended: ICCS99 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:24:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 620 (620) [deleted quotation] Dear colleagues, Submission deadline for the 2nd Internaitonal Conference of Cognitive Science is extended, for talk/oral presentations, the new deadline is now 2/20 (Sat.) for poster presentations, the new deadline is now 2/27 (Sat.) because we recently realized that colleagues in our neighborhood countries have not been well informed of the early deadline, which was the end of this month. We encourage you to take advantage of this change and submit the most recent development of your work. Thank you. [material deleted] Naomi Miyake Program Chair, ICCS'99 [material deleted] Our web cite is at http://www.sccs.chukyo-u.ac.jp/ICCS99/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ACL'99 and EACL'99 REMINDERS Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:26:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 621 (621) -------- The deadline for receipt of submissions to be considered for presentation at ACL99 at the University of Maryland in June is fast approaching: in particular, general session papers and thematic session papers are due by 25th January 1999. Please see the conference web site for submission information: http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99 Robert Dale Ken Church -------- Final Reminder: EACL '99 Submission deadline is 1999/1/18 Please note that the deadline for receipt of submissions to be considered for presentation at EACL '99 in Bergen in June is very soon: Normal session papers, student session papers and poster and demo sessions are all due by the end of 18 January 1999 (that's 2400 GMT on 18 January 1999). See the calls for papers for submission information: Normal, poster and demo sessions: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/call-for-papers.html Student session: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/eacl99-student/ Henry S. Thompson Alex Lascarides From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP - Education in Language and Speech Technology Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:27:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 622 (622) [deleted quotation] EACL-99 University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 12th June 1999 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER AND INTERNET SUPPORTED EDUCATION IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS _________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Our field is such that curricula have always been closely related to computational theories and related tools. However, the tools that are available are often no more than unrefined versions of programs developed in research laboratories that authors have generously made available to the public. Consequently, the relationship between available tools and the goals of Education in Language and Speech Technology (ELST) is, more often than not, a casual one that individual course designers may seek to strengthen by, for example, adapting the functionality of the tools themelves, the user interface, the context in which they are presented, etc. In other cases, computatational tools are specially developed to suit the needs of particular courses. Given the number of courses in existence whose aims are basically rather similar, it is reasonable to suppose that a lot of work is being unnecessarily repeated. One of the concrete objectives of this workshop is to establish a registry of computational tools that are currently being used to support ELST. A related aim, is to consider whether it is feasible or desirable to adopt common approaches to the development of tools and environments specifically designed with educational goals in mind. [material deleted] WEBSITE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst CONTACT Michael Rosner e-mail: mros@cs.um.edu.mt From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: 3rd Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:29:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 623 (623) [deleted quotation] The Third International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Batumi, Georgia September 12-16, 1999 First Announcement and Call for Papers In 1999, the Tbilisi International Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, will be held in the Black Sea coast resort Batumi from 12th to 16th of September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech (Tbilisi State University), in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam. The 1999 meeting is the third installment of a series of biannual Symposia. The first meeting was held in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri and the second took place in the capital of Georgia Tbilisi. The Third Symposium is dedicated to the memory of the prominent Georgian logician Shalva Pkhakadze. THEMES The Symposium welcomes papers on current research in all aspects of Linguistics, Logic and Computation, including but not limited to: Natural language semantics/pragmatics Algebraic and relational semantics Natural language processing Logic in AI and natural language Natural language and logic programming Automated reasoning Natural language and databases Information retrieval from text Natural language and internet Constructive logic and modal systems In line with the main trend in this field we strongly encourage the submission of papers concerning applications of logic to computation and the application of logic and computation to language description and modelling. [material deleted] INFORMATION Information on registration and accommodation will appear in future announcements. For more information you may take a look at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/Batumi/ or contact: George Chikoidze Dept. of Language Modelling Inst. of Control Systems Georgian Academy of Sciences 34, K. Gamsakhurdia 380060 Tbilisi Georgia phone: +995 32 382136 fax: +995 32 942391 chiko@contsys.acnet.ge or Ingrid van Loon Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands phone: +31 20 525 6051 fax: +31 20 525 5206 ingrid@wins.uva.nl From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP for I2-DSI Applications Workshop Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:31:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 624 (624) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) Applications Workshop March 4-5, 1999, Chapel Hill, NC (USA) http://dsi.internet2.edu/apps99.html Submission Deadline: 1-Page White Papers: Feb. 5, 1999 (Notification by Feb. 8 of invitations) BACKGROUND The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) project will develop a global platform for delivering reliable, scaleable, high-performance distributed storage services to the academic community. I2-DSI represents an opportunity for application developers to experiment with structured, reliable replication services running on a set of geographically dispersed servers connected to next-generation Internet backbone networks. The I2-DSI architecture replicates digital objects to platforms with WWW (and other) servers and then transparently resolves service requests to ensure that users will access "nearby copies" of digital objects. Since the I2-DSI core manages the replication process and object sharing is made transparent to the end-user, application developers can readily adopt and experiment with the I2-DSI service. This architecture is described in a white paper available at http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mbeck/i2-chan-pub.pdf Under the umbrella of UCAID's Internet2 project (http://www.internet2.edu), I2-DSI is now pursuing a full implementation of the initial architecture, including academic developers with their applications, and industrial sponsorship valued at over $1.2M in equipment and $150K+ in development funding. Corporate sponsors include a broad spectrum of companies in all areas of networking and computer systems (see list of sponsors below). For the initial testbed, IBM servers with ~1 TB of storage and 1 GB RAM are currently being installed at high-speed backbone access points in North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, South Dakota, and Hawaii. Collaborations with Canadian, European and Japanese networks are under discussion. PURPOSE This workshop will bring together representatives from application development groups who are interested in and/or have experimented with providing high-performance access for remote users. The specific objectives of the workshop include: [material deleted] or contact: Dr. Bert J Dempsey School of Information and Library Science (asst professor) Department of Computer Science (adjunct asst professor) CB 3360, 205 Manning Hall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360 Email: dempsey@cs.unc.edu Web: http://www.ils.unc.edu/~bert/ Phone: 919-962-8066 Fax: 919-962-8071 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: ESSLLI Workshop Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:32:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 625 (625) [deleted quotation][material deleted] [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: REVISED DATES FOR ASA2000 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:32:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 626 (626) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleague, We have only just discovered that the original dates for ASA2000 Conference (26-29 March) will clash with the annual Bar Association Conference also to be held at SOAS. We would therefore be grateful if you would make a note in your diaries that the revised dates for ASA2000 are now Sunday 2nd (evening) - Wednesday, 5th April inclusive - still at SOAS, London. Our apologies for any inconvenience - this was due to factors beyond our control. Best wishes, Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe, Johan Pottier. Message from: Alan Bicker, Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Eliot College, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NS, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1227 823686 (Direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax: +44 (0)1227 827289 Email: a.bicker@ukc.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Harold Short Subject: DRH99 announcement Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:34:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 627 (627) PLEASE CIRCULATE / POST ======================= DRH 99 : Digital Resources for the Humanities The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a forum that brings together scholars, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities. The DRH99 conference will take place at King's College London 12-15 September 1999. Proposals for academic papers, themed panel sessions, posters, demos and workshops are invited. Deadlines are: Papers and panels : 8 March 99 Posters and demos : 29 March 99 Workshops : 29 March 99. Full details and submission forms may be found at: http://drh.org.uk ---------------------- Harold Short Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Tel: +44 (0)171 873 2739 Fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Fwd: I am so relieved Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:25:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 628 (628) [deleted quotation] "Rabbi Puts the Word Out" (IsraelWire-1/15-09:15-IST) A leading Orthodox rabbi has ruled that the word "God" may be erased from a computer screen or disk, because the pixels do not constitute real letters. Rabbi Moshe Shaul Klein published his ruling this week in a computer magazine aimed at Orthodox Jews, "Mahsheva Tova." Klein was responding to a question from a reader who was unsure whether the ban on erasing the variations on the word "God" applied to computers. The rabbi, prominent in ultra-Orthodox circles in the Tel-Aviv suburb of Bnei Brak, ruled that the letters may be erased. "The letters on a computer screen are an assemblage of pixels, dots of light, what have you," said Yosef Hayad, the rabbi's assistant. "Even when you save it to disk, it's not like you're saving anything more than a sequence of ones and zeroes," Hayad said. According to Jewish law, printed matter with the word -- "Elohim" ("God") in Hebrew, and its manifestations in any other language -- must be stored, or ritually buried. The existence of the magazine -- a pun that means both "Good Computer" and "Worthy Thinking" -- reflects the growing incursion of modern implements into the world of the ultra-Orthodox. (AP) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Job Announcement: Scholars Press Technology Director Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:32:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 629 (629) [deleted quotation] TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR THE CONSORTIUM: Scholars Press, a not-for-profit center for scholarly communication located on the campus of Emory University, serves the fields of religion, theology, biblical studies, classics, ancient near eastern history, and archaeology. It services a member base of 25,000 and publishes 100 plus book titles and 18 journals annually. Its major learned society partners are the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the American Philological Association. A new center for the study of religion has just been completed which provides state-of-the-art systems for communication and work, The Luce Center, comprising 24,000 square feet of office and meeting space. SUMMARY: The Scholars Press Consortium, a 22 member partnership of academic organizations in the humanities, seeks a chief information officer to provide leadership for the development and application of technology programs for the Consortium. The Technology Director is responsible for the management, development and direction of technology programs and projects for SP and for the technology services provided to member organizations. Work of the Director will encompass leadership in developing technology programs for the Consortium and the in-house application of technology to provide enhanced sponsor and member services. The Technology Director reports to the Director of the Press. CONSITUTENT RELATIONS: The Technology Director will serve as the principal staff liaison in technology matters to the sponsoring organizations, seek to improve the electronic delivery of services to members of the organizations, and lead the effort to significantly improve and expand the Association's use of the Internet by developing, managing and directing efforts to provide a significant array of services via the Internet. IN-HOUSE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION: The Technology Director will be responsible for the management and application of technologies by the SP staff with a server environment including a 50+-station LAN (Novell), Unix, Oracle, multi-platform clients, and other network-based services, Internet access, E-mail, desktop PCs and software. SP is currently in the process of developing a web-enabled integrated database which will provide transparent linkage to all of its database activities. Responsible for strategic and tactical planning, cost estimates and budgeting for IT services, s/he will establish specific goals and schedules, supervise a current team of three technology specialists, and assess and manage resources. The Technology Director will relate closely to the member services, publications, and accounting departments. QUALIFICATIONS: The ideal candidate will have strong managerial and consultative skills and the ability to communicate priorities, schedules, and the status of current projects to a non-technical audience. A humanities computing background and familiarity with SGML/XML is a plus. An understanding of and familiarity with not-for-profit (or small-business) IT environments, development of web-based services as well as strong written and verbal communications skills are essential. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS: Compensation will be commensurate with experience and background. The SP Consortium offers a highly competitive benefits package including medical and dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, a retirement plan with TIAA/CREF, vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, direct deposit of payroll, and a very pleasant work environment. SP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. INTERESTED CANDIDATES should fax, e-mail or mail a resume, cover letter and salary requirements to: The Director, Scholars Press, P.O. Box 15399, Atlanta, GA 30333; fax 404-727-2348, E-Mail hgilmer@emory.edu FOR MORE INFORMATION: Visit TELA, the consortium web site at http://shemesh.scholar.emory.edu. Jimmy Adair Director, ATLA Center for Electronic Texts in Religion (Former ITS Manager, Scholars Press) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ATLA Appointment Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:27:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 630 (630) [deleted quotation] PRESS RELEASE The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. James R. Adair, Jr. to the position of Director of the ATLA Center for Electronic Texts in Religion (ATLA CETR). CETR is a research and development division of ATLA developed by the Association in collaboration with and located at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Initially, Dr. Adair will serve as Project Director for ATLA's journal digitization project ATLAS. Dr. Adair holds the Ph.D. (Old Testament) and M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX. He has earned the M.A. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies) and Honors B.A. (Semitic Languages and Cultures) from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. His B.S. (Computer and Information Science) is from Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. Dr. Adair served as Manager of Information Technology Services for Scholars Press, Atlanta, GA, from 1994-1998. Since 1996 he has taught at Mercer University, Mason, GA, as an adjunct professor. The American Theological Library Association welcomes Dr. James R. Adair, Jr. to his new post January 1, 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Fellowships Deadline Announcement Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:24:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 631 (631) [deleted quotation] NEH Fellowships, 2000-2001 Deadline: May 1, 1999 The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the competition for 2000-2001 NEH Fellowships. These Fellowships provide opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced research in the humanities. Applicants may be faculty members of colleges and universities, staff members of colleges and universities, or faculty and staff members of primary and secondary schools. Scholars and writers working independently or in institutions such as museums, libraries, and historical associations, or in institutions with no connection to the humanities, also are eligible to apply. Projects supported by NEH Fellowships may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities. Such work might eventually produce scholarly articles; a monograph on a specialized subject; a site report; a translation, an edition, or a database; or another scholarly tool. CITIZENSHIP: Applicants should be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have been legal residents in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least three years immediately preceding the application deadline. ELIGIBILITY: Scholars affiliated with institutions granting the Ph.D. in the subject area of the project should apply to the Fellowships for University Teachers Program. Scholars affiliated with institutions not granting the Ph.D. in the subject area of the project should apply to the Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars Program. Applicants whose professional training includes a degree program must have received their degrees or completed all official requirements for them by the application deadline. Persons seeking support for work leading toward a degree are not eligible to apply, nor are active candidates for degrees. Further information on the two programs is available in the printed guidelines and on the Endowment's web site: <http://www.neh.gov> TENURE AND STIPENDS: Tenure must cover an uninterrupted period of from six to twelve months. The earliest beginning date is January 1, 2000, and the latest is the start of the spring term of the 2000-2001 academic term, or April 1, 2001 for those who are not teachers. Tenure periods for teachers must include at least one complete term of the academic year. A stipend of $30,000 will be awarded to those holding fellowships for a grant period of nine to twelve months. A stipend of $24,000 will be awarded to those holding fellowships for a grant period of six to eight months. SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION: All applications must be postmarked on or before May 1, 1999. Please note that the Endowment does not accept applications submitted by fax or e-mail. Applicants will be notified of the decisions on their applications by mid-December 1999. APPLICATION MATERIALS AND INFORMATION : Web: <http://www.neh.gov> Fellowships for University Teachers E-mail: fellowsuniv@neh.gov Phone: 202-606-8466 Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars E-mail: fellowscollind@neh.gov Phone: 202-606-8467 Mail inquiries: NEH Fellowships, Room 318 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N. W. Washington, D.C. 20506 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 1999 Deadlines for NEH Education Grants Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:27:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 632 (632) [deleted quotation] 1999 DEADLINE DATES FOR NEH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT & DEMONSTRATION GRANTS The National Endowment for the Humanities supports school teachers and college faculty in the United States who wish to strengthen the teaching and learning of history, literature, foreign languages and cultures, and other areas of the humanities. The Education Development and Demonstration Program offers the following programs: *National Education Projects* Includes materials development projects, curricular development and demonstration projects, and dissemination projects of national scope and significance. Application deadline: October 15, 1999 Funding available: up to $250,000 total for three years *Humanities Focus Grants* Propose a study of a humanities topic during the summer or academic year with colleagues from your school building, school district, college or university. Application deadline: April 15, 1999 Funding available: up to $25,000 *Schools for A New Millennium* A special initiative to enable schools, in partnership with colleges and communities, to design professional development activities integrating digital technology into the humanities classroom. Application deadlines: Planning Grants- April 1, 1999 Implementation Grants: October 1, 1999 Funding available: Planning Grants- up to $30,000, Implementation Grants- up to $200,000 For more information about these grant opportunities, or if you have ideas about developing a project, please write or call: Education Development and Demonstration Division of Research and Education Programs National Endowment for the Humanities, Room 318 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20506 Phone: 202/606-8380 FAX: 202/606-8394 e-mail: education@neh.gov TDD (for hearing impaired only) 202/606-8282 Guidelines and application forms may be retrieved from the NEH World Wide Web site: http://www.neh.gov (under Applying for a Grant, Application Forms) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Prime primitives Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:35:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 633 (633) The search for primitives is greatly complicated by the complexity of language and semiotics, which have so much data that it is mind-boggling to get a handle on it. As a result, we are left with speculators (great philosophers and AI types) who advance their positions. Today, quite wonderfully, we have a profusion of ontologists, who are laying out their own individual carvings-up of the world. Their very plethora advances our thinking, because now we must find out how to deal with so many world orderings. I think we must follow Eugene Nida in recognizing that an ontology is a matter of perspective, and you can slice it in whatever way is appropriate for the task at hand. What I believe is that the slicing reflects the characteristics of each concept, not just its lexicalization or verbalization. The more we populate our concepts with their components and other properties, the more we will be able to home in on the primitives. But, we won't find atoms, but entities that only have meaning in their manner of relating to one another. And we still have the problem of conveying by Internet (as Robert Amsler often says to me) primitives of smell, touch, and taste. 'Tis a delightful exercise. Ken -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-482-0237 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 9208 Gue Road Damascus, MD 20872-1025 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: linguistically interesting Web sites? Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:33:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 634 (634) I would be grateful for nominations of Web sites that from a linguistic point of view use language in ways which most effectively exploit the characteristics of the electronic medium. If we adapt our writing to the medium, how is our actual use of language changed? Do our sentences become shorter? more colloquial? tend to become fragmented into list items? What about paragraphs? How, if at all, is syntax affected? Does our vocabulary tend to change, and if so, how? I would appreciate knowing what kinds of questions that it makes sense to ask, as well as answers to any of the above that are worth answering. 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Internet Grammar of English Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:33:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 635 (635) [deleted quotation] The Survey of English Usage, University College London, is pleased to announce the release of the Internet Grammar of English. The Internet Grammar is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. The approach is broadly traditional, though we have made use, where appropriate, of modern theoretical work. The grammar course consists of the following main sections: Word Classes Introducing Phrases Clauses & Sentences Form & Function Functions in Phrases Within these sections, the course is designed as a series of linked topics. Most topics contain interactive exercises, which provide immediate feedback based on the answers submitted. Some topics are illustrated using JavaScript animations. The Internet Grammar is fully searchable, and it includes a comprehensive Glossary of grammatical terms and an Index. The Internet Grammar is now available at this address: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/ To avoid potentially long download times, the Internet Grammar is also available on CD-ROM. Prices start at 25 Pounds Sterling (GBP) + VAT, where applicable. Institutional and network versions are charged at different rates. For full details, visit the website above, or email the Survey of English Usage at ucleseu@ucl.ac.uk. With apologies for cross-postings. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Survey of English Usage Department of English University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK Telephone: 0171-419-3119 Marie Gibney (Administrator) 0171-419-3120 SEU Research Unit Email: ucleseu@ucl.ac.uk Fax: 0171-916-2054 From: Merrilee Proffitt Subject: Suffragists oral histories now available online Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:33:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 636 (636) New TEI-based collection now available! In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, collected interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's suffrage movement. Tape-recorded and transcribed oral histories preserved the memories of these remarkable women, documenting formative experiences, activities to win the right to vote for women, and careers as leaders of the movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Now, 25 years later, the nineteenth century meets the twenty-first as the words of these activist women, born from the 1860s to the 1890s, are made accessible for future scholarly research and public information via the Internet. Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented here with full-length oral histories. These include Alice Paul, founder and leader of the more militant organization called the National Woman's Party, which made suffrage a mainstream issue through public demonstrations and protests; Sara Bard Field, a mother, lover, poet, and social and political reformer, whose interactions with California artists and political activists gave her a national profile; Burnita Shelton Matthews, a District of Columbia federal judge; Helen Valeska Bary, who campaigned for woman's suffrage in Los Angeles and later had a prominent career in labor and social security administration; Jeannette Rankin, a Montana suffrage campaigner and the first woman elected to Congress, who recalls Carrie Chapman Catt, the League of Women Voters, and her lifelong work for world peace; Mabel Vernon, who is credited for the advance work of gathering the throngs of people to greet Alice Paul and her entourage on their famous coast-to-coast suffrage campaign in the fall of 1915; and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, who gives an account of working with Alice Paul in organizing the Woman's Party. The oral histories of five rank-and-file suffragists are collected in The Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison, conducted by Sherna Gluck, director of the Feminist History Research Project. These women spoke out for suffrage from horse-drawn wagons and streetcorner soapboxes. Some discussed politics in genteel tea parties, others were arrested for picketing for suffrage in front of the White House. These five interviews represent the diversity of ordinary women who made woman's suffrage a reality, documenting their motivations and ethical convictions, their family, social, and regional backgrounds, and their part in the campaign for women's right to vote. The oral histories are now available online, and we invite you to use them. The address is: http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html From: John Dawson Subject: Earls Colne Project Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:33:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 637 (637) Indexed versions of all the records of the English village Earls Colne from c.1300-1850. Trial version can be accessed via http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk John Dawson From: Michael Fraser Subject: New Software: Concordance 1.0.0 released Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:00:47 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 638 (638) The following announcement might be of interest to some. Rob Watt's own Web concordances, which he constructed for teaching purposes, are at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm. Michael ---------- Concordance 1.0.0 has been released and the unregistered version is available for download from http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ Concordance is an entirely new program for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98 which makes wordlists, concordances, and Web Concordances from electronic texts. Program Features ---------------- You can: -Make full concordances to texts of any size, limited only by available disk space and memory -Make fast concordances, picking your selection of words from text -Make Web Concordances: turn your concordance into linked HTML files, ready for publishing on the Web, with a single click ( You can see the original Web Concordances at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm ) -View a full wordlist, a concordance, and your original text simultaneously -Browse through the original text and click on any word to see the concordance for that word -Edit and re-arrange a wordlist by drag and drop Facilities include: ---------------------------- -Support for many different languages and character sets -User-definable alphabet -User-definable reference system -User-definable contexts -Very flexible search, selection, and sorting criteria -Statistics on your text -Word length chart -Full print preview and printing, with control over page size, margins, headers, footers, fonts etc. -Can save concordances as plain text, as a single HTML file, or as a Web Concordance Other tools are included: ------------------------ -Built-in file viewer can display files of unlimited size -Built-in editor allows fast editing of files up to 16MB -Tools supplied for converting from OEM to ANSI character sets and from Unix to PC files Concordance is fully copyrighted. You may try it out free of charge for thirty days, but if you wish to keep on using it you must register it with the author and pay the registration fee. The unregistered version of Concordance is fully functional. To remind you to register, it will add an 'Unregistered' notice to concordances when you export or print them. For fuller details on registration and licensing, see the web distribution site at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ Fullest details are in the program's help file. ------------------------------------------------------- Rob Watt R.J.C.Watt@dundee.ac.uk University of Dundee http://www.dundee.ac.uk/English/ Home of the Web Concordances ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0357 linguistically interesting Web sites? Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:10:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 639 (639) In response to Willard's query (below), I would suggest many of the projects in the Gallery of the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo (Glazier and Bernstein are especially interesting), as well as the links there to other sites such as UbuWeb: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/gallery/ Also -- with due humility -- I would suggest a project of my own, a VRML installation entitled "Lucid Mapping and Codex Transformissions in the Z-Buffer": http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/lucid/ There's a great deal of experimental writing going on in various electronic formats, much of it visual or graphical in orientation (as the medium seems to encourage). The sites above offer only a snapshot of this activity. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Department of English Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ From: "Robert E. McDonald" Subject: Re: 12.0357 linguistically interesting Web sites? Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:10:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 640 (640) Willard, Here's a site that seems to answer your first statement of interest, though not your following questions: <http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: First principles Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:10:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 641 (641) If we wish to talk about first things in the humanistic endeavor, we might want to move the previous question as it were and start with concept formation, especially in this age of the computer. I have always maintained that it was I who first said: `The problem is not that computers may come to think like human beings, but rather that human beings may come to think like computers.' First said, who cares, but this is a chiasm of which we see the truth more and more every day. The Aristotelian (yes/no, exclusive either- or, etc.) frisst verheerend um sich, as my old professor used to say, every day. Most of the concepts of the humanities are not, however, Aristotelian and are not amenable to Aristotelian operations; at best they are of the nature of ideal types, and many are stippled spectrum, more-so/less-so, even porous. The questions we ask, however, in my business (philology) are Aristotelian in nature: to what dialect do we assign this poem, what author, what period, what genre, but the concepts `dialect, author, period, genre' are ideal types, and often resist such questions, and much ink is uselessly spilt on them. We know from grammar school that a definition, to hold water, must be _per proximum genus et differentiam vel differentias_, but we do not hesitate to call things definitions which are not amenable to such things (I wax Bushian). In addition to this lack of attention to concept formation and definition, we have the problem of labels. We attach a label to a concept, say _acyrologia_, often ignoring that the concept has other labels attached to it, etc. One sees over and over again that people think this mapping of label onto concept is God-given, and that no other is possible. One calls a spade a spade, an is an is, etc. Arguing over labels is common, fruitless and futile though it is. Next ought to be discussion of mode of argumentation. When I used to teach, I would hand out to the students a list of the medieval _argumenta_, and we would read articles, seeing how many _argumenta ad verecundiam_, for example, we could find. One may be disappointed at the shoddy argumentation on both sides in l'affaire Clinton, but dismay rises when one sees such things in scholarly works. We ought to be proud that the humanities works with non-Aristotelian concepts; someone has to; but we ought to be careful in so doing. ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jan Rybicki Subject: Teaching reasources Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:09:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 642 (642) I am interested in your proposals for the best "SITES WHICH DEMONSTRATE THE INTERACTIVE USE OF WEBSITES FOR TEACHING & LEARNING", to quote my collaboration manager's request. Any ideas and URL's out there? Jan Rybicki ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Claudia Calori Subject: WWW Searchengine Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:11:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 643 (643) I would like to introduce a short essay about searchengines and how they index Web pages at the URL http://www.lettere.unipd.it/~towanda/ (in Italian) Claudia Calori Padua University Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: argumenta Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:58:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 644 (644) Having received a large number (2) of private requests for the list of argumenta, I thought I might send it to the whole list. Be prepared to use the delete button. This is a handout for a privatissimum on argumentation. It is mostly based on my misspent Tennessee youth, where we had to learn them in "forensics". They are useful for watching congressional debates. In fact, I add a new one: argumentum ad nuntium `argument to the message'. If we x or fail to x, what kind of message are we sending out to the youth of America? INTERESTING NAMES FOR INTERESTING FALLACIES The Argumenta. Many of the material fallacies have fancy medieval names beginning with argumentum ad ... They are all arguments not to the thing, not argumenta ad rem, but to something other than the matter being debated. argumentum ad baculum - argument to the stick - appeal to force. argumentum ad crumenam - argument to the purse - appeal to money. argumentum ad hominem - argument to the man. argumentum ad misericordiam - appeal to pity. argumentum ad ignorantiam - argument to ignorance - use of information either unknown or to which the other cannot be privy. argumentum ad verecundiam - argument to awe or custom. argumentum ad populum - argument to the populace, sometimes called argumentum ad captandum vulgus - argument to capture the vulgar mass. argumentum ad judicem - argument to the judge - getting on the judge's good side. ipse dixit - he himself said - appeal to authority. tu quoque - you (did it) too - two wrongs don't make a right. non sequitur - it does not follow - irrelevant argument. Note that new argumenta occur over and over again and are ad hoc(ked) on the spur of the moment. argumentum ad hoc - ad hoc argument - argument made up to cover only the particular case at hand. argumentum ad convenientiam - argument to convenience - if we did x we could not do y. a fortiori - if x, all the more y. argumentum a contrario - argument from the contrary - used in general to indicate a contradictio in adjecto - a self-contradictory argument - e. g. "all generalizations are false." cui bono? - to what good - the "So what?" argument argumentum ad exemplum - argument to the example - arguing against a particular example cited rather than the question itself. Extremely common at scholarly meetings. cadit quaestio - the question falls - poorly posed question. argumentum ad veritatem obfuscandam - obfuscatory argument - bringing up multiple irrelevant arguments. accident - arguing from the general to the specific without taking into consideration extenuating circumstances. converse accident - hasty generalization. non causa pro causa - a common medieval locution for post hoc ergo propter hoc - arguing that one thing is the cause of another merely on he basis of temporal sequence. petitio principii - question begging argument, a mere restatement of the argument in other terms, sometimes called circulus vitiosus or argumentum in circulo complex question - two things asked at once, the request to the judge being to "split the question." ignoratio elenchi - irrelevant conclusion - coming to a conclusion other than that proposed or ignoring extenuating circumstances. equivocatio - using a word sometimes in one meaning, sometimes in another. amphiboly - making use of an ambiguous grammatical construction. accent - changing the original emphasis - also frequently applied to the misuse of words unfamiliar to the audience. "Some dogs are spotted; my dog is spotted; my dog is SOME dog." composition - arguing from each to all. division - what is true of the whole is true of each of the parts - all to each. Also usable: arriere pensee, bromide, captious, chicanery, casuistry, cavil, cum grano salis, gullible, lapsus calami, lapsus linguae, logic- chopping, logomachy, malapropos, parthian shot, pecksniffery, pettifog, quibble, retort courteous (As You Like It). It is interesting to make up new ones, along the lines of scholasticism: argumentum ad lunam - (commonly heard these days) "It looks like a country which could put a man on the moon could ..." I warn you that these are dangerous. In our non-Latin-speaking world, you can win an argument by saying, "I see that the learned gentleman is making use of the argumentum more Luciae," or the argumentum ad nonnisi ad nauseam, or some such. I leave you with the argumentum ad meridiem. An American is admiring the marvelous paintings in the metro in Moscow. After a while, he remarks to his host: "I haven't noticed any trains coming through," which elicits the answer: "Oh yeah? How about the South?" Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Incidentally, adding to my anecdote of the other week... Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 23:00:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 645 (645) there was a horrific news story in Friday's LA Times, I believe, probably accessible on the Web. All about "cyber-stalkers," which is all about terror, rape and murder. The piece centered on one poor your going mad and destroyed woman, whose email address was put up by a cyberstalker in his 50s, who keeps changing his services and all that subterfuge, as one of those Personal Ads, "I want to be tied up, I want to be raped, tortured, etc." and in the shortness of time a dozen men showed up rapping at her door, and not tapping like ravens either! She has moved out, lost weight from 135lbs to 90 and hidden at her mother's. This, in LA, I believe. There are many more cases like this cropping up, where women are fingered by a cyber stalker, and other men pursue her, under the mistaken idea, or obsession, that she wants to be a victim of this or that. It seems like a growing and awful phenomenon. Imagine, if one's nutty colleague, say, wanted to vex one to death: all that is necessary is some anonymous posting saying that one is waiting to be hit, etc. We are entering the Millenium of the Living Ghouls, I fear. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 12.0361 linguistically interesting Web sites Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:55:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 646 (646) With due humility, I think that my web sites relating to linguistic seminars I teach might be of some interest, above all the ones which exploit possibilities of TactWeb; check through what you find under: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm Comments/critique/questions are most wellcome Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PD Drin. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm Editor of: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/DRV/home.html From: Einat Amitay Subject: Re: linguistically interesting Web sites? Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:57:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 647 (647) Hi, [deleted quotation] I think my MSc dissertation would be of interest to you since it discusses the language conventions which emerge on the web by analysing a large collection (1000) of web pages. The conclusions try to address exactly the questions you introduced. Amitay E. (1997). Hypertext - The importance of being different. MSc Dissertation, Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland. Also Technical Report No. HCRC/RP-94. The dissertation can be found in both PDF and PS formats on my web page: http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~einat/ under the publication section. +:o) einat -- Einat Amitay einat@mri.mq.edu.au http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~einat ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Garvin Tate Subject: Re: 12.0360 teaching on WWW? Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:56:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 648 (648) We have a good example of using interactive Web resources for teaching and learning at www.humanities-interactive.org . This project is sponsored by the Texas Council for the Humanities and funded in part by NEH. Garvin Tate Digital Arts Consulting From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Re: 12.0360 teaching on WWW? Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:57:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 649 (649) Dear Jan Rybicki and fellow humanists Let me blow my own trumpet a bit. Here at CSAC we are producing a large amount of teaching material that is distributed via WWW. Among this are online archives of fieldnotes and the monographs based on them http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/TVillage/ As part of the Experience Rich Anthropology project we have related chains of articles and some field data which can be analysed in the light of those arguments http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ERA/Ancestors there is an interactive mambila "riddle machine" in which you can partially expereince the delights of Mambila riddles (and read ana rticle about african riddling) - soon to have sound files added (no frames works best at present) http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ERA/Riddle/riddle.html and most recently there is the online Mambila Spider divination in which you can ask hard and obscure questions to a java based simulation of this system as well as reading articles about its sociological and conceptual importance! http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ERA/Divination/ a catalogue of other material - such as the history of display at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford - can be found at http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ERA/pub_cat.html best wishes david Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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: Diane Harley Subject: Re: 12.0360 teaching on WWW? Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:59:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 650 (650) Try these: Top Humanities Sites/NEH http://edsitement.neh.fed.us/websites-lit.htm Online Course Award Winners, Paul Allen Foundation http://www.paulallen.com/foundations/ Not related to top sites, but also of interest to the list: The Sawyer Seminar Program Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization http://humanities.uchicago.edu/sawyer/CSasHS/ In each quarter, comparative perspectives about computing cultures of several regions will be combined with their respective histories of print culture in order to identify and analyze cultural variations. Each quarter's program will invite distinguished lecturers and scholars from abroad and from the U.S. to participate in the bi-weekly workshop and quarterly conference. We plan to compare computer cultures in the U.S. with a selection of nations/regions: Brazil, Japan, Russia, Scandinavia. Each presents a distinct cultural, linguistic, political, and economic profile, as well as a different experience with computerization. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: White House Proposal: Information Technology for the 21st Century Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:24:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 651 (651) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 25, 1998 WHITE HOUSE PROPOSES 28 PERCENT INCREASE IN I.T. RESEARCH Although the implications of this proposal are at present unclear on arts and humanities I.T. applications, I thought I would forward the full text of the White House announcement of the proposal to increase Information Technology spending by 28%. This proposal is in part a response to the report last fall from the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 www-ninch.cni.org david@cni.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0884 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . From: David Green Subject: COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS RESUME WITH CAA MEETING Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:24:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 652 (652) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 26, 1999 COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS RESUME WITH CAA MEETING Thursday, February 11 (12:30-2pm): Los Angeles Convention Center The Copyright/Fair Use Town Meetings resume with the first of the 1999 series taking the form of a series of questions-and-answers on the application of copyright law to teaching, scholarship and publishing. The impact of the recent spate of copyright-related legislation will sure to be a major element of this session. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0367 evil use of e-mail Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:25:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 653 (653) sorry for the hasty, bad typing, or keyboarding, is it? It should have read, "one poor young going mad and destroyed woman...." Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: The binary is not other... Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:25:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 654 (654) Willard, I am provoked by a recent posting to Humanist by Jim Marchand to distinguish between the digital and the binary. He did draw attention to the importance of labels and argumentation. x The binary (I/O) builds the digital. From rudimentary finger counting to random number generation, a computer, human or machine, operates by manipulating sequences. The digital works at the level of sequences. xx The thresholds implied by "more or less" can be generated by stochastic means. For example the time out idle that triggers auto shut off switches can be set by a singel predetermined value or randomly selected from a range of values. xxx Thresholds are representabel by sequences of negations [deleted quotation] http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "R.G. Siemens" Subject: CFP (ACH at the MLA, 1999): The 'New' Computer-Assisted Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:29:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 655 (655) Literary Criticism: What Does it Look Like? What Will it Look Like? [x-posted; please re-distribute, & please excuse duplication] The 'New' Computer-Assisted Literary Criticism: What Does it Look Like? What Will it Look Like? A session sponsored by the Association for Computing and the Humanities at the 1999 meeting of the Modern Language Association This panel will explore computer-assisted literary criticism in a context which, though dependent upon earlier conceptions of what the computer can bring to literary criticism and scholarship, ultimately is situated in the present and looks toward the future. Topics may include, but need not be limited to, the following: [1] examinations of ways in which critical discourses facilitated by the computer have a significant, and will continue to have an increasing, presence in contemporary critical culture; [2] explorations of ways that the discourse of computing has and/or will have a significant place, explicitly or implicitly, in many approaches to literary studies; and [3] considerations of the underpinnings of the increasingly interdependent relationship between extant literary critical discourses and humanities computing theory and practice. Paper proposals or completed papers for consideration to be sent by February 15 to: Ray Siemens Department of English U of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca Additional details to be posted, as they arise, at http://www.ualberta.ca/~rgs3/mla99-cfp.htm>. ____ R.G. Siemens Department of English, U of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. T6G 2E5. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html wk. phone: (403) 492-7833 fax: (403) 492-8142 e-mail: Raymond.Siemens@UAlberta.ca www homepage: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/R_G_Siemens.htm *** January 1 - May 1, 1999: c/o Department of English, University of British Columbia, #397 - 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. V6T 1Z1. phone: (604) 734-8429 fax: (604) 822-6906 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Margaret Graver Subject: Re: 12.0366 argumenta ad risum Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:28:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 656 (656) Those humanists who are also Latinists should note that cui bono is incorrectly rendered here: this is the double-dative construction always missed by students; best rendering would be something like "who benefits?" "So what"? is not bad either. Margaret Graver At 11:01 PM 1/25/1999 +0000, you wrote: [deleted quotation][deleted material] [deleted quotation] [deleted material] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson Subject: Teaching on WWW Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:24:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 657 (657) HUMANIST members might be interested in reading my article about teaching on the WWW: "The World Wide Web, Computers, and Teaching Literature." It is on the Web at: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/webprof.html --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Dawson Subject: Elta Working Paper JLD-1 Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:26:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 658 (658) ELTA Software Initiative [The Elta Software Initiative is a collaborative effort to encourage and support the development of software tools for the analysis, retrieval and manipulation of electronic texts. Our focus (at least initially) is on tools to support the needs of the humanities computing community, but we hope our results are useful for anyone interested in computer processing of texts marked up with SGML and XML. See web sites http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/elta (Europe) and http://www.cse.fau.edu/~tom/elta (USA)] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Working Paper JLD-1: Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This paper is also available at http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1/elta/jld-1.html As there is no defined structure for discussing the requirements for new text-handling software packages, I thought I would begin by working through the OCP (Oxford Concordance Program) commands. Many of those commands are, of course, specific to producing and printing (on a line-printer) various types and layouts of concordance and index, but they serve to bring up important points. In a way, this is like returning to first principles: certainly if the OCP project were starting now, we would do things differently, but in that case the important question is "Why?" I was consulted right from the beginning of the original OCP project in 1977; much of my advice was heeded, some was not. Several aspects of OCP which make it difficult (in some cases impossible) to use for particular purposes are clearly the result of time and programming language constraints (OCP was originally coded, for very good reasons, in Fortran), rather than of conscious decisions. These I shall address in detail here. For those unfamiliar with the general structure of OCP commands, an outline follows, with a note of the Working Paper in which I shall discuss each section. Paper JLD-2 Input Comments References Select Text Paper JLD-3 Words Alphabet Compress Diacritics Ignore Padding Punctuation Paper JLD-4 Action Contexts sorted by Do Headwords Keep frequency Keys sorted by Include Maximum context Pick Prefixes References Sample Suffixes Paper JLD-5 Format Context Headwords Layout Print References Titles ------------------------------------- Last modified 26 January 1999 and posted to Humanist and Elta by John Dawson, University of Cambridge JLD1@cam.ac.uk From: Willard McCarty Subject: method in text-analysis Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:29:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 659 (659) I have prepared a brief guide to methodology in elementary text-analysis for 1st-year undergraduates here at King's College London. It is currently in draft form, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/year1/method.html>. Comments would be appreciated. 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Ergo's ATIS results Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:28:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 660 (660) As part of the parsing contest we posted a couple of weeks ago in which we challenged members of the academic and industrial NLP community to meet or beat our parsing results on 100 sentences in the areas of basic grammatical analysis, navigation and control and question and answer repartee, we have just posted our results on the ATIS (Air Travel Industry Sentences) sentences for the standards and tasks of that contest. Refer to our web page at http://www.ergo-ling.com for the contest details, our results on the 100 sentences for that contest and the ATIS sentences parsed as to the requirements of the contest. Again we would be happy to post results from IBM, Microsoft, Stanford, MIT or any of the smaller companies and universities who would like to participate in this contest for either the specific 100 sentences of the contest or for the ATIS sentences. Contest results will be posted at the end of March or early April, but we will post all entrants on our web site as soon as they arrive. We are especially interested in seeing the ATIS results from other companies and universities. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, President Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 tel:(808)539-3920 fax:(880)539-3924 Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: BEST PRACTICES: New LITA publications on digital imaging Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:31:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 661 (661) and metadata NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 28, 1999 NEW LIBRARY & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION (LITA) PUBLICATIONS: "DIGITAL IMAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS: A Practical Approach to Workflow Design and Project Management" "GETTING MILEAGE OUT OF METADATA: Applications for the Library." <http://www.lita.org/litapubs/index.html> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www-ninch.cni.org david@ninch.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: Gregory Rice Subject: Re: 12.0370 binary not other Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:29:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 662 (662) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] Binary systems were adopted for their simple, direct representation by electromechanical "open" and "closed" circuits (On and Off), now electronic rahther than electromechanical. The base 10 counting system is the one employed at the typical end-user of computers, but hexadecimal systems and others have been employed in digital systems as well. Multiple "speed" bicycles are digital. Discrete levels of operation, a singel gear for a specific ratio of gears per inch (or whatever measure you care to apply). Greg From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: 12.0372 the Double-Dative Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:30:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 663 (663) [deleted quotation] I am not sure here (I am not a Latinist, though a Roman), but "who benefits" isn't the translation of "cui prodest?" From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: 12.0364 how computers can change your prose Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:30:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 664 (664) [deleted quotation] I wrote my "Laurea" thesis (1994) on 'the influence of computers on writing'. I took three published Italian publishers and studied how their prose has (or has not) changed when they started writing with a computer. An English abstract of this research is available at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/case_st.htm More information is available upon request, and the abstract is linked to online portions of the original work (in Italian, I am afraid). Domenico Fiormonte ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 12.0360 teaching on WWW? Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:29:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 665 (665) Are you aware of sources I can look at to get an initial impression of courses taught through web sites? thank you. Mike Sollars From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: New NLP Books Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:30:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 666 (666) After returning from the LSA conference in Los Angeles I was a little dismayed at the almost total lack of new books (publication late 98 or early 99) in NLP. I believe that of the two or three book publishers who were there, there was only one new title in NLP. Could readers post to me any newly published or soon to be published books in this very important area of linguistics? I will post a summary to the list. I would like references to new books dealing with NLP from statistical or other approaches. I am especially interested in books which talk about improvements to navigation and control devices (particularly with commercially available speech products), searching databases and the Internet, and question and answer dialoging systems, but I would like to have as thorough a biblio- ography of new works in NLP as possible. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite #175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel:(808)539-3921 Fax:(808)539-3924 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Modeling and Simulating Conversations Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:32:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 667 (667) [deleted quotation] *********************************************************************** Nos sinc=E8res excuses, si vous recevez plusieurs copies de ce message Merci de diffuser ce message aux personnes de votre entourage qui pourraient =EAtre int=E9ress=E9es par cette annonce *********************************************************************** Annonce de la parution au printemps 1999 du livre ANALYSE ET SIMULATION DE CONVERSATIONS: DE LA TH=C9ORIE DES ACTES DE DISC= OURS AUX SYSTEMES MULTIAGENTS Textes rassembl=E9s par B. Moulin, S. Delisle et B. Chaib-draa Vous pouvez b=E9n=E9ficier d'un tarif sp=E9cial jusqu'au 28 f=E9vrier 199= 9 Le livre est imprim=E9 par la maison d'=E9dition L'Interdisciplinaire de = Lyon en France. Il doit para=EEtre au printemps de 1999. L'=E9diteur vous offr= e un tarif sp=E9cial de lancement de 185 Francs Fran=E7ais (ou 53 $ canadiens)= sous la forme d'un bulletin de souscription =E0 renvoyer avec votre paiement a= vant le 28 f=E9vrier 1999. En retour l'=E9diteur vous enverra le nombre d'ouvr= ages que vous aurez command=E9s d=E8s la parution du livre au printemps 1999. Si vous ne tirez pas parti de cette offre sp=E9ciale et que vous d=E9cidi= ez plus tard d'acheter le livre, il vous en co=FBtera 250 FF (ou 73 $ canadiens), prix grand public. Alors si l'ouvrage vous int=E9resse, n'h=E9sitez pas! Commandez le tout d= e suite! Pour plus de renseignements sur l'ouvrage (dont en particulier les r=E9su= m=E9s des chapitres, l'affiliation des auteurs, les modalit=E9s de souscription= ) et le moyen de l'obtenir, consulter la page web : http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~moulin/an.liv.conv.html ************************************************************************ PRESENTATION GENERALE DU LIVRE Ce livre est une contribution faite au vaste champ de recherche et d'applications potentielles qui couvre les conversations entre personnes = et entre machines et les interactions entre agents logiciels. Une contributi= on d'un groupe multidisciplinaire de France et du Qu=E9bec rassemblant des sp=E9cialistes en philosophie du langage, en psychologie, en informatique linguistique et en intelligence artificielle. Voici une pr=E9sentation succinte de son contenu. Chapitre 1 : Analyse et mod=E9lisation des discours: des conversations humaines aux interactions entre agents logiciels B. Moulin, S. Delisle et B. Chaib-draa pr=E9sentent une revue de litt=E9r= ature des principales recherches sur les conversations qui ont =E9t=E9 r=E9alis= =E9es en philosophie du langage en sociologie, en intelligence artificielle et en linguistique informatique. Ils tracent des voies possibles d'int=E9gratio= n de ces recherches et de leurs impacts potentiels sur la technologie des agen= ts logiciels. Chapitre 2 : La Structure logique des dialogues intelligents D. Vanderveken propose un mod=E8le qui est une contribution aux fondement= s de la logique du discours gr=E2ce =E0 l'analyse de la structure logique et d= es conditions de succ=E8s des conversations que les locuteurs humains sont capables de tenir en vertu de leur comp=E9tence linguistique. L'auteur pr=E9sente notamment une typologie logique des conversations =E0 but disc= ursif et d=E9finit r=E9cursivement l'ensemble des types possibles de telles conversations. Chapitre 3 : Les niveaux d'analyse des ph=E9nom=E8nes communicationnels: S=E9mantique, pragmatique et prax=E9ologie D. Vernant discute de trois niveaux d'analyse des ph=E9nom=E8nes communicationnels: s=E9mantique, pragmatique, prax=E9ologique. Il propose= une approche interactionnelle fond=E9e sur une mod=E9lisation projective des = formes =E9l=E9mentaires d'interaction, ainsi qu'une analyse prax=E9ologique des transactions extra-langagi=E8res qui donnent sens et finalit=E9 aux interactions discursives. Chapitre 4 : Vers un mod=E8le des interactions langagi=E8res A. Nicolle et V. Saint-Dizier De Almeida d=E9veloppent une approche pragmatique et dialogique des interactions langagi=E8res bas=E9e sur la n= otion de valeur interlocutoire- valeur r=E9sultant d'un travail interpr=E9tatif= - qui a fait l'objet d'un consensus. L'objectif est de concevoir un agent logiciel capable de g=E9rer une interaction verbale avec un humain, =E0 l= a mani=E8re d'un humain Chapitre 5 : Une approche multi-agent pour la mod=E9lisation de conversat= ions entre agents artificiels D. Rousseau et B. Moulin proposent une approche multi-agents pour la mod=E9lisation de conversations entre des agents dot=E9s de capacit=E9s d= e compr=E9hension, de raisonnement sur les =E9tats mentaux, de planificatio= n et d'ex=E9cution d'actions non-linguistiques et d'actes de communication. Il= s proposent un mod=E8le de conversation que les agents logiciels peuvent manipuler. Chapitre 6 : Connaissances implicites et sociales : dialogisme des interactions discursives K. Bouzouba et B. Moulin examinent trois aspects des conversations humain= es qui devraient influencer les futurs mod=E8les de communication entre agen= ts logiciels : la manipulation d'informations implicites, le processus de dialogisation et l'importance des relations sociales dans les interaction= s. Chapitre 7, D=E9termination d'actes de dialogue suivant une approche connexionniste N. Colineau et B. Moulin pr=E9sentent comment d=E9terminer dans des dialo= gues authentiques les types d'actes de discours des locuteurs =E0 partir d'ind= ices linguistiques et contextuels. Ces r=E9sultats ont =E9t=E9 obtenus =E0 par= tir de l'analyse de corpus de transcriptions de dialogues oraux orient=E9s-t=E2c= he. Ce travail a conduit au d=E9veloppement d'un analyseur d'actes de discours b= as=E9 sur une approche connexionniste. Ce logiciel est utilis=E9 dans le projet MAREDI pr=E9sent=E9 dans le chapitre suivant. Chapitre 8, Mod=E9lisation du discours dans le projet MAREDI : marqueurs = de surface et analyse syntaxique robuste S. Delisle, B. Moulin, N. Boufaden, M. Gouiaa et N. Colineau pr=E9sentent= le projet MAREDI qui vise =E0 produire un mod=E8le de conversation (tel que pr=E9sent=E9 dans le chapitre 5) =E0 partir de l'analyse de marques de su= rfaces relev=E9es dans des transcriptions de dialogues finalis=E9s. Pour cela, i= ls pr=E9sentent les trois composantes essentielles du syst=E8me: le r=E9seau connexionniste permettant la d=E9termination des types d'actes de discour= s, un analyseur syntaxique robuste des transcriptions de dialogues oraux, et un analyseur s=E9mantique bas=E9 sur une approche casuelle. Chapitre 9, Simuler la conversation : un d=E9fi pour les syst=E8mes multi= -agents C. Brassac et S. Pesty se basent sur une perspective dialogique de l'interlocution pour simuler l'engendrement du sens dans l'interaction langagi=E8re. Ils proposent un mod=E8le de l'intercompr=E9hension qui s'a= ncre dans le paradigme de la communicabilit=E9 et illustrent leur approche par= un exemple d'interaction entre agents logiciels. ************************************************************************ Dr. Bernard Moulin, Full Professor Laval University, Computer Science Department Pouliot Building Ste Foy, Quebec G1K 7P4,Canada phone: (418) 656 5580, fax: (418) 656 2324 email: bernard.moulin@ift.ulaval.ca web address: www.ift.ulaval.ca/~moulin From: David Green Subject: White House Announces $30 million grants for Digital Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:39:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 668 (668) Library for Education NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 29, 1999 WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCES "DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR EDUCATION" GRANTS Although it begs many questions and gives little details, the following announcement from the White House is welcome in its recognition of the need for new and radically increased funds for the complex and sophisticated task of networking cultural resources. The award of new "digitization" grants ($5 million each to the Smithsonian and the National Park Service and $10 million to the Institute for Museum and Library Services) is a step in the right direction. We look forward to hearing more details about the disposition of these grant funds from the agencies concerned. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]January 29, 1999 A Digital Library for Education "It is a time to build, to build the America within reach ... an America where every child can stretch a hand across a keyboard and reach every book ever written, every painting ever painted, every symphony ever composed." - President Bill Clinton Summary: This $30 million initiative will begin the development of a national library of text, images, sound recordings, and other materials available to every school-child and every American with access to the Internet. It will include: hundreds of thousands of America's historical and cultural artifacts that are now only accessible to scholars visiting archives; hundreds of thousands of books and images of paintings; and leading-edge material to help America's children meet high academic standards in math and science. Modern information technology gives us powerful new tools for making America's rich and diverse cultural legacy and educational content available to Americans of all ages. This initiative supports the President's Educational Technology Initiative by making unique historic, cultural, and scientific materials available to teachers, children, and parents. It also supports the goals of the White House Millennium Project by "honoring the past and imagining the future." The Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service, and other Federal agencies are the custodians of priceless records and objects of American achievements in the arts and sciences as well as the raw material of American history. Currently, only about one to two percent of these collections are on display at any given time. Fortunately, new digital technology and the Internet can make these materials easily available to homes and schools throughout America. The Administration will seek to leverage these funds by partnering with corporations, libraries, museums, archives, foundations, and other organizations. Elements of the Initiative: 1. America's Treasures Online ($5 million, Smithsonian and $5 million, National Park Service) The Federal government is the custodian of such things as the Apollo 11 command module, Rose Kennedy's personal tour of the John F. Kennedy birthplace, the Gettysburg battlefield, Ansel Adams photographs of Yosemite, the compass Lewis and Clark used to explore the American West, immigration records of Ellis Island, and Thomas Edison's laboratory notes. These funds will allow the Smithsonian and the National Park Service to digitize, index, and make available on the Internet not only pictures and documents, but music, oral history, 3-dimensional objects, and virtual tours of cultural sites like historic buildings or battlefields. 2. Digitizing the classics and putting museums online ($10 million, Institute for Museum and Library Science) This initiative will digitize hundreds of thousands of books that are in the "public domain," such as the complete works of Mark Twain, the Federalist Papers, Shakespeare, the Odyssey and the Illiad, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great Greek philosophers, Dante's Inferno, Charles Darwin's diary, Henry David Thoreau, John Locke, Jane Austin, etc. Uses will expand rapidly as better screen resolution, longer battery life, and lower costs make it as easy for students to read electronic books as their electronic equivalents. Students will be able to download entire books from the Internet, carry many books in one lightweight device, and search large archives for material. The Administration intends to work closely with the publishing industry to ensure full compliance with U.S. copyright laws. This initiative will also support the digitization of hundreds of thousands of images, paintings, sculptures and other works of art from museums around the country. 3. Digital Library for Math and Science Education ($10 million, National Science Foundation) The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) found that the performance of U.S. secondary school students in science and mathematics is well below the international average. As the National Science Board concluded, "No nation can afford to tolerate what prevails in American schooling: generally low expectations and low performance in mathematics and science, with only pockets of excellence at a world-class level of achievement ... In the new global context, a scientifically literate population is vital to the democratic process, a healthy economy, and our quality of life." This initiative will help address this problem by supporting a digital library for math and science education, which might include: - Tools to make it much easier for students and teachers to find high-quality resources, using specialized search engines and "peer review" mechanisms. - Hands-on, interactive content that makes math and science come alive and enables students to "learn by doing." Students could track the progress of a real scientific experiment, or understand a concept using simulation and multimedia. ============ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Conference on Consciousness and Cognition Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:31:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 669 (669) [deleted quotation] Mind 4 Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, August 16-20, 1999 Theme: "Two Sciences of Mind" Confirmed invited speakers include: Bernard Baars David Galin Karl Pribram Stuart Hammeroff Kathy McGovern Steven Nachmanovitch Jacob Needleman Program Committee: Bernard Baars Mark Bickhard Robert Campbell Christian de Quincey Stuart Hammeroff Paul Mc Kevitt Kathy McGovern Steven Nachmanovitch Jacob Needleman Sean O Nuallain Yoshi Nakamura Max Velmans Terry Winegar Keynote addresses: Jabob Needleman: "Inner and Outer Empiricism in Consciousness Research" Bernard Baars: "The Compassionate Implications of Brain Imaging of Conscious Pain: New Vistas in Applied Cognitive Science." Stream 1: Outer and Inner empiricism in consciousness research This stream will feature papers that attempt to show how "inner" states can be elucidated with reference to external phenomena. "Inner empiricism" designates experience, or qualia. They are shaped (somehow) by brain processes or states which sense and interpret the external phenomena. The physical nature of these processes or states may tell us much about consciousness. Likewise, the argument that we are conscious of only one thing at a time because of the gating action of the nuclei reticularis thalami (Taylor, Baars, etc) is indicative of the kind of thinking we are trying to encourage. In this vein, pain experience and its imperfect relationship to neural activity are similarly relevant. We particularly welcome papers that feature empirical data, or, lacking these data, show a grasp of the range of disciplines necessary to do justice to the topic. Papers are also invited that - Interpret qualia in terms of a quantum-mechanics based panpsychism (or, in current terms, pan-protopsychism) - Establish links with developments like Whitehead's pan-experientialism and process thought -Interrelate physiological processes at the neural level with current thought in QM - Emphasize "relational empiricism", ie second-person considerations - Investigate the brain processes or states giving rise to qualia at whatever level the writer considers appropriate (eg intra-cellular cytoskeletal activities and/or quantum-level phenomena). - Involve studies of central pain states as well as other curiosities like allodynia, spontaneous analgesia, pain asymbolia, and hypnotic analgesia. The invited talks include: David Galin "The Experience of 'Spirit' in Cognitive Terms." Stuart Hameroff "Quantum Computing and Consciousness" Steve Nachmanovitch "Creativity and Consiousness" Each of these talks will be followed by a panel discussion discussing respectively, consciousness as explored experientially, through scientific investigation, and in the arts. Stream 2: Foundations of Cognitive Science Co-chairs: Sean O Nuallain Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland (sonualla@compapp.dcu.ie) Robert L. Campbell Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC USA (campber@clemson.edu) WHAT THE STREAM IS ABOUT Though deep and contentious questions of theory and metatheory have always been prevalent in Cognitive Science--they arise whenever an attempt is made to define CS as a discipline--they have frequently been downrated by researchers, in favor of empirical work that remains safely within the confines of established theories and methods. Our goal to is redress the balance. We encourage participants in this stream to raise and discuss such questions as: * the adequacy of computationalist accounts of mind * the adequacy of conceptions of mental representation as structures that encode structures out in the environment * the consequences of excluding emotions, consciousness, and the social realm from the purview of cognitive studies * the consequences of Newell and Simon's "scientific bet" that developmental constraints do not have to be studied until detailed models of adult cognition have been constructed and tested * the relationship between cognitive science and formal logic A wide range of theoretical perspectives is welcome, so long as the presenters are willing to engage in serious discussion with the proponents of perspectives that are different from their own: * Vygotskian approaches to culture and cognition * Dynamic Systems theories * Piagetian constructivism * interactivism * neuroscience accounts such as those of Edelman and Grossberg * accounts of emergence in general, and emergent knowledge in particular * perception and action robotics * functional linguistics * genetic algorithms * Information Procesing * connectionism * evolutionary epistemology ******************** Contributors will be asked to submit short papers (3000 word limit) in the form of ASCII text files (HTML files are also welcome, but are optional) to Robert Campbell (for stream 2) and Sean O Nuallain (stream 1). The deadline is March 1, 1999. We will email notification of acceptance or rejection by April 1. The standard presentations during the streams will be 20-minute talks and poster sessions. *********** The "MIND" conferences have normally had their proceedings published by John Benjamins. We have already been approached by prospective publishers for Mind 4. All accepted papers and posters will be included in a preprint. Robert L. Campbell Professor, Psychology Brackett Hall 410A Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-1511 USA phone (864) 656-4986 fax (864) 656-0358 http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html Editor, Dialogues in Psychology http://hubcap.clemson.edu/psych/Dialogues/dialogues.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Workshop: Proof Theory for Conditional and Non-monotonic Logic Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:34:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 670 (670) [deleted quotation] ***** WORKSHOP ON PROOF THEORY FOR CONDITIONAL AND NON-MONOTONIC LOGIC ****** DOV GABBAY AND HOWARD BARRINGER Conditional logic and non-monotonic logic are central areas in philosophy, computer science and language. Moreover, the connection between non-monotonic consequence "A entails B" and the conditional "A>B" is well known, so too are the formal similarities between the conditional and substuctural implications. The semantic modelling (possible worlds, probabilistic, translational, etc) of the conditional and non-monotonic consequence seems to be relatively well developed but not much work has been done on the proof-theoretic aspects. Put simply, we need systems which can do the following: Given a (non-monotonic/conditional) database Delta and given a formula C (which could be of the form A>B ), we need formal but intuitive algorithmic, proof procedures (e.g. tableaux, Gentzen, goal directed, LDS etc.) for determining whether D follows from Delta . Furthermore, we need to correlate different such proof systems within the landscape of known semantically presented conditional /non-monotonic logics. This workshop calls for papers in this area covering some of (but not exclusively) of the topics below: * proof rules for conditional/non-monotonic logics; * connections between non-monotonic consequence and conditionals; * connections with belief revision and the Ramsey test (no triviality result holds if the database is non-monotonic); * time, action and the conditional; * conditional proof theory compared to substructural proof theory; * translations of conditional systems into classical and/or modal logic; * labelled proof systems for conditional logic; * executable conditional logic. The workshop will take place during the second week of the ESSLLI Summer School (August 16-20, 1999) and allows for up to 12 30-45 minute lectures. The ESSLLI Summer School is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). Previous ESSLLI Summer Schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. For more information see <http://esslli.let.uu.nl>. Good papers from the workshop will be published either as a volume in one of Dov Gabbay's book series or as a special issue in one of the journals for which he is an editor (e.g. JLC or IGPL). All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are encouraged to submit a two-page abstract (hard copy or e-mail (plain ASCII or (La)TeX) . SUBMISSION DETAILS AND DATES AS FOLLOWS: * DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS march 15,99 * SUBMIT TO Jane Spurr , Department of computer science , King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. It is preferable to submit electronically to jane@dcs.kcl.ac.uk. * NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE : May 15,99 * FURTHER NOTE Papers submitted to the workshop can also be considered, if the author so wishes, as a regular submission to any of Dov Gabbay's journals. professor D M Gabbay Dept of computer Science King's College Strand London WC2R 2LS Telephone + 44 171 873 5090 Fax + 44 171 240 1071 Latex or postscript files send to Jane Spurr jane@dcs.kcl.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Mathematics of Language Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:35:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 671 (671) [deleted quotation] +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ CALL FOR PAPERS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ SIXTH MEETING ON THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE July 23-25, 1999 University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The Association for the Mathematics of Language is pleased to announce that its sixth meeting (MOL6) will be held in July, 1999. The biennial MOL meetings are a workshop-style forum for presenting work relating to mathematical linguistics. SUBMISSIONS Submissions are invited from all areas of study that deal with the mathematical properties of natural language. These areas include, but are not limited to, mathematical models of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics; mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks/theories and models of natural language processing and generation; mathematical models of language acquisition and change; parsing theory; and statistical and quantitative models of language. Submissions should give enough motivation to attract the interest of the audience and enough details to attract people who follow the area of the paper. SUBMISSION FORMAT Submissions should be no longer than 5000 words in length (about 10 pages, 11pt, excluding references). Papers must include an abstract (200 words. max). All contributions to MOL6 are to be made electronically as an uncompressed mime-encoded postscript attachment. Please send your submission to mol-submit@cis.upenn.edu. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submissions: February 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 1999 Deadline for final drafts: June 1, 1999 Meeting dates: July 23-25, 1999 MOL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tilman Becker (DFKI) Patrick Blackburn (University of Saarland) Christophe Fouquere (Paris 13) David Johnson (IBM Yorktown Heights) Mark Johnson (Brown University) Aravind Joshi, Co-Chair (UPENN) Andras Kornai (BBN) Uli Krieger (DFKI) Natasha Kurtonina (Utrecht/UPENN) Alain Lecomte (Grenoble U.) Carlos Martin-Vide (GRLMC/Tarragona) Mehryar Mohri (AT&T) Larry Moss, Co-Chair (Indiana) Mark-Jan Nederhof (DFKI) Richard Oehrle (University of Arizona) Fernando Pereira (AT&T) James Rogers (UCF) Giorgio Satta (Padua) Walt Savitch (UCSD) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) David Weir (Sussex) K. Vijayshanker (U. Del.) CONFERENCE VENUE The conference will be held in Orlando, Florida at the University of Central Florida. Orlando has very good air access, and there are a wealth of attractions for those who might like to bring family along. FURTHER INFORMATION For questions about local arrangements, please contact jrogers@cs.ucf.ed. Information about the program, when available, and about the Association for the Mathematics of Language can be obtained on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol.html Titles of papers from previous MOL meetings can be found at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/molpubs.html. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: TSD'99 - 1-st Call for Papers Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:36:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 672 (672) [deleted quotation] A Workshop on Text, Speech and Dialog (TSD'99) September 13--17, 1999 Plzen, Czech Republic ____________________________________________________________________________ F I R S T A N N O U N C E M E N T A N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S ____________________________________________________________________________ Detailed information is available from http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd99 [material deleted] Workshop theme: --------------- TSD'99 will be concerned with topics in the field of natural language processing, in particular: - corpora, texts and transcription; - speech analysis, recognition and synthesis; - their intertwinnig within NL dialog systems. Topics of the TSD'99 workshop will include (but are not limited to): - text corpora and tagging; - transcription problems in spoken corpora; - sense disambiguation; - links between text and speech oriented systems; - parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; - multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialog systems; - information retrieval and text/topic summarization; - speech modeling; - speech segmentation; - speech recognition; - text--to--speech synthesis; - dialog systems; - development of dialog strategies; - assistive technologies based on speech and dialog; - applied systems and software. [material deleted] From: David Green Subject: School for Scanning Conference - Chicago Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:37:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 673 (673) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 28, 1999 SCHOOL FOR SCANNING CONFERENCE 1999 June 2-4: Chicago <http://www.nedcc.org/sfschic.htm> [deleted quotation]Issues of Preservation and Access for Paper-Based Collections June 2-4, 1999 Presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center At the Chicago Historical Society, Clark Street at North Avenue, Chicago, IL The conference is funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is cosponsored by The Getty Information Institute, the Chicago Historical Society, the National Park Service. What is the School for Scanning? This conference provides a rationale for the use of digital technology by managers of paper-based collections in cultural institutions. Specifically, it equips participants to discern the applicability of digital technology in their given circumstances and prepares them to make critical decisions regarding management of digital projects. Although technical issues will be addressed, this is not a technician training program. Conference content will include: Developing Institutional Infrastructures to Support Digital Initiatives Content Selection for Digitization Text and Image Scanning Quality Control and Costs Copyright, Fair Use, and Other Legal Issues Surrounding Digital Technology The Essentials of Metadata Digital Preservation: Theory and Reality Maximizing the Utility of Digital Information Who Should Attend? Administrators within cultural institutions, as well as librarians, archivists, curators, and other cultural or natural resource managers dealing with paper-based collections, including photographs, will find the School for Scanning conference highly relevant and worthwhile. Since the complexion of this conference evolves with the technology, it would be beneficial to attend even if you have participated in a previous School for Scanning. An audience of 150 or more attendees is expected. Who Are the Faculty? Steve Dalton, NEDCC; Howard Besser, UCLA; Steve Chapman, Harvard University; Paul Conway, Yale University Library; Matthew Cook, Chicago Historical Society; Richard Ekman, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Franziska Frey, Image Permanence Institute; Anne Gilliland-Swetland, UCLA; Melissa Smith Levine, Library of Congress; Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information; Wendy Lougee, University of Michigan; Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard University; Marc Pachter, Smithsonian Institution; John Price-Wilkin, University of Michigan; Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration; Bernard Reilly, Chicago Historical Society; Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources; Roy Tennant, University of California at Berkeley and Diane Vogt-O^RConnor, National Park Service. What does the conference cost? The cost of the conference is $265 for early bird registration, post marked by April 14, 1999, and $335 for late registration, deadline May 12, 1999. Participants will also be responsible for all their travel and lodging costs. Registration applications will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis. For more information or to request a flier, a copy of the flier is posted on NEDCC^Rs web site at or contact Gay Tracy, Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810; 978 470-1010; or email . Gay S. Tracy Public Relations Coordinator Northeast Document Conservation Center 100 Brickstone Square Andover MA 01810-1494 Tel 978 470-1010 Fax 978 475-6021 www.nedcc.org =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org> david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: PhD Studentship in Computational Linguistics, University Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:31:40 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 674 (674) of Edinburgh [deleted quotation] School for Cognitive Science, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP for October 1999 in COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Application deadline: March 31st 1999 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. The School for Cognitive Science (SCS) within the Division of Informatics invites applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence in October 1999. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Fragments in Dialogue". A summary of the aims of this project is given at the end of this message. Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. Familiarity with current linguistic theory in syntax and semantics is essential. Applicants with expertise in HPSG and good programming skills will be preferred. EPSRC studentships are restricted to UK or EU residents. Residents of the UK are eligible for fees and a maintenance allowance; other EU residents are eligible for fees only (and so would need to be able to support themselves during their studies). The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance allowance is currently approx 5,295 pounds sterling per annum. For further general information on EPSRC studentships, please consult: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/in-depth/indpfram.htm. The School for Cognitive Science has close research links with the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, which is also part of the Division of Informatics. Both the school and the institute were formed out of the Centre for Cognitive Science. The project "Fragments in Dialogue" is one of several projects on computational linguistics that are held within the Institute. In addition to having close connections with other researchers in the institute and elsewhere in the Division, the research on this project will also be closely related to ongoing research at CSLI, Stanford University. For more information about the School of Cognitive Science and the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), see the following home page: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ Information about students, the PhD Programme, and how to apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the following URL: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/ Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's postgraduate application form. Details on how to receive this form can be found by following the relevant links from the above URL (see http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/ccs/study/apply/). Please note that the above URLs still refer to the Centre for Cognitive Science, as these pages haven't been updated with the Centre's new identity. If we already have your application on file for consideration this year, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: March 31st 1999 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. For additional advice and information on how to apply for this PhD studentship, please contact: Admissions Chair The Graduate School Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building King's Buildings Mayfield Road Edinburgh EH8 3JZ Email: phd-admissions@inf.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 5156 Fax: +44 131 667 7209 PLEASE MARK "FRAGMENTS IN DIALOGUE" ON THE APPLICATION. For additional information on the project "Fragments in Dialogue", please contact: Alex Lascarides ICCS, Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Email: alex@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4428 Fax: +44 131 650 6626 FRAGMENTS IN DIALOGUE: PROJECT SUMMARY People frequently produce utterances which aren't complete sentences, such as "Next Tuesday", "Perhaps on Tuesday" and "How about Tuesday?". In general, these utterances are comprehensible in the context of the dialogue, and their meaning is affected by the words used in the fragment, and the context in which they're uttered. In spite of recent advances in computational semantics, interpreting these so-called fragments is beyond the scope of current natural language processing technology. The aim of this project is to rectify this by doing the following two tasks: (a) provide a linguistically principled and computationally effective theory of the meaning of fragments, which does justice to both their grammatical constraints, and the ways in which pragmatic information in the context affects their interpretation; and (b) implement the result, and in particular, incorporate the grammatical theory of fragments into an existing wide-coverage on-line grammar, which can be used for both parsing and generation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Shakespeare and the modern scene Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:39:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 675 (675) One often hears the complaint that the "Literature" course is devoted to DWEMs and has no application to modern things. As I sit glued to my TV watching the proceedings of l'affaire Clinton, trying to use my skills in content analysis to make sense out of them, I am forcibly reminded of Touchstone's grand classification. Were he here today, he could remind us of The Hyperurbanism Ubiquitous (That's between he and his wife; between the President and she); The PC-Pronoun Rampant (If a person does that, they should ...). Anyway, I know that everybody has a Shakespeare, but I append Touchstone for those who can't readily locate it on the shelf: As You Like It, Act V, Scene IV Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY JAQUES. There is, sure, another flood toward, and these couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of very strange beasts which in all tongues are call'd fools. TOUCHSTONE. Salutation and greeting to you all! JAQUES. Good my lord, bid him welcome. This is the motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in the forest. He hath been a courtier, he swears. TOUCHSTONE. If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flatt'red a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one. JAQUES. And how was that ta'en up? TOUCHSTONE. Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the seventh cause. JAQUES. How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow. DUKE SENIOR. I like him very well. TOUCHSTONE. God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives, to swear and to forswear, according as marriage binds and blood breaks. A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favour'd thing, sir, but mine own; a poor humour of mine, sir, to take that that man else will. Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. DUKE SENIOR. By my faith, he is very swift and sententious. TOUCHSTONE. According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases. JAQUES. But, for the seventh cause: how did you find the quarrel on the seventh cause? TOUCHSTONE. Upon a lie seven times removed- bear your body more seeming, Audrey- as thus, sir. I did dislike the cut of a certain courtier's beard; he sent me word, if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the mind it was. This is call'd the Retort Courteous. If I sent him word again it was not well cut, he would send me word he cut it to please himself. This is call'd the Quip Modest. If again it was not well cut, he disabled my judgment. This is call'd the Reply Churlish. If again it was not well cut, he would answer I spake not true. This is call'd the Reproof Valiant. If again it was not well cut, he would say I lie. This is call'd the Countercheck Quarrelsome. And so to the Lie Circumstantial and the Lie Direct. JAQUES. And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut? TOUCHSTONE. I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial, nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we measur'd swords and parted. JAQUES. Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? TOUCHSTONE. O, sir, we quarrel in print by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too with an If. I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel; but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as: 'If you said so, then I said so.' And they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If. JAQUES. Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? He's as good at any thing, and yet a fool. DUKE SENIOR. He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit: ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Peter Liddell Subject: Re: 12.0376 teaching on WWW? Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:38:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 676 (676) The following was posted on the waoe list a couple of days ago: [deleted quotation]courses [deleted quotation]and [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: cui prodest Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:34:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 677 (677) [deleted quotation] As British schoolchildren scream at pantomimes, "Oh yes it is!" Look it up in your dictionary under "prosum", not "prodeo". Francois C-R F.Crompton-Roberts@qmw.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Computing in Philosophy 19/2/99 Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:34:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 678 (678) PLEASE CIRCULATE/POST --------------------- Computing in Philosophy 19 February 1999 King's College London Strand 9.45 am to 6.05 pm This one-day colloquium will address the philosophical implications of computing and its uses and consequences for philosophical studies. It will focus on three main areas: artificial intelligence, cognitive science and philosophy of mind; teaching of ethics, logic and argumentation; and analysis of text. It will provide an overview for the non-specialist as well as a concise summary of current problems and projects. It is intended for all who are interested in the effects of the computer as idea, model and machine on how we think, learn, teach and construct ourselves. A revised programme has been posted at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminars_philosophy.html>. The event is free of charge. For more information contact Dr. W. McCarty or Dr. A.J. Dale . ---------- 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/ maui gratia From: David Green Subject: ACM DIGITAL LIBRARIES CONFERENCE: DEADLINES FEB 8; 15. Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:33:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 679 (679) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT January 1999 ACM CONFERENCE: DIGITAL LIBRARIES 99 August 11-14, 1999: University of California, Berkeley ARTS, HUMANITIES & MUSEUM COMMUNITY ENCOURAGE TO PARTICIPATE PROPOSAL DEADLINE: MONDAY FEB. 8th (papers); FEB 15 (panels) <http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/> The arts, humanities and museum communities are encouraged to participate in the 4th Digital Libraries conference organized by the Association for Computing Machinery <http://www.acm.org/>. The deadline for papers is February 8; the deadline for panel or workshop proposals is February 15th. David Green =========== [deleted quotation][material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: query from the Blake Archive Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:33:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 680 (680) We're confronted with a set of over-exposed transparencies here at the Blake Archive. The scans we're getting from them are much too bright and cannot be easily color-corrected in Photoshop. We'd hate to have to shoot a whole new set of transparencies, but it may come to that. If anyone has experience color-correcting images scanned from transparencies and has dealt with a similar problem in the past, could you please write me backchannel and I'll describe our situation in more detail? (Note: We're working with a Microtek Scanmaker V running Microtek's ScanWizard software (3.1.2PPC) on a Macintosh G3.) Thanks, Matt : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Department of English Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: dictionary Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:33:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 681 (681) Humanists, especially the lexicographers and linguists among us, will want to know about and perhaps to exercise The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary, <http://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/rapdict/>, the work of Patrick Atoon and Niels Janssen, two Dutch students. Not for a Tipper Gore. You'll have to decide for yourself whether the Dictionary is really fat, but in order to know you'll have to get busy. Recommendations of online dictionaries of any sort would be most welcome. On my list are the following: The Wordsmyth English <http://www.lightlink.com/bobp/wedt/> Florida State Neuroscience dictionary page <http://www.neuro.fsu.edu/diction.htm> Lexical Freenet <http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/lexfn/> Ariga Yiddish <http://www.ariga.com/yiddish.htm> WordNet <http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/> Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: Willard McCarty Subject: TLS Centenary Archive Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:33:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 682 (682) In its 5,000th issue, for 29 January 1999, the Times Literary Supplement has announced its Centenary Archive project, which aims by December 2000 to put all back numbers of the TLS online in an image database. Currently a *free* (which suggests later not at all free) trial for the year 1921 is accessible, at <http://www.psmedia-online.com>. The software used for the retrieval has been developed by a company called Primary Source Media (formerly Research Publications), <http://www.psmedia.com/site/>. As part of the project authors of articles (which up to 1974 were almost always anonymous) are being identified, as a result of which "a store of new discoveries" are coming to light. The TLS article boasts that "The back numbers of The Times Literary Supplement are among the prime sources of twentieth-century Western cultural history". So it would seem. The demo for 1921 would appear to work much better with Internet Explorer than with Netscape. The Java applet involved slows with the latter to the speed of molasses in January (among worshippers in the circumpolar bear cult), whereas with the former response times are acceptable. But then I was making my trial on a obsolete Pentium 166 with only 64MB of RAM, so perhaps the trial was not a fair one.... Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: Rossen Rashev Subject: Educational Technology & Society Journal - Second issue contents Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:35:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 683 (683) The second issue (January 1999) of the 'Educational Technology & Society' (ISSN 1436-4522), peer-reviewed online journal is now complete. It is freely accessible at: http://zeus.gmd.de/ifets/periodical/ The contents of the issue are listed below. The journal invites articles, case studies, review papers and other items of interest to educators and educational system developers. The author guidelines are also available at the journal website. The journal editorial board and reviewer team consists of esteemed academics and professionals who are committed to keep the authors' research work current. The articles are typically published in about one and a half months from submission if no major revisions are required. [material deleted] ============================================================== Rossen Rashev E-mail: Rossen.Rashev@gmd.de http://zeus.gmd.de/hci/pages/rossen.rashev.html Phone: +49 2241 14 28 70, FAX +49 2241 14 20 65 GMD FIT Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH German National Research Center for Information Technology D-53754 Sankt Augustin, GERMANY (near Bonn) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: talk Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:34:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 684 (684) "Talk is cheap" -- a familiar phrase, and often right. We talk in order to avoid work, we talk around rather than face problems, we confuse quantity with quality and honesty with the dumping of refuse. It's worse, much worse, when we're simultaneously perverse and persuasive, as we can hear in the word "demagogue" and faintly though still audibly in the word "rhetoric". And, as Ferdinand Mount, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, says in his review of Theodore Zeldin's Conversation: How talk can change your life, there's altogether too much of it these days (TLS 5000 for 19/1/99 pp 32f). Oh for the quiet pub of old. True enough, but such remarks can also be the genuinely cheap talk of someone who finds the talking out, or through, or toward problems the most demanding labour of all and so dismisses the whole project to avoid the real work. Anti-intellectuals find talk difficult if not threatening for obvious reasons. We all do when it means articulating painful inner secrets, letting them (to use a favourite Homeric metaphor of mine) "escape the barrier of our teeth" into the world, where they cannot be ignored and so may affect how others think about us and we about ourselves. Honesty makes us vulnerable. Thus so many of us seem to have been trained one way or another not to talk about what matters to us most, and so be predisposed to undervalue or otherwise cheapen talk. Mount's argument is in his title, "Talk isn't cheap" -- it's expensive, if properly exercised demanding all our resources and mental acuity. Zeldin's project is to make talk a means of changing us and the world we live in. Mount notes, "It's hard to think of a shorter book with a more ambitious programme. The Communist Manifesto, perhaps." Mount's argument is essentially that Zeldin's purposeful, goal-directed programme for talk cheapens it by "narrowing existence to what can be accommodated within a positive strategy". Whatever the truth of Mount's criticism of Zeldin may be (I have not read the book and so cannot say), it amounts to a rubble-clearing so that we may pay attention to what I am persuaded is the core difficulty and the great value of genuine conversation. To get at this he quotes Michael Oakeshott, from "The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind": "Conversation is not an enterprise designed to yield an extrinsic profit, a contest where a winner gets a prize, nor is it an activity of exegesis; it is an unrehearsed intellectual adventure. It is with conversation as with gambling, its significance lies neither in winning nor in losing, but in the wagering. Properly speaking, it is impossible in the absence of diversity of voices: in it different universes of discourse meet, acknowledge each other and enjoy an oblique relationship with neither requires nor forecasts their being assimilated to one another.... "Of course there is argument and inquiry and information, but wherever these are profitable these are to be recognised as passages in this conversation, and perhaps they are not the most captivating of these passages. It is the ability to participate in this conversation, and not the ability to reason cogently, to make discoveries about the world, or to contrive a better world, which distinguishes the human being from the animal and the civilised man from the barbarian." Conversation as adventure, as pure research, with no guarantees, "simply a spontaneous, unpredictable encounter between two or more human agents". An open channel, which we keep open by exercising it, perhaps define by a certain subject area and discipline of talking but otherwise leave undetermined. "Paradoxically", Mount says, "it is this spontaneity which makes genuine progress possible, while a deliberately 'progressive' spirit can be a deadening force." I think (as always) of Eliot's Four Quartets, in this case particularly of the line from East Coker, "For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." Why all this? you may be wondering. Two reasons. The first reason, and primary justification for your editor going on at such length, is the omphalosceptic return to the basic intellectual design of Humanist, which was (not surprisingly) not at all the purpose for which our electronic seminar was originally launched. (O phoenix culprit! as Joyce said.) Originally it had a quite definite purpose, a few of us older members will recall -- to reform the world, of course. Well, our corner of it, specifically our exclusion from the High Table of tenured appointments. When we realised how impossible such a reformation was, at least in the short-term, we gave it up and decided simply to talk about whatever came into our heads to talk about, so long as it fell loosely within the generous bounds of whatever humanities computing might turn out to be. To the extent Humanist has succeeded, it has done so by being an open channel without a programme. And perhaps (as I think) we've discovered what humanities computing is in the process. The second reason is private; I mention it in order to bring home the value of what we do here and in many other such forums but seldom notice, because our intentional minds are elsewhere. My experience (here offered Miltonically, sub specie aeternitatis) is of the most intense e-mail conversation over the last months. This conversation has demonstrated to me over and over again how wise it is not to plan what one is going to say, when in an important sense one's life depends on it, rather to attend to one's openness of mind and then discover by talking what must be said and how to say it. It is, as I've said before, like love, involving great risks but offering incalculably greater rewards. It's those risks, perhaps, that provoke the various kinds of avoidance behaviour that makes talk seem cheap. But to paraphrase the last chapter of Frank McCourt's marvellous tale of his Irish childhood, Angela's Ashes, 'Tisn't. Comments welcome :-). WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Dictionaries on-line Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:40:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 685 (685) Just to find a few, have a look at: http://www.RAE.es/ http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/projects/academie/ http://www.culture.fr/culture/dglf/ Some are of historical interest, too, or above all. Regards Elisabeth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drin. Elisabeth Burr (habil.) FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm Editor of: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/DRV/home.html From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0384 new on WWW Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:40:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 686 (686) Willard, on-line dictionaries include a huge number of dictionaries, other languages into English: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html a number of reference dictionaries: http://lmc.einet.net/galaxy/Reference/Dictionaries.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Einat Amitay Subject: Experiment - search engine results Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:41:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 687 (687) Hi all, My name is Einat Amitay and I'm a PhD student with MRI & CSIRO, Macquarie University, Australia. I would like to ask you to take part in an online experiment I'm conducting. It would take about 5 minutes of your time and would help me in further developing my system (related to search engine results on the web - you'll be able to learn more after completing the experiment). All you need is to go to the URL below and answer a few questions (no personal questions). The results gathered would be reported in the context of the system and since I collect no personal data there will be no mentioning of people or places. The URL: http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~einat/cgi-bin/rand.cgi Thanks for participating! +:o) einat -- Einat Amitay einat@mri.mq.edu.au http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~einat From: "James J. O'Donnell" Subject: content searching HTML Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:44:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 688 (688) For our archive of the second-oldest humanities journal on the net, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr, we are using Excite to offer readers the chance to search content. Want to find all the reviews we've published that mention "Pindar": search here. That sort of thing. But the results are not pleasant. i'm looking for advice about the best search engine to use that would do such simple searches effectively, giving a high-quality list of hits -- all the Pindar reviews and nothing but the Pindar reviews. I think what I want is something that *isn't* smart: no fuzzy searches. (I just searched "Parkes" for a book by somebody named Parkes, and it came out in the search way down the list, behind a review of a book by Parker, for example.) Free availability would be a plus, but we could certainly pay something, esp. to install and configure. Replies to: Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn. jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Translation Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:48:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 689 (689) Not wishing to defend myself in re my cui bono `who benefits' gaffe -- we humanists have to deal with language all the time; in fact, it is our trademark. One of the problems in translating from one language to another is the question of the import of the original statement, perhaps even its place in some system. I recently translated Latin _tu autem_ as `bottom line'. [In the medieval monastery, you could stop somebody who was being boring at the supper table by saying `tu autem' =3D `put a cork in it'; it = was not always polite, but it was usually uttered by a superior; in Spanish, yo= u can still say _un tu autem_ (=3D overbearing big cheese; person who feels h= e is somebody). Likewise, I was interpreting recently from English to German and had to translate "just kidding," for which I gave "Spass muss sein." Is it proper to translate word-for-word, or is it ok to give the social equivalent? Note that English "get out of here" can mean all kinds of things according to situation, accent, etc. Second point. Note that almost every expression shleps some baggage along with it. Spass muss sein in German may not always be thought to be proper for the drawing room because in schoolboy talk it usually has two lines following it concerning Wallenstein and certain illicit activities. When you are doing simultaneous, you cannot always think of such things, but are they legitimate concerns? Third point. What do you do with a title like "Cry Havoc" when you know where it comes from and you cannot be sure the audience does? Say: "It is obviously a war film." "Read your Shakespeare." Or what? The point is, ho= w much intertextuality should one insert? Same point. The second volume of my autobiography, as yet unwritten and yo= u will never see it, is entitled "The Tender Grace." Does that need a footnote? Where does one draw the line on footnotes? Where does one draw th= e line on cute titles? If you note a Shakespearian allusion in anything I write, you may be sure that I did not get it from Shakespeare. How far can/may we go in the search for intertextuality? If two statements, motifs, etc. are the same, does that mean one came from the other? That both must derive from the same source? Simultaneous spontaneous development? All of the above may seem somewhat frivolous, but I think they all go the heart of our enterprise. Jim Marchand. From: Zauberberg Subject: 12.0387 - talk Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:51:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 690 (690) Date:02.02.1999 Time:09:38 Willard, Two responses to your recent posting on "talk": First and foremost, the narratologist in me senses the trace of a story - or is it already a plot, = a discourse? - being hidden beneath your editorial-philosophical speculation. What is this intense, planless yet purposeful e-mail conversation he is alluding to?, I ask myself. The question, of course, is indecent and ad personam and so I do not pose it after all. My thoughts ramble on, going into internal "talking mode" like teenagers go into "cruising mode" in a battered 1954 Chev along one of those mythical mid-western one horse town main streets, desire and all: Ad personam - I recall a radio feature on the formative power of sound on human beings where the author tried to exploit the (construed?) etymology of "person" as "per sonem", "by means of sound". A Romanist come to my help and explain why it means "nobody" (personne) in French, but that's another question. The point I am trying to make is that talk is, in the first instance, "sound". And so it touches our souls long before we start=20 contemplating reference and structure and rhetorical function. So does music. "Per sonem", by way of sound, we reach out "ad personam". This non-referential, emphatic function of "talk" is of course something we hardly ever focus on - or even admit - in our scholarly contexts. Thanks for the reminder. Christoph ****************************************************** Jan Christoph Meister Arbeitsstelle zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur Universit=E4t Hamburg Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar von Melle Park 6 20 146 Hamburg E-Mail 1: jan-c-meister@rrz.uni-hamburg.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group=20 Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From: Willard McCarty Subject: two topics Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:44:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 691 (691) Two interesting topics on which comments would, I think, be useful. (1) Cultural evolution has been characterised by a series of great blows to our self-conception: Copernicus' astronomy, to the centrality of the earth, hence humankind, in the universe; Darwin's evolution, to our unique place among life-forms; Freud's psychoanalysis, to our notion of inner freedom from the bestial; and now, of course, Turing's machine. But there are other machines we can learn from. In "Magic Media Mountain: Technology and the Umbildungsroman", Geoffrey Winthrop-Young argues that the X-ray device and other medical technologies seriously eroded the notion of a soul. "New media that explore and store the body without paying the slightest attention to any resident immaterial spirit have only one message: a body is a body is a body. Even Goethe's Olympian leftovers [his body immediately after death was an arresting and beautiful thing, apparently], if propped up behind an X ray screen, would be nothing but skull and bones" (in Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology, ed. Tabbi and Wutz, p. 39). My question is this. To the degree and way that new technologies have such traumatic effects, apparently showing what was formerly feared or respected to have been imaginary, what can we learn about the nature of language and literature, say, when viewed through the instrumental computer? Someone will undoubtedly note that for example the corporeal notion of a soul, as if it were some inner organ, may have been shown to be piffle, but the idea behind it has metamorphosed rather than simply vanished. In other words, the horizon is no less real for not being reachable, and meanwhile we find new ground. How about computing a "natural" language? *Where* is meaning? Oh yes, in the context, sure. But what is "context", exactly? (2) Humanists may enjoy reading an article in the latest Mother Jones Interactive webzine, G. Pascal Zachary, "The World Gets in Touch with its Inner American", on the assimilation of the distinct cultures of the world to the American through free-market capitalism and high-tech communications. It would be interesting to know the degree to which the article itself manifests an American perspective on global changes that from different national perspectives do not appear thus. Is there any evidence that would lead us to believe that a communications technology might have such an effect, e.g. from the history of past technologies? If we presume for the sake of argument that this assimilation is happening, might it be the case that (to use a military metaphor) someone in the city has willingly unlocked the gates? I wonder if anthropology or related disciplines might come to our aid here. What does the very old debate of diffusion vs. spontaneous creation of cultural forms tell us? Dredging up long disused ramblings around in cultural history, I recall the suggestion that most appealed to me: that the arising of a cultural form which we know to have pre-existed elsewhere and can reasonably suppose to have been brought in some sense from there is assimilated if it finds an answering need or desire in the new culture. Anecdotal observations during my travels have further suggested to me that people tend not to take over a foreign cultural form entire but change it in interesting ways, as it answers to who and what they are. In other words, vital cultures tend to survive through change. Metempsychosis! Comments most 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Dawson Subject: ELTA Software Initiative: Working Paper JLD-2 Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:45:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 692 (692) Rather than fill readers' mail boxes with text they're not interested in, I'm just going to give the URL of each Working Paper as I finish it, so that interested people can access it on the World Wide Web. Anyone without adequate WWW access is welcome to email me ( JLD1@cam.ac.uk ) for a text version. ELTA Software Initiative: Working Paper JLD-1: Introduction http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1/elta/jld-1.html Working Paper JLD-2: INPUT http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1/elta/jld-2.html From: PMC Subject: PMC 9.2 available Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 21:49:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 693 (693) -------------------------------------- POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE P RNCU REPO ODER E P O S T M O D E R N P TMOD RNCU U EP S ODER ULTU E C U L T U R E P RNCU UR OS ODER ULTURE P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER ULTU E an electronic journal P TMODERNCU UREPOS ODER E of interdisciplinary POSTMODERNCULTUREPOSTMODERNCULTURE criticism ----------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 9, Number 2 (January, 1999) ISSN: 1053-1920 ----------------------------------------------------------------- [material deleted] CONTENTS ------------------ Editors' Note ------------------ Articles Terry Harpold, "Dark Continents: A Critique of Internet Metageographies" Lee Morrissey, "Derrida, Algeria, and 'Structure, Sign, and Play'" Paula Willoquet-Maricondi, "Fleshing the Text: Greenaway's _Pillow Book_ and the Erasure of the Body" Robert Miklitsch, "Rock 'N' Theory: Autobiography, Cultural Studies, and the 'Death of Rock'" Bruce Robbins, "Celeb-Reliance: Intellectuals, Celebrity, and Upward Mobility" ------------------ Interview Cynthia Hogue, "Interview with Harryette Mullen" ------------------ Reviews Steven Helmling, "Jameson's Postmodernism: Version 2.0." A review of Fredric Jameson, _The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998._ Verso: London and New York, 1998; and Perry Anderson, _The Origins of Postmodernity._ Verso: London and New York, 1998. Patrick Cook, "Cyberdrama in the Twenty-First Century." A review of Janet H. Murray, _Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace._ New York: The Free Press, 1997. Francois Debrix, "Post-Mortem Photography: Gilles Peress and the Taxonomy of Death." A review of Gilles Peress, _Farewell to Bosnia._ New York: Scalo, 1994; _The Silence._ New York: Scalo, 1995; and Gilles Peress and Eric Stover, _The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar._ New York: Scalo, 1998. Adele Parker, "Living Writing: The Poethics of Helene Cixous." A review of Helene Cixous and Mireille Calle-Gruber, _Helene Cixous, Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing._ Trans. Eric Prenowitz. London: Routledge, 1997. Jason Evan Camlot, "The Couch Poetato: Poetry and Television in David McGimpey's _Lardcake_. Toronto: ECW, 1997. ------------------ Related Readings ----------------- Bibliography of Postmodernism and Critical Theory ----------------- Notices ----------------- Notes on Contributors ----------------- [material deleted] CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE ARE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE AT http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/issue.199 UNTIL RELEASE OF THE NEXT ISSUE. A TEXT-ONLY ARCHIVE OF THE JOURNAL IS ALSO AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE AT http://www.iath.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only. 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Heliocentrism was preferred because (a) the sun seemed a more glorious centre, (b) the earth was elevated from the *bottom* (the pits) of the universe, and now rode in the heavens, free from the malign influence of the stargods who had contained her. [Oh yes, and (c) it worked better, at least when Kepler had refined it, as a predictive device]. Darwin's theory, as it was interpreted by his readers, assured us that human beings (and especially Europeans) deserved to be top because `we' had been selected by Nature (and by covert implication, there was no-one now to whom we must defer). Freud (as interpreted) meant that we could be freed of `irrational fears and obsessions'. And `Turing's Machine' is testimony to our godlike capacity to create living creatures.... So these supposed shocks actually encouraged our self-conceit... As to the x-rays: [deleted quotation] But who held a `corporeal notion of a soul' in that sense? Stoics and Epicureans did indeed think that only bodies had real effects, and that mental activity must be construed as the action of bodies. They wouldn't have been worried by X-rays. Platonists (and Cartesians) were clear that souls *couldn't* be corporeal (extended) substances. THe whole point of a soul is that it provided the unity that extended substance cannot provide for itself. So they wouldn't have been worried by x-rays either. THere is a story by A.K.Dewdney, The Planiverse, which is mostly to do with the construction of a two-dimensional world and ecosystem (following Abbott's Flatland and some others). The stereotypically obtuse human characters, hearing the Planiversers talk about their inner being, fatuously say that their inner being is visibly only a collection of (2-dimensional) organs. But that was never what `inner being' meant. Best wishes Stephen Clark srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk From: Jim Marchand Subject: First Things Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 21:05:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 696 (696) I was working my cryptoquotes this morning, and I noticed that Aldous Huxley had put into words what I was trying to show in examples yesterday. It is from his The Doors of Perception, according to the puzzle: We must learn how to handle words effectively; but at the same time we must preserve and, if necessary, intensify our ability to look at the world directly and not through that half opaque medium of concepts, which distorts every given fact into the all too familiar likeness of some generic label or explanatory abstraction. This is, of course, but another form of the inexpressibility topos articulated by so many of our best authors. Words are at the same time the tools for our thought and an impediment to our thinking: Bergson (Essai sur les donnees immediates de la conscience, 100): "Bref, le mot aux contours bien arretes, le mot brutal, qui emmagasine ce qu'il y a de stable, de commun et par consequent d'impersonnel dans les impressions de l'humanite, ecrase ou tout au moins recouvre les impressions delicates et fugitives de notre conscience individuelle." [In brief, the word, with its well-formed contours, the brutal word, which codifies (puts into a file cabinet) everything which is stable, common and, consequently, impersonal in the impressions of mankind, crushes or at least covers up the delicate and fleeting impressions of our individual mind.] Goethe (Farbenlehre, vol. 40, 87): "Jedoch wie schwer ist es, das Zeichen nicht an die Stelle der Sache zu setzen, das Wesen immer lebendig vor sich zu haben und es nicht durch das Wort zu toeten." [But how difficult it is not to substitute the sign for the thing, to keep its essence always alive before us and not to kill it by the word.] Thomas Mann (Krull): Nur an den beiden Polen menschlicher Verbindung, dort, wo es noch keine oder keine Worte mehr gibt, im Blick und in der Umarmung, ist eigentlich das Glueck zu finden, denn nur dort ist Unbedingtheit, Freiheit, Geheimnis und tiefe Ruecksichtslosigkeit. Alles, was an Verkehr und Austausch dazwischenliegt, ist flau und lau, ist durch Foermlichkeit und buergerliche Uebereinkunft bestimmt, bedingt und beschraenkt. Hier herrscht das Wort, -- dies matte und kuehle Mittel, dies erste Erzeugnis zahmer, maessiger Gesittung, so wesensfremd der heissen und stummen Sphaere der Natur, da! man sagen koennte, jedes Wort sei an und fuer sich als solches bereits eine Phrase. [Only at the two poles of human connectivity, there where there are not yet or no longer any words, in the first glance and in the embrace, that is where joy is to be found, for only there do we have unconditionality, freedom, mystery and deep lack of consideration. Everything which lies between thesee two, of intercourse and exchange, is flat and lukewarm, is defined and determined by formality and civil agreement, and limited by these. Here the word is master -- this dull and cool tool, this first product of tame, moderate propriety, in essence so foreign to the warm and mute sphere of nature that one could even say that any word was in and of itself already a statement.] Wittgenstein: Die Ergebnisse der Philosophie sind die Entdeckung irgendeines schlichten Unsinns und Beulen, die sich der Verstand beim Anrennen an die Grenze der Sprache geholt hat. [The results of philosophy are the discoveery of some simple nonsense and the lumps which understanding has given itself while running into [by bumping into] the limits of language.] I think when we speak of the first things of the humanities we need to begin with words, concepts and meanings, which is not at all easy to do. I apologize to the authors and you for the poor translations above. Traduttori traditori, but note that it has been truly said that a translation is a commentary. ! 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The union catalog can be reached through the catalog pages of any of the six member libraries: The Academy of Natural Sciences The Athenaeum of Philadelphia Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Library Company of Philadelphia (contributing its records to the project) Philadelphia Museum of Art St. Charles Borromeo Seminary The Historical Society of Pennsylvania is undergoing building renovations and retrospective conversation of its catalog and is expected to join the project shortly after the building reopens in July. The Rosenbach Museum & Library will join in a few months, and the Presbyterian Historical Society at some time in the future. When this project is completed, all twenty PACSCL member libraries will have online catalogs in place or in process. The catalogs of the six libraries listed here, and of other PACSCL member libraries with online catalogs, can be reached from URL http://www.libertynet.org/pacscl/search/ Regards, Laura Blanchard Executive Director Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries lblancha@pobox.upenn.edu From: David Green Subject: Fwd: "Lycos Offers Easy Access to Music, Bootlegged or Not" Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 21:03:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 698 (698) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 2, 1999 LYCOS OFFERS EASY ACCESS TO MUSIC, BOOTLEGGED OR NOT <http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/036455.htm> [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Help we're all becoming American! (12.0390) Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 21:05:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 699 (699) There is some cross cultural evidence that provides encouragment to Willard's worry about the subversive peril from the West (from where I am sitting). Taking on the trappings does not imply taking on the metaphysics associated with them in their natal lands. Extreme examples might be Polynesian Cargo Cults, but more pervasive, and in their way just as fascinating is US domination in TV production (perhaps even more widely distributed than the capitalism that WM refers to). I am at home with flu so can't check the reference easily but quite some time ago (early 1990s?) there was a study in how Dallas was watched in Cairo. The lesson this taught me was how active the audience are in contributing and creating 'the meaning' - which may be QUITE different from that gathered by audiences in North America or its colonies... I have sat watching a french TV thriller in Cameroon with an audience who did not speak french and were far happier discussing what on earth was going on and making up their own plot then asking me to tranlate (to my relief). Another way of saying this is that the 'recipients' are more active than some Americans might assume. An intersting high-tech example would be the expansion of Grameen bank womens groups in Bangladesh to include having a mobile phone which brings telephony to the village - and since the phone can be caried to the recipient it finally makes true the classic misnderstanding about the future of the phone that de Sola Pool quotes "I forsee the day when every town in America will have one of these useful devices" best wishes davidz Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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: Hartmut Krech Subject: Re: 12.0390 two topics Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 21:07:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 700 (700) Willard, I fully subscribe to your view that "vital cultures tend to survive through change." There are few experiences in my life that continue to impress me. I still remember with awe the organizing influence of the spoken word upon my way of seeing things that issued from public addresses by American Indian orators like the late Philip Deer. I doubt that the power of these speeches that are part of a fully developed oral literature could ever be rendered in writing. Ancient Greek rhetorics must have been of this kind, and I feel grateful for this experience. N. Scott Momaday, one of the leading American Indian writers of today, has summarized this view by saying that ^Äman has consummate being in language, and there only.^Ó You can access an excerpt from his speech at the first convocation of American Indian scholars in San Francisco in 1970 at my homepage: http://ww3.de/krech/momaday.html Although he has never acquired command of the Kiowa language himself, Momaday has clearly felt the power of the Native American oral tradition to give it a Western re-interpretation in his novels and poems. Another precious experience in my life is the global inter- connectivity and immediate communication realized by the World Wide Web. I presume that every subscriber to this list could keep on telling stories of how beneficial this electronic means has already proven in his or her life, to reach people anywhere around the globe, to answer questions, to solve problems, to find compassion, recognition, and understanding. Despite all its constraints that derive from its cultural form and still bind it to Western society, the World Wide Web to me is a remarkable realization of the humanistic impulse. And you continue to remind us of its limitations that still have to be overcome, if that is possible at all. To return to the Kiowa language that is still being spoken by some 900 plus human beings in Western Oklahoma, although it is not a written language and is not presently being taught to Kiowa kids at school. I was glad to read on the WWW that a linguist from Scandinavia has proposed rules for the transcription of its polysynthetic structures so that Kiowa Indians may communicate over the net using their language. And a Kiowa Indian has started an initiative on the net to raise funds for the teaching of the Kiowa language at schools. Coming myself from a culture that continues to misuse electronic communication for the control and disenfranchisement of individuals; I regard these as promising signs for the future, if not for myself. Dr. Hartmut Krech Bremen, Germany http://ww3.de/krech And the sky said to the sea: ^ÄGive me height, and I^Òll give you depth.^Ó And thus the two became separated.^Ó (from a Greek fairy-tale) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 701 (701) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Vallee Jean-Francois Subject: Re: 12.0098 hypertext theory? Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:33:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 702 (702) The literature on this subject is growing fast. Here are a few suggestions: _Hyper/Text/Theory_, George P. Landow ed., Johns Hopskins UP, 1994. _Hypertext. The Electronic Labyrinth_, Ilana Snyder, New York UP, 1997. _Cybertext. Perspectives on Ergodic Literature_, Espen J. Aarseth, Johns Hopskins UP, 1997. Search also for works by J. David Bolter, Michael Joyce, etc. -- Jean-Francois Vallee Departement de litterature comparee Universite de Montreal valleej@magellan.umontreal.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Beatrice Huisman Subject: Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:07:58 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 703 (703) Digital Creativity is an international, refereed journal which covers all the traditional sub-disciplines of art and design (fine art painting, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design, illustration, photography, textiles and fashion, 3D design, product design, jewellery, ceramics, furniture, etc.) as well as the performing arts (theatre, dance, music, etc.). It also covers the newly emerging disciplines that are based around digital technologies as a medium (digital art, web-based art, computer supported collaborative design, etc.) Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers have taken over this journal and sample copies of our first issue are available. This is a theme issue on 'Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. TABLE OF CONTENTS: ROY ASCOTT: Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era REBECCA ALLEN: The Bush Soul: Travelling Consciousness in an Unreal World DIANA DOMINGUES: The Desert of Passions and the Technological Soul JOHANNA DRUCKER: The Next Body and Beyond: Meta-Organisms, Psycho-Prostheses and Aesthetics of Hybridity EBON FISHER: The Future of Wiggling Things CAROL GIGLIOTTI: What is Consciousness For? RYSZARD W. KLUSZCZYNSKI: Art of Virtual Bodies TED KRUEGER: Autonomous Architecture NIRANJAN RAJAH: Prosthetics for the Mind: Augmenting the Self with Microelectronics NAOKO TOSA & RYOHEI NAKATSU: Artistic Communication for A-Life and Robotics Please send a message to pub@swets.nl to request a sample copy. More details available from: http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/dc1.html Beatrice Huisman Publishers' Assistant SWETS & ZEITLINGER PUBLISHERS P.O. Box 825 2160 SZ Lisse The Netherlands Telephone: +31 252 435 411 Fax: +31 252 415 888 E-mail: bhuisman@swets.nl http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: _Kairos_ 3.1 Now On The Web! Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:32:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 704 (704) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCING ... KAIROS: A JOURNAL FOR TEACHERS OF WRITING IN WEBBED ENVIRONMENTS Volume 3 * Issue 1 * Spring 1998 http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/ TABLE OF CONTENTS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LOGGINGON "As We May Link" [deleted quotation]Mick Doherty, Kairos Editor & Publisher, on the name of the journal, the meaning of "hypertext" and the death of "Computers and Writing." Current Issue(s) Todd Taylor, Web Editor for College Composition & Communication, discusses the inaugural edition of CCC Online News from the MOO Lingua Walks the High Wire [deleted quotation] @Whois Kairos Kairos FAQ ...News on Kairos News ... Call For Webtexts ...Personal "Adds" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ COVERWEB Copyright, Plagiarism, and Intellectual Property * Diane Boehm and Laura Taggett consider the question of plagiarism in online courses; * TyAnna Herrington offers specific details about legal issues articulated for online environments; * Jeffrey Galin and Joan Latchaw propose a change in the nature of ownership of disciplinary knowledge; * David Porush considers questions of plagiarism and fair use; * "The (In)Citers" offer "The Citation Functions: Literary Production and Reception" Also included are separate editorials on copyright issues in electronic publishing from Mick Doherty and Matt Kirschenbaum, and "Intellectual Property: Q & A." with Johndan Johnson-Eilola. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ FEATURES MOO-based Metacognition: Incorporating Online and Offline Reflection into the Writing Process Joel English, Ball State University Reading Subrin's Swallow Jackie Goss, Massachussets Institute of Art Hearings in the U. S. Congress: Ordinary Deliberation in America's Legislature Catherine F. Smith, Syracuse University "The Impossible Dream" An InterMOO with Michael Joyce and Mark Bernstein hosted by Sandye Thompson, Joel English and Mick Doherty ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ NEWS NewsWired: All the News that's Fit to "Print" Advice to the Linelorn: Crossing State Borders and the Politics of Cyberspace by Jennifer Jordan-Henley and Barry M. Maid Computers & Writing 1998 Conference preview ... Kairos Best Webtext Award ... Proceedings available in 3.2 Conference Wrapups NCTE ... CCCC ... TCC-L Conversations: Excerpted E-list Dialogues Calls for Participation ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ REVIEWS A Rhetorical Evaluation of OWLs by Joan Latchaw and "crossclass" students E-List Review: ACW-L Plagiarism Thread by Bill Marsh Software Review: WebWhacker by Richard Long Book Reviews Connections ... NetLaw ... Nostalgic Angels ... Stolen Words, Copyrighting Culture ... Shamans, Software, and Spleens ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ KAIROS INTERACTIVE Response, Replies, and Commentary Kairos Meet the Authors MOO followups to Kairos publications Hosted by LinguaMOO. Classroom Spotlight David Schelle's high school Honors English class. C-Fest Discussions about "The State of the Profession" as well as other pertinent topics. "Why I Am Not a Postmodernist" by Edward R. Friedlander, M.D. ---------------- **please note: certain versions of Navigator for Windows (v. 4.05 in particular) will not allow for the use of the _Kairos_ Remote Control. All texts in the journal are accessible without use of this feature. *** _Kairos_ is a webbed journal exploring all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext and other web technologies. 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. _Kairos_ is sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing, and hosted by the English Department of Texas Tech University. _Kairos_ is not formally affiliated with Texas Tech or any other individual university, department, publishing house, or academic institution. For more information about _Kairos_ contact Greg Siering: siering@bsu.edu (c) 1995-1998 _Kairos_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/ccmail/d.announce/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Tom Horton Subject: Elta Software Initiative (text-analysis software development) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:58:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 705 (705) We wish to announce the establishment of the Elta Software Initiative. Elta is a collaborative effort to encourage and support the development of software tools for the analysis, retrieval and manipulation of electronic texts. Our focus (at least initially) is on tools to support the needs of the humanities computing community, but we hope our results are useful for anyone interested in computer processing of texts marked up with SGML and XML. We have organized Elta in response to continued interest and need for such software, most recently expressed at the birds-of-a-feather session at ALLC/ACH'98 in Debrecen. At this time Elta provides Web resources and an email list to support those interested in the Initiative's goals for promoting software development. The Web site for Elta is: http://www.cse.fau.edu/~tom/elta There is a mirror site in at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/elta which may provide better response for European users. The initiative is open to all, and participants become involved by: a) subscribing to the email discussion list; b) describing their interests and activities in the text software area on the Web site's discussion forums; c) and by attempting to collaborate and/or cooperate with others in this area in order to produce better software more quickly. Anyone (software developer or not) is welcome to visit the site and leave a message describing user needs for text analysis software in the "user requirements" area. "Elta" stands for "encoded literary text analysis", and is the Old Norse word meaning "to knead" or "to work". We hope that Elta will contribute to those developing a set of modern tools with similar capabilities to past and existing text analysis tools, such as OCP (The Oxford Concordance Program), Tustep, TACT, and similar tools. A number of needs for modern versions of such tools have been discussed: sharing common user and data interfaces; support for SGML, XML and TEI standards for text mark-up; use of modern windowed operating systems (like Windows); and, when appropriate support of client-server and distributed models of interaction (like the Web). If you're interested, please visit the Web site, and consider joining the email list. Any suggestions about the project and its goals may be posted at the Web site or emailed to John or me (see below). We will make occasional reports to Humanist on the project's progress. Dr. Tom Horton Florida Atlantic University, tom@cse.fau.edu John Bradley King's College London, john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk P.S. Bruce Robertson and John Dawson recently posted a proposal on the Humanist discussion list, 12.0225, calling for a "text software handling working group". The Elta Software Initiative is basically the same kind of idea, and in fact was planned and developed over the last few months with John's proposal in mind. We saw it at the ALLC/ACH'98 conference in July. John Dawson has reviewed the Elta Web site and states that Elta "will be a perfectly good way of achieving what I proposed." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Computers and the Humanities 32:2-3 : Special Issue on Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 09:28:53 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 706 (706) EuroWordNet *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein, Editors-in-Chief Volume 32 Nos. 2-3 1998 *********************************** Double Special Issue on EuroWordNet *********************************** Guest Editor: Piek Vossen Table of Contents ----------------- PIEK VOSSEN Introduction to EuroWordNet 73-89 ANTONIETTA ALONGE, NICOLETTA CALZOLARI, PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, IRENE CASTELLON, MARIA ANTONIA MARTI and WIM PETERS The Linguistic Design of the EuroWordNet Database 91-115 HORACIO RODRIDGUEZ, SALVADOR CLIMENT, PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, WIM PETERS, ANTONIETTA ALONGE, FRANCESCA BERTAGNA and ADRIANA ROVENTINI The Top-Down Strategy for Building EuroWordNet: Vocabulary Coverage, Base Concepts and Top Ontology 117-152 PIEK VOSSEN, LAURA BLOKSMA, ANTONIETTA ALONGE, ELISABETTA MARINAI, CAROL PETERS, IRENE CASTELLON, ANTONIA MARTI and GERMAN RIGAU Compatibility in Interpretation of Relations in EuroWordNet 153-184 JULIO GONZALO, FELISA VERDEJO, CAROL PETERS and NICOLETTA CALZOLARI Applying EuroWordNet to Cross-Language Text Retrieval 185-207 CHRISTIANE FELLBAUM A Semantic Network of English: The Mother of All WordNets 209-220 WIM PETERS, PIEK VOSSEN, PEDRO DIEZ-ORZAS and GEERT ADRIAENS Cross-linguistic Alignment of Wordnets with an Inter-Lingual-Index 221-251 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Dieke van Wijnen Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Dieke.vanWijnen@wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. From: David Green Subject: INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 09:22:07 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 707 (707) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT October 8, 1998 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH <http://www.cimi.org/documents/NSF_ann_1098.html> Proposal Target Dates: January 15, 1999 (first year competition) January 15 (following years' competition) Following is a National Science Foundation press release about a new grant program funding international research in digital libraries. (Proposals must involve a team with at least one researcher working in another country.) This will be of interest to a few NINCH subscribers. Specific research areas falling under this program include: * multi-lingual information systems, cross-language retrieval systems, language translation, and language teaching software * multi-national digital libraries including sound, data, image, multimedia, software, and other kinds of content * interoperability and scalability technology to permit extremely large world-wide collections * metadata techniques and tools * geospatial, environmental, biological, historical and other information systems in which location is highly relevant, including consideration of best organizations for such systems * preservation and archiving of digital scholarly information, including technology and procedures for long-term information asset management * social aspects of digital libraries and cross-cultural context studies * utilization of digital libraries in educational technology at all levels of instruction * economic and copyright issues: authentication, payment, rights formalism, trust and fair use * electronic publishing and scholarly communication technology, including collaboratories, online repositories, and new methods of organizing scientific knowledge distribution. [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AMICO Announces New Members Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:50:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 708 (708) [deleted quotation] PRESS RELEASE: September 24, 1998 ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES THREE NEW MEMBERS Art Museum Image Consortium announces three new members: * The Frick Collection (including the Frick Art Reference Library) New York, NY * The Library of Congress, Washington, DC * Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. "We're delighted to welcome these new members into the Art Museum Image Consortium", said Robert P. Bergman, Director of the Cleveland Museum of American Art, and Chairman of AMICO's Membership Committee. "Developing membership in AMICO is key to our success. The AMICO Library draws its strength from the quality and diversity of the collections of AMICO's members." These prestigious institutions join the twenty-three art museums from Canada and the USA that founded AMICO in the fall of 1997. "This is an unprecedented collaboration among art museums," said Maxwell L. Anderson, Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. "Working together, through the use digital technology, we're able to provide a level of access to our collections that hasn't been available to anyone before." Harry S. Parker, Chairman of AMICO, and Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco concurred: "It has been less than a year since we formed AMICO. In that time, we've made tremendous strides towards achieving our goal of creating the best source for digital information about works of art." AMICO is a not-for-profit consortium, dedicated to enabling educational use of the multimedia documentation of museum collections. Its members are together creating a digital library that documents their collections, and making it available for educational use. Samuel Sachs, II, the Director of The Frick Collection said, "moving within the consortial structure enables the Frick to forge ahead on its own projects secure in the understanding that our work will mesh with that of other institutions." Patricia Barnett, the Andrew W. Mellon Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library added, "We'll be able to see much more clearly the inter-relationships between the works of art that we hold and the text and image research collections that document and support them. Already, in a beta testbed, university campuses in the USA, Canada and The Netherlands are using the AMICO Library. Almost 20,000 works from 22 AMICO Members are being made available by the Research Libraries Group (RLG) to 18 select university campuses; on each campus, teams of faculty, librarians and students are engaging in research about the changing nature of art and image collections in the digital age. Musing on the impact of the beta AMICO Library, Jeffery Howe of the Boston College Fine Arts Department, said "This resource is going to change our perspective on the practice of teaching art history, and although I can't foresee all the effects, it will be interesting to see how it affects us during the coming year. =8A the selection of images and artists is extensive and well chosen, and with enough unfamiliar works to keep me browsing for hours at a time. I can foresee this collection serving my students well for paper topics and personal enrichment as well as giving them the chance to study the required material." Background information about the AMICO Consortium (including copies of its agreements, technical specifications), sample AMICO Library records, and a catalog of thumbnail images of all the works in the testbed Library, can be found on the AMICO web site at http://www.amico.net/ AMICO MEMBERS: FALL 1998 1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario 3. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 4. Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY 5. Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ 6. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 7. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA 8. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 9. The Frick Collection (including the Frick Art Reference Library), NY 10. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY 11. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA 12. The Library of Congress, Washington, DC 13. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 14. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 15. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN 16. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA 17. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montr=E9al, Quebec 18. Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al, Montr=E9al, Quebec 19. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 20. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario 21. National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC 22. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA 23. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 24. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 25. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN 26. Whitney Museum of American Art Membership in AMICO is open to institutions with collections of art. Please see www.amico.net for full details. The AMICO Library is available through the Research Libraries Group (RLG). If you are a not-for-profit interested in distributing the AMICO Library for educational use, please contact info@amico.net. MORE INFORMATION: =46or further information about the Art Museum Image Consortium, please cont= act: Jennifer Trant David Bearman Executive Director Director, Strategy and Research Email: jtrant@amico.net Email: dbear@amico.net Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217, USA Phone: 412 422 8533 =46ax: 412 422 8594 J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant Archives & Museum Informatics 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __________ J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 412 422 8530 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 412 422 8594 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com Pittsburgh, PA 15217 __________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Tumay Asena Subject: Site Update - New Books on Linguistics Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 14:04:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 709 (709) http://www.serve.com/archaeology/books/index.html Archaeology on the Net - Books Database ------------------------------------------------------- Searchable database of archaeological publications is updated with the addition of new titles on linguistics. At present there are 7500+ books listed under 80 categories. More information is available at: http://www.serve.com/archaeology/books/index.html -- Tumay Asena Archaeology on the Net - Editor archaeology@mail.serve.com =============================== Archaeology on the Net - Archaeology Resources Index http://www.serve.com/archaeology ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0238 e-dissertations? Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 15:21:45 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 710 (710) I have been told informally by representatives from several academic presses that they would not consider or would consider only with prejudice a manuscript that had been previously "published" online as a thesis or a dissertation. (That information is anecdotal at best.) But I put scare-quotes around the word "published" here because I think it demonstrates the real issue at hand: the need to sophisticate our understanding of what publication actually entails. To me, publication entails a great deal more than simply the act of making public. Certainly the provision of general public access to a manuscript is an essential part of what constitutes publication, but it is finally only _one_ part of a process that also includes peer review, editing, publicity and advertising, various legal obligations, remuneration, a commitment to continuing dissemination, and so forth. All of these things are typically part of the model of distriubtion and access we have historically termed "publication," but _not_ all of them are necessarily part of a university-based ETD initiative, such as the one now in place at Virginia Tech (even if one particular objective of such initiatives is to make a thesis or a dissertation publicly accessible). Likewise, a university-based ETD initiative itself suggests a very different model of distribution and access than if I, as an individual, were simply to place a dissertation-length monograph on my own personal homepage, served off of a commercial ISP. To flatten all of the above -- a personal homepage, a university-based ETD initiatve, and academic and/or commercial publication (themselves two very different endeavors) -- reveals to me a crude imagining of what publication actually entails. It would be disappointing if publishers, particularly academic publishers, were unable or unwilling to do better. Matt : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Department of English Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ From: "Strahorn, Dr. Eric" Subject: RE: 12.0238 e-dissertations? Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:14:52 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 711 (711) I think the fundamental question here isn't the potential publication of the dissertation, but control over intellectual property. It is my opinion that student work of any kind should not be posted on the Internet without the permission of the student. Administrators should not require students to give up their rights, but should make publication on the Internet optional. I know that I personally would not want my dissertation on the Internet. My dissertation may or may not be publishable, but I want to reserve the right to decide whether it should be posted on the Internet. Eric Strahorn Assistant Professor of History Florida Gulf Coast University 10501 FGCU Blvd. South Fort Myers, Fl 33965-6565 (941) 590-7214 estraho@fgcu.edu From: "Wouden A. van der" Subject: Re: 12.0238 e-dissertations? Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:52:33 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 712 (712) I can only speak from my own experience. My dissertation has been available to the world since its defence - and in fact, it still is, as you may learn from my home page - and that hasn't been a problem for Routledge, who published the commercial edition (after thorough revision, in which their reviewers and copy editor have been very helpful & influential). T [deleted quotation]---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ton van der Wouden VNC-Project "Partikelgebruik in Nederland en Vlaanderen" Afdeling Nederlands, Fries en Nedersaksisch, Groningen en ATW Leiden Postbus 9515 2300 RA Leiden tel. 071 5171089 (thuis) 071 5277983 (werk) 071 5272615 (fax) email vdwouden@let.rug.nl http://www.let.rug.nl/~vdwouden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 12.0240 retrieval for music, multimedia? Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:22:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 713 (713) I referred the question from Humanist 12.0240 concerning "tools for musical data retrieval" to Perry Roland, in the Library's Digital Media and Music Center. Here's his reply: [deleted quotation] From: James Bower Subject: Re: Music Retrieval Tools Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:32:37 -0800 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 714 (714) In response to Dr. McCarty's request for references to "definitive statements" about the need for retrieval tools for music and multimedia, I would refer him to the document, "Research Agenda for Networked Cultural Heritage," published by the Getty Art History Information Program (now Getty Information Institute) in 1996. Among the eight sponsored research papers, those by Gary Marchionini ("Resource Search and Discovery") and Donna Romer ("Image and Multimedia Retrieval") refer directly to the need for such tools. In addition, there are potentially useful references larded throughout the introductory Overview and Discussion Points. The full text of the publication is available on the Information Institute's web site at . James M. Bower Head, Institutional Relations Getty Information Institute 1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 300 Los Angeles CA 90049-1680 ========== [deleted quotation]the group. [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Internet Grammar of English Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:33:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 715 (715) [deleted quotation] The Survey of English Usage, University College London, is pleased to announce the release of the Internet Grammar of English. The Internet Grammar is an online course in English grammar written primarily for university undergraduates. However, we hope that it will be useful to everyone who is interested in the English language. The approach is broadly traditional, though we have made use, where appropriate, of modern theoretical work. The grammar course consists of the following main sections: Word Classes Introducing Phrases Clauses & Sentences Form & Function Functions in Phrases Within these sections, the course is designed as a series of linked topics. Most topics contain interactive exercises, which provide immediate feedback based on the answers submitted. Some topics are illustrated using JavaScript animations. The Internet Grammar is fully searchable, and it includes a comprehensive Glossary of grammatical terms and an Index. The Internet Grammar is now available at this address: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/ To avoid potentially long download times, the Internet Grammar is also available on CD-ROM. Prices start at 25 Pounds Sterling (GBP) + VAT, where applicable. Institutional and network versions are charged at different rates. For full details, visit the website above, or email the Survey of English Usage at ucleseu@ucl.ac.uk. With apologies for cross-postings. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Survey of English Usage Department of English University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK Telephone: 0171-419-3119 Marie Gibney (Administrator) 0171-419-3120 SEU Research Unit Email: ucleseu@ucl.ac.uk Fax: 0171-916-2054 From: Merrilee Proffitt Subject: Suffragists oral histories now available online Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:33:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 716 (716) New TEI-based collection now available! In the early 1970s the Suffragists Oral History Project, under the auspices of the Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office, collected interviews with twelve leaders and participants in the woman's suffrage movement. Tape-recorded and transcribed oral histories preserved the memories of these remarkable women, documenting formative experiences, activities to win the right to vote for women, and careers as leaders of the movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Now, 25 years later, the nineteenth century meets the twenty-first as the words of these activist women, born from the 1860s to the 1890s, are made accessible for future scholarly research and public information via the Internet. Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented here with full-length oral histories. These include Alice Paul, founder and leader of the more militant organization called the National Woman's Party, which made suffrage a mainstream issue through public demonstrations and protests; Sara Bard Field, a mother, lover, poet, and social and political reformer, whose interactions with California artists and political activists gave her a national profile; Burnita Shelton Matthews, a District of Columbia federal judge; Helen Valeska Bary, who campaigned for woman's suffrage in Los Angeles and later had a prominent career in labor and social security administration; Jeannette Rankin, a Montana suffrage campaigner and the first woman elected to Congress, who recalls Carrie Chapman Catt, the League of Women Voters, and her lifelong work for world peace; Mabel Vernon, who is credited for the advance work of gathering the throngs of people to greet Alice Paul and her entourage on their famous coast-to-coast suffrage campaign in the fall of 1915; and Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, who gives an account of working with Alice Paul in organizing the Woman's Party. The oral histories of five rank-and-file suffragists are collected in The Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison, conducted by Sherna Gluck, director of the Feminist History Research Project. These women spoke out for suffrage from horse-drawn wagons and streetcorner soapboxes. Some discussed politics in genteel tea parties, others were arrested for picketing for suffrage in front of the White House. These five interviews represent the diversity of ordinary women who made woman's suffrage a reality, documenting their motivations and ethical convictions, their family, social, and regional backgrounds, and their part in the campaign for women's right to vote. The oral histories are now available online, and we invite you to use them. The address is: http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html From: John Dawson Subject: Earls Colne Project Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:33:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 717 (717) Indexed versions of all the records of the English village Earls Colne from c.1300-1850. Trial version can be accessed via http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk John Dawson From: Michael Fraser Subject: New Software: Concordance 1.0.0 released Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:00:47 GMT X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 718 (718) The following announcement might be of interest to some. Rob Watt's own Web concordances, which he constructed for teaching purposes, are at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm. Michael ---------- Concordance 1.0.0 has been released and the unregistered version is available for download from http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ Concordance is an entirely new program for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95/98 which makes wordlists, concordances, and Web Concordances from electronic texts. Program Features ---------------- You can: -Make full concordances to texts of any size, limited only by available disk space and memory -Make fast concordances, picking your selection of words from text -Make Web Concordances: turn your concordance into linked HTML files, ready for publishing on the Web, with a single click ( You can see the original Web Concordances at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/english/wics/wics.htm ) -View a full wordlist, a concordance, and your original text simultaneously -Browse through the original text and click on any word to see the concordance for that word -Edit and re-arrange a wordlist by drag and drop Facilities include: ---------------------------- -Support for many different languages and character sets -User-definable alphabet -User-definable reference system -User-definable contexts -Very flexible search, selection, and sorting criteria -Statistics on your text -Word length chart -Full print preview and printing, with control over page size, margins, headers, footers, fonts etc. -Can save concordances as plain text, as a single HTML file, or as a Web Concordance Other tools are included: ------------------------ -Built-in file viewer can display files of unlimited size -Built-in editor allows fast editing of files up to 16MB -Tools supplied for converting from OEM to ANSI character sets and from Unix to PC files Concordance is fully copyrighted. You may try it out free of charge for thirty days, but if you wish to keep on using it you must register it with the author and pay the registration fee. The unregistered version of Concordance is fully functional. To remind you to register, it will add an 'Unregistered' notice to concordances when you export or print them. For fuller details on registration and licensing, see the web distribution site at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ Fullest details are in the program's help file. ------------------------------------------------------- Rob Watt R.J.C.Watt@dundee.ac.uk University of Dundee http://www.dundee.ac.uk/English/ Home of the Web Concordances ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: the solsticial holidays Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 18:08:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 719 (719) Dear Colleagues: THIS YEAR, for good and joyous reasons, your editor's preparations for Christmas begin earlier than usual and involve a sojourn to foreign parts -- if an ex-pat's return to his native land can be framed in those terms. The denizens over there are civilised and technologically quite advanced :-) , but the distance between where I will be and the machine where postings to Humanist come is great, and I am likely to be quite taken up with activities appropriate to the occasion, and so not always able to get to a computer when Internet traffic is most favourable. For that reason I am exercising my privilege of sending out a universal holiday greeting, otherwise reserved for the solstice, rather earlier than usual. The solstice and Humanist are closely bound up together in my mind because of the occasion when I left the editor's chair, and I took the occasion immediately after a solsticial party in Kensington Market (Toronto) to announce the sad event. Sad for me at least. Many years have passed since then, we all and the world have changed in many ways, some of them unimaginable until they happened, but Humanist continues -- and, thank God, so do I. On two yearly occasions (the birthday of Humanist, 7 May, and the solstitial holidays) I take the opportunity of their return to reflect on all manner of things related to our seminar. Since coming to King's London, where mirabile dictu I am paid to teach and do research in humanities computing, I have been thinking hard about the nature of the field and working on a kind of manifesto. At the core of my effort has been an attempt to construct a cogent model for how computing interacts with the humanities. Models are powerful precisely because they limit thought and shape it, but they are also meant to be played with. They are devices we use to reach what otherwise we cannot, not true but useful. I have mentioned before Peter Galison's wonderful study, Image and logic: A material culture of microphysics, which I have found invaluable for the model he adopts: the "trading zone" between disparate cultures, where pidgins are created to facilitate exchange of goods. Our field is like that, I think: an open commons where methods are traded, where techniques of research in one field are carried over to others. Perhaps more of this happens on Humanist than I think -- as in teaching, it's hard to know who benefits, who remembers, who is changed. Men and women of experience will know that it's miraculous that any intellectual exchange ever happens -- more radically, that any real communication ever happens. I have certainly felt that when it did it justified all the nonsense involved in the daily life of our institutions and ourselves. There are such moments. In my experience they have involved taking great risks -- leaping off a cliff in order to learn how to fly. Deciding to chance being thought a fool, or worse, of the ridicule that comes so easily. Years ago I remember a conversation with a now prominent member of our field, who expressed to me the great trepidation about saying anything on Humanist -- all those people would read what he typed! My undergraduate training (at Reed College) got me started with the intellectual rough-and-tumble, and I've never looked back. How can you learn anything if you only speak when you know you're right? It seems to be the same with love as well -- terrifying risks, but what rewards! So, your exhortation for the day: write to Humanist, and fall in love. The latter is, of course, your concern entirely, but as it (or some approximation) is far commoner than writing to Humanist, I make the parallel for the benefit of our seminar. I think also, however, of a Hebrew proverb: "Do what you do only out of love." And this is why doing Humanist is no burden but an honour and a privilege. Allow me, then, from my position of honour and privilege :-) to offer you my very best wishes for the holidays -- Chanukah in 5 days, the solstice 7 days later, Christmas 4 days after that and several other celebrations I simply don't know about but am unwittingly enriched by. Happy Christmas! Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES: Scholarly Publishing & Intellectual Property Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 13:29:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 720 (720) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT November 30, 1998 International Symposium on the Changing Character, Use & Protection of Intellectual Property. Dec. 3-4, 1998, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. <http://www.gaac.org/> New Challenges for Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era: Changing Roles and Expectations in the Academic Community March 26-27, 1999: Washington, DC <http://www.arl.org/scomm/conf.html> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: Dec 7, 1998 The Third ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing May 10-12, Ronneby, Sweden <http://www5.hk-r.se/elpub99.nsf> [material deleted] ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Glen Worthey Subject: Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: A Symposium at Stanford University Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 17:49:00 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 721 (721) [excerpted from <http://unrev.stanford.edu/introduction/introduction.html>] Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: A Symposium at Stanford University December 9, 1998 Try to imagine "personal" computing without the following: -The mouse and pointer cursor -Display editing -Outline processing -Multiple remote online users of a networked processor -"Linking" and in-file object addressing -Multiple windows -Hypermedia -Context-sensitive help These features, which we take for granted in 1998, were unheard of before Doug Engelbart's inquiries into "Augmented Human Intellect" led to a revolutionary vision of the computer, a vision which was revealed to the computer world on December 9, 1968 ... On that day Doug Engelbart and a small team of researchers from the Stanford Research Institute stunned the computing world with an extraordinary demonstration at a San Francisco computer conference. They debuted: the computer mouse, graphical user interface, display editing and integrated text and graphics, hyper-documents, and two-way video-conferencing with shared workspaces. These concepts and technologies were to become the cornerstones of modern interactive computing Stanford University Libraries and the Institute for the Future will present a day-long, public symposium that will bring together Engelbart and members of his historic team, along with other computer visionaries, to consider the impact of Engelbart's work on the last three decades of the computer revolution, to explore the challenges facing us today, and to speculate about the next three decades. See <http://unrev.stanford.edu/> for program, participants, history, context, and contact information. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Glen Worthey Stanford University Libraries / Academic Information Resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 14 Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:46:41 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 722 (722) [deleted quotation] The Vilem Mathesius Centre for Research and Education in Semiotics and Linguistics Presents the Vilem Mathesius Lecture Series 14 March 1 - 12, 1999 Krystal Hotel, J. Marty Street Prague, Czech Republic CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE & PROGRAM [material deleted] Check our website via http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Geert-Jan M. Kruijff Institute of Formal & Applied Linguistics/Linguistic Data Laboratory Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Malostranske nam. 25, CZ-118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic Phone: ++420-2-2191-4255 Fax: ++420-2-2191-4309 Email: gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, gj@acm.org WWW: http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 Call for Papers Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:48:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 723 (723) [deleted quotation] EACL '99 Call for Papers, Demos/Posters, Student Papers, Tutorials and Workshops, 2nd edition http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/call-for-papers.html ______________________________________________________________________ 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 8--12 June, 1999 University of Bergen Bergen, Norway [material deleted] From: Julian Morgan Subject: Classics Symposium at Oxford Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 11:24:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 724 (724) Julian@JPROGS.source.co.uk http://www.source.co.uk/users/jprogs/ 81 High St, Pitsford, Northants, NN6 9AD, United Kingdom Tel (01604) 880119 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 1998 MLA Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 09:13:14 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 725 (725) Some Humanist readers may be attending the 1998 MLA convention in San Francisco at the end of December. There are a number of talks on humanities computing and related subjects at the MLA, and to help those interested in finding them, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has compiled a guide to these talks, based on the convention program. It is available at: http://www.ach.org/mla98/guide.html John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: Wilhelm Ott Subject: TEI-Workshop in Tuebingen Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 15:49:01 +0100 (MET) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 726 (726) The Computing Center of the University of Tuebingen / Germany offers a further TEI Workshop: "Praxis der SGML-konformen Textauszeichnung nach den Richtlinien der Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)" Tuebingen, 17. - 20. Februar 1999 This will be the 4th TEI workshop held at Tuebingen. It differs from the previous ones in so far as it will focus not on the introduction into TEI but on the training of encoding and markup according to the Guidelines of the TEI. The lectures given in German language by Michael Sperberg-McQueen PhD (cmsmcq@uic.edu) and Dr. theol. Winfried Bader (bader@dbg.de) will be accompanied by hands-on training in handling structured text. For further information see http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/tei_ws.html or send a mail to Matthias Kopp: kopp@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ott phone: +49-7071-2970210 Universitaet Tuebingen fax: +49-7071-295912 Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung e-mail: ott@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de Waechterstrasse 76 D-72074 Tuebingen ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Training in Ergo's NLP for other languages Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 12:00:07 -1000 (HST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 727 (727) In order to spur the development of the Ergo NLP tools for other languages we are seeking individuals, departments, and companies who would like to have training to create patented NLP tools like those of Ergo in other languages. We are currently not offering any funding for this, but we would be willing to be partners in such developments with other companies. We would also be willing to serve as consultants as the parsers are developed for other languages. We estimate that it will require from 18 to 24 months of work for 2 or 3 individuals to extend the Ergo tools to another language. Derek Bickerton and myself will both be available for the training and consultation. The tools that we have developed offer improvements in Navigation and Control, Dialoging, and Web and Database searching through enhanced grammatical analysis. Demos of the technology are available at http://www.ergo-ling.com. A more detailed discussion of the sorts of abilities that will be possible is presented at the VRML Consortium Web site as standards for the development of NLP tools for animations (http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/NLP-ANIM.) We recently won the Best Technology award at the VSMM '98 Multi Media and Virtual Reality conference in Japan. The languages we would most like to do first are Spanish, German, Russian, and Japanese. Though we will work with whatever languages serious researchers would like to work with. Our main requirement is that these be serious inquiries only and we would like to establish that the individuals or groups who would like this training are capable of completing the project. Please respond privately to the numbers below. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson Subject: Position: Computer-assisted Writing Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 19:43:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 728 (728) English Composition and Rhetoric. Full-time position starting August 15, 1999, teaching all levels of composition and rhetoric at Dakota State University. Master's degree in English required. Ph.D. in English desired. Tenure track available for candidate with Ph.D. degree. Familiarity with computer-assisted writing essential. Experience teaching computer-assisted composition beyond graduate assistantship highly desired. Responsibilities may also include Acting Writing Director. Salary competitive and based on qualifications and experience. For information about Dakota State University's English program, visit http://www.dsu.edu/departments/liberal/english/ To apply, send letter of application, resume, graduate transcript, and three letters of reference to Dr. Eric Johnson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD 57042-1799; email: JohnsonE@jupiter.dsu.edu; fax: 605-256-5021. Review of applications will begin on February 22, 1999, and review will continue until the position is filled. Disabled applicants are invited to identify any necessary accommodations required in the application process. EOE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: changes at Humanist Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:05:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 729 (729) Dear Colleagues: For some time now the subscription mechanism for Humanist has not been functioning due to conditions beyond my control. Until quite recently I had not noticed. As a result, I fear that many potential members of the seminar have attempted to join without success. Should you know of anyone who has tried in vain, please encourage him or her to make another attempt. We have moved the mechanism from a computer in the Library at Princeton to the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) at Virginia. Now it works! I am most grateful to John Unsworth for his generosity in hosting yet another piece of Humanist and for the considerable work he put into getting the subscription software to run at its new home. Thanks are also due to Chris Dietrich (CIT, Princeton) and Gerard Menos (Library, Princeton), who were most cooperative. Unsworth and his staff have also been at work on the archive of messages and filled in many gaps with missing messages. The archive should now be complete. The mysterious appearance of several quite old messages today -- I received some from as early as May 1998 -- is a new problem now under investigation. Be assured that I have been just as deluged as you, so I am equally annoyed and highly motivated to do something about the problem. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 730 (730) [deleted quotation][MUCH material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:08:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 731 (731) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 4, 1999 Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee <http://www.netcaucus.org/> The Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee is "a diverse group of public interest, non profit and industry groups working to educate the Congress and the public about important Internet-related policy issues." According to one report, the first meeting of the committee, on January 21, mostly consisted of corporate and trade association lobbyists, with few members of the public or public interest groups. A non-profit organization may join this committee by writing a letter of interest, giving a contact name, phone number and e-mail address and the particular forum topics you are interested in working on. Send to: Lauren Frazier c/o Rep. Rick Boucher 2329 Rayburn HOB Washington, DC 20515 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0396 cultural metempsychosis Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:15:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 732 (732) Yes--don't forget what we've already learned from the cultural studies people via reader-response theory (or vice versa): that meaning too is in the eye of the beholder. Native American cultures are unmelted in the American pot today because they resisted, reworked, and turned to their own uses what was on offer from Europeans. Pat Galloway -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: parsing and quibbling Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:07:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 733 (733) One of the most outrageous things which has been visited upon us Americans recently is the Clinton Affair, but it is an ill wind that blows no good. I break no lance for either party, but I do want to defend the President on the matter called by the House Managers "parsing" (they mean "quibbling"). The QUIBBLE OUTRAGEOUS is, I should think, part of the kitbag of the lawyer. Everybody seems to think the President invented it, though we scholars argue over and over about the meaning of a concept (e.g. The Renaissance). The President said: "It depends on what _is_ means," and nowadays all kinds of people are saying: "At least I know what _is_ means." Back when I was an undergraduate, we used an old textbook by Susanne K. Langer, _An Introduction to Symbolic Logic_ (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1938). On p. 55, she points out: "Few people are aware that they use so common and important a word as `is' in half a dozen different senses." She then offers 6 sentences in which `is' has different meanings. Actually, Zipf's Law teaches us that _is_, being such a common word, will have more than half a dozen different senses, but sap. sat. The Stoics taught us _omne verbum ambiguum esse_, and we ought to keep that in mind. ! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: First Things: Attribution Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:06:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 734 (734) One of the first things we do in the humanities, indeed as human beings in general, is attribution and its flip-side athetization, and much of our ink is spilt in applying these two operations, usually together. We attribute to author: "Bacon wrote a great deal of Shakespeare," at the same time athetizing from Shakespeare. We attribute to dialect: "Wolfram's Parzival is written in the Bavarian dialect." We attribute to time: "The manuscript is of the first ten minutes of the 12th century." We attribute to concept: William Dray, "`Explaining What' in History," _Theories of History_, ed. Patrick Gardiner (Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1959), 403: "Ramsey Muir observes: `It was not merely an economic change {athetization, JWM} that was thus beginning; it was a social revolution {attribution, JWM}.'" Sometimes this operation is obscured by the language in which it is couched: "Did Yiddish come from German or is it from a Romance stock?" "What we have here is a typical example of acyrologia." "Hitler was not a psychopath." Sometimes this operation is blurred by the language in which it is couched (fuzzy concepts): "Medieval man believed in a flat earth." "In the Greece of Homer's day ..." "Kissing the shoulder is de rigueur in Arabic countries (or Arabic-speaking countries) even today." "Medieval Iceland is a typical example of an incapsulated culture." The last example shows in how facile a manner concepts can be used. What is an "incapsulated culture?" Can anyone given an example? If so, what is there about MI which would make a candidate for attribution to this concept? Very little has been written on this operation. In fact, one frequently gets blank stares when one uses the word `athetize', though one might expect such a common operation to have many words by Marchand's Perversion of Zipf's Law. But there is also Marchand's Correlation to the Perversion of Zipf's Law: That which is used all the time is not spoken of very little if at all. ! Jim Marchand. From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0392 translation, interpretation, play Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:08:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 735 (735) I think it not too far from the subject to suggest that fundamental command in the ontology of Judaism is "the schma!" or Hear! O Israel. One hears first, even before one sees as a newborn. One hears, it seems, in the womb, from early on. Not talk, but hearing, and after hearing, to listen. And then, to learn to speak, which is not easy, and then to read and write, which are removed abstract sorts of abilities. Jascha Kessler [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0392 translation, interpretation, play Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:08:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 736 (736) As for the matter of translation, which I have been doing from exotic languages for decades, the difficulty is in writing something in one's own language, at least when it comes to more than technical factual matters. That, the writing in one's own language is very difficult, an art, or craft that needs to be learned. As to writing, i.e., translating art works, poetry, etc., that is even more difficult indeed. I have addressed this subject in various casual essays over the decades, and it comes out wittily, in a book of poems, a series of connected poems, entitled CATULLAN GAMES, from the Hungarian of Sandor Rakos, a few years back, in print, Marlboro Press. In that very witty and profound work, and it is short enough, Rakos puts Catullus, not Catullus' poems, into a Hungarian monologue of various kinds, indirectly speaking of translation thereby. In my Englishing, it constitutes yet another remove from the Latin poet. The point being, one has to SAY it in one's own language, and cannot wring one's hands at the things this or that or another language has not the capacity to say. This gets amusing. I was criticized by a Hungarian poet/translator in the UK because my translations were American. As though his ACQUIRED English (rather stiff and unnatural itself) were a better translation because English, not American. Years earlier, my patron in Hungary, President of the Hungarian PEN once laughed and said he had heard some of my work criticized because it was Hungarian! As if there were even a single point in the universes of discourse at which they could meet or touch in any way, the two languages. And I was once enlightened by an old Romanian at a Congress of translators in Belgrade, who among all the fulminators in all the papers, simply spoke for 20 minutes on his view, and talked about the main thing, what he called "logemes." Those units of meaning were the only things one should be concerned with. All the rest, the cultural experience of the original language, etc., could not be translated, a word which in Shax's day meant "transformed from the original shape, or form, utterly." If one works with logemes, one has some hope to translated. I have just published a new, commissioned translation of KING OEDIPUS, with a Preface, in SOPHOCLES, 2 --out this month from the University of Pennsylvania Press, as part of their complete Greek Drama, and all the works were done by poets, and I daresay not one has the command of Greek of aClassicist, if even an iota of knowledge of the ancient language. I chose to use the standard high drama form which is a good resource in English, the iambic pentameter blank verse of Shakespeare, but not Miltonized or Wordsworthized either. For the Chorus, trimeter, rough. And simple speech as we speak today. That text will show what I think can be done by way of translating. It is always our current tongue one must use, and that is what one must hear, and listen to, even if it is alloyed with an old and powerful traditional form. Prose wouldnt do it, not properly, though it's easy enough to avail oneself of. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Judy Reynolds Subject: content searching html Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:08:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 737 (737) Avi Rappoport, a librarian and consultant, has a page of Site Search Tools that are useful in deciding what search engine to use. The address is: http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools.html Judy Reynolds Librarian, San Jose State University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Charles Young Subject: RE: 12.0394 souls; first things of the humanities Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:05:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 738 (738) On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Willard wrote: [deleted quotation]Darwin's evolution, to our unique place [deleted quotation] I missed the original post of this, and WM may have said this, but if not: Freud himself is the source of this characterization. See "One of the Dif- ficulties of Psycholanaysis", in P. Rieff, ed., "Sigmund Freud: Character and Culture_ (New York: Collier Books, 1963). The original paper appeared in 1917, so the bit about Turing is of course not there. Best wishes, Charles charles.young@cgu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: blows and course-changes Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:16:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 739 (739) My intention in floating the topic of the cultural trauma caused by revolutionary ideas and inventions (crudely, blows to our self-conception) was to direct the collective understanding of such trauma to the effects of computing on the humanities. For the sake of argument, let us say that computing is culturally traumatic. Is there not something very important to learn from the fact that the machine is forcing us not just to redraw the old line between humans and everything else but to redefine what drawing of such lines is for? I keep coming at this topic, coming at it doggedly from every angle I can think of, because I smell real food here and am determined to get at it. Until, perhaps, some kind soul leads me to a better smell. Please, if there is one. The scent is of what happens when we model something with a computer, the model works pretty well, but in fact fails to perform in some crucial respects. Or, put it in terms of the cultural-trauma theory, the computer sends us spinning because it does most of what we thought was our business, and so forces us to rethink what exactly we're good for after all. At least the healthy among us will react that way. Is there a good argument that other culturally traumatic inventions have pushed our understanding of what we're about in this way? If so, what does their techno-cultural history tell us? Enlightening comments eagerly awaited! Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0398 Freud on ego-blows Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:16:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 740 (740) re Freud: was "bestial" really the term? It is not a pleasant connotation in English. Animals may be beasts, but they dont seem to be "bestial" as are we at our worst. I should rather think that Freud was pointing out that there are animal processes at work in the very construction of the development of the psyche. The unconscious, Das Es, or It, or Id, is not animalistic, but part of the structure unavailable to us, and in it the various energies work. Eros, in Plato's SYMPOSIUM is the working force, and Freud called it in us libido, and thought it was a sort of energy, and the sexual drive part of its makeup. It is not a simple thing, but a dynamic process, not a faculty, or object. So far as I understand it. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Re: 12.0398 Freud on ego-blows Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:17:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 741 (741) On Tue., 2 Feb 1999, Willard wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Cultural evolution has been characterised by a series of great blows to our self-conception: Copernicus' astronomy, to the centrality of the earth, Darwin's evolution, to our unique place among life-forms; Freud's psychoanalysis, to our notion of inner freedom from the bestial; and now, of course, Turing's machine. -------------------------------------------------------- As this discussion has proceeded, I have noticed that there is one major revolution which nobody has mentioned: the rise of mechanism in biology. Decades ago, I taught three introductory courses to non-scientists. Each started with a reductionist statement designed to "hit the students upside the head." 1. "You are nothing but a speck in an unknowable universe (Copernican)." 2. "You are nothing but an animal (Darwinian)." 3. "You are nothing but a biological machine (through Crick & Watson)." [Notice my sequencing of names in deference to our U.K. hosts!] By the end of the course, students could argue the adequacy or lack thereof of each of these reductionist formulations. I think that the third is at least as powerful as the other two (plus, of course Freud and others) in shaking the "me-centered" view of the universe. Don Weinshank _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cse.msu.edu Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 432-1061 Comp. Sci., Michigan State http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Pat Moran Subject: Re: 12.0399 constructing meaning Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:17:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 742 (742) Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London [deleted quotation]---------------------- Leaving the cultural studies people aside, consider the biologists. What tribe or clan in "Native American cultures" is "unmelted" genetically? Many of the tribes which REALLY resisted are extinct, like the Yahi. Constructed meaning is alive and well in the blond and blue-eyed members of Native American tribes, yes, but to say that these tribes are unmelted is not accurate in the physical sense. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ari Kambouris Subject: Re: 12.0241 e-publishing of dissertations Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 20:17:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 743 (743) Fellow Humanists, At the risk of being redundant, was there not a list posted of some dissertations that had been published electronically, when this topic was broached in a previous Humanist thread. If so, would one of you be so kind as to forward that to me. Thanks in advance, Ari Ari Kambouris Metaphor Group, Inc. Information Architecture and Project Management WWW | CD-ROM | Kiosk tel. 212.740.6306 pager. 917.243.1548 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Book: Predicative forms in natural language Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:43:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 744 (744) [deleted quotation] **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 6 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis PREDICATIVE FORMS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE AND IN LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE BASES edited by Patrick Saint-Dizier IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse, France This book presents, by means of a number of articles, a survey and a set of projects in computational lexical semantics. The most crucial aspects of ongoing research on predicates are presented: verb semantic classifications, relations between syntax and semantics, Wordnet for Verbs, multilinguism, lexical knowledge bases and lexical acquisition, the generative lexicon.=20 Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases is designed for professors, researchers and graduate students in the area of language processing and semantics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht=20 Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0 December 1998, 375 pp. NLG 220.00 / USD 132.00 / GBP 77.00 =20 =20 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents and Contributors Foreword.=20 An introduction to the Lexical Semantics of Predicative Forms; P. Saint-Dizier. A Comparison of Different Lexical Semantics Approaches for Transfer Verbs with a Particular Emphasis on Buy/Sell; F. Busa, et al. The Organization of Verbs and Verb Concepts in a Semantic Net; C. Fellbaum.= =20 Describing Verb Semantics in a Type Hierarchy: Disambiguation of Italian Verbs; A. Stein. Alternations and Verb Semantic Classes for French: Analysis and Class Formation; P. Saint-Dizier. Semantics in Action; E. Viegas, et al. Corpus-Based Argument Identification Using a Statistically Enriched Valency MRD; D. Kokkinakis. Capturing Motion Verb Generalizations in Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar; M. Palmer, et al.=20 Some Syntactic Consequences of Argument Structure Dimensions; C. Jones.=20 Pragmatic Connectives as Predicates. The Case of Inferential Connectives; J. Jayez, C. Rossari. Interlingual Representations of Complex Predicates in a Multilingual Approach: The Problem of Lexical Selection; M.A. Zarco. The Semantics of Event-Based Nominals; F. Busa. Index. =20 --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997=20 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, Andr=E9 Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Cataloguing South and West Asian Manuscripts Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:44:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 745 (745) [deleted quotation] The American Committee for South Asian Manuscripts (ACSAM) of the American Oriental Society is pleased to announce two workshops in non-Western palaeography and codicology, to be held at Columbia University in New York City from 31 May through 18 June 1999: 1. Manuscripts in Nagari and related North Indian scripts, directed by David Pingree of Brown University. 2. Manuscripts in Arabic and Persian, directed by Adam Gacek of McGill University. Goal of the Workshops: ACSAM's Cataloguing Project -------------------------------------------------- The workshops will train advanced graduate students to become data-gatherers for ACSAM's project to catalogue all Indic and Islamic manuscripts preserved in North American collections. The resulting Union Descriptive Catalogue will be published in printed and electronic form: a draft of the prototype of the electronic version is available for viewing at http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/acsam/ now. The Catalogue is a text-based electronic bibliographical tool structured in SGML; it is currently presented via Inso's DynaWeb text delivery system. The sample entries in the prototype describe some of the Indic manuscripts at Columbia University. Full physical descriptions of the manuscripts and detailed identifications of the works they contain are presented in separate sections, with active links connecting entries in each section to the corresponding entries in the other, as well as to additional biographical and geographical information about the people and places mentioned in the catalogue. Development of the prototype is currently continuing, to enhance features such as formatting, fonts, and searches. Information about the Workshops ------------------------------- (The following information may also be found at http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History_Mathematics/workshops.html.) It is expected that the process of gathering data about all relevant North American manuscripts and completing the Union Descriptive Catalogue therefrom will extend over twelve or more years. The data-gatherers for the first summer will be paid their basic living expenses and a stipend of $12.00 an hour. This compensation is contingent on our receiving funding; we will not know the extent to which we have been funded until April 1999. We hope to be able to employ several Arabists, Persianists, and Sanskritists for the summer of 1999. In case we receive no funding, the summer 1999 workshops and data-gathering will have to be cancelled. Although the amount of funding that will be available will not be known before next April, applications are invited now. Candidates must have completed at least two years of a PhD program that requires substantial expertise in one or more of the three languages, Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit, including at least two years of study of the language whose palaeography he or she wishes to learn. Each candidate must submit undergraduate and graduate transcripts, three letters of recommendation, at least two of which should be from language instructors, and a statement (one or two pages) of his or her interest in and familiarity with manuscript studies. Applications should be sent before 1 April 1999 to: Professor David Pingree Brown University, Box 1900 Providence, RI 02912 USA ------- Kim Plofker Technical Director, ACSAM Kim_Plofker@Brown.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CALL: Language, Vision & Music, Aug. 9-11/99, GALWAY, IRELAND Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 746 (746) [deleted quotation] LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC" <> <> <> <> <> <> LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL The Eighth International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8) (http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8/) "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC" National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) GALWAY, IRELAND Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th August, 1999 in association with: "Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND" (Monday 16th - Thursday 19th August, 1999) (Dublin City University, Ireland) (http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/mind4.html) "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC" What common cognitive patterns underlie our competence in these disparate modes of thought?? Language (natural & formal), vision and music seem to share at least the following attributes: a hierarchical organisation of constituents, recursivity, metaphor, the possibility of self-reference, ambiguity, and systematicity. Can we propose the existence of a general symbol system with instantiations in these three modes or is the only commonality to be found at the level of such entities as cerebral columnar automna?? Also, we invite papers which examine cross-cultural experience of these modalities. What can Engineering of software platforms for integrated Intelligent MultiModal & MultiMedia processing of language/vision/music/etc. tell us?? [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder - Upcoming Deadlines for Museums and the Web'99 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 747 (747) [deleted quotation] MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM MW MW MW Museums and the Web MW MW March 11-14, 1999 MW MW New Orleans, Louisiana MW MW http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ MW MW MW MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM Dear Friends and Colleagues, We'd like to remind you of some upcoming deadlines for Museums and the Web '99, an international conference in New Orleans, March 11-14, 1999. * This is the last week to nominate your favorite museum web site for the "Best of the Web" award; an international panel of judges, chaired by Maria Economou of Glasgow University, will evaluate all sites submitted. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/best/ Nominations close February 5, 1999. * February 15 marks the last day of the "regular" registration period. This is also the 'cut off date' for hotel registration at the special MW99 rate. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/register/ for full details. Also, please note that "MW Money", from the 1998 conference in Toronto, expires on February 15. * Early registration is advised for all pre-conference workshops. Attendance at these sessions is limited. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/workshops/ for workshop descriptions and outlines. For those of you who can't make it to New Orleans, the papers to be presented will begin to be linked from the Speakers Page of the conference web site (http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/speakers/) in early February. If you are coming, review the papers, plan your time, and prepare your questions for speakers now. We're looking forward to seeing everyone in New Orleans! jennifer and David ________ J. Trant and D. Bearman mw99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web New Orleans, Louisiana Archives & Museum Informatics March 11-14, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: SAMLA '99, Bowers' Principles at Fifty Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 748 (748) Call For Papers 1999 SAMLA Convention (Atlanta, GA, 4-6 November) Textual and Bibliographical Studies The Textual and Bibliographical Studies section of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association is seeking papers for its session at the 1999 SAMLA convention. The session will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Fredson Bowers' landmark Principles of Bibliographical Description. The organisers are particularly interested in papers that extend the ideas initiated by Bowers and developed further by scholars like G. Thomas Tanselle. Possible subjects might include: * How has the practice of descriptive bibliography evolved in different literary periods or genres? * Do different authors, booksellers or publishers require different descriptive models? * How does descriptive bibliography fit into the larger field of graduate education? * Is it possible to accommodate emerging digital technologies into traditional descriptive practices? * How might we use Principles to describe electronic texts and literary databases? Ideally the session will look ahead to the ways in which Bowers' Principles might be employed in the next 50 years. The deadline for proposals is 15 April 1999, and speakers must be members of SAMLA in order to participate. Please send a brief (250-500 word) proposal for a 15-20 minute paper to: dgants@english.uga.edu with the subject line "SAMLA 99" or by post to: David L. Gants Department of English 254 Park Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-6205 From: David Green Subject: MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK CONFERENCE: Proposals Due March 31 Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:47:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 749 (749) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 8,1999 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Annual Museum Computer Network Conference October 27-30, 1999: Philadelphia, PA <http://www.mcn.edu> DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS: MARCH 31, 1999 [deleted quotation] And Access for All: Integrating Cultural Heritage, Media, and Technology DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS: MARCH 31, 1999 Museums are on the verge of delivering on the promise that new media and technology will bring their resources out of the storerooms and galleries to an ever-expanding global audience. This conference explores how cultural heritage institutions are succeeding in forging a more perfect union between their traditional missions and new ways to communicate. MCN '99 offers a broad overview of opportunities, workshops for in-depth learning, and the chance to meet the people who are creating and managing the most innovative projects and discussing the most interesting new ideas. Special emphasis will be placed on new media initiatives, information integration, knowledge management, and organizational and cultural change, as we explore the confluence of information, technology, and media in today's evolving museums and cultural institutions. MCN'99 is for everyone interested in using new technologies and media to help us all better understand and appreciate cultural heritage collections. Proposals may address ideas and issues in any area of computing relating to museums or heritage. Please check the categories that best describe the subject of this proposal: __Administration __Cataloguing & description __Collections management __Conservation __Disciplinary computing (Art, Humanities, Sci.) __Educational programs __Events management __Exhibits __Facilities design and management __Fundraising & development __Imaging __Membership __Multimedia __Networks & integrated systems __Photo services & image rights __Professional development __Publications __Standards __Systems administration __Technologies & research __User services & training __Other (Please specify__________________) Level of technical knowledge of intended audience: __Beginning __Intermediate __Advanced This is a proposal for a: __Presentation/paper (specify length in minutes: ___) __Panel (90 min.) __full-day workshop __Half-day workshop __Other (Specify: _______________) Title: Proposal submitted by: (Provide name, title, institution, full mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail) Description: Summarize the relevance of the topic, the content to be covered, and the subjects to be addressed by individual speakers. Goals: Express how the intended audience will benefit from the presentation. Participants: List, the name, title, institution, address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of each speaker or panelist, and indicate whether their participation is confirmed or proposed. For panels, indicate which participant is the chair. A/V and information technology requirements for session: Proposals should be directed to: Julie Link Haifley, MCN'99 Program Chair National Museum of African Art 950 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20560-0708 Tel: (202) 357-4600, ext. 240 Fax: (202) 357-4879 E-mail: For more conference information, see the MCN website at: <http://www.mcn.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Fraser Subject: C&IT in small-group teaching Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:46:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 750 (750) Are you using computer-based resources or email discussion lists with small groups of humanities students? Are you based in the UK and would be willing to be interviewed about your experiences? Then please feel free to contact my colleague (details below). We are also interested in hearing of the experiences of non-UK academics but will probably not have the resources to undertake a formal interview. With thanks, Michael Fraser CTI Textual Studies -------------------- Dear Colleagues, The ASTER (Assisting Small-group Teaching through Electronic Resources) project is a UK initiative to explore how C&IT can assist studeents and lecturers to make the most of small-group learning and teaching. We are seeking to identify UK-based lecturers who are using small-group methods that may currently involve or have involved Computing and Information Technology (C&IT) for teaching the humanities and would be happy to be interviewed about this. We intend to conduct a semi-structured interview that will take about 20 minutes. The project is investigating the use of Communications and Information Technology (C&IT) in small group learning and teaching. The project is a consortium between the CTI Centres for Physics, Psychology and Textual Studies, and the Social Science Faculty at Southampton Institute. It is funded through the Teaching and Learning Technology Programme (TLTP) Phase 3. Small group teaching is a valued element of university education, though one that is coming increasingly under pressure with rising student numbers. The Aster project is currently carrying out a survey of the use of C&IT in small group teaching in UK universities with the aim of identifying and promoting good practice. We would be grateful for your views and input to this project. If you have experience of using C&IT for small-group teaching (with either positive or negative results), and are willing to participate and be interviewed, please contact Dr Frances Condron at: frances.condron@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Many thanks for your assistance. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr Frances Condron, CTI Textual Studies, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Email: frances.condron@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1865 273280 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0405 diss published electronically? Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 751 (751) [deleted quotation] I don't know if this is the "list" to which Ari refers, but my Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities site includes a directory devoted to tracking innovative ETDs: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ETD/ (It's been a while since I posted this URL to Humanist, and thought others here might be interested too.) Best, Matt : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Department of English Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ From: Claudia Calori Subject: R: 12.0241 e-publishing of dissertations Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:46:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 752 (752) I am an Italian student and I am having some web experiences about dissertation and essays written by student. As for a dissertation, I don't think any publisher would despise a work which is already known between students or researchers. But sometime I saw whole works being copied without any problem by students...I'd suggest to put an abstract online, or to make restrictions to the access because it is very easy to have your own work stolen by an anonymous surfer- and it is not funny! Claudia Calori http://www.lettere.unipd.it/~towanda towanda@lettere.unipd.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ed HAUPT Subject: Re: 12.0404 culturally traumatic ideas Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:45:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 753 (753) I think you're about a century off on mechanism in biology. Du Bois, Bruecke, Ludwig, and Helmholtz made a rather dramatic statement in 1847 that biology needed to become an organic physics. Ed Haupt Edward J. Haupt, Ph.D. Voice: (001)973.655.4327 Associate Professor of Psychology Fax: (001)973.655.5121 Department of Psychology email: haupt@email.njin.net Montclair State University Upper Montclair NJ USA 07043-1624 home page http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/haupthp.html Museum of the History of Psychological Experimentation http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/museum.html Membership Chair, History of Psychology (Division 26) Information and Membership Form at: http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/orgs/apa26/memform.htm From: Robert Knapp Subject: Re: 12.0404 culturally traumatic ideas Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:46:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 754 (754) --- WM writes: the computer sends us spinning because it does most of what we thought was our business --- end of quote --- In principle I agree that computing does set in motion new spins on my own sense of self and work (a healthy vertigo, I hope), but I beg to differ with Willard's "most." Perhaps I reveal my antedeluvian soul, but I cannot yet imagine how computing can engage, say, Stanley Cavell's questions whether we are not complicit in and therefore somehow responsible for the failures of attention and recognition that generate the tragedy in _King Lear_. Nor can I tell a story to myself that will plausibly make, say, Hal explain its understanding of how theater--arguably a very ancient but nonetheless revealing "techno-cultural" invention--did and does traumatize and hence transform our cultural selves. If the machine does come to be able to handle these language games (of theater and about theater), why should I--or that 22nd century provincial academic who sits at the spatial co-ordinates I currently occupy--not recognize it as "human"? In short, at the center of what I understand as the "humanities" is work that only human beings can do: recognize one another as (fallibly) human. No speciocentricity here, just a claim about the ontology of being human, something not necessarily (though so far contingently) linked to just one (biological) sort of machine. But these, as Willard rightly says, just are questions about what the drawing of lines is for. Robert Knapp Reed College From: Frank Hubbard <6615hubbardf@vmsb.csd.mu.edu> Subject: Re: 12.0404 culturally traumatic ideas Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:46:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 755 (755) Willard, I'm new at participating in these discussions, so forgive errors please. Among other activities, I've been a reader for Educational Testing Service for fifteen years or so, Advanced Placement English, Graduate Management Admission Test, theTest Of English as a Foreign Language, and various locally adapted placement and achievement essay tests, all scored "holistically," which for ETS means (1) quickly, (2) against a scoring guide and (3) guided by sample papers already scored. I think these tests are, for now at least, very necessary evils, and further, that I ought to participate in them lest they become even worse. During the last two years, ETS has begun scoring the GMAT and TOEFL essays "on line," that is, sending the essays keyed in by test takers worldwide to four grading centers, at Princeton, Atlanta, Evanston, and Oakland. I've become a "scoring leader" at Evanston, and trained other readers to read essays on line. The gain has been, in my eyes, that the response time on an essay is now well below two weeks in most cases, fast enough (I speak as a teacher) for students actually to benefit from the score as a comment on their writing. I've suggested to ETS that they provide more detailed feedback, as ACT is working to do for its examinations that lead up to its equivalent to ETS's SAT (sorry about the explosion of acronyms). Perhaps they may someday soon actually do so. Readers of the New York TImes will be saying to themselves, "Now they've developed some software to grade those exams," as was announced last Wednesday. We scoring leaders go to Princeton next week to find out a little more about the software, but as far as we know now, it includes an array of pretty standard stuff, measures of length, sentence length, number of paragraphs, maybe syllables of selected vocab items, maybe some collocation stuff; it purports to measure ideas in some way as well. It's that last item that really has my attention. As I read people like John Searle and John Haugeland and Hubert Dreyfus, I find arguments that make me doubt I will find more than correlations between what the software measures and what human beings do, even if the score correlations really are in the 95% range as ETS is saying. I am strongly of two minds about this at least minimally traumatic development. If it speeds helpful response to testtakers, and makes a learning experience arise within an evaluation experience, I'm for it. If it pretends to be weighing the thinking of the testtakers, I'm doubtful. Even in the limited domains of the argument-analysis writing task on the GMAT, I don't want to say that the computer is reading the paper. Do others know what is likely to be included in the exam-scoring software? Or have opinions about what it likely can and cannot do? Frank Hubbard Frank Hubbard Assistant Dean The Graduate School Marquette University P. O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 414 288-1531 Fax 414 288-1902 email: 6615hubbardf@vms.csd.mu.edu Website http://www.grad.mu.edu From: Subject: RE: 12.0404 culturally traumatic ideas Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:47:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 756 (756) Willard, nothing to offer in terms of an 'answer' I'm afraid ... but an observation of other similar 'cultural trauma' to consider - in fine art. The Renaissance Perspective Impressionism Cubism Abstract Expressionism etc etc have forced people to reconsider how we are represented and also where the technological development of the camera, film, TV and video have forced artists to reconsider how to represent people ... "because it does most of what we thought was our business, and so forces us to rethink what exactly we're good for after all." Cheers Simon Simon Rae The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. MK7 6AA - UK (My words not theirs.) From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0404 culturally traumatic ideas Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:46:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 757 (757) Dear WM: Your note about cultural trauma is perhaps not shaped so as to go for the largest topic of all, ourselves. Instance: When I was a Fellow once at the RockefellerFoundation in Italy, there was a weekend conference of the biggest operators in the world of nuclear energy, including Lord Rothschild, who came over from the UK. One of the themes that was discussed was the great resistance to nuclear energy among the people, those who were not engineers or electrical power providers. After all these years, they couldnt find people who accepted willingly the idea, and that was before Chernobyl and the threat of bad engineering. I had a tete a tete with about 5 of the biggies one afternoon, all engineer types of the most powerful sort, way up there in the structure of energy, government, etc. I proposed to them this idea, which of course left them groggy and stupified and goggleeyed, so outre did it seem to engineer types. To put it simply, Freud suggested in an essay that first great achievement (and trauma) was the mastery of fire. That takes us back a ways, right? He connected it with the notion of the male control of the urethral sphincter. (He doesnt talk about the female bladder, though, and perhaps he didnt think females first dared to control the spark.) He cited Swift's tale of Gulliver pissing on the Lilliputian queen's bedchambers, to save the whole palace from burning down. That is suggestive in itself, the fire starting in her rooms, that is, the womb/hearth notion. We still are not in control of fire, and still it wreaks the most havoc in all human settlements. Imagine, I told those engineers, the threat of trying to imagine controlling nuclear fire! Fusion! Etc. Blowing up the world, or say a continent's surface. We are working on it, of course, how to get energy. Cold fusion was attractive because it avoided the idea of fire, but it seems not to be possible. The stars are fire. Etc. Those guys didnt get it. I said, That is where your primal, aboriginal anxiety in us all begins, with fire. We can piss on a fire, hose it down, feel power from our bladded, as boys do, but nuclear fire? Terrifying in a way that we cannot begin to think of controlling, etc. They were interested, but looked at me as if the poet were mad. Well, the poet is not so mad as all that. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: Digital Image Distribution Study released Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:47:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 758 (758) =============================================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 8, 1999 DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION STUDY NOW AVAILABLE Berkeley Mellon Study of MESL Project * * * * Press Release: <http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/99press-release.html> Report: "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" <http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon> Last year, the Getty Trust published its report on one of the most influential and seminal digital projects of recent years, the Museum Educational Site Licensing project. Initially created to discover and define acceptable terms and conditions for licensing the distribution of digital museum images in the educational community, it grew to encompass, and bring its participants to grapple with, in the words of Eleanor Fink (director of the sponsoring Getty Information Institute) "issues from content selection, image capture, and standards for recording and transmitting data to systems interface design, faculty and student training in new technology, software tool development, use and impact studies, economic analyses and intellectual property questions." The Getty issued its report in two volumes last year: ""Delivering Digital Images: Cultural Heritage Resources for Education," ($24.95; from <http://www.getty.edu/publications/titles/deliv/index.html> and "Images Online: Perspectives from the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project." ($12.50; from <http://www.getty.edu/publications/titles/images/index.html>. Now, a Mellon Foundation-financed economic study of the MESL project, conducted by the University of California at Berkeley has just been released. "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" examines MESL's cost centers in the distribution of a digital library of images and metadata. The findings, according to the release,"should be of interest to anyone contemplating image digitization or distribution, particularly to a scholarly audience. It should be of particular interest to those involved in funding and/or planning activities involving either analog or digital image distribution." David Green ============ [deleted quotation] SPECIAL REPORT ON DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION STUDY IS NOW AVAILABLE This press release looks better viewed on a web browser at http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon/99press-release.html A special report examining the costs of distributing digital images to the university community has just been released. "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" is the result of a 22-month UC Berkeley study of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The MESL Project, sponsored by the Getty Information Institute, was the first attempt to create a collection of images and descriptive information from a variety of museums and deliver it digitally to university users of campus networks. The two-year experimental collaboration among seven museums and seven universities succeeded in distributing approximately 10,000 images for classroom use and individual research, primarily in the areas of cultural studies, art history, history, and photography. The Cost of Digital Image Distribution identifies, defines, and explores MESL's primary cost centers in the digital network distribution of images and accompanying text. It examines the processes and costs of analog slide libraries, and compares the analog and digital distribution systems. It also considers the intangible factors that can lead to the success or failure of digital distribution schemes, such as learning curve, ease or difficulty of maintenance, and faculty attitudes towards teaching with digital images. The findings presented in this report should be of interest to anyone contemplating image digitization or distribution, particularly to a scholarly audience. It should be of particular interest to those involved in funding and/or planning activities involving either analog or digital image distribution. Major findings include: -It will be a long time before digital image repositories will be able to deliver the critical mass of images needed for instruction and research. Analog slide libraries and digital image repositories will necessarily coexist for many years. -The higher education community is enthusiastic about providing access to digital images and information from cultural heritage repositories. However, many impediments to widespread adoption must be dealt with--ranging from lack of comprehensive content and the absence of necessary tools to facilitate use, to inadequate recognition and support for faculty who adopt new technology in their teaching. -The anticipated shift from analog slide libraries to licensed digital images represents a shift from ownership to access through ongoing subscription. This shift is analogous to the changes that have taken place in university library collections. University administrators are concerned about controlling content costs and faculty are concerned about ongoing access to the images they use and need. Those university positions are at odds with those of museum image distribution consortia, who seek a consistent revenue stream and are reluctant to assure ongoing access without ongoing payment. For such image distribution schemes to work, both museums and universities have to see their common goals as outweighing their individual concerns. "The Cost of Digital Image Distribution: The Social and Economic Implications of the Production, Distribution, and Usage of Image Data" Howard Besser, Principal Investigator; Robert Yamashita, Project Manager A report to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation--A Study of the Economics of Network Access to Visual Information: The Museum Educational Site Licensing Project, Published by the School of Information Management and Systems, U.C. Berkeley, 1998 Available online at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/1998mellon in both html and PDF format Paper copies of this report may also be ordered c/o Howard Besser, School of Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 94720-4600 .._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Howard Besser Associate Professor UCLA Department of Information Studies address thru August 1999: School of Information Management & Systems 102 South Hall University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 tel: (510)643-7365 office: (510)642-1464 fax: (510)642-5814 howard@sims.berkeley.edu http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~howard/ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org> david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: CSAC combined anthropology bibliography passes 20K refs Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:29:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 759 (759) Makhzan, the CSAC social anthropology bibliography started by John Davis and Mike Fischer has now demonstrated that it has no 20K problem by expanding past this limit. It grows through work here at CSAC and by contributions for others - all welcomed in Refer format or in other well structured format by arrangment... yours sincerely davidz Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0410 culturally traumatic ideas Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:29:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 760 (760) I'm afraid that as soon as I learnd how to program, I started saying "hot damn ! here's something that can help me study language and literature". I don't think it ever was traumatic.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Last call for papers TALN'99 (NLP) Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:43:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 761 (761) [deleted quotation] Please find below the last call for papers (English and French versions) for the TALN'99 conference. Please note deadline extension to Feb. 21, 1999. ***************************************************** Apologies if you receive this message more than once. ***************************************************** ********************************************************************** * * * _____ _ _ _ _ _ ___ ___ * * |_ _|/ \ | | | \ | ||/ / _ \ / _ \ * * | | / _ \ | | | \| | | (_) | (_) | * * | |/ ___ \| |___| |\ | \__, |\__, | * * |_/_/ \_\_____|_| \_| /_/ /_/ * * * * * * TALN'99 * * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * * * Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (Corse) * * du 12 au 17 juillet 1999 * * * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) TALN'99 Cargese (Corse) du 12 au 17 juillet 1999 DERNIER APPEL a COMMUNICATIONS ET EXTENSION DE DELAIS ********************************************************************** * * * NOUVELLE DATE LIMITE : 21 FEVRIER 1999 * * * ********************************************************************** La sixieme edition de la conference sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN'99) se tiendra, du 12 au 17 juillet 1999, a l'Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corse. Etendue cette annee a une semaine, la conference comprendra des tutoriels et des ateliers thematiques. TALN'99 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement avec la conference RECITAL'99 (appel a communications a paraitre separement). Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. [material deleted, for more information see <http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TALN'99 Cargese (Corsica, France) 12 - 17 July 1999 LAST CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION ********************************************************************** * * * EXTENDED DEADLINE : FEBRUARY, 21 1999 * * * ********************************************************************** The Sixth Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN'99) will be held at the Institute for Scientific Studies at Cargese, Corsica, France, 12. - 17. July, 1999. TALN'99 will last a whole week, and will include both workshops and tutorials. TALN'99 is organized under the auspices of ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues, Association for NLP) and will take place jointly with the RECITAL'99 conference (call for papers to be issued separately). The official languages of the conference are French and English. Papers are invited for thirty minute talks, question period included, in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to) : lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing text generation abstraction/summarization dialogue machine translation logical,symbolical and statistical approaches TALN'99 also welcomes submissions from fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as those submissions emphasize their NLP dimension. [material deleted] ********************************************************************** * TALN'99 * * mailto:taln99@linguist.jussieu.fr * * http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99 * * TALaNa - UFRL - Universite Paris 7 * * case 7003 - 2, place Jussieu Til. : (33) 1 44 27 53 70 * * 75251 Paris Cedex 05 - France Fax : (33) 1 44 27 79 19 * ********************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Zauberberg Subject: Conceptual Network Analysis Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:30:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 762 (762) Conceptual Network Analysis / Robert N.Ross Robert N.Ross, in an article published in Vol. 10 / 1974 of "Semiotica. Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies", presented an early model for computer based qualitative analysis of literary texts. I would like to know if any of the fellow HUMANIST subscribers and contributors has by any chance used this model. *************************** Zauberberg Cottage 28 Ridge Drive, Paradise Knysna 6570 / South Africa Tel. +27-(0)44 382 53 57 Fax: 382 79 58 Cell: 082 82 55 737 mailto:zauberberg@pixie.co.za Please visit our Web site: http://www.knysna.co.za/zauberberg From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Call for assistance Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 20:30:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 763 (763) As part of its support for the Dictionary Parsing Project (http://www.clres.com/dpp.html), CL Research is currently articulating defining patterns that can be reliably used to identify semantic relations (semrels) in dictionary definitions. We have found that, like semantic roles in sentences, there is no widespread agreement on a fixed inventory (we have provided links to several inventories at the above web page). Nonetheless, the inventories are substantial and the defining patterns will be even more numerous. We would be grateful for any assistance in their development. The goal of this effort is the production of publicly available lexical resources similar to WordNet or Microsoft's MindNet. We are currently using the publicly available Webster's 2nd International Dictionary (120,000 headwords and 280,000 definitions) as the immediate resource, employing the publicly available CL Research DIMAP software for parsing definitions. (We are also parsing WordNet glosses, as well as using WordNet in parsing W2 to test the validity of identified semantic relations that have WordNet counterparts.) In addition, we are expanding the parsing technology used in DIMAP for the recently completed SENSEVAL word-sense disambiguation task to make use of semrel information. We will be using this technology in the upcoming Q & A Track of TREC-8, as well as anticipated future SENSEVAL tasks. We would welcome any companies or individuals who would like to join us in this participation. Thank you for your consideration. 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Full information and course details can be found on the HATII web pages at: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS99/ The availability of high-quality digital content is central to improved public access, teaching, and research about heritage information. Archivists, librarians, and museum professionals are among the many groups that are increasingly involved in creating digital resources to improve access and understanding to their collections. Skills in understanding the principles and best practice in the digitisation of primary textual and image resources have broad value. Participants in the course will examine the advantages of developing digital collections of heritage materials, as well as investigate issues involved in creating, curating, and managing access to such collections. The lectures will be supplemented by seminars and practical exercises. In these, participants will apply the practical skills they acquire to the digitisation of an analogue collection which they have selected (print, image e.g. photographic or slide, music manuscripts, or map). The focus will be on working with primary source material not otherwise available in digital form. The one-week intensive course will consist of lectures, seminars, lab-based practicals (offering both guided tuition, as well as an opportunity for individual skill development), and visits to the Glasgow University Library and Archive collections. (A full programme can be found at our website.) Places are limited on the course, so please register early to confirm a place. COSTS, REGISTRATION, AND DEADLINES Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea breaks, not including accomdation): - Advanced booking discounted price before 30 April 1999: £550 sterling. - Normal price: £600 sterling (applies after 1 May 1999) - Student price: £400 sterling Please use the web page to register online at: http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS99/ or contact: Mrs Ann Law, Secretary, HATII Institute, University of Glasgow 2 University Gardens GLASGOW G12 8QQ, UK Tel. and Fax: (+44 141) 330 5512 Email: a.law@arts.gla.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "A. Jenn Sondheim" Subject: Re: 12.0416 transforming the possibilities Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:09:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 767 (767) That in fact our knowledge of books and computers may actually interfere with our knowledge of the phenomenological horizon of the manuscript. It's impossible for us to comprehend a world in which _every sign_ was written by hand; we take for granted even the logos on our computers, advertising on our pens and pencils. Instead of looking at the irreducibly modern, it is well to negate that, at least as an exercise; otherwise we are doomed to perception through the currency of contemporary apparatus. Alan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IJCAI-99 Announcement of Awards Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:34:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 768 (768) [deleted quotation] IJCAI-99 Awards The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the Computers and Thought Award are made by the IJCAII Board of Trustees, upon recommendation by the IJCAI Awards Selection Committee, which consisted this year of Daniel Bobrow (Palo Alto, USA) C. Raymond Perrault (Palo Alto, USA) Ross Quinlan (Sydney, Australia) Erik Sandewall (Linkoeping, Sweden) Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken, Germany, Chair) The IJCAI Awards Selection Committee receives advice from members of the IJCAI Awards Review Committee, who comment on the accuracy of the nomination material and provide additional information about the nominees. The IJCAI Awards Review Committee is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAII, the IJCAI-99 Advisory Committee, the Program Chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded. IJCAI Award for Research Excellence The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at the IJCAI conference to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality, yielding several substantial results. Past recipients of this award are John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993), Herbert Simon (1995), and Aravind Joshi (1997). The winner of the 1999 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is Judea Pearl, Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of California Los Angeles, USA. Professor Pearl is recognized for his fundamental work on heuristic search, reasoning under uncertainty, and causality. He will deliver a lecture entitled "Reasoning with Cause and Effect" in the evening of August 5, 1999. IJCAI Computers and Thought Award The Computers and Thought Award is presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. The award was established with royalties received from the book "Computers and Thought", edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAII funds. Past recipients of this honor have been Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991), Martha Pollack (1991), Hiroaki Kitano (1993), Sarit Kraus (1995), Stuart Russell (1995), and Leslie Kaelbling (1997). The winner of the 1999 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is Nicholas R. Jennings, Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, UK. Professor Jennings is recognized for his contributions to practical agent architectures and his applied work in the field of multi-agent systems. He will deliver a lecture entitled "Agent-Based Computing: Promise and Perils" in the evening of August 3, 1999. The Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award The IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the IJCAII Trustees to honor senior scientists in AI for contributions and service to the field during their careers. Previous recipients have been Bernard Meltzer (1979), Arthur Samuel (1983), Donald Walker (1989), Woodrow Bledsow (1991) and Daniel G. Bobrow (1993). In 1994, the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was renamed the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award in memory of the late Donald E. Walker, who shaped the IJCAII organization as a Secretary-Treasurer. At IJCAI-99, the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award will be given to Wolfgang Bibel, Professor for Intellectics at the Department of Computer Science of the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in Germany. As a pioneering researcher in automated deduction, Professor Bibel is recognized for his outstanding contributions and service to the international AI community including his creation of ECCAI, which has operated since 1982 as an umbrella organization of 27 European societies for Artificial Intelligence. For more information about the winners please refer to the following homepages: Professor Wolfgang Bibel: http://kirmes.inferenzsysteme.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~bibel/ Professor Nick Jennings: http://web.elec.qmw.ac.uk/staff/nrj.htm Professor Judea Pearl: http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Prof.Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Wahlster Director of the German Research Center for AI DFKI GmbH email: wahlster@dfki.de Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 fax: +49 681 302 5341 D-66123 Saarbr"ucken, Germany phone: +49 681 302 5252 homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: LAST CALL: MIND-IV, TWO SCIENCES OF MIND, 16-20/8,99, DUBLIN, IRELAND Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:28:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 769 (769) [deleted quotation] Mind 4 Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, August 16-20, 1999 Theme: "Two Sciences of Mind" Confirmed invited speakers include: Bernard Baars David Galin Karl Pribram Stuart Hammeroff Kathy McGovern Steven Nachmanovitch Jacob Needleman Program Committee: Bernard Baars Mark Bickhard Robert Campbell Christian de Quincey Stuart Hammeroff Paul Mc Kevitt Kathy McGovern Steven Nachmanovitch Jacob Needleman Sean O Nuallain Yoshi Nakamura Max Velmans Terry Winegar Keynote addresses: Bernard Baars: "The Compassionate Implications of Brain Imaging of Conscious Pain: New Vistas in Applied Cognitive Science." Jacob Needleman: "Inner and Outer Empiricism in Consciousness Research" Stream 1: Outer and Inner empiricism in consciousness research This stream will feature papers that attempt to show how "inner" states can be elucidated with reference to external phenomena. "Inner empiricism" designates experience, or qualia. They are shaped (somehow) by brain processes or states which sense and interpret the external phenomena. The physical nature of these processes or states may tell us much about consciousness. Likewise, the argument that we are conscious of only one thing at a time because of the gating action of the nuclei reticularis thalami (Taylor, Baars, etc) is indicative of the kind of thinking we are trying to encourage. In this vein, pain experience and its imperfect relationship to neural activity are similarly relevant. We particularly welcome papers that feature empirical data, or, lacking these data, show a grasp of the range of disciplines necessary to do justice to the topic. Papers are also invited that - Interpret qualia in terms of a quantum-mechanics based panpsychism (or, in current terms, pan-protopsychism) - Establish links with developments like Whitehead's pan-experientialism and process thought -Interrelate physiological processes at the neural level with current thought in QM - Emphasize "relational empiricism", ie second-person considerations - Investigate the brain processes or states giving rise to qualia at whatever level the writer considers appropriate (eg intra-cellular cytoskeletal activities and/or quantum-level phenomena). - Involve studies of central pain states as well as other curiosities like allodynia, spontaneous analgesia, pain asymbolia, and hypnotic analgesia. The invited talks include: David Galin "The Experience of 'Spirit' in Cognitive Terms." Stuart Hameroff "Quantum Computin and Consciousness" Steve Nachmanovitch "Creativity and Consiousness" Each of these talks will be followed by a panel discussion discussing respectively, consciousness as explored experientially, through scientific investigation, and in the arts. Stream 2: Foundations of Cognitive Science Co-chairs: Sean O Nuallain Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland (sonualla@compapp.dcu.ie) Robert L. Campbell Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC USA (campber@clemson.edu) WHAT THE STREAM IS ABOUT Though deep and contentious questions of theory and metatheory have always been prevalent in Cognitive Science--they arise whenever an attempt is made to define CS as a discipline--they have frequently been downrated by researchers, in favor of empirical work that remains safely within the confines of established theories and methods. Our goal to is redress the balance. We encourage participants in this stream to raise and discuss such questions as: * the adequacy of computationalist accounts of mind * the adequacy of conceptions of mental representation as structures that encode structures out in the environment * the consequences of excluding emotions, consciousness, and the social realm from the purview of cognitive studies * the consequences of Newell and Simon's "scientific bet" that developmental constraints do not have to be studied until detailed models of adult cognition have been constructed and tested * the relationship between cognitive science and formal logic A wide range of theoretical perspectives is welcome, so long as the presenters are willing to engage in serious discussion with the proponents of perspectives that are different from their own: * Vygotskian approaches to culture and cognition * Dynamic Systems theories * Piagetian constructivism * interactivism * neuroscience accounts such as those of Edelman and Grossberg * accounts of emergence in general, and emergent knowledge in particular * perception and action robotics * functional linguistics * genetic algorithms * Information Procesing * connectionism * evolutionary epistemology ******************** Contributors will be asked to submit short papers (3000 word limit) in the form of ASCII text files (HTML files are also welcome, but are optional) to Robert Campbell (for stream 2) and Sean O Nuallain (stream 1). (e-mails campber@CLEMSON.EDU,sean@compapp.dcu.ie) The deadline is March 1, 1999. We will email notification of acceptance or rejection by April 1. The standard presentations during the streams will be 20-minute talks and poster sessions. *********** The "MIND" conferences have normally had their proceedings published by John Benjamins. We have already been approached by prospective publishers for Mind 4. All accepted papers and posters will be included in a preprint. Robert L. Campbell Professor, Psychology Brackett Hall 410A Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-1511 USA phone (864) 656-4986 fax (864) 656-0358 http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html Editor, Dialogues in Psychology http://hubcap.clemson.edu/psych/Dialogues/dialogues.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA call for proposals Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:31:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 770 (770) [deleted quotation] ANNOUNCING CALL FOR PROPOSALS ELRA 1999 CALL FOR PROPOSALS ELRA COMMISSIONING PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES Full version of call of proposals is available at: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/callpr99.html If you would like to receive a copy of the call for proposals by e-mail, please contact Jeff ALLEN, mailto:jeff@elda.fr ____________ 8 February 1999 The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) invites proposals for the first of a series of calls for the (co-)production and packaging of Language Resources (LRs), open to companies and academic organisations that comply with eligibility conditions provided below. ELRA is planning to commission the production, packaging and/or customisation of speech and written LRs needed by the Language Engineering (LE) community, and is inviting applications for production and/or packaging/repackaging projects, which could be eligible for funding from ELRA. The purpose of the call is to ensure that necessary resources are developed in an acceptable framework (in terms of time and legal conditions) by the LE players. This call is targeted towards projects with short time scales (projects lasting up to one year but preferably shorter) and the size of the funding will be considerably small. The ELRA funding is to be seen as effective and useful for producers being both tactical in their aims for the targeted market, which means that they do know all about the needs on the specific market, and strategic with regard to what to produce in order to fulfil these needs. In order to qualify for funding eligibility under the European Commission 4th Programme, the institution(s) making the proposal must belong to one of the European Union Member States, or be in Liechtenstein, Iceland or Norway. It is preferred that proposals not exceed 100,000 EURO. ELRA hopes to fund several proposals. Timetable of deadlines: Announcement of the Call: 8 February 1999 Submission deadline for proposals: 19 March 1999 Notification of reception of proposals before 26 March 1999 Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on the 5th April 1999 NOTE: Only complete proposals will be reviewed. Should you have further questions, please contact Jeff ALLEN at the ELDA/ELRA office for details before 1 March 1999. Jeff ALLEN c/o ELRA/ELDA 55 rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE e-mail: Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30 http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI: Last Call Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:34:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 771 (771) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI-workshop on DEIXIS, DEMONSTRATION and DEICTIC BELIEF in MULTIMEDIA CONTEXTS ================================================================ Workshop held in the section 'Language and Computation' as part of the 'Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information' ESSLLI-99 August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands LAST CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION ================================== ORGANISERS: Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken) Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh) Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360) Questions concerning the workshop may be addressed to any of the organisers. BACKGROUND: Deixis has always been at the heart of reference research as widely known literature in semantics and pragmatics (H.H. Clark, S.C. Levinson, H. Kamp, D. Kaplan, W.V. Quine) demonstrates. Being fundamental, it is in the common focus of several disciplines: Cognitive science, linguistics, philosophical logics, AI, and psychology. Until recently, little was known about the role of pointing and demonstration in deixis, especially about the coordination of speech and gesture in deictic contexts. The situation has now changed due to research in linguistics, ethnomethodology, vision, neuro-computation, gesture analysis, psychology, and computer simulation. At present, research is going on at various places, aimed at the integration of deixis information from e.g. the visual and the auditory channel. Relevant topics in this new field are e.g. saliency, focus-monitoring, types of gestures and demonstrations, and especially the emergence and structure of composite signals but it also has intimate connections with problems of long standing such as grounding, mutuality or agents' coordination in discourse. The workshop will integrate different methodologies, experimental paradigms, computer simulation including virtual reality approaches and formal modelling alike. It is addressed to Master-students, PhD-students and scholars working on philosophical, linguistic or computational aspects of deixis including gesture. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-99 please visit the ESSLLI-99 home page at http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ and the home page of this workshop at http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~deixis ADDRESSES: Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken): Elisabeth.Andre@dfki.de Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh): poesio@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360): rieser@lili.uni-bielefeld.de From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI'99 Student Session 2nd Call for Papers Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:35:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 772 (772) [deleted quotation] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands Deadline : March 15th, 1999 http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/esslli-fr.html We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99) organized by the University of Utrecht under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FOLLI) and located at the University of Utrecht in August 1999. We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'99 Student Session and appearance in the proceedings. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd CallForPapersTHAI-ETIS Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:36:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 773 (773) [deleted quotation] Call for papers THAI-ETIS European Symposium on Telematics, Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence in education and training for the new professions in the Information Society Varese, Italy, June 21-22 1999 This two-day Symposium is organised jointly by the Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria at Varese and the European Consortium of the THAIland project (Telematics, Hypermedia and Artificial Intelligence). Members of the Consortium are the Universities appearing as affiliations of the program committee members listed below. The THAIland project is concerned with preparing a Master-level curriculum that focuses on the artist-engineer of the future, from either a technical/information systems or media background, developing specialists who will make a valid contribution to the growing telematics "content" sector. OBJECTIVES The aim of the Symposium is to bring together experts from different areas of computer science, artificial intelligence and other disciplines, both from the academic environment and from public/private enterprise, who have a common interest in exploring the new employment opportunities that arise from the recent trends in ICT: the interdisciplinary professions combining creative and technological capabilities in producing content material for the Information Society and the type of education and training needed to qualify for these innovative positions. CONTRIBUTIONS REQUIRED The contributions requested describe proposals, projects and experience underway, within educational institutions and research centres as well as in public and private enterprise, in defining, implementing and experimenting content and education for the new multimedial professions of the Information Society. Contributions are expected that emphasise one or more of the following aspects: - the innovative aspects of the pedagogical, methodological and content provision approach; - the interdisciplinary character of the combination of technological and creative aspects; - the technological aspects that support the educational proposal; - the context (regional, national or transnational) of the educational proposal; - the relationship between the educational institution and the productive environment; - the advantages and the business opportunities provided to enterprises by the new professional profiles; - the relationship between residential education and open and distance learning; - the use by enterprises of the new educational means in the process of continuously updating their employees' professional capacities; - the contributions made by these innovative educational means to keeping the individual citizens in pace with the evolution of society through a lifelong learning process. The requested contributions concern the opportunities for cultural, professional and occupational development, and the competitive advantage, offered by information and communication technologies, with respect to the preparation of content. A non-exhaustive and open list of main sectors of activity follows. MAIN SECTORS - creation and diffusion of electronic publishing (multimedia CD's, on-line newspapers and magazines, ...), digital and virtual libraries; - development of Internet information services (municipal networks, telematic squares, virtual cities, value added services like brokering and information collection/interpretation through intelligent agents, multimedia information retrieval, electronic commerce, =85); - virtual education (no longer distance learning but learning "without distances"!); virtual classrooms and virtual campuses; - arts and entertainment (design and maintenance of virtual worlds, electronic art, virtual performances, =85). PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Chris Hutchison, Kingston University (U.K.) (Co-Chairman) Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone, University of Insubria at Varese (Italy) (Co-Chairman) Phillip Burrel, Southbank University (U.K.) Ulises Cortes, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) Matti Hamalainen, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland) Daniele Herin, University of Montpellier II (France) Veli-Pekka Liflander, Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology (Finland) Daniele Marini, University of Milan (Italy) Wolf Paprotte', Munster University (Germany) Ramon Sanguesa, Technical University of Catalonia (Spain) Christian Wolf, University of Leipzig (Germany) SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Send either a full paper (of max. 16 double spaced pages) or a short paper (of max. 8 double spaced pages) to one of the Program Committee co-chairs. Electronic mail submission in self contained Postscript format is encouraged. Alternatively one hard copy may be submitted by post (contact one co-chair first). The paper must be must be written in English, must be original and not submitted or accepted by any conference or journal.. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. The acceptance will be based on originality of work, on the relevance of the topic for the Symposium and on the overall quality. DEADLINES - by 20 February: submit the paper; - by 20 March: acceptance response; - by 20 April: send the final camera-ready paper. PROCEEDINGS The accepted (both full and short) papers will be included in the pre-prints, distributed at the Symposium. The papers actually presented at the Symposium will be published, possibly in a version revised after the Symposium, in a collective book by an international publisher. SYMPOSIUM VENUE The Symposium will be held in the city of Varese in northern Italy, which can be reached in 30 minutes from the new Milan airport, Malpensa 2000. A historic city founded by the Gauls, Varese is known as the "Garden City" because of the many villas and parks distributed throughout its territory, spread out along the foothills of the Alps and in the midst of many lakes. Important also from the artistic-cultural point of view, the area offers the typical Lombard architecture, castles with frescoes, Renaissance villas and many 18th century palaces with splendid gardens in the Italian style of the period. Consult the Internet for the site of the Varese province to navigate in four languages through this interesting area: http://www.provincia.va.it even before coming to the Symposium. Related events and preliminary arrangements During the two days of the symposium, time will be allocated for discussion. Two invited speakers are planned. A related exhibition will take place in the same site on projects, products and demonstrations on all the topics covered by the symposium. Authors wishing to show a demonstration are requested to submit (in the same way as for the paper) a 200 word abstract describing the application. Contact addresses: Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone: lanzaron@mercurio.sm.dsi.unimi.it Chris Hutchison: Hutchison@fnmail.com From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder: Reservation deadline for MW99 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:37:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 774 (774) [deleted quotation] MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM MW MW MW Museums and the Web MW MW March 11-14, 1999 MW MW New Orleans, Louisiana MW MW http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ MW MW MW MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM Dear Friends and Colleages, Just a quick note to remind you that the hotel reservation 'cut-off' date for Museums and the Web in New Orleans is February 17, 1999. Make your reservations at: The Hyatt Regency New Orleans Poydras Plaza at Loyola Avenue New Orleans Louisiana 70113-1805 USA Reservations: 1 800 233 1234 Telephone: +1 504 561 1234 Fax: +1 504 587-4141 Call the hotel, and mention that you are attending Museums and the Web to get the special conferece rate.... but do so by February 17, 1999. Space is filling up fast but the hotel must honour our rate. Please contact us if you have any trouble making your reservation. Speakers papers are now beginning to appear on the conference web site. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/speakers/index.html for the list of presenters. See you all in New Orleans! jennifer and David ________ J. Trant and D. Bearman mw99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web New Orleans, Louisiana Archives & Museum Informatics March 11-14, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: Michael Popham Subject: "Metadata Matters" BCS one-day seminar 10/03/99 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:39:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 775 (775) ************************************************* * Apologies for cross-posting * * All replies to: penfold@eps-edge.demon.co.uk * ************************************************* British Computer Society Electronic & Multimedia Publishing Specialist Group ================ METADATA MATTERS ================ Wednesday 10 March 1999 (10.00-5.30) Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies Russell Square, London WC1 Metadata plays a crucial role in the identification, retrieval, and management of all digital assets. Yet this vital feature of the emerging electronic informationndscape - the virtual space that we will all soon inhabit - has for a long time remained largely unknown, disregarded, and misunderstood. However, now there is a growing consensus amongst information professionals of all backgrounds that metadata matters. Generations of librarians have used metadata to catalogue collections of non-electronic materials. It is thanks to the existence of such catalogues that any of us can find a book, compact disk, or video in our local public library in a matter of minutes rather than days, and with a minimum of foreknowledge or expertise. Although it is less clear if or how one should catalogue a multimedia CD-ROM or database, let alone an interactive electronic journal, or even an entire web site, developments with Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are beginning to make such an approach possible. The growing ubiquity of the Internet is encouraging the creation and distribution of a range of new digital resources - electronic texts, images, audio, and video files - each of which presents new problems when considering the assertion of intellectual property rights, implementing charging models, access restrictions, and the like. Here again, metadata matters and DOI has a role to play. This meeting is intended to look at as many aspects of this fundamental topic as possible - including DOI, the Dublin Core, RDF (Resource Description Framework) - bringing together expert speakers from a range of disciplines and industries, to present their experiences of creating and exploiting electronic metadata. The meeting should be of interest to anyone concerned with the development and use of digital assets, and will provide a vital forum for the interchange of ideas and expertise. [material deleted] Registration ============ To register for the seminar, complete and return the registration form available for download from: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cc/staff/malcolm/metadata.htm [material deleted] Hard copy leaflets will shortly be sent to Group members, but the above details and information about previous meetings can be found on the Group web site at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cc/staff/malcolm/bcs-emp.html David Penfold (Administrator, BCS EMPSG) -- David Penfold, Edgerton Publishing Services 30 Edgerton Road, Huddersfield HD3 3AD, UK Tel 01484 519462; Fax 01484 451396; Mobile 0850 058544 E-mail: Penfold@eps-edge.demon.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Y1K (fwd) Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:28:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 776 (776) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Fraser Subject: Post-pixellation, 23 Feb, Oxford Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:50:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 777 (777) David Greetham City University of New York Graduate School: Post-pixellation: What Do We Do After the Electronic Revolution? Lecture Room B OUCS 13 Banbury Rd Oxford 2:30pm, 23rd February, 1999 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Speculations on what might happen to our concepts of textuality and identity once the digital revolution is no longer revolutionary. What will be the presiding tropes of text for the next millennium? Can we look for a new Marxist/Hegelian antithesis to be embedded in the received truths of digitization, and what form is that antithesis likely to take? Will the electronic revolution eventually look like rather a minor blip in the history of textual transmission, or will it really hold a similar status to that of Gutenberg (who, in a recent 'popular' book on the 1,000 most influential people of the current millenium, was rated No 1)? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/humanities/greet.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "JA de Beer (jennifer@grove.uct.ac.za)" Subject: Y zero K crisis Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:51:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 778 (778) Willard, A variation on the Y1K theme: [deleted quotation] ~~~~~~~~ Jennifer de Beer - Project Assistant Cape Library Cooperative (CALICO) Shared Library Information System (SLIS) Cape Town, South Africa Tel: +27 (0)21 686-5070 Fax: +27 (0)21 689-7465 E-mail: jennifer@grove.uct.ac.za http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Calico/portal.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Charles Ess Subject: Articles of interest Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:51:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 779 (779) Humanist readers who are not regular subscribers to _Scientific American_ will find two articles in the March, 1999, issue of interest. The first is an extensive "Profile" article devoted to Ben Shneiderman, known to some of us for his work on the Perseus Project in its earliest instantiation. Shneiderman runs in different directions than many with regard to such things as Artificial Intelligence, etc.: most briefly, he seems an exceptional example of the sort of approach to computing I sense among many Humanist readers - i.e., let's shape our use of computers at least in part in light of already extant human priorities and sensibilities (including these sensibilities as manifested and explored by the fine arts), rather than the other way around. A nice factoid gleaned from the article, reflecting Shneiderman's influence on interface design: the use of highlighting words to indicate a hyperlink - now a standard element of Web design - was pioneered by Shneiderman as an alternative to numbered menu items. A second sign that humanistic approaches to computing may not be entirely swept away by Microsoft and e-commerce is the "Cyberview" article, which examines how far open-source software (such as the venerable Linux operating system) are managing to effectively compete with commercial products. The short answer seems to be that the sort of communitarian (my term), "give away the good stuff and share" approach is gaining ground - partly because freeware is not always in conflict with commercial goals. On the contrary, one of the emerging discoveries is that companies paying their programmers to develop, distribute, and support free software (as in the obvious case of Netscape) enjoy profit returns with regard to their commercial offerings, now effectively advertised through the give-aways. (Another interesting factoid: according to this article, the Apache Web server, a free package, still accounts for more installations than all other server packages combined.) Last year, a commentator (Gary Chapman?) observed that cyberspace - defined in part by just the freeware/hacker ethos represented by the development and distribution of Linux - had been effectively replaced by "e-world," the world of electronic commerce. While there is much merit to the observation - these two articles gives some support to the hope that the more communitarian side of the Net may not be altogether lost. On that happy thought - cheers! Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0406 constructing meaning Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:50:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 780 (780) Willard and HUMANIST readers: Sorry for the belatedness of this -- I was off the grid for about a week...but Pat Moran wrote (quoting Pat Galloway): [deleted quotation] This is fascinating -- the suggestion being that the culture that successfully "melts" the foreign elements, itself becomes melted. (This is a core issue to me, an American who spent formative years in places like the Philippines and Japan.) Maybe we need another metaphor? A Canadian interlocutor once observed that up north, they preferred to speak of their culture as a "mosaic," not a melting-pot. (Comments?) This always struck me as, in contrast to Mass-Industrialist (I always visualized that American Melting Pot as one of those huge vats in a steel mill), rather artsy and old-worldish, evading the anxieties of assimilation -- liquid fire, molten steel -- only to suggest them again, in a kind of combination-by-fragmentation. What of the ancient trope of texts and textures? Maybe a strong culture weaves old patterns into new fabrics, new cloth? According to this, those First Nations that have successfully made the transition into post-Modernity, may have done so by pulling new fibers into the mix, even strands of DNA, without leaving behind old patterns and old pallets. -- Wendell Piez ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: W Schipper Subject: Conferences on the west coast Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:51:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 781 (781) I'm looking for a conference more or less vaguely in medieval studies or manuscript studies or Carolingian studies taking place in the NW US or western Canada (preferably west coast) mid-May to mid-June. I would like to get there for personal reasons, and if I have a conference to attend can justify using research funds to go. Write privately if you like. Bill -- Dr. W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4528 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Susan Hockey Subject: Fwd: 10.240, All: Gunnel Kaellgren Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:54:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 782 (782) [deleted quotation][material deleted] [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 12.0416 transforming the possibilities Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:44:59 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 783 (783) Paleography is one thing as a tool for scholarship, another as a topic of university-level teaching. For the beginner, a simple 16th century text -- say, the last will and testament of an East Anglian framer -- tends to require practically no knowledge whatever . What the student needs is patience, taking the time to stare at the text, experiencing the kick of suddenly recognizing words like "In the name of God amen" or "of sound mind and remembrance" -- it is rather like learning to ride a bicycle, in that perseverence and interest are the key motives, knowledge is at the onset as good as irrelevant. In my experience students can get remarkably excited after their first hour of confrontation with a text the secretary hand of which looked, at first blow, like Chinese, but gradually reveals itself to be quite simple, but also speaking directly to today´s reader, who may have similar questions about who is to get which cow or straight-backed chair, except that in the 16th century it seems to be the bedding that has to be accounted for with meticulous care. The text itself offers a challenge, then, which motivates students who would otherwise have little interest in history of the development of writing systems. I would recommend the teaching of paleography as an exhilirating experience, provided that the library has some of the raw materials which the exercise requires. Helmut Bonheim ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Prof. Dr. Helmut Bonheim President European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) work: home: Engl. Department University of Cologne Albertus Magnus Platz Klosterstr. 75 D-50923 Koeln D-50931 Koeln Germany Germany Secretary: +49-(0)221-470 5715 Tel: +49-(0)221-470 6209 Tel: +49(0)221-40 56 28 Fax: +49-(0)221-470 5109 Fax: +49(0)221-940 40 13 From: Francois Lachance Subject: weaving meaning Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:46:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 784 (784) Willard, I want to take up Wenell's suggestion about refurbishing textile/texture metaphors for explaining cultural interactions, especially between the Europeans and the First Nations in the Americas. First I want to digress to comment upon how certain map making conventions generate the expression "up north". Interesting how this expression endures despite the lay of watersheds and the direction of prevailing winds. In some place called "Down North" the melting pots can be dye vats. Sadie Plant in her book Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture stretches draws upon Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years to generate a gynocentric mythos : There were other spin-offs from textiles too. The weaving of complex designs demands far more than one pair of hands, and textiles production tends to be communal, sociable work allowing plenty of occasion for gossip and chat. Weaving was already multimedia: singing, chanting, telling stories, dancing, and playing games as they work, spinsters, weavers, and needle-workers were literally networkers as well. It seems that "the women of prehistoric Europe gathered at one another's houses to spin, sew, weave, and have fellowship." Plant goes on to suggest that "A piece of work so absorbing as a cloth is saturated with the thoughts of the people who produced it, each of whom can flash straight back to whatever they were thinking as the worked. Like Proust's madelines [...]" I don't quite know how archeologists can reconstruct the gender relations of cultural activities such as weaving but I do know that concerning the question of the culture and the body of the bearer of that culture one can look to the adoption practices in antiquity and can draw upon the work of John Boswell, The Kindess of Strangers. I do not know of similar work for the First Nations of the Americas. Although I do suspect readers of Humanist to be able to supply some references concerning kinship patterns. Somehow I cannot quite concur with Ms. Plant's assessment that the woven and the weaving are one. The cloth may survive the smashing of the loom. But how are we to read the weaving sans loom let alone weave again? However the vision that impels Ms. Plant is shared by others. One thinks of Keren Rice and her team compiling dictionaries of a Dene language for use in schools and communities. Professor Rice says "People may question the cost of preserving a language that is spoken by only 200 people, but you have to look at the cost of losing that voice. Research shows that language is important to an individual's identity and self-esteem. Language can heal a lot of social problems because it instils a sense of pride and identity in a people. A community feels good about itself when it stops feeling subordinate or colonized." There is no single textile metaphor for restorative justice. There is however room for metaphors of networks that value the trader and the weaver: the circle of community and the adventure of seeking new or forgotten tesserae. remapping and rethreading, - Francois From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 12.0410 culturally traumatic ideas Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:49:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 785 (785) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 786 (786) [deleted quotation] I must respond, albeit carefully, as I worked on this project as a consultant to ETS and signed a non-disclosure agreement which does not allow me to go into as much detail as many would like. However, I can assure Prof. Hubbard that no damage will be done with the automated scoring (known as the e-rater). Those who know me will understand that anything smacking of 'robots grading papers' -- as the New York Times so blithely described it -- would not find me participating! One interesting piece of evidence which might be helpful: in the old scoring scheme, two human graders read each essay and those scores were compared. When they disagreed, a third scorer was brought in to decide. In the new scheme, one human scorer and the computer scoring system will be used. If they disagree, a second human will make the final decision. During the testing phase of this project, the results were quite interesting! The results of scoring by one human and the computer agreed more often than two human scorers did. When I heard that, I was convinced that the system would be implemented -- and would produce useful results. I spent six months in 1997 analyzing the results of the system to determine the validity of the e-rater scoring scheme. I pored over many hundreds of actual essays and the computer system results to evaluate the methodology. I can assure you that the system will not replace human scorers completely any time soon! Jill Burstein of ETS Research has presented several papers on this system at the ANLP-97 and COLING-98, for those who want more details about the techiques used. By the way, one reason for not disclosing specifics about the system is that ETS does not want students to be able to study the test in order to succeed. In fact, I had to laugh at the NYT article (1/27/99, Education Section) when it said, "Kaplan has issued a list of 'strategies' likely to impress its [the 'robot's'] hardwired brain. These include stressing the importance of making an outline before writing a test essay, using such transitional phrases as 'therefore', 'since', and 'for example', and using plenty of synonyms because 'the computer rewards a strong vocabulary'." Last I heard there were a lot of English teachers across the country (myself included) who would reward better essay structure, more complex sentences, and "a strong vocabulary." I'm glad Kaplan has found something useful to teach! Mary Dee Harris -- 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@cs.utexas.edu From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 12.0426 constructing meaning Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:49:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 787 (787) Pat, I work with Taino Native Americans (the folks who first met Columbus), and I can't help but respond because the issue of genetic pockets and identity is very germain to them. They were supposed to have been exterminated in the 18th century, but in fact not entirely, and so just what has survived is an issue for them. Genetic studies are underway to distinguish their survivers in Cuba, Boriken, and elsewhere from the Spanish and African gene pool, but the results are likely to show that virtually everyone is a genetic hybrid. What African American in the US can deny white forebears, and yet to be Black is a real identity (hence the capitalization). It is an identity based more on shared present circumstances than genes inherited from Africa. The issue is not reducable to genes, and never was in terms of tribal identity. Tribes, in either a cultural or social (genetic) sense are actively constructed and self-defined in response to some problem in their social environment that requires solidarity. Tradition (Urfather, genetic descent, tribal culture, etc), never much based on fact, serves as an ideology of togetherness. The genetic distinction of Taino, or the local Pequot Native Americans for that matter, is often tenuous. The Pequots are actually Afro-Native-American-European. The Pequots have almost nothing left of their original culture, although they are descendents of Native Americans living in southern Connecticut. They have had to construct a culture and tribal identify for themselves based on generic Indian cultural traditions (including even a bit of Plains traditions!), and US social values (solidarity of people of Indian and African descent), and certain social ideals and novel customs. But so it has always been. Real (empirical) genetic distinction is a modern and racialist notion, I suspect. Haines Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Donald Day Subject: International Workshop on Internationalization (CfP) Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:50:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 788 (788) Call for Papers and Participation 1st International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems (IWIPS '99) http://www.webctr.com/IWIPS99 21st and 22nd of May 1999 Rochester Riverside Convention Center, Rochester, New York, USA (directly after the CHI'99 Conference in Pittsburgh) Sponsored by Eastman Kodak Company Human Factors and Ergonomics Society - Western New York Chapter In cooperation with Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) British HCI Group Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) *** For details, please contact the workshop organizers, listed in the Call for Papers and Call for Demonstrations sections below, not the person sending this message.*** The Event Academics, researchers, product developers, human factors specialist, and HCI specialist with an interest in internationalization, and localization issues are kindly invited to attend the 1st International Workshop on Internationalization of Products and Systems. The goal for this workshop is to provide an open forum for individuals interested in a wide variety of internationalization issues encountered when designing and developing international products and systems. Call for Papers Potential contributors are invited to submit a one-to-two page abstract of the work to be presented before March 5, 1999 via email to Girish Prabhu (prabhu@kodak.com) or fax at 716-722-2246. The abstract should also include a brief list of references. The program committee will review submissions and will notify the contributors before March 30, 1999. Please include postal and email addresses, phone and fax numbers, and audio/visual requirements with all proposals. Please also include "IWIPS 99 Papers - Attention - Girish Prabhu" on the fax cover letter Call for Demonstrations Submissions for technology, product, or video demonstrations should be either emailed or faxed to Elisa Del Galdo (elisa_delgaldo@ctp.com or egaldo@ctp.com) or fax at +44 (0)181 334 6927, latest by March 5, 1999. Submissions should include a 400 words abstract describing the demonstration and images if appropriate. Please include postal and email addresses, phone and fax numbers with all proposals. Please also include "IWIPS 99 Demonstrations - Attention - Elisa M. del Galdo" on the fax cover letter. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Formal Grammar 99: second call for papers Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:51:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 789 (789) [deleted quotation] FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE August 7-8, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FG99 is the 5th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 1999 in Utrecht. Previous meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), and as part of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar (FHCG98) held in Saarbruecken last August. AIMS and SCOPE FG99 provides a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to, * formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. Previous conferences in this series have welcomed papers from a wide variety of frameworks. SPECIAL SESSIONS and INVITED SPEAKERS. There will be a SYMPOSIUM on Grammatical Resources and Grammatical Inference David Dowty (Ohio State) Polly Jacobson (Brown) Gerhard Jaeger (Berlin) Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) commentator: Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam) [tentative] [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XI: http://esslli.let.uu.nl Web site for FG99 : http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/fg.html [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AI-ED Le Mans France July 19-23 News n 3 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:52:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 790 (790) [deleted quotation] AI-ED News International Conference of the AI-ED Society on Artificial Intelligence and Education in Le Mans France July 19 to 23, 1999 President Gordon McCalla University of Saskatchevan Canada Conference Chair Prof Susanne LAJOIE MacCill University Montreal Quebec= Canada Fax 1 514 398 6968 LAJOIE@Education.McGill.Ca Local Organisation Comittee Prof Martial VIVET LIUM Universit=E9 du Maine F 72085 LE MANS Cedex France Fax:33 243 83 38 68 email: ai-ed99@lium.univ-lemans.fr All informations on the AI-ED99 Conference server http://ai-ed99.univ-lemans.fr or http://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/ijaied/ [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final Call for MOL6 submissions - deadline extended to 2/22/99 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:56:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 791 (791) [deleted quotation] PLEASE NOTE: The submission deadline has been extended to February 22, 1999. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ SIXTH MEETING ON THE MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE July 23-25, 1999 University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida, USA +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+==+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ The Association for the Mathematics of Language is pleased to announce that its sixth meeting (MOL6) will be held in July, 1999. The biennial MOL meetings are a workshop-style forum for presenting work relating to mathematical linguistics. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION For questions about local arrangements, please contact jrogers@cs.ucf.ed. Information about the program, when available, and about the Association for the Mathematics of Language can be obtained on the World-Wide Web at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol.html Titles of papers from previous MOL meetings can be found at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/molpubs.html. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI Deadline Change Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:56:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 792 (792) [deleted quotation] Due to several requests the DEADLINE WAS MOVED ================== from February 25 to March 1 (but compare the summary of dates below) that was set for the ESSLLI-workshop on DEIXIS, DEMONSTRATION and DEICTIC BELIEF in MULTIMEDIA CONTEXTS [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-99 please visit the ESSLLI-99 home page at http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ and the home page of this workshop at http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~deixis ADDRESSES: Elisabeth Andr'e (DFKI, Univ. of Saarbruecken): Elisabeth.Andre@dfki.de Massimo Poesio (CogSci/HCRC, Univ. of Edinburgh): poesio@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Hannes Rieser (Bielefeld Univ. & SFB 360): rieser@lili.uni-bielefeld.de From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Feb 22 Southampton: Computer Science Digital Library Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:57:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 793 (793) Multimedia Research Group and Cognitive Sciences Centre Monday 22 February 1999 4:00 pm Seminar Room 1 Zepler Building (59) Southampton University RAPID DISSEMINATION OF SCHOLARLY RESULTS The Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL) Carl Lagoze Digital Library Scientist Computer Science Department Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 USA http://www2.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/lagoze.html lagoze@cs.cornell.edu ABSTRACT: The traditional journal model of scholarly publication faces a number of challenges. These include the need for more rapid dissemination of results, problems associated with high subscription costs, and the recognition that other media forms such as video, software, and data should be exploited. As a result, traditional journals have increasingly been supplemented and replaced by electronic archives. In this talk, we review some of the architectural models for electronic scholarly publication, characterizing them by their level of decentralization in administration and physical location. We follow by describing the advantages of a federated architecture that accommodates decentralization, extensibility, and coordinated administration. Finally, we demonstrate this architecture as realized in the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL) and describe some of our ongoing work in this area. CARL LAGOZE is the Digital Library Scientist in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University. In this position, he leads digital library research in the department and collaborates in digital library and electronic publishing projects with the University Library and Cornell Information Technology office. Mr. Lagoze's research can broadly be characterized as investigating component-based digital library architecture. This includes research into the architecture of digital objects and digital repositories, techniques for distributed resource discovery, the mechanisms for defining distributed collections, and metadata standards and architectures. Mr. Lagoze is the recipient of numerous DARPA and NSF research grants and has spoken internationally on digital library issues. See: http://www2.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/lagoze.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: MLA 99 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:53:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 794 (794) [deleted quotation] The MLA's discussion group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature invites one-page proposals (for 20-minute papers) by March 15 on the following topic: Standing on Shoulders: Current Studies and the Fifty-year Tradition of Humanities Computing. Connections between current research and the methodologies that have emerged since Roberto Busa began his pioneering work. Please send your submission (email preferred) to the address below. The 1999 MLA Convention will be held in Chicago in late December. Regards, Michael Neuman, Director neuman@gusun.georgetown.edu Research, Curriculum, & Development Group 202-687-6283 (voice) Academic & Information Technology Services 202-687-8367 (fax) Georgetown University www.georgetown.edu/acs/people/neuman 314 Car Barn 3520 Prospect Street N.W. Washington, DC 20057 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: MIS Subject: Re: 12.0427 millennarian crises revisited Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:45:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 795 (795) To: CEO, CFO, CIO Our staff has completed the 18 months of work on time and on budget. We have gone through every line of code in every program in every system. We have analyzed all databases, all data files, including backups and historic archives, and modified all data to reflect the change. We are proud to report that we have completed the "Y-to-K" date change mission, and have now implemented all changes to all programs and all data to reflect your new standards: Januark, Februark, March, April, Mak, June, Julk, August, September, October, November, December As well as: Sundak, Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, Fridak, Saturdak I trust that this is satisfactory, because to be honest, none of this Y to K problem has made any sense to me. But I understand it is a global problem, and our team is glad to help in any way possible. And what does the year 2000 have to do with it? Speaking of which, what do you think we ought to do next year when the two digit year rolls over from 99 to 00? We'll await your direction." Ari Kambouris Metaphor Group, Inc. Information Architecture and Project Management Consulting WWW | CD-ROM | Kiosk tel. 212.740.6306 pager. 917.243.1548 From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: Humanist 12.0427 Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:45:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 796 (796) 10:25 15.02.1999 Re: Cassius to Plutonius on Y0K This must be the most entertaining thing I've read about the Y2K-phobia! The mind boggles at the fact that in the end, all it takes to secure survival of a cultural topos is a bunch of short sighted programmers. Without these instruments of providence we would have nothing to match the fear of Armageddon that haunted humanity at the first millenial transition. Thinking about it: Isn't it high time that someone create a Website putting tools for virtual flagellation at our disposal? We won't be given a chance to suffer so enjoyably for quite some time. Just imagine: a mere 300 odd days and everything, everything will come to a halt - no e-mail, no salary cheques, all dentist's appointments null and void (but not your tooth ake) and all the hard drives of the world engaging in a huge collective re-format. And then we'll kick off anew, with a clean slate and plenty of Gigabytes at our disposal and the same old questions to be solved. Christoph ************************** Dr. Jan Christoph Meister Arbeitsstelle zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar Universität Hamburg E-Mail: jan-c-meister@rrz.uni-hamburg.de From: "Witmer, Diane" Subject: FW: IU Symposium Intelligent Machines: The End of Humanity? Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:46:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 797 (797) Hi Willard-- I thought this might be of interest to the list, despite the lateness of the announcement. -Diane- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Diane F. Witmer, Department of Communications * Cal State Fullerton Office Phone: 714-278-7008 * dwitmer@fullerton.edu * http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/dwitmer/ [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: on-line family trees Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:52:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 798 (798) [deleted quotation] Dear Humanists, Can anyone provide any advice (and pointers to examples) for encoding a large family tree for web delivery? On the one hand, there are many generations and many children of each marriage. On the other hand, the display should be visible in a single screen. Since these two features lead to conflict, I'm thinking of a javascript approach, which would allow the viewer to expand and collapse individual pieces of the tree, and which would also allow me to encode some information in mouse-over-controlled pop-up windows. But before I begin coding I'd like to be confident that I've chosen the best strategy for representation, and I'd be grateful for any advice. Please respond by private email to djb@clover.slavic.pitt.edu. Thanks, David J. Birnbaum University of Pittsburgh djb@clover.slavic.pitt.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Shared Keyboarding Contract Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:53:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 799 (799) Hello all, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson is in the process of soliciting bids from keyboarding companies for the conversion of early print witnesses of Ben Jonson's works into electronic format. As conversion projects go this isn't a terribly large task: perhaps 1800 folio pages and 1300 quarto pages, with a total character count of roughly 7 million. It has been my experience in the past that the larger the amount of material there is to be keyboarded, the lower the per-character rate quoted by the companies. I wonder, then, if anyone is aware of a similar conversion project that might want to solicit bids jointly. We are looking for straight, unemended conversion with basic structural TEI SGML added during keyboarding. If another project is looking for something similar and has a schedule close to ours (we're looking for delivery this summer), I'd be very interested in talking with the electronic editor. Thanks for your help in advance, David Gants, Electronic Editor Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson dgants@english.uga.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: CYBERART99 Symposium in New York City... May 9th, 1999 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:29:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 800 (800) ************************************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 17, 1999 CYBERART99: seeking solutions May 9: New York City <http://www.asci.org/cyberart99/> An impressive array of participants have been gathered for this symposium, designed not only to analyse the current state-of-the-art of online digital arts but to propose different models for financial support of this work in the future. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] CYBERART99: seeking solutions Sunday, May 9, 1999; 10am - 5pm Doors Open at 9am The Great Hall @ Cooper Union 7 E. 7th Street, NYC (at 3rd Avenue) It's been four years since ASCI produced what was perhaps the world's first CyberFair at Cooper Union, NYC. Michael Govan, Director of the DIA Center in New York and internationally renowned performance artist, Laurie Anderson were keynotes. The field of cyberart has evolved and changed dramatically since those early days. The issues at the end of the twentieth century are no longer how to get access, how to create your own homepage, or how to use the Internet to make art. Artists have pushed this globally interactive medium in all kinds of creative ways: hypertext poetry, multimedia works, and even live performances. Categories have been created at prestigious international competitions to recognize and reward the best and most innovative work in this newest of digital art media. However, there are pressing questions that need resolution if this young artform is to survive and flourish. At CYBERART'99, you will see and hear how artists and museums are dealing with the unique challenges of this rapidly developing "virtual" art. As a medium that cannot be sustained by the traditional commercial gallery model, webart requires new solutions regarding its production, presentation, and maintenance. This all-day event brings together some of the world's most creative digital minds in a unified effort to invent concrete and viable *new models* of support. The event format is designed to first provide an important historical context--history being a relative term in this field. Highly recognized webart projects that exemplify many innovative U.S. and European support models will be presented in the first half of the program. Then, proposals for four *new models* of support will be shared for public critique and feedback. These proposals will have been created during a month-long online discussion of the panelists prior to the event. We invite our audience members to learn about this vital new artform spawned from recent tele-communications technologies, and to join us in building a viable, formal structure for supporting it. PARTICIPANTS: * Maxwell Anderson - Director of the Whitney Museum of Art * Robert Atkins - art writer, editor/producer * Steve Bradley - web artist, professor at the University of Baltimore * Steve Dietz - Director, New Media Initiatives; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; * John Maxwell Hobbs - Creative Director, Ericsson CyberLab, NYC * Jon Ippolito - Internet designer/curator, Guggenheim Museum SoHo * Bill Jones - Editor of ArtByte Magazine * Laura McGough - independent curator and co-Director of NOMADS * Mark Napier - web artist and technologist * Randall Packer - media artist, lecturer in digital media, independent curator. * Manuel Schilcher - web artist/engineer, set-up Ars Electronica's Lab * Doree Seligmann - Lucent Technologies, New Jersey * Wolfgang Staehle - Founder & Director of The Thing * Helen Thorington - turbulence website, Founder/Director * Martha Wilson - Founding Director of the Franklin Furnace, NYC * Adrianne Wortzel - web artist, professor at NYCTC-CUNY and Cooper Union REGISTRATION: $15 Pre-Registration (until April 15th) $20 At the Door Print-out the Registration Form and send with your check to ASCI, P.O. Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301. ASCI phone#: 718 816-9796. For event schedule, panel topics, hyperlinks to panelists URL's: http://www.asci.org/cyberart99 CYBERART99 is a co-production of The Cooper Union and ASCI. (Sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact Cynthia Pannucci by return email or call 718 816-9796.) ASCI is a 10 yr.old, NYC-based, non-profit arts organization devoted to raising public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaborations between these fields. Cynthia Pannucci Founder/Director Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) ****Celebrating its 11th Year**** 718 816-9796; pannucci@asci.org PO Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301 URL: http://www.asci.org =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: COPYRIGHT: Update on DataBase Protection Legislation Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:30:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 801 (801) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 17, 1999 UPDATE ON DATABASE PROTECTION LEGISLATION There are many offshoots of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. While many in our community may be focusing on the "Fair Use Study" and the "Distance Education Recommendations" (to be made by the Copyright Office, based on written statements, public hearings and written responses to those statements and hearings), we should also be very much aware of the progress of database protection legislation. You may recall that the House's efforts to attach database protection legislation to the DMCA were defeated due to opposition from our communities as well as misgivings by the Administration. Page Miller here gives a good update on a variety of related developments on this issue, including Rep. Howard Coble's (R-NC) revised "Collections of Information Antipiracy Act", (H.R. 354), incorporating two changes, "responding to concerns of the nonprofit scientific, educational, and research communities, to clarify and embody fair use and to address the issue of perpetual protection;" and statements by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which, calling for a balancing of interests between information industries and the users of information and database collections, he included statement versions of three different database protection bills: Coble's bill; a more narrowly constructed one "proposed by certain commercial database users, with the support of the scientific, education, and library communities;" and Hatch's own draft bill put forward for discussion at the end of the last Congress. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]FROM: NCC Washington Update, vol 5, #5, February 17, 1999 by Page Putnam Miller, Director of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History 1. Update on DataBase Copyright Protection Legislation 2. Peggy Bulger To Head American Folklife Center 3. OMB Requests Comments on Regulation Regarding FOIA Access To Some Data Produced Under Federal Grants 1. Update on DataBase Copyright Protection Legislation -- On January 19 Representative Howard Coble (R-NC), the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, introduced the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act, H.R. 354. In his introductory statement, Coble said that this legislation is needed to "prohibit the misappropriation of valuable commercial collections of information by unscrupulous competitors who grab data collected by others, repackage it, and market a product that threatens competitive injury to the original collection." While noting that this bill is almost identical to legislation that passed the House in the last Congress, Coble stressed that he had made two changes, responding to concerns of the nonprofit scientific, educational, and research communities, to clarify and embody fair use and to address the issue of perpetual protection. The efforts of the House to attach the database legislation to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the last Congress were defeated. This was due in part to the fact that the Senate had held no hearings on the database bill, to opposition to the bill from many quarters including the scholarly and library communities, and to the Administration's reservations about the bill. While the Administration stated that while there should be effective legal remedies against "free-riders" who take databases gathered by others and reintroduce them into commerce as their own, they identified several potential problems: constitutional constraints on legislation of this type; the possibility that the bill would increase the costs of data use; the lack of a balancing mechanism that would take into consideration non-commercial research and educational uses; the use of vague terms such as "potential markets;" and the likelihood that the bill could have the unintended consequence of stifling the evolving market for digital information. On January 19, the same day that Coble introduced his bill, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor on the database piracy issue, which he described as an issue of great and escalating importance because "intellectual property has become the heart of our nation's economy, information is its lifeblood." Yet he called for a balancing of interests between the information industries and the uses of information and database collections. He noted that database legislation had been introduced in both the 104th and the 105th Congresses and that Representative Coble had introduced a bill in the 106th Congress. Hatch committed himself to seeking passage of a bill on this issue this year. To promote informed debate on the database protection issue, Hatch included as a part of his floor statement versions of three different database protection bills: Representative Coble's bill; a narrower constructed bill than the Coble one that Hatch stated "has been proposed by certain commercial database users, with the support of the scientific, education, and library communities;" and a draft bill that Hatch put forward for discussion at the end of the last Congress. All three of these bills can be found in the Congressional Record for January 19, 1999 on pages S316-326. Also on January 19 Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduced S. 95, a bill which focuses only on financial data and which is designed to ensure the continued public availability through banks and the media of information concerning stocks traded on established stock exchanges. The intent of this bill is to insure timely access to stock quotes for the 30 million people who are trading on-line and to protect financial services companies from the broad protection that the Coble bill could give to such institutions as the New York Stock Exchange, enabling it as a database publisher to prevent banks and the media from reconfiguring the information contained in the databases that they had already paid for and acquired. This bill has been referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, thus expanding the database protection legislation consideration beyond the Judiciary Committee. Both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees have indicated that they plan to hold hearings on database protection legislation; however, no hearings have yet been scheduled. [deleted quotation] * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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://www.h-net.msu.edu/~ncc/ * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Willard McCarty Subject: apprenticeship and the limits of distance learning Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:28:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 802 (802) Dear colleagues: In "Keeping in touch with the world", a commencement address given at Brevard College last May, the historian of science Michael Mahoney talked about a kind of knowledge that cannot be verbalised, the kind communicated in the objects of our material culture and acquired not through verbal or mathematical texts but by apprenticeship. I quote from the end of his address: "Now what does all this have to do with your future? For many of you, I have simply belabored the obvious. You are musicians, and you know about master classes. But consider some visions of the future: of distance learning, of the obsolescence of the classroom, of schools and universities rendered redundant by the wealth of information available online. Whatever you want to know, we are told, there will be a site on the Web to teach it to you. We are promised a world of learning unmediated by apprenticeship. "As we stand poised at the edge of a virtual world, with all its allure, it is worth bearing in mind how much we know through the experience of our bodies in the real world. What we all know, we know in part because of the objects we have handled, the gestures we have observed, the silent signals we have received from our material and social surroundings, and we have learned from sharing it actively --I dare say, interactively-- with others. Many of those things lie below our consciousness, and we cannot articulate them. We simply enact them or perform them in the process of knowing. It is knowledge that cannot be rendered virtual, because we don't know it's there. It is tacit. "So the PC can teach you some things, and it clearly has a future. But, a Stradivarius is a Stradivarius, because we can't figure out what Stradivarius knew. And a birch-bark canoe? Well, once everyone knew how to guide it through currents and rapids, at least everyone in the tribes for whom they were the common mode of transportation. As for the rest of us, we can learn, but it would be a good idea to learn it from someone who knows how and is there to show you. Teachers have a future, too." The entire address is online, at <http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/brevard.htm>. Thinking about learning-by-watching-and-doing, I wonder what role intelligent software might play? None at all? If none, or where none, then what do we learn from the none? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: NEWS: Kennedy Center Online; Digital Copyright Agreement for Video Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:29:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 803 (803) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 17, 1999 KENNEDY CENTER EXPANDS SERIES TO INTERNET <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/17/155l-021799-idx.html> DIGITAL COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT FOR VIDEO <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/02/biztech/articles/17blue.html> Two items from today's press, related to broadcast of, and access to, moving images on the Internet might interest readers. These items are culled from the Benton Foundation's "Communications-Related Headlines." David Green ================================================= [deleted quotation] ================================================== Communications-related Headlines is a free daily online news service provided by the Benton Foundation. It will keep you up to date on important industry developments, policy issues, and other pertinent communications-related news events. You can visit the Benton's Web site at . ================================================== COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for FEBRUARY 17, 1999 [deleted quotation] KENNEDY CENTER EXPANDS SERIES TO INTERNET Issue: Arts On April 1 the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC will begin daily live music broadcasts on the Internet. The formal announcement will come this afternoon and a test broadcast is scheduled for tomorrow at <http://kennedy-center.org/stage/millennium>. By broadcasting the Millennium Stage programs, the center will solidify its position as the only venue of its kind in the country with a free performance every day on its stages and now electronically. The concerts include some well-known acts, up-and-coming artists, military bands, and local university and school groups. Typically they attract anywhere from 400 to 7,000 attendees depending on the performer. The center today will also unveil plans for two permanent performance spaces for Millennium Stage, plus a show to mark the second anniversary of the project on March 1 with Randy Newman and KC & the Sunshine Band. [Wow, what a bargain: see KC -- for free!] [SOURCE: Washington Post (C1), AUTHOR: Jacqueline Trescott] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-02/17/155l-021799-idx.html> [deleted quotation] INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DIGITAL COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT FOR VIDEO Issue: Intellectual Property Five major computer and electronics firms have announced plans for a new "watermark" standard to protect digital movies and videos from piracy. IBM, NEC, Sony, Pioneer, and Hitachi have agreed on a single standard for a binary code that will be embedded on every frame of a digital recording. This digital watermark would allow legitimate copying of recorded material, but prevent illegal copies from being made. DVD systems are expected to be the first to use the new technology. 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O'Donnell" Subject: octothorpe? Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:30:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 804 (804) A colleague reports hearing the "pound sign" on keypads defined as "octothorpe". OED knows nothing of this, or I have it mis-spelled. Is this expression known? Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Tim Reuter Subject: millennarian topoi Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:28:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 805 (805) [deleted quotation] If I had a fiver for every time I've seen a repetition of statements like the above, which ultimately derive from mid-C19 scholarship, I could pay off much of my mortgage; but as a medievalist, I must demur. There is some evidence that some people anticipated the world's end at the end of the 990s (and, logically enough, also as 1033 approached) -- but much of the anticipation was hopeful as well as fearful. There is also good reason to suppose that a lot of people did not either hope or fear, and personally I'd put the proportion of those who did at something not significantly higher than it is today. More in a shortly forthcoming issue of Médiévales on 'L'an mil -- l'an deux mil', including a lengthy debate on this between Patrick Geary, Richard Landes, Amy Remensnyder and myself, moderated by Barbara Rosenwein. Tim Reuter ---------------------- # Tim Reuter # Department of History, University of Southampton # Southampton SO17 1BJ # T +44 1703 594868 (w) 552623 (h) # F +44 1703 593458 # email T.Reuter@soton.ac.uk # http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tr/tr.html From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Re: HUMANIST 12.0430 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:28:24 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 806 (806) Some worries about weaving and Sadie Plant in particular. Put simply there is little cross-cultural evidence that weaving is the particular preserve of women. I believe it was done by itinerant men in Europe (q.v. Silas Marner) as well as by women (not that I know anything much about European craft history). So any simplisitic set of equations between textiles and women's work (asa universal) simply fails. And a gripe about Plant: in Plant, S. (1995). "The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics." Body and Society 1(1): 45-64 she discusses a book edited by Margaret Mead as if it had been written by her (hence interesting suggestions about Mead's work in Africa). Poor scholarship at the best... yours sincerely david z Dr David Zeitlyn, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, Department of 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: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0430 comments on various discussions Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:28:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 807 (807) Re: Haines Brown, "constructing meaning" In fact my book _Choctaw Genesis 1500-1700_ is about just such a construction of tribal identity, with no reference to genetic issues; I think Foucault makes the point about the ideology of "blood," but he's certainly not the first to point to the racist/colonialist context of the notion of genetics or "blood quantum," as it has come to be referred to in the Native American context. I'm not sure I would agree that "tradition" is "never much based on fact"--that depends upon who is defining what a fact is. Native American historians (e.g. Roger Echo-Hawk) are working to forge new ways of looking at oral tradition in its relation to Euro-defined "facts," and other scholars are attempting new textual forms that can confront "fact" and "tradition" simultaneously--I am thinking notably of Richard Price's _First-Time_ which might interest members of this list for its effort to create hypertext for this purpose avant la lettre (and suggests the potential of our medium as offering new ways to explore different lines of evidence simultaneously). Ethnicities are created for purposes; people who wish to deny those purposes usually try to claim that the ethnicity in question is bogus in some way; the interesting thing about the whole process is the tendency to claim antiquity of some kind as a warrant for solidarity. Pat -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0430 comments on various discussions Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:28:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 808 (808) If races were different orders of the species, we wouldnt be so infinitely miscible, genetically, but breed monsters like tiglons, etc. Ashley MOntague tried to dispose of this subject in his treatise on race, in the 1940s, MAN'S MOST DANGEROUS MYTH. The European ideas of race are quite modern, beginning with the Baron de Chauvin in the 18th century. It has led, as we know, to the European madnesses since then. A short history. But packed with gore. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: WebCT: Course Tools Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:53:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 809 (809) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 18, 1999 "New tools help instructors create and maintain course websites" Evaluation: <http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7521/articles/webct/NewToolsToHelpInstructors.html [deleted quotation] Product: <http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/> [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0438 apprenticeship & the limits of distance learning Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:52:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 810 (810) Willard and HUMANISTS: I was very grateful for the quote from Michael Mahoney on traditions of apprenticeship vs. distance learning. Isn't "distance learning" a phrase of the same ilk as "international law" or your other favorite oxymoron? This is not to say that given a tool and a manual, a motivated person can't figure out some things by her- or himself. But there's a difference between skills so gained, or the canned information acquired through media, and the broadening, critical and self-critical intelligence gained by real learning, which seems always to be personal and social. Intelligent software would be really great at teaching us about -- intelligent software. The award-winning computer game, Civilization, is excellent at presenting us with a model of "civilization." We are only able to learn from it if we can bring the same critical intelligence to bear as when we read Gibbon or Tolstoy, lifting ourselves out of the soak to ask questions about it. If we do so, we may find it is not so comprehensive, well-thought, "dynamic" and "interactive" with respect to our questions, as those works of literature. Aren't our tools more like cooking equipment (runcible spoons, garlic presses, descriptions of fine meals in glossy magazines) than anything like assistants or (goodness!) companions in intellectual endeavor? Never yet has a computer done anything that a programmer hasn't. Even in those computer-assisted mathematical proofs, or master chess programs, the programmers have solved the problems in principle before the computer could be let loose to solve them in the event. But readers of this list don't need to be lectured on this point. Maybe I should ask, what do you mean by "intelligent software"? What requirements would such software address? The capability to ask a well-observed question, or trace the implications of an argument, or find a non-threatening way of exploring an area where a student encounters emotional resistances? -- Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Chris Powell Subject: Re: 12.0441 'number sign', 'hash sign', but "octothorpe"?? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:50:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 811 (811) I'm not sure if it's generally known, but it has circled around a few mailgroups I'm on. See http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rmutt/doc/pronunciation-guide.html Christina Powell Coordinator, Humanities Text Initiative University of Michigan http://www.hti.umich.edu/ From: Michael Fraser Subject: Re: 12.0441 'number sign', 'hash sign', but "octothorpe"?? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:51:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 812 (812) [deleted quotation] Who needs the OED when the likes of AltaVista provides us with the largest corpus of language usage... Whilst there seems to be general agreement that octothorp(e) refers to the hash, pound, pound sign, number, number sign, sharp, (garden) fence, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe, scratch (mark), (garden) gate, hak, oof, rake, sink, corridor, unequal, punch mark, crosshatch (#) (see http://taro.poi.net/unix.html), there is not overall agreement on how this character came to be termed the octothorp in particular. (As an aside, I hadn't realised that it was so common across the Atlantic to refer to # as a pound sign even though it is frequently used in British email as a *substitute* for the er, pound sign). The page given above which lisst the names simply glosses the term with, 'from Bell System (orig. octalthorpe)'. Further investigation led me to the *true story* of how the term octothorpe came to be (http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/telecom-archives/archives/history/octothorpe.the. real.story), apparently the invention of Don McPherson at Bell Labs: octo- referring the the eight points and -thorpe a curious reference to Jim Thorpe whose olympic medals McPherson was campaigning to have returned from Sweden. However, http://www.brodynewmedia.com/Octo.html gives a quote from Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style (1992) at variance with the 'real story'. The etymology of Octothorp lying in octo- for eight and -thorp for field. Thus # represents eight fields clustered around a central square (or village). This last point is mentioned at http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_32.htm which also notes that the # could be a development of the scribal abbreviation for 'numerus'. However, for octothorp the author reproduces an alternative etymology suggesting that the Old English 'thorp' for village derives from the earlier 'treb' for dwelling, and this itself is related to the Latin 'trabs' for beam. Thus octothorp is 'eight beams'. Quadrathorp, the author observes, might have been more appropriate. Hmmm. Finally, # apparently bears some similarity to the Chinese character for 'communal farm' (which I find vaguely appropriate on Humanist) and I suspect that Nicholson Baker has something to say about it in his essay on electronic writing symbols (and their origins) in The Size of Thoughts (1997) but I have neither this nor the OED with me here, only the Web. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Manager, CTI Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 343 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/ Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jack Lynch Subject: Re: 12.0441 'number sign', 'hash sign', but "octothorpe"?? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:52:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 813 (813) James O'Donnell writes: A colleague reports hearing the "pound sign" on keypads defined as "octothorpe". OED knows nothing of this, or I have it mis-spelled. Is this expression known? Yup. From a FAQ for alt.usage.english: # is called "number sign" or "pound sign" in the US. This causes confusion with the crossed-L "pound sign" for UK currency. In the UK, it is often called "hash" (related to hatch marks and cross-hatch). The name "octothorpe" was coined in the 1960s by Bell Labs when that key was included with touch tone phones. The musical sharp sign is actually shaped significantly differently. It's also mentioned in the famous "Jargon File," http://g.pet.cam.ac.uk/g/jargon/ (wth many mirrors), and _The Hacker's Dictionary_. From: Mary Ellen Foley Subject: Re: 12.0441 'number sign', 'hash sign', but "octothorpe"?? Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:53:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 814 (814) Jim O'Donnell sent us: [deleted quotation] Not long ago, Willard introduced us to Michael Quinion's "World Wide Words," a weekly e-mailed newsletter which recently mentioned "octothorpe." I'm reprinting the relevant section here, hoping Dr. Quinion won't mind. I'll also add that in my previous life as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, I have heard the mark referred to as a "hatch-cover" -- perhaps a corruption of "cross-hatch" or "hash-mark"? Mary Ellen Foley mef@netcom.com ----------------- begin included message --------------------- WORLD WIDE WORDS ISSUE 128 Saturday 23 January 1999 ================================================================== A weekly mailing from Michael Quinion Thornbury, Bristol, UK 5. Weird Words: Octothorpe /'Qkt@UTO:Rp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Another name for the telephone handset symbol #. This word is just beginning to appear in the dictionaries, but still seems mostly to be jargon of the North American telephone business. But it is one of the few such words with a documented history, thanks to a note that Ralph Carlsen of Bell Laboratories wrote just before his retirement in 1995. He records that Bell Labs introduced two special keys on the then new touch-tone telephone handsets in the early 1960s, both of them now standard. One of these is the symbol '*', usually known formally as the asterisk but which Bell Labs reasonably decided to call the 'star' key. The other was the '#' symbol. This was more of a problem, as there are lots of names for it. In the US it is often called the pound key, because it is used to mark numbers related to weight, or for similar reasons the number sign, which is also one of its internationally agreed names. Elsewhere it is commonly called hash, but it also has lots of other names, such as tictactoe and cross-hatch. In Britain, the Post Office, then responsible for telecommunications, added to the plethora of names by deciding to call it 'square', though that, too, has become an official name internationally. The story as told by Ralph Carlsen is that a Bell Labs engineer, Don Macpherson, went to instruct their first client, the Mayo Clinic, in the use of the new system. He felt the need for a fresh and unambiguous name for the # symbol. His reasoning that led to the new word was roughly that it had eight points, so ought to start with 'octo-'. He was at that time active in a group that was trying to get the Olympic medals of the athlete Jim Thorpe returned from Sweden, so he decided to add 'thorpe' to the end. 'Thorpe' is, of course, also the Old Norse word for a hamlet, village or farm, which is common in British place names. Another story of its origin is that the sign was thought to look like a group of eight fields surrounding a village. The existence of this other story means that dictionaries usually say the word is of disputed origin, though Mr Carlsen's note is so circumstantial and full of detail that it is convincing. Over the past three decades, 'octothorpe' has gradually crept into various official publications and manuals in the North American telecommunications system. But even so it's hardly a common word. ..... * To subscribe to the list, send the following message to the list server address from the e-mail address which is to receive mailings: SUBSCRIBE WORLDWIDEWORDS First_name Last_name ..... WORLD WIDE WORDS is a weekly newsletter on language, copyright (c) Michael B Quinion 1999. All rights reserved. Reproduction in other online lists in whole or in part is permitted provided this notice is included. Reproduction in paid-for media or Web sites requires prior permission from the author. The World Wide Words Web site is at <http://www.quinion.com/words/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Re: cantigas texts (fwd) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:54:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 815 (815) A colleague at Mt. Holyoke (Margaret Switten) has an NEH grant to produce a CD-ROM disk of medieval lyric poetry (text, images, music) and has run into character set difficulties. She is using Multimedia Director (v. 4) and had hoped to use Arial and/or Courier fonts from Monotype. (These are the normal Windows fonts, which Microsft licences from Monotype.) However for medieval Portuguese she needs tildes over e,i,u,y. She's been in touch with Monotype to try to modify the font, but what they've been able to produce is unsatisfactory; in addition, their licensing terms are quite onerous. Can anyone think of another solution? I will be glad to serve as an intermediary. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: Re: 12.0437 on comments by Jascha Kessler re. "race" Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:50:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 816 (816) Never one to eschew publicity (my own or my colleagues'), see http://www.jsri.msu.edu/raceconf/presentations.html Race in 21st Century America: A National Conference April 7-10, 1999 Jascha Kessler is, of course, correct. From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:28:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 817 (817) If races were different orders of the species, we wouldn't be so infinitely miscible, genetically, but breed monsters like tiglons, etc. ========================================================================= I also recommend a recent book by my colleague, Professor Alain Corcos, who makes the comparable point. The book deserves wider circulation than it has perhaps received to date. Author Corcos, Alain F., 1925- Title The myth of human races / Alain Corcos. Publisher East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [c1997?]. Description xv, 214 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209) and index. Subject Race. ISBN 0870134396 (alk. paper) djw _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cse.msu.edu Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 432-1061 Comp. Sci., Michigan State http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Katz lecture Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:54:14 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 818 (818) Stanley Katz's recent address in the Digital Directions Speakers Series, University of Virginia, "A Computer is Not a Typewriter, or Getting Right with Information Technology in the Humanities", is now available online at <http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~snkatz/papers/uvatlk.html>. Read it tonight! Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Witmer, Diane" Subject: RE: 12.0445 WebCT: new tool for course websites Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:05:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 819 (819) I've been using WebCT for several months now, and find it very useful. If you want to see a WebCT-based course in use, you are welcome to visit my Web sites (I have several). The most fully developed site, by far, is the one I put together for a course in Communications Technologies. To visit it, point your Web browser to: http://fdc.fullerton.edu:8900/public/S16125/index.html You can login as: guest (all lower case) The password is: comm422 (all lower case, no spaces) Guest login is available for my other courses, and for a student organization. In each case, the name is "guest," and the password is the course number with no spaces. http://fdc.fullerton.edu:8900/public/S11110/index.html (comm361) http://fdc.fullerton.edu:8900/public/11039/index.html (comm464) http://fdc.fullerton.edu:8900/public/11002/index.html (comm362) http://fdc.fullerton.edu:8900/public/PRSSA/index.html (prssa) WebCT isn't incredibly friendly for the uninitiated designer, but it's fairly robust and has many fully configurable features. Another configurable courseware package is Blackboard. It's somewhat more user-friendly for both students and designers than WebCT, but is not as extensive or flexible. -Diane- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Diane F. Witmer, Department of Communications * Cal State Fullerton Office Phone: 714-278-7008 * dwitmer@fullerton.edu * http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/dwitmer/ From: Dan Price Subject: RE: 12.0444 limits of distance learning Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:06:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 820 (820) Regarding the response of Wendell Piez, I can only ask what is "real learning?" Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.1222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.1222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: eight villages, a.k.a. the octothorpe! Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:08:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 821 (821) .... [deleted quotation].... It's odd that, with our literary connections, nobody mentionned the use of the # sign in proofreading, to indicate that a space is needed. I must say that I find the word less than satisfying, but then I'm one of the old fogies who dislikes mixed-language word formations; I still don't really approve of "television"... Francois C-R F.Crompton-Roberts@qmw.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Ergo's Parsing Contest Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:05:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 822 (822) The parsing contest we announced six weeks ago is still open and will close in six more weeks (the end of March) though this could be extended if there are such requests. To date no one has dared to take our challenge on these very practical and relatively easy parsing tasks. We can only assume that the computational linguistics community is that much behind us, because, if there were any tools that would even come close to the practical abilities we offer, those who had such tools would have a simple and straightforward opportunity to demonstrate the supperiority of their methods and tools over ours with just one demonstration. That is, we assume that the only reason that this opportunity for a demonstration of the superiority of other's tools is being ignored is because there are no tools currently superior to those we offer. To reiterate briefly, Ergo Linguistic Technologies is offering its first annual parsing contest based on a fixed set of sentences and a fixed set of tasks to be performed on that set of sentences. The area of NLP to be explored is that of increased syntactic analysis to provide: 1) improvements in navigation and control technology through more complex commands and chained commands, 2) improvements in the implementation of question/answer, statement/ response dialogs with computers and computer characters, and 3) improvements in web and database searching using natural language queries. The contest will be based on a comparison of results for parses of a fixed set of sentences (included on our web site) and various tasks that can be performed as a result of those parses. Ergo's results on these tasks for these questions as well as for the Air Travel Industry Sentences (ATIS) can be downloaded from our site. That is, the comparison will be based on the actual parse tree and the ability to use that parsed output to generate theory independent parse trees and output and to perform various NLP tasks. The judging will be based on the standards for evaluating NLP that have been proposed previously on this list by myself and Derek Bickerton and which are currently being developed into an ISO standard for the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) as part of the VRML Consortium's development efforts (http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/ NLP-ANIM). The standards proposed are theory and field independent standards which allow both linguists and non-linguists to evaluate NLP systems in the areas of navigation and control, question/answer dialogues, and database and web searching. The sentences chosen for this contest are rather simple, but as we find more and more parsers that can accomplish the tasks on this list, we will add more complex sentences and tasks to the list. Please, be aware that systems that may be designed for large corpora of unrestricted text actually cannot work in this domain. Thus, while such systems may be useful for certain searching tasks, they are not useful in the domain explored in this contest ^× and this is evidenced by their inability to perform on tests such as the one provide here. The full contest instructions and an HTML document of Ergo's results in this area can be found at http://www.ergo-ling.com. The standards were designed to allow the developers of a parsing system (statistical or syntactic) to demonstrate the thoroughness and accuracy of the parses they produce by using the parsed output to perform a number of straightforward, traditional syntactic tasks such as changing a statement to a question or an active to a passive as well as demonstrating an ability to create standard trees (Using the Penn Treebank II guidelines) and standard grammatical analyses. All the standards chosen were chosen to be theory independent measures of the accuracy of a parse through the use of standard and ordinary grammatical and syntactic output. The contest officially begins on January 15th and will be closed on March 31st. This will allow developers 2.5 months to develop tools and to work with trouble spots that they may have with the set of sentences offered in this contest. The contest will be offered in subsequent years from January to March. As time develops we hope the parsers, the contest rules, and the test sentences will all grow in sophistication and scope. However, as most parsers have existed many more years than ours, it is reasonable to think these tools exist already. Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Dawson Subject: Re: 12.0446 medieval Portuguese character-set problems Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:07:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 823 (823) [deleted quotation] Use Fontographer to create your own additional letters. It's very easy. But of course you'll probably have to use a Mac to do this ... John Dawson JLD1@cam.ac.uk http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~jld1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: WP -> HTML Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:07:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 824 (824) Yesterday I was asked what I use to convert wordprocessed files into HTML; my answer was that I don't, because I don't have to handle volumes of material and so find it as convenient to html-ize by hand. I've looked at the output of some WP-to-HTML converters but not been encouraged by the quality of code that I have seen. I like to produce as readable code as I can, e.g. by using indenting to denote the levels of nested lists; I haven't seen any converter that would do that. What is the current state of this art for both Mac OS and Windows? Are there any truly WYSIWYG wordprocessors that can produce good HTML? Thanks. 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/ maui gratia From: David Green Subject: Syllabi Central: U.S. Survey Syllabi (R. Rosenzweig Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:07:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 825 (825) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 22, 1999 CALL FOR U.S. HISTORY SURVEY SYLLABI <http://historymatters.gmu.edu/syllabus.html> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org> david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Bullard, Giuliana" Subject: Diane Frankel to Step Down from IMLS Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:36:52 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 826 (826) Please pass on if appropriate. Apologies for any cross posting. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: February 18, 1999 Mamie Bittner, 202-606-8339 Diane Frankel Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services To Step Down Washington, DC -- Diane Frankel announced today that she will be stepping down as Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services at the end of March 1999. Originally appointed by President William Clinton to be the Director of the Institute of Museum Services, Frankel led the agency through its transition to include federal library as well as museum programs. President Clinton said, "Diane Frankel's outstanding leadership skills have expertly guided the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a period of growth and change. Hillary and I are indeed grateful for her five and one half years of dedicated service." Frankel said, "As Director of the Institute I have had an unparalleled opportunity to see the work of our museums and libraries nationwide. They have incredible power to offer connections. They link people to ideas, to their communities, to the past and to the future. As a nation of learners, we depend on the resources of museums and libraries throughout our lives. It has been a great privilege to serve the American people in such a wonderful way - making museum and library resources more accessible to people across the country." During her five and one half years of federal service, Frankel established a record of achievement that has helped bring museum and library service to millions of Americans nationwide. On November 17, 1993, when Frankel was sworn into office by Secretary of Education Richard Riley, she announced her vision to "raise everyone's understanding about the vital role museums play as lifelong educational institutions, as places where families, friends, school children and communities can explore and discover together." She said that, "not one institution could afford to remain on the sidelines when so many important issues face our communities." One of her first acts was to establish an annual National Award for Museum Service to recognize museums that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to serve their entire communities. These museums make an impact by helping communities to use the museum to address the educational, environmental and social challenges they face. To date, nineteen museums of all types have met with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to receive this prestigious award. In 1994, when all federal spending for small programs was undergoing congressional review, Frankel was an excellent spokesperson for the importance of a federal role in leveraging other public and private support. Her outstanding leadership skill was a key factor in maintaining federal support for museums. By 1996, Congress expressed its confidence in the agency by expanding its mission to include administration of federal library programs. This action increased the Institute's annual budget from $20,000,000 to more than $180,000,000. An able manager, Frankel impressed the library community by overseeing a smooth transition to a new set of programs, free of burdensome regulations, resulting in more flexibility to use funds to address high priority library needs and allowing federal library staff to substantially improve customer service. She convened the first joint meetings of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and the National Museum Services Board to provide policy advice. She worked with leaders in the library field to develop the guidelines for the new federal library competitive grant program known as National Leadership Grants. At the time the new National Leadership Grant guidelines were released, Frankel said "There were many issues to consider: the history of federal funding for libraries, the new opportunity to support collaboration, recognition of the potential of technology to expand services, the need to establish a home for activities of national significance, and above all, how to best serve the public to whom we are ultimately responsible. Through our joint efforts, I believe that this program will support projects of national significance to enhance the quality of services nationwide and provide an important opportunity for collaboration between museums and libraries." As part of the creation of the new agency combining both museum and library programs in 1996, Frankel reorganized the agency and initiated a new Office of Research and Technology. With the strong support of museum and library grantees she has begun efforts that will have long-term impact improving program evaluation and outcome reporting. Also in that year, the twentieth anniversary of the Institute of Museum Services, the agency published To Listen and To Lead, a leadership guide for federal support of museums. The result of a year-long series of town meetings about the role of museums and of the agency, this publication is a blueprint for the future which will guide federal support for museums into the 21st century. In FY 1998, Frankel announced the first grants under the new Library Services and Technology Act. These awards help libraries to use technology to bring information to people in new and interesting ways and to assure that library service is accessible to all - especially those that have difficulty using the library. These awards also offer an opportunity for libraries and museums to work together and form innovative partnerships. Frankel believes strongly in the power of partnership. She recognizes the important responsibility museums, libraries and other community organizations have to enter into creative collaborations. Together they can be resources for life-long learning and active partners with formal education. To expand museums' involvement in their communities Frankel launched a series of leadership initiatives. The first initiative --- grants to strengthen museum partnerships with schools -- involved 82,000 students, 228 schools and 82 museums over a three-year period, 1993-1996. To promote promising practices the agency held a national conference and published a case study workbook titled True Needs True Partners. The agency recently released the first national survey of the status of museum school partnerships in the U.S. This survey will serve as a baseline for years to come. Similarly, a leadership initiative begun in 1997 -- grants to help museums enhance the quality of civic life -- has impacted thousands of people in all age groups. New partners include programs for the aging, regional Head Start programs, neighborhood housing groups, urban leagues, mental health facilities and public health nursing associations, churches, libraries and economic development. A national conference in St. Louis, Missouri brought together museums and their community partners from throughout the nation. Through testimony to Congress, countless speeches, travel throughout the United States, interviews, meetings with library and museum leaders and disseminating promising practices, Frankel has demonstrated a persuasive energy and enthusiasm for the importance of learning throughout one's lifetime. She is an articulate advocate for the public benefit of strong museums and libraries. Frankel leaves the agency with an Administration budget request for FY 2000 that is the highest in the Institute's history. The $188,500,000 request to Congress includes a $10 million increase in museum programs, which will support the first federal program specifically designed to address the technology needs of all types of museums. Frankel said, "This funding is critical to assure that as we enter the 21st century the public has the ability to access museum collections for lifelong learning and in classrooms throughout the world." The budget includes a $4 million increase in library competitive grants and grants to states. These grants help libraries use technology to improve library service and bring service to underserved populations. Frankel will join the James Irvine Foundation. She has been appointed Program Director in Children, Youth and Families. In addition to managing that portfolio, Frankel will be responsible for the development of a multi-year initiative to create and support networks of organizations, institutions and coalitions committed to advancing the educational development of school-aged children in California communities. Frankel will provide leadership to a team of program directors, associates, project managers and consultants in the development of this new initiative. She will be responsible for developing the program's conceptual framework, its goals and objectives and the grantmaking strategies that will support capacity building of community organization, community mobilization, parent involvement, media engagement and project evaluation. The James Irvine Foundation is a private, nonprofit grantmaking foundation dedicated to enhancing the social, economic, and physical quality of life throughout California, and to enriching the State's intellectual and cultural environment. The foundation was established in 1937 by James Irvine, the California pioneer whose 110,000-acre ranch in Southern California was among the largest privately owned land holding in the State. With assets of $1.2 billion, the foundation makes grants of approximately $48 million annually for the people of California. Frankel previously served as Executive Director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area; the museum is dedicated to bringing nature, art, science, theater, and dance to children and their families. From 1985 to 1986, she served as Dean of the School of Liberal and Professional Arts at the John F. Kennedy University and from 1980 to 1985, as Director of the Center for Museum Studies. She was Assistant Director of Education at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from 1976 to 1980. From 1972 to 1973, she was Outreach Educator at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. She served on the Council of the Association of Youth Museums. She is currently Chairperson of ArtTable's Washington D.C. Chapter, a member of The Women's Forum of Washington, D.C., a member of The Getty Information Institute Visiting Committee, and a member of the Smithsonian Council. In 1996, she received the Museum Education Committee award for Outstanding Leadership on behalf of education reform and strengthening museum-school partnerships. Ms. Frankel holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in Museum Education from the George Washington University. Until the President nominates and the Senate confirms a new director, an acting director will administer the day-to-day operations of the agency. The Museum and Library Services Act (P.L. 104-208) provides that the Presidentially appointed Senate confirmed director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services shall rotate between an individual with library and information science expertise and an individual with museum service expertise. The next Presidential appointee to be Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services will have expertise in library and information services and will be appointed for a four year term. # # # =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: Manuscript Digitization Demonstration Project: LC Final Report Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:35:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 827 (827) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 22, 1999 MANUSCRIPT DIGITIZATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT Final Report Published by Library of Congress HTML Version: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pictel/index.html> PDF Version: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pictel/pictel.pdf> [deleted quotation] ****************************************************************** Report released at the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program at the American Memory website. Final Report of the Library of Congress Manuscript Document Digitization Demonstration Project (October 1998) "This demonstration project produced images of 10,000 document pages from the New Deal era Federal Theatre collection held by the Music Division at the Library of Congress. The project was sponsored by the Library's Preservation Directorate, overseen by the National Digital Library Program (NDLP), and carried out from 1994-97 by Picture Elements, Inc., of Berkeley, California, and Boulder, Colorado. The final report is available at the Library of Congress website at this URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pictel/index.html. "The project was guided by these questions: What type of image is best suited for the digitization of large manuscript collections, especially collections consisting mostly of twentieth century typescripts? What level of image quality strikes the best balance between production economics and the requirements set by future uses of the images? Will the same high quality image that might be appropriate for preservation reformatting also provide efficient online access for researchers? "A steering committee of Library staff members guided the project. Recognizing the variations in the types and condition of the paper and in the density of the imprints and markings on the sheets, the committee selected grayscale and color images for the highest-quality images. The committee found that the importance of these manuscripts lies in their information value and agreed to accept slight aesthetic degradation of the images so long as legibility was not impaired. Thus a slight degree of "lossy" JPEG compression was applied to the highest-quality images. "The committee selected high-contrast bitonal images for access, influenced by the model of microfilming and by considerations of ease of printing. After the consultants completed the project, however, the Library produced an additional set of grayscale and color access images in the GIF format. This practice, which the NDLP has continued, reflects the need to present document images in World Wide Web browser software as well as a desire to retain the tonality of the originals." =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: BOOK: EAD: Context, Theory and Case Studies Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:37:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 828 (828) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 22, 1999 ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION: CONTEXT, THEORY AND CASE STUDIES <http://www.archivists.org/publications/stds99/index.html> The Society of American Archivists has recently published ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION: CONTEXT, THEORY AND CASE STUDIES This book makes available in a single volume the twelve articles that were published in the summer and fall 1997 issues of the _American Archivist_ (vol. 60, nos. 3&4), which appeared in August/September 1998. The authors of the six context and theory papers all were members of the original EAD development team. They explore the context within which EAD was developed, the essentials of its structured approach to encoding finding aid data, and the role that EAD is meant to play in individual repositories and for the archival profession as a whole. The six case studies were written by archivists at Harvard University, the Library of Congress, the Minnesota Historical Society, the Univ. of Vermont, the Univ. of Virginia, and Yale University. Edited by Jackie Dooley. Published by Society of American Archivists (1998). 178 pp., soft cover. Product Code 349 $40 (SAA members $30) plus shipping (U.S.A. $6.75; Canada $9.50; all other countries $10.50). Prepayment required. Visa and MasterCard welcome. TO ORDER, CONTACT: Troy Sturdivant Society of American Archivists 527 S. Wells St., 5th Floor Chicago, IL 60607-3922 USA phone 312.922.0140 fax 312.347.1452 e-mail tsturdivant@archivists.org ORDER FORM: <http://www.archivists.org/publications/webcat98/page28.html> =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Astrid Wissenburg Subject: AHC final call Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:36:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 829 (829) Recording the Past : Final Call for Proposals **Please distribute as widely as possible** Final Call for Proposals Recording the Past: 1999 Annual Conference of the Association for History and Computing (UK Branch), 14-16 September 1999, King's College London. Conference website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ahcuk99/ Extended deadline for submission of proposals - now 19 March 1999 The conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of any aspects of the use of Information and Computer Technology in History, such as the World Wide Web. In particular, it will focus on the creation and use of digital representations of historical resources and the effects of computer-based technologies on historical scholarship and on teaching history. The conference will overlap with the international Digital Resources in the Humanities 99 conference also taking place at King's College London: for more information, see http://www.drh.org.uk/ Proposals, by the submission of abstracts, are now invited for individual papers, themed sessions, panel discussions and presentations of work in progress. Proposals for software demonstrations are also welcome. For further guidance on the submission of proposals, please visit the conference website. Please note that a limited number of bursaries from the AHC-UK are available for post-graduate students presenting at the conference. All proposals should be submitted by 19 March 1999. Submitted papers will be reviewed and notification of acceptance will be given by 15 April 1999. Conference Themes Creation and use of digital representations of historical sources: * the roles of scholars, archives and funding bodies * the World Wide Web: publication, ownership and accessibility * preservation of both original sources and their digital representations * digital source material and the impact on historical methodologies * design and modelling Effects of computer-based technologies on historical scholarship and teaching: * case studies, e.g.: exploring the impact of computer based historical research on specific historical themes, design and modelling issues for certain types of source materials * the roles of the researcher, publisher and funding bodies * evaluating the impact of ICT on historical scholarship * pedagogical approaches to teaching history using ICT Contact details: For further information, please visit the conference website or email the conference organisers: AHC UK Conference 99 Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom Local Organiser: Drs. Astrid Wissenburg (Astrid.Wissenburg@kcl.ac.uk) Conference website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ahcuk99/ ********************************************************************* Drs. Astrid Wissenburg Senior Project Manager MALIBU King's College London, Library Strand, London WC2R 2LS astrid.wissenburg@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/malibu ********************************************************************** From: "K. C. Cameron" Subject: Exeter CALL '99 - Reminder Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:36:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 830 (830) REMINDER EXETER CALL '99 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER September 9-11 1999 Conference on CALL AND THE LEARNING COMMUNITY This will be the eighth biennial conference to be held in Exeter on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. Many of the papers have been published in Computer Assisted Language Learning. An International Journal (Swets & Zeitlinger), and bear witness to the weighty discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so. The estimated cost, with en-suite accommodation in the new Postgraduate Centre, centrally situated on the University campus, for full board, Conference fee and a copy of the Proceedings is 140 pounds sterling - 95 pounds for non-residents. Proposals (c.100-150 words) are invited by February 28 1999 for papers (25 mins) on any aspect of CALL, but, in particular, topics dealing with CALL and Learning in the Community. Papers will hopefully lead to submissions to the journal, Computer Assisted Language Learning. For further information, please return the form below to : Mrs Lindy Ayubi, CALL '99 Conference, Room 104, Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, Old Library, The University, EXETER, EX4 4JZ, (UK); tel. (0)1392 264030 / e.mail . Alternatively contact Keith Cameron, tel/fax (0)1392 264221/2; e.mail CALL '99, Exeter, CALL and the LEARNING COMMUNITY NAME .......................................... .......................................... ADDRESS .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... .......................................... *I wish to attend the CALL conference September 9-11 1999 *Please invoice me *I wish to propose a paper on: *Please send further particulars about the conference ------------- Keith Cameron Professor of French and Renaissance Studies, Editor of: - Computer Assisted Language Learning, (http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html); - Exeter Textes litteraires, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm); - Exeter Tapes, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html); - EUROPA - online & European Studies Series, (http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm); - Elm Bank Modern Language Series, (http://www.intellect-net.com/elm/index.htm) Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, G.B. WWW (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/) Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 1392 264221;Fax: 01392 264222 / + 44 (19) 1392 264222 E/mail: K.C.Cameron@ex.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jack Lynch Subject: Re: 12.0450 WP->HTML? history syllabi? Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:36:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 831 (831) Willard McCarty writes: I've looked at the output of some WP-to-HTML converters but not been encouraged by the quality of code that I have seen. I like to produce as readable code as I can, e.g. by using indenting to denote the levels of nested lists; I haven't seen any converter that would do that. I have the same hang-ups, and prefer to do things by hand. But I've often thought a useful tool would be an HTML "beautifier," on the model of the "cb" utility, which cleans up and reformats C code. Done properly, such a program would give the user plenty of flexibility: do you want your markup codes consistently upper- or lowercase; do you want your lists indented; do you want certain codes to be on their own lines; and so on. They might even be combined with a "lint"-style program, something that catches coding problems (tags opened and never closed, invalid tags, and so on); several such HTML checkers already exist (I'm fond of weblint), but they'd be especially useful in conjunction with a beautifier program. A quick search of the phrase "HTML beautifier" turns up a few hits -- http://www.digital-mines.com/htb/ http://www.btinternet.com/~gellyfish/resources/htbeauty.htm -- though I've not yet played with them. But if they work, they'd provide a good platform-independent way to reformat the often messy HTML produced by the converters (and other human beings, of course), and give you all the control you want over the formatting. From: George Aichele Subject: Re: 12.0450 WP->HTML? Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:36:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 832 (832) I have had fairly good success converting both WP and Word files of varying sizes to html using WordPort software. A demo is available at www.acii.com. Just a reasonably satisfied user ... George Aichele gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu http://members.tripod.com/~gaichele voice: 517-265-4401 fax: 517-265-7414 From: Willard McCarty Subject: Appleworks -> HTML Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:36:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 833 (833) Gary Shawver sends word that Terry Morse Software's Myrmidon works well, although not perfectly, in converting Appleworks files to HTML. [deleted quotation] Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mavis Cournane Subject: Re: 12.0451 medieval Portuguese character-set problems Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:37:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 834 (834) [deleted quotation] No you don't. Fontographer is also available for a PC. Mavis Cournane From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 12.0452 octothorpe = make room! Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:37:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 835 (835) Ah, yes. One of my colleagues pointed out years ago that we should either drive ipsimobiles or autocynetra. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Green Subject: CONFERENCES; CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:17:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 836 (836) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT FEBRUARY 24, 1999 RECORDING THE PAST Association for History and Computing (UK Branch), 14-16 September 1999: King's College London. <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ahcuk99/> Proposal Deadline: 19 March 1999 "The conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of any aspects of the use of Information and Computer Technology in History, such as the World Wide Web. In particular, it will focus on the creation and use of digital representations of historical resources and the effects of computer-based technologies on historical scholarship and on teaching history." Conference Themes Creation and use of digital representations of historical sources: * the roles of scholars, archives and funding bodies * the World Wide Web: publication, ownership and accessibility * preservation of both original sources and their digital representations * digital source material and the impact on historical methodologies * design and modelling Effects of computer-based technologies on historical scholarship and teaching: * case studies, e.g.: exploring the impact of computer based historical research on specific historical themes, design and modelling issues for certain types of source materials * the roles of the researcher, publisher and funding bodies * evaluating the impact of ICT on historical scholarship * pedagogical approaches to teaching history using ICT ===================== AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence November 5-7, 1999: North Falmouth, Massachusetts <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~michaelm/narrative.html> Submissions Deadline: March 31, 1999 "While narrative has long been a theme in AI, it has recently experienced a surge of popularity. Researchers in various subfields, including story generation and understanding, agent architecture, and interface agents, have taken independent forays into narrative, finding it a fruitful way to rethink some basic issues in AI." ===================== 27TH ANNUAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH CONFERENCE September 25-27, 1999: Alexandria, Virginia http://www.si.umich.edu/~prie/tprc/ Submissions Deadline: March 26, 1999 "The Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) is an annual forum for dialogue among scholars and decision-makers from the public and private sectors engaged in communication and information policy. The purpose of the conference is to acquaint policymakers with the best of recent research and to familiarize researchers with the knowledge needs of policymakers and industry. The TPRC program is assembled from submitted abstracts, invited papers and proposals for complete sessions." ===================== CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS The Franke Institute for the Humanities of the University of Chicago 1999-2000 Sawyer Seminar on "Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization." <http://humanities.uchicago.edu/sawyer/CSasHS> SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 1999 22-24 October 1999: Synesthetic Education and the Cultural Organization of the Senses 14-16 January 2000 Human/Computer Creoles and Cultures 7-9 April 2000 Moral and Political Economies of Computer Cultures The Franke Institute for the Humanities of the University of Chicago invites abstracts and papers for three conferences held in conjunction with the 1999-2000 Sawyer Seminar on "Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization." Please send a two-page c.v. and a 500 word (2 page) summary or a complete paper as your submission. Indicate which one of the three topics and its related conference you wish your abstract to be considered for. Your final paper is due one month in advance of the conference opening date. Both accepted papers and alternate papers will be selected, and all of them will be considered for publication in a volume of seminar papers. Alternate paper topics will be waitlisted. Please be aware that if your paper is not received by the deadline, an alternate speaker will be selected. The deadline is 15 MARCH 1999. ===================== COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY THE GLOBAL INTERNET April 6-8, 1999: Washington, DC <http://www.regmaster.com/cfp99.html> "For almost a decade, the conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy has shaped the public debate on the future of privacy and freedom in the online world. Register now for the number one Internet policy conference. Join a diverse audience from government, industry, academics, the non-profit sector, the hacker community and the media. Enjoy the US Capital in the Spring at one of Washington's premier hotels. Keynote speakers include Tim Berners-Lee (Director, World Wide Web Consortium), Vint Cerf (President, Internet Society), Congressman Ed Markey (sponsor of "The Electonic Bill of Rights Act"), Congressman Ron Paul (sponsor of the Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act), Henrikas Yushkiavitshus (Associate Director, UNESCO) ===================== ADVANCES IN DIGITAL LIBRARIES '99 May 19-21, 1999: Baltimore <http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/> Digital Libraries are a critical component of the emerging ``distributed knowledge environments'' that will provide people with universal access to virtually all areas of human knowledge, with the concomitant hope of improving standards of health, education , and economic well-being as well as the quality of life. As such, the field of digital library research and technology encompasses information creation, acquisition, access, distribution, evaluation and processing. Major applications of digital library research and technology include education, science, commerce, medicine, and the arts. The goal of this conference is to share and disseminate information about important current issues concerning digital library research and technology. This goal will be achieved by means of research papers, invited talks, workshops, and panels involving leading experts, as well as through demonstrations of innovative and prototype technologies. The conference has the additional goal of indicating the importance of applications of digital library technologies in the public and private sectors of the economy. ===================== The International Federation of Television Archives FIAT/IFTA World Conference October 3-5, 1999: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil <http://www.nbr.no/fiat/9900/call.html> Deadline for proposals: March 22nd, 1999 "Audiovisual Archives of the New World - A New World of Audiovisual Archiving" "Proposals should address the main conference theme. The heading of the conference is "Audiovisual Archives of the New World - A New World of Audiovisual Archiving". The first part of the heading aims at revealing/presenting the audiovisual archives of the Latin American Region from a number of perspectives. The latter part aims at the ongoing and rocketing interest from the market in primarily the development of digitizing the audiovisual archives, but also making the archives profitable." =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: Nominate Cultural Community Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:17:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 837 (837) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 23, 1999 ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION: PIONEER AWARDS Deadline for Nominations: March 10, 1999 <http://www.eff.org/pioneer.html> This award is open to all so let us be bold and seize the opportunity to nominate those who have led those of us in the cultural communities across the digital frontier. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] THE EIGHTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL EFF PIONEER AWARDS: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS ------------------------------------- Please redistribute this notice in appropriate fora ------------------------------------- In every field of human endeavor, there are those dedicated to expanding knowledge, freedom, efficiency, and utility. Along the electronic frontier, this is especially true. To recognize this, the Electronic Frontier Foundation established the Pioneer Awards for deserving individuals and organizations. The Pioneer Awards are international and nominations are open to all. The deadline for nominations this year is March 10, 1999. Nominations must be sent to pioneer@eff.org. In March of 1992, the first EFF Pioneer Awards were given in Washington D.C. The winners were: Douglas C. Engelbart, Robert Kahn, Jim Warren, Tom Jennings, and Andrzej Smereczynski. The 1993 Pioneer Award recipients were Paul Baran, Vinton Cerf, Ward Christensen, Dave Hughes and the USENET software developers, represented by the software's originators Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis. The 1994 Pioneer Award winners were Ivan Sutherland, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lee Felsenstein, Bill Atkinson, and the WELL. The 1995 Pioneer Award winners were Philip Zimmermann, Anita Borg, and Willis Ware. The 1996 Pioneer Award winners were Robert Metcalfe, Peter Neumann, Shabbir Safdar and Matthew Blaze. The 1997 winners were Marc Rotenberg, Johan "Julf" Helsingius, and (special honorees) Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil. The 1998 winners were Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Barbara Simons. The 8th Annual Pioneer Awards will be given in Washington, D.C., at the 9th Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in April of 1999. All nominations will be reviewed by a panel of judges chosen for their knowledge of computer-based communications and the technical, legal, and social issues involved in computer technology and computer communications. This year's judges are Mike Godwin, Bruce Koball, Hal Abelson, Lorrie Cranor, Phil Agre, and Simona Nass. There are no specific categories for the Pioneer Awards, but the following guidelines apply: 1. The nominees must have made a substantial contribution to the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications. 2. The contribution may be technical, social, economic, or cultural. 3. Nominations may be of individuals, systems, or organizations in the private or public sectors. 4. Nominations are open to all, and you may nominate more than one recipient. You may nominate yourself or your organization. 5. All nominations, to be valid, must contain your reasons, however brief, for nominating the individual or organization, along with a means of contacting the nominee, and your own contact number. Anonymous nominations will be allowed, but we prefer to be able to contact the nominating parties in the event that we need more information. 6. Every person or organization, with the single exception of EFF staff members, are eligible for Pioneer Awards. 7. Persons or representatives of organizations receiving a Pioneer Award will be invited to attend the ceremony at the Foundation's expense. You may nominate as many as you wish, but please use one form per nomination. You may return the forms to us via email to: pioneer@eff.org Just tell us the name of the nominee, the phone number or email address at which the nominee can be reached, and, most important, why you feel the nominee deserves the award. You may attach supporting documentation in Microsoft Word or other standard binary formats. Please include your own name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. We're looking for the Pioneers of the Electronic Frontier that have made and are making a difference. Thanks for helping us find them, The Electronic Frontier Foundation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alexander Fowler Director of Public Affairs Electronic Frontier Foundation E-mail: afowler@eff.org Tel: 415 436 9333; Fax 415 436 9993 You can find EFF on the Web at <http://www.eff.org> EFF supports the Global Internet Liberty Campaign <http://www.gilc.org> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: David Green Subject: Intellectual Property News from Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:18:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 838 (838) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 24, 1999 THE FILTER No. 1.10 Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/> Moving Image Watermark Standard Grateful Dead Releases Free Music Online Copyright Term Extension Law Suit Berkman Center's Lecture Series includes "Intellectual Property in Cyberspace" I've extracted items of particular interest to NINCH readers from THE FILTER No. 1.10, public-interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] Moving Image Watermark Standard ================================ [deleted quotation] Grateful Dead Releases Free Music Online ======================================== [deleted quotation] Copyright Term Extension Law Suit ================================= [deleted quotation] Berkman Center's Lecture Series includes "Intellectual Property in Cyberspace" ============================================================================== [deleted quotation]============================================================================== [deleted quotation] From: David Green Subject: EXTRA! The Latest News from the ACLS Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:18:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 839 (839) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 24, 1999 **EXTRA! THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE ACLS** Here is a preview of the latest news on the Website of the American Council of Learned Societies: http://www.acls.org. NEW RELEASES IN OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES We are pleased to announce the latest releases in the ACLS Occasional Paper series: -- "Wave of the Present: The Scholarly Journal on the Edge of the Internet" by Christopher L. Tomlins (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 43). Tomlins, Editor of "Law and History Review,: assesses the future of the scholarly journal and its role in professional discourse in light of the move toward electronic retrieval and distribution of information. -- "The Humanist on Campus: Continuity and Change" by Denis Donoghue, Lynn Hunt, Lucius Outlaw, Judith Shapiro, and Robert Weisbuch (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 44). As part of the public session of the 1998 ACLS Annual Meeting, panel members- all recipients of ACLS Fellowships at some point in their careers-considered the place of the Humanist on campus and explored aspects of continuity and change. CONFERENCE OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS IN DENVER The Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) of the ACLS held its semi-annual meeting in Denver and Boulder, Colorado on November 12-14, 1998. Program sessions at the meeting included discussion of the constituent societies involvement in K-12 education and the establishment of an education website within the ACLS website; next steps for CAO programming regarding the impact of information technology on society management; and a presentation by University of Colorado, Boulder faculty on Native American Studies. John H. D'Arms, President of the American Council of Learned Societies, described to the members of the CAO his development and program efforts for the past year and his plans for the upcoming year. He stressed an initiative concerning recently tenured scholars in the Humanities, one aspect of which will be a series of conversations modeled on the program planning conversations which took place at the ACLS during John D'Arms' first year as president. He distributed a draft of questions conversation participants would be asked to address and asked for CAO comments on those questions and on the initiative in general. Mr. D'Arms also reported on other projects under development including a pilot electronic publishing effort and the ongoing Fellowship endowment campaign. In connection with the latter, he noted that ACLS has for the first time compiled a comprehensive list of former fellows and is seeking their help in this campaign. The session at the University of Colorado, Boulder was hosted by the Center for Humanities and the Arts and included welcoming remarks by Jeffrey Cox, Director of the Center; Peter D. Spear, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; and ACLS President D'Arms. The panelists for the Native American Studies session were Patricia N. Limerick (History) who served as Chair; Philip Deloria (History); Vine Deloria (History and Law); Jule Gomez de Garcia (Linguistics); Linda Hogan (English and Creative Writing;) and Richard B. Williams, the Lakota Nation. [See photographs of session participants.] The presentations were followed by discussion. The audience also included fellows of the ACLS and members of the constituent societies from Boulder and the surrounding area. As part of the CAO Business Meeting, Patti McGill Peterson, Executive Director of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, reported to the group on the current state of affairs at CIES. John Hammer, Director of the National Humanities Alliance, also provided the group with an update on the state of the Humanities in the Congress. As part of Maureen Grolnick's update on K-12 activities, Deane Root, ACLS Delegate from the Sonneck Society for American Music and Director of the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, presented a sample lesson from a Sonneck Society pilot program to teach eighth graders American History through music. The meeting, which was hosted by the Denver Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Adam's Mark Hotel Denver, also included visits to cultural and historical sites in the Denver area. _____________________________________________________________ Contact to add or delete addresses from this list. From: David Green Subject: Deadline Extended for Distance Education Comments Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:18:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 840 (840) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 24, 1999 DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR FILING DISTANCE EDUCATION COMMENTS <http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/disted/> Public Comments Now Due March 3rd The Copyright Office has extended the deadline from February 24th to March 3 for written comments on the statements and three public hearings on issues to be considered in amending the Copyright Act for Distance Education. For a lucid account of the process see <http://www.arl.org/info/frn/copy/disted.html> All written statements can be viewed (as .pdf files) on the website of The Copyright Office at <http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/disted/comments.html>. NINCH member organizations that have submitted statements include the following: AMERCAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS: <http://www.ninch.org/ISSUES/COPYRIGHT/ AAM_DE_Statement.html> ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES: <http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/disted/comments/init048.pdf> COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION: <http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/CIP/CAA-DxEd.htm> SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS: <http://www.archivists.org/governance/resolutions/distance_education.html> VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION: <http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/dlhall.html> =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org> david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== From: David Green Subject: Teacher Training; Abilene; PITAC Report Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:18:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 841 (841) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 24, 1999 Report Calls For Teacher Training in Technology No Speed Limits on the New Infobahn Panel to Urge Big U.S. Effort In Technology From the Benton Foundation's Communications-related Headlines for 2/24/99 <http://www.benton.org/Updates/>. [deleted quotation]FROM: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "F. Heberlein" Subject: Re: 12.0450 WP->HTML? Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:15:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 842 (842) You migth want to check out the overview of the w3 consortium: http://www.w3.org/Tools/Word_proc_filters.html Regards, Fritz Heberlein Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor Seminar fuer Klassische Philologie KU Eichstaett Ostenstr. 26-28 D-85071 Eichstaett ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: source of quotation? Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:19:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 843 (843) Can any kind Humanist give me an exact reference for Dr. Johnson's cooly damaging statement (which here I undoubtedly paraphrase), 'What is new about this is not interesting, and what is interesting is not new.'? Many thanks. The relevance of this to computing goes without saying, yes? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: Willard McCarty Subject: bad images made good Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:19:28 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 844 (844) I am looking for examples of digitised images that are difficult to puzzle out as is but which with some manipulation, using a tool like Photoshop, become comprehensible. Mss pages are what come to mind, but other sources would be equally good. I would most appreciate images that have obvious scholarly interest in them but which do not require specialised skills, such as knowledge of Latin and/or palaeography, to interpret visually. I want to make a methodological point to people who may not have those skills. Thanks. 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Web as a Reference Tool Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:19:03 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 845 (845) Greetings, There is a very good study of the Web as a reference tool for librarians in the current issue of Public Libraries (Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 30-39, January/February 1999). In "The Web as a Reference Tool: Comparison with Traditional Sources" Joseph James and Charles R. McClure examine the use of the Web to answer "quick fact reference questions." The preliminary result of this study indicate that the Web can offer the same level of accuracy and timeliness as more traditional resources. Of particular interest to humanists will be the authors' suggestion that libraries consider new models of library consortia to "maintain access to a core and advanced set of freely available, high quality, reference Web sites." (p. 37) Perhaps library consortia will play a role as gatekeepers for academic publishing on the Web. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MSc Computational Linguistics Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:19:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 846 (846) [deleted quotation] NEW POST-GRADUATE PROGRAMME IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND FORMAL GRAMMAR AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON The Department of Philosophy at King's College, University of London is pleased to announce a new MSc in Computational Linguistics and Formal Grammar. The programme is provisionally scheduled to begin in September, 1999 (final approval of the programme expected in March, 1999). The MSc programme will have strong links to the Computer Science Department at King's College, and it will offer courses in -formal syntax -formal semantics -computational approaches to pragmatics and discourse theory -logic programming for natural language processing -mathematical linguistics and formal properties of grammar -non-monotonic logic for natural language. The programme is a one-year full time MSc course designed primarily for students who have completed a BA/BSc in linguistics, computer science, philosophy, logic, or mathematics, and who wish to pursue the application of formal and computational methods to the analysis of natural language. The MSc will also serve as the taught year of an MPhil/Ph.D research degree in formal grammar and computational linguistics. Current faculty of the programme: Professor Dov Gabbay (Computer Science Department) logic, non-monotonic reasoning Professor Ruth Kempson (Philosphy Department) formal pragmatics, formal semantics, formal syntax Professor Shalom Lappin (Philosophy Department) formal semantics, computational linguistics, formal syntax Dr. Odinaldo Rodrigues (Computer Science Department) logic programming, Prolog Lecturer (candidate tba, Philosophy Department) mathematical linguistics, formal properties of grammar, model theory, Lecturer (candidate tba, Philosophy Department) computational approaches to discourse theory, formal semantics Course convenor: Shalom Lappin For additional information and application forms send inquiries to , or visit our web site at . _____________________________ Lisa Turner Departmental Administrator Philosophy Department King's College London WC2R 2LS Tel: 0171 873 2231 Fax: 0171 873 2270 From: Daniel Traister Subject: Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:19:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 847 (847) ***** PLEASE EXCUSE DUPLICATE POSTINGS; PLEASE FORWARD TO ***** ***** POTENTIALLY INTERESTED PARTIES. ***** The 1999 Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography will be presented in the Lessing J. Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania (*NOT* the Rosenbach Museum and Library!). The address is 3420 Walnut Street (entrance on Locust Walk, at the statue of the broken button), Philadelphia, PA. This year's Fellow, Brian Stock (University of Toronto), presents three lectures under the general title of "Minds, Bodies, Readers": Tuesday, 23 March: Healing, Meditation, and the History of Reading Wednesday, 24 March: Healers without Books, Readers without Souls Thursday, March 25: Clinical Therapies, Readerly Mentalities Each lecture starts at 5.30 P.M. Receptions will follow each lecture. Professor Stock addresses in this series the relationship between the mind-body dualism in western medicine and the history of reading in the early modern era. The bridge between the two is the practice of thera- peutic meditation as a function of reading, a tradition with deep classical and medieval roots. Its techniques were changed or abandoned altogether by the seventeenth century and not recovered again until relatively recently. Professor Stock's lectures explore the implications of these changes and their consequences today. Professor Stock's genuinely foundational writings include *The Implica- tions of Literacy* (Princeton 1983), acclaimed by Walter Ong as "a major seminal work" that "shows how in a deep sense the Middle Ages was by far the most literate period that Western culture has ever known." Other recent books include *Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past* (Hopkins 1990) and *Augustine the Reader* (Harvard 1996). For further information, contact friends@pobox.upenn.edu Daniel Traister Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Assistant Curator position--Medieval Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:20:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 848 (848) [deleted quotation] Job opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Assistant Curator--Medieval Art Reporting to the Curator-in-charge of the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, duties will include all aspects of curatorial work including participation in research and publications on the permanent collection, prepartation for an anticipated reinstallation of the medieval galleries, research on acquisitions, public lecturing, and care and day-to-day maintenance of the galleries. Requirements: Ph.D. in medieval art history or the equivalent. A particular emphasis on early Medieval Art up to and including Romanesque is preferred. A reading ability in two foreign European languages is required and a speaking ability in one foreign European language is highly desirable. Computer literacy is also required. Please forward cover letter and resume to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Attn: Human Resources Department Box IT 1000 Fifth Ave. New York, New York 10028 DO NOT RESPOND TO THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS. ALL INQUIRIES TO THIS ADDRESS WILL BE IGNORED. PLEASE RESPOND BY SNAIL MAIL ONLY. THANK YOU. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'99 Workshop Announcements Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:09:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 849 (849) [deleted quotation] Below, separated by askerisks (*) are FIVE ACL'99 associated Workshop announcements: 1) Coreference and Its Applications; 2) Joint EMNLP and Very Large Corpora; 3) Relationship Between Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference; 4) Toward Standards and Tools for Discourse Tagging; and 5) SIGLEX'99. Also included at the end is a co-located Symposium announcement for Computer-Mediated Language Assessment and Evaluation in NLP. ********************************************************************* ACL'99 Workshop COREFERENCE AND ITS APPLICATIONS June 22, 1999 University of Maryland College Park, MD. USA http://www.cs.duke.edu/~amit/acl99-wkshp.html WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Coreference is in some sense nature's own hyperlink. It conveys how individual statements are connected within documents, across documents and across bodies of human knowledge. Consequently coreference resolution algorithms are at the core of Natural Language Processing. Most of the work done on coreference deals with a single language and a single text document (usually newswire). [material deleted] ********************************************************************** [deleted quotation] ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ACL'99 Workshop on the Relationship Between Discourse/Dialogue Structure and Reference June 21 1999 University of Maryland http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/discourse-ref-acl99/ --------------------------------- The relationship between the structure of discourse and dialogue and the use of referring expressions has been the focus of much research in linguistics, computational linguistics, and psycholinguistics. Although individual efforts have been couched in a variety of frameworks ranging from (S)DRT and RST to Centering, they all share two underlying assumptions: 1. The structure of discourse affects the interpretation of referring expressions and the space of anaphoric accessibility. 2. The use of referring expressions restricts the set of possible discourse interpretations. However, most approaches address only one of these two views on the relation between structure and reference. And although several theories explaining this relationship exist, few have made a significant impact on practical applications such as discourse parsing, summarization, generation, and name-entity recognition. This workshop will provide a forum for researchers in all areas of linguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics who are interested in advancing the state of the art in understanding the relationship between discourse/dialogue structure and reference. Submissions are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics and issues: [material deleted] ********************************************************************** [deleted quotation](morena.danieli@cselt.it). [deleted quotation]Barbara Di Eugenio. ************************************************************************ SIGLEX99 Standardizing Lexical Resources June 21, 22, 1999 University of Maryland =========================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================== As our national interests become increasingly global, timely access to information becomes more and more necessary. Many promising strategies for information provision rely heavily on lexical resources, including ontologies. Our next major challenge is providing a standardized lexical resource: an inventory of word meanings, or senses, associated with criteria for distinguishing them. Currently there are several different on-line lexical resources that are being used for English, WordNet, Longman's, the Oxford English Dictionary, (OED), CIDE from Cambeidge University Press (CUP), Collins, and Webster's, to name just a few, and they each use very different approaches to making sense distinctions. Various computational lexicons and related resources such as ontologies are under development, including the European PAROLE/SIMPLE lexicons, the Generative Lexicon, the SENSUS ontology, Mikrokosmos, WordNet, Framenet, and the theory of Lexical Conceptual Structures. Each takes a very different approach and makes reference to different underlying theories of semantics. This divergence of resources has motivated the efforts of the EAGLES Lexical Semantics Group, which is defining a common format for lexical semantic representation for 12 languages. http://www.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/rep2/ In a recent evaluation of word sense disambiguation systems, SIGLEX98-SENSEVAL, (also supported by Euralex, Elsenet, ECRAN and SPARKLE) "http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/events/senseval", the training data and test data were prepared using a set of Oxford University Press (OUP) senses. This made it difficult to evaluate the performance of pre-existing systems that had been built using other lexical resources. A mapping was made from the OUP senses to WordNet senses, so that WordNet systems could be included, but this was somewhat problematic as there were far fewer WordNet senses, and frequently no direct mapping was possible. As do most dictionaries, OUP and WordNet often make different decisions about how to structure entries for the same words which are all equally valid, but simply not compatible. Therefore, it becomes especially difficult to include pre-existing systems in the evaluation that rely on a pre-existing lexical resource other than the one used as the Gold Standard. The question that arises here is the likelihood of making performance preserving mappings between lexical resources. Is it even possible to treat one lexical resource as a standard that other resources can be mapped to? (This is true even when focusing on just one language - the problem simply becomes more explosive when additional languages become involved.) All of the participants in SIGLEX98-SENSEVAL agreed that they would prefer evaluations based on running text rather than corpus instances, but this is only feasible if the Gold Standard sense inventory being used for tagging can be appropriately mapped onto several different lexical resources. The purpose of SIGLEX99 is to directly address the issue of standardization of lexical resources, and performance-preserving mappings between existing resources. As a spin-off from SENSEVAL, we are investigating mapping the OUP SENSEVAL senses onto other lexical resources. We will also be tagging running text with these senses, and other senses, and will circulate this ahead of time to workshop participants. There will be several working sessions focussed around the mappings between lexical resources and the tagged samples. Languages other than English will also be considered, in connection with ROMANSEVAL, the subset of SENSEVAL for Romance languages (but with no restriction to that language family). We will study the relevance of EuroWordNet (EWN) sense dictinctions for WSD systems, and the applicability of the Interlingua Language Index (ILI) created within EWN for cross-language sense-standardization. An issue of particular interest is the mapping of existing resources to the ILI, which could be an important step towards the development of a standardized multilingual lexicon for WSD. Such a multilingual gold standard could in turn be used to semantically tag parallel texts and thus create standardized corpora useful for many multilingual applications. There will also be a session to discuss the future of American involvement in EAGLES, and how the workshop results and conclusions can be incorporated. We will have invited talks on ontologies and lexical resources, and we welcome submissions on any areas in lexical semantics and computational lexical semantics, but particularly on the acquisition and use of lexical resources and ontologies and on word sense disambiguation. There will be a workshop proceedings, and as we have done with our last two workshops, we will encourage partipants to make electronic versions of their papers available on the web prior to the workshop. Likely invited speakers include Patrick Hanks (Oxford University Press), Chuck Fillmore (Berkeley), and someone speaking on WordNet or EuroWordNet and on SIMPLE (the European project for building harmonized semantic lexicons for 12 European languages). The schedule for paper submissions (ACL format, 6 pages): SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 29, 1999 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: May 7, 1999 CAMERA READY COPIES (and copyrights) DUE: May 28, 1999 Please send submissions, hard copy or electronic (.ps or .doc), to: Martha Palmer Institute for Research in Cognitive Science 400A, 3401 Walnut Street/6228 University of Pennsylvania Philadlephia, PA 19104 Telephone: (215) 898-0361 FAX No.: (215) 573-9247 e-mail: mpalmer@cis.upenn.edu Program Committee: Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa Bonnie Dorr, University of Maryland Chuck Fillmore, University of California, Berkeley Ralph Grishman, New York University Patrick Hanks, Oxford University Press Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute Nancy Ide, Vassar College Adam Kilgarriff, ITRI, University of Brighton Marc Light, MITRE Corporation Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania, CHAIR James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Patrick St Dizier, IRIT-CNRS, Universiti Paul Sabatier Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, DG XIII Frederique Segond, Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble Jean Vironis, Universiti de Provence Evelyne Viegas, New Mexico State University Piek Vossen, University of Amsterdam Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield David Yarowsky, John's Hopkins University Antonio Zompolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa *********************************************************************** Call for Participation COMPUTER-MEDIATED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT and EVALUATION IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING http://umiacs.umd.edu/~molsen/acl-iall A Symposium jointly sponsored by: International Association of Language Learning Technologies and Association for Computational Linguistics Tuesday, June 22, 1999 (preceding IALL-99 and ACL-99) University of Maryland, College Park, MD The purpose of this meeting will be to strengthen collaboration between researchers and users of language learning tools. We solicit abstracts for a range of participation types, including, but not limited to presentations, proposals, demonstrations, and papers on: [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Formal Grammar 99: Final Call for Papers Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:10:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 850 (850) [deleted quotation] FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FORMAL GRAMMAR CONFERENCE August 7-8, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS FG99 is the 5th conference on Formal Grammar held in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, which takes place in 1999 in Utrecht. Previous meetings were held in Barcelona (1995), Prague (1996), Aix-en-Provence (1997), and as part of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, and Categorial Grammar (FHCG98) held in Saarbruecken last August. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XI: http://esslli.let.uu.nl Web site for FG99 : http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/fg.html The organizers: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Glyn Morrill glyn@lsi.upc.es Paola Monachesi Paola.Monachesi@let.uu.nl Dick Oehrle oehrle@linc.cis.upenn.edu From: "David L. Gants" Subject: TOOLS USA '99 - Last Call for Submissions Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:11:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 851 (851) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************** LAST CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TOOLS USA '99 Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems "DELIVERING QUALITY SOFTWARE" Santa Barbara, Calif., August 1-5, 1999 Fess Parker's Double Tree Resort http://www.tools.com/usa ************************************************************** [material deleted] TECHNICAL PAPERS =================== TOOLS USA '99 is now soliciting papers on all aspects of object-oriented technology. All submitted papers will be refereed and judged by the International Program Committee, not only according to standards of technical quality but also on their usefulness to practitioners and applied researchers. TOOLS USA '99 will feature a special emphasis on issues relating to the challenges of ensuring the quality of delivered applications. Technical papers that report and assess advances and experiences in this area are expressly sought. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI & agents Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:12:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 852 (852) [deleted quotation] Dear reader, what follows is a REMINDER OF THE DEADLINE (March 15!) OF PAPERS FOR ESSLLI-workshop on Foundations and Applications of Collective Agent Based Systems (CABS) ===================================================================== Workshop held in the section 'Computation' as part of the 'Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information' ESSLLI-99 August 16-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands [material deleted] To obtain further information about the workshop, please go to http://pds.twi.tudelft.nl/cabs/esslli_99.htm The ESSLLI-99 home page is at http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: M4M: Call for Submissions Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:13:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 853 (853) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES (M4M) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam May 6-7, 1999 www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/M4M/ DEADLINE: March 15, 1999 THEME The workshop `Methods for Modalities' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and decision methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, feature logic, temporal logic. From: amalia@liia.u-strasbg.fr Subject: EUROLAN'99 Student Session Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:14:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 854 (854) [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: Gloria Withalm Subject: IASS-Info Congress-Calendar 2/5 - 1999/04-05 Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:15:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 855 (855) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IASS-AIS Bulletin-Newsletter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999 CONGRESS CALENDAR 2/5 = APRIL - MAY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999 APRIL 99-04-01 Potsdam: The GLOW Phonology Workshop Info: Ren Kager, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/OTS, Trans 10, NL-3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands; Tel: +31 30 253 8064; Fax: +31 30 253 6000, Email: "http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/ik/glow.html" 99-04-02/03 Washington, DC: Oral Fixations: Cannibalizing Theories, Consuming Cultures. A Metadisciplinary Conference on the Thematics of Incorporation. Info: Oral Fixations; Program in Human Sciences, 801 22nd Street NW, Suite T-412, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052 USA; Fax: +1-202-994-7034, Email: "http://www.gwu.edu/~cannibal" "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811") 99-04-06/09 Edinburgh: AISB'99 Convention. "http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/geraint/aisb99/CFP" - Symposium on Metaphor, AI and Cognition. Info: John Barnden, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; Email: "http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/geraint/aisb99/CFP/08-Metaphor" "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9812") 99-04-07/10 Duisburg: LAUD-Symposium - Women and Religious Discourses [Part 1: the Dominance of Male Discourse in Theology and Religious Studies * Part 2: Women Theologians Today and Feminist Theologies - New Theoretical and Exegetical Approaches to Theology Which Employ Insights From Gender Studies. * Part 3: Women, Poetic Space and Religious Experience * Part 4: Women and Religious Discourse in Practice: the Development of Feminist Ethics, New Styles of Pastoral Care and New Forms of Liturgy in Religions Generally]. Info: LAUD (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg), University of Duisburg, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany; Email: Info: Pamela Anderson, LAUD (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg), University of Duisburg, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany; Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9801") 99-04-08/10 Clemson, SC: Creativity and Values. Deadline: 18 January 1999 Info: Daniel E. Wueste, Dept of Philosophy, and Religion, 101 Hardin Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1508, USA; Tel.: 864-656-5379, Fax: 864-656-2858, Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811") 99-04-08/11 Urbana-Champaign, IL: 13th Annual Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning. Info: Larry Bouton, Email: "http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/pragmatics/conference99.html" 99-04-09/11 Austin, TX: SALSA - Symposium About Language and Society-Austin. Deadline: 15 January 1999 Info: SALSA VII, Dept of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Email: "http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/projects/salsa" 99-04-10 New Rochelle, NY: Literature and Transnationalism: Immigration, Migration, Diaspora. Deadline: 15 January 1999 Info: Deborah Williams, Dept of English, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801; Tel: +1 914 633-2056, Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811") 99-04-14/17 Newcastle upon Tyne: 2nd International Symposium on Bilingualism. Info: Gillian Cavagan, Dept of Speech, King George VI Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, GB-NE1 7RU UK; Fax: +44-191-2226518, Email: "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-1128.html" 99-04-15/17 Paris: Acquisition of a foreign language: perspectives and research - Pragmatic Uses & Acquisition of Foreign Languages / Acquisition d'une langue etrangere: perspectives et recherches - Usages Pragmatiques et Acquisition des Langues Etrangeres. Info: Daniel Veronique or Francine Cicurel, Colloque, UFR Didactique du Francais langue etrangere, 46 rue Saint-Jacques, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France; Tel: +33 1 40462825; Fax: +33 1 40462930, Email: or Email: "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-640.html" 99-04-15/27 New York: Rethinking Identities: State, Nation, Culture - 4th Annual Convention Association for the Study of Nationalities ASN. Info: Dominique Arel, Watson Institute. Brown University, Box 1970, Two Stimson Ave.. Providence, RI 02912, USA; Tel: +1 401 863 9296, Fax: +1 401 863 1270, Email: & Oded Eran, Harriman Institute, 1215 IAB, Columbia University, 410 W. 118th St., New York, NY 10027, USA; Tel: +1 212 854 6239, Fax: +1 212 666 3481, Email: "http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/99-4-snc.html" "http://library.pace.edu/asn" 99-04-16/17 Pittsburgh, PA: Northeast Modern Language Association Info: "http://www.anna-maria.edu/nemla/", on most sessions: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9807" + "cfp.9809")> - Session: Class and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth-Century Literature. Info: Cheri Louise Ross, School of Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA 17057, USA; Tel: +1 717 948-6727, Fax: +1 717 948-6727, Email: - Session: Engendering Composition: Conceptualizing Theory and Practice in Gendered Terms. Info: Jeanne Rose, Dept. of English, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; Email: - Session: Geography in Post/Imperial Literature: Mapping Motives and Metaphors. Info: Rebecca Weaver, Dept of English, Univ of Kentucky, POT 1215, Lexington, KY, 40506-0027, USA; Email: - Session: The Literary Suburbs: Examining "Whiteness" in American Literature. Info: Patty Keefe Durso, 21 Hillside Ave, Mahwah, NJ 07430, USA; Tel: +1 201 512 1646, Fax: +1 201 512 9410, Email: - Panel: Contemporary German Cinema Info: Vincent Hausmann, Dept. of Core Humanities, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085-1699, USA; Voice mail: +1 610 519-6000 ext 83410, Email: - Panel: Sexuality and the Body in the Works of Non-White Women Writers Info: LaMonda Horton-Stallings, 1212 University Village, Apt. A, East Lansing, MI 48823 - Panel: Crime Fiction, Law & Lierature. Info: Jonathan H. Grossman, Dept. of English, U. of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-2537, USA; Fax: +1 302 831 1586; Email: - Panel: Literary Representations of the Witch. Info: Karen Humphreys, Dept of Modern Languages, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, USA; Email: 99-04-16/17 Wien: 18. Seminar aus Semiotik des Rechts. Info: Gloria Withalm, Institut fur Sozio-Semiotische Studien, Waltergasse 5/1/12, A-1040 Wien, Austria; Email: 99-04-16/18 New York: Gender and Language - 44th Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association. Info: Alice H. Deakins, English Dept, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA; Tel: +1 973 720 2582, Email: 99-04-16/18 Kiel: Asthetik - am Anfang oder am Ende? - 7. Symposion der Gesellschaft fur Neue Phanomenologie Info: Andreas Kuhlmann, Gesellschaft fur Neue Phanomenologie, Wilhelmshavener StraBe 5, D-24105 Kiel, Germany; Fax: +49-431-8066422 99-04-17 York: White Women Info: Ann Kaloski & Heloise Brown, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; Fax: +44 1904 433670, Email: , Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9807") 99-04-18/20 Fargo, ND: Communication, Culture and Change [Grad.Stud.Conf]. Deadline: 1 March 1999 Info: Deanna Sellnow, Red River Valley Student Communication Conference, Dept of Communication, NDSU, Box 5075, Fargo, ND 58103, USA; Tel. +1 701 231-8221, email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811") 99-04-22/24 San Jose, CA: Business Culture/Culture of Business. Info: Bill Orchard, College of Business, 1 Washington Square, San Jose CA 95192-0067, USA; Email; - Special Session: Gender and Business: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Deadline: 30 January 1999 Info: as above, or: Jennifer Gouine, Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9812") 99-04-22/24 Thessaloniki: 13th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Deadline: 22 January 1999 Info: Katerina Nicolaidis, Aristotle University, School of English, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece; Fax: +30 31 99 7432, Email: "http://www.enl.auth.gr/events/13ling.htm" 99-04-23/24 Binghamton NY: Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture - 9th Annual Conference. Info: Stephen David Ross, PIC Conference Coordinator, Dept of Philosophy, Binghamtpn University, POBox 6000, Binghamton NY 13902-6000, USA; Tel: +1 607 777-2735, Fax: +1 607 777-2734, Email: "http://philosophy.binghamton.edu" 99-04-23/24 Neuchatel: Lire les passions - Kolloquium der Schweizer Gesellschaft fur Semiotik. Info: Evelyne Thommen, Institut de Psychologie, Uni-Fribourg, Faucigny 2, CH-1701 Fribourg, Switzerland; Email: 99-04-23/25 Fargo, ND: Mapping Territory: Reinscriptions, Retellings and Revisions. Info: R.S. Krishnan, Red River Conference on World Literature, Dept of English, 322J Minard Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5075, USA; Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811") 99-04-24 London: Victorian Crime. Info: Chris Willis, Dept of English, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK; Email: <100415.1234@compuserve.com> "http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3783/crimeconf.html" 99-04-29 / 99-05-01 Milwaukee: Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge. Info: Lynne Joyrich, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, P.O. Box 413, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA; Tel: +1 414 229-4141; Fax: +1 414 229-5964; Email: "http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/20th" 99-04-30/05-02 Santa Cruz, CA: On Edge - 1999 Meeting of the California American Studies Association. Deadline: 1 February 1999 Info: Renny Christopher, CASA Program Chair, English Dept, California State University, Stanislaus, 801 W. Monte Vista, Turlock, CA, 95382, USA; Tel: +1 209 667-3294, Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811") 1999 MAY 99-05-06/08 Minneapolis MN: Creating the Other: The causes and dynamics of nationalism, ethnic enmity, and racism in central and eastern europe. Info: Center for Austrian Studies, 314 Social Sciences Building, University of Minnesota, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55455, USA: Email: "http://www.mcs.net/~zupko/calls/call0189.htm" 99-05-06/09 Kalamazoo MI: International Congress on Medieval Studies. "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9808")> - Special Session: Men Who Weep and Wail: Innovative Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Info: Jennifer C. Vaught, Dept. of English, Northern Michigan University, 1401 Presque Isle Ave., Marquette, MI 49855-5363, USA; Tel: +1 906 227-2752, Fax: +1 906 227-1096, Email: - Special Session: The Sciences in Later Medieval Culture. Info: Scott Lightsey, Dept of English, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716, USA; Email: 99-05-07/09 Amsterdam: Amsterdam Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Amstelogue '99). Thems: I. Formal Semantics of Dialogue * II. Dialogue Systems * III. Dialogue Analysis (Empirical) Deadline: 1 February 1999 Info: 5 pages abstracts to "http://earth.hum.uva.nl/~amstelog/" 99-05-14/16 London, Ont.: Masculinities and Codes of Conduct in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Info: William D. Acres, Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Tel: +1 519 434-1581 "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9810") 99-05-14/16 Wien: 4. Internationales Interdisziplinares Kolloquium uber Bildsprache - Visualisierung - Diagrammatik. Info: Jeff Bernard, Institut fur Sozio-Semiotische Studien, Waltergasse 5/1/12, A-1040 Wien, Austria; Fax: +43-1-5045344, Email: 99-05-15/16 Brighton: Landscapes of Memory - Oral History Society Annual Conference. Info: Steve Hussey, History Dept, Essex University, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK; Email: "http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.d/termine/1999/cland059.htm" 99-05-19/21 Enschede, Netherlands: Interactions in Virtual Worlds - Workshop Deadline: 1 March 1999 Info: Olaf Donk, Parlevink Research Group, University of Twente/CTIT, Enschede, The Netherlands; Email: "http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt15.html" 99-05-19/21 Baltimore, MD: Advances in Digital Libraries Conference - IEEE ADL'99. Info: Susan Hoban, UMBC/NASA CESDIS NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA; Tel: +1 301 286-7980, Email: Submission Abstracts: Elke Rundensteiner, Computer Science Dept, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609, USA; Tel: +1 508 831-5815, Email: or: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Dolivostrasse 15, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany; Tel: +49-6151-869-803, Fax: +49-6151-869-802, Email: 99-05-21/23 Bowling Green, OH: 3rd Multidisciplinary Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display. Deadline: 15 February 1999 Info: Jack Santino, Dept of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226, USA; Tel: +1 419 372-2983, Fax +1 419 372-2577, Email: "http://seeing2020.com/holiday/" 99-05-26/28 Vechta: Internationale Tagung uber Meter, Rhythm, and Performance - Metrum, Rhythmus und Performanz. Info: Christoph Kuper, Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft, DriverstraBe 22, D-49377 Vechta, Germany; Tel. +49-4441-15301, Fax: +49-4441-15444, Email: "http://www.uni-vechta.de/termine/" 99-05-27/29 Cieszyn: Organs, Organisms, Organisations. Organic Form in 19th Century Discourse. Deadline: 31 January 1999 Info: Tadeusz Slawek [or Tadeusz Rachwal], University of Silesia, Bankowa 12, Katowice, Poland; Tel: +48 32 2917417, Email: 99-05-27/29 Graz: Identity/Globalization/Promoting History - 4. Osterreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag Info: 4. Osterreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag '99, Abteilung Zeitgeschichte, KFU Graz, ElisabethstraBe 27, A-8010 Graz, Austria; Tel: +43 316 380 2617, Fax: +43 316 380 9738, Email: "www.zeitgeschichte.at/cfp.html" 99-05-28/29 Hamilton, Ont: Intersections: Medieval and Postmodern Forms, Theory and Semiotics. Papers are welcomed on texts and music, which bring together postmodern and medieval interpretations of narrative, theory, philosophy, gender and class. Deadline: 1 February 1999 Info: Anne Savage, Dept of English, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4L9, Ontario, Canada; Email: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html" (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811") 99-05-28/30 Baltimore MD: 10th Annual Conference American Literature Association Conference. "http://english.byu.edu/croning/ala.htm" - Session: Periodicals and the Making of American Culture. Deadline: 11 January 1999 Info: Ezra Greenspan, English Dept, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA; Email: (preferred) - Panel: The Fact/Fiction Divide in Contemporary Literature. Deadline: 10 January 1999 Info: Andrew Burke, Dept of English, 252 Park Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Email: - Panel: The Literature of Natural Disaster. Info: McKay Jenkins, English Dept, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA; Email: 99-05-29/06-01 State College PA: Gendered Landscapes: An interdisciplinary exploration of past places and space. Info: Ms. Bonj Szczygiel, Center for Studies in Landscape History, The Pennsylvania State University, 210 Engineering Unit D, University Park PA 16802-1429, USA; Email: "http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/GenderedLandscapes/" =============================================================== Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. TELNOS: main off: 818-677-2853 Professor, Communication/Linguistics direct off: 818-677-2874 Department of Communication Studies California State University, Northridge home: 818-366-3165 COMMS-8257 CSUN FAX: 818-677-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 INTERNET email: ALAN.HARRIS@CSUN.EDU WWW homepage: http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005 =============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: SEMCOM:Call for papers Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:16:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 856 (856) [deleted quotation] VISUAL CULTURES & VISUAL LITERACIES CHANGING WAYS OF IMAGING SCIENCE & SOCIETY 1999 Annual Conference - International Visual Sociology Association July 14-18, 1999 / University of Antwerp, Belgium THEME Images are ubiquitous in almost every sector of our cultures. Advances in technology make it even easier than ever to make, transform, and communicate visual representations almost instantane-ously. How have the social and natural sciences been challenged as a result of these developments? Are visual repre-sentations opening new ways in which the sciences and scientists 'see' their respective subject matters? Are visual methodologies truly new ways of examining the world or are scientists simply using imagery and visual mani-festations of culture without much reflection on whether they are being interpreted adequately? What challenges and opportunities will future develop-ments in the scientific use of visual images pose for both scientists as well as the citizenry in general ? [material deleted; for more information see <http://hgins.uia.ac.be/u/ivsa/>] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EAMT workshop 1999 announcement Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:18:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 857 (857) [deleted quotation] The European Association for Machine Translation in the collaboration with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, are pleased to announce that the 1999 EAMT Workshop will be held at the Krystal hotel, Jose Marti Str., Prague 6, Czech Republic on April 22 - 23, 1999. The welcome reception is scheduled for Wednesday 21, April 21st. The theme of the workshop is: EU and the new languages Translation - possibilities, policies and practicalities All who are interested in Machine Translation or in any related area are very welcome to attend! Please find programme and registration information at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/eamt.html [an outrageous amount of material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ed HAUPT Subject: Re: 12.0460 quotation? images? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:00:46 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 858 (858) Willard, For making line drawings of turn of the century equipment which has a lot of shading, I have used a photoshop work-alike to get a pretty good idea of the contours and then using a paint program to get better lines. Ed Edward J. Haupt, Ph.D. Voice: (001)973.655.4327 Associate Professor of Psychology Fax: (001)973.655.5121 Department of Psychology email: haupt@email.njin.net Montclair State University Upper Montclair NJ USA 07043-1624 home page http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/haupthp.html Museum of the History of Psychological Experimentation http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/museum.html Membership Chair, History of Psychology (Division 26) Information and Membership Form at: http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/orgs/apa26/memform.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Erotemata Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:20:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 859 (859) [deleted quotation] Do you know an available fac-simile edition of Moschopoulos' or Chrysoloras' Erotemata or anyone's grammar comparable? I am interested in compiling a Greek Primer inspired to Humanistic Grammatical methods. Does anyone know about any already done modern Greek grammar of this kind? Friendly yours From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0460 quotation? images? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:01:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 860 (860) HUMANIST readers: Can any reader of this list direct me to the source of a quote, purported to be from Goethe? "In der Beschraenkung zeigt sich erst der Meister" ("The master appears first through curtailment.") This is quoted by the English literary critic Walter Pater, but without citing its source. (I've quoted it from him a number of times; finally someone asked me for its original location.) Any perspectives on translating the line would also be welcome. Should it be "only the master"...? Is there an overlapping of senses? As for "distance learning," I am presently trying to curtail some thoughts for the list. Best regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0460 quotation? images? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:59:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 861 (861) I have this version: "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable", attributed to Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux, in _The Edinburgh Review_, 1802, in a review of _The Work of Thomas Young_. (I assume this Thomas Young is the 18th-19th c. English scientist (medicine, physics, Egyptology), not the Scottish theologian of more than a century earlier.) From: Randall Jones Subject: Re: source of quotation Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:59:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 862 (862) Unfortunately I do not have the exact reference for Willard, but in a book titled, _The Portable Curmudgeon_ by Jon Winokur the following is one of hundreds of quotations: "Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. SAMUEL JOHNSON" Maybe you can track it fown from there. Randall Jones From: Jack Lynch Subject: Re: 12.0460 quotation? images? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:59:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 863 (863) Can any kind Humanist give me an exact reference for Dr. Johnson's cooly damaging statement (which here I undoubtedly paraphrase), 'What is new about this is not interesting, and what is interesting is not new.'? It's usually quotd as "Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good." Problem is, it's nowhere in Johnson's published works, his letters, or in Boswell, Hawkins, Thrale, or Burney; _Bartlett's_ and the _Oxford Dictionary of Quotations_ don't mention it; and those guides to quotations that do carry it never give a citation. There's a slim chance it's in one of the obscure biographies or in something discovered comparatively recently -- a letter, some of the Boswell papers -- but I wouldn't bet on it. I've been asked this many times, and have concluded it's probably apocryphal. Johnson's one of a small group -- Shakespeare, Churchill, Lincoln, Twain -- who apparently said much more after their deaths than during their lives. If someone has a citation, though, I'll be glad to hear about it. From: Jim Marchand Subject: quotation Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:59:54 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 864 (864) This is such a common chiasm, Willard, that it is difficult to say where it comes from. In German we say: "Das Gute war nicht neu, und das Neue war nicht gut," often attributing it to Herder. Bartlett's has one from Daniel Webster: "What is valuable is not new, and what is new is ont valuable." This, they say, is from "Toast at the Charleston Bar Dinner [May 10, 1847]." Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New Report: Digitization and On-Line Teaching Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:01:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 865 (865) [deleted quotation] Many of you may be aware of the project based at the University of Oxford to develop on-line tutorials for teaching literature and a multimedia digital archive (all based around the poetry of the First World War). The project was funded by the UK's JISC Technologies Application Programme and a full report is now available on the web, entitled: 'On-Line Tutorials and Digital Archives or "Digitising Wilfred"' By Stuart Lee and Paul Groves of the University of Oxford. This describes the work involved in generating online resources for teaching, using the poetry of Wilfrid Owen the example. It covers many of the issues involved; both technical (use of metadata, digitising images) and the hard stuff (copyright etc.) It has been described as an honest view of running a project, with no punches pulled. Available in HTML or PDF at: http://www.jtap.ac.uk/ Stuart Lee *************************************************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee | Current Project: 'Scoping The Future of Clarendon Building | Oxford's Digital Collections' Broad Street | Oxford OX1 3BG | Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Tel: +44 1865 277230 | Fax: +44 1865 273275 | Chair, University's Datasets Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/ http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ *************************************************************************** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Museums and the Web 99 papers online! Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:02:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 866 (866) [deleted quotation] MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM MW MW MW Museums and the Web MW MW March 11-14, 1999 MW MW New Orleans, Louisiana MW MW http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ MW MW MW MWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWMWM Dear Friends and Colleagues, The majority of the papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 99 -- over 40 presentations from speakers in 18 countries -- are now available on the conference web site http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ This collection offers an unique overview of the issues and opportunities facing museums and museology as we move our programs and projects online. Browse the speakers list to see links to papers and abstracts. It's not too late to register for the conference and join us in New Orleans, March 11-14, 1999. Pre-registration closes on March 5th. (On-site registration is available, but faxing your form by the 5th will save you time and money.) If you can't make it to the meeting, there's still time to get your copy of the MW99 Proceedings (combination print and CD-ROM) at the pre-publication price. Return the order form at http://www.archimuse.com/pub.order.html before March 1,1999. We're looking forward to seeing you in New Orleans! jennifer and David ________ J. Trant and D. Bearman mw99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web New Orleans, Louisiana Archives & Museum Informatics March 11-14, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/mw99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 phone +1 412 422 8530 USA fax +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: NINCH-Announce Subject: Best Practice: Colorado Digitization Project & Digital Project Toolbox Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:03:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 867 (867) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 26, 1999 COLORADO DIGITIZATION PROJECT <http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/> An initiative well worth watching is The Colorado Digitization Project. Funded by a recent IMLS Library and Services Technology Act Grant, Colorado's archives, historical societies, libraries, and museums are actively collaborating to provide integrated access to the "unique and special resources" held in and by Colorado institutions. One of the early features of the project is an online Digital Toolbox <http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/toolbox.html> to guide administrators through the range of questions to ask in the initial planning stages of a digital project, links to general information on digital projects, information on the technical aspects of digitization, and suggestions for funding sources. Thanks to Carolyn Kotlas at CIT INFOBITS <http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html> for this information. =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Willard McCarty Subject: return to basic problems Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:19:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 868 (868) In Humanist 12.346 I suggested (echoing David Hilbert's 1900 address in Paris, "Mathematische Probleme") that, [deleted quotation] We didn't seem to get very far. Let me pose my problem again, but this time take a different approach, namely to request identification by field of application of the one problem with which we think the computer is most likely to make a significant scholarly difference in, say, the next 20-30 years. What would the problems be for 1. anthropology 2. archaeology 3. art history 4. classics 5. cultural studies 6. film studies 7. history 8. linguistics 9. literary studies (all modern languages) 10. music 11. pedagogy (including education) 12. philology 13. philosophy 14. religious studies (including biblical scholarship) 15. theatre studies In his paper (online at <http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/hilbert/problems.html>, in translation) Hilbert noted that, "It is difficult and often impossible to judge the value of a problem correctly in advance; for the final award depends upon the gain which science obtains from the problem. Nevertheless we can ask whether there are general criteria which mark a good mathematical problem." He identified two: the theory that formulates it must be clear and easily comprehended, and it must be difficult enough to challenge us, yet not seem utterly impossible to solve. That is, we need fundamental problems that will take us forward, not confuse or confound us. What might these be? We also need problems that do not simply belong to computer science, such as automatic analysis of images to identify their contents, though there are undoubtedly real problems for humanities computing involved in such an effort. On the other side, we don't want problems that simply belong to one of the non-technical disciplines, such as the identification of a painting as a forgery. Your suggestions please. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: Francois Lachance Subject: Method in Text Analysis Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:19:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 869 (869) Willard, I know it has been a couple of weeks since you issued a call for feedback on your module on text analyis for first year students. It is my hope that these few remarks might be pertinent to your enterprise. It seems to me that by beginning with "genre" in the _Prior Knowldege_ section you are building upon the intuitive centre of humanities work: the comparative moment. There is of course the comparison of parts of a text with each other (notion of the score) and the comparison of texts with other texts. It seems to me that your contextual overview or snapshot implicitly favours text-text comparison. This leads me to a question about the _Steps in the analysis_: are these really a set of steps? or are they elements of a toolbox? I ask this because someone interested in middle, beginnings and ends of a particular text would perhaps favour concording and someone interested in comparing different texts would derive more information from frequency lists (unless those lists were generated with a view for a comparative distribution over the parts of a text). The sophisticated reader would be able to combine techniques in a variety of orders. I was wondering if there is any way of introducing the call to recursive analysis earlier. What happens if students move from concordance to frequency? I suppose that it is like moving through skimming to an appreciation of the statistical nature of the beast. Of course this consideration stems from the way your method moves from genre to artefact. Are the questions and approaches posed different for a class of texts than for a single textual specimen? Not a grand question in itself but I do think it has something to contribute to the fostering of self-reflective modes of apprehension. Thank you for the invitation to peer into your workshop. It has helped me think about some the assumptions that I bring to classroom work with and without computers -- especially in teaching recursive searching on the WWW. -- Francois "structure, content, format" -- not just nouns -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-Announce Subject: ACRL Conference 4/8-11; Jim Neal & Pat Schroeder Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:21:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 870 (870) NINCH ANNOUNCEEMNT March 1, 1999 Association of College and Research Libraries 9th National Conference April 8-11: Detroit, Michigan <http://www.ala.org/acrl/prendex.html> Advance Registration Deadline: March 18 "Racing Toward Tomorrow" Keynote Presentations and Invited Papers I thought I'd draw readers' attentions to the slate of special presentations at the annual conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries this April. David Green =========== ** An Open Discussion on Copyright and Fair Use <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#schroed> Pat Schroeder, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and James Neal, director of libraries at Johns Hopkins University. -Thursday, April 8, 1999, 5:30 p.m. ** Reclaiming What We Own: Expanding Competition in Scholarly Publishing <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#rosen> Michael Rosenzweig, Biologist, University of Arizona -Sunday, April 11, 1999, 9:45 - 11:00 a.m. ** New Forms of Distance Education: Opportunities for Students, Threats to Institutions. <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#esta> Leigh S. Estabrook, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. -Saturday, April 10, 1999, 4:30-6:00 ** Academic Publishing: Networks and Prices <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#getz> Malcolm Getz, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Vanderbilt University -Saturday, April 10, 1999, 9:30-11:00 ** The New Genres of Scholarly Communication and the Role of the Research Library <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#lynch> Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information -Friday, April 9, 1999, 2:00-3:30 ** (Digital) Libraries Support (Distributed) Education <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#mcmill> Gail McMillan, Director, Scholarly Communication Project, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Libraries -Friday, April 9, 1999, 4:30-6:00 ** The Changing Nature of Higher Education <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#pacheco> Dr. Manuel T. Pacheco, President, The University of Missouri System -Friday, April 9, 1999, 11:00-12:30 ** Shifting Gears: A University President's View <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#wilson> Blenda J. Wilson, President, California State University, Northridge-Saturday, April 10, 1999, 12:15-2:15NINCH ANNOUNCEEMNT March 1, 1999 Association of College and Research Libraries 9th National Conference April 8-11: Detroit, Michigan <http://www.ala.org/acrl/prendex.html> Advance Registration Deadline: March 18 "Racing Toward Tomorrow" Keynote Presentations and Invited Papers I thought I'd draw readers' attentions to the slate of special presentations at the annual conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries this April. David Green =========== ** An Open Discussion on Copyright and Fair Use <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#schroed> Pat Schroeder, president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and James Neal, director of libraries at Johns Hopkins University. -Thursday, April 8, 1999, 5:30 p.m. ** Reclaiming What We Own: Expanding Competition in Scholarly Publishing <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#rosen> Michael Rosenzweig, Biologist, University of Arizona -Sunday, April 11, 1999, 9:45 - 11:00 a.m. ** New Forms of Distance Education: Opportunities for Students, Threats to Institutions. <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#esta> Leigh S. Estabrook, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. -Saturday, April 10, 1999, 4:30-6:00 ** Academic Publishing: Networks and Prices <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#getz> Malcolm Getz, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Vanderbilt University -Saturday, April 10, 1999, 9:30-11:00 ** The New Genres of Scholarly Communication and the Role of the Research Library <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#lynch> Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information -Friday, April 9, 1999, 2:00-3:30 ** (Digital) Libraries Support (Distributed) Education <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#mcmill> Gail McMillan, Director, Scholarly Communication Project, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Libraries -Friday, April 9, 1999, 4:30-6:00 ** The Changing Nature of Higher Education <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#pacheco> Dr. Manuel T. Pacheco, President, The University of Missouri System -Friday, April 9, 1999, 11:00-12:30 ** Shifting Gears: A University President's View <http://www.ala.org/acrl/invited.html#wilson> Blenda J. Wilson, President, California State University, Northridge-Saturday, April 10, 1999, 12:15-2:15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0449 WebCT; distance learning Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:17:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 871 (871) [deleted quotation] Dan Price effectively points to the weakness (which is not to say, quite, the hole) in my argument. The question is well put. Please forgive the length of the response (it's three or four screens). To reflect, I think I tried to indicate something about "real learning" by saying it "seems always to be personal and social." I also tried to suggest, notwithstanding my provocativeness, that the distinction between "distance learning" and the "real" kind is not absolute. People do learn at a distance; we are wonderfully capable of assimilating information presented to us in mediated forms, whether it be print, video, the web, or a lecture class of 300+ students, when we have a context to assimilate it into. (The etymology of the word "assimilate" is suggestive.) Whether all learning in some way is an effort to bridge a distance is itself worth pondering (and has been pondered -- I am trying to remember my Plato). Yet in my case at least, learning at a distance has been enabled only by an education received off line. In particular, I do not know how I would go about learning at a distance if I had not already been helped to develop a capacity to criticize my own thinking and my own work. In some ways, and with difficulty, I have learned to resist first impulses -- to reject out of hand what came to me, when it did not match prior commitments or preconceptions. Some students, maybe, come to school already able to do this -- they are the blessed ones. Most of us have to learn it, and are lucky if we have that chance. Maybe this is the "real learning" I am talking about. This meant internalizing, to some degree, the attentions of teachers, editors, classmates and critics who provided me the service of tearing down my fine architectures of the moment, whatever air-castles they were -- reducing all my arguments and analogies to scrap and rubble -- and then helping me to build them up again, fairer and more functional. This is difficult work, humbling, sometimes devastating: for me, persevering in it only seemed possible because I was encouraged to come back to every ruin, shown that the work of rebuilding was worth it -- because I was not alone in it, because my critics were really with me, and because, gradually through repetition of this exercise, it became clear what the immense benefits were for all of us, and that we could help one another in it. I am quite at a loss to imagine how such encouragement could have been provided through narrower channels than face-to-face. I do know from first hand how thrilling e-mail, or the web, or MOO can be. Yet the electronic thrills usually happen when we find interlocutors who (we are surprised to find) already agree with us: many-to-many media can often serve to reassure us that we have more in common with others than we thought; I also know they can sometimes serve to sneak us past artificial barriers that can get in the way in "rl" (real life -- and note that in the parlance of vr -- "virtual reality" -- the term "rl" is often used ironically). But it is when others do not agree with us, when commonalities are not apparent, that the real work begins. I am imagining there to be layers or levels of learning: the more superficial or incidental ones can be pursued at a distance via media technologies (even while those technologies remain the primary subject); the deeper, more fundamental and far-reaching lessons seem to require closeness, the broad bandwidth of face-to-face, its possibilities for ironies, reversals, mutual recognitions. Maybe the most fundamental lessons cannot be related from teacher to student in any case, but must be learned by trial-and-error, and taught, if at all, only by example. Perhaps Dan Price (or other advocates) could comment on how, in the best distance learning programs, such work of negotiating across differences is pursued. How do these programs address, endorse, reward and cultivate the combination of critical faculties with a commitment to larger, broader, more open attitudes, making room for expanding, consolidating, more responsive notions of "good" and "true"? Note that this can be a delicate matter, hard enough to do in the rl classroom, since compelling students to be politically correct and give lip-service to "diversity," is hardly the way to encourage understanding. I am sure that the specialists have given thought to this problem. Or is "distance learning" based on an entirely different model of "education" from what I have tried to outline -- am I making wrong assumptions about its aims? Best regards, Wendell Piez ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: C M Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 12.0454 WP -> HTML Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:21:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 872 (872) On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:39:19 +0000 (BST), in Humanist 12.054, Jack Lynch wrote: [deleted quotation] Sounds as if tidy (http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/) does what you want. I haven't used it myself, but others I know have been pleased with it. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Randall Jones Subject: Quotation? Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:17:36 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 873 (873) The quotation that Wendell Piez refers to is indeed from Goethe. It is line 13 from the second part of a poem titled "Das Sonnett" 1 Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen 2 Und haben sich, eh' man es denkt, gefunden; 3 Der Widerwille ist auch mir verschwunden, 4 Und beide scheinen gleich mich anzuziehen. 5 Es gilt wohl nur ein redliches Bemuehen! 6 Und wenn wir erst in abgemessnen Stunden 7 Mit Geist und Fleiss uns an die Kunst gebunden, 8 Mag frei Natur im Herzen wieder gluehen. 9 So ist's mit aller Bildung auch beschaffen: 10 Vergebens werden ungebundne Geister 11 Nach der Vollendung reiner Hoehe streben. 12 Wer Grosses will, muss sich zusammenraffen; 13 In der Beschraenkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, 14 Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben. Hamburger Edition, Volume 1, P 245. I'll leave it to more qualified colleagues to help with the translation. Randall Jones From: Jim Marchand Subject: Goethe quote Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:18:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 874 (874) The line "In der Beschraenkung zeigt sich erst der Meister" is from a sonnet written by Goethe upon the opening of the new Playhouse in Lauchstaedt on the 26th of June, 1802. It was a part of the prologue, Scene 19. This was a thought he was wandering around with at the time. In my little Insel Verlag _Goethes Gedichte in zeitlicher Folge_, 1.489, it is grouped with another sonnet with the same thought. It is often called just Sonett or Natur und Kunst. It means: "It is not until limitations are put on him that the master really shows himself." There is a famous poem by Verlaine which expresses the same thought: "Onyx, email." As he says in the preceding sonnet: "Denn eben die Beschraenkung laesst sich lieben, wenn sich die Geister gar gewaltig regen." (You can even love rules if the spirit moves you hard enough). Traduttore traditore. Jim Marchand. From: Tim Reuter Subject: masterly restraint Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:18:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 875 (875) It's from the sestet of a sonnet on 'Art and Nature': Wer Groszes will, musz sich zusammenraffen; In der Beschr"ankung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben. [who strives for greatness, must pull himself together mastery is seen most clearly when constrained, and law alone can give us freedom.] Often quoted as if mastery was shown through *self*restraint, but the original context suggests that it is as much a matter of freely submitting to restrictions imposed by Art: Tim Reuter ---------------------- # Tim Reuter # Department of History, University of Southampton # tel. +44 1703 594868 (home: 552623; fax: 593458) # email: tr@soton.ac.uk # http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tr/tr.html # ALFRED CONFERENCE: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wmc/alfred.html From: Jim Marchand Subject: Goethe quote Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:18:57 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 876 (876) Oops! That was Theophile Gautier, the Goethe fan. A common idea, but I have always thought he got it from Goethe, whom he admired so heartedly. Sorry for the glitch, but working with the devil's tools on a Sunday ... Jim Marchand. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Erotemata Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:20:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 877 (877) [deleted quotation] Do you know an available fac-simile edition of Moschopoulos' or Chrysoloras' Erotemata or anyone's grammar comparable? I am interested in compiling a Greek Primer inspired to Humanistic Grammatical methods. Does anyone know about any already done modern Greek grammar of this kind? Friendly yours From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0460 quotation? images? Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:01:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 878 (878) HUMANIST readers: Can any reader of this list direct me to the source of a quote, purported to be from Goethe? "In der Beschraenkung zeigt sich erst der Meister" ("The master appears first through curtailment.") This is quoted by the English literary critic Walter Pater, but without citing its source. (I've quoted it from him a number of times; finally someone asked me for its original location.) Any perspectives on translating the line would also be welcome. Should it be "only the master"...? Is there an overlapping of senses? As for "distance learning," I am presently trying to curtail some thoughts for the list. Best regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eve Trager Subject: The latest issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:20:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 879 (879) WHO OWNS WHAT? INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COPYRIGHT, AND THE NEXT MILLENNIUM Guest Editor Lorrie LeJeune, one of JEP's original founders, sheds new light on an old topic by bringing us a look at sister electronic industries as well as our own. That orthogonal approach to intellectual-property issues is a mind expander, and one that makes every article worth reading. But first, check out Lorrie's introduction at <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/glos0403.html>. Copyright in a Time of Change <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/strong.html> William S. Strong, a copyright lawyer, spoke about the then-current state of online publishing in 1994. He brings that presentation up to date, reminding us that we still don't have enough experience to make permanent policy about copyright and fair use. Instead, he urges, let's be flexible and wait for the market to sort itself out. Electronic Rights Management and Digital Identifier Systems <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/gervais.html> Daniel J. Gervais of the Copyright Clearance Center surveys current systems for managing electronic rights electronically, concluding that while they all have a long way to go, they show promise. Giving It Away: How Red Hat Software Stumbled Across a New Economic Model and Helped Improve an Industry <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/young.html> Robert Young, CEO of Red Hat, the company that sells the Linux operating-system software, proves that you can flout the first law of 42nd Street, selling what others are giving away free -- and build a business. Does Information Really Want to Be Licensed? <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/samuelson.html> Pamela Samuelson, University of California at Berkeley, analyzes the proposed changes in article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code, and fears for the future of scholarly publishing. Do It Yourself: A New Solution to the Journals Crisis <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/rambler.html> Mark Rambler, assistant editor of The American Lawyer, explains how SPARC lets libraries become publishers. In his related article, 2B or Not 2B <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/ramblerside.html>, he explores UCC2B from the point of view of the publisher. Other articles in this issue: Not Your Father's References: Citations in the Digital Space <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/lindquist.html> At a publishing conference in Paris, Lund University's Mats Lindquist offered his appealing solution to the Internet-wide problem of citing often-ephemeral electronic sources, and he agreed to write it up for JEP so that we could share it with you. Is EDI the Answer, or Part of the Problem? <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/lichtenberg.html> James Lichtenberg subscribed to JEP just over a month ago, and volunteered that as a consultant in the publishing industry he writes about the important issues. So we asked him to submit something to JEP, and he did: the inside skinny on publishing's problems with enterprise-wide software. Ready for Y2K <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/plan9.html> With all the worry about the year 2000 problem, we bring you Plan Nine Publishing's unique approach. Perhaps other publishers will be inspired to consider something similar. Finally, we feature another fine piece by Contributing Editor Thom Lieb -- Copyright and Wrongs: Putting Visitors on Notice http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/lieb0403.html in which Thom offers advice about what to put behind that "Copyright" notice at the bottom of your Web page. No copyright notice? Better read Thom's article and get moving. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463 From: NINCH-Announce Subject: NEDCC'S PRESERVATION MANUAL ON-LINE Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:20:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 880 (880) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 1, 1999 NEDCC OFFERS ITS PRESERVATION MANUAL ON-LINE Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual edited by Sherelyn Ogden <http://www.nedcc.org/manhome.htm> In the revision of its manual, "Preservation of Library & Archival Materials," the North-East Document Conservation Center has added some new sections, including: "Digital Technology Made Simpler;" and "The Relevance of Preservation in a Digital World," and with the help of grants from INLS and the NEH has mounted the entire manual online. David Green =========== NEDCC OFFERS ITS PRESERVATION MANUAL ON-LINE AT www.nedcc.org: Available March 1, 1999 The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) announces the on-line availability of the third edition of its publication Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual, edited by Sherelyn Ogden. The updated and expanded version of the manual will be available March 1, 1999 on NEDCC^Rs Web site at <http://www.nedcc.org>. A desire to make current information readily available at no cost prompted NEDCC to update the manual, adding important topics, and to make it available on the Web. In addition, if a user prefers the convenience of a book, a bound version will be available through NEDCC later this year. The manual is approximately 350 pages in length and consists of a series of 51 technical leaflets. The third edition contains eight new leaflets, including Digital Technology Made Simpler; The Relevance of Preservation in a Digital World; Preservation Assessment and Planning; An Introduction to Fire Detection, Alarm, and Automatic Fire Sprinklers; Collections Security: Planning and Prevention for Libraries and Archives; and more. In addition, every leaflet from the first two editions has been updated to reflect new information and changing opinions. The manual is one of few preservation publications written in layman^Rs language that is an authoritative reference source for up-to-date scientific research. Sections include planning and prioritizing, the environment, emergency management, storage and handling, reformatting, and conservation procedures. Professional illustrations make the "how-to" leaflets easy to understand and use. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a Federal agency that fosters innovation, leadership and a lifetime of learning, supported the project to convert NEDCC^Rs preservation manual to electronic format for Internet access. In addition, NEDCC receives major funding for its field service program from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Northeast Document Conservation Center is a nonprofit regional conservation center specializing in the conservation of paper-based materials including books, documents, photographs, architectural drawings, maps, posters, wallpaper, and works of art on paper. It performs paper conservation, book binding, preservation microfilming, and duplication of photographic negatives. Its purpose is to provide the highest quality conservation services and to serve as a source of consultation and training for institutions that hold paper-based collections. For information about ordering the printed version, contact Gay Tracy at Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 01810; phone (978) 470-1010 ext. 217; fax (978) 475-6021; or email . Gay S. Tracy Public Relations Coordinator Northeast Document Conservation Center 100 Brickstone Square Andover MA 01810-1494 Tel 978 470-1010 Fax 978 475-6021 www.nedcc.org =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Costis Dallas Subject: Transforming the humanities through ICT Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 22:21:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 881 (881) [Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues and friends, The European Technology Assessment Network (ETAN) has formed a WG to study the potential of information and telecommunication technologies in transforming European research, and to identify key issues which should be taken into account in relevant European Commission research and development funding policies. The report, which will be submitted to the EC in autumn 1999, will probably include sections on the technological and social context of change introduced by ICT on the research environment, organisational aspects of ICT in science such as e-publishing, archiving, knowledge management etc., and the ensuing changing relations between researchers and the outside world. I was asked to participate in the Working Group, which is mostly composed by experts from the sciences and technological disciplines, with a view to introduce concerns specific to the arts and humanities. For this purpose, I already presented a short draft paper in the WG's first meeting, and I will present a revised version in the next meeting of 11-12 March 1999. I have uploaded my draft contribution to the ETAN WG on the Entopia web site, accessible at http://entopia.future.easyspace.com/ - there is a short description and a link in the right column of the home page. I would be grateful if you could read it and send me your comments and suggestions, which I will take into account in the final text (please indicate if you wish your comments to remain anonymous). I would, also, be grateful if you could send me pointers to studies and resources which you consider useful for the task at hand. I hope I shall be able to benefit from your valuable comments, as they will encourage the Working Group to allocate the importance due to the arts and humanities in its final recommendation to the European Commission. Best regards, Costis Dallas # Dr Constantinos Dallas, Special Advisor to the Foreign Minister Mr G. 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Should you hear of any complaints from people who think they have been summarily excommunicated from this sangha, please ask them to get in touch with me directly. No insurance against Acts of Software, but here below we're doing our best to repair the damage inflicted by our totally indifferent virtual all-powerful servant Listproc, may it quickly recover its wits. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Open call for _Henry Street_ 8.2 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:13:45 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 883 (883) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Study Invites submissions for our upcoming general issue Henry Street 8.2 Deadline: June 1, 1999 _Henry Street_, now in its eighth year of publication, is an inter- national forum for graduate students of English and related disciplines. We invite contributions of original and scholarly contributions to current research on literatures in English from all historical periods, material culture, pedagogy, and critical theory. In addition to welcoming papers from a broad range of critical perspectives, the journal is particularly receptive to unconventional or personal approaches that open new avenues of investigation in literary and cultural criticism. Graduate students and recent graduates are encouraged to submit critical and occasional essays, short fiction, and poetry. Chapters of theses and conference papers are acceptable, provided they are sufficiently edited and rigorous enough to stand alone as critical articles. _Henry Street_ is indexed by the MLA and the Canadian Periodicals Index. -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS =========== To be considered for publication, submissions must be double-spaced throughout (including endnotes and works cited) and follow MLA guidelines for citation and presentation. Submissions should not exceed 7000 words in length. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript. Send two copies of submissions, and include a self-addressed return envelope accompanied either by Canadian stamps or international reply coupons. Manuscripts submitted without SASE cannot be returned. The cover letter must indicate the author's degree status and university affiliation. Send your submission to: Brian Johnson, Editor _Henry Street_ Department of English Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 3J5 You can send e-mail inquiries to henry.street@dal.ca and find out more about us at our web page (http://is2.dal.ca/~henryst). Note that we do not accept submissions by e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _Henry Street_ 8.1 includes: Andrew Lesk Untenable Imaginings and Imagined Communities: Robert Lecker on the Failings of Criticism Robert Lecker Response to Andrew Lesk Kathy MacConnell Enquiries Concerning Human Misunderstanding: Theory, Speculation, Practice Gabriela Hilti "That Dangerous Supplement," Intertextuality: Gossip and History in Michael Ondaatje's _Running in the Family_ Tim Conley The Truth about Dr. Johnson's Cat Reviews of books by Judith Butler, Gerard Genette, and Anthony Grafton, and on Mina Loy. Poetry and fiction by Tania MacDonald, Celeste Bowering, Odipo Agbolauje, and Kathleen Reiland. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ESSLLI'99 Student Session - Last CfP Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:15:33 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 884 (884) [deleted quotation] !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!!Please circulate and post among students !!! !!! We apologize if you receive this message more than once. !!! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D LAST CALL FOR PAPERS THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands Deadline : March 15th, 1999 http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/esslli-fr.html We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99) organized by the University of Utrecht under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FOLLI) and located at the University of Utrecht in August 1999. We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'99 Student Session and appearance in the proceedings. [material deleted] For all information concerning ESSLLI'99 please consult the ESSLLI'99 web = site: http://esslli.let.uu.nl [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Archiving dissertations Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:13:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 885 (885) [deleted quotation] Dear Humanists, I wonder is anyone out there has experience of electronic archiving of student dissertations. This is not so much from the point of view of the intellectual property rights, as discussed on humanist a while back, (although this of course is very important) but more in terms of technical standards and perhaps software. We at Information Studies in Sheffield are considering how we might make back copies of our student MA/MSc dissertations available, initially at least, to other students electronically, especially to those doing distance learning courses. At present they are archived in hard copy by us but this is creating work fro our office staff who have to fetch copies, as well as problems keeping track of those on loan. Electronic access is therefore a possible way of solving this problems. It makes sense to think carefully about this at the start, since if we can make this work then the rest of the university may follow our lead. I know that there will be problems of access (to whom, inside the university, outside it?), of possible confidentiality and copyright, but we need to start somewhere. I am also, as a detemined user of SGML keen not to make this at all platform or software dependent, but at the same time to make it manageable fro our students themselves. Essentially also it must hot place any greater load on the office staff than the current system. We are also thinking that we might tie it in with a just in time electronic publishing system for research reports. Obviously there is quite a bit of expertise here in Sheffield in various relevant fields, but if someone has done this already then it will save us from trying to re-invent the wheel, and wasting time and effort in doing so. I would be most grateful to anyone who can offer us any insights into projects, whether quick and dirty or large and impressive. Best Claire Dr Claire Warwick Lecturer Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield Regent Court 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP 0114 222 2632 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0467 responses on masterly restraint Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:11:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 886 (886) Many thanks to all HUMANIST contributors who helped me with the Goethe quote on "masterly restraint." Of course, it does not escape me that the idea expressed in this moving sonnet has everything to do with the constraints of a medium on perception, and thus, with "distance learning." A medium always cuts both ways, doesn't it? Still learning (if distantly), Wendell -- ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 12.0466 edn of Erotemata? quotation? Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:11:53 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 887 (887) Wer Grosses will, muss sich zusammenraffen, In der Beschraenkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheut geben. The final stanza of Goethe's sonnet "Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen". ------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof.Dr. Kurt Gaertner FB II Sprach- und Literaturwiss. office: Tel. 0651-201-2323 Germanistik Fax 0651-201-3909 Universitaet Trier secretary: Tel. 0651-201-2321 D-54286 Trier private: Tel. 06421-35356, Fax 06421-35415 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "James J. O'Donnell" Subject: sociology of computing (1999) Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:12:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 888 (888) A student observes: [deleted quotation] Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: early mss at Oxford online Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:13:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 889 (889) Humanists will be interested in the Early Manuscripts at Oxford page, <http://www.image.ox.ac.uk/>, which offers "Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals." Listed are Ancient papyri (from Herculaneum), Celtic manuscripts and Other medieval manuscripts. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Cyberculture Studies Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:13:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 890 (890) [deleted quotation] List members, The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an online, non-profit organization whose purpose is to research, study, teach, support, and create diverse and dynamic elements of cyberculture. Recent additions and current works-in-progress include the following: * A fully updated list of Spring 99 university and college-level courses in cyberculture; * Four new full length book reviews: Anne Balsamo, TECHNOLOGIES OF THE GENDERED BODY: READING CYBORG WOMEN; Julian Dibbell, MY TINY LIFE: CRIME AND PASSION IN A VIRTUAL WORLD; Christopher Dewdney, LAST FLESH: LIFE IN THE TRANSHUMAN ERA; and a review of "Sexuality and Cyberspace: Performing the Digital Body," a special issue of WOMEN & PERFORMANCE: A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST THEORY; * The establishment of the Cyberculture Working Group, a collection of Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC-based scholars and activists who meet face-to-face to discuss issues of cyberculture; * And the creation of a low volume announcement list for RCCS events and updates (see below for instructions to join). David Silver American Studies, University of Maryland Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies ******************************************************************* resource center for cyberculture studies http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs if you are interested in joining a low volume announcement list for rccs events and updates, please email: majordomo@majordomo.umd.edu no subject is required. in the body, type: subscribe cyberculture ******************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ACM Congressional Briefing March 5 Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:23:29 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 891 (891) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 3, 1999 ACM TO BRIEF CONGRESS ON COMPUTER POLICY ISSUES Fri March 5, 1-3:30pm: 2318 Rayburn Office Bldg Independence Ave & S. Capitol St., SW <http://www.acm.org/usacm/events/science-briefing-399.html> The Association for Computing Machinery is holding a Congressional policy briefing this Friday that will include a number of issues important to this community, such as intellectual property, privacy, security and computer science research. I encourage all to attend and for us to think of this as a model for presenting our own more specific issues. David Green =========== [mateial deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ADAM EISGRAU MOVES ON Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:24:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 892 (892) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 1999 ADAM EISGRAU MOVES ON I should like to recognize the departure of Adam Eisgrau legal counsel for the American Library Association's Washington Office. The release below from the ALA Washington Office details Adam's achievements and prowess. I simply would like to add that he has had a galvanizing effect on many of us cast into the difficult seas of copyright development. He has been one of the staunchest defenders of Fair Use and its future in the digital environment and will be sorely missed all around. For those who might not read the whole of this release, let me quote from the Feb. 3 report of the ALA's Committee on Legislation to the ALA Council, in which it praised Adam's work: "He has effectively represented ALA on a broad range of national and international copyright and intellectual property issues, bringing ALA's goals in this arena to policy tables and media and public attention. He has successfully communicated to a wide audience the importance of fair use of copyrighted materials in a digital environment. The Committee on Legislation commends and thanks Adam Eisgrau for his commitment to the free exchange of ideas and extends best wishes to him in all future endeavors." Good luck, Adam, in your new future. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 8, Number 20 March 3, 1999 In this issue: ALA Washington Office Legal Counsel Adam Eisgrau Resigns Adam Eisgrau, legal counsel for the ALA Washington Office, has announced his resignation effective Friday, March 5. He will move on to a position as director of federal relations and public policy with Handgun Control, Inc., an organization chaired by Sarah and Jim Brady. In the less than four years he was with the ALA Washington Office, Eisgrau compiled a list of impressive accomplishments. He significantly contributed to the increased public profile among policy makers and media organizations of libraries and librarians as advocates for the public interest in continued access to information in the digital age. He was instrumental in the formation, organization and effective advocacy of the Digital Future Coalition (DFC), currently the nation's only public/private sector alliance working for balanced copyright law and policy. Eisgrau pioneered ALA's involvement in international intellectual property policy formulation as a resource for international library organizations and as an official non-governmental organization delegate to the World Intellectual Property Organization Diplomatic Conference of 1996 in Geneva, Switzerland. He also spearheaded the strategic development, introduction, modification or deferral of major intellectual property legislation in keeping with the underlying principle of balance between needs of copyright owners and information users, including the: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Era Copyright Enhancement Act, Digital Copyright Clarification and Technology Education Act, Copyright Term Extension Act; No Electronic Theft Act; Collections of Information Antipiracy Act, and Omnibus Patent Act. He fostered the effectiveness and cohesiveness of the Shared Legal Capability (SLC), a collaborative effort among the nation's five major library organizations to fight for balanced intellectual property law and policy. Finally, Eisgrau ably represented the ALA, DFC and the SLC before Congress and the Executive Branch, and in other policy negotiations and fora, including the Conference on Fair Use and Uniform Commercial Code revision process. The ALA Committee on Legislation, at the suggestion of Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chair Tom Sloan, included words of praise for Adam in the report prepared for ALA Council on February 3. That portion of the report read as follows: "The Committee also heard at this conference that Adam Eisgrau, Legislative Counsel for the ALA Washington Office since 1995, will be leaving ALA in early March. The Committee wishes to recognize Adam's exceptional work. He has effectively represented ALA on a broad range of national and international copyright and intellectual property issues, bringing ALA's goals in this arena to policy tables and media and public attention. He has successfully communicated to a wide audience the importance of fair use of copyrighted materials in a digital environment. The Committee on Legislation commends and thanks Adam Eisgrau for his commitment to the free exchange of ideas and extends best wishes to him in all future endeavors." ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. All materials subject to copyright by the American Library Association may be reprinted or redistributed for noncommercial purposes with appropriate credits. To subscribe to ALAWON, send the message: subscribe ala-wo [your_firstname] [your_lastname] to listproc@ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. To unsubscribe to ALAWON, send the message: unsubscribe ala-wo to listproc@ala.org or go to http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALAWON archives at http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. 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Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: "David L. Gants" Subject: MT Summit VII 2nd CFP Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:49:06 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 893 (893) [deleted quotation] ===================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== MT Summit VII solicits submissions of research papers, system presentations, and user reports in the broad field of machine translation and natural language processing. Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline Please see the "Paper Submission" section below for the details. MT Summit VII will also have many invited presentations by researchers, users and policy makers from all parts of the world. Featured Speakers: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University Please see the "Invited Speakers" section below for the details. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information: Please visit our Web-site for up-to-date MT SUMMIT VII information: http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99 or http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html By e-mail, please contact the AAMT secretariat: aamt0002@infotokyo.or.jp ===================================================================== [material deleted] From: Martin Cmejrek Subject: EAMT Workshop, 2nd Announcement Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:49:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 894 (894) Second announcement The European Association for Machine Translation in the collaboration with the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, are pleased to announce that the 1999 EAMT Workshop will be held at the Krystal hotel, Jose Marti Str., Prague 6, Czech Republic on April 22 - 23, 1999. The welcome reception is scheduled for Wednesday 21, April 21st. The theme of the workshop is: EU and the new languages Translation - possibilities, policies and practicalities All who are interested in Machine Translation or in any related area are very welcome to attend! Please find programme and registration information at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/eamt.html or refer to Martin Cmejrek: cmejrek@ufal.mff.cuni.cz For your convenience, you can find the ASCII version at the end of the email. Yours sincerely Martin Cmejrek Martin Cmejrek Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Malostranske namesti 25, CZ-118 00, Prague E-mail: cmejrek@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Phone: ++420-2-2191-4304 Eva Hajicova, Director Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Malostranske namesti 25, CZ-118 00, Prague E-mail: hajicova@ufal.mff.cuni.cz Phone: ++420-2-2191-4252 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: SCMLA, Rhetoric Section Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:18:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 895 (895) [deleted quotation] A Call for Papers: SCMLA 1999 Convention: "Intersections" Where: Memphis, Tennessee, Marriott Hotel When: October 28-30 What: Rhetoric Section: Intersections between Rhetoric and Composition Papers may address--but are not limited to--the following questions: What are the intersections between rhetoric and composition? What are the stakes (or politics) in these intersections? What does a rhetorically based composition curriculum look like? What are its dynamics? Its theoretical bases? Please submit 500 word abstracts to Lisa Hill, Chair, SCMLA Rhetoric Section, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Department of English, Station A Box 4066, Durant, Oklahoma 74701 Deadline for Abstracts: 01 April 1999 If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Hill at lhill@sosu.edu or (580) 924-0121 x2724. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CfP: Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS1) Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:19:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 896 (896) [deleted quotation] CALL for PAPERS First workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-1 Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Amsterdam, August 15, 1999 (Submission deadline: June 1, 1999) ABOUT ICoS Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. In addition, a wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics for natural language. Indeed, computational semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1) intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural language semantics. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION Detailed information about the program, and about registration and accommodation will be made available at a later stage. For further information, please contact the local organizers at icos1@wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page: http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:21:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 897 (897) [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------- / 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS / / / / September 7-10, 1999 / / / / University of Mainz, Germany / / / / FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS / --------------------------------------------------------- We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. [material deleted] CONFERENCE ADDRESS Please send all correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp rapp@usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de Universitaet Mainz, FASK Phone: (+49) 7274 / 508-457 D-76711 Germersheim Fax: (+49) 7274 / 508-429 Germany [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Sites of Memory Symposium Announcement Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:21:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 898 (898) [deleted quotation] SITES OF MEMORY Landscapes of Race and Ideology March 25-26 School of Architecture University of Virginia The School of Architecture will host a symposium March 25 - 27, entitled "Sites of Memory: Landscapes of Race and Ideology." Through presentations and public discussion this symposium will explore the historic and contemporary effects of race upon the development of the built environment, examining the realities and myths of America's dual racial landscapes. Randall Kenan, author of "Walking on Water: Black Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century" will give the Keynote Address, Thursday, March 25, 1999 at 6 p.m. The Keynote Address is presented in association with the Fifth Annual Virginia Festival of the Book. The symposium is free and open to the public. Advance registration is recommended. For more information please visit the project website at http://www.arch.virginia.edu/site-mem or contact Professor Craig Barton ceb8x@virginia.edu 804.924.6467. ************************************************************* Craig Evan Barton, Assistant Professor School of Architecture University of Virginia 305 Campbell Hall Charlottesville, VA 22902 Tel: 804.924.6467/3715 Fax: 804.982.2678 Sites of Memory Symposium March 25-28, 1999 http://www.arch.virginia.edu/site-mem ************************************************************ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'99 new and revised workshop calls Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:22:38 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 899 (899) [deleted quotation] ACL-99 Workshop Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA June 21st, 1999 http://www.ai.sri.com/~kehler/unsup-acl-99.html Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Many of the successes achieved from using learning techniques in natural language processing (NLP) have utilized the supervised paradigm, in which models are trained from data annotated with the target concepts to be learned. For instance, the target concepts in language modeling for speech recognition are words, and thus raw text corpora suffice. The first successful part-of-speech taggers were made possible by the existence of the Brown corpus (Francis, 1964), a million-word data set which was laboriously hand-tagged a quarter of a century prior. Finally, progress in statistical parsing required the development of the Penn Treebank data set (Marcus et al. 1993), the result of many staff years of effort. While it is worthwhile to utilize annotated data when it is available, the future success of learning for natural language systems cannot depend on a paradigm requiring that large, annotated data sets be created for each new problem or application. The costs of annotation are prohibitively time and expertise intensive, and the resulting corpora are too susceptible to restriction to a particular domain, application, or genre. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CRL Summer School Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:25:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 900 (900) [deleted quotation] The NMSU Computing Research Laboratory Presents The 1999 Summer School in Language Engineering June 28-July 9 The 1999 Summer School in Language Engineering is designed for the practical computational linguist or natural language processing specialist. The program of the school stresses practical needs of application system builders in such areas as machine translation, information retrieval and extraction and text summarization. It stresses the broad range of multilingual aspects of today's language engineering, from the support for the various writing systems to acquisition of linguistic knowledge for applications to languages that have not yet been widely studied. The summer school is organized by the Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) of New Mexico State University. The instructors, both members of CRL staff and visiting professors, are all leaders in their respective areas of expertise. The school will feature two full weeks of instruction and hands-on practical studies. The number of students in the school will be small, keeping a high instructor-to-student ratio. Registrants will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Preregistration and fees must be received no later than June 1. For more information, please visit our web site at: http://crl.nmsu.edu/summerschool [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Guedon Jean-Claude Subject: Re: 12.0477 archiving dissertations? Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:48:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 901 (901) Anyone interested in e-publishing of theses (it goes a bit beyond e-archiving, but the former includes the latter), should contact Guylaine Beaudry who heads the e-division of the Presses de l'Université de Montréal. The address is in the cc above. Best, Jean-Claude Guédon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jean-Claude Guédon Tel. 514-343-6208 Département de littérature comparée Fax. 514-343-2211 Université de Montréal CP 6128, Succursale "Centre-ville" Surfaces Montréal, Qc H3C 3J7 Canada http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/ See you at INET'99, San Jose, June 22-25, 1999 http://www.isoc.org/inet99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: e-learning Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:46:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 902 (902) Willard and Wendell, I was wondering if the two of you were not conspiring under the aegis of the tutelary spirits of serendipity to bring discussions of real learning into the ambit of back to basics. If I seem to be twisting the two threads in some sort of impromptu dialectic, it is because I think that combining the twin issues of learning and basics is a step in highlighting the pedagogical paradox of fostering change in in students by an appeal to unchanging (or at least stable) givens (including the Heraclitan flux). This is all perhaps a convolutied way of stating that "real learning" is in my books (codex and digital) reciprocal. The student becomes aware that the teacher is a co-explorer. Of course this tends to favour and equation of "real learning" with metacognition. (Digression: Note that the "product" here is a relation between people and not necessarily a quantity of knowledge. Learning outcomes can also be measured by the degree of portability and applicability of the knowledge produced.) Learning is often gauged by a before/after measure that looks for the emergence of novelty. However, a part of learning may be habit formation, i.e. a comfortable set of routines that create a space and time for certain types of cognitive activity. Learning may also be about continuation. I will stop toying with the commonplace of change and continuity and trying reader patiance and allow me to redirect attention to : Harold Cliff Chaput in a text entitled "Symbol Emergence & Symbol Grounding" in a section called "The Untapped Senses" offers a summary of a stage theory of child development. Chaput refers to contemporary developmental psychology. He doesn't name a source (or a particular school). Allow me to quote his summary: Contemporary developmental psychology talks about four change processes that occur as a child matures: automatization, encoding, generalization, and strategy construction. Automatization is the process of becoming more efficient in thought and aciton, thus freeing up the brain for more activity. Encoding is internally representing objects and events in terms of set of features. Generalization is the process of mapping known encodings to new relations. Finally strategy construction uses the previous three to generate rules to adapt to task demands. <http://net.cs.utexas.edu/users/chaput/inter/inter.html> Unfortunately, Chaput does not provide HTML fragment identifiers to either his sub-sections or his paragraphs. Now I wonder about the automatic in distance learning. How are the providers of both instruction and education able to play with this aspect of learning. For example, a group that meets regularly face-to-face can be invited to change its seating arrangement in order to develop a fresh perspective on the group dynamic. Of course, some pedagogues especially in language learning situations insist that students shift the arrangement with every meeting in order to maximize interlocutor interaction. How could one accomplish something like this in computer-mediated communication situations? Finally, whether the setting is electronic or not, how does the argument about outcomes shift if a paradigm of relearning (not necessarily Platonic remembering) is the point of departure. What I mean is to what degree do learning paths recycle the four stages or steps of child maturation? It seems to be a typology designed to challenge the manual/intellectual division of labour and learning. Recursively relearning the real, Francois From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 12.0467 responses on masterly restraint Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:47:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 903 (903) Or, as Robert Frost, put it, in discussing blank verse, "It's like playing tennis without a net." (And, no, I don't ahve the source for the quotation. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation][material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Paul Brians Subject: Errors caused by over-reliance on spelling checkers Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:48:23 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 904 (904) I maintain a site called "Common Errors in English" <http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/> which attracts a lot of correspondence. Recently a fellow named Sean Sligo sent me an intriguing little list of words which are commonly misspelled in ways that prompt spelling checkers to offer further misspellings rather than the correct spelling. Often these mistaken suggestions are automatically and unthinkingly accepted by the writer, resulting in odd results. Here's an example from a brief essay on the topic he wrote at my request: For instance, my spell checker will easily catch and correct "definately", returning the correct result. If, however, the word supplied is "definantly," a common Web word-mangling, the only word the spell checker can suggest is "defiantly." Hence the occasional assertion of the form "Lincoln is defiantly the best president America ever had." Take a look at his short list at <http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/spellcheck.html>. I would appreciate a few more examples of common words which get mangled this way. Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Robt. Darnton's Essay "The New Age of the Book" Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 16:25:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 905 (905) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 4, 1999 Robert Darnton Essay: "The New Age of the Book" in this week's New York Review of Books <http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/index.html> An excellent review of the issues confronting scholarly publishing, especially the promises and shortfalls of scholarly electronic monographs is contained in the March 18 issue of "the New York Review of Books." This is a 10-page article (delivered page-by-page on the website) that sites the potential of the electronic monograph in the context of the changing publishing programs both of publishing in general and of university presses in particular, the turmoil of university tenure decisions and the pricing of journals (that many libraries are refusing to pay). Robert Darnton's own vision of a scholarly electronic book is particularly compelling: "Instead of bloating the electronic book, I think it possible to structure it in layers arranged like a pyramid. The top layer could be a concise account of the subject, available perhaps in paperback. The next layer could contain expanded versions of different aspects of the argument, not arranged sequentially as in a narrative, but rather as self-contained units that feed into the topmost story. The third layer could be composed of documentation, possibly of different kinds, each set off by interpretative essays. A fourth layer might be theoretical or historiographical, with selections from previous scholarship and discussions of them. A fifth layer could be pedagogic, consisting of suggestions for classroom discussion and a model syllabus. And a sixth layer could contain readers' reports, exchanges between the author and the editor, and letters from readers, who could provide a growing corpus of commentary as the book made its way through different groups of readers." David Green =========== [deleted quotation]<<>> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: "James J. O'Donnell" Subject: Query: Magellan-like Windows software? Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:45:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 906 (906) forwarded for an old friend: replies welcomed at jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu *********************** I am looking for a Windows program that will do the same job that the DOS based Lotus Magellan program did, namely to locate a term in a file, and at the same time (and unlike Windows Find) will show the file itself and the term in context, with a list of other files that also contain the term. These in turn can be looked at from within Magellan. Also Magellan was able to read ZIP files and many other formats. From: Bob Godwin-Jones Subject: Scanning old German script? Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:45:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 907 (907) Anyone know of any scanning software capable of dealing with Fraktur? -- Bob Godwin-Jones \ rgjones@vcu.edu http://www.fln.vcu.edu/gj.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Ctr for Arts & Culture, Washington, DC: Symposium Series Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:29:11 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 908 (908) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 8th 1999 Center for Arts & Culture: "Calling the Question" Symposia <http://www.culturalpolicy.org/program.htm> Thursday, March 18: FEDERAL CULTURAL LEADERSHIP Tuesday, April 6: THE CREATIVE MIND:ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS AS PUBLIC CITIZENS Monday, May 3 THE 21ST CENTURY: NEW TRENDS IN CULTURAL PHILANTHROPY All events 3:30pm: National Building Museum 401 F Street, NW, Washington DC [deleted quotation]FROM: [deleted quotation]<<>>> CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, LECTURES WASHINGTON, DC Spring 1999 All events begin at 3:30 PM in the National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW CALLING THE QUESTION - SPRING 1999 The Center for Arts and Culture presents: CALLING THE QUESTION - SPRING 1999, A series of public programs addressing critical policy issues in the cultural sector. The Center offers three programs in the spring of 1999 examining The Cultural Sector in the Next Century, followed by three programs on Globalization and its Impact on Culture in the fall of 1999. These free events in the National Building Museum are followed by an informal reception designed to bring together participants and audiences in an open environment conducive to exploring ideas and exchanging information. Thursday, March 18 FEDERAL CULTURAL LEADERSHIP Recent controversies over federal funding have obscured the broader challenges facing the cultural sector in the next century. The federal cultural agencies will continue to play a leadership role in the nation's cultural policy beyond giving grants. Join Bill Ferris, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; Diane Frankel, Director of the Institute Museum and Library Services; and Bill Ivey, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, with moderator Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, Director of the White House Millennium Council, as they discuss future trends in the cultural sector and directions for the federal cultural agencies to meet the challenges of the next century. Tuesday, April 6 THE CREATIVE MIND:ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS AS PUBLIC CITIZENS What is the unique relationship of the creative mind to American democracy? Join us for an examination of the reciprocal relationship between the artist/humanist and society. What is the American view of individual creativity? Do Americans feel that certain individuals "speak truth to power" or that they have given themselves undeserved license? What can we learn from an examination of shifting attitudes throughout our history? Playwright David Henry Hwang, author of FOB, M Butterly, and Golden Child, will discuss these issues with cultural commentators Verlyn Klinkenborg of The New York Times; Nigel Redden, Director of the Lincoln Center Festival; Mary Schmitt Campbell, Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and former New York City Commissioner of the Cultural Affairs. These panelists may be joined by others to be announced. Monday, May 3 THE 21ST CENTURY: NEW TRENDS IN CULTURAL PHILANTHROPY In this century, cultural life in the United States has depended heavily on organized private philanthropy. How will culture fare at a time when demands on philanthropy are greater and wider than ever, and many expect an influx of funds from a new generation of donors? What trends are discernable in individuals giving, private foundations, and corporate philanthropy? James Allen Smith, Executive Director of the Howard Gilman Foundation and an authority on the history of American foundations, think tanks and public policy research, will moderate a panel of experts including Marian Godfrey, Culture Program Director of the Pew Charitable Trusts and many others. For more information, send email to center@culturalpolicy.org or visit the web site at http://www.culturalpolicy.org/program.htm _______________________________________________________ Arts Wire CURRENT is available at http://www.artswire.org/current.html and an archive of past issues can be found at http://www.artswire.org/current/archive.html =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 8th 1999 Center for Arts & Culture: "Calling the Question" Symposia <http://www.culturalpolicy.org/program.htm> Thursday, March 18: FEDERAL CULTURAL LEADERSHIP Tuesday, April 6: THE CREATIVE MIND:ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS AS PUBLIC CITIZENS Monday, May 3 THE 21ST CENTURY: NEW TRENDS IN CULTURAL PHILANTHROPY All events 3:30pm: National Building Museum 401 F Street, NW, Washington DC [deleted quotation]FROM: [deleted quotation]<<>>> CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, LECTURES WASHINGTON, DC Spring 1999 All events begin at 3:30 PM in the National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW CALLING THE QUESTION - SPRING 1999 The Center for Arts and Culture presents: CALLING THE QUESTION - SPRING 1999, A series of public programs addressing critical policy issues in the cultural sector. The Center offers three programs in the spring of 1999 examining The Cultural Sector in the Next Century, followed by three programs on Globalization and its Impact on Culture in the fall of 1999. These free events in the National Building Museum are followed by an informal reception designed to bring together participants and audiences in an open environment conducive to exploring ideas and exchanging information. Thursday, March 18 FEDERAL CULTURAL LEADERSHIP Recent controversies over federal funding have obscured the broader challenges facing the cultural sector in the next century. The federal cultural agencies will continue to play a leadership role in the nation's cultural policy beyond giving grants. Join Bill Ferris, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; Diane Frankel, Director of the Institute Museum and Library Services; and Bill Ivey, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, with moderator Ellen McCulloch-Lovell, Director of the White House Millennium Council, as they discuss future trends in the cultural sector and directions for the federal cultural agencies to meet the challenges of the next century. Tuesday, April 6 THE CREATIVE MIND:ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS AS PUBLIC CITIZENS What is the unique relationship of the creative mind to American democracy? Join us for an examination of the reciprocal relationship between the artist/humanist and society. What is the American view of individual creativity? Do Americans feel that certain individuals "speak truth to power" or that they have given themselves undeserved license? What can we learn from an examination of shifting attitudes throughout our history? Playwright David Henry Hwang, author of FOB, M Butterly, and Golden Child, will discuss these issues with cultural commentators Verlyn Klinkenborg of The New York Times; Nigel Redden, Director of the Lincoln Center Festival; Mary Schmitt Campbell, Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and former New York City Commissioner of the Cultural Affairs. These panelists may be joined by others to be announced. Monday, May 3 THE 21ST CENTURY: NEW TRENDS IN CULTURAL PHILANTHROPY In this century, cultural life in the United States has depended heavily on organized private philanthropy. How will culture fare at a time when demands on philanthropy are greater and wider than ever, and many expect an influx of funds from a new generation of donors? What trends are discernable in individuals giving, private foundations, and corporate philanthropy? James Allen Smith, Executive Director of the Howard Gilman Foundation and an authority on the history of American foundations, think tanks and public policy research, will moderate a panel of experts including Marian Godfrey, Culture Program Director of the Pew Charitable Trusts and many others. For more information, send email to center@culturalpolicy.org or visit the web site at http://www.culturalpolicy.org/program.htm _______________________________________________________ Arts Wire CURRENT is available at http://www.artswire.org/current.html and an archive of past issues can be found at http://www.artswire.org/current/archive.html =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Valerie Mapelli Subject: ELRA News Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:29:37 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 909 (909) ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES *** We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA: 1) Speech - ELRA-S0059 ILE: Italian LExicon - ELRA-S0060 MULTEXT Prosodic database - ELRA-S0061 French Speechdat(II) FDB-1000 - ELRA-S0062 Fixed1itDesign, Textual material of Fixed0it Italian SpeechDat(M) database (ELRA-S0052 and S0053) - ELRA-S0064 Colombian Spanish Speech Database - ELRA-S0065 Spanish SpeechDat(M) - DB1 (Phonetically rich sentences & application oriented utterances such as keywords, digits, etc.) - ELRA-S0066 Spanish SpeechDat(M) - DB2 (The phonetically rich sentences) - ELRA-S0067 BREF-120 - A large corpus of French read speech - ELRA-S0068 Portuguese SpeechDat(M) database More information at the following URL: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/cata/tabspeech.html 2) Written corpora - ELRA-W0017 MULTEXT JOC (Official Journal of the European Community) Corpus - ELRA-W0018 ARCADE/ROMANSEVAL corpus More information at the following URL: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/cata/tabtext.html 3) Lexica - ELRA-L0010 MULTEXT lexicons More information at the following URL: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/cata/tabtext.html 4) Terminology databases - ELRA-T0362 NEWBASE, Extended version of ELRA-T0090 GEOBASE (a geology database) - ELRA-T0363 Hydrogeology database - ELRA-T0364 Pedology database More information at the following URL: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/cata/tabterm.html ===================================== For further information, please contact : ELRA/ELDA Tel : +33 01 43 13 33 33 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin Fax : +33 01 43 13 33 30 F-75013 Paris, France E-mail : mapelli@elda.fr or visit our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html ===================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd cfp KDAD'99 Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:27:31 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 910 (910) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues, ....Profuse apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anyone who would be interested. Thank you .. The PAKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Advanced Databases (KDAD'99) In conjunction with Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD'99) Beijing, China, April 26, 1999 http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/kdad99 MOTIVATION The main goal of knowledge discovery is to convert the massive amount of the captured data to actionable knowledge. The last few years have seen a growing development of algorithms and approaches to automatic discovery of knowledge from for well-structured raw data stored in very large relational databases. However, different kind of data, i.e., image, text, video, etc. are know available in file systems, objects servers and web sites and accessed by a wide range of users, ranging from discipline experts to novice users. There is a growing need for new generation of data mining and KDD tools to automatically and intelligently analyzes complex data types as audio, image, video, spatial data, temporal data and textual information. The challenge for the next decade is to develop theoretical foundations, technological support and integrated tools to make easy the discovery of knowledge from advanced databases (KdAd) by converting its heterogeneous information to useful and actionable knowledge according to a users goals. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL99 Workshop FINAL CFP Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:28:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 911 (911) [deleted quotation] EACL-99, University of Bergen, 12th June 1999 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER AND INTERNET SUPPORTED EDUCATION IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY (ELST) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 12th March 1999 _________________________________________________________________ HOME PAGE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst SUBTOPICS * Computational Tools for ELST * Online Components for ELST * Specialised Tutorials for ELST * Authorware (tools supporting production of materials for ELST) * Tool Oriented Curriculum Design * Multilingual Course Delivery * Course Management Issues * Distance Education for LST [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0481 e-publishing of theses Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:23:47 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 912 (912) Re the query on protocols for archiving and disseminating electronic theses and dissertations: See the Virginia Tech ETD project group's (extensive) documentation at: http://etd.vt.edu/ See also the University of Waterloo's 1997 survey of current ETD implementations: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~uw-etpt/results.html : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Department of English Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia mgk3k@virginia.edu or mattk@virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ From: Guedon Jean-Claude Subject: Re: 12.0481 e-publishing of theses Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:24:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 913 (913) In perusing the message I sent a while back, I noted that the cc had been swallowed by the publishing routines of the listserv. I should have thought about that detail... :-) Sorry about that. Guylaine beaudry's address is guylaine.beaudry@umontreal.ca Best to all, Jean-Claude Guédon On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation]------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation]------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Carl Vogel Subject: jobs relevant to some HUMANIST readers Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:23:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 914 (914) Lecturer(s) Computer Science University of Dublin, Trinity College Applications are invited for lectureships in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin. The Department is the largest in the College, with a full-time academic staff of 40 and over 1,000 full-time students undertaking both day and evening courses. The Department is also heavily involved in research projects sponsored by the EU, Enterprise Ireland and industry. Applications for these posts are invited from candidates holding degrees in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related discipline who either have complete, or are about to complete, a doctoral degree. Applications from candidates with expertise in Computer Architecture, Computer Graphics, Networks and Telecommunications, Information Management, Theoretical Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision will be particularly welcome. Salary scale: £17,097 - £42,236 per annum Appointments will be within the range £17,097 - £24,126 per annum at points to accord with the qualifications and experience to date of the successful candidates. Application forms and further particulars relating to this post may be obtained from: Establishment Officer Staff Office Trinity College Dublin 2 Tel: 608-1678 Fax: 677-2169 e.mail:recruit@tcd.ie The closing date for receipt of completed applications will be Friday, 19th March, 1999 TRINITY COLLEGE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER Ref: 829/99 From: Bob Evans Subject: FYI: DEAN'S POSITION, SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS (fwd) Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:23:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 915 (915) DEAN, SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS, AUBURN UNIVERSITY MONTGOMERY. Applicants should submit a letter of application, including a statement of philosophy about leadership in a school of Liberal Arts; a vita; three letters of recommendation; and names, addresses, and telephone numbers of three additional professional references by mail to: Dr. Robert C. Evans, Chair, Search Committee for Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, Auburn University Montgomery, P.O. Box 244023, Montgomery, AL 36124-4023. Screening of applications will begin immediately; applications must be postmarked by May, 1, 1999. AUM is an EEO/AA employer. For more information, please visit http://members.aol.com/litpage/deanjob.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Christian Wittern Subject: RE: 12.0479 software? scanning Fraktur? Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:25:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 916 (916) [deleted quotation] You might want to look at "Search & Replace" at www.funduc.com Christian Dr. Christian Wittern Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies 276, Kuang Ming Road, Peitou 112, Taipei, TAIWAN From: Leo Robert Klein Subject: Re: 12.0479 Query: Magellan-like Windows software? Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:25:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 917 (917) On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, James J. O'Donnell wrote: I routinely use MSWORD for this--can't do ZIP files though. LEO [deleted quotation] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Leo Robert Klein 151 E. 25th St., rm. 524 Web Coordinator & New York, NY.10010 Digital Resources Developer Tel.: (212) 802-2373 William & Anita Newman Library Fax: (212) 802-2360 Baruch College/CUNY Email: leo.klein@nyu.edu home :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://pages.nyu.edu/~lk13 office :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Fotis Jannidis Subject: Re: Scanning Fraktur? Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:25:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 918 (918) [deleted quotation]You can't use omnifont ocr software, but only programs which can be trained to use a font. OCR software which does work like this is not easy to find: I only know Prolector and Optopus. But be warned: You have to teach the program every single font the text uses. Especially with hot-metal setting (Bleisatz) the differences between the instances of one letter can be so great, that you have to train more than one instance for every letter. In short: As far as I know it is easier (and cheaper) to have somebody type texts in Fraktur than to use OCR software. But we all hope this can be changed. Maybe somebody knows a better solution? Fotis Jannidis From: Eric Johnson Subject: Grammar and spell checkers Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:26:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 919 (919) Those who are interested in the recent discussion of spell checkers might want to read my article "The Current State of Grammar and Style Checkers." It is on the Web at: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/grammar.html --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:28:49 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 920 (920) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 8th 1999 HYPERTEXT SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN STUDIES <http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq> [deleted quotation] HYPERTEXT SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN STUDIES (http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq) How will hypertext and new media change the nature of scholarly argument, communication, and publication? Although there has been much theorizing about hypertext and scholarship, there are very few concrete examples of scholars using hypertext and new media to present the results of sustained inquiry into the subjects that they study. In order to encourage experimentation in this arena, American Quarterly in collaboration with the American Studies Crossroads Project at Georgetown University and the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University has launched an experiment in hypertext publishing. Last Spring we solicited proposals for scholarly hypertext projects and selected four "articles" to be developed. The "beta" versions of those articles have now been published on line. We invite you to take a look and offer your own reactions in the on-line forum that we are sponsoring. In June, American Quarterly will publish a print forum in which three scholars will offer their comments on the experiment and the authors will present brief statements about their intentions. The four articles are: ** "The Spanish American War in US Media Culture" by James Castonguay ** "Dreaming Arnold Schwarzenegger" by Louise Krasniewicz and Michael Blitz ** "Hearsay of the Sun: Photography, Identity, and the Law of Evidence in Nineteenth-Century American Courts" by Thomas Thurston ** "From Hogan's Alley to Coconino County: Three Narratives of the Early Comic Strip" by David Westbrook The articles are posted at http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq Roy Rosenzweig Guest Editor, AQ Hypertext Scholarship Section Director, Center for History & New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu) Rrosenzw@gmu.edu =============================================================== | Roy Rosenzweig | | Dept. of History, MS-3G1 Home: | | George Mason University 511 N. Jackson St. | | Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Arlington, VA 22201 | | W: 703-993-1247 H: 703-522-2334 | | email: rrosenzw@gmu.edu Fax (work): 703-993-1251| | Director, Center for History & New Media | | http://chnm.gmu.edu | =============================================================== =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 8th 1999 HYPERTEXT SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN STUDIES <http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq> [deleted quotation] HYPERTEXT SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN STUDIES (http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq) How will hypertext and new media change the nature of scholarly argument, communication, and publication? Although there has been much theorizing about hypertext and scholarship, there are very few concrete examples of scholars using hypertext and new media to present the results of sustained inquiry into the subjects that they study. In order to encourage experimentation in this arena, American Quarterly in collaboration with the American Studies Crossroads Project at Georgetown University and the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University has launched an experiment in hypertext publishing. Last Spring we solicited proposals for scholarly hypertext projects and selected four "articles" to be developed. The "beta" versions of those articles have now been published on line. We invite you to take a look and offer your own reactions in the on-line forum that we are sponsoring. In June, American Quarterly will publish a print forum in which three scholars will offer their comments on the experiment and the authors will present brief statements about their intentions. The four articles are: ** "The Spanish American War in US Media Culture" by James Castonguay ** "Dreaming Arnold Schwarzenegger" by Louise Krasniewicz and Michael Blitz ** "Hearsay of the Sun: Photography, Identity, and the Law of Evidence in Nineteenth-Century American Courts" by Thomas Thurston ** "From Hogan's Alley to Coconino County: Three Narratives of the Early Comic Strip" by David Westbrook The articles are posted at http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq Roy Rosenzweig Guest Editor, AQ Hypertext Scholarship Section Director, Center for History & New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu) Rrosenzw@gmu.edu =============================================================== | Roy Rosenzweig | | Dept. of History, MS-3G1 Home: | | George Mason University 511 N. Jackson St. | | Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 Arlington, VA 22201 | | W: 703-993-1247 H: 703-522-2334 | | email: rrosenzw@gmu.edu Fax (work): 703-993-1251| | Director, Center for History & New Media | | http://chnm.gmu.edu | =============================================================== =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: British National Corpus Subject: BNC Sampler now available Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:03:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 921 (921) [please excuse any cross posting] **** BNC SAMPLER NOW AVAILABLE **** I am very pleased to announce that we are now taking orders for copies of the BNC Sampler, which we expect to start delivering before the end of March (it is currently being printed). Like all future releases of the BNC, this is available worldwide. The BNC Sampler CD contains fully operational versions of four state-of-the-art text analysis tools together with a 2 million word balanced corpus of Modern British English, extracted from the British National Corpus. The Sampler corpus contains one million words of spoken text and one million words of written text. In selecting from the BNC, we tried to preserve the variety of text-types represented, so the Sampler includes in its 184 texts many different genres of writing and modes of speech. Full bibliography and documentation is included on the CD, of course. The corpus is in the same SGML format as the original BNC. The part of speech annotation applied to the corpus has been thoroughly revised and checked at the University of Lancaster, using a more delicate tagset. Some inconsistencies and errors in the text headers have also been corrected. The corpus can be processed using any SGML-aware software. A number of leading software developers have generously contributed fully functional versions of their products for inclusion with the CD. The following tools are included: * Corpus Work Bench (from Arne Fitschen, IMS Stuttgart) * Qwick, a Java application (from Oliver Mason, University of Birmingham) * SARA, (the SGML-Aware Retrieval Application developed at Oxford) * WordSmith Tools (from Mike Scott at Liverpool University) All of these tools except CWB are designed for 32-bit Windows systems (i.e. Windows 95, 98, or NT). WordSmith is the only one which will also run on Windows 3. Qwick has been tested using the Java runtimes for Solaris and Macintosh as well. CWB is for use in a UNIX environment; runtimes for Solaris and Linux are provided. The software included on the CD will work only with the texts on the CD (i.e. you cannot use the software to access other textbases), but in all others respects these are fully functioning versions. Between them, these four software packages offer an impressive range of different features, and embody interestingly different ways of doing textual or linguistic analysis on marked-up language corpora. The size of this corpus means that you (and your students) can now experiment with these tools on a realistically sized body of material using an ordinary office or home PC. The BNC Sampler is priced at 30 pounds each for up to 10 copies. Orders of 11 or more copies receive a 20% discount. To order copies of the BNC Sampler, please download an order form from our web site at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/getting/sampler.html or return the attached order form to BNC Sales/HCU 13 Banbury Rd Oxford OX2 6NN, UK email: natcorp@oucs.ox.ac.uk fax: +44 1865 273 275 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Delivery Address: Email: Please supply me with ____ copies of the BNC Sampler at unit cost GBP 30 ______ minus discount 20% ______ plus VAT 17.5% ______ TOTAL COST ______ NB: 20% discount applies to orders of 11 or more copies. VAT is payable on all orders within Europe Postage and packing is free for up to 50 copies within Europe; up to 10 copies elsewhere. 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Payment can also be made using your credit card (MasterCard or VISA only) if you fill out the following details: Please charge my credit card the total amount _____________ Card Type: Card Number ______________________________ Account Name _____________________________ Expiry Date _________________ Account Address ____________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- From: David Green Subject: Announcing UK Interoperability Focus Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:03:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 922 (922) Apologies for any cross-posting http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/> [deleted quotation]Information Networking (UKOLN) plays host to the new post of Interoperability Focus. This post is jointly funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils and the British Library's Research and Innovation Centre (BLRIC). Interoperability Focus will serve to channel knowledge and expertise related to the effective sharing of information, data, and process between a wide range of data providers and Gateways from sectors as diverse as libraries, museums and archives. As such, Interoperability Focus is concerned with standards developments such as Dublin Core and Z39.50, as well as with procedural, structural and semantic issues related to the manner in which data might most usefully be made available in order to ensure widespread accessibility. For more information on Interoperability Focus, please visit the web site http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/> or contact Paul Miller . Paul -- dr. paul miller - interoperability focus - p.miller@ukoln.ac.uk -- u. k. office for library and information networking (ukoln) tel: +44 (0)1482 466890 fax: +44 (0)1482 465531 ---------------------------- http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/ -- =============================================================== 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: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Ergo's Patent Publishes Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:04:42 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 923 (923) The patent for the tools that create Ergo Linguistic Technologies' software has just been published by the U.S. Patent Office. Copies of it can be obtained from them through the usual channels. Many have asked me to notify them when the patent is published. The patent description contains a theory of syntax that is far simpler and far more general than current theories, and more importantly, that makes software that individuals working with other theories can only dream of. For examples of the Ergo software go to http://www.ergo-ling.com. Probably the strongest recommendation for reading this patent and studying this theory is the software that it can create which can be seen at the Ergo web site. Those of you in industry may want to try and see if you can create similar tools and still beat the patent. We believe this is not possible, but we would encourage all to try in the spirit of good sportsmanship. In academia the very fact that we have a theory that produces better NLP tools than any other theory calls into question the status of all other theories of syntax. This is because every theoretical mechanism ever proposed for a theory of syntax (ours, Chomsky's, or anyone else's) can, in principle, be implemented in a programming language. Thus, the clearest judge of the best theory of syntax is the working software that can be produced from it. I have in the past even argued that until such time as other theories can do as well or better than we can in this area, that the Ergo parser should be declared the default standard for computational linguistics both in academia and in industry. (If anyone can demonstrate why this should not be the case, I would appreciate seeing the argument). The Ergo parser provides tools and a parser that can significantly improve navigation and control devices and question and answer dialoging software as well as other areas of NLP that require grammatical analysis. All the demos at the Ergo site are WIN95/8/NT compatible. Get them and compare them to the software made from other theories (if they are capable of producing any at all). Please do not take offense at these rather strongly worded statements. They are required because the soft sciences do not often have to deal with clear, incontrovertible evidence of the superiority of other theories or breakthroughs. In chemistry, for example, if someone creates a better and cheaper formula for a particular result (say the treatment of a disease), the new method is adopted and older ones are discarded until such time as evidence (e.g. the computer program in linguistics) demonstrates otherwise. For a discussion and description of standards for the evaluation of parsers and parsing systems go to http://www.vrml.org/WorkingGroups/NLP-ANIM. In addition, the Ergo web site provides examples and a parsing contest for those who would like to compare different parsing tools. Here's an even greater challenge: Get the patent and the Ergo software and then write some papers that explain why working software is not a criteria for judging a theory of syntax. Or also why the theory of syntax cannot produce the software that we have. It might also be interesting to demonstrate why our theory of syntax is not to be preferred over others and why this theory of syntax is flawed (in spite of the unique software development it offers). Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich@hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CfP: Natural Language Interfaces: Dialogue and Partner Modelling Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:58:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 924 (924) [deleted quotation] NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES DIALOGUE AND PARTNER MODELING Workshop at the Fachtagung fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Bonn, Germany 13.9.-14.9.1999 Theme of the Workshop Natural language interfaces allow users to interact verbally with dialogue systems. Users can ask a question via keyboard or microphone and receive an answer in spoken or in written form. Such interfaces have been around for a while; the challenge right now is to make them as robust and efficient as possible without limiting syntax and vocabulary more than necessary. How can new approaches to dialogue and partner modelling help to reach this goal? To what extent can results from underspecification theory, dynamic semantics, rhethorical structure theory or centering theory be useful? We are especially interested in approaches which have already been integrated into existing system and whose implementation has been evaluated. The workshop is intended as an oppertunity for a lively dialogue between linguists and computer scientists, between theory and practice. For this reason, -- presentations are limited to 15 minutes, followed by 15 minutes discussion -- a final discussion of about one and a half hours is planned. Abstract Submission Participants who would like to give a talk are asked to submit an extended abstract of max. 2 pages per e-mail to the organizers Bernhard Schroeder (b.schroeder@uni-bonn.de) und Maria Wolters (wolters@ikp.uni-bonn.de) in .ps or .pdf format. Each received abstract is acknowledged. The languages of the workshop are English and German. Authors are notified of acceptance on 31 May. From mid June on, all extended abstracts will be accessible from this web page. We will also create a mailing list for participants and other interested researchers. We plan to publish the proceedings of this workshop as a book. Schedule 15.5.1999: deadline for receipt of extended abstracts 31.5.1999: notification of acceptance 14.6.1999: deadline for revised extended abstracts 13./14.9.1999: Workshop in Bonn Committee Organizing Committee Bernhard Schroeder, Maria Wolters Institut fuer Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik Universitaet Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Tel.: +49 228 735621 (Schroeder); +49 228 733081 (Wolters) Fax: +49 228 735639 e-mail: b.schroeder@uni-bonn.de wolters@ikp.uni-bonn.de Programme Committee Elisabeth Andre, Saarbruecken Harry Bunt, Tilburg Paul Dekker, Amsterdam Roland Hausser, Erlangen itzeman, Edinburgh Winfried Lenders, Bonn Paul McKevitt, Aalborg From: "David L. Gants" Subject: RLMG last CFP Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:00:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 925 (925) [deleted quotation] Dear colleagues, This is the last CFP for the ESSLLI99 workshop on Resource Logics and Minimalist Grammars. Invited speakers have not yet been chosen, since this depends in part on who will be participating in ESSLLI. Details about the opportunity to submit papers for possible publication in the new electronic journal "Language and Computation" will be provided to authors with the notification of acceptance. As this last CFP comes late, please send an email to rlmg@irisa.fr if you intend to submit something which is not yet fully ready to be sent. Christian Retor & Edward Stabler ESSLLI`99 workshop on RESOURCE LOGICS AND MINIMALIST GRAMMARS (deadline for submissions: March 15th 1999) Utrecht, 16-20 August 1999 Organizers: Christian Retor=E9 (IRISA, Rennes) = Edward Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles) [material deleted] For further information on the workshop visit the site of the workshop http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG or send an email to rlmg@irisa.fr From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final CfP: Methods for Modalities (M4M) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:01:12 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 926 (926) [deleted quotation] FINAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS METHODS FOR MODALITIES 1 (M4M) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam May 6-7, 1999 www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/M4M/ DEADLINE: March 15, 1999 THEME The workshop `Methods for Modalities' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and decision methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, feature logic, temporal logic. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations will provide both the background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, we are inviting submissions of short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, and submissions of system demonstrations. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION Please visit www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/M4M/ for further information about M4M. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conferences & Workshops Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:01:39 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 927 (927) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 15th 1999 CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS For more conferences & workshops see http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html SIGGRAPH 99: 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques August 10-12: Los Angeles http://www.siggraph.org/s99 CREATING ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES Third Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick August 15 - 20, 1999: Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada <http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/> Computers & The History of Art (CHArt) Conference 1999 Digital Environments: Design, Heritage and Architecture September 24-25 1999: University of Glasgow, Scotland http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/chart/cfp99.html Call for Papers: April 30 DEADLINE ================================================================================ SIGGRAPH 99: 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques August 10-12: Los Angeles http://www.siggraph.org/s99 SIGGRAPH 99, THE 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES, to be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in August 1999, will include presentations, panels, workshops, an Electronic Schoolhouse, a Computer Animation Festival, an Art Gallery; The Digital Cafe, and much more. In order to stimulate creation of new forms of artistic expression specifically for a Web context, SIGGRAPH 99 will continue the ARTsite project for Web artwork. This site will be installed before SIGGRAPH 99 and shown during the conference. Artists are challenged to create new forms of artistic expression that integrate into and extend beyond the Web. SIGGRAPH 99 will also include interactive installations which use innovative strategies for engaging and interacting with the audience, and live telecommunication events for which artists are encouraged to create art projects that link people in various locations throughout the world with SIGGRAPH 99 attendees. These projects can use teleconferencing or Internet connections to collaboratively engage participants in the artistic process. For complete information, including registration information, visit http://www.siggraph.org/s99 =================================================== Creating Electronic Texts and Images Third Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick August 15 - 20, 1999: Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada <http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/> [deleted quotation] Announcing the Third Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada ************************************************************* Creating Electronic Texts and Images -- a practical "hands-on" exploration of the research, preservation and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. Dates: August 15 - 20, 1999 Instructor: David Seaman, University of Virginia Place: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Sponsored by the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries and the Department of Archives and Special Collections COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will centre around the creation of a set of electronic texts and digital images. Topics to be covered include: * SGML tagging and conversion * Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines * The basics of archival imaging * The form and implications of XML * Publishing SGML on the World Wide Web * EAD - Encoded Archival Descriptions The course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who are planning to develop electronic text and imaging projects, for scholars who are creating electronic texts as part of their teaching and research, and for publishers who are looking to move publications to the Web. Course participants will create an electronic version of a selection of Canadian literary letters from the University of New Brunswick's Archives and Special Collections. They will also encode the letters with TEI/SGML tagging, tag an EAD finding aid and explore issues in creating digital images. COURSE PREREQUISITES: This year's institute presupposes that participants have some experience with the Web and an elementary understanding of HTML. For those with no HTML experience, a half-day introduction to HTML may be held Saturday afternoon, August 14, provided there is sufficient interest. FACILITIES: The course will be held in the Instructional Technology Learning Centre (ITLC) in the Harriet Irving Library on the UNB campus. This state-of-the-art lab facility has a Windows 95 PC for each participant and a high end digital projection system. The facility is air conditioned. REGISTRATION FEES / HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Registration WILL BE LIMITED to 20. The tuition ($800 Canadian dollars) will include all course fees for the Institute, nutritional breaks, and lunches. Tuition does not include cost of accommodations. In addition, the week-long institute will include a number of special social events. An all-day Sunday excursion to historic St. Andrews on the Bay of Fundy will give participants an opportunity to meet and enjoy the town's Loyalist history, early 19th century architecture, gardens, and gift shops. Whale watching, kayaking and sightseeing tours to Ministers Island are all within easy reach. The day ends with a relaxing meal at the regal Algonquin Hotel overlooking Passamaquoddy Bay. An additional charge will apply to some of the institute's special events. Please check our webpage for details: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/ (note: upper and lower case matter when typing in the above URL) The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton is offering special room rates at: $79.00 + tax (Canadian) Single Room $89.00 + tax (Canadian) Double Room Course participants will be responsible for making their own reservations. Lord Beaverbrook Hotel: Tel. 506-455-3371 When booking rooms, please ask for block reserved under Harriet Irving Library to receive special rates. RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY JULY 23 TO ENSURE AVAILABILITY AND SPECIAL RATE. All blocked rooms will be released after this date. Information about other accommodations is available at the New Brunswick Tourism accommodation webpage: http://www.cybersmith.net/nbtour/ FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/ You may also obtain further information by contacting Karen Maguire (kmaguire@unb.ca or 506-453-4740). Information on prior institutes, including comments from participants, is available at: http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/other.htm ***************************************************** Registration Form Note: You can use our Web Registration Form located at: http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/register.html or fill out our email version: Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images August 15th to 20th, 1999 Name:________________________________ Organization/Title:____________________________________ In the space below, briefly outline your reasons for taking this course and describe projects which will utilize the skills you learned in this course. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone:_________________(Home)______________________(Business) Business address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ Home address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ FAX: ____________________ email:________________________ I am paying for: Registration fee $800 _____ Trip to St. Andrews $ 50 _____ (includes transportation & dinner) Method of payment (please circle one): 1. Cheque (made payable to: UNB Libraries) 2. Visa or Mastercard Card#: ___________________________________ Expiry date:_______________________________ 3. Purchase Order (please attach): Number:__________________________________ Signature:_________________________________ Payment is due in full by June 30, 1999. Refunds will not be honoured after July 15, 1999. PLEASE EMAIL COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM TO: Karen Maguire, Library Administrative Officer kmaguire@unb.ca or mail or fax to: Karen Maguire UNB Libraries, PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 PHONE: (506) 453-4740 FAX: (506) 453-4595 Confirmation of registration will be sent to you after processing. ****************** Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of Electronic Text Centre (www.unb.ca/etc) phone: 506-453-4740 fax: 506-453-4595 =================================================== Computers & The History of Art (CHArt) Conference 1999 Digital Environments: Design, Heritage and Architecture September 24-25 1999: University of Glasgow, Scotland <http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/chart/cfp99.html> Call for Papers: April 30 DEADLINE [deleted quotation] We are delighted to have our annual conference hosted this year by the University of Glasgow and are choosing a theme that is relevant to Glasgow's position as UK City of Architecture and Design for 1999. The conference is taking as its main theme, therefore, the impact of computers on the designing, study and preservation of the built environment. Papers will be welcomed that approach this theme either broadly or in detail. Amongst the areas we are keen to have covered are; -- conservation and reconstruction -- teaching and information projects -- research methodologies -- virtual archives -- the impact of new technology on design Please submit your title and a 300 word abstract of your paper to: Professor Will Vaughan, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, UK by 30 April 1999. Tel: +44 (0)171 631 6127 Fax: +44 (0)171 631 6107 Email: w.vaughan@bbk.ac.uk =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 15th 1999 CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS For more conferences & workshops see http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html SIGGRAPH 99: 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques August 10-12: Los Angeles http://www.siggraph.org/s99 CREATING ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES Third Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick August 15 - 20, 1999: Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada <http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/> Computers & The History of Art (CHArt) Conference 1999 Digital Environments: Design, Heritage and Architecture September 24-25 1999: University of Glasgow, Scotland http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/chart/cfp99.html Call for Papers: April 30 DEADLINE ================================================================================ SIGGRAPH 99: 26th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques August 10-12: Los Angeles http://www.siggraph.org/s99 SIGGRAPH 99, THE 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES, to be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in August 1999, will include presentations, panels, workshops, an Electronic Schoolhouse, a Computer Animation Festival, an Art Gallery; The Digital Cafe, and much more. In order to stimulate creation of new forms of artistic expression specifically for a Web context, SIGGRAPH 99 will continue the ARTsite project for Web artwork. This site will be installed before SIGGRAPH 99 and shown during the conference. Artists are challenged to create new forms of artistic expression that integrate into and extend beyond the Web. SIGGRAPH 99 will also include interactive installations which use innovative strategies for engaging and interacting with the audience, and live telecommunication events for which artists are encouraged to create art projects that link people in various locations throughout the world with SIGGRAPH 99 attendees. These projects can use teleconferencing or Internet connections to collaboratively engage participants in the artistic process. For complete information, including registration information, visit http://www.siggraph.org/s99 =================================================== Creating Electronic Texts and Images Third Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick August 15 - 20, 1999: Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada <http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/> [deleted quotation] Announcing the Third Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada ************************************************************* Creating Electronic Texts and Images -- a practical "hands-on" exploration of the research, preservation and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. Dates: August 15 - 20, 1999 Instructor: David Seaman, University of Virginia Place: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Sponsored by the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries and the Department of Archives and Special Collections COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will centre around the creation of a set of electronic texts and digital images. Topics to be covered include: * SGML tagging and conversion * Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines * The basics of archival imaging * The form and implications of XML * Publishing SGML on the World Wide Web * EAD - Encoded Archival Descriptions The course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who are planning to develop electronic text and imaging projects, for scholars who are creating electronic texts as part of their teaching and research, and for publishers who are looking to move publications to the Web. Course participants will create an electronic version of a selection of Canadian literary letters from the University of New Brunswick's Archives and Special Collections. They will also encode the letters with TEI/SGML tagging, tag an EAD finding aid and explore issues in creating digital images. COURSE PREREQUISITES: This year's institute presupposes that participants have some experience with the Web and an elementary understanding of HTML. For those with no HTML experience, a half-day introduction to HTML may be held Saturday afternoon, August 14, provided there is sufficient interest. FACILITIES: The course will be held in the Instructional Technology Learning Centre (ITLC) in the Harriet Irving Library on the UNB campus. This state-of-the-art lab facility has a Windows 95 PC for each participant and a high end digital projection system. The facility is air conditioned. REGISTRATION FEES / HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Registration WILL BE LIMITED to 20. The tuition ($800 Canadian dollars) will include all course fees for the Institute, nutritional breaks, and lunches. Tuition does not include cost of accommodations. In addition, the week-long institute will include a number of special social events. An all-day Sunday excursion to historic St. Andrews on the Bay of Fundy will give participants an opportunity to meet and enjoy the town's Loyalist history, early 19th century architecture, gardens, and gift shops. Whale watching, kayaking and sightseeing tours to Ministers Island are all within easy reach. The day ends with a relaxing meal at the regal Algonquin Hotel overlooking Passamaquoddy Bay. An additional charge will apply to some of the institute's special events. Please check our webpage for details: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/ (note: upper and lower case matter when typing in the above URL) The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton is offering special room rates at: $79.00 + tax (Canadian) Single Room $89.00 + tax (Canadian) Double Room Course participants will be responsible for making their own reservations. Lord Beaverbrook Hotel: Tel. 506-455-3371 When booking rooms, please ask for block reserved under Harriet Irving Library to receive special rates. RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY JULY 23 TO ENSURE AVAILABILITY AND SPECIAL RATE. All blocked rooms will be released after this date. Information about other accommodations is available at the New Brunswick Tourism accommodation webpage: http://www.cybersmith.net/nbtour/ FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/ You may also obtain further information by contacting Karen Maguire (kmaguire@unb.ca or 506-453-4740). Information on prior institutes, including comments from participants, is available at: http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/other.htm ***************************************************** Registration Form Note: You can use our Web Registration Form located at: http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/register.html or fill out our email version: Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images August 15th to 20th, 1999 Name:________________________________ Organization/Title:____________________________________ In the space below, briefly outline your reasons for taking this course and describe projects which will utilize the skills you learned in this course. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone:_________________(Home)______________________(Business) Business address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ Home address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ FAX: ____________________ email:________________________ I am paying for: Registration fee $800 _____ Trip to St. Andrews $ 50 _____ (includes transportation & dinner) Method of payment (please circle one): 1. Cheque (made payable to: UNB Libraries) 2. Visa or Mastercard Card#: ___________________________________ Expiry date:_______________________________ 3. Purchase Order (please attach): Number:__________________________________ Signature:_________________________________ Payment is due in full by June 30, 1999. Refunds will not be honoured after July 15, 1999. PLEASE EMAIL COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM TO: Karen Maguire, Library Administrative Officer kmaguire@unb.ca or mail or fax to: Karen Maguire UNB Libraries, PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 PHONE: (506) 453-4740 FAX: (506) 453-4595 Confirmation of registration will be sent to you after processing. ****************** Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of Electronic Text Centre (www.unb.ca/etc) phone: 506-453-4740 fax: 506-453-4595 =================================================== Computers & The History of Art (CHArt) Conference 1999 Digital Environments: Design, Heritage and Architecture September 24-25 1999: University of Glasgow, Scotland <http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/chart/cfp99.html> Call for Papers: April 30 DEADLINE [deleted quotation] We are delighted to have our annual conference hosted this year by the University of Glasgow and are choosing a theme that is relevant to Glasgow's position as UK City of Architecture and Design for 1999. The conference is taking as its main theme, therefore, the impact of computers on the designing, study and preservation of the built environment. Papers will be welcomed that approach this theme either broadly or in detail. Amongst the areas we are keen to have covered are; -- conservation and reconstruction -- teaching and information projects -- research methodologies -- virtual archives -- the impact of new technology on design Please submit your title and a 300 word abstract of your paper to: Professor Will Vaughan, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, UK by 30 April 1999. Tel: +44 (0)171 631 6127 Fax: +44 (0)171 631 6107 Email: w.vaughan@bbk.ac.uk =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Willard McCarty Subject: Digital Resources in the Humanities 1999 Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:08:26 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 928 (928) PLEASE POST / CIRCULATE ----------------------- Digital Resources in the Humanities 1999 King's College London 12-15 September 1999 Conference site: <http://drh.org.uk> Exhibitions site: <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/drh/> The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and international calendar as a forum that brings together scholars, librarians, archivists, curators, information scientists and computing professionals in a unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities. DEADLINE EXTENDED ----------------- Following a number of requests for extensions to the deadline for submissions to DRH99, the organisers have agreed to receive submissions of papers and panels up to 19 March 99. Proposals for academic papers, themed panel sessions, posters, demos and workshops are invited. Deadlines are: Papers and panels : 19 March 99 Posters and demos : 29 March 99 Workshops : 29 March 99. Full details and submission forms may be found at the URL given above. CALL FOR EXHIBITORS ------------------- Academic and commercial publishers and developers of digital resources for the arts and humanities are invited to exhibit at DRH'99 in the Great Hall at King's College London. For the four days of the conference, individual exhibition space will be provided in the Great Hall at King's College London, on the Strand. There exhibitors will have the opportunity to demonstrate their electronic resources and show relevant books to conference delegates. Sales of commercial products at the conference is encouraged. The plenary sessions of the conference and the refreshment breaks will also take place in the Great Hall, which will be the focal point for the conference. The general conference sessions will take place in rooms adjacent to the Great Hall. Exhibitors will be encouraged to submit information on their activities, products and resources. Descriptions of electronic resources and related products on exhibit will be published in a separate section of the conference Proceedings, on paper and in electronic form, to provide a valuable source for delegates. FEES Commercial exhibitors will be charged £150 for space and one representative, £50 for each additional person, exclusive of the conference fee, which covers attendance of sessions). Discounts are available for exhibitors attending the conference sessions. Academic and other non-commercial exhibitors will be charged a single fee of £20 per half-day, exclusive of the conference fee. A free exhibition space with a computer will also be scheduled in one-hour increments for any conference attendee to demonstrate his or her software. CONTACT Interested individuals and companies should contact Dr. W. McCarty Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Strand London WC2R 2LS voice +44 (0)171 873-2784 fax +44 (0)171 873 2980 willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk ---------- 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/ maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: George Aichele Subject: Re: 12.0488 Magellan-like software Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:55:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 929 (929) [deleted quotation]able [deleted quotation] I'm not all that familiar with Magellan, but DTSearch does much and maybe all of this (haven't tried it on zip files). A shareware version is available at www.dtsearch.com. I'm just a satisfied customer. George Aichele gaichele@adrian.adrian.edu http://members.tripod.com/~gaichele voice: 517-265-4401 fax: 517-265-7414 From: Ed HAUPT Subject: Re: 12.0488 Magellan-like software Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:55:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 930 (930) grep (unix) and its dos equivalents should do the job. There may even be a windows equivalent. Ed Haupt Edward J. Haupt, Ph.D. Voice: (001)973.655.4327 Associate Professor of Psychology Fax: (001)973.655.5121 Department of Psychology email: haupt@email.njin.net Montclair State University Upper Montclair NJ USA 07043-1624 home page http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/haupt/haupthp.html Museum of the History of Psychological Experimentation http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/museum.html Membership Chair, History of Psychology (Division 26) Information and Membership Form at: http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/orgs/apa26/memform.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Seminar at King's London Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:05:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 931 (931) PLEASE CIRCULATE / POST ----------------------- Seminar in Humanities Computing Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London Corpora in the teaching of Linguistics Elisabeth Burr Universität Duisburg 19 March 1999 1 p.m. Room 3B19, Strand Traditional seminars in linguistics very often revolve around discussions of linguistic theory. Thus, they mainly concentrate on the abstract system or the norm as described in grammars. Natural oral or written speech is mostly presented in form of isolated examples or chunks of text. Research methodologies and least of all computer based ones are not taught in this framework. Students who undertake empirical research are still expected to extract data manually from printed or transcribed text. That computer based research methodologies do not play a role leads to a regrettable waste of effort particularly when the students carry out the transcription of interviews, television shows or films they have recorded themselves. In this Seminar, I shall present an ongoing project involving the integration of the teaching of linguistic theory with empirical research into natural language use, applying computer aided research methodologies. My example will be a linguistic seminar on "Tense, Aspect and Mode in the Romance Languages" given to students in their 3rd and 4th year. In this course theoretical systems and descriptions of the norm were to be compared to the actual usage found in on-line parts of the corpus of Romance newspaper languages I have been building over the years. Apart from presenting the steps my students had to take and some of the results they have obtained, I will also discuss the problems involved and future perspectives. ----- Drin. phil. habil. Elisabeth Burr is Senior Lecturer in Romanistik at the Universität Duisburg; for the winter semester 1998-99 she is at Universität Siegen covering a vacant professorship in Romance linguistics. Her research areas are grammars of Romance languages (French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish), feminist linguistics, phraseology of Romance languages and varieties of Italian. Her most recent book is her Habilschrift, Wiederholte Rede und idiomatische Kompetenz. Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch (Gerhard-Mercator-Universität GH Duisburg); she is currently working on a corpus of Romance newspaper languages (Italian, French, Spanish). ---------- 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/ maui gratia From: Alan Burk Subject: Summer Institute - Creating Electronic Texts and Images Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:05:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 932 (932) Announcing the Third Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada ************************************************************* Creating Electronic Texts and Images -- a practical "hands-on" exploration of the research, preservation and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. Dates: August 15 - 20, 1999 Instructor: David Seaman, University of Virginia Place: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada Sponsored by the Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries and the Department of Archives and Special Collections COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will centre around the creation of a set of electronic texts and digital images. Topics to be covered include: * SGML tagging and conversion * Using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines * The basics of archival imaging * The form and implications of XML * Publishing SGML on the World Wide Web * EAD - Encoded Archival Descriptions The course is designed primarily for librarians and archivists who are planning to develop electronic text and imaging projects, for scholars who are creating electronic texts as part of their teaching and research, and for publishers who are looking to move publications to the Web. Course participants will create an electronic version of a selection of Canadian literary letters from the University of New Brunswick's Archives and Special Collections. They will also encode the letters with TEI/SGML tagging, tag an EAD finding aid and explore issues in creating digital images. COURSE PREREQUISITES: This year's institute presupposes that participants have some experience with the Web and an elementary understanding of HTML. For those with no HTML experience, a half-day introduction to HTML may be held Saturday afternoon, August 14, provided there is sufficient interest. FACILITIES: The course will be held in the Instructional Technology Learning Centre (ITLC) in the Harriet Irving Library on the UNB campus. This state-of-the-art lab facility has a Windows 95 PC for each participant and a high end digital projection system. The facility is air conditioned. REGISTRATION FEES / HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Registration WILL BE LIMITED to 20. The tuition ($800 Canadian dollars) will include all course fees for the Institute, nutritional breaks, and lunches. Tuition does not include cost of accommodations. In addition, the week-long institute will include a number of special social events. An all-day Sunday excursion to historic St. Andrews on the Bay of Fundy will give participants an opportunity to meet and enjoy the town's Loyalist history, early 19th century architecture, gardens, and gift shops. Whale watching, kayaking and sightseeing tours to Ministers Island are all within easy reach. The day ends with a relaxing meal at the regal Algonquin Hotel overlooking Passamaquoddy Bay. An additional charge will apply to some of the institute's special events. Please check our webpage for details: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/ (note: upper and lower case matter when typing in the above URL) The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton is offering special room rates at: $79.00 + tax (Canadian) Single Room $89.00 + tax (Canadian) Double Room Course participants will be responsible for making their own reservations. Lord Beaverbrook Hotel: Tel. 506-455-3371 When booking rooms, please ask for block reserved under Harriet Irving Library to receive special rates. RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE BY JULY 23 TO ENSURE AVAILABILITY AND SPECIAL RATE. All blocked rooms will be released after this date. Information about other accommodations is available at the New Brunswick Tourism accommodation webpage: http://www.cybersmith.net/nbtour/ FURTHER INFORMATION: http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/ You may also obtain further information by contacting Karen Maguire (kmaguire@unb.ca or 506-453-4740). Information on prior institutes, including comments from participants, is available at: http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/other.htm ***************************************************** Registration Form Note: You can use our Web Registration Form located at: http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug99/register.html or fill out our email version: Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images August 15th to 20th, 1999 Name:________________________________ Organization/Title:____________________________________ In the space below, briefly outline your reasons for taking this course and describe projects which will utilize the skills you learned in this course. ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ Phone:_________________(Home)______________________(Business) Business address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ Home address:_______________________________________ _______________________________________ FAX: ____________________ email:________________________ I am paying for: Registration fee $800 _____ Trip to St. Andrews $ 50 _____ (includes transportation & dinner) Method of payment (please circle one): 1. Cheque (made payable to: UNB Libraries) 2. Visa or Mastercard Card#: ___________________________________ Expiry date:_______________________________ 3. Purchase Order (please attach): Number:__________________________________ Signature:_________________________________ Payment is due in full by June 30, 1999. Refunds will not be honoured after July 15, 1999. PLEASE EMAIL COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM TO: Karen Maguire, Library Administrative Officer kmaguire@unb.ca or mail or fax to: Karen Maguire UNB Libraries, PO Box 7500 Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5 PHONE: (506) 453-4740 FAX: (506) 453-4595 Confirmation of registration will be sent to you after processing. ****************** Alan Burk, Associate Director of Libraries and Director of Electronic Text Centre (www.unb.ca/etc) phone: 506-453-4740 fax: 506-453-4595 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Peter Stahl Subject: Re: Scanning Fraktur Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:54:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 933 (933) Dear Humanists, [deleted quotation] I agree fully to this remark. But I think, you have to go even further. If you do need a high quality text which is error free, the only way to get it is to have it typed independently by two persons. After they have finished their jobs you compare the two texts with each other and thus extract the errors. With this list of differences gained from the first text you can then automatically correct the second one. By doing so you get an error free text without any manual interference. Problems only come up, to be honest, when the two typists have made exactly the same misspelling, because there you don't find any difference, the probability of which is so marginal that you can live with it. Peter Stahl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Blake Archive's March Update Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:02:02 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 934 (934) 9 March 1999 The editors of the William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/> are pleased to announce the publication of three new electronic editions of Blake's most popular work, _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_. They are of copies C, F, and L -- none has been reproduced before now. _Songs_ copy C is one of the first copies of the combined _Songs_. Along with copies B, D, and E, it was formed in 1794 of _Innocence_ plates printed in raw sienna on both sides of the leaf in 1789 and _Experience_ plates lightly color printed in yellow ochre in the same format in 1794. By this time, Blake had decided to move plates 34-36 ("The Little Girl Lost" and "The Little Girl Found") to _Experience_, but since plate 34 was printed on the verso of the leaf with plate 26 ("A Dream"), plate 26 is read in this copy, as well as in copies B and D, as an _Experience_ poem. And, like copies B and D, copy C is missing plate 52 ("To Tirzah") but has the small vignette known as plate a (five cherubs carrying a naked figure), one of Blake's earliest relief etchings used here as a tailpiece. Copy C is in the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. Bibliographically, copy F is even more interesting. It, too, consists of two sections printed differently and at different times. Its _Innocence_ plates were printed in green ink on both sides of the leaf in 1789, probably before the raw sienna printing. Its _Experience_ plates were heavily color printed on one side of the leaf in 1794, before those in copy C, possibly while _Experience_ was still in progress. The impressions of _Experience_ were printed with those now in _Songs_ copies G, H, and T, which are all missing plates 39, 44, 45, and 48. Together, these four plates form one sheet of copper. The fact that all four plates are missing from all four copies suggests that the plates were not yet part of _Experience_ at the time of this printing. These four color-printed copies of _Experience_ appear to have been intended as autonomous publications. At any rate, there are no extant sets of _Innocence_ impressions printed in this style, copies G and H remain without _Innocence_, and copies F and T were assembled by someone other than Blake. _Songs_ copy L, like copy F, is in the Yale Center for British Art. Unlike copies C and F, though, its two parts were printed together in a uniform style, dark brown ink on one side of the leaf, ca. 1795. It has all 54 plates, including plate 52, that make up the combined _Songs_ and is numbered by Blake 1-54. All of these editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and all are fully searchable for both text and images and supported by the unique Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. We now have twenty-nine copies of sixteen illuminated books in the Archive. We will soon be adding two more copies of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ and an in-depth illustrated Tour highlighting the Archive's features and some ways to use its resources. We will continue to add new electronic editions of illuminated books throughout the spring and summer. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, Editors Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager The William Blake Archive From: Willard McCarty Subject: Zeitschrift für Computerphilologie Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:06:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 935 (935) Humanists able to read German will be interested in the Computerphilologie site, online at <http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/>, and perhaps especially the Zeitschrift für Computerphilologie, "ein Forum für die Diskussion der vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, den Computer in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Arbeit einzusetzen: z.B. für die computergestützte Inhaltsanalyse und Stiluntersuchung, für computerunterstützte und elektronische Editionen, für digitale Fachinformationen, Hypertexterstellung und -analyse u.a.m.", at <http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/ejournal.html>. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ELEANOR FINK: "The Getty Information Institute: A Retrospective." Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:08:04 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 936 (936) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 15 1999 ELEANOR FINK: "The Getty Information Institute: A Retrospective." Article in March 1999 Issue of D-Lib Magazine <http://www.dlib.org/> In this month's issue of D-LIB Magazine, Eleanor Fink, until recently the director of the Getty Information Institute (GII), writes a farewell retrospective on the Institute, which is being closed by the new leadership of the Getty Trust this June, as part of a new strategic plan for the entire organization. The Getty Information Institute was one of the three co-founders of NINCH, together with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Coalition for Networked Information. In the future, NINCH will work in more integrated ways with the Getty Trust as a whole. But in this interim period, we should like to pay tribute to all of those who have worked for, and collaborated with, the GII and trust that its genius will continue in new guises within the Getty Trust. David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 15 1999 ELEANOR FINK: "The Getty Information Institute: A Retrospective." Article in March 1999 Issue of D-Lib Magazine <http://www.dlib.org/> In this month's issue of D-LIB Magazine, Eleanor Fink, until recently the director of the Getty Information Institute (GII), writes a farewell retrospective on the Institute, which is being closed by the new leadership of the Getty Trust this June, as part of a new strategic plan for the entire organization. The Getty Information Institute was one of the three co-founders of NINCH, together with the American Council of Learned Societies and the Coalition for Networked Information. In the future, NINCH will work in more integrated ways with the Getty Trust as a whole. But in this interim period, we should like to pay tribute to all of those who have worked for, and collaborated with, the GII and trust that its genius will continue in new guises within the Getty Trust. David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: David Green Subject: Online courses in humanities, arts, foreign languages in Europe? Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:07:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 937 (937) [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org> david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== Subscribe to the NINCH-ANNOUNCE public listserv for news on networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce Your Name" to . ============================================================== From: W Schipper Subject: Finding a poem Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:07:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 938 (938) The brother-in-law of a friend asks the following question: [deleted quotation] I know how to find poems when I know the first line. And I suppose if we had the Chadwyck-Healey Poetry Database I might be able to search for some of the words or phrases, but we don't. Any help would be appreciated. bill -- Dr. W. Schipper Email: schipper@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Department of English, Tel: 709-737-4406 Memorial University Fax: 709-737-4528 St John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7 From: Jim Marchand Subject: Eliza Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:07:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 939 (939) What has happened to Eliza? If you remember, it was a great program written by Josef Weizenbaum way back when we had no memory. As a kind of Rogerian psychologist, it used your questions to reflect answers back to you. I used it for a number of purposes back when I was teaching and wrote programs such as Freud, The Bavarian Inkeeper, The Wimpy Psychologist, which were fun, if not always good. I also used it in teaching people to program and to switch programming languages. It was great! We still have some of the sessions with good answers: "Du bist nur eine dumme Maschine" (You're just a stupid machine!). Ans. -- "Aber, Herbert, wieso behaupten Sie, ich waere nur eine dumme Maschine" (But, Herbert, what makes you say that I am [note here the German subjunctive in the machine's contrived answer] just a stupid machine?). Some of the push-downs are great also. Anyway, one hears that a psychologist out in California is still using the program, but I haven't seen it mentioned in years. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong things. Does anybody know anything about the present state of Eliza? Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Dartmouth Dante Project Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:36:18 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 940 (940) [deleted quotation] As of today, 12 March 1999, the Dartmouth Dante Project has installed the new version of its database. The change will be transparent to users, who will be able to continue to consult the DDP just as they have since it opened in October 1988. Access will continue to be gratis. The changes are as follows: (1) There are now some 14 newly-included commentaries, bringing the total to 59; (2) a number of typos have been cleaned up; (3) stop-word lists have been greatly curtailed, thus allowing searches on previously disallowed words. In collaboration with others, we are working on a WWW interface. Until this is perfected, the DDP is still best accessed via Telnet. The address remains: library.Dartmouth.EDU (at the prompt type: connect dante) All of us who have worked to make this project a reality are pleased to see it move to a higher stage of usefulness. Robert Hollander, Director, DDP From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Carnegie Corporation Announces New Guidelines Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:36:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 941 (941) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 17 1999 Carnegie Corp. Announces a Revival of Its Vigorous Support for Higher Education <http://www.philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v11/i10/10000101.htm> <http://www.carnegie.org/> Last week both the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported on the new program recently announced by the Carnegie Corporation, which includes as a strong component building liberal-arts curricula that integrate science and technology with the humanities and social sciences. Although the primary higher-education focus will be on teacher preparation, Gregorian's "No. 1 national issue," Carnegie's work in the liberal arts will focus on breaking down barriers between the humanities and sciences. For an article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, see: <http://www.philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v11/i10/10000101.htm> For the Carnegie Corporation's home page, see <http://www.carnegie.org/> For Carnegie Program Guidelines, see <http://www.carnegie.org/guidelines.htm>, Note: there are no deadlines; applications are considered on a year-round basis; response is within four months of application. David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 17 1999 Carnegie Corp. Announces a Revival of Its Vigorous Support for Higher Education <http://www.philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v11/i10/10000101.htm> <http://www.carnegie.org/> Last week both the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported on the new program recently announced by the Carnegie Corporation, which includes as a strong component building liberal-arts curricula that integrate science and technology with the humanities and social sciences. Although the primary higher-education focus will be on teacher preparation, Gregorian's "No. 1 national issue," Carnegie's work in the liberal arts will focus on breaking down barriers between the humanities and sciences. For an article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, see: <http://www.philanthropy.com/premium/articles/v11/i10/10000101.htm> For the Carnegie Corporation's home page, see <http://www.carnegie.org/> For Carnegie Program Guidelines, see <http://www.carnegie.org/guidelines.htm>, Note: there are no deadlines; applications are considered on a year-round basis; response is within four months of application. David Green =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Sarah Porter Subject: Development Team seminar Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:29:48 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 942 (942) Humanities Computing Development Team Seminar Friday 26 March 1999 Lecture Room C, OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford. 2.00 - 5.00 pm The Humanities Computing Development Team (HCDT) has been in operation for almost six months from within Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit. The HCDT has the remit of working with Humanities academics and staff within the University to develop IT-based teaching and research projects. Four projects have been developed to date and this seminar will give us the opportunity to demonstrate the work which we have done so far, and to invite comments and questions. The short programme will take place as follows: 2.00 The HCDT: where did it come from, and what is it for? Sarah Porter 2.15 The Ridgeway Database project, Peter Karas 2.45 The Fontes Anglo-Saxonici web database, Paul Groves 3.15 The Chinese Institute online learning project, Peter Karas 3.45 The Theology faculty digital library project, Paul Groves 4.15 Plans for the future and discussion All are welcome to attend - there is no need to book. More information about the HCDT is available from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/hcdt/ or contact Sarah Porter (sarah.porter@oucs.ox.ac.uk, tel. 01865 273226) for further details. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-MACHINE CONVERSATION Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:30:34 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 943 (943) [deleted quotation] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Apologies if you receive this from more than one source THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy 12-14 July, 1999 The URL was given in an outdated form last time: it is: www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio99/ The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that were not being published or discussed. The Workshops were highly successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis. The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998. The emphasis this year will take note of the CE Fifth Framework calls announced under Human Language Technology and in particular the emphasis on interactivity. We also plan to emphasise (in invited talks) the issue of politeness and whether it is crucial or dispensible to conversation, as well as recent results on statistical/empirical work on dialogue corpora, and on deriving marked up dialogue corpora. All details, including previous program, program committee, accomodation and travel, details of registration (a form is attached below for the convenience of some) are on the web site. Hotels are in great demand at that time of year and intending participants should book soon. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Logic Colloquium '99 (Call for Papers/Registration) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:32:32 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 944 (944) [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------- / LOGIC COLLOQUIUM '99 / / / / August 1-6, 1999 / / / / University of Utrecht, NL / / / / CALL FOR PAPERS, CALL FOR REGISTRATION / --------------------------------------------------------- European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 1-6, 1999 [material deleted] The scientific program consists of tutorials, invited plenary lectures, special sessions, and contributed talks. The colloquium is organized by the University of Utrecht, in collaboration with the Centre of Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) and the Dutch Research School in Logic (OzsL). [material deleted] CONTACT ADDRESS (for regular mail submissions and local arrangements): Logic Colloquium '99, attention of ms. Simone Panka CWI, P.O. Box 94079 1090 GB Amsterdam NL. telephone: +31-20-5924009 email: simone@cwi.nl http://www.cwi.nl/lc99/ [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final Call: Conference on Consciousness and Cognition Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:34:55 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 945 (945) [deleted quotation] [material deleted] "Mind-IV: TWO SCIENCES OF MIND" Dublin City University Monday 16th - Thursday 19th August, 1999 http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/mind4.html [material deleted] [material deleted] Mind-4 is the official annuual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland. The other CSSI conference is; -------------------------------------------------------------- ! ! ! "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC" ! ! ! ! The Eighth International Workshop on the ! ! Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8) ! ! ! ! National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) ! ! GALWAY, IRELAND ! ! ! ! Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th August, 1999 ! ! ! ! (http://www.it.ucg.it/csnlp8/) ! ! ! -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Campbell Professor, Psychology Brackett Hall 410A Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-1511 USA phone (864) 656-4986 fax (864) 656-0358 http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html Editor, Dialogues in Psychology http://hubcap.clemson.edu/psych/Dialogues/dialogues.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MT Summit 99 - theme session suggestion Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:36:05 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 946 (946) [deleted quotation] Dear colleagues in the field of translation technologies: As you are aware, the deadline for paper submissions to Machine Translation (MT) Summit 1999 is soon approaching. The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) would like to see if a theme session on language resources=20 could be organized at the conference if enough papers on the topic are submitted. We would highly encourage you to consider proposing a paper on the theme of language resources/databases/corpora that are used in MT and other translation systems/applications. [material deleted] Additional information about the MT Summit 99 can be found at: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/news.html September 13 - 17, 1999 MT Summit '99: The 7th Machine Translation Summit=20 Singapore, Singapore ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: C M Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 12.0499 ... Eliza? Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:27:50 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 947 (947) On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:13:34 +0000 (BST), in Humanist 12.0499, Jim Marchand asked: [deleted quotation] Strictly speaking, Eliza was a general script-driven pattern-matching and reply-generating program; the Rogerian analyst was provided by the Doctor script. Since it was the funniest and made the most plausible use of Eliza's radical lack of real-world knowledge -- and also because it was the only script included in the original publication, perhaps -- the Doctor script is the only thing Eliza was ever known for. [deleted quotation] Weizenbaum's Eliza was never, as far as I know, a supported product, so it's present state is presumably the same as ever: a clever program described in a journal article (the article I know was in Communications of the ACM, but there may have been others). Undergraduates are sometimes given the task of reimplementing Eliza (in general, or with a hard-coded script), and there are lots of versions around. In that sense, Eliza will surely never die while computers are used with text interfaces. Perhaps the most ubiquitous version of Eliza now available is the 'doctor' program shipped as part of GNU emacs (M-x-doctor, for those of you who have not tried it). This may be used alone, but (emacs being what it is) can also be hooked up to take its input not from the user, but from a database of quotations from Zippy the Pinhead (M-x-psychoanalyze-pinhead, a short sample of which is appended). If anyone has been wondering whether to learn vi or emacs, the existence of psychoanalyze-pinhead in the emacs distribution should definitely tip the balance. One way or the other. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago ----- A few lines of output from psychoanalyze-pinhead ----- I am the psychotherapist. For your protection, I have been censored according to the Communications Decency Act. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. I'm into SOFTWARE! Why do you say you are into software? I'm GLAD I remembered to XEROX all my UNDERSHIRTS!! What makes you believe that? Everybody is going somewhere!! It's probably a garage sale or a disaster Movie!! Maybe your plans have something to do with this. Now I'm having INSIPID THOUGHTS about the beautiful, round wives of HOLLYWOOD MOVIE MOGULS encased in PLEXIGLAS CARS and being approached by SMALL BOYS selling FRUIT.. Is it because of your life that you say and being approached by small boys selling fruit? My EARS are GONE!! Are you sure that your ears are gone? While my BRAINPAN is being refused service in BURGER KING, Jesuit priests are DATING CAREER DIPLOMATS!! Is it because of the people you hang around with that you are going through all this? .... etc., etc., etc. From: Mark Horney Subject: Re: 12.0499 online courses? poem? Eliza? Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:28:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 948 (948) I don't know what's happend to the original Eliza, assuming Weizenbaum didn't burn all the copies, given how upset he was about its reception in some circles of psychologgy (see his book "Computer Power and Human Reason"). But I do have an interesting example of how the game/microcomputer version was used to teach Hamlet. The is (was?) an English professor here at the University of Oregon, William Strange, who wrote an article titled "Hamlet on the Macintosh" (the full citation of which escapes me just a the moment) where he proposed the following activity. Strange felt his Shakespeare 101 students weren't really grappling with Hamlet adequately. To engage them he described the Key Word and Response algorithm Eliza relies upon and then ask students to identify words and responses that would be appropriate for various characters. To do this of course students must study the play carefully, which was the point of the exersize. Strange also contemplated creating "Macbeth as an adventure game." --Mark Horney Mark Horney, Ph.D. Center for Electronic Studying 5265 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403 mhorney@oregon.uoregon.edu (o) 541/346-2679 FAX 541/346-2565 From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: Emacs Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:28:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 949 (949) Jim Marchand asks about Joseph Weizenbaum's Eliza program. I don't know about the original code, but there have been several other implementations of the same approach, which is not actually very complicated: in some computer languages the program is only a few pages long. One version that is currently available is in the GNU Emacs text editor (for which see <http://www.gnu.org/>). Even today GNU Emacs is, I believe, the only text editor that can do psychotherapy, or convert dates from the Gregorian to the Mayan calendar, or any of a number of essential features that still haven't made it into Word or WordPerfect. John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London From: "A. Jenn Sondheim" Subject: Re: 12.0499 online courses? poem? Eliza? Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:28:58 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 950 (950) Hey, you can find Eliza as part of the emacs editing program, for linux or Unix; I use it all the time for crating texts. Just enter doctor after the meta key and there it is. I've noticed some minor differences among the various flavors of Eliza, but they all do the same sort of parsing. Alan Sondheim (unix, linux, win95) URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html MIRROR with other pages at: http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for EDSITEment Nominations Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:40:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 951 (951) [deleted quotation] March 11, 1999 Dear Fellow Humanities Web Site User: I hope you are among the thousands of teachers, students, and lifelong learners who have found that EDSITEment is an excellent gateway to the best humanities-related educational content on the Internet. Launched in 1997, EDSITEment was created and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, MCI WorldCom, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the National Trust for the Humanities. As you may know, we depend on your nominations to begin the process of identifying those sites that have rich content to support substantive study in the humanities. Out of the more than 500 sites that you have nominated in the past two years, scholars and educators serving on merit review panels have selected 49 sites to be included in EDSITEment. Once the sites have been chosen, EDSITEment adds the use of a powerful search engine, as well as cross-disciplinary lesson plans for classroom use. By many measures-hits, user sessions, and most important, teachers' enthusiastic comments in the "Talk to Us" Forum-EDSITEment has been a great success. We now once again ask your help in identifying additional web sites that will expand EDSITEment's reach with new humanities materials that are suitable for classroom learning. We are not interested at this juncture in comprehensive bibliographical web sites that offer numerous linkages to a variety of other related sites.Rather we are seeking sites that are content-rich and designed to engage students in a significant body of knowledge. With your help, we plan to add twenty-five sites this year. As you survey sites that you find most useful, we ask that you consider the following questions: Intellectual Quality: Does the site provide rich and multilayered humanities content? Does it provide students access to authentic, significant materials with precise references? Is the information accurate, balanced, and updated frequently? Is this site unique, or is the material more easily available elsewhere? Web Site Design: Is the site user-friendly and attractive graphically? Is it easy to access information at different parts of the site? Does the site provide for more than a one-dimensional exposition, allowing students to experience a continuum of working with the materials that lead to greater sophistication and creativity? Does the site allow for an active, constructive relationship to the material? If teacher guides or exercises are available, do they tap the resources of the site deeply? (Note: such resources are not a requirement.) Does the site require additional hardware or software? Are links to other related sites easily accessible? Does the site have special features to attract and engage users? Web Site Impact: Can this site serve multiple audiences or is it highly specialized? Are you aware of any particular uses it would have in the curriculum of a school or college? Does the content relate to education standards developed by your state? If you use this site in your teaching, for which courses and what kinds of assignments or student projects is it most useful? Does the site engage students and encourage them to develop active interest and mastery of the subject area? Is this the best or one of the best sites that you know of in this subject area? Our deadline for nominations is April 1. To nominate a site, or to contact us, use the "Talk to Us" function on EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov), or send an e-mail message to edsitement@neh.gov. You need only to send the URL and any comments that would be helpful. We are grateful for your help and will send you the results of our survey within the next few months. Sincerely, William R. Ferris Chairman National Endowment for the Humanities From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: STANDARDS: Feedback requested on Universal Preservation Format Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:27:08 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 952 (952) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 16 1999 UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION FORMAT SEEKS FEEDBACK http://info.wgbh.org/upf/index.html An important new standard in the preservation of digital media is nearing the completion of its first iteration. Those for whom this could be an important component of their work are urged to download and comment on the papers referred to, notably the "User and Technical Requirements." David Green =========== -------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] The first phase of the Universal Preservation Format project, which is sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded by a grant (97-029) from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives, comes to a close at the end of March. I urge you to download the pdf files of the recently revised User and Technical Requirements, as well as our separate HTML bibliography. You can find these papers at http://info.wgbh.org/upf/index.html Thom Shepard thom_shepard@wgbh.org -------------------------------------- [deleted quotation]What I did not make clear in my last message is that we are still looking for feedback to the User and Technical Requirements. We will continue to evaluate these comments and incorporate them into final changes to these documents, as well as our project's final report to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Thom Shepard -------------------------------------- =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 16 1999 UNIVERSAL PRESERVATION FORMAT SEEKS FEEDBACK http://info.wgbh.org/upf/index.html An important new standard in the preservation of digital media is nearing the completion of its first iteration. Those for whom this could be an important component of their work are urged to download and comment on the papers referred to, notably the "User and Technical Requirements." David Green =========== -------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] The first phase of the Universal Preservation Format project, which is sponsored by the WGBH Educational Foundation and funded by a grant (97-029) from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission of the National Archives, comes to a close at the end of March. I urge you to download the pdf files of the recently revised User and Technical Requirements, as well as our separate HTML bibliography. You can find these papers at http://info.wgbh.org/upf/index.html Thom Shepard thom_shepard@wgbh.org -------------------------------------- [deleted quotation] What I did not make clear in my last message is that we are still looking for feedback to the User and Technical Requirements. We will continue to evaluate these comments and incorporate them into final changes to these documents, as well as our project's final report to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Thom Shepard -------------------------------------- =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford Scoping Study: Questionnaires Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:27:19 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 953 (953) [deleted quotation] Dear All, To announce the latest addition to the web site for Oxford's Mellon-funded study of the University's digitization collections. I have now mounted a page detailing progress to date, and the questionnaires used in the interviews currently underway. See: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/quest.html Or: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/ for the home page. Stuart Lee *************************************************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee | Current Project: 'Scoping The Future of Clarendon Building | Oxford's Digital Collections' Broad Street | Oxford OX1 3BG | Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Tel: +44 1865 277230 | Fax: +44 1865 273275 | Chair, University's Datasets Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/ http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Opposition to Coble's Revised Database Bill Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:57:16 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 954 (954) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 19 1999 NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON COBLE'S RE-INTRODUCED DATABASE BILL <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/cyber/articles/19data.html> Below is an extract from the Benton Foundation's "Communications-related Headlines" for today. It cites today's New York Times' article on Rep Howard Coble's introduction of a revised database bill (H.354). The Coalition referred to in the Benton story is the Digital Future Coalition. Note that the Clinton Administration is also opposed to the breadth of this proposed bill. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 19 1999 NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ON COBLE'S RE-INTRODUCED DATABASE BILL <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/cyber/articles/19data.html> Below is an extract from the Benton Foundation's "Communications-related Headlines" for today. It cites today's New York Times' article on Rep Howard Coble's introduction of a revised database bill (H.354). The Coalition referred to in the Benton story is the Digital Future Coalition. Note that the Clinton Administration is also opposed to the breadth of this proposed bill. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]and >trade associations signed a paper given to the committee that said the proposal [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: C M Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 12.0502 Eliza & other essential features of an editor Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:55:07 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 955 (955) On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:39:00 +0000 (BST), Humanist 12.0502 had a number of postings about Eliza; the same morning, the Circuits section of the New York Times had a feature article by David Pescovitz about 'chatterbots', which are perhaps the best answer to Jim Marchand's original question. What happened to Eliza? She's been re-implemented as a bot. The article has a few nuggets of misinformation (it fails, for example, to distinguish Eliza from the Doctor script) but it has a lot of information that none of us who posted answers to Jim Marchand's question managed to come up with. (On the other hand, for some inexplicable reason the NY Times does not mention emacs or the program psychoanalyze-pinhead.) The article lists a number of URLs which will be of interest to those readers of Humanist who have not already deleted this message; I append the list with comments from the Times (quoted) or me (non-quoted). First, some sites with chatterbots; most also have links to general information on the topic: * http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice/ "Richard S. Wallace's chatterbot has the evasive style of a politician." * http://www.neuromedia.com/ "Corporate chatterbot answers questions about Neuromedia's chatterbot software" * http://www.fringeware.com/bot/barry.html "Fringeware's Barry De Facto customer service chatterbot and this year's Turing test title holder." (Features a screen illegible on my black/white monitor.) * http://www.fuzine.com/mlm/julia.html "Perhaps the most widely used chatterbot, Julia lives all over the Internet in text-based chat rooms." * http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/start.html "answers questions about [MIT]'s [AI] Laboratory and world geography." * http://www.toptown.com/hp/sjlaven/ "A chatterbot fan page with news, reviews, and a link to Eliza, a chatterbot that simulates a psychoanalyst's conversation with a patient." (sic) Then, some sites with general information: * http://www.botspot.com/ (bot designs and application areas) * http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice/forbin.html (conversations among bots) * http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html (a quixotic attempt to encourage AI research and development by holding an annual Turing test) -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago From: Ari Kambouris Subject: Re: 12.0502 Eliza & other essential features of an editor Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:55:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 956 (956) On a general note about chatterbots, the New York Times features an article in today's Circuits section with links: http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/circuits/articles/18bots.html The article cites the following bots and pages: ALICE NEXIS: http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice Richard S. Wallace's chatterbot has the evasive style of a politician. NEUROMEDIA: http://www.neuromedia.com Corporate chatterbot answers questions about Neuromedia's chatterbot software. BARRY: http://www.fringeware.com/bot/barry.html Fringeware's Barry De Facto customer service chatterbot and this year's Turing test titleholder. JULIA'S HOME PAGE: http://www.fuzine.com/mlm/julia.html Perhaps the most widely used chatterbot, Julia lives all over the Internet in text-based chat rooms. START: http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/start.html Massachusetts Institute of Technology chatterbot answers questions about the university's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and world geography. THE SIMON LAVEN PAGE: http://www.toptown.com/hp/sjlaven A chatterbot fan page with news, reviews and a link to Eliza, a chatterbot that simulates a psychoanalyst's conversation with a patient. BOTSPOT: http://www.botspot.com A comprehensive guide to all types of bot designs and applications. THE FORBIN PROJECT: http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice/forbin.html This site documents conversations between chatterbots. Its name is taken from a 1969 film in which a Russian supercomputer and an American one plot to take over the world. HOME PAGE OF THE LOEBNER PRIZE: http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html Past winners, sample dialogues and entry information from the annual Turing test. Best, Ari _________________________________________ Ari Kambouris Metaphor Group, Inc. Information Architecture and Project Management tel. 212.740.6306 pager 917.243.1548 e-mail ] ICQ. 22359448 From: Jim Marchand Subject: Eliza Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:55:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 957 (957) The original article is: Joseph Weizenbaum, "ELIZA -- A Computer Program for the Study of Natural Language Communications between Man and Machine," Communications of the ACM (Jan. 1966). He had already thought of the Rogerian connection; see A. T. Weil, "Conversations with a Mechanical Psychiatrist," Harvard Review (1965), 68-74. For a commercial product, see BYTE, October 84, 498: "Psyche is a modern software counseler who will hold a delightfully real keyboard conversation with you ..." Cf. also p. 519. Also reviewed in PCMagazine Jan 83, 333 ff. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Sarah Porter Subject: Beyond Art? Colloquium, Oxford Union Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:57:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 958 (958) Beyond Art? Digital Culture in the Twenty-first Century Wednesday 21 April 1999 The Oxford Union Debating Chamber Organised by: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford -- Art -- Museums -- Theatre -- Broadcasting -- Literature -- Music -- Are the arts being threatened or inspired by the use of computers? How has the popularization and pervasive nature of digital technology changed the creative process of the artist, the actor, the film-maker, the architect, and the writer? What has been the effect of technology on the viewer, the reader, or the critic? And what of those who seek to fund and preserve our cultural heritage? For the last four years the Humanities Computing Unit has organised a series of successful events which have discussed the place of technology in the spheres of literature, learning, and our cultural resources. In 1998 we brought together a number of illustrious speakers in the Oxford Union to look 'Beyond the Hype' of the current high profile of the Internet, the Digital Library, and the Electronic Book. There is every sign that technology will continue to assert its place in the arts in the next ten years. How will this affect the way that we create and absorb literature, music, art, film, television, and other culture? The 'Beyond Art?' Colloquium will look afresh at digital culture, and discuss its place in the future of the arts. Set in the historical Debating Chamber, distinguished speakers will present their views and debate the future shape of our culture's landscape. Format: the Colloquium will have a mixed format of presentations, open discussion, and debates. This format will stimulate discussion between the speakers encourage the audience to join in considering some of the major issues which will face us in a digital future. Speakers will include: *John Burnside, the Poetry Society's current Cyberpoet *Jane Carmichael, Keeper of Archives, the Imperial War Museum *Dan Greenstein, Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service *Peter Gibbins, Executive Director, Digital Virtual Centre of Excellence for Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology *Barry Smith, Lecturer in Theatre and founder of the Live Art Archive *Peter York, Author, Journalist, and Broadcaster Venue: The Debating Chamber of the Oxford Union The Oxford Union is the world's most famous debating society. Established in 1823 and located in glorious Victorian Buildings in the heart of Oxford University, it aims to promote debate and discussion not just in Oxford University, but across the globe (for more information see http://www.oxford-union.org/). More information about the Humanities Computing Unit is available from http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/humanities/ Costs per place are as follows: 40.00 - educational 100.00 - commercial 5.00 - student Please note that lunch is not included in the price. Please book early as spaces are limited. Concessions for block bookings of five or more (though not at the student rate) are available; please contact the organisers below for more details. A small number of reduced price places will be available for members of the Oxford Union and Oxford University. Cheques should be made payable to 'Oxford University Computing Services' and sent to the organisers below. To register for this event please complete the tear-off slip below and return it by 14th April 1999 to: Jenny Newman Humanities Computing Unit OUCS, 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel. +44 (0)1865 273221 Fax. +44 (0)1865 273275 Email: hcdt@oucs.ox.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR A PLACE ON THE HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT'S 'BEYOND ART?' ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM ON APRIL 21st 1999 TITLE: FIRST NAME: SURNAME: POSITION: DEPARTMENT: INSTITUTION: ADDRESS: POSTCODE: COUNTRY: TELEPHONE: FAX: E-MAIL: I ENCLOSE A CHEQUE FOR 40.00 (pounds sterling) [Educational Rate]/100.00 [Commercial Rate]/5.00 [Student rate] MADE PAYABLE TO 'OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES'. SIGNED: DATE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Frost & masterly restraint Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 14:47:25 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 959 (959) Or, as Robert Frost, put it, in discussing blank verse, "It's like playing tennis without a net." (And, no, I don't ahve the source for the quotation. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254@compuserve.com> Subject: Mac or PC or ? Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 16:56:22 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 960 (960) Dear Humanists, Everybody knows the proportion of Mac vs PC in the world at large: it's something like 10/90. Now, I would like to know what this proportion looks like in the *French linguistics/language and litterature departments* of universities? And what could it be within the other "(French) language workers" communities, such as that of translators? Where could I find this information, if it exists? Or how could I collect it? Would I dare to invite the concerned audience of this list to give me their estimation of the ratio in their departments? Thanks already to those who would care to give me their hints. In any case, I'll post a summary of my findings on the list. Thierry __________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe tvs@info.ucl.ac.be t_vs@compuserve.com __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: ACH/ALLC 99: program and registration Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 21:05:52 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 961 (961) International Humanities Computing Conference Register now for the 1999 joint conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia, June 9-14, 1999. The conference program is now available at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/schedule.html and secure credit-card registration is available at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/forms/register.shtml General conference information (on lodging, excursions, etc.) is available at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ Please join us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0507 correction: free not blank verse Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:16:17 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 962 (962) Frost's remark, oft-quoted, was I believe in some lecture or interview he gave once upon a time. He was right, of course. Blank verse has a net indeed: the end of the line! Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html From: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 12.0507 correction: free not blank verse Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:16:35 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 963 (963) PS, I should have finished my sentence about Frost and blank verse, and I had meant to say: ...at the end of the line, as I learned the hardest way last year in having decided to translated KING OEDIPUS into blank verse for the U of Penn Press Greek drama series, which volume containing my play and the two other Theban plays, by two other American poets, was published as SOPHOCLES, 2 just about three months ago.\ So obvious is the net, that my eye was blasted by the editor's having failed to read closely enough to have really left out a 2-syllable extra word that somehow the computer had not expunged, no matter how many go-rounds we had. 11 syllables, and I was flattened to see the nonsense made of that line, in cold, hard print. Jascha Kessler Jascha Kessler Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA Telephone/Facsimile: (310) 393-4648 http://www.english.ucla.edu/jkessler/ http://www.xlibris.com/JaschaKessler.html http://www.xlibris.com/RapidTransit.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Eliza as a bot Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:15:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 964 (964) Thanks, Michael and Ari, for telling me about the Times article by David Pescovitz. St. Jerome, quoting his teacher, Donatus, says in his Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Chapter 1, verse 9 [or 10]: `pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt' (cursed be they who said what we were going to say before we said it). A good word for our plagiarizing century; it may not sound like Jerome; I can remember being accused of making it up when once I used it. Anyway, I was working on, to quote Michael, Eliza's rebirth as a bot (actually, she was the original bot), but, having been previoused by Pescovitz, I shall stand silent. Eliza routines being so easy to write, I wonder why they are not used more in foreign language instruction. Of course, for languages like German and Russian, you have the case/gender/weird plurals problems, but these are not insurmountable. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Lavagnino Subject: Headers Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:17:09 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 965 (965) For many years, when I wanted to cite an example of a mailing list with a particularly specialized focus, I have referred to the Header-People list, which is devoted exclusively to the discussion of e-mail headers. I hope it's not a sign of premature triviality that I find myself posting on the same subject now. There's a recent article by Adam C. Engst, in the fine TidBITS newsletter, about a new IETF standard for headers on mail issued by mailing lists, to try and systematize access to functions like posting and unsubscribing that vary just a little too much from system to system. http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-472.html#lnk2 May I suggest that Humanist adopt these headers and support this worthy initiative? John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: SCIE99 Subject: Second School on Information Extraction - Call for Participation Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:19:00 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 966 (966) [deleted quotation] [material deleted] [deleted quotation]page [deleted quotation][material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Open day poster Date: May 11, 1999 Time: 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 967 (967) Location: Lecture Room Department of Philosophy, King's College London, The Strand The Department of Philosophy at King's College, University of London is pleased to announce a new MSc in Computational Linguistics and Formal Grammar. The programme is provisionally scheduled to begin in September, 1999 (final approval of the programme expected in March, 1999). Come to the open day to hear details of the programme and discuss the possibility of either entering the programme or taking some of its courses in the context of another degree programme. The programme will also welcome into its courses students studying for other degrees in Philosophy at the University of London, students taking Linguistics degrees at the University of London, and students from other departments at King's College. These courses will be of particular interest to students pursuing work in philosophy of language, semantics, logic, artificial intelligence, and the theory of formal grammar. The program is a one-year full time MSc course designed primarily for students who have completed a BA/BSc in linguistics, computer science, philosophy, logic, or mathematics, and who wish to pursue the application of formal and computationalmethods to the analysis of natural language. The MSc will also serve as the taught year of an MPhil/Ph.D research degree in formal grammar and computational linguistics. Current faculty of the programme: - Professor Dov Gabbay (Computer Science Department) logic, non-monotonic reasoning - Professor Ruth Kempson (Philosphy Department) formal pragmatics, formal semantics, formal syntax - Professor Shalom Lappin (Philosophy Department) formal semantics, computational linguistics, formal syntax - Dr. Odinaldo Rodriguez (Computer Science Department) logic programming, Prolog - Lecturer (candidate tba, Philosophy Department) mathematical linguistics, formal properties of grammar, model theory, - Lecturer (candidate tba, Philosophy Department) computational approaches to discourse theory, formal semantics Course convenor: Shalom Lappin For additional information and application forms send inquiries to lisa.turner@kcl.ac.uk, or visit our web site at www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/hums/philosophy/MScCLFG.html. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________ Lisa Turner Departmental Administrator Philosophy Department King's College London WC2R 2LS Tel: 0171 873 2231 Fax: 0171 873 2270 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Price, Dan" Subject: The Future of the Virtual University Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:20:21 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 968 (968) It seems that two of the more famous attempts at a virtual university, the Western Governor's initiative and the California Virtual University, have encountered serious, even fatal, turns of events. When the Western Governors' University opened their "doors" this past Fall, they processed ten applicants rather than the hundreds to a thousand that were initially anticipated (as reported in the "Chronicle") Now the latter seems to be out of money even before it opens. Are these isolated incidents that have more to do with effective marketing, securing actual commitment of state dollars, and perhaps a jealous guarding of already established territories and boundaries? OR is this a trend? Have we been wrong about the future of higher education being heavily, if not primarily, offered in a Computer Medicated format? Thoughts? Comments? Reactions? --Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Maria Bonn Subject: Redesigned Making of America invites feedback Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:02:20 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 969 (969) Since 1997 the University of Michigan Making of America project (http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa), a collection of primary source materials in 19th cnetury American social history, has been widely used and well received by professional and amateur scholars of American history and culture all over the world. Over the past several months the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), which is responsible for the production and implementation of the Making of America, has redesigned and improved several aspects of the Making of America system, including adding search possibilities, improving navigation, and making available the plain text of the page images that make up the MoA collection. DLPS would like to invite testing of the new system before we replace the old system entirely. The revised Making of America can be found at http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa.new. Please try it out and let us know what you think and if you encounter problems by contacting us at moa-feedback@umich.edu. The redesign of the system is an important step in preparing for the addition of another 7500 volumes to the collection over the next two years, so we are particularly anxious to get feedback from users. Please note that we're in the final stages of revising the system, so you may see small changes, especially in explanatory and help text, if you make repeated visits to the site. We hope you enjoy the site, and we welcome all suggestions. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Maria S. Bonn Digital Library Program Development Librarian Digital Library Initiative University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 mbonn@umich.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS : ACL Workshop on Discourse Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:02:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 970 (970) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0515 future of the virtual university? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:01:51 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 971 (971) I regard the report of failure of Western Governor's and California Virtual as good news indeed. -- I'm a strong believer in Computer Assisted Instruction, and wrote some 40 CAI lessons in the old PLATO days, but I regard the idea of getting an entire degree without setting foot on a campus,or ever being with fellow students (chat rooms don't count) as something other than an education. Perhaps the lack off enrolment suggests that the people out there have more sense than educationists were willing to grant. From: "Ted Knab" Subject: Re: 12.0515 future of the virtual university? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:02:01 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 972 (972) I think that the virtual university may be the trend of the future. But, time needs to pass before the technology becomes stable enough and standardized enough to prevent major technical challenges. There is a potential for virtual universities. Using Virtual Reality and high powered personal computers that have voice and video interface capabilities university administrators could transform their classrooms into cyberclassrooms. These cyberclassrooms would look like a traditional classroom. The only difference is that everything would be in a virtual environment. There would be no need for buildings and all the space that large universities need today. One building could hold all the hardware needed for a number of different virtual classrooms. Western Governor's University took a large risk with their venture. Their concept seems to have come before the technological capabilities needed to run smoothly exist. But, I think many others will follow and many will succeed. Ted, The techno-humanitarian From: nellac@home.com Subject: Re: 12.0515 future of the virtual university? Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:02:10 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 973 (973) Although I can't comment on these particular examples and their apparent failure, I would be very interested to know if group participants have come across noteworthy articles either in hard print or on-line respecting electronic delivery of post secondary education. (References would be very much appreciated.) Nella Cotrupi medialaw@web.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: the purity of academia stained? Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:58:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 974 (974) Recently I received and was bemused by a message sent to Humanist by a member or editor of a technical discussion group, who suggested in barely controlled terms that a member of Humanist be henceforth banned from said technical list because he had published a piece of commercial "advertising" on that list. I have not quite been able to figure out why the complainant was attempting to vent his spleen on Humanist, but I replied to him saying that, [deleted quotation] The man again wrote to Humanist (apparently addressing the said member of Humanist) saying, [deleted quotation] I would be one of the last to object to the convention that bans advertising from groups such as Humanist, but it does seem to me that, as the targeted member of Humanist replied to me, [deleted quotation] This is not, of course, the only change computing has and is making to the academy, not the only line being blurred by computing -- and by large changes in the society that ultimately pays for us. What role, I wonder, does humanities computing have in the trading zone between commercial developers and the "pure" realms of academic research? Comments welcome. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Re: 12.0518 virtual universities Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 19:58:41 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 975 (975) In a message dated 99-03-25 16:45:19 EST, humanist@kcl.ac.uk writes: << I regard the report of failure of Western Governor's and California Virtual as good news indeed. -- I'm a strong believer in Computer Assisted Instruction, and wrote some 40 CAI lessons in the old PLATO days, but I regard the idea of getting an entire degree without setting foot on a campus,or ever being with fellow students (chat rooms don't count) as something other than an education. [deleted quotation] I believe that the rumors of the "failure of the Western Govenor's Viritual University" are a little bit premature. It is still continuing. I have looked into it. I find that the programs are still not quite there yet. The classes that are available are not enough for a degree. They are also much more expensive than taking a class at one of the local university branches. It will not become a viable choice until the costs are lower and the quality and quanity of the programs improve. David Reed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Frankel's IMLS Testimony: New Appointments Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:48:15 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 976 (976) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 26 1999 DIANE FRANKEL's IMLS CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY on LIBRARY SERVICES http://www.imls.gov/librtestimony.htm. Beverly Sheppard Appointed IMLS Acting Director Joyce Ray, Director, Office of Library Services http://www.imls.gov/acting.htm This latest issue of the American Library Association's Washington office Newsletter details departing IMLS director Frankel's testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Office of Library Services' FY2000 budget (the President has requested $154.5 million) and new appointments at the Institute. Frankel's testimony highlights a new emphasis on information literacy; on the shift of the use of state funds from construction to technology implementation; and the impact of the new National Leadership Grants. Frankel also outlined plans for using the President's proposed $5 million of new funds for the Office of Library Services as its contribution to the proposed "National Digital Library for Education" (see <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/1999/0010.html>)> David Green =========== [deleted quotation]ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 8, Number 30 March 25, 1999 In this issue: [1] Diane Frankel Testifies on IMLS FY2000 Appropriations [2] IMLS Announces Beverly Sheppard as Acting Director and Other Personnel Changes [1] Diane Frankel Testifies on IMLS FY2000 Appropriations On March 18 Diane Frankel, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, made her final appearance before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education to support the Administration's FY2000 budget request for library programs of $154.5 million. Rep. John Porter (R-IL), chair of the subcommittee, said he was "sorry to hear" that it was Frankel's last appearance. Frankel is leaving IMLS for a new position at the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco in late March. Frankel said that libraries are part of the answer to the critical question of whether people are information literate. She divided her testimony addressing the issues of Internet into three parts: (1) access in public libraries; (2) information access; and (3) outreach to populations either new or non-traditional. She described MAGNOLIA, the electronic statewide network in Mississippi which provides new access to children and adults in the state and an outreach program in Houston which introduces parents at health clinic visits to the idea of reading to their children. Frankel detailed some of the research and assessment that is currently being done at IMLS on state library five-year plans. She spoke of several successful group meetings she has held with state librarians and other library professionals. Rep. Porter congratulated her on an excellent statement and asked what she considered her most important accomplishment. Frankel replied that bringing library programs into the new Institute had been a beautiful transition and the library community was pleased. Porter followed up by asking what would be her most important advice to a successor. "It is important to listen hard and that there is a great deal of knowledge in the field," Frankel replied. In answer to a question on how she intended to measure enhancement by new technology, Frankel detailed the ongoing content analysis of state plans and the creation of a thesaurus to measure achievement. She said that currently five states were working on model evaluation programs, and commented that it was hard to measure services once a user left the library. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that it was appropriate to commend Frankel and asked her to discuss a little about work with helping disadvantaged children. Frankel cited programs in Chicago where librarians were working with teen-aged boys to introduce them to the Internet and a museum pass program to allow access to museums all over the city. She said libraries have after-school programs for latch-key children. Frankel commented on the Presidential initiative on digitizing materials and said the goal was to put up specialized information. In response to Rep. Porter's query on IMLS's Y2K compliance, Frankel replied that the Institute will complete its Y2K work by October. Porter said that states were very interested in finding out about promising practices in other states. Frankel replied that IMLS and the chief officers of state library agencies met twice a year and shared information at that time. The full text of Diane Frankel's testimony is at http://www.imls.gov/librtestimony.htm. [2] IMLS Announces Beverly Sheppard as Acting Director and Other Personnel Changes Note: The following is a March 25 press release from IMLS. For more information contact Mamie Bittner at (202) 606-8339. Washington, DC - Diane Frankel, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), announced the appointment of Beverly Black Sheppard as acting director beginning Thursday, March 25, 1999. Frankel leaves IMLS to join the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco. Sheppard, Deputy Director of IMLS, Office of Museum Services since June 1998, has more than 16 years of professional museum experience and is widely known in the field for her work in museum education. Prior to joining IMLS, Sheppard held the position of Associate Director of the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Sheppard served two terms as President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, working closely with the Governor and Pennsylvania State Legislature to establish state policies and to increase budget support of museums. Under her leadership the Federation spearheaded successful partnerships among museum leadership, Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Tourism, and other state agencies. Sheppard has authored several publications, including Building School and Museum Partnerships, a book widely used in museum education programs. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art and English from Bucknell University and a Master of Arts in Studio Art from Marywood College. Sheppard formerly taught studio art and art history in the graduate art department of Marywood College and in the undergraduate program at the University of Scranton. Until the President nominates and the Senate confirms a new director, the acting director will administer the day-to-day operations of the agency. The Museum and Library Services Act (P.L. 104-208) provides that the Presidentially appointed Senate confirmed director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services shall rotate between an individual with library and information service expertise and an individual with museum service expertise. The next Presidential appointee to be Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services will have expertise in library and information services and will be appointed for a four year term. Frankel also announced that Joyce Ray will be detailed to the position of Director, Office of Library Services. She will continue to report to Elizabeth Sywetz, IMLS Deputy Director, Office of Library Services. Joyce Ray received both M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. Most of her practicing library career has been spent in archives and special collections. From 1988 to 1998 she was with the National Archives and Records Administration, where she held a number of positions including Special Assistant to the Archivist of the United States and Acting Program Director of NARA's grant-making arm, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. She came to IMLS as Director of Discretionary Programs in 1998. IMLS was created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, P.L. 104-208. IMLS is an independent Federal grantmaking agency serving the public by strengthening museums and libraries. IMLS consists of an Office of the Director, Office of Museum Services, Office of Library Services and Office of Research and Technology. 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Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 26 1999 DIANE FRANKEL's IMLS CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY on LIBRARY SERVICES http://www.imls.gov/librtestimony.htm. Beverly Sheppard Appointed IMLS Acting Director Joyce Ray, Director, Office of Library Services http://www.imls.gov/acting.htm This latest issue of the American Library Association's Washington office Newsletter details departing IMLS director Frankel's testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Office of Library Services' FY2000 budget (the President has requested $154.5 million) and new appointments at the Institute. Frankel's testimony highlights a new emphasis on information literacy; on the shift of the use of state funds from construction to technology implementation; and the impact of the new National Leadership Grants. Frankel also outlined plans for using the President's proposed $5 million of new funds for the Office of Library Services as its contribution to the proposed "National Digital Library for Education" (see <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/1999/0010.html>)> David Green =========== [deleted quotation] ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 8, Number 30 March 25, 1999 In this issue: [1] Diane Frankel Testifies on IMLS FY2000 Appropriations [2] IMLS Announces Beverly Sheppard as Acting Director and Other Personnel Changes [1] Diane Frankel Testifies on IMLS FY2000 Appropriations On March 18 Diane Frankel, director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, made her final appearance before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education to support the Administration's FY2000 budget request for library programs of $154.5 million. Rep. John Porter (R-IL), chair of the subcommittee, said he was "sorry to hear" that it was Frankel's last appearance. Frankel is leaving IMLS for a new position at the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco in late March. Frankel said that libraries are part of the answer to the critical question of whether people are information literate. She divided her testimony addressing the issues of Internet into three parts: (1) access in public libraries; (2) information access; and (3) outreach to populations either new or non-traditional. She described MAGNOLIA, the electronic statewide network in Mississippi which provides new access to children and adults in the state and an outreach program in Houston which introduces parents at health clinic visits to the idea of reading to their children. Frankel detailed some of the research and assessment that is currently being done at IMLS on state library five-year plans. She spoke of several successful group meetings she has held with state librarians and other library professionals. Rep. Porter congratulated her on an excellent statement and asked what she considered her most important accomplishment. Frankel replied that bringing library programs into the new Institute had been a beautiful transition and the library community was pleased. Porter followed up by asking what would be her most important advice to a successor. "It is important to listen hard and that there is a great deal of knowledge in the field," Frankel replied. In answer to a question on how she intended to measure enhancement by new technology, Frankel detailed the ongoing content analysis of state plans and the creation of a thesaurus to measure achievement. She said that currently five states were working on model evaluation programs, and commented that it was hard to measure services once a user left the library. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that it was appropriate to commend Frankel and asked her to discuss a little about work with helping disadvantaged children. Frankel cited programs in Chicago where librarians were working with teen-aged boys to introduce them to the Internet and a museum pass program to allow access to museums all over the city. She said libraries have after-school programs for latch-key children. Frankel commented on the Presidential initiative on digitizing materials and said the goal was to put up specialized information. In response to Rep. Porter's query on IMLS's Y2K compliance, Frankel replied that the Institute will complete its Y2K work by October. Porter said that states were very interested in finding out about promising practices in other states. Frankel replied that IMLS and the chief officers of state library agencies met twice a year and shared information at that time. The full text of Diane Frankel's testimony is at http://www.imls.gov/librtestimony.htm. [2] IMLS Announces Beverly Sheppard as Acting Director and Other Personnel Changes Note: The following is a March 25 press release from IMLS. For more information contact Mamie Bittner at (202) 606-8339. Washington, DC - Diane Frankel, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), announced the appointment of Beverly Black Sheppard as acting director beginning Thursday, March 25, 1999. Frankel leaves IMLS to join the James Irvine Foundation in San Francisco. Sheppard, Deputy Director of IMLS, Office of Museum Services since June 1998, has more than 16 years of professional museum experience and is widely known in the field for her work in museum education. Prior to joining IMLS, Sheppard held the position of Associate Director of the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Sheppard served two terms as President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, working closely with the Governor and Pennsylvania State Legislature to establish state policies and to increase budget support of museums. Under her leadership the Federation spearheaded successful partnerships among museum leadership, Pennsylvania Departments of Education and Tourism, and other state agencies. Sheppard has authored several publications, including Building School and Museum Partnerships, a book widely used in museum education programs. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Art and English from Bucknell University and a Master of Arts in Studio Art from Marywood College. Sheppard formerly taught studio art and art history in the graduate art department of Marywood College and in the undergraduate program at the University of Scranton. Until the President nominates and the Senate confirms a new director, the acting director will administer the day-to-day operations of the agency. The Museum and Library Services Act (P.L. 104-208) provides that the Presidentially appointed Senate confirmed director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services shall rotate between an individual with library and information service expertise and an individual with museum service expertise. The next Presidential appointee to be Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services will have expertise in library and information services and will be appointed for a four year term. Frankel also announced that Joyce Ray will be detailed to the position of Director, Office of Library Services. She will continue to report to Elizabeth Sywetz, IMLS Deputy Director, Office of Library Services. Joyce Ray received both M.L.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. Most of her practicing library career has been spent in archives and special collections. From 1988 to 1998 she was with the National Archives and Records Administration, where she held a number of positions including Special Assistant to the Archivist of the United States and Acting Program Director of NARA's grant-making arm, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. She came to IMLS as Director of Discretionary Programs in 1998. IMLS was created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, P.L. 104-208. IMLS is an independent Federal grantmaking agency serving the public by strengthening museums and libraries. IMLS consists of an Office of the Director, Office of Museum Services, Office of Library Services and Office of Research and Technology. 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Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCES: Electronic Imaging & The Visual Arts Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:48:30 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 977 (977) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 26 1999 VASARI/MoMA Conference Electronic Imaging & The Visual Arts (EVA99) "Beyond the Digital Archive: The Practical Use of Images" May 19-21, 1999: New York City http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/newyork.html See also: EVA99 Scotland July 22-24 Summer School(July 26-30) <http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/scotland.html> EVA99 Berlin (Nov 8-12) <http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/berlin.htm> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>. ============================================================== NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 26 1999 VASARI/MoMA Conference Electronic Imaging & The Visual Arts (EVA99) "Beyond the Digital Archive: The Practical Use of Images" May 19-21, 1999: New York City http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/newyork.html See also: EVA99 Scotland July 22-24 Summer School(July 26-30) <http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/scotland.html> EVA99 Berlin (Nov 8-12) <http://www.vasari.co.uk/eva/berlin.htm> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Francois Lachance Subject: tangent to advertising Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:45:56 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 978 (978) Willard, The recent selection from anti-advertising missives which you posted made me want to be glib and SCREAM a one liner "Erasmus was a Hustler". However, when I consider the epistolary genre in which much of the business transactions and advertisments of Renaissance Humanists were conducted I want to point out the rather intriguing phenomenon of "reposting". As subscribers to Humanist know certain letters are written with the knowledge and often the intent of "reposting" either in the sense of the retransmission of copies or the reading aloud to an assembled group. Such understanding of the possibility of retransmission is evidenced in the perhaps now ubiquitous polite formula of apologizing for the cross-posting of notices. There is also the negative evidence of responding 'off-list' which marks an appreciation of the mobility of missives. There is one example I wish to draw to your attention because it represents a very curteous and gentle sub-genre of the thank you letter. A guest speaker wrote to the instructor not just with the cordial niceties of the form letter but also with a minor recapitulation of some of the interesting questions that students had raised in the question and answer period. What a lovely way to acknowledge the exchange of ideas. I now wonder if in some golden age of the academia such letters did not also exist. There is nothing inherent in the electronic medium which precludes the existence of such correspondence in earlier times. I am wondering how much the exchange of letters between groups of scholars is analogous to the record of the proceedings of learned societies. I have a hunch the audience is constructed quite differently and hence the tolerance of advertisement shifts. It does raise the question of the spaces of the academy and why certain segments privilege the customs of the lecture hall over those of the workshop and some suppose on of these to be more remote from the marketplace. Would you to buy into this line of inquiry? -- Francois From: Jim Marchand Subject: Purity Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:46:13 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 979 (979) I, too, would thump for purity, l'art pour l'art (don't know how to say `humanities' in French) and all that. The problem is that it is difficult, and `laws' will not work. Often it is quite difficult to draw the line. For myself, I don't think that announcements which aid in promotion, etc. ought to be `permitted', though the line is even blurrier. We cannot leave it up to the list owner, for that would be an onerous and ornery task for sure. It is up to us, whoever we are. Jellinek once wrote: "Es ist die Pflicht eines jeden Mitglieds der gelehrten Gesellschaft, ueber ihre Gesetze zu wachen." Pretty words, but it won't work any more than `rules' against plagiarism. So all I can do is commiserate with Willard and us. A little healthy indignation at those who overstep the bounds is not amiss. Nemo sine crimine. Jim Marchand. From: Willard McCarty Subject: blurring of lines Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:47:44 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 980 (980) The message I sent about commercial adverts in academic discussions, which was really about the blurring of lines between the academy and industry, leads me on to wonder about other lines we are concerned with and their blurring or redrawing. The problem I have with the drawing of lines isn't with the act as such -- it is fundamental to what and who we are. My problem, rather, is with the treatment of such lines as if they were somehow specified at the foundation of the world and not more or less arbitrary creations or (less grandly) fabrications for which we bear the responsibility and so have the privilege of redrawing or blotting out. Erasing a line that has served us well is, of course, not a trivial thing, and there is something deeply satisfying about a culture, like the one in which I now live, where some of the lines are quite old -- as long as one is on the right side of them. As computing humanists we are deeply implicated in the redrawing of lines within and around the academy. The device we use and often champion is having a deeply subversive effect on old lines. Furthermore, some of us are still revolutionaries who are very, very glad to see certain lines weakening, such as the sheep-and-goats divide between the tenured and the non-tenurable, especially where this has been determined for individuals by their having been tainted with computing. Our effort to raise our field (i.e. humanities computing) out of the Slough of Desponding Help Desks brings us up against lines or walls that the privileged tell us have been there since the foundation of the world, though we know as good historians of the academy just how wet some of the mortar is, how propped up the stones are by make-shift arrangements and how arbitrary is the course followed by the Great Wall of True Disciplines. (I call your attention to the OED, s.v. "red herring", 2b. "to draw a red herring across the track...: to attempt to divert attention from the real question; hence red herring, a subject intended to have this effect.) In the end, of course -- or, I sincerely hope, much before the end -- what matters is that good work gets done. I am concerned that some of these pseudo-sacred lines, defining turf that is really not very sacred when you look closely at it, is making some of that good work very much harder to do than it should be. And, what may be worse, exclusion from its privileges (such as being paid to do research) forces some of our best talent to give up scholarly work altogether, or to find opportunities outside the academy, or to burn their candles at both ends and in the middle too. It is amusing to contemplate statements, commoner I suppose in the last century and before, about what separates humans from non-humans, or the more recent statements about what makes natural and artificial intelligence different. We should know enough now to use a pencil, preferably with a soft lead, when drawing these lines. Yours :-) WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: The Journal of Language and Computation Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:41:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 981 (981) [deleted quotation] Dear All, This message is being sent to several lists. Apologies if you receive multiple copies. We are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal: The Journal of Language and Computation (L&C), http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac. L&C is an independent journal devoted to the publication of high level research papers on issues in the interface of logic, linguistics, formal grammar, and computational linguistics. It is available electronically for free from its web site at King's College, London. The articles are available in a number of different formats, including DVI, postscript and portable document format (PDF). L&C fills an important need for a journal devoted specifically to work in the emerging field of formal and computational grammar. It is committed to rapid publication of research. As an independent electronic journal, it is free of the commercial and space constraints which restrict printed journals. The same conventions which govern publication in printed journals apply to L&C, except that authors retain the copyright of their papers. All articles will be carefully refereed. A condition for acceptance in L&C is that an author agrees that he/she will not publish his/her paper elsewhere, except with acknowledgment of its original publication in L&C. At the end of our first year of publication, we will consider the possibility of distributing a hard copy of the first volume of the journal (distributed by Oxford University Press) to libraries and subscribers. The decision on whether to produce a hard copy version of the volume will depend upon availability of the necessary resources. To obtain more information, or check the first issue, please visit the web site of L&C: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac Best regards, Odinaldo -- Odinaldo Rodrigues http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/rodrigu Department of Computer Science King's College - Strand London WC2R 2LS From: "David L. Gants" Subject: New series in Natural Language Processing Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:41:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 982 (982) [deleted quotation] New series in Natural Language Processing Call for Proposals John Benjamins Publishers is launching a new book series on Natural Language Processing as a timely response to the growing demand for NLP literature. Three general types of books will be published:=20 Monographs - featuring (i) original leading edge research or (ii) surveys of the state-of-the art of specific NL tasks or applications. Collections (i) books focusing on a particular NLP area (e.g. emerging from successful NLP workshops or as a result of editors=92 calls for papers) or (ii) books which include papers covering a wide range of topics (e.g. emerging from competitive NLP conferences or as a result of proposals for books of the type =93Reading In NLP=94). Course books (i) general NLP course books or (ii) course books on a particular key area of NLP (e.g. Speech Processing, Computational Syntax/Parsing). Authors will be encouraged to append supplementary materials such as demonstration programs, NLP software, corpora etc. and to indicate web-sites, computational language resources etc. where appropriate. This call invites proposals from potential authors of the types of books described above. Topics The scope of the new series will be maximally comprehensive ranging from theoretical Computational Linguistics topics (Computational Syntax, Computational Semantics etc.) to highly practical Language Technology topics (speech recognition, information extraction, information retrieval etc.). The new series will cover both written language and speech; it will welcome works covering (but not limited to) areas such as: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, text understanding and generation, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools, corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces, knowledge=20 acquisition, information extraction, text summarisation, text classification, computer-aided language learning, language resources.=20 New results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies as opposed to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connections as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches, will be also welcome. The series will pay special attention to current =93hot topics=94 such as multilingual NLP, evaluation and speech. Editor/Advisory board The new series=92 editor is Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) and the advisory board of the series includes: - Christian Boitet (University of Grenoble)=20 - John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton)=20 - Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence) - Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, USC) - Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal)=20 - Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University) - Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili Un., Tarragona) - Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co. & Univ. of Edinburgh) - John Nerbonne (University of Groningen) - Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex, Brighton) - Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University) - Allan Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester) - Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) - Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park) - Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei) - Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) - Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong)=20 - Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo) - Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)=20 - Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) The managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes=20 (Email kees.vaes@benjamins.nl). Submission of proposals Interested authors should submit proposals by email (plain text or postscript files) to the series editor: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Telephone (44-1902) 322471 Fax (44-1902) 322739 Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk The proposals should include an outline of the book (1-2 pages), a preliminary table of contents, the target readership, related publications, how the book will differ from other similar books in the area (if applicable), time-scale and information about the prospective author (relevant experience in the field, publications etc.).=20 Each proposal will be reviewed by members of the advisory board or additional reviewers. More information More information on the new series will be available in due course at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm Information on the new series is also available at John Benjamins=92 web site http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html (new projects). From: Book Arts Press Subject: Rare Book School 1999 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:42:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 983 (983) RARE BOOK SCHOOL 1999 (RBS): Rare Book School is pleased to announce its schedule of courses for the summer of 1999, consisting of 27 five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning the history of books and printing, manuscripts, and special collections, to be offered on the grounds of the University of Virginia 12 July - 6 August. Tuition per course for the RBS 1999 Summer Session is $640. The complete brochure, expanded course descriptions, and applications are available at our website: <http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks> Readers of Humanist may find the course featured below to be of particular interest: 27. ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES. A practical exploration of the research, preservation, editing, and pedagogical uses of electronic texts and images in the humanities. The course will center around the creation of a set of archival-quality etexts and digital images, for which we shall also create an Encoded Archival Description guide. Topics include: SGML tagging and conversion; using the Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines; the form and implications of XML; publishing on the World Wide Web; and the management and use of on-line texts. See for details about last year's course. Some experience with HTML is a pre-requisite for admission to the course. Offered in both weeks 2 and 4. Instructor: David Seaman. DAVID SEAMAN is the founding director of the nationally-known Electronic Text Center and on-line archive at the University of Virginia. He lectures and writes frequently on SGML, the Internet, and the creation and use of electronic texts in the humanities. Book Arts Press ph: 804/924-8851 114 Alderman Library fax: 804/924-8824 University of Virginia email: oldbooks@virginia.edu Charlottesville, VA 22903 website: <http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Scholarship engagee Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:26:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 984 (984) You are right, Willard, that the borders have gotten blurred, or at least more so, in recent years. We have had for a long time the spectre (I don't mean `ghost'; it is still, horresco referens, among us) of _litterature engagee_, where literature is perverted to political and social interests. The same thing happens, of course, in scholarship, particularly in the humanities, where _Erklaeren_, according to whatever (value)-system one subscribes to is used to explain, e.g. a work of medieval literature, replaces _Verstehen_, the attempt to understand the author and situate him in his time or place. This leads, of course, to motive mongering and the attribution to authors of otherwhere and otherwhen motives they certainly never had, through a kind of chauvinism of the here and now. The alterity of medieval man (there, I said it) is certainly there, but that does not give us the right or even a reason to fail to try to understand him. Other peoples, races, cultures, times, places may `think differently' than we do, even chop up the world differently (Whorf). We should avoid pouring them into our own procrustean mode of thought. But now I have lost the thread, haven't I? Aegritudo senectutis garrulitas. It is too bad that things blur, but if we allow other fields to impinge upon our own, what happens to our own (Sartre, Staiger)? There is nothing wrong with using psychoanalysis in literary criticism, for example; we just have to keep in mind that it is literary criticism and not psychoanalysis. Freud on Dostoievsky, for example, is not literary criticism. Jim Marchand. From: Jim Marchand Subject: blurring, etc. Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:27:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 985 (985) For most problems there is an obverse. In worrying about blurring and intrusion of other disciplines into ours, we run the risk of fostering over- compartmentalization and balkanization (how up-to-date that old term sounds today!) of scholarship. It is good to hear of hyphenated fields and multi- discipline approaches where appropriate. {Aside: This is der springende Punkt, appropriate, and this is what distinguishes the humanities from the sciences. We do not for the most part have algorithms, and we search for epieikeia, to use Thomas' revival of an old Greek expression. The best the sciences can do in this direction is `closeness of fit'}. Anyway, I always thought that Emil Staiger expressed the problem of the blurring of lines for the literary critic (indeed for the worker in any field) quite well: Emil Staiger, Die Zeit als Einbildungskraft des Dichters (Zurich, 1939), p. 15. Along the same lines, I. A. Richards in his Speculative Instruments (London, 1955) 3-17. Und so mag und soll der Literarhistoriker manches unternehmen, andern Wissenschaften dienen und von andern zehren -- beides bringt dem Ganzen Gewinn --; er mag Kulturgemaelde entwerfen oder Lebenegeschichten erzaehlen: im eigenen Hause schaltet er und den Auftrag, der an ihn besonders ergangen ist, fuehrt er aus, wenn er die, Sprache gewordenen, Welten der Dichter wissenschaftlich beschreibt. "And thus the literary historian can take up many things, serve other disciplines and draw upon others -- both offer gains for the common enterprise --; he can paint pictures of cultures or relate biographies; he is master in his own house and he fulfills the task which is laid upon him in particular when he describes in a scholarly fashion the worlds of the poet which have been turned into language." I apologize for the translation; traduttore traditore. Staiger was as much a poet as a literary critic, and he blurred the distinction. ! Jim Marchand. From: Jan Christoph Meister Subject: 12.0521 - Purity Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:32:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 986 (986) 11:40 27.03.1999 Dear Willard, I for one take great interest in HUMANIST postings informing on any cross-fertilization between "pure" and industry-related research in Humanities Computing. Obviously the product or service will have to have a tangible cognitive or practical impact on the academic interest in Humanities Computing in order to qualify for distribution of a respective message. The majority of such notices that I have come across on HUMANIST adhered to that criterion. Given this restriction - what really could be wrong about advertising the commercial angle of an academic project? Do they come in disguise? I have found most industry-related postings to be very clear w.r.t. their advertising function - and that for me is the second criterion for deciding what conforms to ethical standards and what doesn't. We do have advertisements in "Journal for Literary and Linguistic Computing" and I am not aware of anyone taking exception to that - why? I guess because a) these ads are generally accepted to be relevant to our scholarly work in some way or other even where they relate to some highly specialized field of enquiry; b) because their appelative function is obvious. In other words, these are ads - and everyone realizes that at a glance. Sure, a posting on HUMANIST is by comparison extraordinarily cheap to get, and a discussion list also has the "feel" of a subject or theme related personal two-way communication, and not that of a magazine or journal where anybody can buy ad space. In other words, there is an aura of authoritativeness (?) and of accepting personal responsibility (if not liability) for posted contents to the contributions that make up HUMANIST's discourse. The conventions governing academic discourse are markedly different to those which apply to the meta-fiction of advertising. Or so we hope. Two points of principle might warrant discussion, though. 1. It is high time scholars of the humanities woke up to the fact that we, too, need to look for potential stake holders and partners in our academic endeavors who are based in that "other", market-driven reality where advertising/marketing is deemed to be as important as actual product development. This is partially for pragmatic and material reasons (such as, entering partnerships, securing project-bound research funding etc.), and partially for the purpose of contextualizing our practice in society. Bringing an industry related issue, product or service to our attention via HUMANIST is not necessarily a bad thing - provided we can agree on formal and qualitative criteria to be met. Also, there is a fair amount of colleagues with a keen interest in Humanities Computing, but without a secure (or even tenured) position at a university. Some of these people do pioneering work precisely because they don't have that type of security. Humanities Computing can only benefit from staying in touch with them and learning about their activities. 2. Academic "purity" of discourse is anyhow in the process of being eroded on our list: If anything has been putting me off in HUMANIST postings over the past year or so it is an increase in unsolicited self-advertising not by "semi-commercial", but by "pure" academic contributors. A focused response to a query of the type "I am looking for publications on X - can someone help?" is perfectly legitimate in listing publications (own and foreign). The same goes for a contribution toward a discussion. This is information ad rem, it furthers the debate. What I have observed off lately, however, are cases of "casual" placings of (auto)bibliographical references, self-portrayals and -reviews in subordinate clauses that have preciously little to do with the subject matter at hand. These often come with the added ornatus of absurdly verbose signatures, motti and a stack of URLs. Legitimate self-promotion? I find this annoying - but then my complaint might well point to a culture specific idiosyncrasy. Pressure on academics to engage in covert self-advertising obviously differs according to geographical location, individual position and status. Nevertheless, I am still waiting to run into the selection committee that has taken the trouble to check on anybody's discussion list postings. The effort of self promotion in this medium therefore strikes me as wasted. In the end, it will be the moderator's prerogative to assess (and "prune") submissions prior to publication - but each and every contributor could clearly make this an easier and more enjoyable task if we simply asked ourselves one crucial question before posting a message: Cui bono? If the answer to this is any other than "Humanities Computing" then it doesn't belong on HUMANIST. Bearing in mind, of course, that this is a concept each and everyone is at liberty to interpret somewhat differently - which is exactly why we bother to engage in a discussion in the first place. Chris ************************** Dr. Jan Christoph Meister Arbeitsstelle zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar Universität Hamburg E-Mail: jan-c-meister@rrz.uni-hamburg.de From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0521 purity of academia stained? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:32:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 987 (987) Remember the military-industrial complex? That included academia in spades, with the jackpot going to physics and chemistry, and it created computer science. Poor humanists were left out of that round, and now the sociobiologists and neo-Darwinians are trying to allege that the Human Genome Project (the Manhattan Project of the 90s; this time the goldmine is in the lap of molecular biology) will lead to knowledge that will make the humanities obsolete. So somebody's going to complain that an occasional humanities scholar writes a popular history book or a useful bit of software? Please pardon me if I'm not much bothered. Since when has academia ever been pure? Didn't masters in the first universities have to attract students to get paid? And just how did they do that? -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: Jim Marchand Subject: Humanities and Sciences Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:41:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 988 (988) Speaking of the differences between the Sciences and the Humanities, one of the most important is that between (to try a Crocean twist) the cognitive and the symbolic. `Cognitive' is an adjective much used nowadays, so it has (Zipf's Law) accrued lots of meanings, but it seems to me that the sciences lean towards the cognitive (Aristotelian, yes/no) and we lean towards the affective (non-Aristotelian). This is seen quite well in the computer, as the term is used mostly nowadays (i.e. the digital computer), where the logic is mostly bi-valued. I know that there is the possibility of a poly-valued approach in computers, but I am speaking of `mostly' here. {An example of poly-valued: Jon T. Butler, ed. _Multiple-Valued Logic in VLSI_. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1991}. The humanities tend towards poly-valued ideas and concepts, full of stippled spectra, more so-less so, ideal type, etc. We are in danger of being swamped by the cognitive approach, and such things as `fuzzy logic, fuzzy set theory' do not help much. Using the mode of definition I have been using here, one might `define' poetry as dealing with that which cannot be said. Wittgenstein said: Was man nicht sagen kann, darueber muss man schweigen, or words to that effect; a poet might answer: Was man nicht sagen kann, darueber muss man dichten. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca> Subject: Word lists Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:42:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 989 (989) I feel a bit ashamed to admit this because I thought it would be relatively easy to find (and it may well be that I'm looking in the wrong places), but I can't seem to track down an English word list that has separate entries for each inflected form indicating the lemmatised form and parts of speech information. I have a French equivalent that looks something like this: [inflected form] [lemmatised form] [parts of speech info] Any pointers to anything remotely similar would be greatly appreciated. Since I already have lists with POS info, even a list that would allow me determine (even if ambiguously) the possible lemmatised forms would be useful. Thanks in advance, -- Stéfan Sinclair, Queen's University (Canada) WWW: <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~4ss42/> HCR - Rih: <http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Y2K Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:26:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 990 (990) The following is an article (quoted in full) on the year-2000 bug. Recirculated with permission, providing I provide the following statement: "This information was provided by Executive Software, maker of Diskeeper and Undelete for Windows NT. Visit their web site at www.executive.com. <http://www.executive.com.> " Comments welcome. WM ----- [deleted quotation]- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: BISCA-99 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:33:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 991 (991) [deleted quotation] Apologies if you receive this more than once ---------------------------------------------------- BISCA-99 BOLZANO INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS IN COGNITIVE ANALYSIS ADVANCES IN COGNITIVE SEMANTICS BOLZANO, 6-10 September 1999 Speakers: DAVID CRUSE=20 GEORGE LAKOFF RON LANGACKER LEN TALMY --------------------------------------------------------- General information: 1. Attendance to the school will be limited to about 30 participants. 2. A hotel list will be sent upon notification of acceptance. Hotel costs in Bolzano range between 70,000 and 250,000 Italian Liras per day, full= board. 3. Each speaker will give 4 lectures, with ample time for discussion. 4. All lectures will be in English. 5. The lectures will be given at Castel Maretsch, downtown, starting September 6, at 9 a.m. 6. A small number of boursaries are available to qualified students to meet the costs of participation. People wishing to participate should write to Liliana Albertazzi, Department of Sociology and Social Research, 26 Verdi st., 38100 Trento, Italy (call: (++39) 461 881 403; fax: (++39) 461 881 348), or send an e-mail message to: liliana.albertazzi@soc.gemini.unitn.it _________________________________________________________ For information on the initiatives of the Istituto Mitteleuropeo di Cultura Mitteleurop=E4isches Kulturinstitut see http: //www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm _________________________________________________________ BISCA's board of directors includes: L. Albertazzi (Trento), R. Langacker (La Jolla), J. Petitot (Paris), R. Poli (Trento) and L. Talmy (Buffalo)=20 _________________________________________________________ ************************************* Roberto Poli Department of Sociology and Social Research 26, Verdi street 38100 Trento -- Italy Tel. ++39-461-881-403 Fax: ++39-461-881-348 e-mail: roberto.poli@soc.unitn.it Axiomathes: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/Axiomathes/Axiomathes.htm IMC: http://www.soc.unitn.it/dsrs/IMC/IMC.htm From: "David L. Gants" Subject: FASSBL3 Conference - Plovdiv'99 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:34:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 992 (992) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues, It's announced the Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages Plovdiv, 24 - 26 September, 1999 The conference will be hosted by the Linguistics and Slavic Languages Department at the University of Plovdiv. Visit the site of thy conference for details: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Regards, Dinko Georgiev mailto:dinko@uni-plovdiv.bg From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for Papers Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:34:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 993 (993) [deleted quotation] International Symposium on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT&CLIP) Beijing, China, June 26-28, 1999 Call for Papers You are invited to participate in the International Symposium on Machine Translation & Computer Language Information Processing (ISMT&CLIP), which will be held on June 26-28, 1999 at Beijing, China. ISMT&CLIP is a international symposium on machine translation and computer language information processing. The symposium will provide a forum for the researchers, developers and participates to exchange their ideas and discuss the future direction of machine translation and computer language information processing. Sponsored by Natural Language Processing Scientific Committee (NLPSC) of Chinese Information Association of China (CIAC) Undertaken by Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Supported by Chinese National Natural Science Found Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Topics Suggested topics include (but not limited to): Machine Translation Grammar Machine Translation System Design and Practical Technology On-line Machine Translation Machine Translation Evaluation Multi-Language Knowledge Base Corpus and Processing Natural Language Processing Dictionary Regimentation and Language Engineering Information Retrieval & Information Extraction Natural Language Understanding Speech Recognition & Synthesis Intelligent Input Methodologies Pattern Recognition and Handwriting Recognition Network Information Processing and Communication Artificial Intelligent Technologies Application Computer-aided Instruction Natural Language Human-machine Interface Information for Authors Original unpublished papers of no more then six pages of A4 by laser printer are invited. The paper can be written in English or Chinese. All the papers must include following parts: title (subtitle), author information (address, postcode, author name, email), abstract, keywords, text and reference. The telephone number, fax number and detail address for contact if needed. Important Dates April 15, 1999 Paper of camera ready manuscript submission due May 15, 1999 Notification of acceptance Contact Zhou Xiaojun Research Center of Computer & Language Information Engineer of Chinese Academy of Sciences Kequn Building (West), No.30, Xueyuan Rd., Haidian District, Beijing, P.R China 100083 Tel: (010) 62333652-207 Fax: (010) 62312212 Email$B#:(Bxiaojunzhou@yahoo.com Authors also can contact with Co-Chair of the Program Committee of the ISMT & CLIP: Prof.& Dr. Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences Hiroshima City University 3-4-1, Ozuka-Higasi, Asa-Minami-Ku Hiroshima, 731-3194, Japan Tel:+81-82-830-1584 Fax:+81-82-830-1584 or +81-82-830-1792 Email:ren@its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp ------------------------------------------------ Fuji Ren Faculty of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University 3-4-1,Ozuka-Higashi,Asa-Minami-Ku,Hiroshima,731-3194,Japan Tel&Fax:+81-82-830-1584 Email:ren@its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp http://www.nlp.its.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp/~ren From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'99 Call for Demos Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:35:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 994 (994) [deleted quotation] Call for Proposals: ACL-99 Software Demonstrations Program [You may find it easier to read this information on the Web at http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ACLDemo/acl99demo.html] [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: esslli99 - deadline early registration Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:35:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 995 (995) [deleted quotation] ************************************************************************** 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 1999 August 9-20, 1999 Utrecht University, The Netherlands DEADLINE EARLY REGISTRATION: April 30 *************************************************************************** The ESSLLI programme offers courses, workshops, and a student session in the areas of: Language Logic Computation Logic & Language Language & Computation Logic & Computation For detailed information on courses, instructors, applications, housing, etc. please visit our web site: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Virtual Agents 99 - CFP Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:36:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 996 (996) [deleted quotation] ********************************************************************** Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Virtual Agents 99) http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/va99/ ********************************************************************** One day workshop prior to and in Association with the UK VR SIG 99 Confere= nce The Centre for Virtual Environments University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom 13th September 1999 Preliminary Call for Papers ------------------------------- [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MT Summit VII Workshop Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:37:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 997 (997) [deleted quotation] [material deleted] Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of CLIR. Undoubtedly searching, extracting and summarising information from the Web is a major challenge demanding multilingual solutions. Despite the fact that currently much textual WWW information is in English, the situation is radically changing. In addition, there is an increased amount of users who would prefer to use sites and/or query in their native language. There are different strategies for CLIR involving document translation, query translation, use of dictionaries. The adoption of a strategy depends on the user profile, the level of user interaction intended in the search process, the targeted use of the documents retrieved and the availability of linguistic resources, among others. We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or related technologies to CLIR. Are existing MT solutions sufficient for the information access demands of today? What type of MT linguistic analysis would be useful for CLIR? How can we identify the proper translations of query terms? How can we improve on existing techniques to improve precision and recall? A non-exhaustive list, which should serve as a starting point, follows: * Issues in query translation and query expansion * Alignment techniques for dictionary building * Level and type of linguistic MT analysis for CLIR (shallow, chunking, .....) * Type of multilingual resources (corpora, dictionaries, terminologies) used in CLIR * Role of terminology and ontologies in CLIR * Translation Memories in CLIR * Translation of index terms and descriptors * CLIR involving Asian languages (problems and challenges) Participation and Submission of Papers Participation is limited to 30 persons. Participants will be selected by the organizing committee, based on submitted papers. Participants will be expected to contribute to the workshop by either presenting a talk or taking part in the discussions. Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to submit long abstracts (up to three pages) on the listed research topics. Submissions may be sent by e-mail (PostScript files) or as hardcopies (in triplicate) to the workshop organiser. In the case where you use non-Roman fonts, hardcopies are preferred. The submissions will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Participants selected for giving a talk, will have to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) for the workshop proceedings. For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Organiser. Important Dates Abstracts due by: May 31, 1999. Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1999. Camera-ready version of Final Paper due: August 2, 1999. Main MT Summit: September 13-17, 1999. Date of the Workshop: September 17,1999 Organising Committee * Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Lab, Germany * Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France * Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Japan * Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore * Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea * Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Workshop Organiser Please send abstracts / papers to: Sophia Ananiadou European Media Lab (EML) Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 D-69118 Heidelberg Germany Fax: +49-6221-533-298 Email: Sophia.Ananiadou@eml.villa-bosch.org From: Spela Vintar Subject: Workshop on Language Technologies Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:38:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 998 (998) LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES - MULTILINGUAL ASPECTS CALL FOR PAPERS (http://www2.arnes.si/~svinta/workshop.htm) Workshop in the framework of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the SOCIETAS LINGUISTICA EUROPAEA, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 8-11 July, 1999 This workshop is intended for linguists, computational linguists, translators and other experts who are actively involved or interested in the field of language technologies. We especially wish to focus on multilingual technologies, which are gaining relevance for the Slovenian community in view of the accession to the multilingual Europe. [material deleted] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Conference: Understanding the Digital Economy Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:39:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 999 (999) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT March 30 1999 "UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY: Data, Tools, Research" May 25-26, US Commerce Dept., Washington, DC <http://www.digitaleconomy.gov/> Although there is no specific consideration of developing digital economic structures within the cultural community, this conference offers a point at which these considerations might be raised. One of the chief goals of the conference is the creation of a research agenda into the digital economy. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Tim Reuter Subject: Job: Teaching/Learning Coordinator Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:39:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1000 (1000) University of Southampton Faculty of Arts Teaching and Learning Co-ordinator The Faculty of Arts is engaged in a range of exciting innovations in teaching and learning which have attracted national funding. To take this work forward, we are looking for an outstanding colleague with experience not only as a teacher on the arts side of higher education but also as a developer of innovatory practice and an agent for change. Your role will be to implement a faculty-wide strategy for teaching and learning within a research-led curriculum, with particular reference to ICT, independent resource-based learning, and key skills. You will also provide support and staff development and will be responsible for bidding for further project funding. The post is for one year in the first instance, starting 1 June 1999 or as soon as possible thereafter. Salary in the range £18,275 - £23,651 on the Other-Related Grade 2 salary scale. For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Dr Alison Piper, Deputy Dean Undergraduate, on 01703 592221, email A.Piper@lang.soton.ac.uk or Vicky Wright, Director of the Language Centre, on 01703 592281, email V.Wright@lang.soton.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars may be obtained from the Personnel Department (A), University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, telephone: +44 (0) 1703 592750, email: recruit@soton.ac.uk or minicom: +44 (0) 1703 595595. Applications should be returned no later than 22 April 1999. Please quote reference number A/580. Working for Equal Opportunities From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Lectureships Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:40:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1001 (1001) [deleted quotation] Details on vacancies for Lecturers in Computational Linguistics follow: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________ Lisa Turner Departmental Administrator Philosophy Department King's College London WC2R 2LS Tel: 0171 873 2231 =46ax: 0171 873 2270 From: "S.Harnad" Subject: Doctoral Studentships Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:40:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1002 (1002) Dear Colleague, I have several studentships for doing a doctoral degree with me. If you have some very bright students who might be interested in doing a Ph.D. (experimental and/or computational) on categorical perception, symbol grounding, language evolution or some aspect of electronic communication, I would be grateful if you would encourge them to contact me. Best wishes, Stevan Harnad harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Professor of Cognitive Science harnad@princeton.edu Department of Electronics and phone: +44 1703 592-582 Computer Science fax: +44 1703 592-865 University of Southampton http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ Highfield, Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/ SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE: Assoc. for Computers & the Humanities Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:51:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1003 (1003) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 1, 1999 1999 Conference of the Association for Computers & the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/schedule.html June 9-13: Charlottesville, VA April 1 Deadline for Non-Member Low-Cost Registration ($175) http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/forms/register.shtml I would encourage all readers to consider attendance at this year's conference of the Association for Computers & the Humanities, held in conjunction with the Europe-based Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. This annual conference has broadened its appeal and, following this announcement of the conference, drawn from the website, I have taken the liberty of showing a selection of the program to give a sense of this evolving association. David Green =========== "The 1999 joint annual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing will take place from June 9-13 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, and will be hosted by the Electronic Text Center, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, and the The Instructional Technology Group of ITC (Information Technology and Communication). Program and schedule information are posted now, and online registration with secure credit card transactions is available. "If you're a publisher, software vendor, or hardware vendor, and you would like to reserve space for an exhibit at the conference, please contact John Alexander . "Some of those registering for this conference may also be interested in the Summer Publishing Institute (June 13-19, 1999), <http://uvace.virginia.edu/cup/publishing/pcsummer_institute.htm> an intensive week-long seminar that will explore the new technologies transforming the publishing industry." ========= PROGRAM INCLUDES (among over 60 papers and panels): Andrew Mactavish, Joanne Buckley, and Geoffrey M. Rockwell, "Building a Place for Multimedia Studies in the Humanities" Willard McCarty, "Thinking with markup: the case of personification." Adrian Miles, "Pedagogy goes to the movies: hypermedia in the cinema class room." PANEL: "Intellectual Problems in Scholarly Encoding," Harold Short, Chair Celia Duffy and Tony Pearson,"Networking Moving Images." Mary W. Elings and Eva Garcelon, "Expanding the Community: The Museums and the Online Archive of California (MOAC) Project." Matthew Kirschenbaum, Johanna Drucker, Jerome J. McGann, Worthy Martin, and Joseph Viscomi, PANEL: "Refining Our Notions of What (Digital) Images Really Are." Charles B. Faulhaber, "The Digital Scriptorium: A Visual Union Catalog of Medieval Manuscripts." Jerome P. McDonough, "The Making of America II: A Standardized Architecture for the Digitization of Primary Sources." Susan Hockey, Allen Renear, and Jerome J. McGann, PANEL: "What is text? A debate on the philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities computing research." Judith Thomas, "Meaning and Metadata: Managing Information in a Digital Image Reference Collection for the Humanities." Ray Siemens, "The Pragmatics of Publishing a Scholarly Electronic Journal." Carole L. Palmer and Laura J. Neumann, "Interdisciplinary Humanities Scholars and Hybrid Information Environments." ACH Panel: "Humanities Computing and the Rise of New Media Studies: Synergy or Disjunction?" David R. Chesnutt and Charles B. Lowry, PANEL: Scholars, Librarians, and Publishers: Stake-Holders in Digital Libraries. Grazyna Cooper, Paul Groves, Peter Karas, and Sarah Porter, PANEL (4 papers): "Initiate, Innovate, Collaborate: A New Model for Humanities Computing Teaching and Resource Development." =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: "Welling G.M." Subject: 1999 IAHC conference in Groningen (Netherlands) Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:50:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1004 (1004) The final date for proposals for papers (with an abstract) for the 1999 Conference of the International Association for History and Computing (august 24-27 1999) in Groningen in the Netherlands has been postponed to May 1st. The theme of the conference will be: Information and Communication Technology in History. Archives, Education and Research. For further detailed information about the conference, please go to the Website of the conference: http://www.let.rug.nl/ahc/ahc99/index.htm -- ============================================================================ | dr. George M. Welling || welling@let.rug.nl fax: + 31 50 363 6855 | | phone: +31 50 363 5474 || department of ALFA-INFORMATICA Faculty of Arts| | priv.: +31 50 542 0269 || University of Groningen, The Netherlands | | History & Computing || http://www.let.rug.nl/~welling/welcome.html | ============================================================================ | Associate-professor - Department of History - Bergen University - Norway| ============================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Transliterations Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:47:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1005 (1005) Calling for assistence in particular from Slavists and theatre theorists: Specific Case: Robert Segrest's article "The Perimeter Projects: Notes for Design" mentions Nikolai Eureinov and the concept of the "theatricalization of everyday life". I've read this article in the version reproduced in the collection edited by Michael Hays, _Architecture Theory Since 1968_. I have been unable to find any material by or on Eureinov through either a library catalogue search or through a W3 search (two defunct Web sites did turn up). Could there possibly be another transliteration of the name? Any bibliographical assistence would be appreciated. [Yes I am in the process of following up with the author of the article and back checking the publication record to locate the intrusion of any typographical mistake. And I have done searches using keywords "theater" "theatre" and "everyday life".] It seems to me that Eureinov's work would help sort out some issues that crop up in hypertext theory especially as to the imaginative construction (phenomenology) of the spaces of interaction in computer-mediated communciation. General Case: Transliterations and the sophistication of search engines. Any one care to venture a statement on the state of the art? -- Francois Lachance lachance@chass.utoronto.ca From: Harold Short Subject: Latin spellchecker for Word? Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:47:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1006 (1006) One of our colleagues in the Dept of German here at King's has asked whether there is a Latin spellchecker for Word. If any Humanist subscriber knows of such, I'd be grateful if they would respond either to the list or to me directly, and I'll make sure the information is passed on. Best wishes Harold ---------------------- Harold Short Director, Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Tel: +44 (0)171 873 2739 Fax: +44 (0)171 873 2980 [deleted quotation]Tel: +44 (0)171 848 2739 Fax: +44 (0)171 848 2980 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: what is this? Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:48:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1007 (1007) Now in the midst of writing a paper for the upcoming ACH/ALLC in Virginia, I am thinking of course not just about the subject matter itself but how my audience will receive whatever it is I end up saying. I'm wondering, that is, how we as computing humanists communicate with each other intellectually and so professionally -- not what might be, if we were all products of a common curriculum, but what actually happens. My basic question is, how do we recognise good work when we read or hear it? A more radical form of the same question is, how do we recognise work in our field at all? THIS IS NOT A SILLY QUESTION! My particular subject is how one thinks with markup when tagging the making and unmaking of persons in Ovid's Metamorphoses. I see no other alternative than to go rather deeply into the poetry so that I can deal with processes of thinking about personification. Providing a translation of the Latin isn't difficult, of course. The real difficulties are two. The first one is to communicate enough of the literary background to my probem so that my argument makes sense to those who don't know it -- without taking the entire time I have just setting things up. The second, much harder one is then to find a common language in which to describe my results so that they will be recognised as belonging to something we will all agree is called "humanities computing". I've done the job many, many times, but each time I worry about whether I'm actually communicating or just talking to an imaginary audience consisting of people who know exactly what I know (and no more than that, if you please!). Yes, of course, this is essentially the question of how human beings communicate at all, which certainly has me stumped, though it does happen, and sometimes so gloriously.... BUT back to the professional realm. Another way of putting the same matter, I suppose, is how a truly interdisciplinary field can exist at all without itself becoming just another piece of turf, within which people talk to each other but not very much to those outside it. How, for example, do comparative literature types manage without taking to the high ground of theory and ditching the literature? Computing makes us rather different, of course, necessarily gets us involved in other people's intellectual lives, forces us to think our way into many fields we did not grow up in. I wonder if a useful role-model wouldn't be the ancient Phoenician traders, who (I recall, I hope correctly) invented the alphabet, which might be called a significant intellectual achievement. Comments welcome. Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Reading Experience Database - RED Letter 3 - News Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:49:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1008 (1008) [deleted quotation] From: The William Blake Archive Subject: Blake Archive's April Update Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:49:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1009 (1009) The William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/> is pleased to announce the publication of two new electronic editions of Blake's satiric masterpiece, _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_. They are of copies C and F, both of which are in the Pierpont Morgan Library. _Marriage_ copy C, printed in 1790 in green ink on both sides of the leaf, was printed and colored in the style of early copies of _Songs of Innocence_. It has not been reproduced in color before. _Marriage_ copy F was beautifully and heavily color printed on one side of the leaf (with copy E) in c. 1794. It was produced in the style used for _Songs of Experience_ of _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_ copy F, color printed in 1794 and recently published in the Archive, as well as for _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy F, also in the Archive. _Marriage_ is the only illuminated book Blake did not sign and date; he did, however, pen in "1790" over line 1 in plate 3 of copy F, thereby clarifying the plate's allusion to 1757 ("and it is now thirty-three years since its advent"), the year of the Last Judgment, according to Swedenborg, and of Blake's birth. Copies C and F join _Marriage_ copy D, already in the Archive. Copy D, the Lessing J. Rosenwald copy in the Library of Congress, is also of bibliographical interest, in that it was printed in c. 1795 as part of a set of illuminated books that were printed on folio-size paper. This large-paper set also included _America_ copy A, _All Religions are One_ copy A, _There is No Natural Religion_ copy L, and _The Book of Thel_ copy F, all of which are in the Archive. It also included _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy G, _The First Book of Urizen_ copy B, _Europe_ copy H, and _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_ copy R, all of which will enter the Archive within the next six months. We now have thirty-one copies of sixteen illuminated books in the Archive. In addition to the books, we recently opened a new wing of the Archive, consisting of an extensive array of supporting materials: an updated and expanded Plan of the Archive, a statement of Editorial Principles and Methodology, a summary of the Archive's technical design and implementation, and a list of Frequently Asked Questions. Our hope is that these extensive documentary materials will prove valuable both to our own growing user community as well as to scholars interested in the theory and practice of electronic editing more generally. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi, Editors Matthew Kirschenbaum, Project Manager The William Blake Archive From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 24, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:49:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1010 (1010) Version 24 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 950 articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. HTML: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> Acrobat: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.pdf> Word: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.doc> The HTML document is designed for interactive use. Each major section is a separate file. There are live links to sources available on the Internet. It can be can be searched, and it includes Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources, a collection of links to related Web sites: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepr.htm>. The Acrobat and Word files are designed for printing. Each file is over 200 KB. (Revised sections in this version are marked with an asterisk.) Table of Contents 1 Economic Issues* 2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2 General Works 2.3 Library Issues 3 Electronic Serials 3.1 Case Studies and History* 3.2 Critiques 3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals* 3.4 General Works* 3.5 Library Issues* 3.6 Research* 4 General Works* 5 Legal Issues 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights* 5.2 License Agreements* 5.3 Other Legal Issues* 6 Library Issues 6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and Metadata* 6.2 Digital Libraries* 6.3 General Works* 6.4 Information Conversion, Integrity, and Preservation* 7 New Publishing Models* 8 Publisher Issues* 8.1 Electronic Commerce/Copyright Systems* Appendix A. Related Bibliographies by the Same Author Appendix B. About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Systems, University Libraries, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-2091. E-mail: cbailey@uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm> http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html> From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Intel's ArtMuseum.net & the new Whitney Site Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 18:50:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1011 (1011) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 1,1999 INTEL'S NEW ART SITE & THE NEW WHITNEY SITE <http://www.artmuseum.net/> <http://www.whitney.org/> <http://www.whitney.org/american.html> ArtMuseum.net is a new website developed by the Intel corporation, to "expand access to great art through the use of personal computers (PCs) and the Internet...and to provide a gateway to and from art and art-related content, topics and information on the Internet at large, while fostering a vibrant virtual space where discussion, opinion and experimentation converge." The current exhibit, "Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam," will shortly feature "virtual tours that allow visitors in remote locations to trade typed-text comments in real time while traversing the show's digital galleries, and user-navigable three-dimensional renderings of a pair of the artist's most-famous paintings." Intel is the major sponsor of the Whitney Museum's upcoming exhibition, "The American Century, Art and Culture 1900-2000," opening April 23. The exhibit will be the next to be featured on ArtMuseum.net. Both the Van Gogh Museum and the Whitney will shortly be re-launching their own museum websites, adding radically new features. The Whitney Museum is now also hosting the website of the Art Museum Network <http://www.amn.org/>. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]<> [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Willard McCarty Subject: de planctu redactoris Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:15:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1012 (1012) Dear Colleagues: All e-mail service to and from King's College London will be suspended 7-8 April while new equipment is put in place. The immediate consequence for us is that there will be no messages from Humanist during this time. Please continue to send your contributions as usual; they will, I am assured, not go astray. It is comforting, is it not, that we are close enough to the Good Old Days that such things can still happen? Just think -- one day soon we (or those who shuffle on our mortal coils) will be living in a dreadful world of seamless efficiency, where no service is ever interrupted. Enjoy the problems while you can! Yours cheerfully, de-spite the overcast skies, blustery wind, spittings of rain, delayed moves and all manner of other problems, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1013 (1013) [deleted quotation] What you are looking for is probably Evreinov, Nikolai Nikolaevich, 1879-1953. Not eU, but eV. As to the state of the art in transliteration, unfortunately art is what we are talking about, and there are many schemes for transliterating Russian, as also other languages. One has but to look at ones own name in Russian, e.g., to see how many problems there are. If we would all go to Unicode or some such scheme, we could get out of this morass. How do you transliterate the name of the author of the Brothers Karamazov? Along the same line, numerous bibliographies (e.g. MLA) do not handle extended characters well, so you end up with Beitrdge for Beitraege or some such. Not so much a problem, but what do you do with Mller? Is that vowel o-slash, o-umlaut, u-umlaut ...? The largest problem in humanities computing today is writing systems (fonts, even) and what to do with them, how to register them (HTML, SGML, Unicode, etc.), how to sort them, where can I get a font which ... and all that. Scarcely a day passes that I do not see a question on fonts, sorting, representation, scanning, or some such on one of the lists I visit. So far, no answer. Too many hands, too few pies (pun, only for old typesetters). Jim Marchand. From: Jim Marchand Subject: transliteration Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:14:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1014 (1014) Just for the fun of it, I looked up `transliteration' in our library catalogue and found 112 hits. There are SO many schemes for doing Russian (often called Cyrillic). I should probably mention this work: Author: Wellisch, Hanan. Title: Transcription and transliteration : an annotated bibliography on conversion of scripts / by Hans (Hanan) Wellisch. Published: Silver Spring, Md. : Institute of Modern Languages, [1975] Format: xxiv, 133 p. ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes indexes. ISBN: 0884991490 OCLC ID No.: 01347559 At home, I have a book on the theory of transliteration. I'll look it up and mention it tomorrow if no one does it earlier. I note also that tranliteration (should be biunique, one-to-one) is often confused with transcription. Jim Marchand. From: John Lavagnino Subject: Re: 12.0532 transliterations? Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:14:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1015 (1015) Francois Lachance writes: | I have been unable to find any material by or on Eureinov through | either a library catalogue search or through a W3 search (two defunct | Web sites did turn up). Could there possibly be another | transliteration of the name? I suspect you want the person who is commonly listed in library catalogues as "Evreinov, N. N. (Nikolai Nikolaevich), 1879-1953". John Lavagnino Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Maureen Donovan Subject: Re: 12.0533 recognising (good) work Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:15:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1016 (1016) Dear Willard: Very interesting question. I like your comparison with the Phoenician traders, especially because for them a "network" of contacts in various ports would have been essential to their success. The idea that this is somehow connected to their invention of the alphabet is interesting. For me, quality work in humanities computing must include use of the "networking" capability of computers. People who compile databases to analyze texts, etc -- although using computers -- are not taking advantage of this most important characteristic. On the other hand, people who make texts available for group members (or the public at large) to participate in the textual work are. (For example, the International Dunhuang Project at the British Library which is digitizing manuscripts in their collection to make it possible for scholars around the world to work on them -- something that only an extremely small number of people could do previously.) Whenever I hear of a new product, project, etc I find myself asking to what extent it is a part of the "digital age." Negroponte in describes 4 characteristics of the digital age: it is globalizing, decentralizing, harmonizing, and empowering. In his final column in he describes 5 forces of change: being global, being big and small (at the same time), being prime (asynchronicity), being equal, and being unterritorial. The greater the number of these characteristics (either list) that a project has, the more likely it is to succeed. That's my (unscientific) impression gained over the past couple of years.. Another source that is useful in thinking about how good a project is, is Larry Downes and Chunka Mui . Although they are writing mostly about business, some examples come from the nonprofit sector. This is basically a book about how to take advantage of the networking capabilities of computers. Again, that's what I'm looking for -- Well, that's how I've been thinking about this -- Greetings, Maureen Maureen Donovan Japanese Studies Librarian Associate Professor Ohio State University Libraries East Asian Libraries Cooperative WWW: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu donovan.1@osu.edu 614-292-3502 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0533 recognising (good) work Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:15:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1017 (1017) A response off the cuff to Willard's two problems: [deleted quotation] A good example goes a long way. I dare say your audience will be both entertained and edified by the posing of a problem, in miniature, which is taken to stand for the general case. (It is Ovid, after all.) The problem of time trade-offs in your presentation is merely (!) a design problem. [deleted quotation] Your continuing to worry even after your successes in this area indicates only that you are likely to do a good job (again). The dilemma you pose -- facing some kind of hermeneutic circle on the group level -- is, as you hint, endemic and perennial. Dealing with it is what makes the work creative. That you cite the Phoenicians' invention of alphabetic literacy is canny. The genius of what those traders did is not that they figured signs could stand for sounds. (I think that had been done before.) It was that they invented an encoding that was easy to learn, yet flexible. It was straightforward and could be learned in a few hours, and yet it could transcribe other languages than their own. To use current business-speak, they flattened the learning curve for literacy, and thus lowered the barriers to entry. So I'd think the way to go would be to aim your talk not to the already-sophisticated, but to the interested but uninitiated. This is likely to reach almost all your audience, especially given your problems and methodologies. A talk like this should not have to prove membership by uttering shibboleths. Rather, it should follow the Phoenician lead and invent, or discover, a technical language (a medium or notation) that is accurate and capable of meaning, and yet not overburdening or hard to learn. I would submit that the same principles apply to the development of markup languages -- but that's a different subject, isn't it? Best, Wendell (P.S. FWIW, I myself suffer your problem intensely, and in daily life. Half the time I'm convinced I'm uttering the completely obvious; the other half, I'm amazed anyone understands any of what I'm saying at all. --wap) ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: BEST PRACTICES: CIMI'S "Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:16:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1018 (1018) Core," available for Review NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 8 1999 BETA VERSION OF CIMI's GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE: DUBLIN CORE REVIEWS REQUESTED http://www.cimi.org/documents/meta_peerreview_announce.html The Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information has been working on the useability of the Dublin Core within the cultural heritage community. Its "Guide to Best Practice" is now available in a variety of formats for peer review and comment. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] CIMI is pleased to announce that the Guide to Best Practice: Dublin Core is now available for peer review. This document, one of several important outcomes of CIMIís on-going Dublin Core Metadata Testbed, focuses on the usability, simplicity, and technical feasibility of Dublin Core within the cultural heritage community. The Guide to Best Practice addresses Dublin Core 1.0 as documented in RFC 2413. The recommendations expressed in the Guide are based on the experiences of the Testbed participants and are designed to provide direction on representing cultural heritage resources as currently captured and described in typical museum collections information management systems. How to participate in the peer review 1. Download a copy of the Guide in one of three formats HTML, PDF, Word98. 2. Provide your comments electronically (separate comment pages are indicated throughout the document). 3. Return your annotated copy of the Guide as an e-mail attachment. 4. Return to: Angela Spinazze, CIMI Dublin Core Metadata Testbed Project Manager ats@atspin.com 5. Deadline: April 28, 1999 We look forward to hearing from you. Angela Spinazze Project Manager CIMI Dublin Core Metadata Testbed Phase II voice: 312.944.6820 fax: 312.944.6821 e-mail: ats@atspin.com =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Elka Kazmierczak Subject: Illustrator/Artist Position Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:17:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1019 (1019) Hello, I would appreciate your help in disseminating this information about a one year full-time position for an illustrator at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Starting August 15, 1999. We have a very short turn-around time, so any help in getting the word out is appreciated. Position description: ILLUSTRATOR, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO The State University of New York at Buffalo is seeking a professionally active artist/illustrator to teach in an established Illustration program within a major research university. This is a two semester, non-tenure track position, salary commensurate with experience. Application deadline is May 5 or until filled. Start date is August 19, 1999. Duties include teaching four undergraduate classes per year plus graduate tutorials, regular departmental assignments and committees. Qualifications include: MFA or equivalent experience in the field, record of professional illustration which focuses on conceptual, expressive solutions to visual communication problems. College teaching experience beyond TA not required but is desirable. We are looking for an open minded candidate with a broad vision, cross disciplinary interests and a contemporary approach to illustration. Send C.V., 20 slides and list, teaching philosophy, list of 3 references with phone numbers, and SASE. Student slides and artist statement are optional but encouraged. Send application materials to: Illustration Search Committee Art Dept., 202 CFA, Box 606010 University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-6010 For more information contact Elka Kazmierczak, (716) 645-6878 x. 1355. The State University of New York at Buffalo is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Minority and Women applicants are encouraged to apply. No person in whatever relationship with the State University of New York shall be subject to discrimination on the basis of age, creed, color, handicap, national origin, race, religion, sex, marital or veteran status. SUNY at BUFFALO The State University of New York (University at Buffalo) Department of Art an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) with 13 full-time faculty and additional adjunct faculty and staff who serve approximately 400 majors. The department offers a professionally oriented program leading to a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art, a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree. An interdisciplinary graduate program leading to the MAH is also offered. Major studio concentrations are available in Communication Design, Computer Art, Illustration, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture. Housed in the new Center for the Arts, designed by Gwathmey-Siegel, the art department shares space with Media Study and Theater and Dance, and is adjacent to the Department of Music, encouraging exciting opportunities for collaboration. Studios and classrooms are intelligently designed, organized and equipped, with natural light and state of the art ventilation provided where needed. Digital, photo, printmaking and sculpture labs are maintained by experienced technicians on staff. The University at Buffalo is the State University of New York's (SUNY's) most comprehensive university center, with the widest range of academic programming of any public institution in New York and New England. Currently it enrolls about 23,000 students in over 100 undergraduate programs, 112 master's and 98 doctoral level programs. The Buffalo metropolitan area is the second largest city in New York, with over 700,000 residents, and supports a rich cultural life that includes a very active literary scene, vibrant theater, symphony and one of the nation's premiere collections of twentieth century art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House is a 70 minute drive to Rochester, and Toronto is two hours away by car. For more information on the Department of Art, please visit our web site at http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandS/art/ Thanks a lot Elka Kazmierczak Elka Kazmierczak Assistant Professor Head, Illustration Program Art Department, 202 Center for the Arts SUNY at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-6010 ph: 716. 645-6878 x. 1355 fax: 716. 645-6970 home ph/fax: 716.885-9461 =============================================================== Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. TELNOS: main off: 818-677-2853 Professor, Communication/Linguistics direct off: 818-677-2874 Department of Communication Studies California State University, Northridge home: 818-366-3165 COMMS-8257 CSUN FAX: 818-677-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 INTERNET email: ALAN.HARRIS@CSUN.EDU WWW homepage: http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005 =============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Todd Oakley Subject: SEMCOM:Call For Papers Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:08:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1020 (1020) CALL FOR PAPERS COGNITIVE LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO LITERACY a seminar sponsored by The Society for Critical Exchange at the annual meeting of the Midwest Modern Language Association Minneapolis, 2-6 November 1999 Recent work in rhetoric and composition theory, education, as well as cultural and media studies has approached the question literacy by focusing on the material conditions of the production, dissemination, and comprehension of texts. Examining the social, political, and economic settings in which individual rhetorical agents write and read is indispensable for understanding acts of writing and reading. Equally important, however, is a more fundamental understanding of language structure and use as it relates to human psychology. Recent activities in linguistics and cognitive science has produced a family of approaches to language structure known collectively as cognitive-functional linguistics. While many of its sibling theories vary in scope and method, they unite around a common assumption that language structure is a composite of cognitive and social communicative strategies that emerge from basic psychological operations of perception, attention, memory, categorization, and metaphoric mapping. Thus, an account of language structure must address such issues as how individuals perceive the world, how they make use of their limited cognitive resources, and, as important, how they lay claim to the limited cognitive resources of other individuals -- which further entails having a theory of memory, categorization, and metaphoric mapping consistent with present research in the behavioral and brain sciences. This family of approaches to language structure may be a useful complement to detailed discussion of the material, cultural, and historical conditions that motivate literate practices. The aim of this seminar is to explore the possibility of combining the cognitive-functional approaches to language structure with the cultural material approaches to literacy (broadly defined). Individual contributors may wish to address (but are not restricted to)the following issues: the metaphors specific cultures use to conceive acts of writing and reading;=20 whether or not specific conceptual stands toward writing can be inferred from existing texts, and whether or not these conceptual stands form identifiable style of writing; the limits on working and long-term memory and how those limitations affect the development of specific kinds of textual production (literary or otherwise); the relationship between words and images in texts; how categorization affects reading; the relationship between writing and speech; meaning and context in the undergraduate essay; how readers construe intent from writing. Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 1999; deadline for full papers: 31 August 1999 Send Abstracts via email to "tvo2@po.cwru.edu" or to this postal address: Professor Todd Oakley, Department of English, Case Western reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7117 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: M4M: Call for Participation Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:09:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1021 (1021) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION METHODS FOR MODALITIES 1 (M4M) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam May 6-7, 1999 www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/M4M/ DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: May 1, 1999 THEME The workshop `Methods for Modalities' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and decision methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, feature logic, temporal logic. SPECIAL FEATURES To stimulate interaction and transfer of expertise, M4M will be centered around a number of long presentations by leading researchers; these presentations will provide both the background and inside information in a number of key areas. To complement these, there will be short, focussed presentations aimed at highlighting new developments, as well as system demonstrations. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: 3rd Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:11:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1022 (1022) [deleted quotation] The Third International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation Batumi, Georgia September 12-16, 1999 Second Announcement and Call for Papers In 1999, the Tbilisi International Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, will be held in the Black Sea coast resort Batumi from 12th to 16th of September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech (Tbilisi State University), in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam. The 1999 meeting is the third installment of a series of biannual Symposia. The first meeting was held in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri and the second took place in the capital of Georgia Tbilisi. The Third Symposium is dedicated to the memory of the prominent Georgian logician Shalva Pkhakadze. THEMES The Symposium welcomes papers on current research in all aspects of Linguistics, Logic and Computation, including but not limited to: Natural language semantics/pragmatics Algebraic and relational semantics Natural language processing Logic in AI and natural language Natural language and logic programming Automated reasoning Natural language and databases Information retrieval from text Natural language and internet Constructive logic and modal systems In line with the main trend in this field we strongly encourage the submission of papers concerning applications of logic to computation and the application of logic and computation to language description and modelling. [material deleted] http://www.illc.uva.nl/Batumi/ or contact: George Chikoidze Dept. of Language Modelling Inst. of Control Systems Georgian Academy of Sciences 34, K. Gamsakhurdia 380060 Tbilisi Georgia phone: +995 32 382136 fax: +995 32 942391 chiko@contsys.acnet.ge or Ingrid van Loon Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 1018 TV Amsterdam, he Netherlands Tel: +31 (20) 5256051 =46ax: +31 (20) 5255206 ingrid@wins.uva.nl From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for Participation: Modal Logics of Space Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:11:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1023 (1023) [deleted quotation] Call for Participation WORKSHOP ON MODAL LOGICS OF SPACE May 10, 1999 ILLC University of Amsterdam URL: http://www.wins.uva.nl/~aiellom/mls.html THEME In various applications there is a need for formal models of space and for formal languages for talking about such models. In sharp contrast to the related field of reasoning about time, modal logic approaches in this research area have been few and far between. However, this situation seems to change rapidly since quite recently a number of `spatial logics' have been proposed. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in formal representations of space, and particularly, in approaches based on modal logic. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: ATALA Workshop Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:12:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1024 (1024) [deleted quotation] ATALA Workshop Call for papers Treebanks Paris, Jussieu, June 18-19th 1999 For the ATALA workshop on Treebanks (syntactically annotated corpora), we solicit 40 min talks (including questions) on building and using such corpora. Relevant topics include : Building syntactically annotated corpora (SAC): - methodology - cost - selection of material - annotation tools - annotation standards - annotation formats - validation of annotations Using syntactically annotated corpora (SAC): - interrogation tools - knowledge extraction (lexicons, grammars, others) - evaluation of NLP tools Both written and speech corpora can be considered. Comparison with results obtained with tagged corpora (annotated for morpho-syntax only) are also welcome. Program committee Anne Abeille, U. Paris 7 (chair) Susan Armstrong (ISSCO, Geneve) Roberto Basili (U. Tor Vergata, Roma) Philippe Blache (LPL, Aix en Provence) John Carroll (U. Sussex) Benoit Habert (ENS Fontenay) Eva Hajicova (U. Charles, Prague) Hans Uszkoreit (U Sarrebrucken) Eric Wehrli (LATL, Geneve) Annie Zaenen (Xerox RC) Invited Speaker : Geoffrey Sampson (U. Sussex) Submission : Send, preferably by email, an abstract of 5 pages maximum before April 15th 1999 to : Anne Abeille, Universite Paris 7 UFRL, Case 7003 2 place Jussieu 75005 Paris France abeille@linguist.jussieu.fr From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 Call for Exhibits Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:13:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1025 (1025) [deleted quotation] EACL '99 Exhibit Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 Call for sponsoring and commercial demonstrations The Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites the participation of commercial partners at its Exhibit programme. Participation can be either through an official sponsorship or by hiring an exhibit space. Please consult the following webpage: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/sponsor.html Please get in touch with eacl99@hit.uib.no before April 16, 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Imaging, Visualization and Humanities Research Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:13:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1026 (1026) [deleted quotation] ***CALL FOR PAPERS*** ARCHIVES AND MUSEUM INFORMATICS: THE CULTURAL HERITAGE INFORMATICS QUARTERLY SPECIAL ISSUE: IMAGING, VISUALIZATION and HUMANITIES RESEARCH DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS -- JUNE 30, 1999 Papers are requested for a special issue of Archives and Museum Informatics: the cultural heritage information quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal from Kluwer Academic publishers, that explores the *application* of imaging technologies in humanities research. Much has been written about the development of imaging systems and the tools and techniques for image capture and visual database construction. But what are the research results that come from using imaging technologies? What new questions have they enabled us to ask, and answer? Do these new ways of seeing change the way that we think about and understand cultural artifacts and works of art? What advances have we made in our research fields as a result of the use of these tools? What do we know now, that we couldn't have known without visualization or imaging technologies to assist our analysis? Papers are invited that report on how imaging technologies were used in a humanities informatics project to further the research goals of the investigator. Authors are requested to highlight the tools that they used, and how they related to the research problem investigated. What were the benefits of using imaging and visualization technologies? What were the draw backs? What recommendations can experience in one humanities research project offer for others? Full papers will be accepted for peer review and possible inclusion in this issue until June 30, 1999. For Guidelines for Authors, and instructions about submitting papers, please see http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/armu.guide.html Questions or comments about this special issue can be directed to: J. Trant Editor-in-Chief Archives and Museum Informatics: the cultural heritage informatics quarterly jtrant@archimuse.com -------- J. Trant Editor in Chief Archives and Museum Informatics, the cultural heritage informatics quarterly c/o 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA jtrant@archimuse.com Phone: +1 412 422 8530 Fax: +1 412 422 8594 -------- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEW JOURNAL - CALL FOR PAPERS Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:15:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1027 (1027) [deleted quotation] NEW JOURNAL - CALL FOR PAPERS Title of the Journal : JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches [ JASS ] AIMS AND SCOPE The mission of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" is on the development of methodologies based on the laws and rules of various sciences. New designs and functional methodologies are composed for applications in business, operational and social, as well as biological phenomena. The objectives of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" are to widespread the science of systems and present the research and application results of its domain. As the science rapidly changes and grows, resources and time become more precious, "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" provides the very best information and analysis to keep up to date with the latest developments and approaches to other scientific domains, through the application of systems approaches upon them.=20 The "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" aims to: To provide a forum for the exchange of experiences and information of studying the systems and the methodologies, tools and products used to design, measure and achieve it. To promote awareness of the crucial role of systems studies in the effective construction of the information systems developed, used, and/or maintained by organizations in pursuit of their business objectives. To provide a vehicle for the publication of academic papers related to all aspects of soft and hard system approaches. The "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" addresses all aspects of systemic analysis from both a practical and an academic viewpoint. It invites contributions from practitioners and academics, as well as national and international policy, standard making bodies, and sets out to be the definitive international reference source for such information. The readership of the "Journal of Applied Systems Studies" consists of academics, systems managers, computer scientists, information scientists, and researchers in applied system theory, as well as those involved in management, operations and political science in different scientific discipline i.e. Universities, Consulting Firms, Enterprises and Industries. Topics of Interest Topics of interest to JASS include, but are not limited to: =B7 Applications of cybernetics using the viable system model =B7 Applications of interactive planning methodology =B7 Applications of soft systems methodology =B7 Applied cybernetics in medicine =B7 Applied living systems =B7 Cognitive patterns =B7 Complex systems =B7 Conceptual systemic models =B7 Control systems =B7 Critical systems thinking =B7 Culture of peace =B7 Decision support systems =B7 Dynamical systems approaches =B7 Electronic service systems (Internet, Intranet, Extranet, Deltanet) =B7 Human-centered systems =B7 Human-computer interaction =B7 Intelligent systems engineering =B7 Intelligent tutoring systems =B7 Knowledge based systems =B7 Knowledge ecology =B7 Law systems =B7 Multimedia systems =B7 Problem structuring approaches =B7 Project management using systemic approaches =B7 Religious systems =B7 Semiotic approaches =B7 Social systems design =B7 Systemic metaphors =B7 Systemic reengineering =B7 Systems - metasystems and decisions - metadecisions =B7 Systems and design education =B7 Systems approaches for information systems =B7 Systems thinking for total quality management =B7 Total systems intervention =B7 Virtual communities We seek papers that improve on the best academic research or the best practical applications. Submitted papers should be motivated by the problems they address with compelling examples from real or potential applications. Systems papers must contain either a new methodology or interpreted results through well known methodology(ies) on real systems or simulations based on representative traces from real systems. Proposals for special issues, especially on emerging topics, are also welcome. EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief : Nikitas A. Assimakopoulos, Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, 80, Karaoli & Dimitriou Str., GR-185 34 Piraeus, Greece. Email : assinik@unipi.gr Honorary Editor : Bela H. Banathy, President of the International Federation for Systems Research & International Systems Institute, USA. Editor : Russell L. Ackoff, Chairman of the Board of INTERACT, USA. Associate Editors : William Acar, Kent State University, USA. Paul Ballonoff, Ballonoff Consulting, USA. Bela Antal Banathy, President of ISSS and International Systems Institute, USA. Michele Barbi, Istituto di Biofisica del C.N.R., Italy. Bernard De Baets, University of Gent, Belgium. Frantisek Carkovic, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. Tony Chan, University of Aizu, Japan. Alexander Christakis, CWA, Ltd., Interactive Management Consultants, USA. John Darzentas, University of the Aegean, Greece. Martine Dodds, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Daniel Dubois, University of Liege, Belgium. Patrik Eklund, Umea University, Sweden. Peter Erdi, Academy of Sciences, Hungary. Marta Franova, Universite Paris Sud, France. Wojciech Gasparski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Ewa Grabska, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Raymond Ison, The Open University, UK. Gyuri Jaros, University of Sydney, Australia. Cliff Joslyn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. John Karkazis, Athens University of Economics & Business, Greece. Manolya Kavakli, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. Etienne Kerre, University of Gent, Belgium. Peter Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia. Petr Lansky, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. Brian Lees, University of Paisley, UK. Yi Lin, President and Director of the International Institute for General Systems Studies, China. Vladimir Marik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic. Abraham Mehrez, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Fr. George Metallinos, University of Athens, Greece. Gerald Midgley, University of Hull, UK. Toshizumi Ohta, University of Electro-Communications, Japan. Anthony Panayotopoulos, University of Piraeus, Greece. Luis Rocha, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA. James Rose, Ceptual Institute, USA. Gordon Rowland, Ithaca College, USA. Timothy K. Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C. Ross Smith, Deakin University, Australia. Karl Svozil, University of Technology of Vienna, Austria. Steven Totosy de Zepentek, University of Alberta, Canada. Lane Tracy, Ohio University, USA. PUBLISHER "Cambridge International Science Publishing" , Cambridge, England. GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS Authors should send to the Editor-in-Chief via email (assinik@unipi.gr) the paper in attached file(s) using "winzip32" for compression, with a description in the body of the message, and by post a printed copy along with the electronic file(s) submission on a 3=BD diskette which should conform the following requirements : 1. Manuscripts must be submitted in English and spelling should be adapted with The Concise Oxford Dictionary. Original papers (not published or not simultaneously submitted to another journal) will be reviewed by three anonymous referees. Upon acceptance of an article by the journal, the author(s) will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the publisher which it will insure the widest possible dissemination of information under applicable copyright law.=20 2. The disk should be in IBM PC format; the files should be saved in Microsoft Word for PC, version 97 for Windows. Any other word-processing package will not be approved for submission. For artwork, figures and tables should only use the Ms-Office 97 package facilities and must be grouped and pasted, in the proper place, into the Word document.=20 3. Papers should be typed on one side of the paper. The pages should be numbered consecutively at the bottom centre of the page. The length of the paper should not exceed 10 journal pages (or about 5000 words), and hence manuscripts should not exceed 15 typed single-space A4 (printing area 14.7 x 24.7 cm) pages including title page, abstract, text, figures, tables and references. The number of artworks, figures and tables must be kept up to a minimum. Do not start a new page after the title information and abstract. Do not use tab for the first text line of each main section. Paragraphs should be both right and left justified. 4. The fonts (typeface) is Times New Roman. The text type size should be 11 points. Please use the page set-up command to ensure that your paper is prepared on A4 size paper (21 x 29.7 cm) using the default format for text and margins at the top and the bottom of the page for Microsoft Word 97. 5. The title should be written on the first line of the first page, left justified in upper and lower case letters (20-points bold). The authors' names should be left justified two lines below the full title in upper and lower case letters (14-points). Affiliation and mailing address (including email) should follow left justified also in upper and lower case letters (11-points).=20 6. Two lines below the author's name and affiliation start an abstract as the first paragraph of the paper. The abstract should follow the title, author's name, and mailing address on the first page (10-points) and must be up to 150 words. At the end of the abstract, skip a line and then, left justified, type "Keywords" (10-points bold) : followed by up to three (3) sets of words that describe the focus and contribution of the paper (10-points). The first set of keyword must be one of the topics of interest to JASS. Skip two lines and then begin the body of the paper (after an Introduction heading if required) immediately after the abstract. 7. All major headings are left justified. They are to be written in 12-points bold font and numbered consecutively followed by a period and the default tab, with Arabic numerals, e.g., 1. Introduction. Do not put a period after the text of the heading. Leave two lines above a major heading and one line before the start of the next paragraph or second-level heading. Subheadings are flush left in 11-points bold. There should be one line space before and after this level of heading. The paragraph should be numbered as a subsection of the previous major heading and the default tab e.g., 7.1 Subheadings. Sub-subheadings are flush left, in italics and in 11-points type. The paragraphs should be numbered as a sub-section of the previous subsection heading and the default tab e.g., 7.1.1 Sub-subheadings. There should be one line space before this level of heading and after this level of heading and the following paragraph. 8. The electronic version of the art should be included in the attached files and on the diskette, and it must be incoprorated into the word-processing file. Figures should be labeled in the text as "Figure x". Figure captions should be typed directly below the figure, in upper and lower case (11-points), and centred. 9. Table captions should be centered above the table. Tables should be included in the manuscript proper and referred to in the text as "Table x". 10. When numbering equations, enclose numbers in parenthesis ( ) and place them flush with the right-hand margin. Refer to them in the text as "Equation (x)". 11. Papers should be written without the use of footnotes. 12. Mathematical expressions and Greek or other symbols should be typed using the facilities of Ms-Word 97 and must be written clearly with ample spacing. Use the widely accepted symbols and abbreviations following the style of BS 1991 Part 2 1954. 13. All papers should end with a conclusion which summarizes the value of the work end, where appropriate, indicates possible directions for future developments. 14. References must be indicated in the text by brackets [ ]. Identify references in the text of the paper by typing the corresponding surname (or first surname) and year in brackets e.g.: [Aauthor (1998)]. They are listed alphabetically at the end of the paper under the major heading "References" (12-point bold font) left justified. List authors alphabetically by the first letter of the first author's surname name. Book titles and names of journals should be printed in italics. Please adopt the following style for references : Aauthor, A. (1998). Title of Book. XYZ Press, New York. Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1999). Title of Paper. Journal vol. 3(2), 1-20. Cauthor, C., Aauthor, A., Bauthor, B., and Jones, G. (1996). Title of Paper, in Title of Book, (E. Editor, ed.). XYZ Press, New York, 47-82. For multiple papers in the same year by the same author(s): Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995A). Title of PaperA. JournalA vol. 3(5), 1-20. Bauthor, B. and Aauthor, A. (1995B). Title of PaperB. JournalB vol. 6(9), 56-80. 15. If material has been published elsewhere, authors must obtain the consent of the earlier publisher. Authors wishing to use material from the JASS should consult the Editor-in-Chief. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Price, Dan" Subject: RE: 12.0533 recognising (good) work Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:06:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1028 (1028) I am struck by one section of Wendell's response to Willard and the "problem" of recognizing good work. The response concerns the development of the Phoenician traders. "The genius of what those traders did is not that they figured signs could stand for sounds. (I think that had been done before.) It was that they invented an encoding that was easy to learn, yet flexible. It was straightforward and could be learned in a few hours, and yet it could transcribe other languages than their own. To use current business-speak, they flattened the learning curve for literacy, and thus lowered the barriers to entry." In some sense, this "flattening of the learning curve" is also going on now in our adjustment to the computer revolution. More than once, I have had the experience of communicating with someone by e-mail about something in regards to formatting or style or postings or resources--only to discover that the person on the "other end." was a teen-ager or younger. The learning curve here has been flattened. We professional academics are struggling, in a way, to find our way in this strange new world where, at times anyway, we are as much a novice (or to put it more positively) the young are as much informed and able as the older, more experienced. Often, we encounter the objection that CMC is only a fad or merely a secondary innovation, similar to the use of film strips in the '60s or xeroxed articles in the '70s. The objection denies that CMC has the potential to fundamentally transform both the delivery and the understanding of education. In the 1500s, print likewise "flattened the learning curve" be enabling many more to become literate than previously. How did the universities, the academics, respond then? My general impression is that they continued to talk to themselves and ignored the general reading public. There was little, if any attempt, to approach the new readers. Certainly in the 17th and 18th centuries the universities fade in importance to the broader learning community. This new learning curve is simply one more example of what is fundamentally "new territory" for all of us. Nothing in our academic training has prepared us for this. We too then are experiencing a "flattened learning curve" and need to first recognize it and then adapt to it. Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.1222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.1222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html> *********************************************************** From: Tom Davis Subject: Guidelines for Evaluation of Faculty Using Technology Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 21:51:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1029 (1029) I am the chairman of a committee here at Appalachian that has been given the task of compiling guidelines to be used by Deans and Chairpersons when they evaluate faculty involvement with technology. The basic problem is how does one recognize various involvements in the use of technology as meritorious when compared with traditional forms of scholarship? If anyone has formulated such guidelines, I would appreciate your forwarding me a copy. It would be nice not to have to re-invent the wheel, so to speak. ---------------------- Charles T. ("Tom")Davis Philosophy and Religion Department Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina davisct@appstate.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Fraser Subject: Beyond Art? 21 April 1999 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:51:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1030 (1030) Beyond Art? Digital Culture in the Twenty-first Century Wednesday 21 April 1999, The Oxford Union Debating Chamber http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/beyond/ Organised by: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford Are computers ruining or reinventing the arts? How have digital technologies changed the creativity of the artist, the writer, the film-maker, the musician? What about the experiences of the viewer, the reader, the critic, the librarian? The 'Beyond Art?' Colloquium will look afresh at digital culture, and discuss its place in the future of the arts. Set in the historical Debating Chamber, distinguished speakers will present their views and debate the future shape of our culture's landscape. Topics and Speakers: Literature: John Burnside Currently the Poetry Society's Virtual Poet-In-Residence, John used to work in the computer industry and has published six volumes of poetry, a novel, and has won the Faber Prize. Peter Howard Peter is both a telecommunications systems design consultant and a published poet with a long history of work on and with the Internet. Art & The Future: Sean Cubitt Lecturer in Screen Studies at Liverpool John Moore's University and author of the recent 'Digital Aesthetics'. Roy Ascott Roy has a long history of practice as an artist working with digital and telematic media and is currently Director of the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport Digital Museums & Archives: Jane Carmichael Jane is keeper of Archives at the Imperial War Museum Dan Greenstein Dan is director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service Music: Nigel Morgan Nigel is a composer and a lecturer in the School of Music at Bretton Hall College Style & Design: Peter York Peter York, in his roles as author, journalist (with The Independent on Sunday) and broadcaster is best-known as a commentator on the textures of contemporary popular culture. Robin Baker Robin Baker is Director of Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and author of 'Designing the Future'. Broadcasting & the Future: Peter Gibbins Peter is Executive Director of the Digital Virtual Centre of Excellence for Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology at the Magadalen Centre in Oxford. Theatre & Performance: Barry Smith Lecturer in Theatre and founder of the Live Art Archive, Barry has recently been awarded funding to undertake a major collection and analysis of digital performance events. For more information, including online registration, go to http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/beyond/ Standard rate: 40.00 pounds Students / unwaged: 5.00 pounds Tel. +44 (0)1865 273221 Fax. +44 (0)1865 273275 Email: hcdt@oucs.ox.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 12.0544 guidelines for evaluation? Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:52:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1031 (1031) The faculty senate at UC Berkeley has addressed the question of electronic publications. I don;t have the exact statement to hand, but the gist is that they are to be evaluated and weighted exactly as print prublications are. Thus if they appear in a peer-revewed electronic journal, they are to be iven exactly as much credence as if they appear in a peer-reviewed print journal. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu From: Willard McCarty Subject: criteria Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:52:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1032 (1032) Charles Davis' question is a good one, because it leads to several other questions I don't think we as a community have faced. The easiest kind of e-work to accept without much effort is the conventional scholarly article. If it is simply moved into electronic form without significant innovation the only real hurdle is peer-review. Many academic e-journals are now peer-reviewed, so I would think that no real problem remains here. I would suppose, however, that if a scholarly article were to incorporate computational features impossible in paper form, our more conventional colleagues would begin to get uneasy. I am thinking, for example, of links to online databases that deliver to the reader the data under discussion, or incorporation of charts, showing e.g. the distribution of a word or set of words across a text. The reaction of some adventurous senior academics to resistance from their colleagues is simply to publish online independently of any reviewing process. Why not? As the number of such useful online articles increases, what happens to the peer-reviewing process? What happens as a result of the increasing tendency of even conventional publications to cite these articles? Materials used in teaching pose a different sort of problem. Previously these have hardly counted toward promotion and tenure, though teaching as such has at least formally been counted. Online class handouts become, however, a form of publication in a way that photocopied handouts are not. If these online handouts are thus in circulation well beyond the confines of the class for which they were made, then do we give them more importance, count them as a kind of publication? What happens to primary electronic resources, e.g. databases, textbases, electronic editions and archives? If these are truly innovative, then how possibly can we expect our colleagues, who may not have any basis on which to understand what they are, to evaluate them sensibly? If these scholarly works help to answer questions that no one previously would have bothered to ask, since getting an answer was out of the question, then how can we expect these colleagues to recognise their merit? Indeed, how can anyone at all know what their merit might be? Pure research, I suppose, has always been risky. How do we encourage the taking of risks? (In my neighbourhood, one can simply go to The Three Blackbirds and get a pint of Courage, but not everyone is as blessed in this respect as I am.) Comments? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Fraser Subject: Computers & Texts 16/17 Published & Call for Articles Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:10:24 +0100 (BST) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1033 (1033) Computers & Texts 16/17 (double issue) is now available in print and online editions. Computers & Texts is the journal/newsletter of CTI Textual Studies. The URL is: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/comtxt/ Computers & Texts 16 has been published online for a number of months. The publication of a double issue adds the following articles and reviews: Leon Litvack & Nicholas Dunlop, "The Imperial Archive: Creating Online Research Resources". Celia Duffy, "Networking Moving Images: The BFI/BUFVC/JISC Imagination/Universities Network Pilot project". Michael Popham & Alan Morrison, "News from the Oxford Text Archive". Barry Smith "Changing Shades: Review of Metabody and Chameleons 2". Christopher J. Pountain, "Major Authors on CD-ROM: Miguel de Cervantes". Kathryn Sutherland, "Romanticism: The CD-ROM". Helen Clark & Nicola Timbrell, "Response to the Review of the BBC Julius Caesar CD-ROM". Mairi Levitt, "The Issue of Abortion in America: An explanation of a social controversy on CD-ROM". Christopher Stephens, "EndNote 3.0: First Impressions". Colleen McKenna, "Computer-Assisted Assessment Centre National Survey". COMPUTERS & TEXTS 18: 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, theology, classics, philosophy, film studies, theatre arts and drama). We especially welcome reviews and case studies of computer resources currently being used within teaching & learning (especially within UK higher education). Reviews of relevant books and conference reports are also welcome. The Oxford Text Archive sponsors a section relating to the creation and use of electronic texts/editions for research as well as teaching purposes. All contributions for Computers & Texts 18 should reach the Centre by 15 May 1999. 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 Fraser (Editor) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Manager, CTI Textual Studies Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 343 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/ Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 12.0546 guidelines for evaluation Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:12:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1034 (1034) The Modern Language Association's "Guidelines for Evaluating Computer-Related Work in the Modern Languages" are published in the 1996 issue of the annual journal _Profession_. They're also available from the MLA Web site at: http://www.mla.org/reports/ccet/ccet_guidelines.htm Matt From: Joel Goldfield Subject: Re: 12.0544 guidelines for evaluation? Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:13:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1035 (1035) For guidelines on the evaluation of language & literature faculty who use technology, contact the Modern Language Association of America. CALICO and IALL are also working on statements. The guidelines we worked on (MLA Exec. Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research) which were released by the MLA in April 1996 are still available as a flyer, were published in _Profession 96_, and are being updated by the current comittee. One colleague in French told me that the '96 guidelines played a critical role in his receiving tenure from the SUNY system. I append below the e-version that Bettina Huber of the MLA sent to me in Aug. 1996. I have replaced the instances of "^M" in the original e-mail (representing bullets), with "O". Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University =================================================================== Guidelines for Evaluating Computer-Related Work in the Modern Languages MLA Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Research The Statement on Computer Support, adopted by the Modern Language Association in 1993, highlights the importance of new electronic technologies for the humanities and provides the basis for departmental and institutional support of modern language faculty members who use such technologies and integrate them into their work. As the statement notes, "Generating, gathering, and analyzing texts electronically is becoming a necessity for all education, especially for the contributions made by the humanities." As a supplement to the 1993 statement, the following guidelines address means of evaluating the scholarship, teaching, and service of faculty members who study, develop, and use electronic technologies in their work. Because the role of computer technologies in the study of language, literature, and writing is evolving, departments wishing to hire and retain faculty members centrally concerned with the application of these emerging technologies to the humanities need to consider the tasks, support, and evaluative procedures involved. And faculty members who pursue computer-related work as part of their formal assignments should be prepared to make explicit the results, theoretical basis, and intellectual rigor of their work, as well as its relevance to the discipline. The following guidelines, which deal with both the hiring and promotion processes, are designed to help departments and faculty members build productive working relations, effective evaluation procedures, and means of disseminating the results of computer-related work. Guidelines for Search Committees and Job Candidates When departments seek candidates with computer expertise or when candidates wish to have such work considered an important part of their positions, there should be an initial understanding of the recognition given to computer-related work and of what electronic facilities are available or planned. Departments should ensure that computer-related work can be evaluated within their tenure and promotion procedures. In particular, search committees should be prepared to discuss the following with all candidates O how the department evaluates research and publication in computers and the humanities, O what importance is attached to the development of new software and what criteria are used to evaluate such software, O what credit is given for the integration of electronic technologies into courses, O what recognition is given to professional activities relating to computing, and O what criteria are used to evaluate faculty members who provide computing support to colleagues, staff, and students. As candidates discuss the teaching, scholarship, and service responsibilities of an academic position, it is important that they ask questions, such as the following, about the role of electronic technologies in the department and the university: Are technical support staff members available to the department's faculty members and students? Does the department plan to undertake initiatives in the use of electronic technologies? What access do faculty members and students have to computer facilities and resources? Guidelines for Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Reviews Computer-related work, like other forms of scholarship, teaching, and service, should be evaluated as an integral part of a faculty member's dossier, as specified in an institution's guidelines for reappointment, promotion, and tenure. Faculty members are responsible for making a case for the value of their projects, articulating the intellectual assumptions underlying their work, and documenting their time and effort. In particular, faculty members expecting recognition for computer-related work should ensure that their projects remain compatible with departmental needs, as well as with criteria for reappointment, tenure, and promotion. Periodic reviews provide an opportunity to assess the match between a faculty member's scholarly and pedagogical development and the department's needs and expectations. Because appropriate roles for computer technology in the study of language, literature, and writing are still emerging, faculty members should be prepared to explain O what theory informs their work. O why their work is useful to the discipline. O the evidence of rigor and intellectual content in their work. Documentation of projects might include internal or external funding, awards and professional recognition, and reviews and citations of work either in print or in electronic journals. For subsequent evaluation of professional service, faculty members should maintain a record of the duties involved in activities such as organizing and managing a lab facility, increasing the meaningful use of electronic media in instruction, training student aides or faculty colleagues, and moderating an electronic discussion group. Pedagogy and scholarship involving technology often entail collaborative or interdisciplinary work. Departments need to find appropriate ways to evaluate the faculty member's role in such work. This process may include finding evaluators with expertise in both specific disciplines and computer technology; these experts are best qualified to evaluate and translate accomplishments in a rapidly changing field. Sources that may help departments choose appropriate evaluators include the editorial boards of computer-related journals (e.g., _CALICO Journal_, _Computers and the Humanities_, _Computers and Composition_, _Hypermedia_), the committees focusing on electronic technologies in appropriate scholarly and professional organizations (e.g., the MLA, CCCC, ACTFL, the AATs, NCTE), the courseware review sections of modern language journals (e.g., _CALICO Journal_, _Computers and the Humanities_, _Computers and Composition_, _Foreign Language Annals_, _French Review_, _Hispania_, _IALL Journal_, _IDEAL: Issues and Developments in English and Applied Linguistics_, _Language Learning Journal_, _Literary and Linguistic Computing_, the Northeast Conference _Newsletter_, the Institute for Academic Technology's _Newsletter_ and _Research Reports_, _TESOL Journal_, _Tongues Untied_, _Unterrichtspraxis_), _Humanities Computing Yearbook_ (Oxford UP), and the latest edition of the _CALICO Resource Guide_ (Durham: CALICO). April 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: authorship attribution problem Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:13:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1036 (1036) The following statement of an authorship attribution problem was sent to me by a writer in N California who is investigating the subject described below. Please send your replies both to Humanist AND to Michael Koepf . It sounds like an interesting if very difficult problem. Yours, WM ----- THE LORD'S AVENGER LETTER In 1990 a letter appeared with specific information about a car bombing. It is approximately an eleven hundred-word typewriter written document with an additional eight biblical quotations set off from the main body of text. The letter is written in the style of a Christian zealot, but opinion seems unanimous that the letter was a hoax, albeit a hoax containing details of two criminals acts verified by law enforcement. Problem: To compare The Lord's Avenger letter of unknown authorship with works of authorship from four known authors. The samples from the known authors will be of at least equivocal length as the unknown letter and all known samples will have been taken from unedited works that appeared in a newspaper. One submitted sample of writing will be a known hoax authored by one of two of the included authors. The known authors will be identified by number rather than name to protect their identities. The results of the problem are not intended to prove certain culpability in a crime. Indeed, exoneration of authorship is the most probable outcome for all four included known authors, but if some statistical attribution for one particular author emerges it will not be viewed as proof of guilt. It will merely augment a line of investigation and research. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ken Litkowski Subject: Re: 12.0548 authorship attribution problem Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:48:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1037 (1037) Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I think my software can make an attempt at this problem. The software MCCALite can be downloaded directly from my site, but I would very much like to try it out myself. Please let me know where I can get the data. Shouldn't take but a couple of hours, assuming that the data are in ASCII. Ken -- Ken Litkowski TEL.: 301-482-0237 CL Research EMAIL: ken@clres.com 9208 Gue Road Damascus, MD 20872-1025 USA Home Page: http://www.clres.com From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0548 authorship attribution problem Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:48:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1038 (1038) The methods for comparing two texts for authorship attribution are of long-standing, fairly well agreed-on, and in my opinion, bizarre and incongruous. They seem based on reasonable principles, but when a study "proves" that _Pearl_ was not written by the author of _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ (as has happened), there is something wrong with the process. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0547 guidelines: the MLA's Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:49:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1039 (1039) The MLA Guidelines for computer-related work seem remarkably irrelevant. As usual, the MLA is years behind the times when computers are involved. They seem to mix up computer-aided reserach, computer-aided teaching, etc., want to make the availability of computers to the rest of the faculty some sort of criterion (do they do this with regard to non-computer research and publishing? No.), and seem to waffle all over the place on just what it is they are talking about. I don't think the MLA is any closer to understanding computers and the humanities than it was 25 years ago. Try to get your school to ignore the MLA piece. From: Tim Reuter Subject: Re: 12.0546 guidelines for evaluation Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:50:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1040 (1040) Both Charles Faulhaber and Willard McCarty imply that peer review is enough to put e-work on an equal footing with conventional work. But are there any criteria for peer review? I ask because it's a phrase often bandied around in a humanities research context, though I've never seen it tightly defined. Who is a peer? Who gets to decide who a peer is? Do you need more than one for real peer review? Should work be anonymised when submitted to peers? What safeguards should there be against abuse of peer status (both ways)? After a recent research assessment exercise (memo to North Americans: that's when we are weighed in the balance and found wanting) a historian on the history panel claimed that he knew which history journals were peer-reviewed, and which weren't. I certainly don't, and even for those where I do I don't know precisely what peer review means in each case. But without some rules, isn't it a meaningless criterion? Tim Reuter ---------------------- # Tim Reuter # Department of History, University of Southampton # Southampton SO17 1BJ # tel. +44 1703 594868 (home: 552623; fax: 593458) # email: tr@soton.ac.uk; http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tr/tr.html # ALFRED CONFERENCE: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wmc/alfred.html From: Willard McCarty Subject: the MLA's guidelines Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:50:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1041 (1041) Thanks to Matt Kirschenbaum for pointing to the "Guidelines for Evaluating Computer-Related Work in the Modern Languages", published by the Modern Language Association, <http://www.mla.org/reports/ccet/ccet_guidelines.htm>, and to Joel Goldfield for reproducing the text. I wonder if I am alone in finding these Guidelines disappointing, and more than a little concerned about the revision. The current document seems largely an exhortation to departments and faculties to consider all the details, but it carefully avoids spelling out the criteria by which these details are to be sifted. I note in particular the following: "Because appropriate roles for computer technology in the study of language, literature, and writing are still emerging, faculty members should be prepared to explain: o what theory informs their work. o why their work is useful to the discipline. o the evidence of rigor and intellectual content in their work." A statement that the job should be done is, of course, welcome. One wonders, however, what the committee in question is supposed to do with the explanation provided. How, exactly, is it to be evaluated if the members of the committee are themselves not sufficiently well educated in humanities computing? If the committee goes looking for an expert to advise them, how can they be expected to tell good advice from bad? It is a shocking fact that not *all* those who profess to know the subject in fact know it, or indeed even recognise it as a subject. That these Guidelines do not mention the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, which jointly sponsor the yearly international conference in the field, does not inspire confidence.... I wouldn't say that the Guidelines are a guarantee of promotional twaddle, but without real knowledge at the receiving end, there wouldn't seem to be much of a filter in place against it. My question is, how do we arrive at the necessary knowledge? What structures do we need to put in place so that such knowledge as we do have can be assembled and applied most effectively? Yours, WM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/> maui gratia From: Michael Best Subject: Re: 12.0546 guidelines for evaluation Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:50:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1042 (1042) Humanists interested in the evaluation of electronic scholarship in the academy may want to look at the "Guidelines for the Recognition of Computing in Humanities Scholarship" approved by the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Victoria. They can be accessed on line as part of the supporting materials for the Internet Shakespeare Editions at this address: <http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Foyer/CompRecog.html> Michael Best Department of English, University of Victoria Victoria B.C. V8W 3W1, Canada. (250) 598-9575 <http://www.engl.uvic.ca/Faculty/Best/> Coordinating Editor, Internet Shakespeare Editions <http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Two New York City performances: April 20, May 8 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:52:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1043 (1043) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 14, 1999 Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Requiem for a Young Poet April 20, 1999, Carnegie Hall, New York City http://www.carnegiehall.org/requiem Modern-Day Leonardo in Performance: Jaron Lanier May 8, 1999, Cooper Union, New York City http://www.asci.org/cyberart99/Jaron.html Departing from custom, I am posting two announcements of performances, as I thought they would interest readers of this list. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] In conjunction with the U. S. Premiere of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's monumental "Requiem for a Young Poet" (1967 - 69) on April 20th at Carnegie Hall: Requiem for a Young Poet http://www.carnegiehall.org/requiem produced in collaboration with Vivian Selbo To introduce this complex work, with its use of multi-media and layering of texts, we've created a special area on our site with bios, program notes, a synopsis, and the complete libretto. We've also commissioned a unique art project, the "requiem animations." Using ascii art and fragments of text and sound clips from the original, the requiem animations adapt Zimmermann's work for the web, playfully echoing its concern with language, layering, and juxtaposition. Zimmermann called his Requiem a "lingual," with reference to Wittgenstein, placing not only singing and speaking on the same plane, but also sound, music, and the images and ideas evoked by them. Steeped in the panoramic literary, political, and historical influences of the 1960s, Zimmermann's Requiem features sources as varied as recordings of Alexander Dubcek and Joseph Stalin, texts by Mao and Mayakovsky, and musical quotations -- both live and on tape -- ranging from Beethoven to the Beatles. The April 20th performance, with the Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra Freiburg led by conductor Michael Gielen, calls for three choirs, two vocal soloists, two speakers, a jazz combo, an orchestra without violins, and loudspeakers distributed around the auditorium. Zimmermann's aim was to place the listener in the center of a thought-provoking setting that would highlight the world in all its complexity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To purchase specially discounted tickets, please call CarnegieCharge at (212) 247-7800, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, and tell them you saw the offer online (balcony tickets excluded). For ticket info and availability, visit the concert calendar at: http://www.carnegiehall.org/cgi-bin/carnegie/viewevent.cgi?key=001220&from=%2fcg i-bin%2fcarnegie%2fcalendar.cgi&x=74&y=6 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tune to National Public Radio's Morning Edition on Friday, April 16 for a special feature on Zimmermann's Requiem (check your local NPR station for program times). In the New York area, that's 93.9 WNYC FM , where you can also hear the feature on New Sounds with John Schaefer, Thursday, April 15 at 11:00 PM - midnight. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ X->Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 19:25:11 -0400 [deleted quotation] IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Cynthia Pannucci /ASCI Modern-Day Leonardo in Performance May 8, 1999 at 8pm The Great Hall at Cooper Union, NYC 7 E. 7th Street @3rd Ave. (tickets $20 @ door: 6-8pm) http://www.asci.org/cyberart99/Jaron.html Jaron Lanier, the musician and scientist who coined the term "Virtual Reality" brings two loves of his life, music and technology, together in a new form of live performance. This benefit event for Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI), a New York-based, international non-profit organization, will take place in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union, Saturday, May 8 at 8pm. (tickets on sale from 6-8pm) Although he is a composer and musician rather than a sculptor like Leonardo, as a scientist, he pioneered the development of Virtual Reality. In his current research work at Advanced Network & Services in Armonk, NY, he acts as a catalyst bringing together recognized experts in virtual reality and networking to identify the issues and develop plans to build a national tele-immersive research infrastructure. With the goal of accelerating the development of better tools for research and educational collaboration, this plan will be woven into the fabric of many of the Next Generation Internet applications. http://www.advanced.org/teleimmersion.html "Echoes of Chromatophoria," combines deep use of virtual worlds with a multicultural aesthetic. What "deep" means is that the use of Virtual Reality isn't just a gimmick. In this multimedia performance work, virtual musical instruments that couldn't exist in reality are played, and "real" instruments become sophisticated interfaces to the exotic 3-D images of his virtual world. In this performance, Jaron will make use of Virtual Worlds developed for last year's appearance by his group Chromatophoria at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. He will play a variety of instruments, including the Ba Wu, Seljeflote, Gu Zheng, Khaen, and Disklavier piano. A variety of sensors connect these to Silicon Graphics-based 3-D images that are projected real-time on a large-screen video display. About the name: "Chromatophoria" comes form Jaron's love and admiration of the Giant Cuttlefish, creatures that communicate by displaying luminous, quickly changing, colorful images all over their bodies. Chromatophores are the color-changing cells found in the Cuttlefish's skin that act as pixels. Jaron on the web: http://www.advanced.org/jaron This event is produced by ASCI and Cooper Union Adult Education and with the additional support of: YAMAHA, Theatrical Services & Supplies/PROXIMA, Silicon Graphics, and A's Wave. Cynthia Pannucci Founder/Director Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) ****Celebrating its 11th Year**** =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New CSTB Report: "Being Fluent with Information Technology." Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:53:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1044 (1044) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 14, 1999 "BEING FLUENT WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY" New Computer Science & Telecommunications Board Report http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/ A new report from the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council interestingly addresses the importance of our moving beyond encouraging computer literacy to enabling "computer fluency." This should be of importance for us in thinking about our constituencies. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council is pleased to announce the public release of a new report entitled "Being Fluent with Information Technology." Seeking to understand what is necessary for people to use information technology effectively today and to adapt to changes in information technology tomorrow, the authoring committee (listed at the end of this note) decided that "literacy in information technology" was too limited a term, as it is usually limited in the information technology context to the ability to use a few applications like a spreadsheet program or a word processor. The new report approaches the problem of understanding information technology from the standpoint of fluency. Fluency requires a deeper understanding of how computers work and mastery of technology for information processing, communication, and problem solving. Developing fluency is a life-long learning process that requires people to continually build on their knowledge of information technology to apply it more effectively in their lives. Fluency is also characterized by different levels of sophistication in a person's understanding and use of technology. The report articulates an intellectual framework for fluency with information technology using three essential and interrelated components for using information technology effectively. * Intellectual capabilities -- the application and interpretation of computer concepts and skills used in problem solving. Examples include the ability to define and clarify a problem and know when it is solved; to understand the advantages and disadvantages of apparent solutions to problems; to cope with unexpected consequences, as when a computer system does not work as intended; and to detect and correct faults, as when a computer shuts down unexpectedly. * Concepts -- the fundamental ideas and processes that support information technology, such as an algorithm; how information is represented digitally; and the limitations of information technology. Understanding basic concepts is important, the report says, because technology changes rapidly and can render skills obsolete. A basic understanding also helps in quickly upgrading skills and exploiting new opportunities offered by technology. * Skills -- abilities that are associated with particular hardware and software systems. Skills requirements will change as technology advances, but currently they include using word processors, e-mail, the Internet, and other appropriate information technology tools effectively. An individual fluent with information technology will always be acquiring new skills and adapting other skills to a changing environment. Although the committee also believed that most people regardless of grade level or experience can achieve some level of fluency, the report's implementational focus is on college students because institutions of higher learning have the most experience developing courses about computers and related information systems. Colleges also serve a large constituency with a broad range of interests and specializations to which information technology can be applied. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation. The pre-publication version of this report (subject to further editorial correction) is available on the Web at http://www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/ (after 4:00 pm on April 9), and the final version will be available at this address as well. Hard copy of the pre-publication version of this report is available on request. The final version will be available in book form by mid-May through the National Academy Press (800-624-6242 , or http://www.nap.edu/). Also, CSTB welcomes opportunities to brief this report to interested organizations and parties. If you are interested in arranging such a briefing, please contact Herb Lin (hlin@nas.edu, 202-334-3191). NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications Computer Science and Telecommunications Board Committee on Information Technology Literacy Lawrence Snyder (chair) Professor of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Seattle Alfred V. Aho *) Associate Research Vice President Communications Science Research Division Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies Holmdel, N.J. Marcia C. Linn Professor of Education, and Director, Instructional Technology Program Graduate School of Education University of California Berkeley Arnold H. Packer Senior Fellow Institute for Policy Studies Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Allen B. Tucker Jr. Professor of Computer Science Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Bowdoin College Brunswick, Maine Jeffrey D. Ullman(superscript: *) Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering Department of Computer Science Stanford University Stanford, Calif. Andries van Dam(superscript: *) Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education, and Professor of Computer Science Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, R.I. *) Member, National Academy of Engineering *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* To subscribe to the Benton Communications-Related Headlines, send email to: listserv@cdinet.com In the body of the message, type only: subscribe benton-compolicy YourFirstName YourLastName To unsubscribe, send email to: listserv@cdinet.com In the body of the message, type only: signoff benton-compolicy If you have any problems with the service, please direct them to benton@benton.org =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.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: Michael Thompson Subject: SSP Pre-Meeting Seminars Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:49:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1045 (1045) Here is the Pre-Meeting Seminar information for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, to be held June 9-11, 1999 in Boston. Please excuse any duplication, as I have posted this information to several lists which may find it of interest. E-mail for more information or check out our web site for up to the minute details <http://www.sspnet.org> ----- Wednesday, June 9, 1999 8am ^Ö noon Developing Critical Skillsets for Today^Òs Publishing Environment Carol Meyer, Publisher Relations, SilverPlatter Information Rapidly changing technology, outsourcing of editorial and production functions and the impact of mergers and acquisitions is effectively rewriting job descriptions. To be successful, every organization needs to have staff who know how to do the job. Have you considered the skills necessary to manage the changing processes internally, with your customers, suppliers and partners? Take time with this workshop to analyze the skills needed by your staff for the modern publishing organization. Once you discover those skills, explore the factors that will help you decide whether to augment your skill portfolio from the outside or to develop them within your organization. Both training and economic considerations will be discussed. A recruiter will analyze industry trends addressing new types of positions and skills in demand. A line manager will outline the impact of change within an organization and the decision to develop or acquire critical skillsets. A consultant will speak to the trend to- wards outsourcing and partnering with suppliers as it affects job functions. This program will identify needed skills in each functional area and look at sources of either training or skilled labor to accomplish the task. To contribute effectively in a rapidly changing environment requires that managers understand the impact of the changes and the options available to them. Managers from any size organization will find this seminar useful for evaluating how best to accomplish the task at hand. Wednesday, June 9, 1999 8am ^Ö noon Web Site Information Architecture: Planning and Designing Information Collections on the Web Paul Kahn, President, Dynamic Diagrams What is Information Architecture and why is it so important in planning a web site? Just as the architect coordinates the engineering, aesthetic, and functional needs of a physical building, the information architect works to develop the structural foundation and functional specifications of a web site. This seminar will review the steps in planning and executing a sound information architecture for web sites, with special attention to scientific/technical/medical (STM) publication sites. The visual logic of the web site design is then built upon the structural logic of the architecture. The result should be a site that is easy to use, easy to maintain, and flexible enough to grow as the content expands. We will review important questions that must be answered when developing, analyzing, and de- signing web sites, such as: What are the key objectives for the web site? What are the advantages of planning diagrams? What is the web site^Òs user profile? What are the user^Òs information needs? What unique features can a web site offer? What is the overall structure of a web site? What types of information should be linked? What types of navigational controls are required? How do we design for limited screen space? How do we monitor a web site to capture appropriate usage information? How can SGML, XML, and HTML be used to support template-driven design? Wednesday, June 9, 1999 1 pm ^Ö 5 pm Language of the Internet: The Fundamentals of Evolving Knowledge Architectures Marjorie M. K. Hlava, President, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. Jay Ven Eman, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Access Innovations, Inc. Are you AOD^Òd? Acronym overdosed? AARCII, MARC, EDI, NLP, SGML, Z39.50, PDF, HTML, DSSSL, XML, XSL, XLL, CSS, CDF, RDF, DHTML, COM, DOM? The rich new world of knowledge resources on the Internet and intranets is overflowing with technical specifications, standards, and quasi-standards (proprietary formats posing as standards). New standards are quickly emerging. Existing standards are evolving. What does it all mean? Where does it all fit? What relates to what? What supports what? What is important? Do you need to know any of this? How much? In what depth? Understanding and rationally responding to this new world impacts directly on the ability of publishers to remain competitive and viable (and this includes nonprofit and government publishing operations). The history and interrelationship of these concepts is covered. You will be introduced to historical database designs and markup. We will trace this history to current concepts and approaches. The transition from an exclusively proprietary world to a more open standards environment is presented, including the significance of this shift. ******Michael P. Thompson***Director of Communications******* **thompson@resourcenter.com**303-422-3914**FAX 303-422-8894** ******************<http://www.edoc.com/ssp>****************** From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for Papers - ASLIB Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:50:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1046 (1046) [deleted quotation]Supported by: ITI, EAMT, IAMT, BCS [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 2nd Call for Papers/FASSBL3 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:50:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1047 (1047) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues, There is recent information about the 3rd CONFERENCE on FORMAL APPROACHES to SOUTH SLAVIC and BALKAN LANGUAGES, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, September 24 - 26, 1999 Please, visit our conference site: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Best regards, Iliyana Krapova (on behalf of the Organizing Committee) From: "David L. Gants" Subject: POSTPONEMENT OF THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN MACHINE CONVERSATION Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:50:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1048 (1048) [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues: I very much regret to announce the postponement of the third Bellagio workshop until 11-13 July 2000. It has been an unfortunate side effect of the recent problems at the European Commission. We annnounced the meeting with distinguished speakers and the plan was to fund them from an EC grant. Suddenly, our proposal along with the others that had received was returned to wait for a new RFP in the summer--too late for us, alas! We felt it would not be right to go ahead this year after withdrwing the invitations to the speakers, so we will postpone till next year, hopefully with the same speakers and sponsors and EC backing. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mary Dee Harris Subject: Re: 12.0551 guidelines: mene, mene! & something better? Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:48:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1049 (1049) With regard to Willard's comment that the MLA Guidelines do not mention ACH or ALLC, I had to wonder whether either (or both) of these relevant associations has developed their own guidelines for evaluation of computer-related work in language, literature and the humanities. Such a statement would be welcome from those who actually do this sort of work. Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin mdharris@cs.utexas.edu From: Jim Marchand Subject: Evaluating computer work Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:48:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1050 (1050) I have only a couple of remarks. The problem of peer review (gatekeepers of science topos) is insurmountable; most people think we must have it. The problem is that none of the people in my department would be able to judge work in computers, since they use the computer mostly as a typewriter, with some network involvement. Not to badmouth my own department, this would be true of most departments I know of. This means that errors are inevitable, both as to promotion and letting go. Next, there is the problem of who does the work. I know of people who have published concordances, for example, who downloaded the text, outsourced the programming, made a KWIC concordance, so there was little formatting, got it published and submitted it to the tenure committee. Such work should not count. On the other hand, if you write a concordance program yourself, no matter how good, you will have a hard time getting any credit for it. To wax personal again, I once designed a program which would allow you to type a Gothic manuscript in any one of the 21 scribal hands (you could even mix them) and forge a manuscript. When I sent our chancellor a copy, he told me at a cocktail party: "That's great! I can do that on my Mac." Oh, sure. I suppose one needs guidelines, and certainly a tenure committee forms a peer review group. I am reminded of the lines my old friend Colin Cherry once wrote (On Human Communication, p. 23): "In point of fact, when a young man enters a large business or industry {read university, JWM}, filled with zeal, he imagines that above him there is an Ordered World; but as he climbs the ladder and reaches the giddy heights of Administration, only then does he slowly come to realize that the `machinery' may be very nebulous -- an affair jerked along by clash of personalities and given momentum by ambitions." One must not confuse the de jure, de more and de facto aspects of reality. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Andrew Hawke Subject: assistant editor wanted Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:53:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1051 (1051) Dear Humanists, The following advertisement for the appointment of an Assistant Editor to Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru (the University of Wales Historical Dictionary of the Welsh Language) will be appearing shortly. If you know of any potential applicants, we would be most grateful if you could draw the vacancy to their attention. A degree in Welsh or Celtic Studies is essential. Further details about the project can be found on the Dictionary's website at: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww =========================================================== Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Gwahoddir ceisiadau am swydd GOLYGYDD CYNORTHWYOL Cyflog ar raddfa 1A Staff Ymchwil y Prifysgolion rhwng £15,735 a £23,651. Dylai ymgeiswyr feddu ar radd anrhydedd dda neu gymhwyster uwch yn y Gymraeg neu bwnc perthnasol. Gellir cael rhagor o fanylion a ffurflen gais oddi wrth y Golygyddion, Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3HH (ffôn: 01970 627513, ffacs: 01970 627066, post-e: geiriadur@aber.ac.uk), a dylai'r ceisiadau gyrraedd erbyn 7 Mai. =========================================================== With thanks, 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. URL: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~gpcwww/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: retiring but not shy Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:49:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1052 (1052) De te fabula narratur As Horace says, don't laugh. We have been talking about the tenure hassle, and it certainly is that. It is at the interfaces of life that the big traumas happen. Detenureification can also be traumatic. I am now going to wax personal, but as you see from my title it concerns you, too. I have just been notified by my supervisor that I must give up my office (up Hearts and Flowers, read Alcuin's farewell to his cell). Like many emeriti, I have an office filled with books, equipment, and in this case also a thin little wire which connects me to you. Like many emeriti, I looked forward to retirement and a chance to get some things done. This comes, naturally, at the worst time. The expense of setting up elsewhere is enormous. One simply has to change directions radically, give up such frivolities as Internet, downloading the Ante and Post-Nicene Fathers and Old Swedish, talking to colleagues, looking things up in books, etc. The point to all this is that I am telling a story which happens to most retiring professors, and it seems that those who are into the governance of universities have not addressed the problem. The retiring but not shy scholar finds him- or herself in the situation outlined above or an analogous one, at a time in life when _force vitale_ is dwindling, resources dwindling (sans everything, to quote the bard), but when he or she might do his or her (cannot persuade myself to use _their_) best work. As mankind gets older and older, there will be more of us in this situation, and the loss to scholarship could be enormous (I write in cliches). Anyway, forget about me. This is a problem which needs to be addressed. ! Jim Marchand. From: Anthony Subject: Humanities in danger? Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:49:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1053 (1053) This query is more related to Humanities than to Computing but I am not sure where else to address it. The Korean Government, like many others, is not showing much interest in funding research or teaching in the humanities at university level and seems to believe that universities should be wholly oriented toward socially 'useful' programs of a scientific or otherwise practical kind. English Departments are under pressure to provide nothing but conversation classes and 'introductions to daily life (if not 'business culture') in the US and UK'. I have been asked by colleagues here to find recently - published books or articles in English which might be quoted in submissions of opinion in support of the maintenance of some version of the traditional humanities college in the modern (21st- century) university. I would be most grateful if members of this list could indicate to me anything of the kind that they have found forceful. (Professor) An Sonjae English Dept, Sogang University, Seoul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: New TEI Consortium Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:51:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1054 (1054) Consortium Formed for the Maintenance of the Text Encoding Initiative A new consortium has been formed for the maintenance and continuing work of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). The TEI is an international project to develop guidelines for the encoding of textual material in electronic form for research purposes; until now, it had been organized as a simple cooperative effort of the three sponsors, and funded solely by grant funds. Now four universities have agreed to serve as hosts for the new consortium, and the three organizations which founded the TEI and have governed it until now have agreed to transfer the responsibility for maintaining and revising the TEI Guidelines to the new consortium. In the first five-year period of the consortium (2000-2005), the four hosts will be the University of Bergen (Humanities Information Technologies Research Programme), the University of Virginia (Electronic Text Center and Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities), Oxford University (Computing Services), and Brown University (Scholarly Technology Group). The three original sponsoring organizations (the Association for Computers and the Humanities, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing) will maintain close contact with the consortium in order to ensure a smooth transition to the new governance structure. Representatives of the sponsoring organizations, the consortium hosts, and the user community expressed optimism that the TEI Consortium will provide a stable, useful organizational structure for the TEI. "If the TEI is to be useful to users in research and teaching," said John Unsworth of Virginia, "there must be a stable base of financial support. The TEI Consortium will make it possible to provide that support, and ensure that the TEI is around for the long term." Lou Burnard, the European Editor of the TEI and representative of one of the new host sites, agreed. "The TEI has always been about taking the long view of data for scholarship. If there were no TEI Consortium to provide for the maintenance of the Guidelines, it would be necessary to invent one. As, indeed, we have just found ourselves forced to do." Manfred Thaller of the University of Bergen stressed the importance of spreading the word of the TEI in countries and disciplines where it has not yet been successfully disseminated. "For many people less familiar with markup and SGML and XML, the TEI is still a wholly unknown quantity. There are many populations in which it is still necessary to explain why having a widely used common encoding scheme is something people should be interested in, and why it should be in SGML or XML. The TEI Consortium will provide a useful basis for speaking to these communities." With the rise of XML, some observers predict that the TEI Consortium has a window of opportunity to make TEI a much more widely used method of text encoding than ever before. "Now that common off-the-shelf browsers are beginning to support XML and style sheets," says David Chesnutt (who represents the ACH on the TEI consortium transition team), "we have something to give users that they can use, in their current environments, today. We no longer have to tell them about pie in the sky by and by -- there's software they can use right now. We'll always need more software for scholarly work, sure -- but it is a big improvement to be able to use Internet Explorer or Netscape to look at a historical documentary edition in its SGML form, instead of having to translate it into HTML or use a piece of software people wouldn't otherwise need to get." "When people see what XML and style sheets can do," said Allen Renear of Brown, "who is going to want to continue using HTML? They'll be looking for good DTDs to use -- and the TEI is going to be RIGHT THERE and ready for them." Background: The Text Encoding Intiative (TEI) is an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research, and to serve a broad range of purposes for the language industries more generally. During the ten years from 1988 to 1998, the TEI issued two sets of draft guidelines and one 'final' version (TEI P3). During this decade, the TEI has become the most widely used document-type definition for encoding full-text literary and linguistic resources in library collections and scholarly editorial projects. The TEI's steering committee has been considering a reorganization of the project for some time, and issued calls for proposals last summer. The new consortium was proposed by the University of Virginia and the University of Bergen and was accepted, in February of 1999, by the TEI's three original sponsoring organizations, ACH, ACL, and ALLC. The basic principles of the new consortium are these: * TEI guidelines, other documentation, and the TEI DTD should continue to be free to users; * Participation in TEI governance should be open (even to non-members) at all levels; * The TEI will continue to strive to be internationally and interdisciplinarily representative; * No role with respect to TEI should be without term. More information about the TEI consortium, membership and members' services, TEI guidelines and their implementation, and other TEI-related events, opportunities, and materials can be found at http://www.tei-c.org/ The TEI Consortium: In response to a public request for proposals from the three sponsoring organizations that originally formed and supported the TEI, the University of Bergen and the University of Virginia proposed, and the original sponsoring organizations endorsed, a community-based, international, and collective mechanism for the maintenance and development of the Text Encoding Initiative, to take the form of a consortium. This consortium will include four host institutions (with a preference for the broadest possible international representation) who will host TEI meetings (on a rotating basis), commit institutional resources (in the form of cash and services) to building a membership base and to supporting the editorial operations associated with the TEI. These hosts will recruit other members to the consortium, from library organizations, scholarly societies, and other groups with a proven and acknowledged interest in data standards; these members will pay an annual fee to belong to the consortium, in exchange for which, each will have a vote in the election of the TEI Council, early access to draft revisions and updates to the TEI DTD and its documentation, and discounts on TEI-related services. The TEI Council itself may include individuals who are not themselves from member institutions. A principal purpose of this consortium will be to provide expanded opportunities for representatives of various TEI user communities to participate in the management and direction of TEI, and to formalize the procedures for such participation: the first election of the TEI council and directorate will be held in the spring of 2000. The consortium will also make it a priority to see that a corrected and updated version of the TEI P3 guidelines is issued as soon as possible, and in connection with that revision, to develop new training materials including practical examples of TEI markup in particular disciplinary contexts. TEI's History: The TEI began with a planning conference convened by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and gathering together thirty-odd experts in the field of electronic texts, representing professional societies, research centers, and text and data archives. The planning conference was funded by the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (an independent federal agency) and took place at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York on 12-13 November 1987. After two days of intense discussion, the participants in the meeting reached agreement on the desirability and feasibility of creating a common encoding scheme for use both in creating new documents and in exchanging existing documents among text and data archives; the closing statement (the Poughkeepsie Principles) enunciated principles to guide the creation of such a scheme. Following the planning conference, the task of developing an encoding scheme for use in creating electronic texts for research was undertaken by three Sponsoring Organizations, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Each sponsoring organization names representatives to a Steering Committee, which is responsible for the overall direction of the project. With support from NEH and later from the Commission of the European Communities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the TEI began the task of developing a draft set of Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange. Working committees comprising scholars from all over North America and Europe drafted recommendations on various aspects of the problem, which were integrated into a first public draft (document TEI P1), which was published for public comment in June 1990. After the publication of the first draft, work began immediately on its revision. Fifteen or so specialized work groups were assigned to refine the contents of TEI P1 and to extend it to areas not yet covered. So much work was produced that a bottleneck ensued getting it ready for publication, and the second draft of the Guidelines (TEI P2) was released chapter by chapter from April 1992 through November 1993. In the spring of 1993, all published chapters were revised yet again, some other necessary materials were added, and the development phase of the TEI came to its conclusion with the publication of the first `official' version of the Guidelines (the first one not labeled a draft) in May 1994. Since that time, the TEI has concentrated on making the Guidelines more accessible to users, teaching workshops and training users, and on preparing ancillary material like tutorials and introductions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: amuse yourself Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:30:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1055 (1055) As playful lovers of language, members of this Seminar may enjoy John Lawler's Chomskybot, at <http://stick.us.itd.umich.edu/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl>. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0552 guidelines Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:28:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1056 (1056) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1057 (1057) [deleted quotation] Jim, that's of course a problem in all fields....not only was there no one in my English Department who knew anything about my research, there was no one in the whole University who knew anything about it either. One falls back on the Gilbert & Sullivan solution If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for _me_, Why what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be. (Patience) (I will refrain, while gritting my teeth, from applying this to some of our leading Theorists.) [deleted quotation] Another magnificent metaphor for the upper reaches of Administration, in school and out, is Peer Gynt peeling an onion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Gudrun Oberprieler Subject: Computer Driving Licence Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:29:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1058 (1058) Hello All, at the University of Cape Town, we are currently investigating the possible introduction of the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) / International CDL (ICDL) as a qualification for our staff and students. Does anybody have experience with the E/ICDL at their institution / in their country and could comment on whether this is perceived by both educational institutions and industry to be a desirable qualification? Or is it even becoming THE standard qualification and proof of basic computer literacy skills that is required for job applications etc.? Are people keen to obtain it and how do you judge the standard of proficiency required in the different areas? We would also be interested to find out about training materials used to prepare people for the exams, and also about assessment tests used. There are apparently several such tests on the market which are recognised by the Computer Societies who drive this qualification and issue the certificates. Thanks very much in advance Gudrun Oberprieler ********************* Dr. Gudrun Oberprieler University of Cape Town Academic Development Programme Private Bag, 7701 Rondebosch Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-650 3477 / 2251 Fax: ++27-21-650 3793 E-mail: oberprie@socsci.uct.ac.za UCT: http://www.uct.ac.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Subject: RE: 12.0360 teaching on WWW? Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 19:29:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1059 (1059) May I suggest a new book and accompanying web site that addresses teaching on the WWW and provides a variety of examples, online: Anne B. Keating and Joseph Hargitai, The Wired Professor (New York University Press, 1999). http://www.nyupress.nyu.edu/professor.html/intro/index.html Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Department of Performance Studies New York University 721 Broadway, 6th fl New York, NY 10003 212-998-1628 tel 212-254-7885 fax bk3@is.nyu.edu http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Joel Goldfield Subject: Re: 12.0552 guidelines Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:31:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1060 (1060) Regarding Mary Dee Harris's recent comment about the MLA Guidelines (at http://www.mla.org/reports/ccet/ccet_index.htm), although the ACH and ALLC are not identified by name, _Computers and the Humanities_ is. To provide suggestions and comments, we can follow the appropriate link at that address. Regards, Joel Goldfield Fairfield University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "N. Bourbonnais" Subject: To find a source Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:34:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1061 (1061) To fellow members of HUMANIST I am working on an "edition critique" of a Quebec novel published in 1883. Author: Laure Conan; title: Angeline de Montbrun. There are a great number of quotations in this novel most of them without name of author or title of the work. I have not been able to find the source for the next quotation: Calm and holy, Thou sittest by the fireside of the heart, Feeding its flames. The only information given is that this compliment is addressed to a young woman by a Reverend admirer. If anyone can help me in finding the author, I would appreciate it very much. Thanking you in advance. Nicole Bourbonnais ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Glasgow Digitisation Summer School '99 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:33:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1062 (1062) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 19, 1999 Glasgow Digitization Summer School July 4-9, 1999: Glasgow, Scotland <http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm> [deleted quotation] Digitisation Summer School '99 HATII, University of Glasgow Glasgow, 4-9 July 1999 <http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm>http://www.arts.gla.ac.u k/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm Following the great success of the 1998 Glasgow Digitisation Summer School, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) is pleased to announce the Second International Digitisation Summer School 1999. Full details of the course and preliminary registration materials can be found at: <http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm>http://www.arts.gla.ac. uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm Introduction The availability of high-quality digital content is central for improving public access to the heritage and enabling teaching and research. This one-week intensive programme will be of value to students, academics, and professionals working in the cultural and humanities sector (archives, museums, libraries). It delivers skills, principles, and best practice in the digitisation of primary textual and images resources with strong emphasis on interactive seminars and practical exercises. With expert guidance, you will examine the advantages of developing digital collections of heritage materials and investigate issues involved in creating, curating, and managing access to such collections. The focus will be on working with primary source materials not otherwise available in digital form. In these, participants will apply the practical skills they acquire to the digitisation of an analogue collection which they have selected (print, image e.g. photographic or slide, music manuscripts, or map). The focus will be on working with primary source material not otherwise available in digital form. Participants are encouraged to bring material related to their own interests or to those of their home institution. Where this is not practical, material from the University of Glasgow's collections will be made available. Aims and Objectives After completing the course, participants will: -be familiar with major digitisation projects and how they are being run; -acquire the skills to select materials for digitisation and provide sound justifications for their decisions; -be able to define the standards to be used depending upon the type of documentary or image material with which they are working and the objectives of a particular digitisation initiative; -gain the skills to manage the digitisation process from end-to-end; -appreciate the role and types of metadata used to assure the long term reusability of digital materials; -acquire the skills to create suitable metadata; -be able to determine the costs of digitisation projects; -be able to plan appropriate storage and access facilities; and, -understand the application of the techniques to various heritage sectors, including archives, libraries, special collections, and museums. Time scale (Detailed Timetable) The one-week intensive course will consist of 10 lectures; 5 seminars; 5 lab-based practicals (offering both guided tuition, as well as an opportunity for individual practice); and 2 visits to the Glasgow University Library and Archive collections. (Daily schedule: 9-9:55 Lecture, 10-11 Seminar, 11:30-12:45 Lecture, 14:16:15 Practical, 16:30-18:30 Individual Practice) Costs, Registration, and Deadlines Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch, and afternoon tea breaks, not including accommodation): Advanced booking discounted price before 30 April 1999: £550 sterling. Normal price: £600 sterling (applies after 1 May 1999) Student price: £400 sterling More information can be found at: <http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm>http://www.arts.gla.ac. uk/HATII/DigiSS99/index.htm The Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow, George Service House, 11 University Gardens, GLASGOW G12 8QQ, UK. Telephone: (+44 141) 330 5512 | Fax: (+44 141) 330 3788 director@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Seamus Ross Director, Humanities Computing & Information Management Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Faculty Office, Faculty of Arts 6 University Avenue University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ Scotland Telephone: 0141 330 3635 (direct) Secretary: 0141 330 5512 (Mrs Ann Law) Fax: 0141 330 3788 email: seamusr@arts.gla.ac.uk Institute Website: <http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/>http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: BEST PRACTICE: "DIGITIZING HISTORY" Guide Published in UK Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:32:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1063 (1063) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 19 1999 DIGITIZING HISTORY: New Guide Published by UK History Data Service <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html>http://hds.essex. ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html Part of Arts and Humanities Data Service publication series "Guides to Good Practice in the Creation and Use of Digital Resources" <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html>http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html. [deleted quotation] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Guide to Creating Digital Resources from Historical Documents --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The History Data Service is pleased to announce the web publication of Digitising History, a new guide to creating, documenting and preserving digital resources derived from historical documents. The guide is available at <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html>http://hds.essex. ac.uk/g2gp/digitising_history/index.html and will also be published by Oxbow Books later in the year. For more information, please contact Oxbow Books, email: oxbow@oxbowbooks.com, +44 (0) 1865) 241249, fax: ++44 (0) 1865) 794449, URL: <http://www.oxbowbooks.com/>http://www.oxbowbooks.com/ The guide is intended as a reference work for individuals and organisations involved with, or planning, the computerisation of historical source documents. It aims to recommend good practice and standards that are generic and relevant to a range of data creation situations, from student projects through to large-scale research projects. The guide focuses on the creation of tabular data which can be used in databases, spreadsheets or statistics packages. Many of the guidelines are, however, more widely applicable. The guide includes a glossary and a bibliography of recommended reading, and offers guidance about: * Effectively designing and managing a data creation project. * Transferring historical source documents into digital form and designing a database. * Choosing appropriate data formats and ensuring that a digital resource can be preserved without significant information loss. * Documenting a data creation project. The guide is one of three commissioned by the History Data Service as part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service publication series Guides to Good Practice in the Creation and Use of Digital Resources <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html>http://ahds.ac.uk/public/guides.html. The series aims to provide guidance about applying recognised good practice and standards to the creation and use of digital resources in the arts and humanities. Cressida Chappell, Acting Head, History Data Service, Data Archive, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, Phone +44 (0)1206 873984, Fax +44 (0)1206 872003, email cress@essex.ac.uk, <http://hds.essex.ac.uk/>http://hds.essex.ac.uk/ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: PRESERVATION: RLG Preservation Report Available Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:32:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1064 (1064) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 19, 1999 "Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions" <<http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html>http://www.thames.rlg.org/p reserv/digpres.html from Europe>. [deleted quotation] RLG Digital Preservation Report The report "Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions" is available on the RLG Web site <<http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html>http://www.thames.rlg.org/ preserv/digpres.html from Europe>. This report contains the results of the 1998 study of RLG members' current practices, needs, and plans for preserving their growing collections of digital holdings. The study, conducted during 1998 by Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan, and Sheon Montgomery, Graduate Research Assistant, is based on an extensive written survey - to which 54 members responded - plus phone interviews with over a dozen collection administrators. The result is an up-to-date, carefully interpreted picture of the current state of digital preservation and the key concerns and expectations from an international cross-section of the RLG membership. The report is available in two versions: an HTML document for online browsing or a PDF document optimized for printing. ************************************************************************ 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 ************************************************************************ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: April 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:33:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1065 (1065) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 19, 1999 D-LIB MAGAZINE: April Issue Available <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ The latest issue of D-LIB Magazine, the invaluable monthly magazine of digital library research published by CNRI, is now available. Apart from the useful Opinion piece by David Bearman, "Reality and Chimeras in the Preservation of Electronic Records," and stories cited below, D-Lib's "Clips & Pointers" section has some particularly useful citations. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]CONTENTS: Opinion: Reality and Chimeras in the Preservation of Electronic Records David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics Project Briefing: The German Digital Libraries Project Diann Rusch-Feja, Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Hans Jurgen Becker, State and University Library of Lower Saxony Goettingen Stories: The National Engineering Education Delivery System: A Digital Library for Engineering Education Brandon Muramatsu and Alice M. Agogino, University of California, Berkeley Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 1: Frameworks for Linking Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach, University of Ghent, Belgium Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment, Part 2: SFX, a Generic Linking Solution Herbert Van de Sompel and Patrick Hochstenbach, University of Ghent, Belgium The State of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative April 1999 Stuart Weibel, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Distributed Information and Computation in Scientific and Engineering Environments Nicholas M. Patrikalakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Paul J. Fortier, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Yannis E. Ioannidis, University of Athens; Christos N. Nikolaou, University of Crete; Allan R. Robinson, Harvard University; Jarek R. Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alvar Vinacua, Polytechnic University of Catalonia; and Stephen L. Abrams, Harvard University Library =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "N. Bourbonnais" Subject: To find a source Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:34:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1066 (1066) To fellow members of HUMANIST I am working on an "edition critique" of a Quebec novel published in 1883. Author: Laure Conan; title: Angeline de Montbrun. There are a great number of quotations in this novel most of them without name of author or title of the work. I have not been able to find the source for the next quotation: Calm and holy, Thou sittest by the fireside of the heart, Feeding its flames. The only information given is that this compliment is addressed to a young woman by a Reverend admirer. If anyone can help me in finding the author, I would appreciate it very much. Thanking you in advance. Nicole Bourbonnais ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: guidelines Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:24:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1067 (1067) Mary Dee Harris' suggestion in Humanist 12.552, that the ACH and ALLC might develop "guidelines for evaluation of computer-related work in language, literature and the humanities" is a very good one, though not a simple task. She is quite correct that "such a statement would be welcome from those who actually do this sort of work". The question is how we go about writing such a statement. Before I comment on that, however, I would like to suggest that the failure of the MLA and APA (among others) to develop anything beyond an exhortation and request for more machines and friendly support people isn't really surprising. How can we expect organisations with specific disciplinary interests and perspectives to comprehend a new interdisciplinary field? They look after their own, they want what they can get for their own. Quite understandable. If we are to make real progress beyond the faculty-support model, however, we need to look at the problem from the other way around. We need to ask, what does this activity look like from the perspective of someone who takes it seriously in the academic, scholarly sense? We are not alone or even especially radical in the attempt to consider how the material culture of research affects what is known and how it is known, and to construct a coherent research agenda based on the view that this culture defines. Historians of science and technology are getting somewhere these days doing just that -- my favourite example being Peter Galison's Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics. We have a great deal to learn from Galison and others like him. The first major barrier to a genuine humanities computing is the mental adjustment. Northrop Frye once said somewhere that every discipline is the centre of all knowledge. True enough, but unless one realises that there are *many* such centres, one has great difficulty understanding any other discipline, and a truly interdisciplinary field is simply beyond one's ken altogether. By its nature humanities computing is interdisciplinary -- not just another piece of turf but all turf viewed in a particular way. We need to define that way, but before we can we have to be able to see it. The second major barrier is the social one, and that means making a very strong case. Such a case begins with the anecdotal evidence of individual research projects that are squarely in the intersection between the humanities and computing. This evidence needs to be presented both in terms of the discipline of application and humanities computing. We proceed then by assembling as much of this evidence as we can find -- in other words, by doing the bibliographic work. Since this is scattered and often not even reported, the job isn't an easy one, but it can be done. The answer to Mary Dee is that the ACH is indeed working on such a statement -- I've been deputised to do just that. Here, on Humanist, is a good place to hammer out some of the basic issues and to build consensus, if we can. Comments? Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Paul Brians Subject: Converting Tex1 to Word? Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 20:25:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1068 (1068) A colleague has massive files of formatted bibliograhic data in Tex1 which he would like to convert to a format he can play further with in PageMaker, preferably by way of Word. He is a Mac user. Is there a quick and easy solution? I don't do Tex, so I'll need beginner's language, please. Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New Requirements for Web Site Accessibility Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:42:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1069 (1069) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 21, 1999 AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) WILL SOON FOCUS ON INTERNET COMPLIANCE See ZDNet Story: Handicapped Access Hits the Web: <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2243282-1,00.html>http://www. zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2243282-1,00.html Also See World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative's "Guidelines for Web Site Accessibility" <http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips>http://www.w3.org/WAI/References /QuickTips The Government will shortly unveil new requirements under the Americans With Disabilities Act for the Web sites of companies doing business with government agencies. Similar requirements will shortly affect all of us operating online. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Anderson Inman on History and Comphuting 4/21 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:42:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1070 (1070) The Brown Computing in the Humanities Users' Group presents Promoting Historical Inquiry Using Primary Source Documents on the Web Dr. Lynne Anderson-Inman Center for Advanced Technology in Education University of Oregon 5:30 pm Wednesday, April 21, 1999 STG Conference Room, Grad Center, Ground Floor, Tower E Dr. Andeson-Inman will provide an overview of the Web de Anza Project; a bilingual, mulicultural website designed to provide teachers, students, and scholars with primary source materials concerning Juan Bautista de Anza and his two historic 18th century expeditions from northern Sonora to northern California, leading to the colonization of San Francisco. Web de Anza is a collaborative, multi-year effort funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project's goal is to investigate ways to promote historical inquiry for students in secondary schools using archival materials in both Spanish and English, as well as access to consulting scholars and collaborating organizations such as historical societies and libraries, one of which is the John Carter Brown library. Lynne Anderson-Inman is the Director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Education at the University of Oregon. CHUG provides a forum for discussing the use of computers in the humanities and for sharing ideas and information about computing techniques and applications. We regularly have talks and discussions by members of the Brown community and others about ongoing and future projects, research ideas, and computing techniques. We meet when opportunity arises, as announced on the newsgroup brown.bboard.announce. We always have refreshments. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New H-Net List on African Research Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:45:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1071 (1071) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 21 1999 NEW N-NET LIST ON AFRICAN RESEARCH Aims to Link African Studies researchers and primary source repository professionals <http://www.h-net.msu.edu>http://www.h-net.msu.edu [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Call for Proposals: MCN Conference Call extended through May 15 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:43:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1072 (1072) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 21, 1999 "And Access for All: Integrating Cultural Heritage, Media, and Technology" MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK CONFERENCE, Oct 27-30, 1999 CALL FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED UNTIL MAY 15, 1999 <http://www.mcn.edu/MCN99/mcn99call.html>http://www.mcn.edu/MCN99/mcn99call. html [deleted quotation]MCN '99 CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE EXTENDED: MAY 15, 1999 The Annual Museum Computer Network Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA October 27 - 30, 1999 Museums are on the verge of delivering on the promise that new media and technology will bring their resources out of the storerooms and galleries to an ever-expanding global audience. This conference explores how cultural heritage institutions are succeeding in forging a more perfect union between their traditional missions and new ways to communicate. MCN '99 offers a broad overview of opportunities, workshops for in-depth learning, and the chance to meet the people who are creating and managing the most innovative projects and discussing the most interesting new ideas. MCN is dedicated to providing the tools you need to do your job, not just today but into the 21st century. MCN '99 will offer tools-- and more--for anyone interested in using new technologies and media to help understand and appreciate cultural heritage collections. Proposals may address ideas and issues in any area of computing relating to museums or heritage. Please check the category below to indicate which area best describes the focus of your proposal. (N.B. These categories have been revised from the earlier Call for Proposals to reflect the way one deals with data and/or information). Creation ____Access ____Preservation ____ Management ____Synthesis ____Audience/end user ____ Following are some of the topics for which the program committee is seeking proposals: Creation Standards Multimedia Principles of design 3-D digitizing Creating educational content End user tools Management Quantitative analysis Qualitative evaluation Integrating back office systems Long-range planning for museum technology Selecting software systems Integrating technology into physical space Image management systems Facilities planning Museum policies Working with curators Project management Intranets Collaborations Managing media resource centers Access Access strategies E-commerce Marketing to website Integrating technology into physical space Principles of design Integrated access End user tools Database to web Intranets Special audience needs Facilitating museums in schools 1. Synthesis E-communities 2. End-user tools 3. Database to web 4. Innovative applications 5. Creating educational content for educators 6. Facilitating museums in schools 7. Preservation Standards Image management systems Long-term preservation of electronic information Level of Technical Knowledge of Intended Audience: __ Beginning __ Intermediate __ Advanced This is a Proposal for a: __Presentation/Paper (specify length of presentation:____ minutes) __ Panel (90 minutes) __ Full-day Workshop ___Half-day Workshop __ Other (specify) Title: Proposal Submitted by: Provide your name, title, institution, full mailing address, phone, fax, and e-mail. Description: Summarize the relevance of the topic, the content to be covered, and the subjects to be addressed by individual speakers. Goals: Express how the intended audience will benefit from the presentation. Participants will gain: Participants: List the name, title, institution, address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of each speaker or panelist, and indicate whether their participation is confirmed or proposed. For panels, indicate which participant chairs the session. Audio-visual and information technology requirements for session: Proposals should be directed to: Julie Link Haifley, MCN '99 Program Chair, National Museum of African Art 950 Independence Ave., SW, MRC 708, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 Tel: (202) 357-4600, ext. 240; Fax: (202) 357-4879; E-mail: julie@nmafa.si.edu Fred Droz Museum Computer Network 1550 S. Coast Hwy., Suite 201 Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Phone: (877) 626-3800, ext. 215 Fax: (949) 376-3456 Email address: fdroz@mcn.edu MCN Web Site: <http://www.mcn.edu>http://www.mcn.edu =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 Conference/Tutorial REGISTRATION Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:44:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1073 (1073) [deleted quotation] EACL '99 9th Conf. of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 The EACL '99 conference is this year's biggest academic event in Computational Linguistics taking place in Europe. Programme overview: ----------------------------------------------------------- June 7 Pre-conference excursion to the fjords June 8 Tutorials June 9-11 Main sessions, student sessions, posters&demos Invited speakers Bruce Croft & Wolfgang Wahlster Exhibit & Job Fair Social programme (reception & banquet) June 12 Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------- Please consult the website for the full programme, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99 [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CfP: GLDV ´99 Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:44:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1074 (1074) [deleted quotation] GLDV '99 o============================================o | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | o============================================o "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis" The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999. Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis". The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome! Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to titus@em.uni-frankfurt.de * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum); * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII. The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on May 28, 1999. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For details go to: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm P.O. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MT Summit VII-Call for Paper/Supplement Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:45:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1075 (1075) [deleted quotation] Dear Sir/ Madam, The seventh Machine Translation Summit will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. We look forward to the participation of those who are interested in any aspect of machine translation. We are pleased to inform you of the 2nd Call for Papers and the Call for Paper Supplement,Call for Paper Supplement-2, which are additional informations of the 2nd Call for Papers. Because of the nature of MT Summit as a forum of MT researchers, users, industrialists and funding agencies, we welcome papers, not only on technical/theoretical issues of MT, but also on [1] users' experiences [2] innovative uses of MT in commercial products [3] evaluation of actual MT systems [4] proposal of practical uses of MT systems like controlled languages [5] users' interactions, etc. It would be of great help if you could kindly inform to relevant institutions and individuals who may be interested in submitting papers to the conference. Also, for further information of the MT Summit VII, please see Web-site: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html We hope to see you soon at the Summit. Hozumi Tanaka Chairman Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Richard Giordano Subject: Re: 12.0568 TeX1 -> Word Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:40:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1076 (1076) Take a look at this site <http://130.203.203.46/mac-tex/tools.html> of Macintosh TeX/LaTeX tools. There are a couple of Tex2rtf converters there. Your friend can convert his files from TeX to RTF, then import them into Word or other applications. /rich From: Fritz Heberlein Subject: Re: 12.0568 TeX1 -> Word Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:40:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1077 (1077) Use either RTF or HTML as intermediate files. Packages for converting to RTF include Rtfltx and RtfLatex, those for converting to HTML include Latex2html and TTH (wich i would recommend). Ask your local Tex Guru or the people in the maths dept. If they don't have the packages installed, use the search engine at www.tug.org or www.dante.de and search for either RTF or TTH or Latex2html. TTH can also be downloaded from its homepage: http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/ A commercial product that does translation to both RTF and HTML is Texpider (www.micropress-inc.com). Fritz Heberlein ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "N. Bourbonnais" (4) Subject: 12.0567 quotation found (thanks to LION) Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 3:31 PM X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1078 (1078) Many thanks to Mr. Pocock and to the Humanist discussion group. I am forever grateful. Nicole Bourbonnais [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: RLG Preservation Report Available Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:41:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1079 (1079) CORRECTION The correct URL for the RLG Page cited is <<http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html>http://www.thames.rlg.org/ preserv/digpres.html>. NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 19, 1999 "Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions" <<http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html>http://www.thames.rlg.org/p reserv/digpres.html from Europe>. [deleted quotation] RLG Digital Preservation Report The report "Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions" is available on the RLG Web site <<http://www.thames.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html>http://www.thames.rlg.org/ preserv/digpres.html from Europe>. This report contains the results of the 1998 study of RLG members' current practices, needs, and plans for preserving their growing collections of digital holdings. The study, conducted during 1998 by Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor at the School of Information, University of Michigan, and Sheon Montgomery, Graduate Research Assistant, is based on an extensive written survey - to which 54 members responded - plus phone interviews with over a dozen collection administrators. The result is an up-to-date, carefully interpreted picture of the current state of digital preservation and the key concerns and expectations from an international cross-section of the RLG membership. The report is available in two versions: an HTML document for online browsing or a PDF document optimized for printing. ************************************************************************ 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 ************************************************************************ =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: XML Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:42:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1080 (1080) [deleted quotation] Humanists, Much press has been devoted to XML and related, emerging standards as of late. Most of it is pretty bad. A rare exception is an article in this month's Scientific American, which gives a good, generalized, layman's intro to the topic. Read it on-line at: http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html - Gregory Murphy Software Engineer Solaris Software Sun Microsystems ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: ACH/ALLC registration reminder Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:04:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1081 (1081) If you're planning to attend the 1999 joint international humanities computing conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, to be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, June 9-13, then you should register soon, especially if you want housing on campus. Conference information (including a complete program, description of excursions, travel info, housing info, etc.) is available at the conference web site: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/index.html [deleted quotation]by check or purchase order). Registration is $175 for Association members and any graduate student, $200 for non-members. If you are accompanying someone who is registering for the conference and simply want to be able to register for excursions etc., you can do that for $25/$50. John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: feedback to the imagination Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:04:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1082 (1082) In "Some guy just wrapped it", Witold Rybczynski, reviewing Francesco Dal Co and Kurt W Foster's book, Frank O. Gehry: The complete works, comments that, "The Disney Hall, for example, was one of the first large building designs produced by the Gehry office using the three-dimensional capabilities of the computer. CATIA is a program originally developed by Dessault Systemes for the design of the Mirage fighter jets. The computer program allows Gehry and his staff to digitize handmade models by tracing their shapes with a laser stylus. From these digitized images come three-dimensional views, and architectural as well as construction and fabrication drawings. It is possible that, without the computer, buildings like the Disney Hall and the Guggenheim Museum [the one in Bilbao, opened at the end of 1997] would still be unimaginable; however, without CATIA, they would be unbuildable." For the purposes of argument let's assume that such buildings could be imagined by the likes of Gehry but would be unbuildable, and so not built. None of us would ever see them, and so our ideas about space, our spatial imaginations would remain unaffected. Because of CATIA and software like it we are affected, our imaginations are dilated, we change. And it is possible (isn't it?) that an otherwise unimaginable building is imagined and built because of such software, or to take an intermediate case, that software might act, as it were prosthetically for someone whose imagination doesn't have the necessary ability. Thus the question of feedback, leading to a change in how we imagine the world, and so what sort of new worlds we construct for ourselves. Architecture, being out there in the world of stones, glass and concrete, is easier to think about in these terms, perhaps. I also like to use the example of digitally altered photographs, for which see work by the Diesel Clothing Company (e.g. the brilliantly altered Yalta Conference photograph, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/year1/yalta.jpg>). I would suppose, however, that the same is as true for text-analytic literary critics, and corpus-concording linguists, and hypertextually linking writers. Comments? Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 12.0556 guidelines Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:04:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1083 (1083) Willard McCarty wrote: [deleted quotation]not [deleted quotation] Pardon the wholesale deleting. First I want to say thank you for these words which came at a most opportune moment. Now I'm going to ask for contributions that, while not directly related to the rest of the post quoted from, certainly relates to those barriers. I'm putting together a proposal for a course on electronic texts to be taught in the English department here at the University of Vermont. As I am not part of that department, and in fact not even really in that discipline, the department is quite generous to even consider the possibility. I've looked at several courses on the web and have found none that quite match (though the "with applied computing" courses at Kings and Matt K's course at UVA have been thoroughly mined!). The course would combine the theoretical (thinking about electronic texts, what are they, what is the context for their creation, what forms do they take) with the practical (web portfolios of student's work and a big project that creates TEI-encoded versions of textual artifacts from our Special Collections). It is not focusing on hypertext. The biggest hurdle is convincing the English department that this should indeed be an English course, or perhaps a course taught through the Interdisciplinary Humanities program, and not a Computer Science course. In other words, the emphasis is on the discipline--the context, not the technical--not a TEI training course. An incomplete draft syllabus (brainstorming, really) is at: http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/etext Any suggestions or comments, especially those that answer the question "how does this relate to English students specifically?" or that help me make the course align more closely with what one expects from an English course, would be very much appreciated! - Hope ------------ hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont, http://www.uvm.edu/~hag ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: CHUM 32:6 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:02:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1084 (1084) *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein, Editors-in-Chief Volume 32 No. 6 1998 Follow-up to the Debate on Authorship Studies Table of Contents ----------------- WARD E. Y. ELLIOTT, ROBERT J. VALENZA The Professor Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks: Problems with the Foster "Response" pp. 425-488 DONALD W. FOSTER The Claremont Shakespeare Authorship Clinic: How Severe Are the Problems? pp. 489-508 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Vanessa Nijweide Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: nijweide@wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New Listserv: Special Collections & the Internet Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:03:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1085 (1085) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT April 23 1999 NEW LISTSERV DEDICATED TO SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND THE INTERNET <http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/spectech/index.htm>http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/s pec/spectech/index.htm [deleted quotation]=============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ============================================================== See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Kurt Fendt Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS - MEDIA IN TRANSITION CONFERENCE Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:01:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1086 (1086) CALL FOR PAPERS MEDIA IN TRANSITION A National Conference October 8-10, 1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA To celebrate the launch of our graduate program in Comparative Media Studies, we invite your participation in a conference on the topic of "Media in Transition." This conference will also mark the conclusion of the Media in Transition Project, a series of lectures, forums and conferences begun in 1997 by the MIT Communications Forum and funded by the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation. We intend this culminating conference to address the defining themes of the project by situating our current experience of media and cultural transformation in the perspective of earlier periods of technological and social change. The Media in Transition Project aims to nourish a pragmatic, historically informed discourse about the significance of new communications technologies and the role of economic, political, legal, social and cultural institutions in mediating and partly shaping technological change. A good deal of work on such topics has emerged in recent years across a range of academic disciplines. But one consequence of this intellectual diversity has been that scholars of comparative media have had little contact with each other. The Media in Transition conference hopes remedy this isolation by bringing together an interdisciplinary roster of scholars committed to understanding the past, present, and future of media. We encourage papers that address the following themes: The transformation of the book and book culture in the digital age Conceptions of intellectual property Democratic culture and new media The aesthetics of transition -- technological change and the arts and literature The "virtual community" as an historical construction Media change and central institutions (schools, libraries, banks, corporations, etc.) Privacy, public safety, surveillance Global media and local or national cultures Media audiences "Vernacular theory" -- the role of science fiction, popular journalism, and other popular discourse in explaining emerging media Technology and journalism -- the impact of technological change on journalism; newspapers and local readership Social and cultural factors influencing the use and diffusion of new media Childhood and adolescence in a mediated culture Hypertexts: history, theory, practice SUBMISSIONS: 1-2 page abstract to be submitted no later than July 1, 1999. Papers should be sent to: Media in Transition Conference, CMS office, 14N-430, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139. For more information about the Media in Transition Project: http://media-in-transition.mit.edu. From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Bodleian Library Presentations 4/28 Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:03:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1087 (1087) The Brown Computing in the Humanities Users' Group presents SGML as Metadata in Digital Imaging Projects: the Oxford Experience and EAD and DFAS at the Bodleian Richard Gartner and Lawrence Mielniczuk Bodleian Library, Oxford University 4:30 pm Wednesday, April 28, 1999 STG Conference Room, Grad Center Ground Floor, Tower E Richard Gartner will present a discussion of two digital imaging projects based at Oxford University which use SGML as the basis of their metadata: the Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ) provides 20 year runs of six 18th- and 19th-century journals, and the Refugee Studies Programme Digital Library Project (still in its early stages) is experimenting with the digitisation and OCR of grey literture. Both use the EAD and TEI as the basis of their collection and item descriptions respectively. Lawrence Mielniczuk will present a discussion of the implementation of EAD at the Bodleian, and the Library's involvement with the DFAS (Distributed Finding Aid Server) Project, a cooperative project with four US universities. Richard Gartner has been the Pearson New Media Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford since 1991. In this role, he has worked extensively in the areas of digitisation (and particularly the use of SGML as metadata for digital library projects). Previously he has worked for Oxford Polytechnic and OXFAM amongst others. He is currently involved in the MASTER project, which aims to produce a union catalogue of medieval manuscripts in European libraries. Lawrence Mielniczuk was born a long time ago. He read philosophy at Central Connecticut State University and has an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bristol. He has worked at the Bodleian Library for one year dividing his time between Western Manuscripts and systems/database work. CHUG provides a forum for discussing the use of computers in the humanities and for sharing ideas and information about computing techniques and applications. We regularly have talks and discussions by members of the Brown community and others about ongoing and future projects, research ideas, and computing techniques. We meet when opportunity arises, as announced on the newsgroup brown.bboard.announce. We always have refreshments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson Subject: Re: 12.0576 course design for applied computing Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:55:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1088 (1088) Hope Greenberg wrote: [deleted quotation] I have taught a course via Internet somewhat similar to Hope's course. The description may be useful: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/chum.html And some of my online publications about computers and texts may be of interest: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ericpubs.html -- Eric --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: feedback to/from imagination Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:56:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1089 (1089) Willard, You have provoked some thinking about the locus of "feedback". \|/ [deleted quotation] /|\ It is not the attribution agency to an artefact (software) that concerns me here. It is the "additive assumption" to be found in the invocation of a prosthetic model of techno-enhancement. I am fond of stating the information overload can create disabling conditions for the participants in computer-mediated communication and that these conditions can provide experiences which guided by analysis prove to be creative moments. Radical reorganization of one's sensorium is not however the sine qua non of creativity. The ability to forecast a reorganized sensorium for self and others is. This ability is of course what I would like to place under the rubric of "imagination". In doing so, I believe we can build in a meta-function for imagination. Software could stimulate the imagination not only by what it does but also by what it does not. The precondition to a metafunctional imagination is the ability to compare. Of course, I am here privileging communication and the social dimenisions of imagination. However, be it the use of a software application or the use of a garden rake, human interaction with technological products is also an interaction with the trajectories of human thought and energy (labour if you will): the always-already movement of ghosts in the machine. I stress the notion of trajectory here because the interaction is not only with lifeless artefacts or reified labour but also with the traces of aspirations and hope. Software is future-directed and as such play with any type of software must in some sense stimulate imagination. Play, in the company of guides, may do so even more. (And yes, guides need not be present in the flesh; guides can be intelligent agents -- digitalized or otherwise.) So where is the feedback? Feedback ---> neither ghost nor machine <--- Feedback In most cybernetic models feedback is a relation between components of the same system. But what if feedback were considered as a relation between systems? The imagined and the actual are components of the real. The actual is a possible world. The imagined contains both possible and impossible worlds. Yes, this of course means the impossible is real (but not actual). In any case, possible world semantics could help us understand feedback as a transworld phenomenon: bridge or river between the actual (one possible world among many) and other possible and even impossible worlds. --> Further reading: Possible worlds in humanities, arts, and sciences : proceedings of Nobel Symposium 65 / edited by Sture Allen. Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1989, c1988 Willard <-- Thanks to the flow of moderator messages, I am now intrigued by the separation possibilities of bridges (bridge as channel) -- something to help me tackle the limits of node-link explanations in the discourses on hypertext. /|\ Francois Lachance *If pastry making is to chemistry **and if bread baking is to biology Then gardening is to physics *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: JOB: poste disponible a ELDA / position available at ELDA Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:57:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1090 (1090) [deleted quotation] ELDA vient d=92annoncer la disponibilite d=92un poste d'Ingenieur=20 d=92etudes. L=92annonce se trouve sur notre site Web : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/job.html Responsable: Khalid Choukri (choukri@elda.fr). ELDA has just announced an open position for a=20 Research/Technical Engineer. Details can be found at : http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/fr/job.html Contact person: Khalid Choukri (choukri@elda.fr). Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)=20 (Agence Europ=E9enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff@elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From: Peter Liddell Subject: Job at Victoria, BC, Canada Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:56:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1091 (1091) [Please excuse duplication] The University of Victoria, BC, Canada, is looking for a Coordinator of Humanities Computing Facilities (includes the Language Centre). The job posting and a more detailed Position Description are available at http://web.uvic.ca/langcen/coordinator/ (The posting is # 2081, the second one listed on the Human Resources job posting site) There is a virtual tour of the facilities at http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/langcen/ Please note that Canadian Immigration requires that Canadian permanent residents be considered first for this position. Deadline is May 6th, 1999. Applications should be sent to the address given in the Position Description, NOT to the undersigned. Cheers Peter Liddell ============================= Peter G. Liddell, PhD Professor, Department of Germanic Studies, & Academic Director, Language Centre University of Victoria, BC, Canada ----------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Fulbrights Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:58:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1092 (1092) [deleted quotation] COMPETITION UNDERWAY FOR 2000/2001 FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR AWARDS FOR U.S. FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS ---------------- The competition for 2000/2001 awards opened on March 1, 1999. Opportunities for lecturing or advanced research in more than 125 countries are available to college and university faculty as well as to professionals outside academe, including artists, journalists, and lawyers. Awards range from two to ten months, and many are flexible according to the needs of grantees. In addition, a number of open awards allow applicants to suggest their own grant activities and host institutions. The deadline for lecturing and research grants for 2000/2001 is August 1, 1999. Other deadlines are in effect for special programs: Distinguished Fulbright chairs in Europe and Canada (May 1), international education administrators programs and the Fulbright German studies seminar (November 1), and NATO advanced research fellowships and institutional grants (January 1, 2000). For further information and application materials, contact: USIA Fulbright Scholar Program Council for International Exchange of Scholars 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5L Washington, DC 20008-3009 www.cies.org Requests for mailing of applications materials only: apprequest@cies.iie.org 202.686.7877 =============================================================== Alan C. Harris, Ph. D. TELNOS: main off: 818-677-2853 Professor, Communication/Linguistics direct off: 818-677-2874 Department of Communication Studies California State University, Northridge home: 818-366-3165 COMMS-8257 CSUN FAX: 818-677-2663 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 INTERNET email: ALAN.HARRIS@CSUN.EDU WWW homepage: http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005 =============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Nancy M. Ide" Subject: Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:03:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1093 (1093) *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED JUST PUBLISHED *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES Nancy Ide and Dan Greenstein, Editors-in-Chief Volume 33 Nos. 1-2 1999 ***************************************************** * * * SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE * * * * TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TEXT ENCODING INITIATIVE * * * ***************************************************** Table of Contents ----------------- ELLI MYLONAS, ALLEN RENEAR The Text Encoding Initiative at 10: Not Just an Interchange Format Anymore, But a New Research Community pp. 1-9 STEVEN DEROSE XML and the TEI pp. 11-30 LAURENT ROMARY, PATRICE BONHOMME, FLORENCE BRUNESEAUX, JEAN-MARIE PIERREL Silfide: A System for Open Access and Distributed Delivery of TEI Encoded Documents pp. 31-38 LOU BURNARD, MICHAEL POPHAM Putting Our Headers together: A Report on the TEI Header Meeting 12 September 1997 pp. 39-47 DAVID J. BIRNBAUM, MAVIS COURNANE, PETER FLYNN Using the TEI Writing System Declaration (WSD) pp. 49-57 CHRISTOPHER WELTY, NANCY IDE Using the Right Tools: Enhancing Retrieval from Marked-up Documents pp. 59-84 GARY F. SIMONS Using Architectural Forms to Map TEI Data into an Object-Oriented Database pp. 85-101 DAVID SMITH Textual Variation and Version Control in the TEI pp. 103-112 SYD BAUMAN, TERRY CATAPANO TEI and the Encoding of the Physical Structure of Books pp. 113-127 PHILIP RESNIK, MARI BROMAN OLSEN, MONA DIAB The Bible as a Parallel Corpus: Annotating the Book of 2000 Tongues pp. 129-153 DOMINIQUE ESTIVAL, NICK NICHOLAS TEI Encoding and Syntactic Tagging of an Old French Text pp. 155-174 JANET ERICKSON, MATTHEW STOEFFLER An SGML/HTML Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Library pp. 175-184 D. WALKER Taking Snapshots of the Web with a TEI Camera pp. 185-192 A. MORRISON Delivering Electronic Texts Over the Web: The Current and Planned Practices of the Oxford Text Archive pp. 193-198 JON BOSAK XML Ubiquity and the Scholarly Community pp. 199-206 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the Humanities Editors-in-Chief: Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Daniel Greenstein, Arts and Humanities Data Services, King's College, UK For subscriptions or information, consult the journal's WWW home page: http://kapis.www.wkap.nl/ Or contact: Vanessa Nijweide Kluwer Academic Publishers Spuiboulevard 50 P.O. Box 17 3300 AA Dordrecht The Netherlands Phone: (+31) 78 639 22 64 Fax: (+31) 78 639 22 54 E-mail: Vanessa.Nijweide@wkap.nl Members of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) receive a subscription to CHum at less than half the price of an individual subscription. For information about ACH and a membership application, consult http://www.ach.org/, or send email to chuck_bush@byu.edu. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Book: Natural Language Information Retrieval Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:04:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1094 (1094) [deleted quotation] **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 7 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis =20 Natural Language Information Retrieval edited by Tomek Strzalkowski =20 The last decade has been one of dramatic progress in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). This hitherto largely academic discipline has found itself at the center of an information revolution ushered in by the Internet age, as demand for human-computer communication and information access has exploded. Emerging applications in computer-assisted information production and dissemination, automated understanding of news, understanding of spoken language, and processing of foreign languages have given impetus to research that has resulted in a new generation of robust tools, systems, and commercial products.=20 This volume focuses on the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Information Retrieval, the technology that grew out of library research to become our best hope in dealing with today's information overload. The book gives a broad overview of the work being done at the junction of these two important fields, and suggests directions for future explorations. It is organized into two loosely structured parts. The first part, consisting of Chapters 1 through 7, discusses research systems and evaluations that represent major avenues where the impact of NLP technologies in information retrieval is being explored. The second part (Chapters 8 through 14) describes specific implementations and prototypes of information systems where NLP techniques are used or proposed to assist in accurate retrieval, text categorization, question answering, and in organizing the results for the user.=20 Audience: This book will be a valuable reference to researchers and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Computational Linguistics.=20 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht=20 Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3 April 1999, 384 pp. NLG 240.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 84.00 =20 =20 =20 =20 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents and Contributors Preface. Contributing Authors. 1. What is the Role of NLP in Text Retrieval? K.S. Jones.=20 2. NLP for Term Variant Extraction: Synergy Between Morphology, Lexicon, and Syntax; C. Jacquemin, E. Tzoukermann.=20 3. Combining Corpus Linguistics and Human Memory Models for Automatic Term Association; G. Ruge.=20 4. Using NLP or NLP Resources for Information Retrieval Tasks; A.F. Smeaton.= =20 5. Evaluating Natural Language Processing Techniques in Information Retrieval; T. Strzalkowski, et al.=20 6. Stylistic Experiments in Information Retrieval; J. Karlgren.=20 7. Extraction-Based Text Categorization: Generating Domain-Specific Role Relationships Automatically; E. Riloff, J. Lorenzen.=20 8. Lasie Jumps the Gat; Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas.=20 9. Phrasal Terms in Real-World IR Applications; J. Zhou.=20 10. Name Recognition and Retrieval Performance; P. Thompson, C. Dozier.=20 11. Collage: An NLP Toolset to Support Boolean Retrieval; J. Cowie.=20 12. Document Classification and Routing; L. Guthrie, et al.=20 13. Murax: Finding and Organizing Answers from Text Search; J. Kupiec.=20 14. The Use of Categories and Clusters for Organizing Retrieval Results; M. Hearst.=20 Index. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Second CfP: Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:01:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1095 (1095) [deleted quotation] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS First workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-1 Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Amsterdam, August 15, 1999 (Submission deadline: June 1, 1999) ABOUT ICoS Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. In addition, a wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics for natural language. Indeed, computational semantics has reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks --- and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. The first workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS-1) intends to bring together researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic, in order to discuss approaches and applications of inference in natural language semantics. [material deleted] FURTHER INFORMATION Detailed information about the program, and about registration and accommodation will be made available at a later stage. For further information, please contact the local organizers at icos1@wins.uva.nl or visit the ICoS-1 home page: http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'99 Registration Brochure Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:59:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1096 (1096) [deleted quotation] ACL '99 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA June 20-26, 1999 TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99 The ACL '99 conference this year will offer a larger and more diversified program than ever before. Below is a Program Overview. Detailed information and the entire registration brochure may be found at the website above. The registration brochure has also been sent to all ACL members in hardcopy on 19th April, 1999. If you would like an emailed version of the VERY LONG brochure, please contact Priscilla Rasmussen at acl@aclweb.org. We also plan to have the online registration working (hopefully) by the end of April. ----------------------------------------------------------- 19 June Registration and Tutorial Reception 20 June Tutorials--3 morning and 3 afternoon 21-22 June Workshops--4 1-day and 2 2-day workshops 23-26 June Technical, Thematic, and Student Sessions (23rd and 26th Technical, 24th and 25th Thematic and Student sessions); Invited Speakers: Marti Hearst, Sadaoki Furui, and George Miller. ACL Business Meeting and Student Member Lunch Meeting. Social program (Opening Reception, 22nd June, and Banquet, 23rd June) ----------------------------------------------------------- Please consult the website for the full program, venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation: We hope to see you there! Robert Dale and Kenneth Church, Program Chairs Bonnie Dorr, Local Arrangements Chair From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford Text Encoding Summer School [TESS] Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:59:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1097 (1097) [deleted quotation] TESS: The Text Encoding Summer School Organized by Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit 11th-17th July, 1999 Oxford University tess-summer-school@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tess/ The Humanities Computing Unit at Oxford is pleased to announce that applications are now invited for our third Text Encoding Summer School (TESS). Upon completion, delegates will: * have hands-on experience of digitizing texts using OCR * understand the principles of document analysis * understand the basics of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) and XML (the eXtensible Markup Language) * have hands-on experience of marking-up an electronic text using the Text Encoding Initiative's TEI Lite Document Type Definition * have hands-on experience of SGML/XML authoring and browsing software * understand the issues involved in distributing SGML/XML documents * gain basic knowledge of the range of SGML/XML-aware software products available * have a clear basis for proceeding to implement an SGML/XML solution appropriate to the needs of their particular project * have discussed their work with experts in the field of text encoding Cost ==== The all-inclusive price for 1999 will not exceed 550 pounds, covering B&B accommodation in an Oxford college, all courses and course materials, all lunches, and the banquet. A non-residential rate, which will not exceed 325 pounds, will also be available, but must be confirmed well in advance. Delegates that choose this option are responsible for finding their own accommodation. The Humanities Computing Unit WILL NOT be able to assist you with finding a place to stay. A limited number of places will be made available to members of Oxford University at a reduced cost. Note that apart from the end of course banquet, an evening meal is not provided. =================================================== If you would like more information on TESS or would like to know how to apply, please refer to the TESS web page at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tess =================================================== From: "David L. Gants" Subject: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics - 2nd Call for Papers Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:00:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1098 (1098) [deleted quotation] ____________________________________________ | | | 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS | | | | 34. LINGUISTISCHES KOLLOQUIUM | | | | 34e COLLOQUE LINGUISTIQUE | | | | September 7-10, 1999 | | | | University of Mainz, Germany | |____________________________________________| | | | SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS | |____________________________________________| ____________________________________________ | | | NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW | | | | Additional Tutorial - Sydney M. Lamb: | | "The Neurocognitive Basis of Language" | | | | Travel Support for Scientists from | | Eastern Europe | |____________________________________________| We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world cultural heritage. Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber Dr. Reinhard Rapp [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IWPT'99 Call for Papers Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:02:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1099 (1099) [deleted quotation] C a l l f o r P a p e r s IWPT'99 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 20-22 December, 1999 Trento, Italy ~~~~ The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research) in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'99) from 20 to 22 December, 1999. IWPT'99 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997. More information will soon be available on the IWPT'99 home page: at <http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Docs/parlevink/sigparse/ [material deleted] From: Elli Mylonas Subject: Paul Dourish on CSCW 4/29 Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 22:02:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1100 (1100) They're fast and furious. Lots of talks this week. But this one is on a very current research topic, and will be of interest to a generalist audience. The Brown Computing in the Humanities Users' Group presents Placeless Documents: A document management system that works the way you do Paul Dourish Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 5:00 pm Thursday, April 29, 1999 STG Conference Room, Grad Center Ground Floor, Tower E Traditional document storage systems (including the conventional filesystems that most of us use) are organised according to the needs of the system, rather than the requirements of real world document practices. They rely on hierarchies, when people use more fluid organisational schemes; they place artificial barriers between documents from different sources (personal, email, web, etc.); and, by locking functionality within application black boxes, they make it hard to adapt system behaviour to evolving work practices. The Placeless Documents project, based in the Computer Science Lab at PARC, is exploring new approaches to document management that aim to address these problems. Our approach is based on the use of document properties as a uniform mechanism for managing, categorising, organising, retrieving and manipulating documents. Document properties capture relationships between people, documents and tasks. In the Placeless Documents system, properties can also encapsulate executable code, which can modify or add new document behaviours. In this talk, I will survey the background and motivations for our work, and describe the design of the Placeless Documents system. I will also discuss some of our early application experiences and what we've learned so far. Paul Dourish is a member of research staff in the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC in California. His primary areas of research are collaborative systems, workgroup communication and human-computer interaction, and he is particularly interested in the foundational relationships between sociological investigation and interactive systems design. He holds a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of London. CHUG provides a forum for discussing the use of computers in the humanities and for sharing ideas and information about computing techniques and applications. We regularly have talks and discussions by members of the Brown community and others about ongoing and future projects, research ideas, and computing techniques. We meet when opportunity arises, as announced on the newsgroup brown.bboard.announce. We always have refreshments. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Eric Johnson Subject: Text analysis, book reviews, and electronic versions Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:55:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1101 (1101) An author, Rod Lindberg, recently contacted me and asked if I would do some computer analysis of the novel he is writing. He thought that if I could show him the word frequencies and other patterns of his novel and compare them with the patterns of classic novels, that he would be sure to publish a best-selling novel. I did the analysis, but I warned him that I was skeptical that such analysis alone would produce a great novel. Lindberg sent me a copy of his first book: _Cousin Eddy: Motorhome and Towing Truck Performance_. I greatly enjoyed reading _Cousin Eddy_, and when I told the author that, he suggested that I write a review of the book and send it to Amazon.com. I did write a short review, and I posted it on the Amazon.com site. This was a new idea to me. It made me wonder: Will "publishing" book reviews on book sellers' sites be common in the future? Will such online reviews replace the traditional printed reviews in magazines and journals? After posting my review on the Amazon.com site, I made some additions to it, and I put this revised version on my Web site, and I called it Version 2. Almost immediately, I thought of some changes that I should make in my review, and I made them, and I replaced Version 2 on my Web site with Version 3. It can be found at: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/rod.html This process made me think: Version 1 of my review is on the Amazon.com site, and Version 3 is on my site, where is Version 2? The answer is that it is nowhere. The electronic world seems rather different from the traditional world of printed publications. I would be interested to know what list members think about these matters -- and about my review. -- Eric --Eric Johnson johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Jan-Gunnar Tingsell " Subject: A question about word classes Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:42:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1102 (1102) Can anyone please help me with references (if any) to works studying word classes vs. "vocabulary richness", especially in spoken language. Are there any attempts to correlate relations between word classes and a "rich and proper" language? Not to overload the discussion list, I appreciate an answer direct to me. -- Jan-Gunnar Tingsell Humanistiska fakultetens dataservice tel: +46 (0)31 773 4553 Göteborgs universitet fax: +46 (0)31 773 4455 URL = http://www.hum.gu.se/humeng.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jo Tarvers Subject: Fw: Amazon.com and Paper Mills Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1103 (1103) Colleagues, like many of you I have come to rely on online bookstores. Thus I found the attached very disturbing. I forward it to the lists for your information. Jo ----------------------------------------------- Jo Koster Tarvers, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of English Winthrop University Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001 803/323-4557 tarversj@winthrop.edu http://faculty.winthrop.edu/tarversj "There is great disorder under heaven and the situation is excellent."--Mao Tse Tung -----Original Message----- [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ed HAUPT Subject: Re: 12.0580 text-analysis & related matters Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:41:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1104 (1104) Eric Johnstone's comment on his book prompts me to point out that self-reviews are not new. They were reasonably common in late 19th century German academia. In the Goettinger Gelehrten Anzeiger of the 1880s and 1890s there were a considerable number of self-reviews. And this publication was the official publication of the Academy of Sciences in Goettingen. It seems to me that there are often times when an adequate review by another academic is difficult to get in a timely fashion. In these cases, a precis by the author serves the academic community well. Edward J. Haupt, Ph.D. Voice: (001)973.655.4327 Associate Professor of Psychology Fax: (001)973.655.5121 Department of Psychology email: haupt@email.njin.net Montclair State University Upper Montclair NJ USA 07043-1624 home page http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/haupt/haupthp.html Museum of the History of Psychological Experimentation http://www.chss.montclair.edu/psychology/museum/museum.html Membership Chair, History of Psychology (Division 26) Information and Membership Form at: http://www.yorku.ca/dept/psych/orgs/apa26/memform.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Merrilee Proffitt Subject: New Collection Available Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 19:40:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1105 (1105) The Regional Oral History Office and the Free Speech Movement Project of the Bancroft Library are pleased to announce the availability of the first on-line offerings from ROHO'S University History Series, the oral histories of Edward Strong, Katherine Towle, and Arleigh Williams. The oral histories of these three Berkeley campus administrators discuss their roles in events during the 1964 Free Speech Movement in addition to other apects of their long careers at Berkeley. Their oral histories are made available as part of the Free Speech Movement Project, which collects, preserves, and makes available documents related to the Free Speech Movement (1964-1965). This work has been made possible by a generous gift from Stephen M. Silberstein. The oral histories are available online at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/unihist.html Edward Strong joined the Berkeley philosophy faculty in 1932, and until his retirement as Mills Professor Emeritus in 1967 he played a vigorous role both on campus and nationwide as a University representative, leading philosopher, and authority on higher education. A major interruption in his teaching and scholarly duties came early in World War II, when his friend Ernest O. Lawrence asked him to manage the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory facilities. After the war, when he returned from "the hill" to campus and administrative duties as associate dean of the College of Letters and Science. He was both a participant in and observer of the loyalty oath events when the faculty stood united against a threat to their academic freedom and tenure. His years as Chancellor, 1961 to 1965, culminated in the FSM events that shook the University. Katherine Towle graduated from the University of California Berkleley in 1920. After graduate work at Berkeley and Columbia she joined the staff at the University of California Press (1935-1943). During World War II while on military leave from the Press, she became one of the first eight women captains in the Women's Reserve. In 1946 she briefly served as Senior Administrative Assistant to Vice-President and Provost Monroe Deutsch and Dean of Women before returning to the Military to become the first Director of the Women's Marine Corps. After her retirment from the military she again served as Berkeley's Dean of Women and then as Dean of Students. Towle retired from the University in 1965. Arleigh Williams' association with the campus began when he was a freshman in 1931. He was president of his class and an All-American halfback on the football team. In 1957 he was appointed director of student activities for the Berkeley campus, and then went on to become dean of men and later dean of students during the heyday of student activism in the late sixties. Williams then served as assistant vice chancellor for student affairs in the seventies. Widely acknowledged as one of the few to emerge from the turbulent days of the student movement on campus having retained the trust of students and administrators alike, William's oral history is an important source for researchers of these times. The University History Series is the longest established--and perhaps the most diverse--series of oral history interviews conducted by the Regional Oral History Office. For other oral histories available online, please refer to: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline More information about the Free Speech Movement Project can be found at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/FSM Merrilee Proffitt, Electronic Text Unit Ann Lage, Regional Oral History Office Elizabeth Stephens, Free Speech Movement Project ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1106 (1106) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1107 (1107) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Dr Donald J. Weinshank" Subject: On becoming emeritus Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:00:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1108 (1108) I cannot resist sharing an amusing story. (If Willard does not share my sense of humor, he will not post it.) Several years ago, one of the colleges at my university built a new building. One corridor had offices for retired faculty. The sign on the wall said Professors Emeritus Even my feeble Latin suggested that this should be Professors Emeriti I sent E-mail to the Dean, to wit: "I know that it is tough to get tenure at this place, but I was unaware that the competition for emeritus status was so enormous. Do you execute all but one of the retired faculty?" The sign was changed rather promptly. djw _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cse.msu.edu Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 432-1061 Comp. Sci., Michigan State http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan [Humanists may be amused by the entry in one of my Latin dictionaries for the word in question: emeritus ppa. emereor. a. superannuated, worn out. m. veteran. --WM] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0590 Amazon.com & academic paper mills Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:01:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1109 (1109) I have a question: how does anyone know that the "junglepage.com" student paper mill has anything to do with Amazon? I know that Amazon acquired recently a business called Junglee, but that had nothing to do with this. Is there any substantiation to this claim? -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: Francois Lachance Subject: paper mills & handwriting Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:02:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1110 (1110) Willard, The revival of the epistolary genre has been credited to the spread of computer-mediated communication. I am willing to venture that gentle art of hand writing may blossom under the pressures of complusory exams weighted to balance the effects of ghost authors & plagarists. Of course, the exam hall just might be filled with the clickity clack of keyboards. By then the spectre of cyborg audio implants coupled with micro cameras would connect the resourceful cheater to a helping conspirator. Interesting that many of the same questions that arise in the context of testing by distance education methods also arise in the use of video conferencing for the deposition of evidence in courts of law. Something tells me this just a little local example of your overarching theme of evidence and its construction. Though I have no evidence for the following evidence collection mechanism, I for one am beginning to favour the sitting of exams in the middle of the night -- helps clear the mind and train the body for collaboration across all those time zones. *grin* -- Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Ron Zweig Subject: Do Humanists need Access to Internet II Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:59:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1111 (1111) I would like to request the assistance of fellow Humanists in listing all the reasons that we - as mere purveyors of texts and images - require access to a new, improved version of Internet. Internet II will give vastly greater bandwidth to academic institutions, and the fight is on for equal and fair access to these new resources. In Israel this fight has been turned into an open gladitorial competition. The more veteran computing resource guzzlers - physics, chemistry, mathematics - are making a strong case to dominate access to the broader bandwidth, and to exclude the Humanities altogether. The Ministry of Science and Technology, to whom I am indebted for significant grants, has asked me to present the case of the Humanities. Help me, colleagues, help me or I lose this battle. I have a week to get some ideas together. Why do *we* need a share of the brave new Internet? Your comments and opinions will be greatly welcomed. Good ideas will be integrated into my presentation. Bad ones will be accredited. With thanks Dr. Ronald W. Zweig Kipp Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, Tel Aviv University ron@rambam.tau.ac.il From: Darryl Whetter Subject: concordance publishers Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:02:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1112 (1112) Hello Humanist, I have prepared a concordance to a recent novel and, sadly, am not meeting much encouragement from university and academic publishers listed in the MLA useful addresses. Could anyone recommend publishers interested in literary concordances? All good things, Darryl Whetter Ph.D. Candidate UNB English Department (506) 455-7767 http://www.unb.ca/qwerte moving art ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation Summer School Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:59:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1113 (1113) SOCRATES Intensive Programme in CORPUS LINGUISTICS and DIGITISATION University of Glasgow, Scotland June 21 - July 2 1999 10 ECTS available An EU-funded two-week summer school in Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation will be held at the University of Glasgow, Scotland from 21 June to 2 July 1999. 10 ECTS credits are available on successful completion of the course which is open to students attending universities in countries participating in the SOCRATES scheme. The teaching staff is drawn from the particpating institutions; the Universities of Bergen, Cork, Glasgow, Joensuu, Nijmegen and Roma. Students will follow a common track in the first week, before following a track in either Corpus Linguistics or Digitisation in the second week. The course will cover the following areas: Corpus Linguistics: * Introduction to Corpus Linguistics * Building a Corpus * Text from the Internet, copyright * TEI for corpus linguistics * Tagging and Parsing * Parallel and Specialised Corpora * Quantitative methods and Tools Digitisation: * Introduction to Digitisation * Technical considerations, TEI, OCR, etc * Textual material * Spoken material * Images * Standards, platforms and conversions Students will also complete a project based on the materials covered in the course. The course itself is completely funded by the SOCRATES scheme, however, students are asked to find their own travel, accommodation and subsistence funding. For more information, see the web site at http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SocIP/ or contact Fiona Tweedie (fiona@stats.gla.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0591 Amazon.com & paper mills Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:56:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1114 (1114) Jungle page was one of Amazon's "associates" -- independent operators with whom Amazon contracts for advertising space, and to whom Amazon pays royalties for each book bought through the Associates' site. Today some of us have gotten e-mail from Amazon saying that they have terminated their "associate status" with Jungle Page. Good! From: Ferstel John W Subject: Re: 12.0591 Amazon.com & paper mills Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:56:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1115 (1115) Here is the letter I received when I e-mailed Amazon.com. This clarifies the relationship between JunglePage and Amazon.com. Note that this relationship is now severed. Jack Ferstel U. of Southwestern Louisiana ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation]X-Authentication-Warning: associates-1.amazon.com: marco set sender to associates@amazon.com using -f To: "John W. Ferstel" from-address: associates@amazon.com Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We've looked into this and found that junglepages.com had been a member of the Amazon.com Associates Program. This program now includes over 250,000 web sites that recommend our service to their visitors in exchange for a small percentage of the sales they generate. We never handle orders for the products offered for sale by our Associates, and certainly never took orders for the essays and papers sold by junglepages.com. It's also inappropriate for an Associate to claim that they are "sponsored by" Amazon.com, which implies a level of endorsement that we explicitly do not offer any of our Associates and did not offer to junglepages.com. Many web sites do not qualify to join or remain in the Amazon.com Associates program, and upon review we have decided to terminate this account effective immediately. We have requested that our logo and brand name be removed from the site, and hope that this will be completed shortly. Thanks again for writing to express your concerns, and for giving us a chance to take the proper action. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. Sincerely, Marco H. Sawrey Amazon.com Associates Program http://www.amazon.com/associates Books, Music and More... [deleted quotation] From: Robert Knapp Subject: Re: 12.0591 Amazon.com & paper mills Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:57:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1116 (1116) How do we know that Amazon has a connection with Junglepage? They acknowledge it: " Hello from Amazon.com, Thanks for writing to us about our Associate at junglepage.com. We will be looking into the nature of this site further. We will not associate with sites that promote sexually explicit materials promote violence promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age promote illegal activities violate intellectual property rights Let us know if we can answer any further questions for you. Best regards, Jennifer Jenkins Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com ========================= Earth's Biggest Selection" Of course Junglepage commits none of the sins that Amazon would dissociate from: nothing illegal about buying the work of a ghost to foist off on an unsuspecting guardian of credentials. François's fantasy about the return of handwriting as the guarantor of authenticity leaves aside the underlying old-fashioned notion of "honor": an internalization of mutual responsibility that can be promoted only in relatively small interactive groups. Maybe Junglepage and Amazon will do us all a service, bringing to a dysfunctional conclusion the logic of factory-style education and its emphasis on "product." Robert Knapp From: "D. L. Henderson" <"D. L. Henderson"@geac.com> Subject: Re: 12.0591 Amazon.com & paper mills Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 09:36:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1117 (1117) Go to the JunglePage web page. Amazon.com is prominently listed as a sponsor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: behaviour & everything else Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:59:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1118 (1118) This morning John Searle, in London for a conference on consciousness at King's, was provoked into talking once again about his Chinese Room "parable", as he called it, on Radio 4. He commented that if all you have is behaviour you don't have much. You do have, however, the very interesting and difficult question of exactly how the remainder might be known. He also usefully pointed out that the parable is completely independent of what you have inside the room -- as long as you are on the outside and what you get from inside are answers to questions, as the parable specifies. I'm aware that Searle's parable has been discussed at length by people who spend a great deal of time thinking about issues in and around AI and cognitive science. Let me, however, ask one question inspired by his comments this morning. If we have, say, a poetic text and subject it to analysis by machine, is it not as if we had it in the Chinese Room but also could enter that room at liberty to interrogate it directly, i.e. read it? Is it not the case that by comparing what we get from interacting with the intelligence inside and from reading the answers that we get through the slot in the wall of the Room, we are wiser than if we only had the direct means, i.e. reading the text in the conventional sense? Comments? Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: 12.0593 -- Concordances Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:57:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1119 (1119) Darryl Whetter writes: [deleted quotation] The larger question might be, with the rise of digital texts and powerful analysis tools, is there a place anymore for print concordances? Even a work marked up with a relatively simple encoding scheme provides many more ways of asking questions of a text than allowed by the codex format. Furthermore, because of the growing number of works available in digital format, one can also ask those questions across any number of axes: by period, gender, geographic area, genre, etc. A quick search of my university's on-line catalogue (admittedly a non-scientific sample) reveals a regular drop in the number of concordances published over the past 20 years: five published in 1998, six in 1997, compared with 14 in 1981 and 17 in 1980. Mr. Whetter might have better luck marking up his text in SGML or XML and publishing it on his university Internet site. Dave Gants -- David L. Gants *** Department of English *** Park Hall University of Georgia *** Athens, GA *** 30602-6205 706.542.3496 (office) *** 706.542.2181 (FAX) From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0593 need for Internet II? concordance publishers? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:57:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1120 (1120) Now that concordances can be easily made with software packages, and electronic versions of novels,poems, etc. can be readily searched, I don't know of any publishers that want to spend money issuing concordances. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Soraj Hongladarom Subject: Re: 12.0593 need for Internet II? concordance publishers? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:58:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1121 (1121) Ronald Zweig said: [deleted quotation] I don't quite understand how mathematicians, for example, is anything more than "mere purveyors of texts and images" too. They may employ complex images representing some arcane equations, but we humanists certainly make use of images and models too. Mathematical texts may be full of symbols, but what about different writing systems that humanists study? Don't they, too, need to be stored and displayed through the network? I think if the case can be made for mathematicians, then the same must also be made for humanists. If mathematicians need to have access to Internet2, then why not for humanists? And the same argument, I think, can also be made in case of chemists and physicists. Soraj Hongladarom Department of Philosophy Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330, THAILAND Tel. +662-2184756 Fax +662-2184867 Personal Web Page: http://pioneer.chula.ac.th/~hsoraj/web/soraj.html From: Robert Kraft Subject: Re: 12.0593 need for Internet II? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:58:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1122 (1122) Some of us are trying to do lots of things with large digitized images (in my case, manuscripts, paleography, and the like; but see also the art history, archaeology, and museum projects), with hopes of sophisticated links to text files, etc. I hope these needs will be taken into consideration! Bob -- Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania 227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827 kraft@ccat.sas.upenn.edu http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html From: Darryl Whetter Subject: Do Humanists need Access to Internet II Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:59:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1123 (1123) Ron et al, Humanities-wise, digital collections can be a great library-levleller. The apple-cheeked Harvard kids may not be the only ones who could use access to H. collections. Really it's the end of geography I'm thinking of, or at least the end of geographical dependancy. All good things, Darryl Whetter Ph.D. Candidate UNB English Department (506) 455-7767 http://www.unb.ca/qwerte moving art ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Kim Fisher Subject: Job Annoucement Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:43:04 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1124 (1124) THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair for Special Collections/Rare Books__________________________________________________ The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seeks applications and nominations for Head of Special Collections who will also have responsibility for heading the Rare Books unit within the department. This is a chaired faculty position in the University Libraries and a senior position within the library administration. The Special Collections Department consists of three units: Rare Books; University Archives; and Historical Collections and Labor Archives. The Rare Books collection consists of over 90,000 volumes, with strengths in English and American literature, art and architectural history, utopian literature, and German literature in English translation. Literary manuscript collections include the papers of John O'Hara and Kenneth Burke. The Historical Collections and Labor Archives includes the archives of the United Steelworkers of America and the United Mine Workers of America, Pennsylvania railroad records, and the papers of Pennsylvania political figures such as governors William W. Scranton and Robert P. Casey. University Archives includes university records, papers of Penn State faculty and presidents, and papers of numerous scholarly and professional associations; a university records management program, an extensive sports archives, and the Fred Waring archives. Special Collections houses large collections of photographs, audio-visual materials, and historical maps. The three units will be consolidated into a shared facility in the new Paterno Library which will open in early 2000. Responsibilities: Reporting to the Associate Dean for University Park Libraries, the position provides leadership for a department of 14 full-time faculty and staff that is committed to quality reference service, support for graduate and undergraduate education, and open use of Collections; works closely with university faculty in support of the university's teaching and research mission; collaborates with the Assistant Dean for Collections and selectors in related disciplines in collection development; plays a major role in donor relations and development activities. As a member of the Dean's Library Council, participates in strategic planning and policy development. Qualifications: Requires ALA-accredited MLS or equivalent degree; at least 5 years experience administering a rare books or special collections unit within a major research institution; demonstrated knowledge of rare books, rare books marketplace, and archives and manuscripts; and experience acquiring, organizing, and providing reference service for such collections. Evidence of scholarship and professional activity, as well as excellent oral and written communications. Desirable: Experience in budgeting, development and donor relations, and use of information technology for special collections; reading proficiency in one or more European languages; advanced subject degree and experience with grants. A collaborative leadership style is important. Appointment and benefits: This is a tenure-track position. Rank and salary based upon qualifications, with appointment as Librarian (equivalent to full professor) with tenure anticipated. Excellent fringe benefits (vacation, insurance, educational privileges); TIAA/CREF or state retirement options. PSU Libraries is a member of ARL, OCLC, RLG, CRL, and the Digital Library Federation. Collections exceed 4 million volumes. A capital campaign is under way. For more information, see http://www.libraries.psu.edu To apply, send letter of application, current resume, and names and addresses of three references to Head, Search Committee for Special Collections, Box SCR-CHE, Penn State, E510 Paterno Library, University Park, PA 16802. Review of applications will begin on April 30 and continue until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mike Ledgerwood Subject: Re: 12.0596 humanists & Internet II Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:37:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1125 (1125) How about those of us in Language Study who use Real Audio/Video, VDOLive, Vivoactive, or other types of "television" plug-ins to bring target language TV to our students. We also use Internet Phone, and videoconferencing for classroom exchanges and for mentoring activities. Tell me that these applications are not bandwidth- intensive.... Best to all, Mike Ledgerwood Prof of French and Education and Technology State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 12.0594 Amazon.com & paper mills Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:32:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1126 (1126) Actually, when I went to the JunglePage site, on the same day I received the original post by digest (and four days after the original post), I did not see the Amazon logo, which is why I wondered what the uproar was about; presumably they had already acted. But I have to agree with Robert Knapp's comment about the incident as commentary on "factory-style education." When I hire recent graduates these days, I know they won't be able to write from day one, and I'll have to teach them. Still, forty years ago sororities and fraternities got papers for students all the time, so this isn't really something new: it has just stopped being an elite resource and turned into a business opportunity. Another observation: surely Amazon wouldn't make much of a profit--in book sales at least--from such sites? -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: "Price, Dan" Subject: RE: Paper Mills Again Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:32:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1127 (1127) Well, out of curiosity I went to visit some papermills and found essaydepot.com. They claim to be the best and the cheapest for essays, papers and reports. Right on the side bar is a $10. gift certificate offer from barnesandnoble.com. There easily could have been other such ads on other sites but this was most noticeable and attractive. Good piece of advertising on their part. --Dan Sincerely, Dan Price, Ph.D. Professor, Center for Distance Learning *********************************************************** The Union Institute (800) 486 3116 ext.1222 440 E McMillan St. (513) 861 6400 ext.1222 Cincinnati OH 45206 FAX 513 861 9026 http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html <http://www.tui.edu/Faculty/FacultyUndergrad/PriceDan.html> *********************************************************** From: associates@amazon.com Subject: Amazon.com, Re: From the feedback@amazon.com queue, Re: Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:35:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1128 (1128) jungle$ Thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. We've looked into this and found that junglepage.com had been a member of the Amazon.com Associates Program. This program now includes over 250,000 web sites that recommend our service to their visitors in exchange for a small percentage of the sales they generate. We never handle orders for the products offered for sale by our Associates, and certainly never took orders for the essays and papers sold by junglepage.com. It's also inappropriate for an Associate to claim that they are "sponsored by" Amazon.com, which implies a level of endorsement that we explicitly do not offer any of our Associates and did not offer to junglepage.com. Many web sites do not qualify to join or remain in the Amazon.com Associates program, and upon review we have decided to terminate this account effective immediately. We have requested that our logo and brand name be removed from the site, and hope that this will be completed shortly. Thanks again for writing to express your concerns, and for giving us a chance to take the proper action. Phan Amazon.com Associates Program http://www.amazon.com/ Books, Music and More [deleted quotation]things, [deleted quotation]of [deleted quotation]can [deleted quotation]the [deleted quotation]myself, [deleted quotation]services as [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0599 behaviour & everything else Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:38:25 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1129 (1129) Willard: I submitted your e-mail to my Chinese room bot. This is what came out: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Chinese Room-Text: None the wiser, not less wise For pondering it. What words signify On a spring day, depends on The order of spring. Whether we expect Question, or only answer, Questions our answer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I can't tell whether it's "conscious" or not. --Wendell (BTW, for those of us whose memory is hazy, or locked in a room: could you relate to us the parable, or at least a version for purposes of this discussion?) ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML From: Francois Lachance Subject: text, rooms, brooms Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:38:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1130 (1130) Willard, Very interesting move to place Searle's Chinese Room parable alongside the poem-as-room considerations. But in mapping the analogy onto text analysis concerns would not the Chinese Room be the computer? Unless there is a whole string of black boxes: human reader, computer, poem. You seem to invite a consideration of a poem as machine and want to maintain the analogy with a building. It is easy to move between architectural and vehicular metaphors for text (any semiotic artefact, not just verbal constructions) [I recall this point being brought forward in discussion following a paper prepared by Kathyrn Sutherland at the 1997 Computing the Edition symposium. By the way, are there plans to publish some record of the proceedings?] I do not want to rehash the ground covered by contemporary architecture theory (see Kenneth Frampton et al eds., _Technology, Place and Architecture: The Jerusalem Seminar_ or Stephen Graham's _Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Spaces_). I do want to signal one of the narrative syntagms which the triad machine poem building offers. Poems can build machines. Actually I want to stop before the beast of regression stretches out the series of black boxes into machines making machines and just suggest that this opening out of the infinite links the quotidien with the sacred: the poetic temple need not be a cathedral --- temples fall into ruins and cathedrals are often unfinished projects. It may be a challenge to think of temples and cathedrals as machines (they seem to work whether they are completed or restored). The etymologies of "machine", "poem" and "building" can help redistriebute the challenge. If behaviour is indeed the proper beginning, then machines, poems and buildings can be said to permit, to make, to dwell. The tough questions: where do poems dwell? what do buildings make? what is the where and when that machines permit? Toughest question: why? -- Francois *Some dwell in the making of permission; others, through. From: Willard McCarty Subject: Chinese Room parable Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 08:18:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1131 (1131) At Wendell's request, I will do my best fairly to paraphrase Searle's parable. For the original articulation, see Searle, J. R. (1980). Minds, brains, and programs. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3, 414-424. Suppose that in a windowless room sits a person who is entirely ignorant, let us say, of Chinese, though he or she is otherwise quite intelligent and clever. Outside the room is another person who is perfectly literate in Chinese but has no idea who or what is inside the room. Communication between the two is only by a slot in a wall of the room. Questions in Chinese are passed through this slot, answers come back. If the answers are intelligible to the person on the outside of the room, can we say that the person in the room "understands" Chinese? Clearly, Searle says, the answer is no. For those who prefer the Web, and a great deal more discussion of the parable, see what a desultory search turns up -- e.g. <http://www.ptproject.ilstu.edu/chinovrv.htm>; the bibliography given at <http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/papers/chalmers.biblio.4.html> and the encyclopedia entries at <http://www.epistemelinks.com/Topi/MindTopi.htm> and <http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/c/chineser.htm>; and also <http://sun1.iusb.edu/~lzynda/searle.html>, <http://ling.ucsc.edu/~chalmers/papers/computation.html>, <http://act.psy.cmu.edu/personal/ja/misapplied.html>. And I cannot resist giving you <http://dangermouse.uark.edu/searle/>. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: fonts Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:39:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1132 (1132) Cleaning up for the inevitable, I found an old "Sears Change-a-Type Intenational Kit," one of those things which you slipped over your keys on a Sears typewriter so you could write extended ASCII. I would show you what I mean, but you cannot do extended ASCII (or ought not) on e-mail, except by such devices as SGML: é and the like. We have not moved very far. Jim Marchand. From: Jim Marchand Subject: Concordances Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:37:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1133 (1133) I believe it was Joseph Raben who said: "The technology which has brought us computers will make them obsolete," or words to that effect. Like Norm, I see very little use in a printed concordance, especially if it is a KWIC concordance, which often is of no use at all, other than as a word list. It IS useful to have a concordance for certain editorial tasks, but then it is best to have one online (in your computer, I mean). If you have a good text-finding program, with today's screamers you can find your text in no time. For example, I have the Vulgate in a subdirectory on my computer (nowadays we have so much room). If I want to find a quotation, I just get a key-word and ask for it. I can interrogate the whole database in seconds. I also have the Ante- and Post-Nicene Fathers (all 42 vols.) in a subdirectory, and I can interrogate this in about 3 minutes. Finding information (the reason for concordances for the most part) is easy now that we have so much room and so much speed. Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: VERY URGENT: help needed! Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:36:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1134 (1134) Dear colleagues of Humanities Computing, Our university is facing a very heavy cut in posts (167). It has been proposed that Romance studies should go. At the moment a rescue plan is being put for- ward which, however, excludes Italian studies completely. Italian is considered, by my collegues in the Romance department to be a minor (in some respects inferior) language. But, as you all know, above all inside the Italian department humanities computing has been pushed forward. This is because, despite being a specialist in Romance linguistics, my base is the Department of Italian. If the Italian department is closed all the work in: - corpus building: Italian, French and Spanish newspaper corpus 1994; the Italian newspaper corpus 1989 part of which you can get from the Oxford Text Archive or on the CD of ECI, - computer aided teaching of the linguistics of the Romance languages (some of you have seen my presentation in Edinburgh or at King's; you might also have a look at: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm or at our semester program under http://www.uni-duisburg.de/VV/ss99/iv-0303.htm in order to see who is trying to use, if at all, the media at our disposal ), - on-line computer aided textual analysis: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/humcomp/tacthome.htm (by the way the web pages of our department themselves are my own doing: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/) - collaboration with ACO*HUM ecc. will be closed down, too. If there is anything in the above you consider worthwhile, I would like to urge you to send an e-mail of protest to our Rector: Prof. Dr. Wolff rector@verwaltung.uni-duisburg.de or if you prefer to send a fax: An den Rektor der Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg Prof. Dr. Wolff +49 203 379 3500 urging him to seriously consider the consequences of closing down the only department at Duisburg University which has made a contribution to the development of good practice in Humanities Computing. As the decision of closure will be taken the 7th of May, I urge you to send such an e-mail as soon as possible and by all means by the 6th of May. For those of you who are involved in literary studies I would like to add that a landmark History of Italian literature has just been published by the head of the Italian department, Prof. Dr. Manfred Hardt. I thank you all in advance for your support Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PD Drin. Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg +49 203 3791957 Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/PERSONAL/Burr/burr.htm Editor of: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/ROMANISTIK/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/home.html http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/DRV/home.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mark Olsen Subject: XML and TEI: Gadfly Notes Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 07:39:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1135 (1135) I read with interest the announcement of the TEI Consortium. As a supporter of the intellectual aims and most of the results of the TEI, I can only wish the Consortium the greatest success. But -- of course there is a but :-) -- the near simultaneous appearance of this announcement and an article in this month's Scientific American by Jon Bosak and Tim Bray, both of whom played crucial roles in the development of XML, ["XML and the Second Generation Web", SciAm May 99 http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html) discussing XML may have interesting implications for humanities computing. The TEI Consortium sees a large part of its mission and future implicated in the early deployment of XML: [deleted quotation] Such enthusiasm among members of the TEI is certainly warranted. A common problem raised with TEI in particular (and SGML in general) is that there is a dearth of software. The few candidates for general software solutions which have emerged from the academic community have developed into large companies whose primary market is the management and e-publication of corporate information systems, either abandonning the academic market completely or charging very high prices for total solutions that more often than not fail to handle the kinds of problems posed by scholars in the humanities. So, the enthusiasm of the TEI consortium for XML is certainly understandable. A critical assumption here is that the primary use of TEI and other encoded texts is READING documents online. Rather than read TEI documents in either rendered HTML or using an SGML browser, XML will allow us the read TEI encoded documents in a browser. The implication is that the primary focus of humanities computing should be electronic publication. It is not clear to me that this is the case. Renear and Chesnutt are only addressing reading here, but their own work shows that searching and analysis are crucial elements of textual research. Searching and analysis, that might combined with e-text "publication", seems to be more consistent with the long tradition of humanities computing scholarship. But I digress (tho' this is an important digression). It is NOT clear to me that XML is going to be the solution that the TEI Consortium hopes because XML may require dramatic increases in costs. Bosak and Bray conclude the SciAm article, writing: [deleted quotation] This may be worrisome development for humanities computing. Even the largest digital library operations, e-text centers, and humanities computing centers are notoriously underfunded, scraping along to move ahead in an opportunistic fashion -- grants, soft money, finding a computer savvy student, etc. ARTFL does NOT have "battalions of programmers" to be certain. Even worse, when Bosak and Bray suggest the demise of "the self-trained Web hacker", we had all better take notice. Humanities computing is based on the work of precisely "self-trained hackers" [Web or programming], since most of us are researchers and scholars in different substantive disciplines. The primary labor force for most humanities computing efforts are students, often graduate students, working and studying in the disciplines. The ease of learning HTML (and other simple schemes like Dublin Core), so noted by the authors, makes it possible for students to begin working effectively with a minimum of training. This is of particular importance given the rapid turn-over of students in many humanities computing efforts -- they *ARE* supposed to graduate and move on. Why might XML require so much more effort? XML is a simplified meta-language. A better SGML. No debate from me here. It is. But the devil is in the details: namely the DTDs and required software development. They can be as simple as HTML or as complex as TEI. Bosak and Bray offer a word of caution here: [deleted quotation] In fact, XML does not really resolve the hard problems at all: [deleted quotation] So, we're back to discussing DTDs and hoping that **SOMEONE** will develop effective, inexpensive, and flexible software to handle complex DTDs like the TEI. The potential benefits of XML must be balanced against potential huge cost increases, costs which most humanities computing efforts can ill-afford. One of the most important selling points of XML is that it will require "well formed" tagging in order guarantee proper rendering and interoperability. This is, without doubt, an important goal. Unfortunately, the laudable desire to encourage "wellformedness" (is that a word?? :-) seems to be almost an end in itself, rather than an operational goal that should be balanced by other considerations Tim Bray writes in another article that there is alot of BAD HTML out there, because most people simply code to the relatively permissive standards of contemporary WWW browsers (such as Netscape and Explorer). "Fortunately," Bray continues, [deleted quotation] [http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/bray_xml.html MVO: sorry, no hard copy citation] Most people tend to use browsers as the way to verify HTML and have produced huge amounts of very valuable material. Bray continues: [deleted quotation] Bray introduces the distinction between "lightweight low-overhead" Web development/publication -- presumably less expensive and time consuming -- and development under XML, which he warns can be very expensive -- dare I say "heavyweight high-overhead" :-) -- development. And he belittles those who, for whatever reasons, continue to work in ways that are certainly proven to be effective. The very important goal of Web automation needs to be balanced against the utility of such automation in humanities computing and the resources required to get there. I am an historian and prefer doing post-mortems to predictions :-). The computer bizness does require us to try to guess which new things are going to pan out, and what the implications of said developments might be. So, it is my prediction that extensive use of the capabilities of XML will be reserved for commercial oragnizations that have the resources and markets to make the required investment feasible, and possibly some demonstration projects in the humanities. HTML (or an XML look-alike) and other simple, effective schemes, however, will continue to work on the Web and continue to be the lingua franca of the scholarly community for reasons of cost, installed based, and simplicity. Many people are pinning great hopes on XML. But XML is still largely in the early stages of deployment and we have yet to see or digest all of the implications. As one of little faith -- a doubting Thomas to be sure -- I will wait to see what actually happens. I do hope that the TEI Consortium and scholars in humanities computing not get too caught up in the hype and exercise their critical faculties, not just on the technical merits, but also including the variety of other factors that impact real research and development in the discipline. Mark Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago WWW: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Paul Brians Subject: Re: 12.0600 Amazon.com & paper mills Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:31:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1136 (1136) In my opinion teachers who give assignments that can be satisfactorily fulfilled by commercially bought papers are not doing their jobs. In all my classes, there is a written paper proposal early in the semester accompanied by an annotated bibliography which I go over with the student. This is followed by an interim draft which must be revised for a final grade. Students who cheat can't be bothered to fake all this process. Asking for a final product only is not teaching, and students recognize that and some will respond by not learning. Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: classification schemes; document delivery Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:32:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1137 (1137) Two items from the same source. (1) "Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web... a clearinghouse of World Wide Web sites that have applied or adopted standard classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize or provide enhanced access to Internet resources." See <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/CTW.htm>. (2) "Just-In-Time (sm): Electronic Article Delivery Services... a clearinghouse of projects, research, products and services which are investigating or provide desktop access on an 'As Needed' basis to individual journal, magazine, newspaper, or other serial publication article, chapter, or paper for which an individual or institution does not have a formal subscription." See <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Just.htm>. The work has been done by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Services Department, Iowa State University Library. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: all you need is love, or The Bed Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:32:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1138 (1138) Spring in England has been depressingly chilly this year. I looked forward all winter to my newly planted forsythia, right by the gate in the front garden, bursting into bright yellow bloom and so lifting my spirits, which I can assure you have needed lifting. Alas, after a brief flowering my chilled forsythia seems to have concluded, in the way plants come to their conclusions, that blooms were not in order and so dropped them. It's been too cold to enjoy the bright red leaves of my pieris, which have already gone to yellow-green. And then, just minutes ago, I heard from my daughter that snow is falling outside her window in Fairbanks, Alaska. How good it is, then, to have stumbled across a real spirit-lifting piece of research from the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, described in the online paper, "The Bed: A Medium for Intimate Communication", <http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/short-talk/cd.htm>. This paper presents "an environment providing a new form of abstracted presence for intimate, non-verbal inter-personal communication. This secure and familiar environment is explored for its ability to become a shared virtual space for bridging the distance between two remotely located individuals through aural, visual, and tactile manifestations of subtle emotional qualities." At last a solution to a whole range of problems, including but by no means limited to physical separation. The Bed consists of two actual beds. "Within each bed environment, there are two pillows and one curtain. Each pillow has a unique role in the environment, one is for the head and the other is a "graspable" pillow that can be pressed up against the body.... The body pillow is used as an output-only device in order to serve as a physical avatar of the remote individual. Inside the body pillow are an electric heating blanket and a large sub-woofer speaker that is capable of producing a strong physical vibration.... When both participants climb into their beds and hold their body pillows, the participants' presence is initially represented through both the warming up and the appearance of a slow, steady physical pulsing in the other's body pillow. This bridges the physical distance between the two individuals through this intermediate tangible medium: one can feel the heartbeat and the body warmth of the other. If one person begins to get restless, i.e. he/she moves about in the bed, the movement is communicated through an increase of the rate and intensity of the heartbeat in the other's body pillow....." Perhaps this supplies an answer to why humanists need Internet II? Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: C M Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 12.0605 gadfly notes on XML & TEI Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:31:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1139 (1139) On Sat, 1 May 1999 08:23:56 +0100 (BST), Mark Olsen wrote (in Humanist 12.0605): [deleted quotation] Future, yes; mission, perhaps. XML is certainly an important opportunity for everyone with any interest in being able to use off-the-shelf software for humanities computing. [deleted quotation] On this, Mark and I agree. (Does that mean he has failed as a gadfly? Hmmm.) But it seems to me that the situation is more complex than Mark seems to think. - It may or may not be the case that electronic publishing should be the primary focus of humanities computing. Mark and I both think it should not. - Mark and I, however, don't make the rules in humanities computing, and humanists will continue to focus on whatever they jolly well please, whatever Mark and I may say. It is an empirical fact that a lot of people in humanities have a keen interest in electronic publication of their work, whether in the form of primary texts or as secondary works. There are whole branches of literature, history, theology, and other disciplines devoted to publication of literary works and documents; it would be surprising and scandalous if scholarly editors who use computers were NOT interested in electronic publication. - It is also possible to be keenly interested in electronic publication without believing that it is, or should be, the primary focus of humanities computing. (In much the same way, it is possible to be keenly interested in publishing books and articles while still believing that the primary focus of, say, literary study is or should be the understanding of literature, and without confusing understanding with publication.) - David Chesnutt and Allen Renear do not, in any case, argue that publication should be the primary use of TEI-encoded texts. Chesnutt speaks of the increased amount of markup-aware software. He explicitly mentions browsers such as Internet Explorer 5 and Mozilla, but other off-the-shelf software is equally important. There are XML editors (XMetal from SoftQuad, Documentum from Excosoft, XED from the Language Technology Group in Edinburgh, and David Megginson's XML adaptation of Lennart Staflin's psgml.el for emacs are the ones that come to my mind off the bat, but I have not been monitoring the market very actively lately), search tools (e.g. sggrep from the LTG in Edinburgh, or sgrep from the Document Management Group at the University of Helsinki), and other tools (libraries in Perl, Python, and who knows how many other languages). All will be useful to those in humanities computing. Allen Renear suggests that users will move to TEI from HTML when they see what off-the-shelf software can do with TEI. Style-sheets are one obvious application here, but not the only one. [deleted quotation] It is indeed an important digression: the ability to search documents using the markup to help control the search is one of the most important advantages of heavy markup over light markup. That advantage is sometimes large enough to be worth the cost of the heavier markup, and sometimes not. But it's nice to be able to make the choice, instead of having it taken out of one's hands by systems that cannot understand the markup that is present. [deleted quotation] XML in itself does not require any increase in cost. Since it offers more opportunities, exploiting it fully may well cost more than exploiting HTML fully. That's where commercial enterprises will need battalions of programmers. [deleted quotation] No more than the TEI does. Scholars still have to understand their texts, and still have to decide what they care about. Neither TEI nor XML change that, and neither should be thought to be a silver bullet. They are merely good ways of helping make it possible to *mark up* what you care about, in order to make software do what you want it to do. [deleted quotation] Sound advice: exercise your critical faculties. Enlightenment is the liberation of the mind from self-imposed incapabilities. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Co-chair, W3C XML Schema Work Group Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago Editor, ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative Co-coordinator, Model Editions Partnership N.B. My remarks represent my own opinions, not necessarily those of W3C, UIC, the TEI Consortium, or MEP. From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: 12.0605 gadfly notes on XML & TEI Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:32:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1140 (1140) In his role as "gadfly" Mark Olsen makes a number of explicit (and implicit) claims about the importance of XML for the use of the TEI Guidelines by humanities scholars. Some of those claims warrant further discussion while others are factual errors. 1. TEI focuses on electronic publication Olsen quotes Alan Renard (Brown University) as saying that the advent of XML will mean that scholars can be shown the usefulness of the level of encoding available from standards such as the TEI Guidelines and not just assured that when tools become available the texts will be useful. That does not necessarily lead to Olsen's conclusion: [deleted quotation] I cannot speak for Alan Renard or anyone else working with TEI but I can report from personal experience that it is easier to demonstrate the utility of TEI encoding if I have a display mechanism for the encoded text. Linguistic corpora experts have the computer background to appreciate encoding schemes while textual critics usually do not. (Apologies in advance to all the text critics who have such a background.) The proper encoding of a text leads itself to a number of uses, only one of which is electronic publication and to suggest that TEI primarily has an "electronic publication" focus is simply incorrect. 2. XML is as complex as SGML Olsen quotes Bosak and Bray to illustrate the point that developing an encoding standard will be just as complex in XML as it was in SGML. [deleted quotation] The point is correct but irrelevant since the TEI Guidelines have already developed the encoding standard for a substantial body of materials and only await the use and extension by scholars working the various humanities disciplines. The TEI Guidelines will probably be extended by a minority of scholars for use by a larger community but then my home computer architecture has been advanced in a similar fashion. Not being able to design a motherboard does not disqualify me from using the computer to my advantage. Scholars will need to be trained in applying TEI elements to properly encode a text and not in the arcane rules of DTD construction to make use of the TEI Guidelines. 3. Cost to humanities projects Olsen quotes from the recent Bosak and Bray article in Scientific American ["XML and the Second Generation Web", SciAm May 99 http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html) to support his claim that the use of XML will dramatically increase costs in the humantities due to the need for: [deleted quotation] One component of the cost of a technology is the cost of the software to use it. A quick visit to Robin Cover's excellent SGML/XML Web page: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/, will reveal that while some software is available for SGML, there is a wealth of software for XML on a variety of platforms and in a number of programming languages. There are a number of sources of robust software packages available for free for academic projects ranging from the LT XML package (Henry Thompson, Language Technology Group, Edinburgh) to "IBM XML for Java" (Kent Tamura, Tokyo Research Laboratory, IBM Japan) and numerous Perl and Python software packages. From the software standpoint there is little evidence to support the envisioned increased costs posed by Olsen for the humanities. Olsen's claim that the use of XML will lead to "potential huge cost increases,...." seems to consist of two components, first, the cost of software for using the TEI Guidelines (answered above) and second, the cost of training humanists to use a more complex encoding scheme than HTML. On the training of humanists Olsen notes: [deleted quotation] Viewed in its entirety, the TEI Guidelines are an imposing 1200+ page set of complex and sometimes obscure encoding guidelines. But any particular project may only require the use of 30-40 (guess, no research on this point) elements by the graduate students in the project. One would assume that all graduate students could be taught by tutorials and examples to effectively apply a small set of elements for a given project. The person preparing the list of elements for use by the graduate students would have to have a greater degree of knowledge than the students but that should be true for the project in general. The point here being that the TEI Guidelines or XML should not be criticized as too complex when there has been no effort to train any graduate students in its use or the use of a TEI subset. Like the perennial criticism that there are some textual structures that TEI cannot properly encode (even with extensions to the Guidelines) the defeatist view of encoding complexity is more an article of faith than fact. I am hopeful that generalized tutorial materials will be one of the first deliverables to appear from the TEI Consortium as those will go a long way to dispelling the aura of complexity that surrounds the TEI Guidelines. 4. Continued use of HTML Olsen predicts that "HMTL (or an XML look-alike) will continue to work on the Web and continue to be the lingua franca of the scholarly community for reasons of cost, installed based, and simplicity." It was not so many years ago that HTML and web based resources were not an accepted part of the scholarly community. There is no reason why academic communities cannot develop powerful yet simple encoding subsets of the TEI Guidelines to become an even more powerful lingua franca for their area of study. HTML encoding is better than nothing but to remain within its limitations simply because it is now a common skill and there is cheap labor for its use seems contrary to any effort to produce long lasting scholarly texts for present and future research. Funding agencies will need a vast education on the expenses and requirements of proper encoding schemes but I am hopeful that will be one of the activities of the TEI Consortium. I foresee a time when any critical edition text will be required by the granting agency to be prepared, if not published, in SGML/XML encoding so its contents will not be buried in the confines of hard cover editions. (Here you can insert whatever texts of the past type project that comes to mind.) Conclusion Mark Olsen and the ARTFL Project should be commended for their work using HTML markup (and the PhiloLogic database engine and other scholarly contributions too numerous to list here). Those not familiar with the project should take the time necessary to become familiar with it. But I disagree with some of his predictions on the use of the TEI Guidelines, the impact of XML on their acceptance and the utility of retaining HTML as a markup standard. There are a number of positive steps that scholars can take to advance the use of TEI and XML in their respective fields of study which include: 1. Lobby your institution to join the TEI Consortium. 2. Volunteer to participate in the creation of training materials for TEI in encoding scholarly materials. 3. Develop software as part of university sponsored projects to facilitate the use of TEI and XML in encoding projects. 4. Urge graduate students to develop some degree of competence in the use of markup languages as part of their basic skill set in your discipline. (I saw a statistical analysis presented at a scholarly conference that asserted certain factors were significant because the manual for the statistical software said they were significant. I assume we want to avoid a similar situation with markup languages.) Scholars should take a critical view of new technologies but not assume that the unfamiliar is too complex or too costly to be useful. SGML has been used to provide access unimagined by prior generations of scholars to works such as the Patrologia Latina. The widespread use of XML may lead to better tools and more texts for scholars but only if scholars participate in that process. Patrick Patrick Durusau Information Technology Scholars Press Pdurusau@emory.edu From: aimeefreak Subject: Re: 12.0605 gadfly notes on XML & TEI Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:31:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1141 (1141) as one of the 'computer savvy students' referred to in the xml email, i must loudly assert my eagerness for xml ubiquity. i just wrote, actually, a paper on how impractical html is for those of us who want to use the machines to do lit work -- the language is so dumb, all you can do with it is format, and not really encode at all. which is like typing when you can word-process. maybe i'm just spoiled from extreme exposure to sgml and its authoring/display tools as an ra on the orlando project, but as a student of literature, i just can't see myself wasting my time on 'web page' projects when i could actually be tagging smart, tagging critically, tagging meaning instead of format. the process of web-site-building is unnecessarily dumbed down by its tools, and while it is great that my work thus published becomes accessible to many, and that i am able to produce a scholarly 'thing' i would not otherwise be able to, these benefits -- for us student types with no time, quick project turnaround, and crappy financial resources -- are really outweighed by the sheer brain-killing nature of having to tag everything over again if you want to display it in another way, if you want to move it from place to place, or repeat it. also, the whole html slapdash mentality makes for a very dependent product, a one-shot deal that needs to be rewritten for another platform. the time you spend articulating a dtd is brain work, is scholarly and intellectual (maybe not so much the style sheet ;> ) while the time you spend 'marking up' for web display in html is typing, is like a fancy cover page on a plain old essay. i built a site for a course at the u of a with susan hockey, an experimental student scholarly site, which made me declare i would never to this type of humanities computing for a literature course if i had to use the same tools. i concluded there that widespread xml support (via browsers and cheap-o authoring tools [well, on this last i admit i am dreaming the big dream]) was the only way to fly, from the student perspecitve. you can look - http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/aimee_morrison/framed have lovely weekends ... aimeefreak -------------------- aimee morrison phd program, dept of english university of alberta edmonton, ab ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 12.0606 paper mills Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:30:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1142 (1142) I appreciate Mr. Brians' remarks, but if he will look at the paper mills on the Net, he'll see that many offer not just papers, but annotated bibliographies. By the way this is not just an American problem: some of the "100 best paper sites", listed at some mills' home pages, have the "co.uk" domain indication. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Application Deadline for NEH's Division of Preservation Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:30:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1143 (1143) and Access [deleted quotation] 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 Website: http://www.neh.gov/html/guidelin/preservation.html A list of recent awards is also available at that site under "What's New". http://www.neh.gov/html/awards/preserv99.html To obtain a print version of the Guidelines or to address a question to the NEH staff, e-mail us at preservation@neh.gov Postal address: Division of Preservation and Access NEH, Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 Telephone: 202/606-8570 ___________ Helen C. Ag=FCera Senior Program Officer Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20506 voice: (202) 606-8573 secretary: (202) 606-8570=20 FAX: (202) 606-8639 e-mail: haguera@neh.gov ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: M4M: Final Call for Participation Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:31:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1144 (1144) [deleted quotation] FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION METHODS FOR MODALITIES 1 (M4M) Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam May 6-7, 1999 www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/M4M/ DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRATION: May 1, 1999 THEME The workshop `Methods for Modalities' (M4M) aims to bring together researchers interested in developing proof tools and decision methods for modal logic broadly conceived, including description logic, feature logic, temporal logic. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Reminder CfP: GLDV 99 Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:39:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1145 (1145) [deleted quotation] o============================================o | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | o============================================o "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis" The 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GLDV) will take place in July 8-10, 1999. Main topic: "Multilingual Corpora: Encoding, Structuring, Analysis". The meeting will be hosted by the Institute of Comparative Linguistics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main (Germany). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- C A L L F O R P A P E R S Papers can be offered for plenary sessions as well as sessions of the Special Interest Groups (Arbeitskreise) of GLDV. Papers that are NOT related to the main topic (e.g. Computational Linguistics, Language Technology, Linguistic Data Processing, etc.). are ALSO welcome! Extended abstracts must be sent in by April 30 via mail to titus@em.uni-frankfurt.de * Size: 2-3 pages (2000 words maximum); * Format: RTF, HTML, ASCII. The program committee will decide about acceptance of the papers on May 28, 1999. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For details go to: http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/gldv99e.htm From: "David L. Gants" Subject: LC'99: Call for Participation Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:39:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1146 (1146) [deleted quotation] This is to urge you to register as a participant of the European Summer Meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic. Early registration period ends April 30. Please hurry to profit from our early registration discount. --------------------------------------------------------- / LOGIC COLLOQUIUM '99 / / / / August 1-6, 1999 / / / / University of Utrecht, NL / / / / CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / --------------------------------------------------------- European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 1--6, 1999 [material deleted] CONTACT ADDRESS (for regular mail submissions and local arrangements): Logic Colloquium '99, attention of ms. Simone Panka CWI, P.O. Box 94079 1090 GB Amsterdam NL. telephone: +31-20-5924009 email: simone@cwi.nl http://www.cwi.nl/lc99/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Site Langue francaise du XIXe siecle Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:23:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1147 (1147) [deleted quotation] [English version below] Nous avons le tres grand plaisir de vous annoncer la naissance du site "Langue du XIXe siecle". Fort deja d'un certain savoir sur la langue, la grammaire et la lexicographie et encadre d'images de livres et de tableaux de l'epoque, il ne cessera, esperons-nous, de croitre et sera heureux d'accueillir les contributions de collegues bienveillant(e)s. "Langue du XIXe siecle" se trouve a http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/langueXIX/ [English version] We take great pleasure in announcing the birth of a site on the French language of the 19th century "Langue du XIXe siecle". Already equipped with some learning in language, grammar and lexicography, and set amid images of books and paintings of the period, it will, we hope, continue to grow and flourish, and will be happy to receive benevolent scholarly contributions. "Langue du XIXe siecle" is to be found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/langueXIX/ Jacques-Philippe Saint-Gerand (Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II) Russon Wooldridge (University of Toronto) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Russon Wooldridge (Department of French, University of Toronto) Address: Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto M5S 1H8, Canada Fax: 1-416-978-4949 E-mail: wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca Internet: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wulfric/ "On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." From: Willard McCarty Subject: CJK dictionaries online Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:22:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1148 (1148) A new member of Humanist, Professor Charles Muller (Toyo Gakuen University, Japan, ), has since 1995 maintained Chinese-Japanese-Korean dictionaries online. These are as follows (I quote from his description): [deleted quotation] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EMLS 4.3 (Special issue 3) now available Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:24:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1149 (1149) [deleted quotation] Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce that the long-delayed special issue on Literature and Geography is finally available. Because of continuing technical difficulties, however, it can currently be read only at the journal's new home at Sheffield Hallam University and is not accessible via Early Modern Literary Studies' usual home page or its perpetual url. We hope that this situation will shortly be resolved. In the meantime, please visit the new site at http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html to see the new issue and the launch of the journal's new dialogues feature. If, in the course of your visit, you discover any technical problems or any links that don't work, we would be very grateful if you could tell either the editor, Lisa Hopkins (L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk) or the managing editor for special issues, Matthew Steggle (M.Steggle@shu.ac.uk). The delayed January issue of the journal will also be available shortly. Lisa Hopkins From: "James J. O'Donnell" Subject: NewJour announcement Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:22:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1150 (1150) If your electronic journal is not yet represented in NewJour, the announcement service for new electronic journals, please consider sending us an entry. The archive is fully searchable and located at http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour -- if your journal *is* listed, please let us know if it contains inaccuracies. If you are not listed there and wish to be, there is a button on the site for filling out a form with the basic information we request. After submission, it typically takes a few weeks for the item to be checked and then to move up our queue of items waiting to be published. We have approximately 3500 subscribers all over the world. Ann Okerson Jim O'Donnell Yale University University of Pennsylvania From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford Digitization Study - Workflows and Matrices Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:23:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1151 (1151) [deleted quotation] Those of you who are following the Mellon-funded study I am conducting at Oxford into the future of the University's digital collections may be interested in the following. I have now mounted on the web site (http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/) a set of 4 suggested workflows and matrices looking at a couple of digitization services and how one can assess a collection for digitization. Please note these are all in draft form and are open to change. Any comments or suggestions are welcomed. Stuart Lee *************************************************************************** Dr Stuart D Lee | Current Project: 'Scoping The Future of Clarendon Building | Oxford's Digital Collections' Broad Street | Oxford OX1 3BG | Head of the Centre for Humanities Computing Tel: +44 1865 277230 | Fax: +44 1865 273275 | Chair, University's Datasets Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/ http://info.ox.ac.uk/oucs/humanities/ *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Paul Brians Subject: Re: 12.0614 paper mills offer more than papers Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 18:56:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1152 (1152) Interesting, but I still say that a student can't get by with this kind of scam if you really insist on substantial revision throughout the process. [deleted quotation] Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: ACH/ALLC Housing Cut-off Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 19:00:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1153 (1153) This is a final reminder: if you are planning on attending the ACH/ALLC conference in June, in Charlottesville, you should make your housing arrangements by this Friday, May 7th. --if you are planning to stay on-grounds at the University, you need to register for that housing (through the online registration form) by Friday in order to be guaranteed a room. You may be able to get a room at a later date, but if you do, there will be a one-time $20 surcharge for late room registration---and it's possible that no rooms will be available. --if you are planning to stay in one of the conference hotels, you need to make arrangements with that hotel by Sunday, May 9th, in order to be guaranteed that a room will be available and that you will receive the conference rate on that room (and when you make your reservation before May 9th, be sure to mention that you will be attending the ACH/ALLC conference). More information, program details, and online registration is available at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1154 (1154) [deleted quotation] We have a number of projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities which are headed up by individual scholars and are using TEI in the production of electronic editions or, more broadly, thematic research archives: --Hoyt Duggan's Piers Plowman project --Michael Levenson's "Monuments and Dust" (Victorian London) project --David Germano's "Nyingma Tantra Research Archives" --Steven Railton's "Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture project" --Susan Schreibman's Thomas MacGreevy Archive --Lloyd Benson's "American Newspaper Editorials in the Secession Era" --Ken Price/Ed Folsom's Whitman Archive --Martha Nell Smith et al., The Dickinson Archive --Frank Grizzard's "Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia, 1817-1828." --Richard Guy Wilson's "The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson" --Ed Ayers' "The Valley of the Shadow" --Gary Anderson's "The Life of Adam and Eve: The Biblical Story in Judaism and Christianity" --Deborah Parker's "The World of Dante" Granted, many of these have extended TEI in some way, but they're still TEI-conformant. We have some others (a much shorter list) that have developed their own DTDs: --Eaves/Essick/Viscomi's "The William Blake Archive" --Jerome McGann's "The Rossetti Archive" --Michael Satlow's "Inscriptions from the Land of Israel" --Elizabeth Meyers' "New Interpretive Study of the Evolution of Slavery in Hellenistic and Roman Greece" --Katherine Rinne, "The Waters of the City Rome" And one using EAD: -Marion Roberts, "The Salisbury Project" John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: C M Sperberg-McQueen Subject: Re: 12.0610 TEI and the individual scholar Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 18:57:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1155 (1155) On Wed, 5 May 1999 18:41:24 +0100 (BST), Charles Faulhaber asks [deleted quotation] The best place I know of to get an overview of TEI users is the TEI applications page at http://www.uic.edu/orgs/tei/app/ -- this page doesn't give a direct answer to the question, because it does not distinguish projects by size. Working through it, I see between ten and fifteen projects (of 64 listed) which I believe are individual faculty research activities; I may be wrong. The examples I am most certain about include, in alphabetical order of their entries in the applications page, Karl Uitti's work on Chretien de Troyes (listed as the Charrette Project), the corpus of spoken Japanese being created by Syun Tutiya and collaborators at Chiba University (listed as the Chiba Corpus of Map Task Dialogues in Japanese) -- Prof. Tutiya is not working alone, so I am not sure if this actually qualifies, but it is not a large-scale funded project -- Hoyt Duggan's edition of Piers Plowman (Piers Plowman Electronic Archive), and Lew Barth's edition of Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer (Pirque Rabbi Eliezer Electronic Text Editing Project). Of course the way we have asked for information may have led some individuals not to tell us about their use of TEI, on the grounds that they are individuals, not 'projects'. But it seems to me likely that rate of adoption of SGML in general (other than HTML), and the TEI in particular, is much higher among projects involving more than one person (and often outside funding) than among individuals doing whatever they choose in the research time supported by their institution. While this is a source of continuing frustration to those of us who believe we know there are better ways to do things than those our colleagues stubbornly persist in choosing, it is not illogical. It could have been foreseen and predicted. And indeed it was foreseen and predicted -- I scandalized at least one member of the TEI Advisory Board by saying I expected large organized projects to adopt the TEI first, and individuals to follow only later. My reasons for expecting this are simply stated: (1) The TEI is (or was when it was published) new technology aimed at making it easier to create software-independent data, and thus at making it easier to reuse data. (2) All new technology imposes a cost to adopters; projects with a designated 'technical' person can bear that cost more easily than an individual. (So I suspect that full-disk tape backups, custom programming, and production use of VRML are more frequent among large-scale projects than among individual faculty members, too.) (3) The benefits of the TEI, especially reuse by other people, are of course most obviously critical to those creating resources *intended* to be used by other people. They are naturally less imposing to someone interested first of all in making the data usable for their own purposes. (4) So the benefits of TEI use are typically higher for projects than for individuals, and the costs are more manageable. Both projects and individuals exhibit enough rationality that this difference in the cost/benefit ratio will be reflected in a difference in rate of adoption. Individual scholars will use the TEI in greater numbers when there is more software around that will allow them to do things they really want to do, and that either produces the data in TEI form, or uses TEI form internally and requires TEI form for its input. One thing I did not foresee was that so many of the people who develop software for humanities research would receive the TEI so coolly, and would believe that it is simpler to invent their own scheme for text encoding than to use an existing one. Those who do develop simple software that uses the TEI (myself, for example) have not made any great effor to make that software public. It's not finished, it is too specific to my own needs, it's buggy, I want to provide a better user interface, no one else has an interpreter for the programming language I use, ... Perhaps the recent discussions about the need for a new generation of software for text analysis will lead to an improvement of this situation. Let us all hope so. Of course, it's also possible that humanists simply care a lot less about reusability, sharing of resources, and the electronic preservation of the cultural heritage than was thought when the TEI was created. (But of course, most of the people at the Poughkeepsie Conference in 1987 were in fact involved in large-scale projects, not individual unfunded research. Biased sample, perhaps.) A cynic might observe that if the TEI's goal was to make it possible to create reusable data with markup that allowed researchers to do the work they were most interested in, then the TEI has already succeeded: it is now in fact possible to do that. The fact that so few humanists take advantage of the TEI should (the cynic might continue) be taken not as an indictment of the TEI but of the humanists who work with computers. It's late, and I'm tired and worn down with problems in other projects, but I resist the cynic's interpretation. Progress seems slow, but it's only five years since the Guidelines were published. Five years is not, should not be, a long time to humanists. -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago Co-Editor, ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 12.0610 TEI and the individual scholar Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 18:58:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1156 (1156) Willard and HUMANIST: I hope you don't mind getting spammed by me again, but this thread entwines itself very close to my concerns. Charles Faulhaber asks about individual scholars and the TEI. I'm sure we'll hear from, or of them: there are a few. If there's a relative scarcity, however, I think that's at least as much for cultural reasons as it is due to the technology and tools. While virtually every scholar in the Humanities depends on electronic text (name your favorite word-processor or desktop publisher), it seems that those who become interested in the technologies per se of production, publication, "reading" itself -- how to make or use them better, serving long-term scholarly interests -- are soon branded "techies" and thus marginalized in ways both subtle and not-so. Not to mention the whole new set of questions with their publishers (who can be as conservative as anyone, and for plenty of good reasons). [That's my take on that. Readers, please skip the rest of this message if you're not following the state of the art in SGML/XML encoding....] As for Prof. Vanhoutte's question about the feasibility of actually browsing TEI: at this stage (May 1999), he basically has a choice. (1) Express his requirements in the semantics of HTML (with scripting for things like targetting different windows) and down-converting from TEI into such HTML using such tools as Jade (free) and a DSSSL style sheet. This can be done today, although DSSSL is a bear to learn. Advantages: can then serve to HTML browsers; software is free. Disadvantages: may have to sacrifice functionality to the limitations of HTML; also, the significant benefits he is getting in his TEI source code, for creation, quality control, maintenance, and the avoidance of "application lock-in," will be invisible to all but the technology-savvy. (2) Hang in there and wait for the next generation of XML-capable browsers. We need at least the linking and style specifications for XML (XLink/XPointer and XSL, respectively) to mature somewhat more before they are properly supported in stable products. Even then, he may still have to do a "down" or "cross" conversion to get his texts to display with all the functionalities he wants (using tools that may or not be easier or as cheap as the current ones), but at least he shouldn't have to completely brutalize his TEI markup to do so. In the meantime, he might be playing with Fujitsu's HyBrick browser (which I haven't used but which is said to support DSSSL and most of the draft XLink) and/or the prototype XML browsers (Internet Explorer and one or two others). There are various implementation perils in these several directions, of course, and support is usually thin. But that's life at the cutting edge..."no one understands!" On the other hand, as I keep telling myself, there's no reason all of this has to happen fast ... isn't it a systems theory principle (I read somewhere) that something that grows slowly, declines slowly? Respectfully, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== From: John Unsworth Subject: Re: 12.0610 TEI and the individual scholar Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 18:58:57 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1157 (1157) At 06:41 PM 5/5/1999 +0100, Edward Vanhoutte wrote: [deleted quotation] We've been working on software that does this with sgml-tagged Unicode, and we're continuing to develop that. If you're interested, have a look at http://www.iath.virginia.edu/babble/ and--if you have the patience to work on an academic time-scale (in which progress will be made, but slowly) we'd be happy to have you using the software and advising on its development--in particular, I expect that we'll be concentrating on this development effort in the fall. John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: Patrick Durusau Subject: Re: Research is Display Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 18:59:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1158 (1158) Greetings, Edward Vanhoutte wrote: [deleted quotation] Display is one component of the use of TEI and as I noted in an eariler post an important one. There are other academic research uses that are served by finely grained markup that do no require user-friendly display such as linguistic analysis, concordances and the like. If you are trying to sell the project and TEI markup to a non-technical auidence then display takes on a greater role. I mention this just as a casution to not equate display with actual use of a text for research purposes. [deleted quotation] (I pass over your attempts to use Panopro and Multidoc without comment as I have not looked at either package in some time. It may be possible to create the multi-window effect you desire with either of these software packages. My experience with Panopro was 3-4 years ago with an earlier version of the software and not entirely positive both from the standpoint of implementation of the SGML standard and/or product documentation/capabilities.) Actually there are several other options that might meet your needs: 1. IBabble: A Synoptic Unicode Browser: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/babble/ Written in Java, IBabble (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) is a tool that will display parallel texts in parallel windows either as a standalone application or as a helper to Netscape. 2. Fujitsu's "HyBrick" SGML/XML Browser: http://www.fsc.fujitsu.com/hybrick/ HyBrick is a very sophisticated implementation of the HyTime standard (SGML architectures and sophisticated linking mechanisms) and "includes a DSSSL renderer and XLink/XPointer engine running on top of James Clark's SP and Jade." 3. Link: an XML-XSL-XLL browser: http://pages.wooster.edu/ludwigj/xml/index.html Link is a Java application that was written by Justin Ludwig as part of a Senior Independent Study Project at the College of Wooster. It requires a number of other modules (available free from other sources) but is a good demonstration of the type of tools that are just on the horizon. I have tried to list these options in order of increasing difficulty of use by scholars who are not primarily computer users. I have omitted several commercial options such as DynaText/DynaWeb (Inso Corporation) not because they would not perform the requested task quite well but as large commercial packages they require heavy technical support to make full use of their capabilities. [deleted quotation] For the short range I would suggest taking a look at the IBabble package. For the mid-range, 6 months to a year, I would suggest visiting Robin Cover's SGML/XML site to remain aware of new software releases that may be of interest to academics. (The SGML/XML Web Page: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/) Jon Bosak (Sun Microsystems) seemed to be of the opinion at XTech '99 that we may see the new XLink/XPointer specification this summer (XSL: Extensible Style Language was released quite recently). This area is changing quite rapidly and tools that have long been dreamed of are coming ever closer to being a reality. If you have any programmers on staff or have access to programmers there are several other SGML/XML packages I could suggest for your project off list. Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Information Technology Services Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu Interim Manager, ITS From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Re: browser Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 18:59:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 12 Num. 1159 (1159) Hi Edward, [deleted quotation]has [deleted quotation] Have you come across the Digital Variants Browser? It's a prototype on which two CS researchers at Goteborg's Viktoria Institute have been working on. If you go to: http://www.viktoria.informatics.gu.se/groups/play/ and click on "Information visualization" and then "Previous projects", you can read the paper that one of them presented to our seminar "Computers, Literature and Philology" (http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/seminar.htm) See also the original application, the Zoom Browser: http://www.informatik.gu.se/~bjork/flipzoom/text/index.html It seems to me that this browser does *exactly* what you need -- and they might be also interested in developing something specific for your project. Good luck! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> =========================================================================