From: Willard McCarty Subject: HAPPY now we are 12 BIRTHDAY Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:29:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 1 (1) Dear Colleagues: Most of you will know from having been around Humanist's barn at least once that on this day each year I commemorate the beginning of our seminar, 7 May 1987, when I was mccarty@utorepas (like Alcuin of York :-), knew next to nothing about e-mail and very likely would have experienced total cerebral meltdown had I known what the subsequent 12 years would bring. Like many things Humanist changed very quickly at first, developing into a robust entity by virtue of several crises and a stalwart, intelligent membership. As I've said a number of times, the best thing I did then was to let it find its way. As it has. For the last several years, however, Humanist has held to a steady state, hovering around 1,100 members -- or, rather, subscriptions; several of these are redistribution points. At one time we did a yearly review of activities, but that grew to be too much of a burden. In any case, I'm not threatening you here with a retrospection, rather an introspection. I admit that looking at the subject lines of the messages in the archive at IATH (Virginia) for volume 12 (1998-99) I am greatly cheered and encouraged by the richness and variety of discussion. We have every reason to expect this to continue through volume 13, into the (oh yes) next millennium. In 1900 the German mathematician David Hilbert gave a justly famous lecture in Paris, "Mathematische Probleme", in which he surveyed his discipline and set forth a programme of research for the century ahead. I doubt we can quite manage that for humanities computing at the moment (though I continue to try, and we have another year), but the lecture, translated into English and put online at <http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/hilbert/problems.html>, is instructive for the highly pragmatic view Hilbert took of his field, asking what it needed to continue to be vital. He pointed out that a vital field is one which has problems of its own to work on, and that these problems must be at the right level of difficulty so as to be challenging but not overwhelming. Mathematicians have different sorts of problems than we do, of course, but mutatis mutandis we can learn from his approach. It's about time we did some work on what the research agenda of humanities computing might be, to get past the silly stage of "yes it has!" / "no it hasn't!". In fact my first inclination for a more than phatic happy birthday to Humanist is to suggest that in the year ahead we put on Hilbert's mantle and give ourselves, through discussion here, real work to do. My second inclination is simply to celebrate with unreckonable gratitude the existence of this electronic seminar through its 12th birthday. Forgive me, if you will, for becoming personal, but, hey, I do this just once a year (ok, twice, counting Christmas :-), and the delete key is not far off. Just in case the love in this labour of love is not obvious, I here declare it, and for an excuse I point out that I am far gone in my cups at this birthday party. "A liquor never brewed [drunk] from tankards scooped in pearl" is to blame, but I have more than one reason for drinking it. Another wonderfully simultaneous cause for celebration possesses me... but there are limits even to the license I give myself, and besides, this other event (to quote Northrop Frye in the acknowledgements to The Great Code) goes beyond the orbit of words altogether, and requires nothing short of a Million Dollar Bash -- which it will get. I have had many occasions in this past year to think about long hauls and what it might be that over them keeps very different people together, talking productively as so often happens here, and makes a community out of the aggregate. Endurance and an open channel of communication are necessary but not sufficient. The channel has to be frequently used, especially when it is entirely virtual, as with Humanist, and so is quickly forgotten if not exercised. Chit-chat may indirectly communicate matters of considerable importance, and I suppose to a degree everything we say is chit-chat with respect to the unsayable on which we triangulate. Nevertheless clear thinking and care in getting it right, especially against the incrustations of habit and dumbing down from received thought, seem to me absolutely essential to the marriage of true minds in a seminar worth holding, as in a life worth living. Effort, despite best intentions and skill, is of course not enough. Something else is required -- a court and spark of identity? something genuine, something more discovered than created, around which to gather? Like everyone else I am still working on the larger human problem, but for Humanist the explanation for our survival, it seems to me, is quite clear. We talk because we have things to say; we talk together because these things constitute a coherent perspective, whose pursuit is a scholarly activity. We may not quite have the choreography of what we do just yet, but we will. Meanwhile, congratulations to Humanist! Now begins our adolescence, and with Blake's "Glad Day" in mind I promise you that When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove's door -- When Butterflies renounce their "drams" I shall but drink the more! Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats And Saints to windows run To see the little Tippler Leaning against the Sun. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mark Olsen Subject: 12.0610 TEI and...: The Gadfly Notes Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 07:25:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 2 (2) I suspect that I am one of the guilty parties of whom Michael writes in his post on [12.0610] "TEI and the individual scholar", [deleted quotation] I considered very carefully the potential costs and benefits of using TEI-Lite, and even full TEI, as the mark-up scheme that we would use in our new generation search engine, known as PhiloLogic, before deciding on a much simpler encoding, which we are calling ATE (ARTFL Text Encoding). ATE is essentially Dublin Core Metadata, basic HTML, and some optional extensions. My primary consideration was, and still is, where might I make the best investment of development effort. I decided that any attempt to build recognizers that would handle all of the possibilities of TEI (or other SGML) DTDs would require a very significant development effort all by itself. So, rather than include what would effectively be a full SGML parser into the system, I decided that we would use existing SGML parsers (such as Jim Clark's) to reduce all of the variations to a small subset. SGML parsers are complex systems and we have found that one must a handle a consider amount of variation from database to database, and even text to text when dealing with TEI encoded documents. Trying to build that capability into a large scale text search and navigation engine would, I fear, be far beyond ARTFL's means. It is, thus, not particularly surprising to me that the fully SGML aware systems that have appeared are very expensive, when they are sold to the academic market at all, and tend not to be all that effective for the kinds of functions that I think are useful because they are designed more as corporate document management systems. I am also not surprised that Michael has found a generally cool reception amongst other developers in humanities computing. This stuff is really hard and expensive to do and, so far, I have not seen the possibility of radically extended functionality that would warrant the investment. With all of the discussion of text *tagging*, little thought has been given to development of systems much beyond how to render individual documents in a browser. At a certain point, when writing a system, every tag, every attribute, every variation has to be handled or ignored. It is easy to develop very extensive tagsets that can be demonstrated to balance using an SGML/XML parser/verifier. It is MUCH, MUCH harder to develop systems that know what to do with each and every tag/value/attribute/whatever. The burden and cost of doing *SOMETHING* with all of the possibilities has been passed to the developer. It's hard enough to do this as is, particularly within the limited resources of most huanities computing outfits, so a cool reaction to a specification that entails alot more effort is to be expected. Now, the next point in the discussion is that if nobody in humanities computing can afford to develop software to handle all of the potential variations richly encoded documents, then you gotta ask, why encode that heavily? Michael suggests, [deleted quotation] Tired as he might be, I hope that he does **NOT** take the cynic's view. It is not nearly as stark a contrast as he might be inclined to believe. The lofty and laudable goals of Michael's vision of the TEI have to be balanced by the fact that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds. Humanists who work with computers are faced with a very significant set of limitations and restrictions, ranging from very tight budgets [if you are lucky enough to have a budget at all], to the need to produce systems for users, my problem, or published research results, the problem for many other scholars, in a relatively short time frames. It is in trying to achieve this balance that I have declared myself to be a very strong supporter of the intellectual goals of the TEI and, at the same time, presented significant criticisms from a more practical perspective. I would not, to be frank, waste my time criticizing the TEI if I were not completely convinced of the very high value of the goals of the endeavor and the impressive achievements already attained by the TEI! I suspect that the goals of the TEI are probably going to be achieved in much more limited and hard fought steps than Michael might think, but we certainly agree that [deleted quotation] No, Michael. Let us all hack... ;-) Mark Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13.0002 TEI & the Gadfly's buzz Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 22:42:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 3 (3) In Humanist 13.0002, on 7 May 1999, Mark Olsen surmises that he is one of those I had in mind when I said (Humanist 12.0610) that the approach taken by software developers has puzzled me, and continues to puzzle me. I didn't actually have Mark in mind when I wrote that sentence, but his not is indeed a perfect example of what I meant. He writes, for example, [deleted quotation] The only meaning I am able to attach to this is that Mark believes that supporting TEI markup would have required him to develop his own SGML parser, whereas if he limits himself to HTML with "a few extensions", he can use James Clark's public-domain SGML parser instead. If this paraphrase is correct, I can only say that Mark's logic is, to put it bluntly, breathtaking. He continues by observing [deleted quotation] There is certainly a lot of variation in the ways people use TEI; that's part of the design. The TEI is not intended as a Procrustean system, and it is not very useful as a method of enforcing any kind of hermeneutic orthodoxy. (It would, indeed, be useful to have a more prescriptive TEI header; a good goal for TEI P4.) I would have thought, however, that HTML usage is also fairly various -- actually somewhat more various, since a large percentage of documents served today as text/html are not even well-formed. How many HTML documents have you seen this week that had full Dublin Core headers? Hmmmm. So that Mark's reasoning is identical to that of the person who does not want to have to think about the rational numbers, since there are so many of them, and who decides instead to limit discussion to the integers, so as to have fewer to think about. (For those who have not been reading Cantor lately, be reminded that the sets of rational numbers and integers are both infinite, and both the same size.) [deleted quotation] As one who has been using SGML encoding for every document I've written for the last twelve years or so, I can report authoritatively that it is not 'really hard and expensive' to provide the kinds of functionality that Mark describes, relying on a subset of the TEI encoding scheme. I use James Clark's free parser, I use Omnimark Technology's free transformation engine, I use emacs and psgml.el to edit, and I use Panorama Pro (the only one of these items which cost any money) to provide clean onscreen formatting. On the occasions when I have needed typeset output I have used Waterloo GML and TeX to produce the pages; nowadays I would use Jade to translate into TeX or into RTF. The myth of the incredible expense needed just to acquire SGML software is merely a myth. That companies charge high prices for systems is a consequence of (a) the high utility of those systems to users who can afford those prices, and (b) the laws of the market economy. Welcome to capitalism. [deleted quotation] It is also pretty much wholly unnecessary. If you are building, say, a full-text retrieval system, your software will need to take special action on, say, the element types that mark important text structures (text, body, div, p, possibly s if you want to run things through a sentence recognizer so you can have one-sentence contexts in results). You'll probably also want to pay attention to some crucial parts of the TEI header (title of the work, author, date of publication of the original, language of the work, and so on; the Dublin Core provides a good reminder of kinds of information you might want to look for in the document). To simplify life, a software developer might plausibly say "We take the title of the document from the first TITLE element encountered in the TITLESTMT of the TEIHEADER element. We take the date of first publication from the first DATE element within the CREATION element (in PROFILEDESC). ... If you want the title, date, and other bibliographic descriptions to be picked up correctly, put them in those places." Yes, Virginia, all the information units of the Dublin Core can occur in the TEI header; some can occur in more than one place, and others cannot. For other element types, there are several possibilities: (1) In finished software, I would want, as a user, to be able to choose at index time among something like the following possibilities; depending on the facilities available, some systems won't be in a position to make all of these options available. * Suppress this element and its contents; do not index, and do not send to the user in a result. * Do not index this element or its contents, but retain in the document and send to the user if it occurs within a result. (E.g. if you are sending whole paragraphs to the user, and this INTERP element occurs in the paragraph, send it along. Treat it, that is, as a special kind of comment.) * Index the contents of the element, but ignore the start- and end-tags. Send (or don't send) the start- and end-tags to the user in a result. * Index the occurrence of this element (if you maintain an index of elements at all). * Index the contents of this element and record, in the index, that they occurred within this element. (This is a common approach to SGML indexing; it allows searches by context.) In other words, for each element a system needs to make a few decisions: Do I index this element as an element? Do I index the contents of this element or not? If something in the source document is not indexed, should it be exposed to the user at all, or suppressed entirely? You have to make these decisions, or analogous ones, for every element type, pretty much no matter what your software is doing and pretty much no matter what your markup system looks like. One obvious implementation technique is to use a table lookup to decide, when an element is encountered, what to do with it. This table can be hard-coded in by the programmer, at compile time, or it can be loaded at run time, which means the programmer can punt on a few questions, and make the user decide. If the users rebel at the prospect of answering questions like this for every element type they use, set the defaults one way or another, and allow the users to override the defaults when and as they choose. (2) You could decide you don't want to have to decide what to do on a case by case basis, and you can make a single rule that applies to all element types (e.g. index them and their contents), or one rule that applies to the element types you know you are interested in (div, p, those ones) and a second rule that applies to everything else (e.g. suppress the element entirely, or index the contents while pretending the element's start- and end-tags aren't there). (3) During development, when deciding what to do with the TEI dictionary tag set's oVar element just seems like more work than you want to worry with, you can make the simplifying assumption that they won't occur in your input. (I write style sheets this way all the time: the style sheet handles the element types I actually use. When I write a new document that uses an element type not handled in the style sheet, it tends to look ugly, so I tend to fix it.) That assumption is one you can actually guarantee during development and testing, so you only have to get around to implementing default rules and lookup tables later on. [deleted quotation] Users are not required to use every element type in the TEI encoding scheme. I don't see why software developers are required to do anything clever with every element type either. It *is* fair to expect software that claims to handle TEI documents not to roll over every time I use a 'resp' element or something else. But the TEI DTD is big in part because lots of the element types are specialized. That means many applications can legitimately ignore lots of them -- a full-text system might legitimately default to the no-index rule on, say, the feature structure elements. It might even refuse to allow the user to override the default. That might disappoint someone hoping to use your system to do sophisticated search and retrieval on the feature structure analysis they have put into their text. But in developing software, the developer has not (as far as I know) entered into any solemn promise to solve all the world's problems. Given that you are not, in fact, obligated to do clever things with every element type in the DTD, where is the problem? [deleted quotation] You encode that heavily when you care about the information you are encoding. You acquire or develop software to handle what you need to handle. What's the mystery here? I have a set of Panorama style sheets -- soon I hope to have equivalents in XSL that can be used with IE5 -- that allow me to read Walther von der Vogelweide with the text of MS A, or of MS B, or of MS C, or according to Maurer's edition. They could be adapted to other texts (though the method used gets unwieldy for more than three witnesses -- I'd want to automate the production of the stylesheet for large numbers of MSS). Does that stylesheet handle RESP and UNCERTAIN and FS elements? No -- they don't occur in the data I'm working with. Why should the stylesheet handle them? Mark appears to be arguing that, because he does not know what his software should do with an APP or a LEM or a RDG element, I should not use them. Why on earth not? [deleted quotation] Amen. Let us all hack. -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 cmsmcq@uic.edu, cmsmcq@acm.org (Note that the address U35395@UICVM.uic.edu now just forwards mail to cmsmcq@uic.edu and will eventually go away. Beat the rush; go ahead and change your address book now!) +1 (312) 413-0317, fax +1 (312) 996-6834 From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 13.0002 TEI & the Gadfly's buzz Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 22:44:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 4 (4) HUMANIST readers (1150 words): Mark Olsen's most recent post targets what is sure to emerge as a key issue as the possibilities of generalized markup (in the form of XML) become widely felt on the Internet. Scholars who work with the TEI and who wrestle with the kinds of problems that Prof. Vanhoutte recently wrote about are pioneers in dealing with these issues. The difference is between text encoding that is generalized, and which is supposed to serve "any potential application" by virtue of serving *no particular* application (such as the TEI aspires to be), and text encoding that deploys a specific scheme for a specific purpose or range of purposes (such as ARTFL's PhiloLogic or -- gads! -- HTML for display in IE5.0, Netscape 2.1 or Lynx). Keep in mind the truism that converting "up" into an abstract, generalized, powerfully descriptive form from an application encoding that fails to denote the text's own structures and features (or denotes them only in an inaccessible way), is hardly better than taking the text as blank from the start, while converting "down" from rich, descriptive encoding into any application encoding should be a mere exercise in programming. Hence the long-term, and rhetorical benefits: platform-independence, longevity of data, etc. etc. But the reason for descriptive encoding is more than rhetorical, even more than merely practical. We all know that a text is more than a string of alphanumeric characters. But what is the difference, the "more"? At least in part, or for some, the romance is in an ancient aspiration, if always newly felt, to fathom the work "as in itself it really is." To the scholar, descriptive markup is not just a code for driving an automated process: it becomes in itself a heuristic and an interpretive technique. The elusive "more" of the text emerges in a relationship between the text, and the encoding scheme that traces it. Surely this is worth our work, we say to ourselves, even while nervously casting our eye at our need to "share our results." Our excited supposing that having captured the essence of that more (or even "an" essence, for those of us who are not Platonists), we should then be able to provide it with any expression we please, may come as just a super-added, if saving, grace. On the other hand, if we describe only an expression or representation of the text, we are left with that alone. What have we learned from it? Like having the mask of the Noh dancer, without the movement. The problem remains that until it takes "bodily form" as application encoding (whether in the embrace of a particular software package, API, or transformation engine), any text encoded generically or descriptively remains exiled in the outer vastness of the empyrean. It may be beautiful to behold (to those that have the eyes to see) but it is strangely sterile, an uncommitted, unmeasured potency. It does nothing, it only abides. (We have wondered why the gods, at ease in their celestial seats, are jealous of us poor, whiny, grimy mortals. Is this why?) Much of our experience with the TEI, it seems to me, has been in discovering just how wide the gulf can be. We want both to design, configure and deploy our e-texts in a way consistent with the long-term vision of the TEI's originators -- and yet also to do "simple" things like print, search or display texts on screen. So we find -- even within ourselves, as individual developers -- two camps, puzzled and sometimes frustrated, looking at each other across the divide. On the one side, we walk with our heads in the clouds and our feet off the ground, frequently proclaiming, and fervently praying for, "support for open standards!" and "better applications from the vendors!" (and no one has proved they are *not* coming, any day now). On the other, we are tempted to dismiss the high-minded abstractions as so much academic pointlessness, and grimly roll up our sleeves, assessing our options of the moment. Thankfully, as is apparent on this list and elsewhere, we also have a real, intelligent dialogue between the views, both between and within the posts and counter-posts. We should acknowledge what Mark Olsen has reminded us, that descriptive, content-oriented encoding may not always be practical or cost-effective when we need to show real-world results. Especially if we are not particularly concerned with document interchange between unspecified disparate systems, part of the TEI's original mandate. Time frames are real, the right moment arrives and passes, and hard-nosed practical decisions have sometimes to be made. Nevertheless, the gap is closing. The main development in this area is the emergence of more accessible transformation tools, which are making it easier to provide for programmatic conversions between encoding schemes (earlier this week I mentioned Jade, a DSSSL engine; but many new tools are emerging under the aegis of XML/XSL). Seeing how much of this work is free on the net and even open source, it might be hoped that expertise in such techniques will find itself into the academy. Given such capabilities, the issue is no longer the mere letter of the scheme. Rather, it is how well the scheme maps, abstractly, to application requirements (whether those are seen over an immediate period, or in the eternal view of things) -- which might be to say, the scheme's actual spirit -- in combination with an ability to transform the encoding into (or express it as) whatever the software of the moment can chew on. So rather than focus on "TEI" or "something else" in our efforts to be practical, we should be focusing on developing our requirements analysis, our strategies and methods for use, transformation, reuse and repurposing of our encoding schemes, and our understanding of the range of tools and techniques we can deploy -- while recognizing the constraints and tradeoffs -- to realize the tangible along with the intangible rewards. Seen in this light, ARTFL, in making its choices, is leading the way just as are the TEI projects in making theirs. And the TEI itself (as its proponents have often argued) is only a means to an end. Nor should we finally forget the intangible rewards. An ad hoc scheme will remain useful as long as the software is maintained to take advantage of it. For archiving purposes, many such schemes (at least if the developers have assured some kind of formal validation or consistency of encoding) might well be cross-converted into TEI (or other descriptive) markup. As for the TEI texts at Indiana, Michigan, Brown, UVA, UNC, Oxford, Cork, Alberta, Berkeley, name your repository, there is no telling how long they will be good for. It should be for a very long time. Good for what? First, for whatever the projects are already giving us. Beyond that? The book is still open. Respectfully, Wendell Piez From: Subject: Re: 12.0616 TEI & the individual scholar; research = display Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 22:42:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 5 (5) John and Michael's anseers to my question make the point that I was trying to elicit: Unless you're at a major institution with an active electronic text project you're unlikely to use TEI for the purposes of preparing a scholarly text, either on paper or electronic. I think that the reason for this is the lack of solid, reliable, reasonably priced tools that will work with the TEI in a reasonably transparent way. This was a subject of some discussion at the ACH-ALLC conference in Debrecen last year. I think that we need to start to try to make those tools available in some sort of organized fashion, just as the Summer Institute for Linguistics has developed a while suite of tools for linguistic analysis. 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Call for Papers: Imaging, Visualization and Humanities Research Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:08:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 6 (6) [deleted quotation] *** CALL FOR PAPER S*** 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 To request a sample issue of the journal, or download it in PDF format, search on the title from the Kluwer hom page http://www.kap.nl -------- 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 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 13.0001 HAPPY now we are 12 BIRTHDAY Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:07:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 7 (7) First of all my congratulations to HUMANIST and then a big, big thank you to Willard. HUMANIST, what does it mean to me? It means very many topics which I am interested in. It means very many topics I haven't thought about before. I don't say that I am reading all the messages every day. Sometimes workload leads me to very severe choices, the rest has to go. Sometimes I keep messages in order to read them later, sometimes I do, sometimes I just have to say I can't and chuck them out. I don't step in very often, because it takes time to write, but I have been given so many ideas, arguments, strategies, information and, I have been give much support, above all lately, when I was told Italianistic at Duisburg university will be closed. It's not over yet, it might only just be starting, but I want to thank HUMANIST for bringing my cry of help to humanists and I want to thank all who responded with support. Elisabeth I think the importance of HUMANIST is very much what Willard calls At 07:29 07.05.99 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation]------------------------------------------- PD Dr'in Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard Mercator Universitaet-GH Duisburg Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203 3791957 fax: +49 203 3793122 e-mail: 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: JTAP Report: On-Line Teaching Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:12:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 8 (8) [deleted quotation] ****Please circulate accordingly**** We are pleased to announce a new publication under the UK's JISC Technologies Application Programme (JTAP). The report is entitled 'On-Line Teaching: Tools and Projects' eds. S. Lee, S. Armitage, P. Groves, and C. Stephens and is available at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/teaching/ This has been released as an update to the earlier report published in 1997. The report has appeared as part of the JTAP 'Virtual Seminars' Project (http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/). 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: ELRA News Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:12:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 9 (9) [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES *** We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: _______________________________________ ELRA-S0063 German SpeechDat(II) FDB 4000 _______________________________________ The German SpeechDat(II) FDB 4000 consists of 4000 calls over the German fixed network, stored on 17 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 - 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits - prompt sheet number =3D 5 - 9-11 digit telephone number (read) - 15-16 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) - 2 yes/no questions (spontaneous, not prompted) - 3 dates (1 spontaneous, e.g. birthday; 1 prompted text form; 1 relative and general date form) - 1 time of day (spontaneous) - 1 time phrase (read) - 3 application words - 1 word spotting phrase - 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). - 3 spellings (1 spontaneous, e.g. forename; 1 directory city name; 1 real/artificial word) - 4 isolated words - 9 phonetically rich sentences (read) The speech files are stored as sequence of 8-bit, 8kHz A-law speech files and are not compressed. Each prompt utterance is stored within a separate file and has an accompanying ASCII SAM label file. 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: Eurolan'99 - extended deadline Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:08:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 10 (10) [deleted quotation] ***************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 4th EUROLAN Summer School on Human Language Technology "Lexical Semantics and Multilinguality" 19-31 July 1999 Iasi - Romania Extended deadline for early registration: 14 June Extended deadline for late registration: 12 July ***************************** Please consult the EUROLAN'99 pages: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan99/ http://bach.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/eurolan/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Dan Cristea University "A.I.Cuza" Iasi Phone: +40.32.20-1529/1542 Dept. of Computer Science Fax: +40.32.213330 16, Berthelot St. E-mail: dcristea@infoiasi.ro 6600 - Iasi URL: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~dcristea Romania --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: ACM SAC 2000 - Track on Coordination Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:09:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 11 (11) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES ============================ (Apologies if you receive multiple copies) 2000 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2000) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications March 19-21, 2000 Villa Olmo, Como, Italy (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/SAC2000.html) SAC 2000: ~~~~~~~~~~ Over the past fourteen 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 2000 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and in cooperation with ACM SIGs 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONF: Digital Cultural Heritage Seminar: Maastricht, Netherlands Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:10:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 12 (12) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 10, 1999 DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE Seminar July 12-14, 1999: Maastricht, The Netherlands <<http://www.amsu.edu/1999/digculh.htm>http://www.amsu.edu/1999/digculh.htm> [material deleted] [deleted quotation][material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 13.0003 TEI, gadfly & the individual scholar Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:07:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 13 (13) Perfect. . .absolutely perfect. . .sums up the entire TEI/SGML/XML political situation all in one single note. . .and how many wondered about the clothes the emperor was actually wearing? Thanks! So nice to hear from you!! Michael S. Hart [hart@pobox.com] Project Gutenberg Executive Director Internet User ~#100 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: 13.0002 TEI & the Gadfly's buzz Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:07:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 14 (14) [deleted quotation] On Fri, 7 May 1999, Mark Olsen wrote: [deleted quotation] For the record, lest the above lead to confusion, all of James Clark's released SGML parsers (the earlier sgmls, and the more recent nsgmls) are to the best of my knowledge fully functional, where by fully I mean they handle all features of the standard found in 99.999% of the documents out there. The later 'nsgmls' is used extensively in work with structured text here at Sun, as it is, I suspect, at many other large companies. I can assure you moreover that most of the tools that I and my coworkers use most of the time for work related to SGML and XML are also free. They are for the most part the same tools that I used when I worked for an academic organization that depended on grant funding. Those that are not free are either available to the academic user at a substantial discount (e.g. Omnimark, DynaWeb) or can be replaced by free, mostly GNU, equivalents. Even the operating system. The rate of development of such tools seems to have accelerated with the advent of XML. Yeah! - Gregory Murphy Software Engineer Solaris Software Sun Microsystems Note: The opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of Sun Microsystems, its subsidiaries or its contractors. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: 13.0002 TEI & the Gadfly's buzz Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:07:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 15 (15) [deleted quotation] On Fri, 7 May 1999, Humanist Discussion Group wrote: [deleted quotation] I think it's safe to say that humanists (on this list, as well as more generally) care very deeply about the preservation of the cultural heritage. Still, there's no denying that humanities computing folk are generally less enthusiastic about standards and open source efforts than our less humanistically motivated colleagues. Creating tools to deal with the entire TEI, to choose one example, certainly involves an *enormous* amount of time and programming effort, but I dare say that it is no more herculean a task than any of the open source efforts currently under the GNU license banner. Would any TEI tool demand more effort than what is required for creating and maintaining the GNU C compiler? Or the Perl distribution? Or GNU Emacs?. These projects are monuments to collaborative effort and the "sharing of resources," and they are largely undertaken by a volunteer army of people with the same time and budgetary restrictions that we have. Indeed, it's these very restrictions which make "Going it alone" unthinkable. There are many important exceptions to this rule, but I still see a lot of humanities software people operating under a fading model of intellectual property: proprietary formats, hidden code, and restrictive licenses. I know of at least one program developed by one of our number that attempts to ensure, in its license, that the product and its author are properly cited in scholarly work because of the "original algorithms" included in the code. I understand that Linux also contains some original algorithms--all of which are visible to anyone who wants to see them. Or better, improve upon them. Willard, in his lovely birthday oration, called upon us to consider the road ahead and the problems which need work. I, for one, hope that the answers to those problems aren't pursued behind closed doors. Stephen Ramsay Assistant Director Electronic Text Center email: sjr3a@virginia.edu Alderman Library phone: (804) 924-3230 University of Virginia FAX: (804) 924-1431 Difficile est saturam non scribere. -- Juvenal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13.0008 Humanist, with thanks Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:31:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 16 (16) Willard -- It occurs to me that if Humanist is now 12, then next year Humanist will be 13 and must therefore prepare for (wo)manhood! Do we need to learn Hebrew or something like that? MD Mary Dee Harris, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 17 (17) ANNOUNCEMENT and INVITATION The Japanese Society of Ethnology is pleased to introduce the first issue of its occasional English language publication JAPANESE REVIEW OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY We hope that this publication will contribute to a better understanding of the work of Japanese anthropologists by their English speaking colleagues. The REVIEW will introduce research by Japanese anthropologists according to topic or geographic area in the form of survey articles. The next issue is scheduled to be published in March 2000, and will contain articles on research conducted in the Korean Peninsula, mainland Southeast Asia, West Africa, and on gender. We look forward to a mutually beneficial exchange with colleagues. April 1999 Sincerely, The Editor Price per copy is US$25.00. Order from: Japan Publications Trading Co., Ltd. Book Export I Dept. P.O.Box 5030 Tokyo International Tokyo 100-3191, Japan Fax: 81-3-3292-0410 E-mail: serials@jptco.co.jp --- end forwarded text 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: Mark Olsen Subject: TEI & the Gadfly's buzz Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:36:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 18 (18) In his reply to my post (Humanist 13.0002) of May 7, Michael suggests that while he did not have me in mind, my position is a perfect example of what puzzles him about the cool reaction of software developers in humanities computing to the TEI. I have to admit that I am both glad to oblige :-) -- since I think the discussion might be useful -- and very happy to find that I am not the only developer to inform Michael that they are having difficulties with the TEI. It may be that developers in humanities computing are running into a set of problems which need to be examined with some care. Michael points out that there are lots of free SGML parsers out there. I agree. We use one EXTENSIVELY! And looked at others. But an SGML parser/verifier is a rather limited piece of software, hardly the kind of system that will allow humanists to accomplish much substantive work. He concludes: [deleted quotation] I believe he might have forgotten the "rational agent" assumption of market capitalism. The software that can be acquired at low cost clearly does not serve the needs of many users, who, if they can afford it, purchase very expensive systems. Are all these people irrational agents, simply wanting to spend alot of money for things that can be acquired freely or for little cost? I doubt it. And if such usable tools are going to be very expensive -- as Tim Bray warns us when talking about the "battalions of programmers" required to make XML effective -- should not that consideration be raised when examining the TEI? So why the disconnect between the availability of free SGML parsers and acknowledged expense and scarcity of useful tools? That was the point of my post. By outlining my considerations in the context of development of PhiloLogic at ARTFL I was hoping to shed some light on the issue that puzzles Michael, namely the cool reception of TEI among developers in humanities computing. I must have missed the boat since Michael suggests that my [deleted quotation]Yes, both are infinite sets. However, the integers between 1 and 10 is a finite number, if I recall my math from high school ;-), while the rational numbers between 1 and 10 are infinite. I KNEW I should have gone to math class more often.... So, let me try again. Michael writes that [deleted quotation]and goes on to point out that "many applications can legitimately ignore lots of them". Agreed. Developers are, at the very least, going to pick and choose what they are going to handle and how they might handle it. Currently, PhiloLogic simply ignores any SGML/HTML tagging that it is not programmed to recognize, passing it all to the client software (tho' we might do something to render it on output if it is appropriate). This is a vital point which I do not believe has been adequately advertized: encoding something that you can see in Panorama or detect in an SGML parser in no way assures that there will ever be software to let you do something further with it! Now, Michael takes this to mean that I am [deleted quotation]I am not saying don't use them, or any other encoding for that matter. It's your dime. ;-) What Michael is making very clear that he expects developers in humanities computing to be picking and choosing subsets, possibly very small subsets, of TEI encoding to develop software for. TEI conformance in no way warrants that there will be software to make use of whatever is tagged. But I digress (tho' it is an important digression). We have now established that developers will, at least for some time, be picking and choose the encoding subsets that they will develop software for. The rest of Michael's post, which I think is both very informative and intelligent, offers his approach to picking and choosing encoding to process. He wonders why I would think that we would have to effectively write an SGML parser in order to load text databases. Simply put, one cannot pick and choose the encoding you care to develop software for without writing a recognizer that effectively mimics much of what an SGML parser does. This is particularly true of TEI, which permits so many variations in even the most basic encodings, a point which I touched on in 1996 talk at the ALLC/ACH meeting in Bergen, Norway. Michael's discussion assumes the use of an SGML parser to facilitate recognition. It is our experience, however, that the use of these parsers is considerably less automatic than one would hope. In fact, Michael has a good sense of this as he indicates in points 1-3 of his post, since it is akin to writing style sheets. [deleted quotation]You have to make many decisions on all levels to identify what you want to process and convert it into something that your software can handle. Since we are agreed that you have to identify everything that you want to process and figure out what you want to do with it, the real question then boils down to where you want to hang the SGML parser? Inside or outside? That decision comes down to money. It is certainly technically feasible to marry an existing SGML parser to a full text loader -- in fact, the ARTFL mafia revisited that issue over many martinis last Friday :-) -- but I decided that the process would be difficult, expensive, and not add very much at all to the final system. So, I adopted a two step process, conversion of SGML -- EAD, TEI, C-H, etc -- to ATE. Since I wanted to come up with a simple encoding, I decided finally to adopt a scheme that is widely used, is very simple, stays within the skills of humanities students for *internal* database development -- another very important consideration -- and can be processed without an SGML parser. ATE can, of course, be used directly bypassing the SGML step completely, as we have done for some of our internal data entry projects. Over last Friday's martinis :-), we decided that there were other, more pressing and interesting problems to tackle given our limited resources than integration of an SGML parser into PhiloLogic, such as implementing Unicode in order to handle MANY languages and querying across multiple databases. There are many issues in text computing have very little to do with encoding or even SGML/XML and the TEI. I suspect that part of what puzzles Michael about the cool reception of humanities computing developers to the TEI is that some of us may not want to invest significant effort and money in handling text encoding because we have other projects that are of greater interest. I had hoped, when the TEI started, that a text encoding standard would allow me to **REDUCE** the cost of importing and exporting large numbers of texts, freeing up scarce resources for work on other efforts. M [P.S. I would love to carry this on, but am looking forward to some well deserved time away from computers, phones, etc., so I guess it'll have to wait until the ACH-ALLC meetings at UVa. I'm rather fatigued myself, Michael ;-).] Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Luigi M Bianchi Subject: ITec Position Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:32:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 19 (19) YORK UNIVERSITY -- As part of a university-wide initiative in information technology, Atkinson College, York University's second largest Faculty, has developed a series of interdisciplinary degree programs which combine information technology with studies in fields such as IT and social issues, health informatics, professional writing and administrative studies. The common core of these programs have been agreed upon among the three York Faculties involved in the development of the programs (Arts, Atkinson and Glendon), which work in concert with one another. The Atkinson ITec Program draws for its specialization on the resources of its departments of Administrative Studies, Mathematics, Nursing, and Science and Technology Studies, as well as on Glendon College's School of Translation. Planned to commence in September 1999, these programs are expected to grow to some 300-400 students in the next few years. At Atkinson, the Core program is administered by the Department of Science and Technology Studies. The position is tenure-track, with rank commensurate with qualifications and experience, and could carry tenure at the outset. Applicants should have a PhD and a strong record of teaching and research related to information technology. Applicants with research interests in one or more of the following areas are especially encouraged to apply: systems analysis; systems design and delivery; information management; health informatics; organizational structures; risk management; and the economic, historical, philosophical and social implications of IT and its evolving role in society. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the programs, the appointment could be in one or more of the departments of Nursing, Mathematics, Science and Technology Studies, or Administrative Studies. Enquiries and applications, with curriculum vitae, should be sent to: Luigi M. Bianchi, ITec Search Coordinator Department of Science and Technology Studies York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 E-mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca Applicants must also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to this same address. At least one of the letters should address teaching. More information on the programs can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/sts/itec.html . A review of applications will begin June 1, 1999, and continue until the position is filled. York University adheres to a policy of employment equity, including affirmative action for women faculty. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. _____________________________________________________________ Luigi M Bianchi, chair Science and Technology Studies phone: +1-416-736-5213 Atkinson College, York University fax: +1-416-736-5766 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario e-mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca Canada M3J-1P3 http://www.yorku.ca/sts/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: White Paper on Streaming Video Technology Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:33:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 20 (20) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 12, 1999 WHITE PAPER ON VIDEO-ON-DEMAND "Digital Video for the Next Millenium" <http://sunsite.utk.edu/video>http://sunsite.utk.edu/video Apologies for any repeat posting: the following is from the list of the Coalition for Networked Information on a very interesting paper on current video-on-demand methodologies, standards, vendor offerings, and future developments, with links to current state-of-the-art offerings. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]version is also available at this [deleted quotation]<http://sunsite.utk.edu/video_cookbook/>http://sunsite.utk.edu/video_cookboo k/. [deleted quotation]<http://vide.utk.edu>http://vide.utk.edu [deleted quotation]<http://www.sura.org>http://www.sura.org [deleted quotation]<http://www.nysernet.org>http://www.nysernet.org [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: Willard McCarty Subject: online amusements, tools and serious consequences Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:34:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 21 (21) [deleted quotation] (1) View of London from the top of the Financial Times building, via a controllable webcam, so that we may monitor the progress of the Millennium Bridge (from St Paul's to the new Tate building), at <http://www.mbridge.ft.com/lofat/>. (2) All the Web search engine, now online with 80 million pages, aiming for 200 million by this Summer, at <http://www.alltheweb.com/>. As Jack Schofield notes, in Netwatch, it is VERY fast, but then few know about it. (3) The Hampster Dance, a lookalike called the Genetically Modified Hamster Dance, and many others besides, now indexed at the Animated Dancing Pages Web Ring, <http://members.aol.com/pinkbreez/> and the Centre for the Easily Amused, <http://www.amused.com/>. Schofield explains why "Hampster" has been misspelled; it seems that the reason is Canadian.... (4) And an antidote: from a US consultancy, User Interface Engineering <http://world.std.com/>, an "innovative" study to be released next week at CHI99, the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems <http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi99/>, which establishes what we already know, that in Web page design less is more and that when you attempt to communicate you need to keep your audience in mind. The founder of UIE, Jared Spool, "says the most common reason for the failure to present information in a usable way is a lack of understanding by designers of who their users are, and what information they want." Not an easy problem, given the nature of the Web. Part of this audience is visually impaired; these folks need "clear text-based information to ffed into special access software such as speech converters." Note that the first international guidelines for web content accessibility for the disabled, the Web Accessibility Initiative, has been released by the World Wide Web Consortium at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/>. (5) The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (1900-1950 now online, the rest to follow in the autumn), from the Whitney Museum of Art, <http://whitney.artmuseum.net/>. The homepage specifies exactly how well-endowed your machine must be; no statement made about the human viewer. The same issue of the Guardian, main section, has a lead story about the release of the names of 100 secret agents of MI6, "provided by Richard Tomlinson, a former MI6 officer now living in Switzerland". It is worth pondering where one draws the line concerning freedom of speech and of the press, and to note that for some time now our tools have been touching upon if not digging into the socio-political bedrock. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Frank Hubbard <6615hubbardf@marquette.edu> Subject: e-raters Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:35:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 22 (22) Willard, This is an update and some backtracking on my post from February 8, about ETS and the e-rater which is scoring GMAT exams now. First, the backtracking. My first post said "as far as we know now" about how e-rater works. That says something I did not intend, which was that I had some knowledge from ETS of how e-rater works. Grader and scoring leader or no, I was not and am not privy to knowledge of that kind. People who have scored for ETS, and we number in the thousands, will agree that our work does not require that we know such things, and so we don't. We apply scoring guides and sample papers to candidates' papers, and seek consensus. I didn't know what was in e-rater, as I hope my mention of getting more information, and my concluding questions, will support. I knew that the e-rater would be used on applicant-written arguments and analyses of arguments, and that it would in some way try to parallel what human readers do. So I should have said, "the techniques I know about from style checkers, machine translation, style studies as I have encountered them in court cases, and so on." The list I gave has offended, because only one of the items, what I called "collocation," could even loosely be said to figure directly in the papers Jill Burstein has published on e-rater (see Mary Dee Harris's reply to me, February 16, both for these and for a caution about revealing how e-rater actually works). The update: e-rater is up and running. As far as I know, it is doing as well as Mary Dee Harris said it would. Yes, it has reduced the hours that scorers work on GMAT, and the benefit is faster return of scores. I do not know whether there have been glitches, or what the plans are for e-rater's development. I do not know, for instance, whether e-rater will go to work on the GRE writing tasks when those are installed next fall. Finally, my remark about how I regard large-scale testing has offended, so I would like to offer some explanation. Every writing teacher knows, and I am sure test-makers, academic program directors, and applicants themselves know, that what a writing student can do on a timed test is not the same as what that student can do with time to re-examine and revise. The short, one-time test measures something, and that something is a useful ability. But it is not the only ability academic program directors should care about. And we hope it is not the only ability test-takers think we care about, although, as Dr. Harris pointed out, it wouldn't hurt to have test-takers care about structure, vocabulary, and so on. The trouble with a numerical score given for that ability is not the test-makers' doing, but is rather the trouble created by people like me who work with programs, that the number is so easy to use that we rely on it too much, which is opposed to what test-makers actually tell us we should do. Even though the written scripts of student answers may be available, they aren't much used, as far as my conversations with directors suggest. So the tests are "very necessary," as I said, "evil" because of what can be done with them, and my effort with them--to persuade programs not to rely on them alone, and with ETS to increase the possible feedback to the writer--tries to keep fast assessment on the one hand, and on the other teaching and learning, in balance. Frank Hubbard Marquette University ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Luigi M Bianchi Subject: ITec Position Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:32:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 23 (23) YORK UNIVERSITY -- As part of a university-wide initiative in information technology, Atkinson College, York University's second largest Faculty, has developed a series of interdisciplinary degree programs which combine information technology with studies in fields such as IT and social issues, health informatics, professional writing and administrative studies. The common core of these programs have been agreed upon among the three York Faculties involved in the development of the programs (Arts, Atkinson and Glendon), which work in concert with one another. The Atkinson ITec Program draws for its specialization on the resources of its departments of Administrative Studies, Mathematics, Nursing, and Science and Technology Studies, as well as on Glendon College's School of Translation. Planned to commence in September 1999, these programs are expected to grow to some 300-400 students in the next few years. At Atkinson, the Core program is administered by the Department of Science and Technology Studies. The position is tenure-track, with rank commensurate with qualifications and experience, and could carry tenure at the outset. Applicants should have a PhD and a strong record of teaching and research related to information technology. Applicants with research interests in one or more of the following areas are especially encouraged to apply: systems analysis; systems design and delivery; information management; health informatics; organizational structures; risk management; and the economic, historical, philosophical and social implications of IT and its evolving role in society. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the programs, the appointment could be in one or more of the departments of Nursing, Mathematics, Science and Technology Studies, or Administrative Studies. Enquiries and applications, with curriculum vitae, should be sent to: Luigi M. Bianchi, ITec Search Coordinator Department of Science and Technology Studies York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 E-mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca Applicants must also arrange for three letters of reference to be sent to this same address. At least one of the letters should address teaching. More information on the programs can be found at http://www.yorku.ca/sts/itec.html . A review of applications will begin June 1, 1999, and continue until the position is filled. York University adheres to a policy of employment equity, including affirmative action for women faculty. In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent residents. _____________________________________________________________ Luigi M Bianchi, chair Science and Technology Studies phone: +1-416-736-5213 Atkinson College, York University fax: +1-416-736-5766 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario e-mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca Canada M3J-1P3 http://www.yorku.ca/sts/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 13.0009 preparing for (wo)manhood Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:52:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 24 (24) I seem to remember becoming a "charter member" of Humanist in 1988, which, to my way of counting would make it 11 years old or so. . . or was it something very local a year before it became Internetwide? Thanks! So nice to hear from you!! Michael S. Hart [hart@pobox.com] Project Gutenberg Executive Director Internet User ~#100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: mutability Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:53:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 25 (25) Dear colleagues: One feature of the electronic medium -- perhaps THE feature -- causes many of us grief, worry and extra work. I was reflecting early this evening, as I turned a leafy corner on my walk from the tube station to my house, how potentially fortunate we all are because of this mutability. I was musing for quite other reasons on how our training as scholars programs us to be right in every argument and how for still other reasons I had been recently beaten back from what seemed unassailable righteousness to admit fumbling ignorance of nearly everything, and how this seemed so much better to suit the scholar's real work, and the teacher's. Advancement in the profession is, of course, still what it always was, but for the moment let's think only of scholarship. There comes a point in the development of every argument I make when enthusiasm for a new approach, a new realisation becomes cloying, then quickly claustrophobic. Unfortunately the enthusiasm doesn't last very long but the intellectual claustrophobia does -- until some kind but severe friend points out a misconception or stupidity, or I run across a helpful argument, usually in some utterly unrelated field, like physics. Then the cycle begins again. I am reluctant to think that they way we've always done things is inferior to a new way we could do things, but I wonder, and would appreciate your comments on, the notion that the conversational style that seems an almost inevitable product of the electronic medium suits the actual impermanence of scholarship better than the printed book. The Ozymandian monument, the fortress against time, the definitive work. Or, I think more likely, perhaps the medium in which I now write is really MUCH better for criticism, in particular the sort of thing that gets into a journal article, a book review and (alas) so many monographs. This is not a new thought, but it perhaps needs stressing that it is a blessing for some things to disappear, or take up no space at all, and that the electronic medium so easily conveys this blessing. Perhaps the philosophy of dialogue would be helpful here -- something that gives us a philosophically rooted recognition that the most annoying feature of this medium is its greatest blessing. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Bradley Subject: Re: TEI & more from the gadfly Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:52:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 26 (26) As another developer in humanities computing (or, perhaps, more accurately these days, a "developer want-to-be") I have resisted joining into this delightful, witty, but rather agonistic discussion -- believing for myself at least that such a discussion can produce even more useful results when the agonistic component is not so prominent, and not being sure that I can resist this temptation either. However, it seems to me that both Michael and Mark, as well as they put their points, don't seem to be representing either the average humanist or even the average developer (if there is such a thing!). Instead, they seem to have not taken into account several of the issues that apply to these groups in their discussion. I believe that Mark's position is a bit unusual when compared to most humanities computing practitioners. Like "server-type" developers in his and other fields, he has the responsibility for deciding what ARTFL will and will not do, and designing the software to do these particular set of tasks. He has at least some (probably not enough, knowing how things are) technical resources to make this happen, and has developed one way or another a sophisticated technical understanding to accomplish what he needs to do. It doesn't seem to me that most humanists are in that position, and I don't think that it is reasonable to expect members of a humanities computing community to develop their computing skills and resources in the way that Mark has done to meet their own, perhaps differing, research agenda. The model of the end user also being the developer seems to not apply to most of the potential community. As a developer who, although very interested in humanities computing, is not himself a humanist with a particular research task to work on, I have found the problems of TEI even more perplexing than Mark does. I am not been in the position to decide for my users, as Mark is (and apparently Michael assumes), what elements of TEI I will choose to process and what I will choose to ignore. I want my eventual users to do that, and hopefully be therefore able to use the tools I create for a range of different tasks and with text marked up in a range of different ways. In order to do so I need to recognise and deal with, and allow them to recognise and deal with too, the many different abstract structures (some introduced by using SGML, but some specific and apparently unique to TEI) that a TEI document can represent. I cannot write software that decides to simply ignore one TEI thing or another because it doesn't meet my own needs, or my view of what my users need. Perhaps more precisely, I want my software to ignore as little TEI markup as possible so that my users can make use of all the potential richness of TEI to meet the needs of their problems and of their texts. I have built software (sgml2tdb) that takes SGML/TEI texts and prepares a TACT database from them -- ignoring some aspects of an SGML view of markup that simply didn't fit TACT's sometimes rather limited view of the textual world. I resisted the pressure from users for years to develop TACT tools to process SGML texts because the cost of merely recognising the materials in an SGML text was too expensive to develop in all its generality that the SGML standard required. Then a robust parser of SGML was available (nsgmls), which I adapted and which provided an important boost to my own development efforts. The task became feasible, at last. As Michael say, I found that the incorporating in your software of a component that properly processes an SGML sequence and announces to the rest of your software what is there is no longer the hard part. However, in order to satisfactorily process the TEI variations that I found in the text from many different sources I was forced to develop a relatively sophisticated language that the sgml2tdb user needed to also understand. Why? Well, I needed a way of allowing the user to say "this attribute, when appearing in this context should be translated in this way into this TACT thing". My users had to translate between the SGML way of saying things, and the objects that my software worked with. If I was working on this program today I would probably not develop my own language, but would try to apply one of the many different emerging standards to do this task -- but I think my point here is the same. Expecting the end user, often with relatively few technical resources at her/his disposal, to master something as complex as my relatively limited specification language, let alone something as subtle as XSL, XQL, XQuery, etc etc, and apply it to markup as potentially complex as a TEI document, is expecting a lot. Expecting a 3rd party developer who is not an end user or a text producer, to decide what constructions in an SGML or TEI document are relevant to his goal and how they should be processed -- particularly when the apparently same kind of "markup idea" can be expressed in many different ways -- is also demanding. In short, it is the third party developer who is presented with the most difficult task here -- not being the encoder or the end user -- and trying to give the end user as much access to features in a range of encoders materials as possible. Perhaps the numbers needed to take on the support of even these standard tools such as XSL and applying them to particular application tasks by a 3rd party developer is what was meant by Tim Bray with his "battalions of programmers". The talk in the Elta discussion list has, as of yet, been rather limited, but it seems there that users are not only looking for tools to parse (in the SGML sense) TEI document, or to even lay them out for presentation, as Jade or Panorama are capable of doing. They seem to be interested in combining these facilities with tools to allow for sophisticated searching of both the text and the markup. They are asking for tools to not only display the text in various ways like Parorama, but display the results of their searches in ways other than just KWIC displays. They want (as one of them said in the discussions "a lot"), and they want it for free, or very close to free. I think that developments in both the XML world, and in the software development world in general, are starting to come together to make the development of truly open and flexible systems possible and capable of being developed by a large number of relatively independent developers. However, there is quite a bit of complex and perhaps rather abstract groundwork that needs to be done first. Now, in the interest of reducing the agonistic tone of this discussion (including probably my part of it), I want to say that at the end of it all I believe I understand and indeed sympathise with the reasons why the TEI markup is as complex and rich as it is. It is perhaps even a part of its "glory" (and this reflects on Michael and Lou's work on it) that it is so, and so well covers the expressive needs of so many tasks. However, it is now more useful to also recognise that this DOES make it difficult to process -- particularly for the 3rd party developer -- and take more seriously the problems that this richness introduces. Best wishes to you all. ... john b ---------------------- John Bradley john.bradley@kcl.ac.uk From: Mark Olsen Subject: Re: 13.0004 TEI, gadflies, commentators Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:52:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 27 (27) [deleted quotation] Standards and open source development are two different things. So, let's disengage them for a moment. I would deny that humanities computing folk are not concerned about standards. I think the critical assessment of one particular standard, the TEI, does not entail that the critics don't want standards. It is absolutely clear that standards are necessary for any serious progress. Standards do, however, have to fit BOTH where we are, with all of the considerations that entails, AND where we want to go. [deleted quotation] I could not agree more. We have been considering precisely this model when thinking about what we should do with PhiloLogic: Release Terms, Organization, Collaboration. Once we have a system, I would like to begin releasing this without charge to selected collaborating institutions. XXXXXXXXXXXX has expressed interest, as have several others. It is my opinion that ARTFL might play a significant role in e-text scholarship [...] and might facilitate such an activity by adopting the Netscape approach of encouraging open development and research with the the Mozilla organization. We are a UNIX shop, and depend heavily on academic/industry collaboration that built UNIX, such as GNU. Mozilla is another model to use. Comments? [ARTFL Internal Documentation] As a heavy consumer of GNU goodies, I would like to suggest that GNU is a good model of joint development. This model assumes that the tools are relatively small and knitted together in a general insfrastructure like UNIX. Some years ago, there was a project called TSI (Text Software Initiative) which was based on that model. It did not get very far, but could be revived. I believe that this was also some of the thought behind the ELTA initiative, but that too has not progressed too far, last I checked. In general, this model is based on individuals or small teams writing discrete programs within general infrastructure. The other model is Mozilla.org, where a single large system is released open source and contributors add components directly to the system. This is also a good model, which is not dependent on a particular infrastructure, but carries with it a heavier cost of organization and management. Netscape, I believe, has 10 fulltime programmers working on Mozilla.org and is very well organized from it's original development environment. Both are proven and effective models with very different operating principles and results. All this to say that open source is desirable and should be considered by developers in humanities computing. ARTFL is proceeding slowly in this area because it requires very careful organization and workable objectives. In practical terms, the move from the typical very small humanities computing development team, which tend to work informally together, to an open source environment requiring a much higher degree of organization and coordination, such as more formal coding and documentation practices, can be difficult, but certainly not impossible. It strikes me that while both models have limitations and costs, development in humanities computing could benefit from visting, once again, some form of coordinated development. We might want to "round up the usual suspects" -- you know who you are :-) -- and try again at ACH-ALLC at UVa. Past failures make something like this work should not prevent us from at least trying again, since as Steve notes, the alternative of going it alone is becoming increasingly intractable. [deleted quotation] Intellectual property is hardly fading away, in any field. Publishers, software developers, and the entertainment industry are all working hard to enforce and extend intellectual property rights. Intellectual property is most commonly considered in terms of monetary reward, but this is not the only way to think of intellectual property. In the humanities, we write articles and books of which we surrender copyright to publishers for little or no money, because we are paid in other ways (salaries, academic credit, respect of peers). I would hate to publicly announce my total royalties on a recent scholarly book, but suffice it to say that I better keep my day job. :-) Open source development is similarly dependent on surrender of intellectual property rights for similar credits. Peer respect, if you already have a salary or way to make money, is for most humanities scholars and open source hackers, a primary motivation. When we publish books and articles, we hope others will read and cite them. The software that is mentioned above is an attempt to get the "academic" credit that motivates much research and development in the humanties. Oddly enough, I see strong points of contact between humanities scholarship and open source hacking, since both are motivated less by monetary reward (assuming, of course, that the scholar and/or hacker has a means of support) than love of the work itself and recognition of peers. This is intellectual property, but not directly related to monetary return. Developers in humanities computing, given the general culture of the humanities and the relatively limited resources at our disposal, may be very well suited and receptive to some form of open source development. Mark Mark Olsen ARTFL Project University of Chicago ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Adriaan van der Weel Subject: Electronic Text Centre Leiden Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:55:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 28 (28) [The following I requested from Dr van der Weel, and he has kindly supplied it. --WM] The Electronic Text Centre Leiden was founded jointly by the University Library, the university's IT centre and the Faculty of Arts in late 1997 to bring together existing expertise and to develop further expertise, draw up standards, and initiate activities regarding digitisation, electronic publication and archiving of texts at Leiden University. Central among the Centre's activities has been the development of a (TEI-encoded) textbase of primary and secondary texts for consultation on the WWW. Initially texts have been mainly selected from seventeenth-century Dutch sources (see some provisional examples on www.etcl.nl/goldenage). One of the ETCL's concerns is to propose a standard for basic TEI encoding of Dutch literary works, to achieve maximum efficiency in encoding activities in Dutch literary and cultural studies. Adriaan van der Weel From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: AWARDS: DLI2; LC-AMERITECH Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:56:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 29 (29) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 17 1999 CONTINUING ANNOUNCEMENTS OF DLI2 GRANTS <http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html>http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html SIX GRANT WINNERS ANNOUNCED OF FINAL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-AMERITECH COMPETITION <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html>http://memory.loc.go v/ammem/award/99award/award99.html ================== CONTINUING ANNOUNCEMENTS OF DLI2 GRANTS <http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html>http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html Today is the deadline for submission of applications to the second year competition for the National Sceince Foundation's Digital Libraries Initiative-Phase 2 (DLI2). Announcements of the winners of the first competition are being staggered, as paperwork is completed, and are available at <http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html>http://www.dli2.nsf.gov/projects.html. Of the ten grants announced to date, two will especially interest this community: * The Digital Atheneum: New Techniques for Restoring, Searching, and Editing Humanities Collections <<http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/atheneum.htm>http://www.uky.edu/~kier nan/eBeowulf/atheneum.htm> * Digital Workflow Management: The Lester S. Levy Digitized Collection of Sheet Music, Phase Two <<http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/showaward?award=9817430>http://www.nsf.gov/cgi- bin/showaward?award=9817430> The first of these will develop new tools for the creation of digital libraries from damaged manuscripts for use by humanities scholars. Tools include "new illumination techniques; creation of a semantic object model and framework for creating digital collections that will support domain or data-specific restoration and content-based search/access; and incorporation of novel processing techniques for digitally restoring, enhancing, and searching/ annotating manuscripts that have suffered damage." The second project will create sound renditions and enhanced search capabilities for a collection of over 29,000 digitized pieces of American popular sheet music (1780 to 1960) at Johns Hopkins University's Levy Collection of Sheet Music. "Audio files and full-text lyrics are being created using optical music recognition software written by staff from the Peabody Conservatory at Hopkins. Workflow managing tools will be developed to reduce and focus human labor. The activities will result in a tested process, framework, and set of tools transferable for use with other large-scale digitization projects." David Green ============================================================================ ==== SIX GRANT WINNERS ANNOUNCED IN FINAL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS-AMERITECH COMPETITION <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html>http://memory.loc.go v/ammem/award/99award/award99.html The winners were recently announced of the third of three years of grants offered by the Library of Congress with the Ameritech Corporation to create digital collections of primary material that could be incorporated into LC's National Digital Library. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]This message has been widely posted ***************************************** Announcement of Library of Congress-Ameritech National Digital Library Competition Award Winners Thanks to a generous gift from the Ameritech Corporation, over the past three years the Library of Congress has sponsored a competition to enable public, research, and academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of primary resources. These digital collections are incorporated into the National Digital Library. The Ameritech program has helped to connect libraries of different sizes and scope and also brings together important historical documents dispersed among institutions throughout the United States. In this the final year of the grant program, grants were awarded to six institutions. Information about the winners can be found at the following url <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html>http://memory.loc.g ov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html. Information about the program including lists of previous winners can be found at <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/index.html>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/a ward/index.html The winners are: (in alphabetical order of lead institution) Lee Library, Brigham Young University with the Utah Academic Library Consortium, and the Utah State Historical Society: Pioneer Trails: Overland to Utah and the Pacific, 1847-1869 155 items (approximately 6,040 pages) from 59 diaries of overland trail experiences written between 1847 and 1869, along with 16 maps, 75 photographs and illustrations, and selections from 5 immigrant guides. Michigan State University with Central Michigan University: Shaping the Values of Youth: A Nineteenth Century American Sunday School Book Collection 121 American Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865 by The American Tract Society, the American Sunday School Union, and other religious publishers to teach juvenile readers moral conduct and good citizenship. Mystic Seaport Museum: Maritime Westward Expansion 7,500 items from the archival collections dating from the mid to late nineteenth century, including logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers and other manuscript items, images, imprints and ephemera, and maps and charts offering a unique maritime perspective on the history of westward expansion in the U.S. The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, with the California Historical Society: Chinese in California, 1850-1920 12,500 items, including photographs, cartoons, personal diaries, business records, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed matter documenting nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California and the West. University of Chicago Library with the Filson Club Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky: The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 745 items (15,050 pages) from the rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and manuscripts collected by Reuben T. Durrett and by the Filson Club Historical Society, documenting the settlement of Ohio River Valley from 1750 to 1820. [Also winners in 1996/97] University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: The Church in The Southern Black Community: Beginnings to 1920 19,000 pages from approximately 100 works, including autobiographies, sermons, church reports, religious periodicals, and denominational histories, tracing the experience of Southern African Americans and the transformation of Protestant Christianity into the central institution of black community life. [Also winners in 1996/97.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ =============================================================== 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: Patricia Galloway Subject: Re: 13.0016 mutability Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:54:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 30 (30) I am reminded of an old bush rose in my garden, called "Mutabilis": its blooms, which are bountiful and continue nearly year-round here, change color as they bud, open, become full-blown, and finally fall. Thus there are always blooms of several colors on the bush. -- Patricia Galloway Mississippi Department of Archives and History P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571 voice 601-359-6863 From: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Re: 13.0016 mutability Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:53:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 31 (31) Your comments really are timely. I've just been working on some voluminous materials comprised of thousands of private journal and notebook entries of a well-known writer which are about to be published. These "private" writings will open up a wealth of new insights and novel directions for study, and will change substantially the way in which he is perceived. If these entries had been stored in a computer and destroyed with that great facility for erasure which lies under our fingertips, what a loss! No, with the greatest of respect Willard, I don't think we should necessarily assume that the formal construction and composition of THE BOOK necessarily makes it any more worthy of permanence than episodic scribbles (whether digital or otherwise) which may contain a wealth of words and ideas. Apologies if this misses the tenor of your talk. NC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: talk online Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:54:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 32 (32) Dear Colleagues: I offer for your amusement and/or interest the text of a talk I am about to give, "We would know how we know what we know: Responding to the computational transformation of the humanities", at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/know/>. Comments welcome. Yours, WM From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: National Digital Library: 2 New Collections Announced Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:56:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 33 (33) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 17 1999 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS' NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY ANNOUNCES NEW COLLECTIONS: William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ wghtml/wghome.html Duke University Sheet Music Collection <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html>http://memory.loc ..gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html [deleted quotation]Collection The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Music Division announce the release of the on-line collection "William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz" at the American Memory web site at <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem /wghtml/wghome.html In 1995 the Library of Congress purchased the collection with financial support from the Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund, and the National Digital Library Program has created the on-line presentation in collaboration with the Music Division. The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprised of over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene in New York City and Washington, D.C. from 1938 to 1948. An ardent jazz fan, Mr. Gottlieb began working for The Washington Post after college and convinced his editor to let him write a weekly jazz column -- perhaps the first in a major newspaper -- in addition to his assigned duties. The Post could not afford to provide a photographer for the column, so Mr. Gottlieb purchased a Speed Graphic press camera and taught himself the art of photography in order to illustrate his articles. After his position with the Post, he worked as a writer-photographer for Down Beat magazine from 1946 to 1948. His work also frequently appeared in other periodicals such as Record Changer, Saturday Review, and Collier's. During the course of his career, Mr. Gottlieb took portraits of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter. The on-line collection provides access to digital images of all sixteen hundred negatives, approximately one hundred annotated contact prints, and over two hundred photographic prints that show Mr. Gottlieb's preferred cropping. The web site also includes digital images of Down Beat magazine articles in which Mr. Gottlieb's photographs were first published. Other special features of the on-line presentation are audio clips of Mr. Gottlieb discussing specific photographs, articles about the collection from Civilization magazine and the Library of Congress Information Bulletin, and a "Gottlieb on Assignment" section which showcases Down Beat articles about Thelonious Monk, Dardanelle, Willie "The Lion" Smith, and Buddy Rich. Approximately 1,600 negatives and color transparencies, 64 framed exhibition prints, 950 reference prints, and accompanying contact prints compose the collection. The bulk of the negatives are black-and-white nitrate or acetate film cut into three sizes: 2-1/4 x 2-1/4, 3-1/4 x 4-1/4, and 4 x 5 inches. Contact prints are 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 inches or less and are often annotated with cropping, burning, and other special instructions. Gottlieb divided his photographs into two separate series. Series A contains many of the most frequently published images while Series B consists of less popular, but not necessarily lower quality, photographs. Uncropped 8 x 10-inch reference prints of Series A are available in the Music Division Reading Room. The Prints and Photographs Division houses the negatives, color transparencies, and contact prints, but the Music Division Reading Room handles reference work related to the collection. The Gottlieb Collection receives much use by library patrons both on-site and off-site and is accessed regularly by journalists, book editors, museum curators, artists, and producers of multimedia documentaries. The photographs have been exhibited in more than 150 venues in the United States and abroad, including the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. (which has acquired a print of Duke Ellington), the Library of Congress as part of the permanent American Treasures exhibit, the Deutsche Bank on Fifty-second Street in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Navio Museum in Osaka, Japan. Mr. Gottlieb's work has been featured in countless books and articles, used as nearly 250 record album covers, utilized in television documentaries and major motion pictures, and distributed as posters, calendars, and T-shirts. In 1994 the United States Postal Service selected Mr. Gottlieb's portraits of Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Mildred Bailey, and Jimmy Rushing for a series of postage stamps commemorating jazz singers. =========================== [deleted quotation]Music collection [deleted quotation] The Library of Congress National Digital Library and the Ameritech Competition announce the release of the Historic American Sheet Music collection from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. This is the fourth collection from the LC/Ameritech competition to come online. The collection can be found at the following URL: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html>http://memory.lo c.gov/ammem/award97/ncdhtml/hasmhome.html The Historic American Sheet Music collection presents 3,042 pieces of sheet music (16,600 images) drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, which holds an important, representative, and comprehensive collection of nineteenth and early twentieth century American sheet music. This selection presents a significant perspective on American history and culture through a variety of music types including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I. The collection is particularly strong in antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and Civil War songs and music. Also included are piano music of marches, variations, opera excerpts, and dance music, including waltzes, quadrilles, polkas, etc. Cover illustrations represent an important, and in some cases almost unique, source of information for popular contemporary ideas on politics, patriotism, race, religion, love, and sentiment. The American Memory site also includes a companion collection from the Library of Congress Music Division entitled, Music for the Nation, American Sheet Music, 1870-1885. The first release of this collection appeared last year (22,000 items, 150,000 images). It is being scanned from 35mm microfilm and is a comprehensive collection of sheet music registered for copyright in the post-Civil War era. The URL is: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem /smhtml/smhome.html For the Duke collection, the digital reproductions of the sheet music are mounted at Duke. The music was scanned in color from originals. HTML page-turning "wrappers" were created automatically in a batch using a perl script. This is in contrast to the page-turning approach used by the Library of Congress, where small page-turning datasets are created for each item (also in batches using scripts), and the HTML display is generated dynamically from the dataset. The collection was released at Duke as part of the Digital Scriptorium [ <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/scriptorium/>http://scriptorium.lib.duke.ed u/scriptorium/ http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/ ] in late 1998. At Duke, finding aids, marked up in SGML according to the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) DTD, with very detailed descriptive information for each piece of music, are indexed and presented on the web for searching using DynaWeb software. Copies of the finding aids were delivered to the Library of Congress, where they were converted to a form that could be easily incorporated into American Memory allowing searching within this collection or across all collections using the Library's InQuery search engine. Both search interfaces generate bibliographic displays from which a click on the image of the cover links to the corresponding page-turning wrapper at Duke. For an example of cross-collection searching in American Memory that retrieves some of this sheet music with some other treasures, try searching from <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbqu ery.html for webster daniel [consider choosing the "match exact phrase" option or quadrille For additional information about this project please visit the page announcing Duke's award which can be found at <http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/award/97award/duke.html>http://memory.loc ..gov:8081/ammem/award/97award/duke.html For information about the LC/Ameritech competition please visit the competition home page which can be found at <http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/award/index.html>http://memory.loc.gov:80 81/ammem/award/index.html =============================================================== 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Re: TEI, gadflies, commentators Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:31:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 34 (34) [deleted quotation] Mark, [deleted quotation] Yes, but two deeply related things, insofar as one often implies the other. Standardization nearly always implies that a developer (say, a company) relinquish its desire to tie a technology to its potential for making money--which is to say, its exclusive ability to manipulate the source. A standardized technology that can't be viewed "at the source" is an absurdity; one follows the other. [deleted quotation] It is certainly true that other fields aren't following suit, but recent events in the computer industry are nothing short of staggering. It almost sounds facetious to say that intellectual property is "most commonly considered" in terms of monetary award. Intellectual property law (in the US at least) is entirely based on the ability to make money. The open sourcing of Netscape, OS X Server (!), and the culture of GNU/Linux are, from every conceivable standpoint, uncanny when considered in the context of a capitalist economy. John Stuart Mill would have had Richard Stallsman thrown in prison. :) -SR Stephen Ramsay Assistant Director Electronic Text Center email: sjr3a@virginia.edu Alderman Library phone: (804) 924-3230 University of Virginia FAX: (804) 924-1431 web: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu Difficile est saturam non scribere. -- Juvenal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Endersby Subject: WordCruncher software Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:30:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 35 (35) Hello list, I realise from reading the archives that this is an old, old topic and I apologise for raising it again. However, I have just acquired a lot of 19th C correspondence (which I need for my PhD) on disk, which has been archived/indexed using the shareware version of WordCruncher. I have three problems: it's a DOS program (yuck!); the shareware version can't export text for citations (I can cut-and-paste, but only one screenful at a time and I have to re-format everything), and; I would like to be able to do slightly more with the text (e.g. searching for multiple terms within letters to/from specific correspondents) than WordCruncher seems to allow. Does anyone know what the current status of WordCruncher is? The www.wordcruncher.com website contains no information about it, and emails to the company have yet to produce a response. Is there an up-to-date Windows version? If not, does anyone know a better program that could import the text files that I have (which are presumably in whatever format WordCruncher uses)? Any assistance gratefully received. Many thanks. ______________________________________ Jim Endersby, Graduate Student Department of History & Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3RH Ph (home): (01223) 312 329 From: Richard Ward, The Life of Henry More (1710) [new edition, 1999, Subject: 18th Century Millennium Bugs? Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:31:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 36 (36) p.112] " And this may suffice (and alone suffice) for the Notion of the _Millennium_; and we may see by it what a Bugbear we are afraid of." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 session Call for papers Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:34:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 37 (37) [deleted quotation] "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 session Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000 Organised by: University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS) Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia) Sponsored by: IEEE SMC co-sponsored by: Supported by: Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific Research and Technology (SERST) ************************************************************************** General ------- The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but also for their evaluation. "Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000, visit http://www.chez.com/acidca2000) .. The session "Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own Proceedings and Programme Committee. The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP. Main Topics ----------- We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following topics: * Lexicography * Lexical knowledge acquisition * Part of Speech Tagging * Unknown word guessing * Term recognition * Morphological Analysis * Robust Parsing * Word Sense Disambiguation * Anaphora Resolution * Discourse segmentation * Machine Translation * Agreement Error Correction * Spelling and Grammar Correction * Information Extraction * Automatic Abstracting * Text Categorisation * Speech processing * Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications * Corpus annotation * Evaluation [material deleted] From: "K. C. Cameron" Subject: Re: EXETER CALL programme Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:32:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 38 (38) Exeter CALL '99 DRAFT PROGRAMME FOR THE Eighth Biennial Conference to be held at the University of Exeter September 9-11 1999 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. The 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. TO ATTEND PLEASE FILL IN AND RETURN THE REGISTRATION FORM AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT Lynne BARNES & Mark HEATON University of Central Lancashire "Using Numbers in British Sign Language CD-ROM" Véronique BEELAERT University of Antwerp "Images as a non-verbal dimension of language acquisition: Seeing what moving images say" Robert BLAKE &Dick WALTERS UC Davis, Davis CA "Extending the benefits of Language Negotiations: Results from a Synchronous Chat Program" Odile BLIN Université de Rouen "Students and e-mail communication" David BROOKS & Joseph DIAS Kitasato University, Japan "Initiating Learner Autonomy with CALL Gabriella BRUSSINO University of Auckland Culture, Communication, Navigation CALL: the Role of the User Interface and Video Material in a Multimedia Program for Intermediate Italian Learners" John BUCKETT & Gary STRINGER University of Exeter "Life after ReLaTe : Internet videoconferencing's growing pains" Susan BULL & Raf (Raphael) SALKIE University of Brighton "Learner Analysis of Native and Learner Corpora" s Rachel Juei-ching CHUNG Taiwan, ROC "The Results and the Cognitive Process of Accessing listening Comprehension through Three Learning Conditions" Jozef COLPAERT &Wilfried DECOO University of Belgium "The Role of Didactic Functions in CALL Conceptualisation" David COWLING & William HAWORTH Exeter University & John Moores University, Liverpool "The WELL Project: Local Participation and National Evaluation" Mike CROMPTON Manchester Metropolitan University "Integrating Internet-based CALL materials into mainstream language teaching", Paul DANIELS & David BROOKS Tokai University, Japan "Creating On-line Communities for Language Learners" Jill DAUGHERTY University of South Africa "Exploiting authentic documents from the Web in the French language class" Chris DAWSON Manchester Metropolitan University "CALL and the debate between Coomunicativeand Traditional Teaching Methods" Sandrine DECAMPS & Cécile BAUVOIS Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium "Computer-assisted language learning method: the methodology of a tool built for non-schooling-able students" Philippe DELCLOQUE University of Abertay "Could it be Thrilling? Zoe va au Zoo Odyssee spatiale" Isabelle DE RIDDER University of Antwerp UIA, Belgium "Are we still reading or just following links? How the highlighting of hyperlinks can influence incidental vocabulary learning" Milena DOBREVA Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgaria "Applications of Quantitative Analysis of Medieval Texts to the Teaching of Old Church Slavonic" . Marina DODIGOVIC ELM, Macquarie University, Australia "Learning English on the Web within a global EAP community" Derrik FERNEY & Sharon WALLER Anglia Polytechnic University "Multimedia Language Learning environments For the international community" Robert FISCHER Southwest Texas State UniversityUSA. "To click or not to click: Locus of control in multimedia CALL" George Theodore GARNEAU "Global Simulation in the Foreign Level" Christina GITSAKI & Richard Paul TAYLOR. Nagoya City University "Bringing the WWW into the ESL Classroom" David GREENE Kochi University of Technology "Developing User-friendly, Self-LearningEFL Writing" Dominique HEMARD & Steve CUSHION London Guildhall University "Designing a Web-based CALL environment: from access to acceptability" Marlien E. HERSELMAN Vista University , South Africa "Resource-advantaged and Resource- deprived learners benefiting from Computer games in South African schools " Glyn HOLMES & Nadine de MORAS University of Ontario CANADA "French Sociolinguistics and the Accommodation of Learner Styles" Lawrie HUNTER Kochi University of Technology, Japan "Signalling Structure in Web Documents: Prof. of English, Information System Support for the non-Native reader" Elizabeth (Beth) JEFFERY Vista University South Africa "A Two-man Band: Making a CALL support program to help Xhosa and Afrikaans of English for Special Purposes at Vista University Port Elizabeth, South Africa" Sachie KARASAWA Community College of Southern Nevada / U of Arizona "CALL for Japanese at a community college setting" Ken KEOBKE City University of Hong Kong "The Teacher in the Machine: making WWW technology serve pedagogy" Kathleen KING Idaho State University, Pocatello Idaho "Group Dynamics and the Online Professor" S. Kathleen KITAO Kyoto, Japan "Using On-line Chat in Language Teaching" Sally-Ann KITTS University of Bristol "Theory and Practice of Using ICT in a Constructivist Approach to Language Learning" Ramesh KRISHNAMURTHY & Paul BRETT & Ruslan MITKOV & Stephen HAGEN University of Wolverhampton "Language Engineering in CALL for Learners in the Business Community" Greg LESSARD& Michael LEVISON Queen's University, Canada "L2 French Lexical Creativity in Context" Maureen LISTER & Deborah DES JARDINS BOLOGNA, Italy "Integration of Internet in the ESP classroom: Issues of Methodology and Technical Feasibility" Marie-Christine MCCARTHY University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA "Functional Simulations in the Foreign Language Class at the Advanced Level" Jon MILLS Fac.of Humanities, University of Luton "CA-EAP: A Multi-Task Software Package for the Teaching of Academic Writing" Alexander NAKHIMOVSKY Colegate Univ "Web-based and Network-shared Multimedia Annotator for Text and Video" Haruo NISHINOH "Computer and Composition for 'English as a second language' learners in a computer lab at a Japanese college" Joana Salazar NOGUERA University Rovera i Virgili, Tarragona, "The role of literature in second language learning; a new model to exploit literary texts" Madanmohan RAO Bangalore, India "Multlingual Publishing on the Internet Challenges and Opportunities for Computer-Aided Language learning" Felicitas RUHLMANN (f) University of West of England Bristol. "CALL Interface Design: the Evaluation of teacher-learner generated self-study modules on CD-ROM" Lesley SHIELD (1) & Sue HEWER& Craig RODINE University, Milton Keynes "A Synchronous learning environment to support distance learners" Lesley SHIELD (2) & Lawrence B DAVIES & Markus J WEININGER Nanzan University Japan "Using MOO for collaborative language learning" Tesuhito SHIZUKA, Kansai University Osaka, Japan "Exploring Time-related Variables in a computer-based reading text" Donald J. N. SMART & Marie M. MAAKINEN Helsinki University, Finland "In the Shadow of an Information Society: A Collaborative Internet Teaching Project" Kirsten SONTGENS Bolton Business School "Email tandems as a form of autonomous language learning" Jonita STEPP-GREANY Florida State Univ, USA "Achieving Task-based Instruction in a basic Spanish Course via Computer-Assisted Learning" Professor Roland SUSSEX University of Queensland, Australia "Cultural Contact and Interchange on the Internet" Prof. Nicole TOURIGNY & Laurence CAPUS Université Laval, Canada "Using Case-based Reasoning to help in Computer Assisted Language Learning" Michio TSUTSUI & Masashi KATO & Brad MOHR University of Washington , USA "Virtual Language Lab with Multimedia Capability: Tools and Concept" Natalia TRONENKO & Stella ROCK University of Sussex "Teaching Language Through Literature Using the Internet" Rita M VICK & Martha E. CROSBY & David E. Ashworth University of Hawaii , Honolulu "Japanese and American students meet on the Web: Collaborative Language learning through everyday dialogue with peers" Setsuko WAKABAYASHI & Yasunori MOTOMURA Dokkyo University JAPAN "Interactive Language Learning by using WWW-based Application" Jeremy WHISTLE University College Northampton "Concordancing and learner autonomy: an experiment with first and second year undergraduates" Stella YEUNG & Linda Y. O. MAK Hong Kong University "Investigating Features of an International Email Community" *** 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 /ALG ------------- 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 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final CfP: Inference in Computational Semantics Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:35:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 39 (39) [deleted quotation] FINAL 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) Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics. 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: ACIDCA'2000 Call For papers and Exhibition Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:35:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 40 (40) [deleted quotation] ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS & EXHIBITION ACIDCA'2000 International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation in Engineering and Industrial Applications <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000> Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000 Organized by : Association for Innovation and Technology (Tunisia) University of Sfax (ENIS - FSEGS) Sponsored by : IEEE SMC Co-Sponsored by : TSS Supported by : Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific Research and Technology(SERST) ******************************************************************* SCOPE ----- Technological innovation is related to more than one scientific field. Cooperation between researchers in different scientific fields and industrials is nowadays inevitable. The International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Decision, Control and Automation in Engineering and Industrial Applications (ACIDCA'2000) will provide a forum for theoretician and practitioner researchers, industrials, and academic experts to exchange ideas, share experiences, promote technological products, and address the important issue of the applications of advanced topics in computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, decision, control, and automation in engineering and industrial systems. ACIDCA'2000 will include exhibits and demonstrations of real-world applications and will be a job fair by matching up applicants with employment opportunities. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ACL'99 & Co-Located Workshop Reminders Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:37:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 41 (41) [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. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 Registration Reminder Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:38:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 42 (42) [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 ----------------------------------------------------------- [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Formal Grammar 99 Conference Program Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 21:37:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 43 (43) [deleted quotation] FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 FG99 Formal Grammar Conference - FG99 PROGRAM August 7-8, 1999 Utrecht, The Netherlands In August 1999, the Eleventh European Summer School in Logic, Lan- guage and Information (ESSLLI XI) will be held in Utrecht, The Nether- lands, August 9-20. 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. 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 Saarbr"ucken last August. Themes of interest include formal and com- putational syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; head-driven phrase struc- ture grammar and categorial grammar; model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; and foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar. [material deleted] On the following pages, a detailed program of the conference is pro- vided. Registration for the conference should be done via the ESSLLI XI Secretariat. The conference fee of Dfl. 80 includes a copy of the conference proceedings. Online registration for FG-99 and joint registration covering both FG99 and ESSLLI XI can be arranged at 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: Willard McCarty Subject: what we do all this for Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:09:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 44 (44) Recently I put a talk of mine online, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/know/> -- yet another attempt to deal with humanities computing and where it fits into our schemes of things. Shortly thereafter I received an "outburst" from one of us, vigorously objecting to my silence on important work along one of the lines I follow there and to the obvious ignorance that resulted. I realised then that the essay had been taken as intentionally definitive rather than as an attempt to define and so to provoke commentary such as that very outburst. There are several reasons, I suppose, why such misunderstandings happen. The thing *looks* finished, for one -- I do try not to produce messy HTML, but sometimes I would really like a rusticating function that would make it visually obvious how tentative a document is. (Some people intentionally make typos, then add corrections to the printed copy before circulating it; alas, HTML does not allow for that sophistication.) For another thing, our scholarship, I suppose, isn't conversational enough yet to allow for deliberate provocation in quite that way. Then, too, there are always cultural differences as well as differences of personal style. I recall being in a face-to-face seminar once, on Milton, led by Northrop Frye. At the first meeting it was clear to me that we students were all frightened stiff by the presence of such a fellow and the prospect of confronting him once a week for a whole year. I (as scared as anyone, I suppose) remember sitting there and thinking, if I say anything at all, my ignorance and foolishness will be immediately obvious, but if I say nothing I won't learn much, so I'll talk anyway. So I asked him a question, can't remember what. Then started a conversation that lasted the whole year, the most powerful experience I've ever had in a classroom. I thought better, faster, clearer than I had ever thought before; it was utterly exhilirating! So, thanks to Reed College, where I first learned the value of mouthing off among smart people, and to Northrop Frye, sine qua non, I make bold here to tickle the tiger again and see if I cannot get a better or just different roar than my own. To advance our field it seems to me that we need to fit together all the wisdom we have, make something coherent out of the aggregate. To do that, we need to have that wisdom to hand. My hope was AND IS to coax it out into this open forum so that we can all take a look. Please! Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Robert Kraft Subject: Distance Learning Course on Western Religions Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:08:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 45 (45) Please cross-post as appropriate, especially to introductory college-level student lists. (Initially sent to HUMANIST, H-JUDAIC, MEDTEXTL, Medieval-Religion, and ELENCHUS lists.) I offer this as an informational notice, with emphasis on the fact that here is an unusual opportunity to study at a distance with a leading senior scholar in medieval religion, women studies, and related fields. RAK Forwarded message: [deleted quotation] -- 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: "American Memory" Fellows Announced at Library of Congress Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:09:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 46 (46) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 20, 1999 1999 AMERICAN MEMORY FELLOWS ANNOUNCED Third Annual Educators Institute At Library of Congress to Aid Participants in Use of Electronic Primary Sources <<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/amfp/press99.html>http://memory.loc.go v/ammem/ndlpedu/amfp/press99.html> The National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress recently announced the names of the 50 educators selected to attend the 1999 Educators' Institute at the Library this July. The Institute is "an opportunity for teams of outstanding middle and high school humanities teachers and library/media specialists to improve the teaching of American history and culture in their schools by using digitized primary sources from the Library." This is the third year of the program. For more information on the Educators' Institute with reports on earlier programs, see: <<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/amfp/intro.html>http://memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/amfp/intro.html>. For the American Memory Learning Page, "designed to help teachers, students, and life-long learners use the American Memory digital collections from the Library of Congress," see: <<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html>http://memory.loc.gov/amme m/ndlpedu/index.html>. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]Primary Sources [deleted quotation]the selection of 50 educators to participate in the 1999 American Memory Fellows Program. The program is an opportunity for teams of outstanding middle and high school humanities teachers and library/media specialists to improve the teaching of American history and culture in their schools by using digitized primary sources from the Library. [deleted quotation]with educators across the nation in exploring the value and utilization of electronic primary sources," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. "The 50 educators who will come here this summer will be instrumental in helping us spread the word about our National Digital Library Program's importance to education." [deleted quotation]Digital Library Educators Institute, July 18-23. Fellows will learn about the Library of Congress's digitized American Memory collections of photographs, documents, manuscripts, maps, sound recordings and motion pictures available at <<http://www.loc.gov/>http://www.loc.gov/>. During the Educator Institute, the Fellows will share in a professional development experience that will shape the way the Library's unique American Memory collections are used in schools across the country. [deleted quotation]Institutes. Like their predecessors, the 1999 Fellows will create teaching units based on the nearly 2 million American Memory materials now on-line. [deleted quotation]classroom and will revise them for eventual dissemination to the education community through both the Library's World Wide Web site and at professional education forums nationwide. Interactive teaching unit ideas proposed by the selected American Memory Fellows have included projects on Latino immigration, the life and times of Frederick Douglass, the "electrification" of America, historical and literary components of storytelling and American history through music. [deleted quotation]professional life," said Jane Garvin, of St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Mo. [deleted quotation]that will bring this material to students. ... The digital collections will open opportunities to students who have not had access to this type of material before." [deleted quotation]independent review panel from 151 teams of applicants, comprise teachers, librarians, curriculum coordinators, media specialists and other educational professionals from across the nation. The American Memory Fellows are frequent users of technology in the classroom, and they are experienced using primary sources to motivate students, promote critical thinking, and help students connect history to their own lives. Each Fellow is an active leader in the field of education and has the ability to disseminate his or her expertise to educators in their region. [deleted quotation]on-line National Digital Library Teacher Network. Through this forum, they [deleted quotation]discussion groups. [deleted quotation]Program, which aims to make available 5 million American history items from [deleted quotation]<<http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/>http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/>. The National Digital Library Program is one of the Library's birthday "gifts to the nation." The 1999 National Digital Library Educators Institute is made possible by a grant from an anonymous donor, who is helping the Library reach out to the education community. =============================================================== 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: Fotis Jannidis Subject: Re: 13.0021 WordCruncher? Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:07:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 47 (47) [deleted quotation][...] If not, does anyone know a better program that could import the [deleted quotation] To my knowledge WordCruncher did have two storage formats for text files: 1. An encrypted version which can only be read and used with WordCruncher's view component. 2. Plain ASCII files. The three levels of text, WordCruncher can handle, are marked by a | and some letter (differs from edition to edition). This file can be easily converted into something like a Folio Views Flat file or even read into your word processor. The text is in the file(s) with the suffix .byb, so have a look there. The other files contain just the index and word ordering information. Hth, Fotis Jannidis ________________________________________ Dr. Fotis Jannidis Institut fuer Deutsche Philologie LM Universitaet Muenchen, Germany http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de From: "F. Heberlein" Subject: Re: 13.0021 WordCruncher? 18C Millennium Bugs? Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:07:39 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 48 (48) If I remember correctly, the *.byu files are pure DOS - no problem to import them into another application, i.e. you could take advantage of your preindexed wordcruncher files. You could switch to either a "free format" database, e.g. askSam (www.asksam.com), or a program that indexes files/directories/harddrives, e.g. Dtsearch (www.dtsearch.com), or a genuine concordance program, e.g. TACT (www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/TACT/tact0.html), which allows for rather sophisticated searches (though single files should not exceed the amount of, say, 20 pages). Fritz Heberlein Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor Seminar fuer Klassische Philologie KU Eichstaett Ostenstr. 26-28 D-85071 Eichstaett / Bayern email: sla019@ku-eichstaett.de Tel.: +49 8421 93 1544 / 93 2544 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: PUBLICATIONS: AHDS Spring Newsletter; D-Lib Magazine May Issue Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:08:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 49 (49) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 20 1999 UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Spring 1999 Newsletter Available <<http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl3_1.html>http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl3_1.h tml> D-Lib Magazine May 1999 Issue Is Now Available <<http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/> = = = = = = = = UK Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) Spring 1999 Newsletter Available <<http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl3_1.html>http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl3_1.h tml> NINCH-Announce Readers might be most interested in reports on the AHDS' "Going Digital" Seminar Series, a report on the Archeology Data Service working more closely with museums (through the Museum Documentation Association) in promoting standards and best digital archiving practice; and news on the AHDS Gateway for searching digital material across disciplines (<<http://prospero.ahds.ac.uk:8080/ahds_live/>http://prospero.ahds.ac.uk:80 80/ahds_live/>). [deleted quotation]**********Apologies for any cross-posting************ The latest edition of the Arts and Humanities Data Service Newsletter Volume 3 issue 1 for Spring 1999 is now available at: <http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl3_1.html>http://ahds.ac.uk/public/newsl3_1.html Highlights include details about the AHDS collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and the Imperial War Museum Art Collection at the Visual Arts Data Service. The Newsletter also contains details of recent acquisitions by AHDS service providers, current projects and partnerships, publications and staff changes. =========================================================================== D-Lib Magazine May 1999 Issue Is Now Available <<http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/> Aside from the main articles, NINCH-Announce readers might be interested in brief reports on, among other projects and publications, the European Visual Archive Project <<http://www.eva-eu.org/>http://www.eva-eu.org/>. DG === [deleted quotation] The May 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at: <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ The stories for May include: **DOI: Current Status and Outlook May 1999 Norman Paskin, International DOI Foundation **The Virtual Naval Hospital: Lessons Learned in Creating and Operating a Digital Health Sciences Library for Nomadic Patrons, by Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D., Donna M. D'Alessandro, M.D., and Mary J.C. Hendrix, Ph.D. University of Iowa College of Medicine; CAPT Richard S. Bakalar, MC, USN and LT Denis E. Ashley, MC, USNR **Interoperability for Digital Objects and Repositories: The Cornell/CNRI Experiments, by Sandra Payette, Cornell University; Christophe Blanchi, The Corporation for National Research Initiatives; Carl Lagoze, Cornell University; and Edward A. Overly, The Corporation for National Research Initiatives Education for Digital Libraries, by Amanda Spink, University of North Texas and Colleen Cool, Queens College - City University of New York Bonnie Wilson Managing Editor D-Lib Magazine =============================================================== 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: John Bradley Subject: Looking for Iliad and War and Peace texts in English Translation Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:05:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 50 (50) One of our students (in KCL's War Studies Department) is interested in doing some computing work with War and Peace, Henry V, and the Iliad. For War and Peace and the Iliad it would be necessary that the work be done on a suitable English translation. OTA didn't seem to have digital versions of Iliad or W&P in translation. Does anyone know of a suitable digital version of the texts in an English translation? Thanks very much. ... 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: Willard McCarty Subject: discussion of humanities computing Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:05:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 51 (51) Dear Colleagues, Professor Tito Orlandi (Roma, La Sapienza), author of the strenuous "sfogo" (objection) to my little essay, "We would know how we know what we know", has put together a Web page of explanations and pointers to his own work, at http://RmCisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/mccarty1.html, and given me gracious permission to circulate news of it. I sincerely hope it stirs up like passions in others, since further debate would at minimum indicate that concern for our field as a whole is not the solitary bent of a very few. It is good for us all that gadflies buzz about (whatever one may think of the sound they make :-). I indicate in my essay, for whatever it may be worth to anyone, how highly I regard the TEI, but -- no disrespect intended -- its pursuit is only one aspect of humanities computing as a whole, and if we want to get full benefit from the TEI we'll pay some attention to its broader intellectual context(s). We're magnanimous, yes? Not too much of a stretch, though if paying such attention were not a bit of stretch, it surely would not be worth any of the noise made so far about it. And there's joy in stretching and being stretched ;-).... APOLOGIES to those who attempted to access the URL of my essay, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/know/>, and were met at the gate by a demand for userid and password. My server did this on his own after I changed his administrator password, honest. I have fixed him, so there should be no more demands of that kind. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "James W. Johnston" Subject: Re: 13.0024 WordCruncher Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:04:00 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 52 (52) WordCruncher does exist in a Windows format, and is still currently available. Unfortunately, there has not been sufficient commercial interest in the product to justify a full scale, full-time development team. For the time being, the lion's share of the development work is still being done at Brigham Young University. However, we are currently in negotiations with a publisher who has extensive experience with the Windows (and DOS) versions of WordCruncher. By mid-summer, I expect there will be a greater level of support for the product than there is right now. For additional information, please feel free to contact me directly. James Johnston From: "F. Heberlein" Subject: Re: 13.0024 WordCruncher Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:04:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 53 (53) Here is some information on another possible alternative to wordcruncher, extracted form the askSam-l discussion list: [deleted quotation]A few people have mentioned different indexing programs that can help you find and organise things on your disk drives. There's a new one coming out and there's a free preview of it available to download from www Enfish.com. It's called Enfish Tracker Pro. As well as being able to carry out the usual searches on your disk drives and on the Internet, you can set up "trackers" that are effectively saved searches. These allow you to dynamically track projects, etc. It can find items matching your search criteria in all different types of files and in your email programs and PIMs. It means you don't need to worry about where you file your documents; you just click on the tracker for the project you're interested in and it quickly displays all the documents related to that project in the order that you choose. It seems to bridge the gap between a straight forward disk indexing program and the more formal method of organising free text offered by AskSam. Dave Symington << Dr. Friedrich Heberlein, Akad. Direktor Seminar fuer Klassische Philologie KU Eichstaett Ostenstr. 26-28 D-85071 Eichstaett / Bayern email: sla019@ku-eichstaett.de Tel.: +49 8421 93 1544 / 93 2544 From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 13.0024 WordCruncher Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:05:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 54 (54) However, Folio just emailed me this month that they are no longer making available their free Folio reader program. . .so all those Folio files out there are now going to suffer "rot" as the call it when you can't find/read certain files any more. . . . Michael S. Hart [hart@pobox.com] Project Gutenberg Executive Director Internet User ~#100 [deleted quotation]WordCruncher [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13.0028 WordCruncher &al. Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 06:32:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 55 (55) If WordCruncher cannot be sold any longer, why not turn it into an open source code software under GPL? This way, any programmer could contribute to it and it would only take a small group to coordinate it. Porting it over Linux would make a lot of sense too. Best, Jean-Claude Guédon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jack Lynch Subject: Re: 13.0029 Iliad, War & Peace in English translation? Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 06:32:28 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 56 (56) John Bradley asks: OTA didn't seem to have digital versions of Iliad or W&P in translation. Does anyone know of a suitable digital version of the texts in an English translation? A handy place to answer such queries: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html It's The On-Line Books Page, maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom. I see a _War and Peace_ in Canada and _Iliad_ translations by Butler and Murray. (_The Odyssey_ is better served, with four available translations.) From: Subject: Re: 13.0029 Iliad, War & Peace in English translation? Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 06:32:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 57 (57) Project Gutenberg has them all in a number of different versions. The Online Book Page at CMU links to all of them in a number of different versions. David Reed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 13.0027 what for? Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 06:31:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 58 (58) I would like to raise the point that Humanities Computing as you propose it in your paper should not be reserved to post graduates, because it seems to me that we have to start earlier. Up to now, our book centered disciplines have been based on a book centered culture and we have learnt right from the start to handle aspects of it. Although our students now, in a way, grow up with computers, their mind is formed in a way that doesn't help humanities computing, i.e. it is either still printed text based or not printed text based (because they don't even read). Computers are conceived of as tools for writing or storing and organising information, the Internet is conceived of as a tool for looking up information. The way of thinking we need in order to pose humanities computing questions is something we have to teach. What I notice in my odd computer based seminars is that I am trying to apply computing to research from one moment to the next without having the time nor the possibility to build up the reflection about what we are trying to do, about what is an electronic text, about what makes it different from other text, why would we want to do what we do, and why do we do it at all in Romance linguistics. I try to carry them through such a seminar lasting just one semester hoping that the results will show them what it is there for. This is not enough. I get more and more the impression that either we base teaching of Romance linguistics as much as possible on applied computing which would mean, however, that we would have to reduce what, up to now, we try to teach students about what is Romance lin- guistics, about the history of a language, about research which has been done, or we have to create BA courses which combine Romance linguistics/studies with applied computing. I would argue for the last. Students thus formed could then go on to an MA (PhD) as you propose it. They would have the sort of insight they need to integrate it with a much broader perspective. Elisabeth ------------------------------------------- PD Dr'in Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard Mercator Universitaet-GH Duisburg Geibelstrasse 41 47048 Duisburg Tel.: +49 203 3791957 fax: +49 203 3793122 e-mail: 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/ From: Luigi M Bianchi Subject: Re: "We would know how we know what we know" Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 06:31:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 59 (59) Dear Colleagues, I am surprised at the sparse negative reaction to Willard McCarty's article [ http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/know/ ] against a background of silence. Tito Orlandi's outburst [ http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/know/ ] seems to be more about the disproportionate dominance of the English language in the computing world than about the substance of McCarty's essay: "What upsets me most [...] is the well-known phenomenon by which our (Italian) milieu will soon accept ideas, preached in Italy for years, only because they issue [now] from the Anglo-Saxon world." [my translation.] Orlandi is probably right in this regard, and perhaps McCarty should have addressed more explicitly the question of language in his discussion of the exchange of "knowledge instruments" in the "trading zone." Much more puzzling to me is the silent welcome with which McCarty's article has been greeted. His reference to David Hilbert's famous address is quite appropriate and timely, unless we subscribe somehow to a purely natural, evolutionary theory (memetics?) of the field. I think the problem may be that readers have confused the intent of the article: it is not a "plan," but a strategy. As such, McCarty has illustrated it with _examples_ from his own work, but he has been quite explicit about the purpose of such illustrations: "My intention is to provoke discussion among computing humanists across the disciplines, so that they may ask, each of his or her own speciality, what current problems are most productively susceptible to computing." I am indeed looking forward to such a debate. Luigi M Bianchi _____________________________________________________________ Luigi M Bianchi Science and Technology Studies phone: +1-416-736-5213 Atkinson College, York University fax: +1-416-736-5766 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario e-mail: lbianchi@yorku.ca Canada M3J-1P3 http://www.yorku.ca/sts/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Halsted Subject: Re: 13.0033 WordCruncher -> open source? Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 22:11:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 60 (60) I second the idea. I had a look at WordCruncher at the ACH/ALLC conference in Kingston a couple of years ago and it looked like quite a useful product, though I've never used it. Bringing it into the Linux world might open opportunities for developers by bringing it into broader use. Dave Halsted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 13.0031 humanities computing discussion Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 22:11:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 61 (61) From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 62 (62) [deleted quotation] [ . . .] [deleted quotation] [ . . .] [deleted quotation] I don't think the "silence" surrounding Willard's paper is any reflection of a lack of interest or appreciation; no doubt many people are hard at work on their upcoming ACH/ALLC presentations. ;) Some months ago I had occassion to articulate my own view of humanities computing and wrote these sentences: "In a paper entitled "How Much Information is There in the World?" (answer: "a few thousand petabytes"), Michael Lesk is able to estimate that within the next two years the efficiency of computer memory will be such that we will be able to digitally save all information comprising any part of the human record -- even (theoretically) everything that everyone remembers ("for a single person, this isn't even hard"). Calculations of this sort are carried out in units like terabytes (1000 gigabytes), petabytes (1000 terabytes) and exabytes (1000 petabytes). The very existence of such units of measurement calls upon us to contemplate something like a technological sublime, a simultaneous ecstasy and oblivion immanent in our encounters with the virtual. But these figures also underscore the necessity of introducing structure and material perspective into our information and data objects. If materiality inheres in medium, in media, and in mediation, then I would argue that the materiality of electronic objects must consist in such matters as the choice of a certain Document Type Definition to represent text in accordance with some particular intellectual and editorial prejudice. "For me, humanities computing is not about objectivty and totality, the stuff of Lesk's calculations. It is not about sublime fantasies of data and access, the vertigo of William Gibson's "lines of light" and "city lights receeding." Humanities computing is about choices and compromises, decisions and interventions leveraged against the terabytes and petabytes of the data flow. We achieve this leverage through attention to what we in the humanities have always understood best: matters of representation. Computers allow us to build working models of those representations, models informed by our knowledge and imagination of images, texts, and cultural memory." -- Some additional thoughts on Willard's paper, which by and large I read with admiration. But if I have criticisms, it is that it devotes too few words to the accomplishments the field has seen already. I can think offhand of as many as half a dozen major electronic editing/textbase projects whose promise has, for many years (since the early nineties), been discussed largely in speculative terms, but which are now gradually coming to fruition -- the time line here would range from perhaps late 1997 on through the coming year. (This period may come to be seen as something of a watershed.) The importance of including such work in a broad-based discussion of humanities computing does not lie simply in creating an occassion for celebratory prose; rather, the intellectual and technical agenda of the field, in materially significant ways (grant funding, for example) will in large part be driven by just such a track record of successes (and failures).* It's noteworthy that rhetorically, many of the projects I have in mind make the claim that they will serve as "models" for future efforts. In other words, they are self-consciously attempting to contribute to an agenda for humanities computing as a field. Moreover, we should recognize that a critical mass of large-scale electronic editions/textbases will bring into focus an additional "meta" dimension of research: cross-collection searches are a single obvious example, which we can anticipate leading to new work in data standards, metadata, and digital libraries (the digital library community is also, I think, neglected in Willard's piece, but in many ways this seems to me the most vital site humanities computing has today). So in short, I think the various trajectories individual projects set in motion "from below" have _tremendous_ bearing on humanities computing as a whole, and we would do well to acknowledge and record these more explicitly when surveying the field. The institutional conditions within which we work are too complex (and too often, too volatile) for clear distinctions between how an individual project is framed, funded, and supported and how the agenda of the field as a whole might be impacted. Anyway: some rough thoughts. Certainly I hope this is a conversation that will continue not only here on Humanist but also next month in Charlottesville. Best, Matt * For a discussion of "The Importance of Failure," a minor theme in Willard's essay, see John Unsworth's article of that same name at <http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/03-02/unsworth.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/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Astrid Wissenburg Subject: Call for Papers - International Journal of Grey Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:23:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 63 (63) Literature [deleted quotation] ***************************** Drs. Astrid Wissenburg Senior Project Manager MALIBU King's College London, Library Strand, London WC2R 2LS phone: 0171 848 2992 fax: 0171 848 2980 astrid.wissenburg@kcl.ac.uk http://www.kcl.ac.uk/malibu ***************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE: International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting - Preliminary Program Available Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:25:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 64 (64) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 25, 1999 [deleted quotation]<http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/>http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ 99 [deleted quotation]<http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/>http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ [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: "David L. Gants" Subject: GALWAY, IRELAND: LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC, AUGUST 9-11/99 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:26:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 65 (65) [deleted quotation] LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP-8 CSNLP- "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC" <><><> <><><> LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL The Eighth International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8) (http://www.it.ucg.ie/csnlp8/) "LANGUAGE, VISION & MUSIC" Monday 9th - Wednesday 11th August, 1999 National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway) GALWAY, IRELAND 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 automata? 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: ichim99 Preliminary Program now available Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:27:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 66 (66) [deleted quotation] ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 99 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 99 99 September 22 - 26, 1999 Washington, D.C. USA 99 99 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ 99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 The Preliminary Program for the fifth ICHIM meeting is now available online at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Once again, staff of museums, archives, universities, hardware, software and network developers will meet to share ideas and learn from each others' experiences. Abstracts and speaker biographies are now online for a full range of sessions exploring: * New Users and Uses of Cultural Multimedia * Public Policy and International Issues * New Institutional Models * Economic, Political and Legal Challenges * Collaborations, Partnerships and Producing Income Pre-Conference Workshops also offer a range of in depth training opportunities for Educators, Curators, Exhibit Designers, Librarians Archivists, Software and Hardware Developers, or Cultural and Educational Publishers. Plan to join your colleagues to discuss theory, see the latest in practice, and explore the intersection between culture and technology. See you in Washington! David and jennifer ________ J. Trant & D. Bearman ichim99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, ichim99 Washington, DC Archives & Museum Informatics September 23-26, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EACL'99 and ACL'99 Reminders Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:27:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 67 (67) [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: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics - Last Call for Papers Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:28:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 68 (68) [deleted quotation] ____________________________________________ | | | 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS | | | | 34. LINGUISTISCHES KOLLOQUIUM | | | | 34e COLLOQUE LINGUISTIQUE | | | | September 7-10, 1999 | | | | University of Mainz, Germany | |____________________________________________| | | | LAST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | | | | Deadline: May 31, 1999 | |____________________________________________| Conference Location: Germersheim, Germany Conference Topics: All Fields of Linguistics Conference Languages: English, German, French Submission of Abstracts: May 31, 1999 Submission of Papers: November 30, 1999 Publisher of Proceedings: Peter Lang-Verlag, Frankfurt Bus Excursion: Heidelberg and Speyer Tutorials Peter Hellwig: Natural Language Parsing Sydney M. Lamb: The Neurocognitive Basis of Language Christian Otto: Sprachtechnologie fuer das Internet Uta Seewald-Heeg: Maschinelle Uebersetzung The complete call for papers can be found at: http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Please send requests and correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics 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 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Final CFP for NLPRS99 Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:28:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 69 (69) [deleted quotation] -|-------------------------------------|- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS NLPRS-99 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium Beijing, China November 5-7, 1999 "Closing the Millennium" -|-------------------------------------|- NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of research efforts in Computational Linguistics and related subjects, primarily among scholars in the Pacific Rim area. As the NLPRS culminating a millennium, NLPRS-99 would like to invite more scholars than ever before, including those beyond the Pacific boundaries, covering topics of all related areas, in order to create a memorable occasion before the next century. The papers must be original and address unpublished work on all aspects of Computational Linguistics. [material deleted] Home page : http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Re: 13.0031 humanities computing discussion Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:22:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 70 (70) I have just read Tito Orlandi's "The Scholarly Environment of Humanities Computing" and I wanted to thank him for the description of the situation at most European universities (cf. 5. "The European connection") because it shows me that the problems I am having with getting Humanities compu- ting going at Duisburg university are not personal ones and aren't due to my own incapability (as I tend to think when I am really frustrated after ha- ving had another of those tedious discussions where I am told that corpora can be loaded down from the net or you just have to bye CD-ROM editions of newspapers or where a computerlinguist doesn't even try to understand what I am trying him about Humanities computing). That is why ACO*Hum seemed like an anchor and I still hope that we will use it in such a way, that we can create a net of Humanities computing where we create European undergraduate courses by pulling individual courses together, use boarderline countries and their universities to create collaboration, develop Internet courses, use Erasmus/Socrates to send our students abroad to get what we can't offer ecc. If we could manage to present such a course to our administration and ministry we might get it through, above all in the restructuring phase we are in at the moment. We should, however, combine these courses with languages in order to get students to go abroad and we need people who will look after them when they are abroad, i.e. we need very good collaboration. As soon as we get this going then we could push for a broader setup as Willard describes it. Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PD Dr'in Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet 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: Francois Lachance Subject: who by Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:23:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 71 (71) Willard, Thank you for your persistence in bringing attention to the ruminations you offer at [deleted quotation] I have a question about the genesis of the text which is related to a tension I perceive to be at work in the credit question raised by Professor Orlandi and in the trader metaphor. Question: were the notes added after the major section of the text was completed or were they stepping stones in the development of the major section? I know the questions of orchestration and textual genesis seem far from the "content" of the essay. However, I do believe such questions hinge upon the currency of the metaphors which are placed in circulation by the publication of the essay. allow me, if you will, a little illustration: Note number seven on Support Staff reads: Scholars and scientists in all fields have found that the older configurations of such services, according to which the principal investigator has the questions and the staff person provides the answers, are no longer valid, if they ever were; as both the technological expertise and the scholarly range necessary for research grow, it is also for the formulation and the refinement of the questions themselves that principal investigators have to turn to 'staff', whom it is increasingly necessary -- not a matter of courtesy, much less as a matter of condescension, but a matter of justice and accuracy -- to identify as colleagues in the research enterprise. and the "Mechanical Primitives" section of the essay, if I summarize if correctly here, invokes an individual scholar as a consumer of software products. As may perhaps emerge from this juxtaposition, the content question becomes one of the symmetry between production and consumption. This is so very well elucidated in your synopsis on the role of modeling in humanities discourse that is seems puzzling as to why it disappears from the essay's horizon at this point. If I may venutre an opinion, it is the interference of the the trader metaphor which shifts the essay's initial locus of concern -- the what of the building-testing activity -- to a concern with "legitimation" -- the who of the building-testing activity. The trader's transactions -selling and buying- under certain judicial regimes occur in the private sphere. In the public sphere, diplomatic relations also lead to exchanges of knowledge. The ambassadorial model in the form of the student exchange or a visiting professorship already exists in the academy. It may just lend a bit more self-similarity across scale to the various levels in your survey/program which if I do not abstract too too much is grounded on the belief in principled feedback between researchers and their objects of study and between researchers themselves as well as between researchers and a wider public. If such be the case, then is not philology still queen since translation animates your tentative neo-trivium (history [the past], philosohy [the possible future] and sociology [the present relations]). Or is the regal model dead? Francois has been, is and most likely will be very much fascinated by the discourse of machines and models From: Subject: Tenure and electronic publication Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:24:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 72 (72) I have finally gotten my hands on the formal statement proposed by Berkeley's Library Committee to the campus's Academic Senate, with respet to faculty review and different media: "In the course of reviewing faculty for merit and promotion, when there are grounds for believing that processes of peer review and quality assurance are the same in different media, equal value should be attached to the different forms of scholarly communication." Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu From: Jim Marchand Subject: thanks Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:25:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 73 (73) This is a personal thanks to all those who wrote to my powers that be in my behalf in re office space and computer connection. The result is that I have (to quote my Indian friend who speaks Indian English) somewhat more commodious if not so sumptuous quarters and will retain my ethernet connection. We were discussing evaluation of computer work in a humanities environment, and I can assure you that no one takes internet work or listwork seriously. I once wrote our Research Board, asking for equipment to help me with internet work and received a letter back reminding me that this was not scholarly activity. I am sure that such things will change as people get more savvy, but our Research Board is staffed with us. I feel that much of the good scholarship is being done nowadays on the net, but I don't know how one might be able to evaluate it. Also, note that payment for work done (on the basis of some evaluation) is or is not in the coin of the realm. I, for example, was not looking for a raise, nor for promotion (neither of these was likely to be forthcoming), but for a cozy nook in which to contemplate ones books and talk to ones colleagues. If, on the other hand, you are looking for pay for your work ... Who was it that said: `Give him a coin if he wishes to be paid for his work'? 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: Studentship at Wolverhampton: multilingual anaphora resolu= Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:25:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 74 (74) tion [deleted quotation] RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP=20 (Current value of bursary =A3 6,500) The University of Wolverhampton, School of Languages and European Studies invites applications for a research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on=20 a multilingual anaphora resolution project. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science, with excellent programming skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing. Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. All applicants must have knowledge of a language other than English. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship in September 1999. For further information about the project, please contact=20 Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk.=20 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),=20 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, programming skills and language=20 competence. (Please quote the reference number of the studentship=20 RS247). Please note that the closing date for applications is 14 June 1999. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: International Humanities Computing Conference Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:49:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 75 (75) There is still time to register for the 1999 joint 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. The full conference program, with abstracts, is available online from the conference web site, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/, and online registration is also available. In addition to the program of papers, the conference will include a keynote address by Xerox PARC's Cathy Marshall on reading in the digital age, as well as vendor and publisher presentations, excursions (tubing on the James River and a bus tour of Monticello and Ash Lawn), and a banquet (with blues). From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" Subject: Digitisation Summer School Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:50:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 76 (76) Places are still available on the digitisation track of the EU-funded SOCRATES Intensive Programme in Corpus Linguistics and Digitisation as previously announced on HUMANIST. The summer school runs from 21 June to 2 July and successful completion awards students 10ECTS credits which can be used towards their degree programmes. The course is free and open to students from EU universities, as well as universities in Norway and other countries particpating in the SOCRATES scheme. Please bring this to the attention of any students, undergraduates, or postgraduates who might be interested. More details at http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/SocIP/ or contact Fiona Tweedie (fiona@stats.gla.ac.uk). Previous announcement: 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). From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE: European Cultural Heritage Digitization Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:51:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 77 (77) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 26 1999 DIGITISATION OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE: PRODUCTS-PRINCIPLES-TECHNIQUES Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 October 1999 <http://candl.let.uu.nl>http://candl.let.uu.nl http://candl.let.uu.nl/events/dech/dech-main.htm Below is an announcement of a conference this fall dedicated to an examination both of the variety of approaches to digitization projects in Europe and to the definition of a particularly "European" method (with its own underlying principles) that is distinct from that practiced in English-speaking countries. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] DIGITISATION OF EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE: PRODUCTS-PRINCIPLES-TECHNIQUES Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21-23 October 1999 Symposium organised by the Institute for Information Science (formerly Computer and Humanities) of Utrecht University and the Utrecht University Library. During the last decade, successful digitisation projects from various European countries have provided access to a wealth of historical and cultural sources in electronic form. These projects show a number of different approaches, some of which represent well-known standard solutions, while others may be innovative or obscure. To explore this variety is one aim of this symposium. Nevertheless, the assumption is that these projects have a number of underlying principles in common, which together define a 'European' approach to digitisation that differs from the 'Anglo-Saxon' approach practised in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Methodological themes are investigated in a series of plenary papers to be read by Jvrgen van den Berg, Andrea Bozzi, Pedro Gonzalez, Anne R. Kenney, Frank Klaproth, Adolf Knoll, Dominique Maillet, Michael Pidd, Bas Savenije, and Abby Smith. A number of projects will be discussed separately in small-group sessions with opportunities for discussion and hands-on experience. Among these projects are the ESAC Folksong Corpus, Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum, World of Peter Stuyvesant, Illuminated Manuscripts of the Dutch Royal Library, and the Norwegian Digital Radio Archive. Many other projects will be informally demonstrated. The symposium will be held at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The participation fee is DFL 750 or 340 Euro; coffee, tea, three lunches, reception and the Conference Dinner are included in the fee. Accommodation can be reserved through the Congress Bureau of Utrecht University. The programme, registration form and further information can be found at <http://candl.let.uu.nl/> under the heading "events". The symposium's web pages will be regularly updated. For further information about the contents please contact Hans Mulder () or Frans Wiering (). ============================================================== 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Pew Learning and Technology Program Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:52:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 78 (78) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 26, 1999 THE PEW LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM <http://www.center.rpi.edu/> Forwarded from the CNI list: apologies for cross-posting. [deleted quotation]Carol Twigg, formerly the Vice President at Educom responsible for the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative, has provided some information on her exciting new project that she asked I share with the CNI community. Carol can be reached at twiggc@rpi.edu. Clifford THE PEW LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM The Pew Learning and Technology Program is an $8.8-million, four-year effort to place the national discussion about the impact that new technologies are having on the nation's campuses in the context of student learning and ways to achieve this learning cost-effectively. The Program has three areas of work: 1) The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign is a $6 million institutional grant program that will support efforts of colleges and universities to redesign their instructional approaches using technology to achieve cost savings as well as quality enhancements. Redesign projects will focus on large-enrollment, introductory courses, which have the potential of impacting significant numbers of students and generating substantial cost savings. The program expects to award 30 - 35 grants over three years (approximately 10 awards per year) with an average award of $200,000. 2) The Pew Symposia in Learning and Technology will conduct an ongoing national conversation about issues related to the intersection of learning and technology. It will marshal the thinking of acknowledged experts and frame the issues in ways that are useful to the higher education community as it incorporates uses of technology into the academic program. The program will convene two invitational symposia per year from 1999 through 2002 and produce monographs based on those discussions from a public-interest perspective. 3) The Pew Learning and Technology Program Newsletter is an electronic newsletter that will be published quarterly beginning September 1999. It will highlight ongoing examples of redesigned learning environments using technology and examine issues related to their development and implementation. To have your name added to the Pew Learning and Technology Program electronic mailing list, which ensures that you receive the newsletter, periodic updates and information about this new effort, send an email message (with subject line left blank) to listproc@lists.rpi.edu. In the body of the message, type SUB PLTP-L your name. The Pew Learning and Technology Program is coordinated by the newly created Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute led by its executive director, Dr. Carol A. Twigg. The Center's mission is to serve as a source of expertise and support for those in and around higher education who wish to transform their academic practices to make them more accessible, more effective and more productive by taking advantage of the capabilities of information technology. For further information, please see the Center Web site at <http://www.center.rpi.edu/>. If you have any problems accessing the site, please contact Abbie Basile at or 518-276-8323. =============================================================== 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: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Questions Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:54:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 79 (79) Dear Willard, Your essay on the principles of Humanities Computing puts an interesting problem before us; what are the interesting problems of Humanities Computing? I would like to suggest a few (additional) questions that might frame the problem inspired by your essay. 1. What is a computer? This is on the surface an easy question to answer. I could point to the object before me and say "that is a computer", but defining the computer becomes a problem when we start asking about the computer as a cultural object. This question triggers a series of questions about the place of technology and technological discourse in contemporary culture. A computer is no longer just a computer and we in the humanities have the experience unpacking cultural artifacts to contribute to the dialogue. 2. What is the history of computing? This question I believe we have to continue to ask in order to be honest with ourselves. Part of doing Humanities Computing should be the doing of it in an historically informed fashion. In particular we need to ask ourselves about the history of Humanities Computing and whether it might be an administrative artifact. By this I mean that the history of Humanities Computing might have more to do with the way universities organize disciplines for administrative purposes than any inherent virtue. 3. How does the computer inform content? With this question I am trying to get at the relationship between the form of computing and the content we structure in MIDI files, graphics, WWW sites, hypertexts and TEI encoded text files. I believe this is the central question of Humanities Computing. Is there are relationship between the forms imposed by computer applications and the content held by them? We may not be able to answer this question in general; it could be that we have to look at specific areas like text encoding, hypertext, electronic music, and multimedia for questions we can answer. 4. What possibilities for human excellence are released by the computer? Humanities Computing is not only a critical or intellectual discipline that comments on computing from the privileged tower. We need to invite the creative and performative arts back into Humanities Computing by posing questions that are not answered but acted on. The creative artist does not always deal with a problem when they create a work, so we must leave room in the discipline for performances and original creations made possible by the computer. 5. How can we learn from computing? I leave the question about learning and teaching to the last. We are all amateurs in this area, in the best sense. Thus I see it as a question of how we can learn together, not how those who have mastered something can teach others. Part of this learning is sharing a sense of danger and possibility with others. When I know what I know I will teach it. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell Humanities Computing grockwel@mcmaster.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: JA de Beer Subject: Re: 13.0037 International Journal of Grey Literature Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:54:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 80 (80) Willard, [personal communication omitted] .... But it does seem rather incongruous that GreyNet and the Int'l Journal on Grey Literature is being championed by an academic publisher, for surely, in subscribing/submitting to the latter, we are ceding (yet again) publishing rights (and part of the grey literature process) to the omnipotent publisher. (??) Regards, Jennifer === Jennifer de Beer |Linguistics|Web Publishing|Library Automation| |Cape Town|South Africa| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Standard for Manuscript Descriptions (fwd) Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:53:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 81 (81) [deleted quotation] From: Stuart Sutherland Subject: Teaching European Literature & Culture with C&IT Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:53:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 82 (82) New WWW publication from CTI Textual Studies Teaching European Literature & Culture with C&IT <http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/occas/eurolit/index.html> 'Teaching European Literature & Culture with Communication & Information Technology' is a collection of selected papers from a conference of the same name organised by CTI Textual Studies. The papers outline a rich range of approaches to the teaching of analytical and critical skills in literary and cultural studies. They document and reflect on the successes or otherwise of a diverse group of projects and teaching situations and offer a solid set of signposts and critical issues for others seeking to follow their example in related fields. A print version of the publication will be available later in the summer, which will be distributed free with the next issue of our journal Computers & Texts, which itself is free on subscription to academic members of staff attached to UK HE institutions. Forms to subscribe to Computers & Texts and to reserve a copy of the print publication (@7.50 pounds) without subscribing to C&T are available via the URL above. Readers from outside UK HE institutions and from outside the UK can also reserve a copy of the publication via these web forms. The contents of the publication are as follows: - Introduction: Technology in teaching literature and culture: some reflections. Sarah Porter, Humanities Computing Development Team, University of Oxford. - Teachers and Technicians: working together for effective use of Information Technology in Language and Literature Gavin Burnage, University of Cambridge. - A Season in Cyberspace: Reflecting on web-based resources for French Studies Tony McNeill, University of Sunderland. - Forging Links: The Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Project Stuart Lee, University of Oxford - The Perez Galdos Editions Project: Creating Electronic Scholarly Editions Rhian Davies, University of Sheffield. - The Digital Variants Archive Project: A New Environment for Teaching SL Writing Skills Domenico Fiormonte and Luana Babini, University of Edinburgh, and Luisa Selvaggini, Universita della Tuscia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuart Sutherland Email: stuart.sutherland@oucs.ox.ac.uk Information Officer CTI Centre for Textual Studies http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext Humanities Computing Unit OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Tel: +44 (0)1865 283282 Oxford, OX2 6NN Fax: +44 (0)1865 273275 From: Willard McCarty Subject: web design Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:53:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 83 (83) I commend to your attention the attractive homepage of the Australian Research Council, <http://www.detya.gov.au/nbeet/splash.htm>. Splash indeed. Someone understands how exciting research can be :-). Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: "sfoghi" & humanities computing Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:24:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 84 (84) I've read with attention Tito Orlandi's posting on <http://RmCisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~orlandi/mccarty1.html>. It is often true that the English speaking world gives little or superficial attention to what's happening in other countries. Sadly, this is not just the case with humanities computing. (Just think about the pathetic and discouraging coverage of European news in British newspapers: they can't even spell foreign names.) It is a general attitude produced by a complex political, social and cultural situation. Two years ago I was personally involved in a public debate (see: http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/TALBOT7.htm) on the unhealthy influence that the American model of higher education is having on our universities; so in many ways I share Orlandi's concerns. However, it is fair to say that if we can speak about an hegemony of Anglo-saxon culture (read: scholarship) we have to describe it in terms of at least an 'enlightened dictatorship'... As far as our field is concerned, the Anglo-Saxon Directoire has always showed a reasonable degree of interest in research, theories and applications coming from other countries. I believe that scholarly journals (i.e. LLC or CHum), associations and conferences have shown in the last ten years an increasing (and genuine) interest in other cultural milieux. In this respect, especially considering the relative weight of its investments in IT, Italy has certainly not been underepresented. One of the last selections of papers on humanities computing published in the UK (Digital Demotic, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/ohc/index.html) begins with a highly regarded keynote address by Father Roberto Busa, and ends with a final note by Richard Heseltine, who describes enthusiastically a distance learning project led by an Italian economist, Umberto Sulpasso. What is more, all three presentations given by Italian scholars at DRH '97 were included in the selection. And there were more than fifty presentations at that conference. But I'd to say more. Last year, I had the honour to organise an international seminar where we invited many of the leading figures of HC. The conference was an opportunity for Italian researchers -- and especially for *young* researchers -- to show how rich and complex is our country's involvement in humanities computing. The conference was a success, and the audience, especially those who were not aware of the research, was impressed by the breadth and originality of the Italians' work. Among the speakers were Willard McCarty and Lou Burnard, who contributed with their constant attention, care and intellectual respect to the success of this gathering. I am deeply indebted to them and to Jon Usher (another Anglo-saxon) who gave me the opportunity to organise this event. Now I have a question for professor Orlandi. Would this event have been possible in Italy? I don't mean of course the organisation of the event in itself. You have organised a similar, much bigger conference in Rome on the same topics. What I mean is, would have been possible in Italy (for example in your Centre) for a 'dottorando' (Phd student) to get a 5000 pounds grant, receive full administrative and logistic support from his/her department, and, what more important, to have *freedom* in what to do (themes and topics) and whom to invite? So before speaking of the Anglo-Saxon hegemony, I would ask myself what we are capable of doing in our respective countries, and what cultural, social and political forces are at stake. What I will say here does not question either the scholarship or the intellectual honesty of professor Orlandi (as well as of other non-English speaking scholars!). But it raises questions of how we all conceive, and indeed practice, scholarly work and conduct our academic relationships. I think that until we are capable of seeking recognition for our collective efforts, rather than for our individual talent, the attention from the international academic community will continue to be superficial and erratic. International collaboration is essential, but before that we need to work on common objectives and initiatives in our own countries. The time is ripe for an International School of Humanities Computing, and subsequently for an European Master. This (wishful thinking?) would be possible only if we learn to coordinate our forces within our national institutions. I'd really like to see these topics discussed in the next session of Computers, Literature and Philology, that we are organising in Rome next November (an official announcement will be issued very soon). I'll do my best to convince invited speakers and local organisers to dedicate a special session to this topic. As for "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's", I want to reassure Tito Orlandi. My friend and mentor Roberto Vacca (http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/vacca_1.htm) would put it this way: "I don't care if others 'steal' my ideas. That means they are worth something. Actually what worries me is when people don't care about them. Which means they stink..." Concluding: 1) Anglo-saxons must learn foreign languages; 2) others too; 3) everybody is expected to: a) produce theories *and* applications *and* show substantial teaching records, if they want their scholarship (or 'primateship') be respected and acknowledged; 3.a) if they seek world-wide recognition, they have to present their work in the lingua franca of our times (English); 3.b) if they don't want to write or publish in English, they have to bear (or enjoy, Italian being my first language) the burden, and stop complaining. There are many languages in this world, and all of them are perfect and dignified means of expression. Some languages are (politically) stronger, some are weaker. Culture and advancement of knowledge have little to do with success (not to mention happiness). But if it is success and 'mundane recognition' that we are looking for, well, then "let's face the music, and dance." Personally, I am not very interested in that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh School of European Languages and Cultures DHT, George Square - EH8 9XJ United Kingdom Fax: 44+131-6506536 http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/digitalv.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLEASE AVOID SENDING WORD ATTACHMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Alternative Database Copyright Bill Introduced Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:20:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 85 (85) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 27, 1999 Alternative Database Copyright Bill Introduced <http://www.databasedata.org/index.html>http://www.databasedata.org/index.html <http://www.databasedata.org/Statement/statement.html> The following announcement from the NCC Washington Update is a reminder of the database bill H.R. 1858 introduced May 19as an alternative to H.R. 354, the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act. NINCH is one of the co-signers of the statement referred to. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]FROM: NCC Washington Update, Vol 5, #17, May 26, 1999 [deleted quotation] This bill provides an alternative to H.R. 354, the Collections of Information Antipiracy Act, which seeks to prohibit the misappropriation of commercial collections of information by unscrupulous competitors who take data collected by others, repackage it, and market a product that threatens competitive injury to the original collection. H.R.1858 also seeks to provide protection to publishers of electronic databases but it also ensures public access to facts and information, which historically have been part of the public domain. The American Library Association and other library and scholarly groups that have been critical of H.R. 354 are strong supporters of the alternative bill, H.R. 1858. Additional information about H.R. 1858 may be found at <<http://www.databasedata.org/Statement/statement.html>http://www.databased ata.org/Statement/statement.html> [deleted quotation]the "NCC Washington [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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: REPORT ON COPYRIGHT & DISTANCE EDUCATION AVAILABLE Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:21:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 86 (86) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 27, 1999 COPYRIGHT OFFICE REPORT ON COPYRIGHT & DISTANCE EDUCATION AVAILABLE <<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/>http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/> http://www.loc.gov/copyright/cpypub/de_rprt.pdf The much anticipated report from the Copyright Office on Distance Education, as mandated by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, has now been released. The Copyright Office was charged to make recommendations, "on how to promote distance education through digital terchnologies, including interactive digital networks, while maintaining an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the needs of users of copyrighted works." The note below from Kenneth Crews, Associate Dean of the Faculties for Copyright Management at Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) indicates an upcoming analysis of the report on the website of IUPUI's Copyright Management Center <<http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/>http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/>, which I would encourage you to visit. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]under "What's New" on [deleted quotation]<<http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html>http://www.adobe.com/ prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html>. [deleted quotation]<<http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/>http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/>. A [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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: ALA Response to Distance Education Report/ALAWON v8, n50 - DISTANCE ED REPORT; Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:22:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 87 (87) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 27 1999 American Library Association Summarizes and Analyzes Distance Education Report In the most recent issue of its Washington Office Newsline, the American Library Association reports its response to the "Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education," released this week by the Copyright Ofice. It especially notes the report's comprehensiveness and its balanced approach to the issue, as well as its encouragement of legislative changes. The ALA article also notes the recommendations made by the Copyright Office concerning the clarification of fair use, licensing issues, and international considerations. In particular, ALAWON reports: "If any legislative action is taken with regard to distance education, the report strongly recommends that legislative history explicitly address certain fair use principles: -> Confirm that the fair use doctrine is technology neutral and applies to activities in the digital environment. -> Provide some examples of digital uses that are likely to qualify as fair. -> Explain that the lack of established guidelines for any particular type of use does not mean that fair use is inapplicable. -> Clarify the relationship of guidelines to fair use and other statutory defenses. -> Explain that guidelines are a safe harbor rather than a ceiling on what is permitted, and that guidelines should not be deferred to as absolute codes of conduct without leeway for reasonable activities that they may not adequately accommodate." David Green ============ [deleted quotation] ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 8, Number 50 May 25, 1999 In this issue: [1] Copyright Office Issues Report on Distance Education [2] Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Distance Education Report [1] Copyright Office Issues Report on Distance Education On May 25 the Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, released the "Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education" as required by a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of last fall. The report (169 pages plus appendices) is available on the Copyright Office Web site at <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/cpypub/de_rprt.pdf>http://www.loc.gov/copyrig ht/cpypub/de_rprt.pdf The report is remarkably comprehensive, given the short 6-months time frame imposed by Congress, and the recommendations seem well balanced in recommending an updating of current copyright law exemptions for distance education, but with safeguards to respond to proprietor concerns. The report's statutory recommendations are descriptions of recommended changes, rather than legislative language. Full evaluation of the impact of such changes would obviously depend on the specific language and context. Further, some recommendations seem to depend on, or await the widespread availability of, certain technological protections that the report itself admits are not yet in widespread use, or would only be available to those educational institutions able to use such new technological protections. The report provides a useful overview of the nature of distance education, describes current licensing practices in digital distance education, describes the status of technologies relating to the delivery and protection of distance education materials, analyzes the application of current copyright law to digital distance education activities, discusses prior initiatives addressing copyright and digital distance education, and examines the question of whether the law should be changed, first summarizing the views of interested parties and then providing the Copyright Office's analysis and recommendations. In its discussion of whether the law should be changed, the report notes that educators and librarians believe that a change in the law is required to optimize the quality and availability of forms of distance education that take full advantage of today's technological capabilities. Members of this community feel that fair use is uncertain in its application to the digital environment, that current exemptions are outmoded and do not extend to the full range of activities involved in digital distance education, and that licensing for such uses is not working well. The report also notes that copyright owners do not believe statutory amendments are necessary or advisable, that digital distance education is flourishing under current law, that expanding exemptions would harm primary and secondary markets, and that licensing fees should be regarding as a cost of distance education. The Copyright Office itself concluded that some policy recalibration may be appropriate at this point, and offered several recommendations to Congress. These may be summarized as follows: 1. Clarify that the term "transmission" in section 110(2) covers transmissions by digital means as well as analog. Do this through legislative history rather than by statutory amendment. 2. Expand coverage of rights to the extent technologically necessary. Such an amendment should include the rights of reproduction and/or distribution only to the extent technologically required in order to transmit the performance or display authorized by the exemption. In particular, the ability to make reproductions should be limited to transient copies created as part of the automatic technical process of the digital transmission of an exempted performance or display. 3. Emphasize the concept of mediated instruction. The key is to ensure that the performance or display is analogous to the type of performance or display that would take place in a live classroom setting. In other words, it is a use of the work as an integral part of the class experience, controlled by the instructor, rather than as supplemental or background information to be experienced independently. 4. Eliminate the requirement of a physical classroom, but substitute the requirement of official enrollment. 5. Add new safeguards to counteract new risks. The safeguards recommended include several adapted from provisions contained in Title II of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. First, any transient copies permitted under the exemption should be retained for no longer than reasonably necessary to complete the transmission. Second, those seeking to invoke the exemption should be required to institute policies regarding copyright, to provide informational materials to faculty, students and relevant staff, and to provide notice to students that materials used in connection with the course may be subject to copyright protection. Third, when works are transmitted in digital form, technological measures should be in place to control unauthorized uses. Such measures should protect against both unauthorized access and unauthorized dissemination after access has been obtained. The law should impose an obligation not to intentionally interfere with technological protections applied by copyright owners. "Access control measures, such as passwords, are already in widespread use. Technologies that control post-access uses for all types of works are not yet widely available. The broadening of section 110(2) to cover digital transmissions should be tied to the ability to deploy such measures in addition to access control. If copyrighted works are to be placed on networks, and exposed to the resulting risks, it is appropriate to condition the availability of the exemption on the application of adequate technological protections." 6. Maintain existing standards of eligibility -- that is, that the exemption is available only to a governmental body or nonprofit education institution, as in current law. The report notes that there was extensive debate over the appropriateness of retaining the "nonprofit" element in the context of today's digital distance education. 7. Expand categories of works covered. Section 110(2) could be amended to allow performances of categories in addition to the current nondramatic literary and musical works, but not of entire works, only the performance of reasonable and limited portions of these additional works. It may be advisable to exclude from the added categories those works that are produced primarily for instructional use. 8. Require the performance or display to be made from a lawful copy, if the categories of works covered by section 110(2) are expanded to include dramatic works, audiovisual works and/or sound recordings. 9. Add a new ephemeral recording exemption. Adding a new subsection to section 112 would permit an educator to upload a copyrighted work onto a server, to be subsequently transmitted under the conditions set out in section 110(2) to students enrolled in the course, subject to certain limits similar to those set out in other subsections of section 112. The Copyright Office also made recommendations concerning clarification of fair use, licensing issues, and international considerations. If any legislative action is taken with regard to distance education, the report strongly recommends that legislative history explicitly address certain fair use principles: -> Confirm that the fair use doctrine is technology neutral and applies to activities in the digital environment. -> Provide some examples of digital uses that are likely to qualify as fair. -> Explain that the lack of established guidelines for any particular type of use does not mean that fair use is inapplicable. -> Clarify the relationship of guidelines to fair use and other statutory defenses. -> Explain that guidelines are a safe harbor rather than a ceiling on what is permitted, and that guidelines should not be deferred to as absolute codes of conduct without leeway for reasonable activities that they may not adequately accommodate. The report suggests revisiting the licensing issue in two or three years after enactment of any amendment. If problems persist, then Congress could consider the approaches of other countries such as Canada. Or Congress could seek to establish some form of legislative incentives for the development of more effective and acceptable licensing mechanisms. The Copyright Office believes its recommendations are fully consistent with the standards established by the Berne Convention and the TRIPs Agreement for limitations or exceptions to the exclusive rights of copyright owners. The report concludes with the observation that the balance struck in U.S. law will have an importance beyond our borders, both through its potential application abroad and as a model for other countries examining the issue. [2] Senate Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Distance Education Report On the morning of the report's release, May 25, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the Copyright Office "Report on Copyright and Digital Distance Education." The only witness was Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights. Her testimony summarized the report. Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), in his opening statement, highlighted the importance of distance education to his home state of Utah, and recalled a distance education exposition and copyright round table at the Utah Education Network where he hosted the Register of Copyrights. Senator Hatch asked the Register later about the impact of this visit on the study, and she said it had been very helpful to all involved. Ranking minority member Patrick Leahy (D-VT) also noted a visit by the Register to Champlain College in Vermont during the course of the study. Leahy quoted the report as saying that by 2002, the number of students taking distance courses will represent 15 percent of all higher education students. The hearing was also attended by Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and John Ashcroft (R-MO). All Senators were very appreciative of the major work done by the Copyright Office and indicated they would give the recommendations close attention. ****** 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>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>http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALAWON archives at <http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon>http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon. ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403, Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478 toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash@alawash.org; Web site: <http://www.ala.org/washoff>http://www.ala.org/washoff. Editor: Lynne E. Bradley; Managing Editor: Deirdre Herman; Contributors: Phyllis Albritton, Mary Costabile, Carol Henderson, Peter Kaplan, Claudette Tennant and Rick Weingarten. =============================================================== 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: Barbara Bordalejo Subject: Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:53:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 88 (88) [deleted quotation]<http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/~peterr/master/mssprop1.html>http://www.cta.dmu.ac ..uk/~peterr/master/mssprop1.html [deleted quotation]<http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/~peterr/master/mssprop1.doc>http://www.cta.dmu.ac. uk/~peterr/master/mssprop1.doc [deleted quotation]peter.robinson@dmu.ac.uk peter.robinson@english.oxford.ac.uk [deleted quotation]<http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/>http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/ [deleted quotation]<http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/ctp/>http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/ ctp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanit ies/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= Guidance on expressing the Dublin Core within RDF <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/>http://ww w.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/ [deleted quotation]draft [deleted quotation] Hello all, The Dublin Core Data Model Working Group [1] is pleased to announce a draft document offering guidance on the expression of Dublin Core within the Resource Description Framework (RDF). This document is now available at: <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/>http://w ww.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/resources/dc/datamodel/WD-dc-rdf/ and comments are invited from the community. The closing date for comments is 17:00 GMT on Monday 21 June 1999, after which time the document will be reconsidered by the Data Model group if necessary. We ask that specific comments be directed to the dc-datamodel list or to the editors, in order to avoid inundating the subscribers of dc-general with 'irrelevant' detail. Archives of the discussions out of which this document evolved are also available [2], and explanations for many of the decisions may be found there. Thanks, Paul, Eric and Dan (the Editors), on behalf of the Dublin Core Data Model group. [1] - <http://purl.org/dc/groups/datamodel.htm>http://purl.org/dc/groups/datamodel ..htm [2] - http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/dc-datamodel/archive.html -- dr. paul miller - interoperability focus - p.miller@ukoln.ac.uk -- u. k. office for library and information networking (ukoln) tel: +44 (0)1482 466890 mobile: +44 (0)410 481812 ---------------------------- <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/interop-focus/>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 <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: Conference: "Frontiers of the Mind" Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:25:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 89 (89) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT May 27 1999 "FRONTIERS OF THE MIND IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY" An international conference organized by the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium, Thomas Jefferson Building, June 15-17, 1999 <http://lcweb.loc.gov/today/pr/1999/99-036.html>http://lcweb.loc.gov/today/p r/1999/99-036.html Although not ostensibly about networking cultural heritage, the "frontiers of the Mind" conference, organized by the Library of Congress should be od interest to most readers of this list and will surely offer much food for thought on the task we are engaged upon. There are no reservations or fees for attending this conference: first come: first served. David Green =========== [deleted quotation] "MEDIA ADVISORY "Experts To Survey Past and Future at the Library of Congress "Distinguished scholars will summarize significant developments in the past century in approximately 24 fields of knowledge, and speculate on what will be the most important developments in these fields in the 21st century, during a major intellectual summit to be held at the Library of Congress June 15-17. The conference, "Frontiers of the Mind in the Twenty-First Century," is open to the public. Call (202) 707-8914 for further information. All sessions will be held in the Coolidge Auditorium in the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E. Members of the public will not be admitted to the building before 8:30 am. Excerpts of the papers will be available on the Library's Web site at <http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial>http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial. "The conference is supported by the American Academy of Achievement and the Heinz Family Philanthropies and is the first in a series of symposia celebrating the Library's 200th anniversary on April 24, 2000. "Among the invited presenters and commentators are six Nobel laureates, the Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, and the directors of major academic and research organizations throughout the world. "Participants have been asked to prepare a short paper that will present, for nonspecialists, the critical discoveries of the 20th century and suggest which lines of inquiry may be especially promising or what new conceptual or applied breakthroughs might be expected in the decades ahead. The papers will be circulated in advance, with the main points summarized by the author at the symposium and discussed by a commentator and members of the audience. On June 18, invited participants will join approximately 400 high school honor students selected by the American Academy of Achievement at the Warner Theater to continue discussions and participate in the Academy's program, which honors outstanding American leaders and innovators. [material deleted] =============================================================== 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: Willard McCarty Subject: hiatus Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:19:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 90 (90) Dear Colleagues: Humanist will be sporadically inactive over the next few weeks, from 31 May until approximately 14 June, while I am in transit, at ACH/ALLC and otherwise preoccupied. Normally under such circumstances our able Assistant Editor, David Gants, would be standing in for me, but he is simultaneously in transit and at ACH/ALLC and so cannot. I will dart in from wherever I am when I can and do my job, but as I do not yet have a cellular phone and satellite uplink to the Internet -- AND DO NOT PLAN ON GETTING THUS HOOKED ANYTIME SOON -- there will be silences. Perhaps welcome silences! If wishes paid for tickets I'd have everyone at Charlottesville, since all signs are that this year's ACH/ALLC will be an event to remember with a glow, but wishes are a different sort of coin than the kind required. The word "community" is mightily abused these days, often used to mean an aggregate of people many of whom neither know nor care about each other. (Have I said this before? Alas, it continues to be true.) Evidence from the gatherings of ACH/ALLC and others of computing humanists attests to a genuine intellectual and social community, however. As we all know, the giving of papers is only a part of what happens at conferences; it's a sine qua non, but I remember good ones for the boost they give to my sense of working together with others toward a common goal, however broadly that may be defined. Much more often than not, ACH/ALLC is exactly such an event, and even when I come away thinking it might have been better for this or that reason, I would not have missed the gathering of colleagues and friends for anything. Besides, the banquets and other peripheral activities are fabulous. So, silences for a good reason. Still, apologies for them. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: figured it out Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:25:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 91 (91) Q: What is humanities computing? A: Humanities computing is what happens while we're busy writing bigger grants. Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: GLORIA CELESTE B BRITO Subject: brazilian literature Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:23:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 92 (92) Lovers of the Portuguese language and Brazilian literature have now free access through the Internet to a dedicated site named "Literature on Electronic Medium". The chief works of the most important Brazilian authors now on public domain - thus dead for more than 50 years - can be found on this site. These include works belonging to the various literary movements, such as the Baroque period, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, all the way to the beginnings of the Modernist period. They are available on line for reading or printing and include selected editions of the famous "Sermons", by Padre Antonio Vieira; "Caramuru", the epic poem by Santa Rita Dur=E3o; and "Capitu" and "Quincas Borba", by Machado de Assis, the internationally renowned writer who is often compared to Laurence Sterne and other British authors.=20 =20 In this same page there are also links to reviews written at the time of publishing, as well as biographies, literary history, virtual libraries and similar projects in several parts of the world. The site contains pictures of the authors, images of the printed works, papers and research done by the Center for Research on Computing, Literature and Linguistics (NUPILL) of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florian=F3polis, Brazil. This research group studies the relationship between the computer and textual production. Some texts are translated into English. =20 As NUPILL was created strictly for research purposes, access is entirely free: http://www.cce.ufsc.br/~alckmar/literatura/literat.html From: Currents In Electronic Literacy =20 Announcing the publication of the first number of:=20 CURRENTS IN ELECTRONIC LITERACY=20 (ISSN 1524-6493)=20 Published by the Computer Writing and Research Lab=20 of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition=20 at the University of Texas at Austin=20 <<http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/>=20 Number 1, Spring 1999=20 Special Topic: Electronic Pedagogy in Literature Classes=20 Table of Contents:=20 "Literature On-Line: The Best of All Possible Worlds?"=20 A discussion of lessons learned from teaching traditional literature courses in an entirely electronic environment. By Theodore C. Humphrey=20 "Hypertext and Literary Learning: A Discussion of the _Dictionary of Sensibility_"=20 A hypertext "meta-site" reviewing the pedagogical implications, both theoretical and practical, of using a hypertext dictionary model in teachin= g 18th-century literature. By Corey Brady, Mike Millner, Ana Mitric, and Dan= iel Siegel=20 "The Point of PowerPoint in SophLit"=20 A study of the utility of PowerPoint presentations in literature survey courses and their effect on student learning and confidence. By Jana Anderson, Mim= i Barnard and Chris Willerton=20 "Interactive Fiction vs. The Pause That Distresses: How Computer-Based Literature Interrupts the Reading Process Without Stopping the Fun"=20 An exploration of the advantages of using interactive texts to teach litera= cy skills. By Brendan Desilets=20 "Crritics and Receptionists: Students as Knowledge Providers"=20 An account of the pleasures and pitfalls of incorporating hypertext writing and research projects into a literature and hypertext theory course. By Susan Schreibman=20 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *=20 Currents in Electronic Literacy is an electronic journal for the scholarly discussion of issues pertaining to electronic literacy, widely construed. W= e seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to: literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and compositio= n, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education. We are especially interested in work that takes advantage of the hypertext possibilities afforded by our World Wide Web publication format, = as well as in articles concerning the use of emergent electronic technologies.= =20 In addition to scholarly articles, we host forums for discussion of the top= ics raised in the e-journal, as well as a reader-extensible collection of sites= of potential interest to Currents readers. Please become a participant in our community of knowledge.=20 <<http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/> General Editor: John Slatin=20 Coordinating Editor: David Barndollar=20 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Publication: 'Teaching European Literature & Culture with = Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:24:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 94 (94) Communication & Information Technology' NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT=20 May 27, 1999=20 Teaching European Literature & Culture=20 with Communication & Information Technology=20 =20 <http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/occas/eurolit/index.html>http://info.= o x.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/occas/eurolit/index.html=20 A potentially very useful collection of essays has just been published electronically by Oxford University's "Computers in Teaching Initiative" (CTI)-- Textual Studies on using computer technology in the teaching of analytical and critical skills in literary and cultural studies. The essays "document and reflect on the successes or otherwise of a diverse group of projects and teaching situations."=20 The collection will be published in hard copy later this summer.=20 David Green=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 [deleted quotation] apologies for any cross-posting=20 On Wed, 26 May 1999 11:02:25 +0100 (BST) Stuart Sutherland=20 wrote:=20 [deleted quotation]<<http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/occas/eurolit/index.html>http://info= =2E ox.ac.uk/ctitext/publish/occas/eurolit/index.html>=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]Studies [deleted quotation]Writing Skills=20 [deleted quotation]--=20 [deleted quotation]=20 [deleted quotation]<http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext>http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext=20 [deleted quotation] =20 =20 [deleted quotation]-=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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 David L. Green=20 Executive Director=20 NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE=20 21 Dupont Circle, NW=20 Washington DC 20036=20 <http://www.ninch.org>http://www.ninch.org=20 david@ninch.org=20 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax=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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 See and search back issues of NINCH-ANNOUNCE at <<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>http://www.cni.org/Hforums/nin ch-announce/>.=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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Ergo's NLP tools at ACL '99 Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 23:15:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 95 (95) For those of you who have complained about the lack of access to Ergo NLP tools and to a lack of information about them, I would like to let you know that we will be corporate sponsors of ACL '99 and will have exhibition space there as well as two formal demonstrations. We will also help interested parties gain access to our patent which contains the theory of syntax on which this is all based. 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: Barry Dank Subject: Call for papers Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 23:17:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 96 (96) CALL FOR PAPERS *Sexuality & Culture* is a quarterly interdisciplinary journal published by Transaction Publishers at Rutgers University. In its fourth year of publication and in its first year as a quarterly, the journal welcomes the submission of original manuscripts dealing with issues of sexuality and culture. *Sexuality & Culture* serves as a forum for the discussion and analysis of ethical, cultural, psychological, social, and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. These issues include -- BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: sexual consent and sexual responsibility; sexual harassment and freedom of speech and association; sexual privacy; censorship and pornography; impact of film/literature on sexual relationships; and university and governmental regulation of intimate relationships. We also welcome critical review essays, and suggestions for books to review and book reviewers. For further information, visit the journal's web site at www.csulb.edu/~asc/journal.html or contact the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Barry M. Dank, at case@csulb.edu. Manuscripts should be double spaced and should include a summary of approximately 200 words. Citations should be in the author-year format (e.g.: Smith, 1998). Four copies of the manuscript should be submitted to the Managing Editor: Dr. Roberto Refinetti, Sexuality & Culture, 504 Lake Colony Drive, Birmingham, AL 35242 (e-mail: refinetti@faseweb.org). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Digital Library conference Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 23:15:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 97 (97) Please circulate ---------------------------------------- The Digital Library Challenges and solutions for the new Millennium June 17-18 1999 Aula Magna, Viale Aldo Moro, 30 40137 Bologna Organised by: AIB,-CNUR, AIB Sezione regione Emilia-Romagna, The British Council, The British Library, GIDIF-RBM, Soprintendenza per il beni librari e documentari Regione Emilia-Romagna Thursday 17 June, 1999 10:00 am - Introduction Representative from the Italian Ministry of Culture Dr. Brian Lang (The British Library) Lorenza Davoli (Assessore alla Cultura, Regione Emilia-Romagna) 10:30 am - Copyright Chair: David Bradbury (The British Library) Marco Marandola (Milano): Un nuovo diritto d'autore per le biblioteche digitali? Graham Cornish (IFLA): Looking both ways: the library as an intermediary in an electronic age Charles Oppenheim (Loughborough University): JISC Publichers' Association work on developing guidelines for copyright issues in the electronic environment John Cox (John Cox Associates, International Publishing Consultancy, Towcester): Copyright or contract: publishing rights in the electronic future=20 14:00 pm - Electronic Publishing Chair: Silvio Henin (Roche SpA, Milano) Claudio di Benedetto (Biblioteca degli Uffizi, Firenze): Arte digitale e biblioteche digitali Marina Candusso (SISSA, Trieste): Gli scienziati per gli scienziati: JHEP ovvero il rinnovamento della comunicazione scientifica Desmond Reaney (Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol): Marketing during the transition from print to electronic=20 16:00 pm - Practical case studies Veronica Fraser (Dept. of Health, UK): The new NHS - Developing the new Electronic Library for Health (NeLH) Fabio Valenziano (CILEA, Milano): CILEA digital Library: un servizion di biblioteca in linea per l'universit=E0 e la ricerca Mirko Tavoni (Univ. di Pisa): The CIBIT project=20 Friday 18th June 1999 9:00 am - Introduction Rosaria Campioni (Soprintendente Beni Librari, Regione Emilia-Romagna) Dick Alford (British Council, Italy) Gabriele Mazzitelli (CNUR-AIB) Alfonsa Martelli (GIDIF, RBM) 10:00 - Standards and Protocols Chair - Gabriele Gatti (Univ. di Siena) Andrew Braid (The British Library): Improved access for end users through the use of standards Riccardo Ridi (AIB-WEB): Metadata e metatag: l'indicizzatore a met=E0 strada tra l'autore e il lettore Giovanni Bergamin (BNC, Firenze): Uno standard per il deposito legale delle pubblicazioni online=20 12:00 - Projects Valentina Comba (Univ. di Torino): La cooperazione tra sistemi bibliotecari universitari in Italia Enrica Veronesi (Univ. di Bresscia): SBBL: biblioteca virtuale, servizio reale Peter Burnhill (Univ. of Edinburgh): The CASA project=20 14:00 - Electronic Document Delivery Chair: David Bradbury (The British Library) Anna Maria Tammaro (Univ. di Firenze): Document delivery come alternativa all'abbonamento Mike McGrath (The British Library): The digital future - realities and fantasies - a view from marketing Antonio Scolari (Univ. di Genova): Document delivery elettronico: nuovi strumenti e opportunit=E0 Arlene G.Smith (SmithKline Beecham, USA): Electronic Document Delivery - the corporate competitive edge!=20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh, Department of Italian David Hume Tower, George Square EH8 9JX -- United Kingdom Fax: 131-650-6536 E-mail: itadfp@srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk=20 or mc9809@mclink.it http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/digitalv.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: "by way of Humanist " Subject: Document database query Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 23:17:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 98 (98) I'm sure this is a FAQ, and so my question is primarily a request for citations and some very general direction in choosing the appropriate type of data storage. I need to store 5-10,000 HTML history documents in such a way that a visitor to a web page can quickly search the full texts or access the documents through the topical menu hierarchy. There is a bewildering array of possibilities for storing plain ASCII documents. Their size varies considerably. A very few are accompnanied by images, although that is not a prime consideration. At present, the documents are simply located in a directory hierarchy and accessed through a menu system. As such they could be searched with WebGlimpse. However, moving to a database might have some advantages, one of which is my learning something useful. I'd like to gain some experience working with a relational database such as MySQL or PostreSQL. Or even a full OODB, although that might be in some way counterproductive for plain text files. Likewise, it would be nice to utilize XML, but I don't see that as useful for documents that are to be full text searched. Haines Brown ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Guide to Good Practice : A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:36:31 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 99 (99) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 1, 1999 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE Guide to Good Practice=20 in the Digital Representation=20 and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/rfprfp.html =FF=04June 1, 1999 INTRODUCTION The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) <http://www.ninch.org> is undertaking a project to review and evaluate curr= ent practice in the digital networking of cultural heritage resources in or= der to publish a =FF=05Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation= and Management of Cultural Herita ge Materials.=FF=06 The Guide will be published in print and electronic for= m.=20 A NINCH Working Group on Best Practices has outlined the scope and purpose of the Guide. It will divide into two sections: one on the capture and creation of digital cultural heritage resources; the other on the management and maintenance of that digital data. The Guide will encompass all genres. To encourage broadest use of digital resources, the= =20 Guide will focus on object-types (e.g., manuscripts, paintings,=20 performance documentations, etc.,) going beyond the limited perspectives of institution types or disciplines (e.g,. museums or history). The primary audience will be institutions or researchers preparing to create and manage digital cultural heritage resources with little extensive knowledge of current technical and information standards, metadata and best practices. Funders will be an important secondary audience, for whom the Guide could provide a set of key criteria for assessing the fundability of digital projects.=20 The Working Group will proceed by commissioning a survey of the field to discover and define exemplary practice. The survey will include interviews with practitioners and reviews of published guidelines and projects that demonstrate good practice; it should also reveal areas for which good practice still needs to be developed and documented. The Working Group will announce a call for nominations of practitioners and projects to be considered by the survey. As a starting point, the Working Group has created an initial definition of good practice consisting of six principles each of which has a set of evaluative criteria, by which to judge current practice <http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/criteria-2.html>. The Working Group has built into the process a stage in which it may refine and extend these criteria as a result of the survey. The survey is not intended to be a comprehensive review of current practice; its purpose is to gather material, experiences and opinions for the writing of the Guide. The Working Group proposes to hire a consultant or consultants to conduct the Survey and write the Guide in close consultation with the Working Group. Those responding may address one or both parts of this project: the Survey (Phase 1) and the Guide (Phase 2). This RFP is also available at: http://www.ninch.org/PROJECTS/practice/rfprfp.html =20 CONTENTS OF GUIDE The following prospectus outlines the intended contents of the Guide: GUIDE TO GOOD PRACTICE Table of Contents 1. PREFACE Establishes the scope and context of the Guide and summarily discusses cont= ingent issues not covered in detail. 2. GUIDE TO THE CREATION AND CAPTURE OF DIGITAL RESOURCES AND METADATA. This section will include but not be limited to the following: * an overview of principles and general issues common to all formats; * a detailed discussion of the issues and techniques pertaining to digitizing specific types of original formats and creating appropriate metadata; * a discussion of the different strategies to be considered with particular digital materials for particular uses and audiences. 3. GUIDE TO THE MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL DATA & METADATA A discussion of general issues in the management and maintenance of digital= cultural heritage materials. These will include but not be limited to: * intellectual property and access management; * strategies for the storage, archiving, and long-term maintenance of large collections of digital data in accordance with newly-developed standards and technologies; * the documentation of all practice. The discussion will include links to web pages and projects that exemplify model practice and its documentation. The guide will also indicate the areas that need to develope good practice that is also well documented. 4. AFTERWORD The Afterword will concentrate on the range of potential uses of digital material. Focusing on model projects that exemplify best practice, as determined by the Working Group's evaluative criteria, it would examine the power of the medium to connect and re-combine material, and use digital objects in often unforeseen ways. SCHEDULE OF WORK An outline schedule of work would include: 1. Initial survey The consultant will commence by interviewing practitioners and reviewing projects drawn from an initial small pool of approximately ten practitioners and projects from diverse cultural communities, applying the criteria for evaluating practice established by the Working Group. 2. Submission of Report 1. The consultant will present initial findings in written form to the Working Group. 3. Working group review and project evaluation. The Working Group will discuss its response to the findings and make modifications to the evaluative criteria and survey method, as appropriate, with the consultant. 4. Main survey The consultant will proceed, interviewing practitioners, reviewing existing statements and guidelines on good practice and investigating exemplary projects nominated by an open call to the community, issued by the Working Group. 5. Submission of Report 2. The consultant will write a report on the survey findings, including a bibliography and/or other compilation of useful resources gathered through the survey, and present it to the Working Group for its review. 6. Working group review and project evaluation. The Working Group will review and evaluate the survey report. On the basis of the survey report, the Working Group will then review and make modifications to the proposed form and content of the Guide, as appropriate= =2E This will complete Phase 1 of the project. If the Consultant has proposed to work only on Phase 1, his or her work will then be complete. If the Consultant has proposed to work on both Phase 1 and 2, his or her work may continue uninterrupted. If a Consultant has proposed to work only on Phase 2, his or her work will now commence. 7. Writing of the Guide A consultant will proceed to write the Guide, according to a timetable mutually agreed to by consultant and Working Group. 8. First Draft of Guide manuscript due. 9. Working group review and evaluation of guide manuscript draft 1. Consultant and Working Group will discuss a first draft of the Guide, after which the consultant will revise the Guide as needed. 10. Final Draft of Manuscript due. 11. Publication The Working Group will then proceed with making arrangements for the electronic and print publication of the Guide. SCHEDULE The Working Group expects to be able to hire a consultant in the Summer of 1999. Deadline for completion of the Guide manuscript will be by the Spring/Summer of 2000. QUALIFICATIONS Qualifications for a consultant include: * a working and/or practical knowledge of networking cultural heritage material and of the range of issues entailed; * proven research and analytic skills; * proven writing skills; in particular an ability to write about complex issues in a clear style; * a diplomatic manner; * the ability to work closely with a team; * the ability to post material to the project's website. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS A grant is expected to be available in the range of $60,000-$100,000 for the completion of the consultant's portion of this work. The deadline for receipt of proposals is 5pm (EST) =FF=03Monday June 21, 1999. Electronic proposals must be available at a URL; print proposals must be in= ten copies. Components of a proposal shall include: * a narrative (maximum 5 pages) explaining how the project would be accomplished, including: [deleted quotation]working, the specific role of each); [deleted quotation]* your qualifications for the project (including qualifications of others who would work with you); * budget (applicants are invited to submit variant budgets for variant levels of work); * resume (including resumes for others who would work with you); * names and telephone numbers of references (minimum of 3); * references to relevant writings by you and/or others who would work with= you. URLs or paper proposals should be sent to: David Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, 21 Dupont Circle, Washington, DC 20036; david@ninch.org. NINCH Working Group on Best Practices June 1, 1999 Kathe Albrecht (from May 24, 1999)=20 American University/Visual Resources Association LeeEllen Friedland Library of Congress Peter Hirtle Cornell University Lorna Hughes New York University Kathy Jones Peabody Museum, Harvard University/American Association of Museums Mark Kornbluh H-Net =20 Joan Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information Michael Neuman=20 Georgetown University Thorny Staples National Museum of American Art (through 2/1/99) University of Virginia Library (from 2/1/99) Jennifer Trant (through May 24, 1999) Art Museum Image Consortium=20 Don Waters/Rebecca Graham (through May 24, 1999) Digital Library Federation [Part 2, Application/MAC-BINHEX40 25KB] [Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file] [Part 3, Application/MAC-BINHEX40 18KB] [Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file] [ Part 4: "Attached Text" ] =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 <http://www.ninch.org> david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 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=20 networking cultural heritage. Send message "Subscribe NINCH-Announce=20 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 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: NEH Newsletter: EdSitement; MarcoPolo partnership Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:29:23 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 100 (100) [Part 1, Text/PLAIN 280 lines] [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part] =FF=03NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 3 1999 =FF=04 NEH MONTHLY NEWSLETTER: "NEH OUTLOOK" http://www.neh.gov EdSitement News: Learning Guides; Marco Polo Partnership http://edsitement.neh.gov I will not be forwarding this new newsletter from the NEH as a matter of co= urse but I did want to alert the community to its existence (subscription d= etails are included) and to draw attention to the news from NEH's EdSitemen= t project:=20 1. the latest issue of the "Crossing Borders," learning guides (this issue = on teaching Socrates, Chaucer, African life, mapmaking traditions and the f= ederal legislative process); and=20 2. the MarcoPolo Partnership, a cluster of seven organizations "exploring t= he frontiers of Internet-based education" that has created five discipline-= specific educational Web sites (humanities, sciences, mathematics, economic= s, and geography), geared prim arily toward teachers of grades 8 through 12. <http://www.wcom.com/marcopol= o/index.shtml> David Green =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [deleted quotation] NEH OUTLOOK AN E-MAIL NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (www.neh.gov) JUNE 1999 In this issue: NEH summer highlights-chautauquas and teacher institutes/sem= inars New subscriptions: Send an e-mail to newsletter@neh.gov and type the word "subscribe" in the body of the message. To unsubscribe, type "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. Comments: Send to outlook@neh.gov. CHAIRMAN'S NOTE by William R. Ferris, Chairman Although colleges, universities, and schools are now in summer mode, summertime is hardly a slack time for the humanities. The work of basic research, through NEH summer stipends, fellowships, and collaborative research, is ongoing, as is the work of preservation in libraries and archives. NEH museum exhibitions around the country draw steady crowds. And the state humanities councils are loaded with activity. Among their programs are the famed chautauquas, whose costumed characters bring history to life for people of all ages in communities throughout the nation. As yo= u plan your summer vacations, perhaps you will have an opportunity to visit one of these extraordinary events. (A following article has information an= d schedules.) We also look forward to a rewarding summer for the professors and high-school teachers who will attend the Endowment's and the state councils' summer institutes and seminars. Please continue to forward NEH Outlook to others interested in the humanities.=20 CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE by Michael Bagley, Director of Governmental Affairs =09 On May 27, Chairman Ferris testified at a reauthorization hearing before th= e Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on behalf of the Endowment's interests. (For full text of the Chairman's statement, go to http://www.neh.gov/html/chairman/speeches/19990527.html.) Neither NEH nor the National Endowment for the Arts has been reauthorized for several years= =2E Both have had to receive exemptions allowing their annual funding to go forward. At the end of the hearing, Committee Chairman Jim Jeffords (R-VT) indicated he was confident that if he brought a reauthorization bill to the Senate floor, it would receive sufficient support for passage. On the appropriations front, the House may delay until September a vote on the Interior bill, which includes NEH's budget for next fiscal year. Ralph Regula (R-OH), chairman of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, has indicated he may delay the vote because of concerns about his subcommittee's allocation, which was reduced through the Budget Resolution by $2.7 billion below last year's level. By contrast, the Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, chaired by Slade Gorton (R-WA), had its allocation reduced by only $600 million. Both the House and Senate subcommittees will determine the Endowment's level of funding. President Clinton has requested $150 million for NEH, which is currently funded at $110.7 million. Meanwhile, both Rep. Regula and Sen. Gorton have expressed strong support for the Endowment through direct discussions with Chairman Bill Ferris. SUMMER PROGRAMS FOR PROFESSORS AND SCHOOLTEACHERS A re-examination of the cold-war era in light of documentary sources newly available with the political transformation of the former Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites is the topic of one of this summer's NEH seminars for college teachers, scheduled to take place at George Washington University. Participants in the four-week seminar on "New Sources and Findings on Cold War International History" will have the opportunity to study the former communist countries' documents firsthand and to learn how they fit into a newly emerging conception of the cold war. =20 This summer, NEH is offering 23 seminars and institutes for college and university teachers, and 29 for schoolteachers. Information about the higher-education program is at http://www.neh.gov/html/awards/seminar2.html= =2E For the high-school program, the location is http://www.neh.gov/html/awards/seminar1.html.=20 EDSITEMENT IS BUILDING Crossing Borders, the series of learning guides accompanying EDSITEment, th= e Endowment's compilation of 50 top humanities Web sites, has a new addition. Volume 6, just published and newly on line, offers lesson plans, specifically linked to EDSITEment's resources, on teaching Socrates, Chaucer, African life, mapmaking traditions, the federal legislative process, and more. The EDSITEment learning guides, called "Crossing Borders" because they help students gain multiple perspectives combining complementary points of view, are available both in hard copy and on the Web. Online access to the six learning guides completed to date is at http://edsitement.neh.gov/guides/g_intro.htm. For print copies, call the EDSITEment hotline at 1-800-205-9060. EDSITEment is located at http://edsitement.neh.gov. There were a record-breaking 40,000 user-sessions at the site last month. Several of this summer's NEH and state-humanities-council institutes for schoolteachers will include add-on sessions providing the participants with guidance in the use of EDSITEment and its learning guides. In other EDSITEment news, a summit meeting of the MarcoPolo Partnership wil= l take place June 8 in Washington, D.C. Organized and funded by the MCI Worldcom Foundation, this partnership is a cluster of seven organizations, including NEH and its collaborator in the development of EDSITEment, the Council of the Great City Schools, that are exploring the frontiers of Internet-based education in anticipation of the day when Web sites will be de rigueur in every student's school experience. The partnership has created five discipline-specific educational Web sites, including EDSITEment, aimed at providing the highest quality content and professional development free of charge and easily accessible to all educators. The fiv= e Web sites represent the humanities, sciences, mathematics, economics, and geography and are geared primarily toward teachers of grades 8 through 12, although some of the sites' resources are also appropriate for college-leve= l work and for family activities. For more information about the MarcoPolo Partnership and links to the Web sites, go to http://www.wcom.com/marcopolo/index.shtml.=20 EDSITEment is one of five finalists being considered for the prestigious Computerworld Smithsonian award in the education category. The winner will be announced June 7 at a gala at the National Building Museum in Washington= , D.C. The award honors vision and leadership in the innovative use of information technology. The winner and runners-up will be archived in the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.=20 CHAUTAUQUAS AROUND THE COUNTRY=09 It's summer and time to gather under the big tent to interact with period-clad scholars who bring important figures and eras in American history to life. Called "chautauquas" after the 19th-century cultural movement that began on the shore of New York state's Lake Chautauqua, these engaging public programs for the whole family are again traveling this summer to communities in many parts of the nation, thanks to the work of several state humanities councils. See the following listing for themes an= d schedules of events near you: The Great Plains Chautauqua Society, Inc. (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa state humanities councils) sponsors "Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions of America," with scholars portraying social activist Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, American Indian physician Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman), Theodore Roosevelt and Booke= r T. Washington: http://www.gp-chautauqua.org/. Heartland Chautauqua (Missouri and Illinois state humanities councils) will explore life during the Civil War through the stories of Union spy Elizabet= h Louisa Van Lew, Louisa May Alcott, Sojourner Truth, William Tecumseh Sherman, and black soldier A. A. Burleigh: http://www.umsl.edu/community/mohuman/chautauq.htm and http://www.prairie.org/chacha/hartcha.html. The New Hampshire Humanities Council looks at the shaping of New England identity through "appearances" by Abigail Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Lloyd Garrison, Mark Twain, Daniel Webster, and Phillis Wheatley: http://www.nhhc.org/chautauqua/index.html. The Nevada Humanities Committee sponsors chautauquas in Las Vegas, North La= s Vegas, Reno, Pahrump, and Boulder City with portrayals of Theodore Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeo= d Bethune, J. Robert Oppenheimer and others: http://www.unr.edu/nhc/index.html.=20 ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE CENTER OPENS On May 8, NEH Director of Governmental Affairs Michael Bagley and his deputy, Marna Gettleman, attended the opening of the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage on behalf of Chairman Bill Ferris. The center last November received an NEH challenge grant of $300,000, which has helped attract additional funding for the project from private sources. Participants in the ribbon-cutting ceremony included Senator Ted Stevens, Anchorage Mayor Rick Mystrom, and Alaska Lieutenant Governor Fran Ulmer. For details and pictures, go to http://www.neh.gov/html/publicity/alaska.html. NEH MEDIA PROGRAMS MAKING (AIR)WAVES Based on the overnight Nielsen ratings, an estimated 12 million viewers watched the broadcast of "MacArthur," produced by Boston's WGBH-TV as part of its American Experience series. Funded by NEH, "MacArthur" aired on public television stations nationwide on May 17 and 18. Philadelphia public-radio station WHYY last year received NEH funding to support interviews with humanities scholars in a series about American popular songs. Two parts of the series, on lyricists Dorothy "On the Sunny Side of the Street" Fields and Harry "I Only Have Eyes for You" Warren, aired this spring on the station's popular arts-and-entertainment talk-show program, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, which is distributed by NPR and carrie= d by some 280 stations. A third part, on "Show Boat" composer Jerome Kern, i= s expected to air in September. The show has an audience of 2.8 million listeners. =20 CALENDAR OF EVENTS "Kate Chopin: A Re-Awakening," a 30-minute film documentary developed with NEH support, airs on PBS Wednesday, June 23, at 10:30 p.m. ET (check local listings). The film revisits the life and work of the 19th-century Louisiana author who shocked the Victorian establishment with her novel "Th= e Awakening." The book is among the five most-read American novels in colleges and universities today. KUDOS Ken Roemer, director of four NEH summer seminars for schoolteachers on 20th-century Native American literature, has won the Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers' 1998 Writer of the Year Award for his book "Native American Writers in the United States." Prof. Roemer teaches English at the University of Texas at Arlington.... William and Mary history professor Philip D. Morgan has received Columbia University's 1999 Bancroft Prize, which recognizes outstanding work in the field of history, for his NEH-supported book "Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry," published by the University of North Carolina Press. Prof. Morgan received an NEH research fellowship for the project in 1991.... Lady Bird Johnson, upon receiving a copy of Chairman Ferris's remarks at the 25th anniversary celebration of th= e Texas Council for the Humanities last March, wrote: "Your feelings for the humanities make my heart soar. Your descriptions open the eyes of those of us who have come to take the treasures of Texas for granted, and cause us t= o appreciate them all the more. What you are doing here and around the country would have fulfilled Lyndon's deepest hopes for the Endowment." President Lyndon Johnson signed the legislation that brought the two endowments into existence in September 1965. CHAIRMAN'S MONTHLY COLUMN Inspiring Educators: NEH Summer Programs Attract Teachers http://www.neh.gov/html/chairman/papers/usa199906.html CHAIRMAN'S SCHEDULE=20 June 8=09 MarcoPolo Partnership=09 Summit on Internet Content for the Classroom=09 Washington, DC June 10 Ohio State University Baccalaureate Address, College of the Humanities Columbus, OH June 11 Canton Rotary Club- speech First Ladies' Library and Museum- visit Canton, OH June 13 National History Day Welcoming Ceremony Address College Park, MD =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE: Rethinking Cultural Publications: Digital, Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 11:45:55 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 101 (101) Multimedia, and other 21st Century Strategies =20 =FF=03NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 3, 1999 =FF=04 RETHINKING CULTURAL PUBLICATIONS:=20 Digital, Multimedia, and other 21st Century Strategies September 15 - 17, 1999: Washington, DC=20 http://www.nedcc.org/rethink.htm Another particularly promising and instructive conference organized by the = Northeast Document Conservation Center, sponsored by the National Park Serv= ice Museum Management Program and the Smithsonian Institution. David Green =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=20 [deleted quotation] Rethinking Cultural Publications: Digital, Multimedia, and other 21st Century Strategies September 15 - 17, 1999: Washington , DC At the Carmichael Auditorium, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution on 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC A conference presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center and sponsored by the National Park Service Museum Management Program with support from NPS Cultural Resources Training Initiative. Cosponsored by the National Museum of American History and the Office of the Counselor to the Secretary for Electronic Communications and Special Projects, Smithsonian Institution. =FF=03What will be taught? =FF=04The conference provides attendees with the basics of how to prepare digital, multi-media and paper publications on cultural collections for museums, archives, libraries, centers, and other historic preservation resources. Rethinking Cultural Publications presents ways in which institutions can share rich cultural heritage collections and information with diverse communities. The agenda gives participants the tools to create publications that feature collections, research, and knowledge for the general public, scholars, educators, students, and professional colleagues. =20 =FF=03Topics include: =FF=04How are Democracy and Culture Linked? How to Develop an Appropriate Topic What are the Elements of a Publication Project? How to Reach Diverse Communities How to Manage Publication Projects How to Produce a Web Site How to Bring Visitors to Your Site What are the Legal Issues of Publications? How to Select Media and Formats How to Use Durable Media How to Select an Editor, Designer and Publisher How to Fund Publications =FF=03Who should attend? =FF=04Participants from across the United States and internationally will a= ttend this conference. Cultural resources managers, librarians, curators, registrars, media and information management specialists, publications and public relations staff, collections care personnel, archivists, educators, students, historians, interpreters, records managers, fund raisers and others will find this innovative conference of significant value. =20 =FF=03Who are the faculty?=20 =FF=04* Orlando Bagwell, WGBH Public Broadcasting of Boston; * David Beacom, National Geographic Society;=20 * Spencer Crew, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American Histor= y;=20 * Steve Dalton, Northeast Document Conservation Center;=20 * W. Ralph Eubanks, Library of Congress;=20 * Anne Gilliland-Swetland, University of California, Los Angeles;=20 * Mark Holmes, National Geographic Interactive;=20 * Henry Kelly, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy;=20 * Carla Mattix, US Department of the Interior;=20 * Brett Miller, Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius, L.L.P.;=20 * Judy Metro, Yale University Press;=20 * Barbara Moore, National Gallery of Art;=20 * Hugh O'Connor, American Association of Retired Persons;=20 * Mark Oviatt, National Park Service;=20 * Marc Pachter, Smithsonian Institution;=20 * Patricia Pasqual, The Foundation Center; * Steve Puglia, National Archives and Records Administration;=20 * Anthony Seeger, Smithsonian Institution;=20 * Beverly Sheppard, Institute of Museum and Library Services;=20 * Andrea Stevens, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service; * Kate Stevenson, National Park Service; and=20 * Roy Tennant, University of California, Berkeley. =20 =FF=03Who organized the conference? =20 =FF=04The conference was organized by the National Park Service^Rs Museum Management Program, and produced with support from NPS Cultural Resources Training Initiative. The conference is co-sponsored by the National Museum of American History and the Office of the Counselor to the Secretary for Electronic Communications and Special Projects, Smithsonian Institution. Other cosponsors include the American Association of Museums, Library of Congress, the National Digital Library, and the Getty Information Institute. It is being managed by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. =20 =FF=03What does it cost? =20 =FF=04The cost of the conference is $240 for early bird registration, post = marked on or before August 4, 1999 and $300 for late registration, postmark= ed on or before August 25, 1999. A reduced registration fee of $135 is ava= ilable to a limited number of Nati onal Park Service and Smithsonian Institution staff on a first-come-first-s= erved basis who register, on or before July 23, 1999. =20 =FF=03Where can I find additional information? =20 =FF=04The full agenda and registration information is posted on NEDCC^Rs we= b site at . For information on registration and to request = a flier contact Gay Tracy at the Northeast Document Conservation Center, 10= 0 Brickstone Square, Andover, MA 0 1810; 978 470-1010; email .=20 4-20-99 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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Jascha Kessler Subject: Re: 13.0035 humanities computing discussion Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:52:49 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 102 (102) I wrote about this possibility in an article published some decades ago in the Massachusetts Review. I tried to withdraw it, because I thought maybe I was nuts and everyone would scout me. The editor insisted on making it the lead article. I began with idea of the universal record and universalized it, and went on to discuss the unreason of reason, etc. I guess I could look up the title, were anyone to be interested. I rewrote it last year for the hell of it, to make some of the language clearer. But I was talking about the next Millenium as it seems to me now, and our failure even to begin to imagine it, so sunk are we in details or mechanisms. I remember the subtitle, ...'Our No-Win Situation." It may have been 25 years ago now, I fear, the editor long since dead, Robert Tucker. 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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Blake Archive's June Update Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 17:15:48 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 103 (103) 2 June 1999 The William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake> is pleased to announce the publication of new electronic editions for two works in Blake's emblem series: _For Children: The Gates of Paradise_ and the revised and augmented version _For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise_. Through a numbered series of intaglio plates with inscriptions ranging from single words to brief aphorisms, Blake puts the course of human life from birth to death in psychological perspective. Some of the emblems form narrative sequences; others exemplify mental states and their reification in the external world. Blake etched in intaglio the eighteen plates of _For Children_ in 1793 and printed all extant copies (A-E) in the same year. The copy published in the Archive is copy D, from the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress. In about 1820, Blake revised _For Children: The Gates of Paradise_, giving the work a new title, _For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise_, reworking the design plates at least twice, and adding three new text plates at the end (19-21). Plates 19-20 contain brief interpretive statements keyed by number to the preceding design plates. The final plate is addressed to Satan as the "God of This [fallen] World." Copies A and B were probably printed c. 1820. Copies C and D, plus a large group of impressions never collated into complete copies by Blake but now divided into what are designated as copies J-N, date from c. 1825. Copies E-I are probably posthumous. We now publish copy D, from the collection of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Both electronic editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and new images scanned and color-corrected from first-generation 4x5" transparencies; they are each fully searchable for both text and images and supported by the Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. With the publication of these two titles, the Archive now contains 33 copies of 18 separate books, including at least one copy of every one of Blake's works in illuminated printing except the 100 plates of _Jerusalem_ (forthcoming). Also, we are pleased to announce that a Tour of the Archive is now available online. Through a sequence of several dozen graphical screenshots linked to narrative commentary, the Tour introduces users to the basic organization and structure of the Archive, the features of its interface, its search options, and the function of the Inote and ImageSizer applications. The Tour is located in the "About the Archive" wing of the site. Available as the first link off our main table of contents page at the URL above, the "About the Archive" materials include, in addition to the Tour, a statement of Editorial Principles and Methodology, a Frequently Asked Questions list, a Technical Summary, and an updated version of the article-length Plan of the Archive detailing our intentions with regard to Blake's non-illuminated works--and more. We hope that the Tour, together with these other materials, will prove valuable both to our own growing user community and to scholars interested in the theory and practice of electronic editing more generally. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, Editors Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Technical Editor The William Blake Archive From: Eve Trager Subject: The latest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:20:54 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 104 (104) A VIEW FROM OUTSIDE The June 1999 issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing < http://www.press.umich.edu/jep > is now available for your reading enjoyment. As usual, it is chock-full of insightful articles, good ideas, and provocative suggestions. And no matter what your involvement in electronic publishing, you will find the authors from outside your area are as interesting as those inside. We have two articles on archiving: The Unsettled State of Archiving http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/beebe.html Linda Beebe and Barbara Meyers, publishing consultants, take a broad look at archiving, reviewing current programs and new studies, and conclude that it's not time to declare a winner: more players have to put more effort into the game. Ensuring Long-Term Access to Online Publications http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/phillips.html Margaret E. Phillips, manager of the electronic unit of the National Library of Australia, tells how the library has cobbled together custom and off-the-shelf software, and established some standards and relationships, to begin the process of archiving online publications. We have three case studies: KRAK: A Case Study at the Reference Frontier http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/loebbecke.html Claudia Loebbecke. a professor of electronic commerce at Copenhagen Business School, reveals how the Danish publisher KRAK put its directories online and built on its corporate structure to aim for success, despite a shaky start. National Academy Press: A Case Study http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/pope.html Barbara Kline Pope, director of the press, tells why the National Academy decided to give away its intellectual property, what happened, and why she thinks others might consider doing the same. ACM: A Case Study http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/rous.html Bernard Rous, director of the ACM Publications Board, writes about the ongoing saga of ACM's online-subscription service, which required a major change in marketing and packaging. And we have other valuable articles: A Subscription Agent's Role in Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/knibbe.html Andrew Knibbe details how the intermediary service he works for is changing to retain its customer base in the new disintermediated world of electronic publishing. Forget Fast Revenue Streams: Use Your Web Presence to Build Your Franchise http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/krasilovsky.html Peter Krasilovsky, whose consulting work with some of the country's largest franchises has given him a unique vantage, applies the lessons he has learned to online publishing. A Primer on Public-Key Cryptography http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/polito.html If online security and cryptography confuse you, the explanation by Jessica Polito, who teaches mathematics at Tufts University, will make it all clear. Our own Thom Lieb, contributing editor, has another good piece: Content + Commerce = Conflict http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/lieb0404.html He warns us that it's hard to separate advertising and editorial on line, but reputable publishers need to draw that line well. Finally, we've snagged some fine reprints. If you've read them, you'll enjoy seeing them again. And if you have not read them, they are definitely must-read articles: Why Do Some Electronic-Only Journals Struggle, While Others Flourish? http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/kiernan.html The headline on this reprint from The Chronicle of Higher Education says it all. Competition and Cooperation: The Transition to Electronic Scholarly Journals http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/odlyzko0404.html AT&T Labs' Andrew Odlyzko looks at low-circulation journals that are sold mainly to libraries, and traces their options online. Publishers' Rights and Wrongs in the Cyberage http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-04/field.html Thomas G. Field, Jr. brings his expertise in intellectual-property law to some of the big IP issues online. Enjoy! Judith Axler Turner Editor The Journal of Electronic Publishing http://www.press.umich.edu/jep (202) 986-3463 From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." Subject: Version 25, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:39:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 105 (105) Version 25 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 990 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 using Boolean operators. The HTML document also 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: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:40:32 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 106 (106) The June 1st, 1999 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" is available at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. Over 900 titles were identified and indexed in great detail for this project. Thousands of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were added to various entries. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM This message has been crossposted to several mailing lists. Please excuse any duplication. ************************************************* *Marian Dworaczek * *Head, Acquisitions Department * *and Head, Technical Services Division * *University of Saskatchewan Libraries * *E-mail: dworaczek@sklib.usask.ca * *Phone: (306) 966-6016 * *Fax: (306) 966-5919 * *Home Page: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze * ************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Two UK Reports: Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 17:56:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 107 (107) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 3, 1999 TWO REPORTS FROM UK Archeology Data Service: Survey of User Needs of Digital Data http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/strategies/ Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS): Feasibility Study for the JISC Image Digitisation Initiative http://heds.herts.ac.uk/Guidance/JIDI_fs.html These two recent reports from the UK may be of interest to our readers. The UK's Archeology Data Service has released a report on its survey of the needs of users of digital data in archeology. Readers might be most interested in the recommendations of the report, at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/strategies/2.html, which has implications beyond the field of archeology. The UK's JISC Image Digitisation Initiative is digitizing 16 very different image collections as a step towards building, with other JISC-funded digital image libraries, a coherent digital image resource for Higher Education in the UK. This Report contains practical solutions to a variety of challenges in digitizing and offers guidance to those planning image digitization projects. David Green ============ Archeology Data Service: Survey of User Needs of Digital Data http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/strategies/ [deleted quotation] The Archaeology Data Service is pleased to announce the Internet publication of its survey into the creation, archiving, use and re-use of digital data in British and Irish archaeology. The results of this important survey are now available via our web-site at http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/strategies/ The Arts and Humanities Data Service, Cadw, English Heritage, The Environment and Heritage Service of the Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland, the Heritage Council of Ireland, Historic Scotland and the Royal Commissions for England, Scotland and Wales generously supported both the survey and its publication. Further information about the Survey and hard copy ordering information can be found in the spring edition of our Newsletter, Archaeology Data Service Online http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/newsletter/issue5.html _________________________________________________________________ Damian J. Robinson Collections Development Manager Archaeology Data Service djr12@york.ac.uk University of York mobile: 07970 862369 King's Manor Tel: (01904) 433954 York YO1 7EP Fax: (01904) 433939 UK http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ _________________________________________________________________ Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS): Feasibility Study for the JISC Image Digitisation Initiative http://heds.herts.ac.uk/Guidance/JIDI_fs.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 ============================================================== 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: Elisabeth Burr Subject: Duisburg: report and plea for more support Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 13:40:15 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 108 (108) First of all a really big thanks to everybody who has protested against the closure of Italian at Duisburg university stressing Humanities Computing activities in our department. As I have been asked to report on what happened to the protest which was sent to the Rektor of Duisburg University on behalf of Italian Studies and Humanities Computing I am trying to give some sort of report. Report: At my last meeting with the Rektor he told me that loads of protest-mails had reached him and that they are still traying to sort them and translate the ones which have reached him in Italian. The impression I got from our talk is that he now knows that there is Humanities Computing. Our Rektor is an en- gineer and we must allow for his never having been in con- tact with our field. The other impression is that he got interested in the subject because he asked me to give him some information from which he can gather whether HC would fit into the new set up the university is working at . I sent him the URLs of ACO*HUM for the composition of HC and of King's and Groningen as two different models of BAs in HC. Italian is still not saved because our dean has convinced the rest of the members of the faculty's steering board that the only solution for the faculty to survive the cuts is closing down Italian. I am of the opinion, however, that we should not give up a subject which is devoted to one of the European langua- ges, literatures and cultures and we should not think that our salvation is offering our services to Engineers and Technicians (we will be reduced to a language institute doing just language courses). Instead we have to keep what is there and have to have in mind to expand it to other European languages, literatures and cultures even with a reduced staff, taking the opportunity to rethink our contents and teaching. Plea for more support: As final decision has been postponed until the 22nd of June and a tendency can now be seen that one of the strong points of our university is to be: "COLlaborative Learning in Intelligent Distributed Environments" and "Multimedia" I allow myself to ask for more support. It would be really useful if you could write again on behalf of Humanities computing and of Italian, stressing the point of Multiculture, multilinguality in a global world and of Humanities Computing as a component of "COLlaborative Learning in Intelligent Distributed Environments" and "Multimedia" and the innovative actions the Italian department has been taking in this direction. As subject please indicate "Italian, COLLIDE, Multimedia" The best language for writing is English. It would be really good, if you could send your mails to our Dean: Prof. Dr. phil. Siegried Juettner Dekan des FB 3 he292ho@uni-duisburg.de and a copy of it to our Vice-Dean: Prof. Dr. phil. Heiner Puerschel puerschel@uni-duisburg.de to Prof. Dr. Axel Hunger Prorektor fuer Lehre, Studium und Studienreform hunger@uni-duisburg to Prof. Dr. Heinz Hoppe Prorektor fuer Forschung und wiss. Nachwuchs hoppe@informatik.uni-duisburg.de With best regard and thanks for your help Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PD Dr'in Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet 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: S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk Subject: Conf. Announcement / Call For Papers - Evaluate & Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:19:34 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 109 (109) Improve: Investigating Lecturers' Teaching in the arts and humanities Conference Announcement / Call for papers. 'Evaluate & Improve: Investigating Lecturers' Teaching in the arts and humanities' including an exhibition of virtual learning environments. The Humanities and Arts higher education Network's 5th anniversary conference will be held on the 9th October 1999 at the Open University, Milton Keynes. http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/1999hanconference.html Evaluate & Improve will be a one-day conference which will focus on Arts an= d Humanities higher education. =20 Dr Paul Clark, the newly appointed chief executive of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT), will give the keynote address. =20 Evaluate & Improve has been chosen as the conference theme because of the ILT's emphasis on evidence-based good practice. We would like to invite papers that address how we can evaluate our teaching practices, and improve them in ways that help our students learn. In particular, we hope to address the following issues: *=09the evaluation of classroom teaching [staff / students on staff performance] *=09the evaluation of multimedia / online teaching to improve student learning *=09personal evaluation and guidance [e.g. peer evaluation and mentoring] to improve student learning *=09the evaluation of work-based learning to improve undergraduate education *=09providing evidence of improvement in teaching and learning. Deadline for outline proposals: Friday July 16th. The attendance fee will be =A335, with a concessionary rate of =A325 for me= mbers of the Humanities and Arts higher education Network (HAN) and full-time students. For more information about submitting a proposal, joining HAN (membership i= s free) or attending the conference, please contact Kelvin Lack (k.j.lack@open.ac.uk) or visit the HAN web site at http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/han.html **** please forward this email to colleagues who might be interested in attending **** ___________________________________________________ Kelvin Lack (Manager, Humanities and Arts higher education Network) Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA UK Email: k.j.lack@open.ac.uk =20 Telephone: (01908) 653488 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Giuseppe Gigliozzi Subject: Humanities computing discussion Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:20:19 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 110 (110) I've read with attention the humanities computing discussion and I=20 would like to express my point of view. My text is really too long for a=20 e-mail message, So I decided to send a short abstract to the list=20 and to put some html pages on the CRILet^=D2s web site. You can find=20 these pages at the address:=20 http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/gigliozzi/McOrlandi=20 http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it/gigliozzi/McOrlandi/=20 (I beg Willard^=D2s and Titos^=D2s pardon for the little joke). =20 Now the English version abstract It also seems to me, as to many of those who were involved in the=20 discussion, that the debate between Tito Orlandi and Willard=20 McCarty moves at least on three different, though interlaced levels.=20 The question of the language (to use an expression beloved by=20 literature scholars), the question of the academy, and, more crucial=20 to our discussion, the question on humanities computing. =20 Let me start from the second one. After many years working in an=20 italian university I know very well the problems faced by Orlandi [^=C5]=20 But in Edinburgh I heard the same things spoken by Willard=20 McCarty. So it seems to be at least an endemic disease, though in=20 Italy it is perhaps made worse by the sclerotic organisation of=20 disciplines [..] =20 One of the most challenging task that Italian humanities computing=20 scholars have to undertake is to plan new professional=20 advancements in the humanities; the subjects involved in designing=20 new curricula would be rhetoric, communication, writing and=20 professional editing, text encoding, multimedia authoring, etc.=20 These subjects could be viewed as a sort of ^=D3applied humanities^=D4=20 which in my opinion would bring new life to our traditional disciplines.=20 =20 No wonder if students and young scholars blame us for not doing=20 enough in expanding and strengthening our field [^=C5] =20 As for the ^=D1language question^=D2 [^=C5] I think that his suggestion sho= uld=20 be read along with Francisco Marcos Marin^=D2s invitation (in Edinburgh=20 and in Madrid) to study together the way in which non-english=20 researches would not be lost. If we want to construct and define the=20 boundaries of our new discipline we need to know, study, evaluate=20 and acknowledge our reciprocal researches, in whatever language=20 they may have been written. =20 [..] It seems therefore pointless to complain about Anglo-American=20 imperialism when there^=D2s nothing interesting can bring to the=20 attention of other scholars. But in many cases i think that it is=20 possible to break the isolation. I^=D2ll make here two examples [^=C5]. =20 Ecco la vessione italiana dell'abstract: Anche a me, come a molti di quelli che sono intervenuti, sembra=20 che la polemica tra Tito Orlandi e Willad McCarty si muova su=20 almeno tre piani diversi e intrecciati. La questione della lingua (per=20 usare una formula cara a chi studia la letteratura), la questione=20 dell'accademia e la questione pi=F9 radicale dell'informatica=20 umanistica. =20 Cominciamo dalla questione dell'accademia. Lavorando in Italia=20 conosco bene le difficolt=E0 incontrate da Orlandi [...] . Sono per=F2=20 cose che ho sentito dire proprio a McCarty a Edimburgo. Il male=20 sembra comune, ma aggravato in Italia da una sclerotica=20 organizzazione delle discipline [...] =20 Uno dei compiti di chi si occupa di informatica umanistica in Italia=20 nei prossimi anni sar=E0 senz'altro quello di indicare nuovi sbocchi=20 professionali per le discipline umanistiche. Potr=E0 essere la scrittura,= =20 la codifica, la multimedialit=E0, dovr=E0 essere comunque un qualche=20 cosa che prefiguri una sorta di "Discipline umanistiche applicate"=20 che dia respiro anche alle nostre discipline tradizionali. Non ha caso=20 i giovani ci rimproverano d'aver fatto poco [...] =20 Per quello che riguarda la lingua [...] Questo invito deve essere per=F2=20 interpretato nel senso che a Edimburgo e a Madrid gli dava=20 Francisco Marcos Marin. Dobbiamo sempre ricordare che la=20 costruzione dei nuovi confini della nostra nuova disciplina passa=20 attraverso il riconoscimento dei nostri reciproci lavori: in qualunque=20 lingua possano essere scritti. Quando chiedeva agli anglofoni=20 presenti di studiare insieme agli altri le forme affinch=E9 il lavoro che= =20 non fosse in inglese non andasse perso. Dobbiamo sempre=20 ricordare che la costruzione dei nuovi confini della nostra nuova=20 disciplina passa attraverso il riconoscimento dei nostri reciproci=20 lavori: in qualunque lingua possano essere scritti [...] =20 D'altro canto mi pare inutile lamentarsi dell'imperialismo=20 anglosassone se non si =E8 in grado di proporsi come interlocutori=20 credibili [...] Non per questo =E8 per=F2 impossibile rompere=20 l'isolamento. Posso fare due esempi [...] =20 Giuseppe Gigliozzi ------------------ Giuseppe Gigliozzi Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza" Piazza Aldo Moro, 5 - 00185 Roma Italia Via Andrea Cesalpino, 12 - 14 - 00185 Roma Italia Tel. ++.06.4991.3183 - ++.06.44239405 - ++.06.44243482 Fax. ++.06.4991.3575 - ++.06.44240331=20 e-mail gigliozzi@axrma.uniroma1.it - gigliozz@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/crilet - http://crilet.let.uniroma1.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Helen Skundric Subject: DRH 99 Conference Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:35:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 111 (111) DRH 99 @ King's College London 12-15 September 1999 is open for registration! The Digital Resources for the Humanities conferences are a major forum for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital resources as an aid to learning; the publisher finding new ways to reach new audiences; the librarian, curator or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship; the computer or information science specialist seeking to apply new scientific and technical developments to the creation, exploitation and management of digital resources. The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, in the heart of London. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage much 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, archives, museums, galleries and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions. For the conference programme and other information visit the DRH web site @ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drh You can register at: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drhahc/regis/howtoreg.htm AHC Conference The DRH99 conference will overlap with the annual conference of the UK Association for History and Computing, which is to take place at King's College London 14th-16th September 1999. The conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of any aspects of the use of information and computer technology in history. 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. For more information visit the conference web site @ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ahcuk99/ Should you have problems accessing the web site and registration forms, please contact the conference office at DRH@kcl.ac.uk ---------------------- Helen Skundric DRH and AHC Conference Office drh@kcl.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Octothorp (fwd) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 112 (112) A question I posted four months ago comes home, to warm welcome. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu ----- Regarding your message on the Humanist Discussion Group: [deleted quotation] I believe you have a spelling error; drop the final "e". The best citation I can give you is _The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style_ (2d edition, 1996) Robert Bringhurst Hartley & Marks, Publishers Point Roberts, WA; Vancouver, BC, Canada on page 282 octothorp Otherwise known as the numeral sign. It has also been used as a symbol for the pound avoirdupois, but this usage is now archaic. In cartography, it is also a symbol for village: eight fields around a central square, and this is the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields. This sounds much more believable than some of the folk etymologies I've seen on the Web, and Bringhurst is a recognized authority in the field of typography. -jn- PS: I'd appreciate your forwarding this to the Humanist Discussion Group, as I am not a subscriber. -- public class JoelNeely extends FedEx { // ( String workEMail = "joel'dot'neely'at'fedex.com"; // ) boolean speaksForCompany = false; } // ( // my $ok=($lang=~/^[pj][ea][rv][la]$/i)&&($os=~/.*u.*x/i); // C[_] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Text Technology Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:20:21 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 113 (113) Dear Humanists, I am submitting this Call for Papers on behalf of my colleague Dr. Joanne Buckley. Geoffrey Rockwell _________________________ Call for Papers / Submission Information TEXT Technology Cordially Invites You To Contribute Articles For Consideration In an age of graphics, we suggest that some texts are indeed worth thousands of pictures. TEXT Technology is an eclectic quarterly for academics and professionals around the world, supplying articles devoted to any use of computers to acquire, analyze, create, edit, or translate texts. Now edited by McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and published at Wright State University in Ohio, TEXT Technology will continue to feature articles and special issues devoted to professional and academic writing and research, software and book reviews, literary and linguistic analyses of texts, electronic publishing and issues related to the Internet, along with annotated bibliographies of printed and electronic materials of use to those with a decided interest in textual material. Our scope is broad, our readership international. We invite you to become part of that readership. Cordially, Joanne Buckley Editor Submission Information Submit articles both in hard copy (double-spaced) and on 3.5" floppy diskette. The preferred word processing program is WordPerfect (in any version up to and including version 8.0 for Windows; we also accept Microsoft Word in any version up to 7.0). Articles on disk should also be accompanied by a version in ASCII. Graphics should be sent as separate files and not embedded in word processing files. Graphics should be compatible with Windows. Except for pagination and italics, do not format the document with any word processing style commands or codes. The maximum word length is 8,000. The preferred style is MLA. Do not use footnotes. Any notes should be numbered and entered at the end of the paper. Do not embed any notes in any style commands. Send submissions directly to the editor: Joanne Buckley Editor, TEXT Technology Humanities Communications Centre Togo Salmon Hall, Room 205A McMaster University 1280 Main St. W. Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4M2 Email: buckleyj@mcmaster.ca From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Revivals, Revisions, Recoveries Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:40:14 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 114 (114) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Henry Street: A Graduate Review of Literary Study Invites submissions for our upcoming special issue: Henry Street 9.1 "Revivals, Revisions, Recoveries" Deadline: September 1, 1999 Works that revise, revisit, recontextualize, or rewrite other texts abound in literary history. Indeed, some theorize that such inter- textuality, conscious or not, is literary history. More recently, these practices have been crossing not only lines of era, genre, and language, but ones of media as well. Essays treating any aspect of past or current re-imaginings of literary works are invited for this special issue. Topics might include but are no means limited to Victorian revivals of Gothic, current revivals and revisions of Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen, renewed interest in Renaissance fairs or the New Globe Theatre, issues of canonicity and the recovery of less "literary" genres, medieval or Celtic trends, and fin de siecle/millenial looking back. -------------------------------------------------------------------- HENRY STREET ============ _Henry Street_, now entering its ninth 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 review, 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_ c/o 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted quotation]Special issue - PRIMITIVISM, POSTMODERNISM, NOSTALGIA Negotiations: Cheryl Cowdy-Crawford "Becoming-Masks: _The Life and Times of Captain N_ at n-1 Dimensions" Daniel Glover and Cheryl Cowdy-Crawford "Rhizome-Response" William Leahy "The Predicament of Clifford: The Effacement of Colonialism in the Textual Metaethnograpy of James Clifford" Tom Penner "Facing the Hybrid Double in Rohinton Mistry's _Tales From Firozsha Baag_" Joshua Kotzin "Numismatics" Fiction by Oladipo Agboluange and Miodrag Kojadinovic Poetry by Carmine Esposito, Michael Londry, and d.n. wright Reviews of books on the Gothic, Looney Tunes, Cannibals, Sequels, Phenomenology & Poststructuralism, and Literary Canon-Making From: "David L. Gants" Subject: JASS Journal - Call for Papers Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:42:35 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 115 (115) [deleted quotation] JOURNAL OF APPLIED SYSTEMS STUDIES Methodologies and Applications for Systems Approaches [ JASS ] http://www.unipi.gr/jass/ CALL FOR PAPERS Topics of interest to JASS include : =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 Applied sociocybernetics =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 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 There is no time limit for the submission of papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Two Metadata Workshop Reports Available Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:54:42 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 116 (116) =FF=03NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 14, 1999 =FF=04 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D =20 European Commission: Third Metadata Workshop Report Luxembourg, April 12, 1999 http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/metadata/metadata3.html NISO/CLIR/RLG: Technical Metadata Elements for Images Workshop Report Washington, DC, April 18-19, 1999 http://www.niso.org/image.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Two contrasting reports here on recent Metadata meetings: one high-level me= eting, organized by the European Commission, emphasizing the importance of = continuing inclusion of communities and factors in the building of metadata= standards; the other very spe cifically focusing on today's practical needs for standards and practices i= n metadata for visual material. David Green =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D European Commission: Third Metadata Workshop Report Luxembourg, April 12, 1999 http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/metadata/metadata3.html [deleted quotation] On 12 April 1999, the third Metadata Workshop and Concertation Meeting, org= anised by the European Commission DGXIII/E2, took place in Luxembourg. 48 participants from organisations all around Europe attended the workshop = as well as several European Commission services. This workshop, which is part of an on-going concertation activity started i= n 1997, had four objectives: - to present recent developments around the Dublin Core metadata element set and look at future directions - to present RDF and XML and look at the practical consequences for metadata implementation - to look at issues related to unique identifiers for electronic resources - to discuss metadata issues related to long-term availability of resources. The workshop was conducted in 4 sessions, reflecting the objectives above. The major conclusions of the workshop can be summarised as follows: - For electronic documents and resources produced today, there is a pressing need for tools and systems to create and maintain metadata. Further research in this area is necessary. - The matter is complex, as requirements of different types have to be met, e.g. electronic commerce and long-term preservation of resources. - There is a need for a highest common denominator across domains and services. It is not yet clear what the specification for this is, and co-operation between many actors is necessary. - For projects under the Fourth Framework Programme it is necessary to pay attention to the developments. - For projects under the Fifth Framework Programme, the scope needs to be widened to include other domains, especially museums and archives where these issues are also important. A wide participation in the debate would increase the general applicability and interoperability of the solutions. - Under the Fifth Framework Programme, clustering of activities in the area of metadata systems and services is encouraged. - The following recommendations can be formulated: - Continuation of concertation is necessary - Initiatives need to take a focused, practical approach - The needs of the European citizen need to be taken into account - Performance criteria and impact of initiatives need to be measured - Issues around cost and quality need to be further addressed - Support for multilinguality needs to be enhanced - Further involvement of commercial parties is necessary For further information, including PowerPoint presentations, see the Workshop's Web site at: http://www.echo.lu/libraries/en/metadata/metada= ta3.html For more information concerning the first two workshops, see: http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/metadata.html http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/metadata2.html For more information on the Libraries sector of the Telematics Application Programme, see Web site at: http://www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/libraries.html __________________________________________________________________ Makx Dekkers e-mail: mdekkers@ip.lu PricewaterhouseCoopers GSM: +352 021 29 72 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------ TechServ Team tel: +352 492 429 2221 9 rue Schiller, L-2519 Luxembourg fax: +352 492 429 2299 ****************************************************************** =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D NISO/CLIR/RLG: Technical Metadata Elements for Images Workshop Report Washington, DC, April 18-19, 1999 http://www.niso.org/image.html [deleted quotation] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NISO (The National Information Standards Organization), CLIR (The Council o= n Library and Information Resources) and RLG (The Research Libraries Group)= sponsored an invitational workshop on April 18th and 19th in Washington DC= to examine technical informat ion needed to manage and use digital still images that reproduce a variety = of pictures, documents and artifacts.=20 The meeting was attended by about 60 individuals with a wide range of diver= se interests and perspectives on the problem of metadata information. Atten= dees represented libraries, universities, museums, archives, the digital li= brary community, the governmen t, and the digital imaging vendor community. The meeting was facilitated by Jennifer Trant of the Art Museum Image Conso= rtium. In its first session, the whole group heard introductory remarks fro= m Howard Besser, a member of the organizing committee, and reports on metad= ata intiatives at the Library=20 of Congress, the Research Libraries Group, the Art Museum Image Consortium = and the Making of America II project. Three breakout groups then met to dis= cuss: * Characteristics and Features of Images =20 * Image Production and Reformatting Features =20 * Image identification and integrity Issues The group as a whole reconvened to hear reports from the three breakout gro= ups and recommendations for further action. They reached agreement on: * a preliminary list of technical metadata elements; * the need for a categorization of elements as mandatory or optional; * the need for metadata to help evaluate the utility of an image for a pa= rticular application or use; * using industry standard metrics for assessing images where they existed (= tone, color, icc profiles,); * the need for methods of pointing at external test charts; * the importance of mechanisms for referring to external metadata files; * the need for image specific metadata and methods for creating this metad= ata; * the importance of persistence of metadata through transformations of an i= mage; * the fact that the metadata assigned an item depended on the metadata cre= ators' definition of the work; * the desirability of solutions devised to work in a broad array of contex= ts. Workshop participants identified and committed to the following next steps: 1. Publishing an expanded/edited set of metadata elements with examples. = =20 2. Articulating what tools need to be developed to assess how well an imag= e was made. =20 3. Exploring the viability of creating an integrated test chart; =20 4. Making an inventory of existing tools and metadata standards ; =20 5. Developing guidelines and a template for the kind of data that should g= o into a project description; =20 6. Drafting a canonical image format that will express equivalence of data= that may have been stored in multiple image formats; =20 7. Scoping the effort involved in defining a vocabulary to express the r= elationships between images. The organizing committee adopted a process for moving beyond the work of th= e two days. First, a meeting report would be drafted for comment, discussio= n, and review by the organizing committee and participants. Then the commit= tee will explore how to includ e other stakeholders in the consensus.=20 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * National Information Standards Organization 4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 300 Bethesda, MD 20814 USA T: 301-654-2512 Fax: 301-654-1721 Email: nisohq@niso.org url: www.niso.org To order a NISO Standard call 1-800-282-NISO From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AMICO and ARS reach important agreement Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:41:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 117 (117) [deleted quotation] Dear Friends and Colleagues, I'm pleased to announce the following agreement between the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and the Artists Rights Society (ARS). It's a small step, but an important one for facilitating educational access to contemporary and modern art. Please feel free to forward the following press release to other interested parties, and to contact me if you have any questions about AMICO or its programs. AMICO Membership is open to any institution with a collection of works of art, willing to participate in the activities of the consortium. Best, jennifer AMICO Press Release June 1, 1999 Art Museum Image Consortium and the Artists Rights Society Reach Important Agreement AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA =09Contemporary and Modern art is now available for education! The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and the Artists Rights Society (ARS) are delighted to announce they have reached an agreement to ensure that 20th century art will be available in the AMICO Library, a subscription-based resource for use in education, research, and teaching. ARS has granted AMICO a non-exclusive, North American license to include digital images of copyrighted works of art by artists and estates represented by the Artists Rights Society in the AMICO Library, where these works may be consulted with other multimedia documentation (extended texts and other materials) created by AMICO Member Museums. In return for the use of these copyrighted works of art, AMICO will share a proportionate royalty based on subscription income with ARS. =09"We've broken a log-jam," said Jennifer Trant, Executive Director of AMICO. "With this agreement the AMICO Library can fully represent the modern and contemporary works held by AMICO Members without the added burden of separate rights clearance," Ms. Trant continued. "Those AMICO Members whose collections are predominately comprised of works from these periods, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Mus=3DE9e d'art contemporain de Montr=3DE9al, will certainly benefit from o= ur relationship with ARS. This agreement eases the process for everyone involved." =09Theodore Feder, President of the Artists Rights Society, also felt the agreement was "a win-win. Contemporary artists' work will be much more available for educational purposes, while ensuring their appropriate use under an educational license agreement." He was pleased that ARS was part of the AMICO concept saying that "the Consortium really sets the standard for dissemination of digital images of works of art in a learning setting." AMICO Members also welcomed the enhanced coordination this ARS and AMICO agreement will provide. "We can really participate in the AMICO Library to our full potential," stated Director of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Hugh Davies. Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, observed, "as the arts community navigates through the uncertain waters of copyright legislation in a wired world, it is very exciting to have brought two critical constituencies together in service of education: our major modern and contemporary artists and our leading art museums. Thanks to the agreement with ARS, AMICO can now aspire to present the fullest possible dimensions of contemporary art." In the end, it's the subscribers to the AMICO Library who will benefit the most from this agreement. Contemporary art will be included in the AMICO Library without any change in the subscription fees. And individual teachers and students will not have to worry about the time consuming and uncertain process of obtaining copyright clearances. Over time, collaborations such as these will ensure that the AMICO Library grows in breadth and depth, to become a resource used in research, teaching and learning in all arts and humanities disciplines. The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit association of art-collecting institutions working together to enable educational use of their digital documentation. The AMICO Library is a growing collection of digital multimedia (now text and image and over time also sound and moving image), compiled by AMICO Members and made available under license for educational use. Subscriptions to the AMICO Library are available beginning July 1, 1999, through not-for-profit distributors such as the Research Libraries Group. Educational institutions, universities, public libraries, and primary through secondary schools will have access to over 50,000 works of art. =3D46ounded in October 1997, as a program of the Association of Art Museum Directors Educational Foundation, Inc., AMICO was separately incorporated as an independent non-profit corporation in June of 1998, ending its direct connection with the AAMD. The Consortium is today made up of 28 of the major art collections in North America and is regularly adding new Members. If you are interested in becoming an AMICO Member or Subscriber, please contact Jennifer Trant, Executive Director . Full details about AMICO and its activities can be found on its web site at http://www.amico.org Artists Rights Society (ARS) was appointed in 1986, by the French copyright societies for visual artists to represent the copyright and permissions interests of their members within the United States. Since then, ARS has signed reciprocal contracts with more than twenty other visual artists rights organizations worldwide. The membership lists of these organizations include the majority of artists active in this century, including Georges Braque, Joseph Beuys, Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, John Heartfield, Wassily Kandinsky, =3D46ernand L=3DE9ger, Man Ray, Joan Mir=3DF3, and Edvard Munch. In additio= n, our direct European adherents include the estates of Pablo Picasso (through the Picasso Administration ), Henri Matisse (through the Succession Matisse), and Ren=3DE9 Magritte. ARS also acts on behalf of American artists and acti= vel=3D y lobbies state and federal legislatures for stronger and more effective artist's rights laws. Contact Information: AMICO Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone (412) 422 8533 =3D46ax (412) 422 8594 Email: jtrant@amico.org http://www.amico.org ARS Theodore Feder President Artists Rights Society 65 Bleecker Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 420-9160 =3D46ax: (212) 420-9286 Email: feder@arsny.com http://www.arsny.com ________ J. Trant=09=09=092008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director=09=09Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org=09=09Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org=09=09Fax: +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Software patents in Europe Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:52:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 118 (118) [deleted quotation] On June 24th and 25th, a legislative proposal is to be presented at the Intellectual Property Conference in Paris, according to which a US-like "software patent" system is to be introduced in Europe. =20 In Europe, in contrast to the US and Japan, software, like literature, is copyrighted but cannot be patented, at least directly. The introduction of software patents (eagerly awaited by companies such as Microsoft - which, hardly a coincidence, in the context of the corresponding Green Book of the European Commission, serves as a testimony to the benefits of software patents) will pose a serious threat to the further development and usage of Free Software.=20 Everyone familiar with the unfamous Microsoft Halloween documents will know that applying for software patents in a large scale has been considered a possible strategy in fighting the growth of the Linux operating system and software produced within similar contexts. There is a desperate need for immediate action in the European Community. The introduction of software patents has been prepared largely quietly and the arguments put forward in favour of software patents are highly questionably. Further information can be found at =09http://www.freepatents.org The Green Book can be found at =09http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg15/en/intprop/indprop/paten.pdf An open letter to the EU Competition Commissioner, Karel van Miert, can be found at =09http://swpat.ffii.org/miert/indexen.html This letter can be signed at =09http://swpat.ffii.org/miert/sign/siglistde.html I urge all computing humanists interested in the future availability of powerful Free Software to voice their concern about these dangerous plans. Regards, Christoph Eyrich -- eyrich@prz.tu-berlin.de From: Klaus Graf Subject: Donaueschingen - please forward! Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:54:46 -0700 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 119 (119) Reply-To: MEDIAEVISTIK@uranus.ngate.uni-regensburg.de Message-ID: <34A9CAE4379@uranus.ngate.uni-regensburg.de> Vandalism in Donaueschingen Without the general public even being aware of what is happening, there has recently been a scandalous incident of the loss of cultural inheritance. Since early June almost the entire collection (ca. 90%) of the Princely Fuerstenberg Court Library in Donaueschingen [Fuerstlich Fuerstenbergische Hofbibliothek zu Donaueschingen] (ca. 130,000 volumes) has been shipped off abroad. An Anglo-American consortium (i.e. Heritage and allied bookdealers) has bought it up. Thus "one of the greatest and most beautiful castle libraries," according to P. Masek, and a cultural monument of the highest order has been destroyed in such an irreparable fashion. Undocumented, the destruction of the collection through sale of the individual items also includes the library (ca. 11,000 published items) of the important Germanist Joseph von Lassberg (1770-1855), a brother-in-law of the poetess Annette von Droste-Huelshoff. The Land of Baden-Wuerttemberg declined to purchase the highly significant collection, as the Dept. of the Treasury refused to offer more than indefensible arguments, despite the library's role as a protected cultural monument. More informations (in German): http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~graf/index.html#kulturgut --- End Forwarded Message --- ---------------------- # 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: Elisabeth Burr Subject: SILFI Convegno/Congress SILFI Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 00:53:20 +0200 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 120 (120) Scusate, se ricevete questo annuncio piu' di una volta. Please excuse me if you get this message more than once =20 Per favore, distribuite la notizia. Please distribute. I annuncio - I announcement =20 VI Convegno Internazionale della Societ=E0 Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana VI International Congress of the International Society of Italian Linguistics and Philology Gerhard-Mercator-Universit=E4t Duisburg 29.06.-03.07.2000 =ABTradizione e Innovazione=BB La linguistica e filologia italiana alle soglie di un nuovo Millen= nio =ABTradition and Innovation=BB Italian Linguistics and Philology at the start of a new Millennium Scopo del convegno sara' di creare un legame fra la ricca tradizione dei studi di linguistica e filologia italiana e lo sfruttamento delle possibilita' che offrono i media elettronici per portare avanti questi studi, trovare risposte a vecchie e nuove domande e per collegare ancora meglio la ricerca coll'insegnamento. Come deciso all'ultimo convegno di Catania (1998), una sezione mo- nografica si occupera' dell'italiano parlato. Informazioni piu' precise saranno distribuite al piu' presto possibile. La pagina WWW del convegno si trova sotto: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/ The aim of the congress will be to create a link between the rich tradi- tion of studies in Italian linguistics and philology and exploiting the possibilities offered by the electronic media with respect to these studies, with respect to finding new answers to old and new questions and in order to create an even better link between research and teaching. As was decided at the last congress in Catania (1998), one of the topics will be Spoken Italian. More concrete information will be distributed as soon as possible. The Web-page of the congress can be found at: http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/ Con cordiali saluti/with best wishes Elisabeth Burr --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PD Dr'in Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: 3 Conference Reminders: ACM: DL'99; DRH 99; ICHIM 99 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:47:02 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 121 (121) [Part 1, Text/PLAIN 448 lines] [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part] =FF=03NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 14, 1999 =FF=04 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D THREE CONFERENCES: PROGRAMS & REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99) August 11-14, 1999: Berkeley, CA http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/ DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES: DRH 99=20 September 12-15, 1999: King's College London=20 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drh International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting: ICHIM99=20 September 22-26, 1999 Washington, DC http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ichim99.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99) August 11-14, 1999: Berkeley, CA http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/ [deleted quotation]ADVANCE PROGRAM FOURTH ACM CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL LIBRARIES (DL '99) SPONSORED BY ACM SIGIR AND ACM SIGWEB AUGUST 11-14, 1999 Radisson Hotel Berkeley Marina 200 Marina Boulevard Berkeley, California 93710 USA 1-800-333-333 or 1-800-243-0625 Conference Web site: http://fox.cs.vt.edu/DL99/ General Chair: Neil C. Rowe, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School (rowe@cs.nps.navy.mil) Program Chair: Edward A. Fox, Virginia Tech (fox@cs.vt.edu) Publicity Chair: James C. French, University of Virginia (french@virginia.edu) Tutorials Chair: Gene Golovchinksy, Xerox FX Palo Alto Lab (gene@pal.xerox.com) Workshops Chair: Robert B. Allen, University of Maryland (rba@glue.umd.edu) Posters/Exhibits Chair: Jonathan Furner, UCLA (jfurner@ucla.edu) Treasurer: Michael Freeston, University of California, Santa Barbara (freeston@alexandria.ucsb.edu) Schedule Wednesday, August 11, 1999: Tutorials Registration 8-8:30 Morning Tutorials (8:30-12): T1: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 1)", Ian Witten (University of Waikato), ihw@rata.cs.waikato.ac.nz T2: "Multilingual Information Access", Judith Klavans (Columbia University) and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information Technology AG), schauble@eurospider.ch T3: "XML, RDF, and Metadata for the Web", Neel Sundaresan (IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose), neel@almaden.ibm.com 12-1:30: Lunch and Tutorial Registration Afternoon Tutorials (1:30-4): T4: "Practical Digital Libraries Overview (Part 2)", Edward Fox (Virginia Tech), fox@vt.edu T5: "Thesauri for Knowledge-Based Assistance in Searching Digital Libraries", Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland), ds52@umail.umd.edu T6: "Searching from Multiple Text Sources in the Internet", Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Weiyi Meng (State University of New York at Binghamton), 5-7 Opening Reception Thursday, August 12, 1999: General Sessions 8-9 Registration 9-10:10 Session 1, Chair: Neil Rowe - Welcome - Keynote - David Levy, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 10:10-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Session 2 - Testbeds, Chair: Henry Gladney P1: "The Computing Research Repository: Promoting the Rapid Dissemination and Archiving of Computer Science Research", Joseph Y. Halpern and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University) P2: "VARIATIONS: A Digital Music Library System at Indiana University", Jon W. Dunn and Constance A. Mayer (Indiana University) P3: "A Digital Library for Authors: Recent Progress of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations", Constantinos Phanouriou, Neill A. Kipp, Ohm Sornil, Paul Mather, and Edward A. Fox (Virginia Tech) P4: "A Prototype Implementation of Archival Intermemory", Yuan Chen (NEC Research Institute and Georgia Institute of Technology), Jan Edler (NEC Research Institute), Andrew Goldberg (Intertrust Corporation), Allan Gottlieb (NEC Research Institute and New York University), Sumeet Sobti (University of Washington), and Peter Yianilos (NEC Research Institute) 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3 Session 3a - IR / Multimedia, Chair: Edie Rasmussen P5: "Semantic Indexing for a Complete Subject Discipline", Yi- Ming Chung, Qin He, Kevin Powell, and Bruce Schatz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) P6: "Summarization and Selection of Information Sources Using Automated Classification", R. Dolin, D. Agrawal, and A. El Abbadi (University of California, Santa Barbara) P7: "Vocal Access to a Newspaper Archive: Design Issues and Preliminary Investigation", Fabio Crestani (University of California, Berkeley) P8: "Multimedia Description Framework (MDF) for Content Description of Audio/Video Documents", Michael J. Hu and Ye Jian (Nanyang Technological University) 1:30-3 Session 3b - User / Social Issues, Chair: Cliff McKnight P9: "Introducing a digital library reading appliance into a reading group", Catherine C. Marshall, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky, and Bill N. Schilit (FX Palo Alto Laboratory) P10: "Multimodal Surrogates for Video Browsing", Wei Ding (University of Maryland, College Park), Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland, College Park) P11: "Making Digital Libraries Go: Comparing Use Across Genres", Ann Bishop (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 3-3:30 Break 3:30-5 Session 4, Chair: Sugimoto Shigeo Panel 1: "Visions for a Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering Technology Education (SMETE)" Chair: Alice Agogino (University of California, Berkeley) Panelists: William Y. Arms, Edward A. Fox, Frank Wattenberg, and Flora McMartin 7-10 Reception with posters and demonstrations Friday, August 13, 1999: General Sessions 8:30-10:00 Session 5 - Links / Citations and User Interfaces, Chair: Nick Belkin P12: "A System For Automatic Personalized Tracking of Scientific Literature on the Web", Kurt D. Bollacker, Steve Lawrence, and C. Lee Giles (NEC Research Institute) P13: "Topic-Based Browsing Within a Digital Library Using Keyphrases", Steve Jones and Gordon Paynter (University of Waikato) P14: "A Scrollbar-based Visualization for Document Navigation", Donald Byrd (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) P15: "Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?", Tammara T.A. Combs and Benjamin B. Bederson (University of Maryland, College Park) 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-12:00 Session 6 - Multimedia, Chair: Robert Allen P16: "Learnable Visual Keywords for Image Classification", Joo- Hwee Lim (Kent Ridge Digital Labs) P17: "A New Ranking Principle for Multimedia Information Retrieval", Martin Wechsler and Peter Schauble (Eurospider Information Technology AG) P18: "Musical Information Retrieval using Melodic Surface", M. Melucci and N. Orio (University of Padova) P19: "Towards a Digital Library of Popular Music", David Bainbridge, Craig G. Nevill-Manning, Ian H. Witten, Lloyd A. Smith, and Rodger J. McNab (University of Waikato and Rutgers University) 12:00-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Session 7 - Multiple Collections/Sources, Chair: Jose Luis Borbinha P20: "Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries", Naomi Dushay (Cornell University), James C. French (University of Virginia), and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University) P21: "A Patent Search and Classification System", Leah S. Larkey (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) P22: "Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing Scientific Data", Robert E. McGrath, Joe Futrelle, Ray Plante (NCSA, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Damien Guillaume (Universite Louis-Pasteur) P23: "User Preferences When Searching Individual and Integrated Full-text Databases", Soyeon Park (Rutgers University) 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:00 Session 8, Chair: Edward Fox - Bush Award Presentation for Best Paper, by Robert Akscyn - Panel 2: "Digital Library Futures"; Chair: Barry Leiner (CNRI) 5:00-7:00 Final Reception Saturday, August 14, 1999: Full-Day Workshops W1: "Networked Knowledge Organization Systems", Linda L. Hill (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Gail Hodge (Information Intl. Assoc.), lhill@alexandria.ucsb.edu; see http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/~lhill/nhos/DL99workshop.html W2: "Organizing Web Space", Robert Wilensky (University of California, Berkeley), Katsumi Tanaka (Kobe University), and Yoshinori Hara (NEC USA),hara@ccrl.sj.nec.com;see http://www.ccrl.neclab.com/dl99ww/ W3: "Multilingual Information Discovery and Access", Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland) and Carol Peters (IEI-CNR, Pisa), joint with SIGIR'99, oard@glue.umd.edu; see http://www.clis.umd.edu/conferences/midas.html W4: "D-Lib Forum Working Group on Metrics for Digital Libraries", Barry Leiner (CNRI), bleiner@cnri.reston.va.us; see http://www.dlib.org/metrics W5: "Second Summit on International Cooperation in Digital Libraries", Robert Akscyn (KSI, Inc.) and Ian Witten (University of Waikato), rma@ks.com; see http://www.ks.com/idla/ ********************************************************************* Hotel Registration: All sessions will be held at the Radisson Berkeley Marina. Rooms are $109 for single/double per night plus 12% city tax. Call 1-800-333-3333 or 1-800-243-0625 for reservations. ********************************************************************* =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES: DRH 99=20 September 12-15, 1999: King's College London=20 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drh =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 [deleted quotation] DRH 99 @ King's College London 12-15 September 1999 is open for=20 registration!=20 The Digital Resources for the Humanities conferences are a major forum for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural=20 heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic edition; the=20 teacher using digital resources as an aid to learning; the publisher=20 finding new ways to reach new audiences; the librarian, curator or=20 archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the=20 digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and=20 scholarship; the computer or information science specialist seeking to apply new scientific and technical developments to the creation,=20 exploitation and management of digital resources.=20 The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers,=20 panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, in=20 the heart of London. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage much=20 energetic discussion, both formal and informal. Leading practitioners=20 of the application of digital techniques and resources in the=20 Humanities, from the worlds of scholarship, librarianship, archives,=20 museums, galleries and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions.=20 For the conference programme and other information visit the DRH web=20 site @ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drh You can register at:=20 http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drhahc/regis/howtoreg.htm AHC Conference The DRH99 conference will overlap with the annual conference of the UK Association for History and Computing, which is to take place at=20 King's College London 14th-16th September 1999. The conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of any aspects of the use of=20 information and computer technology in history. 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. For more information visit the=20 conference web site @ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ahcuk99/ Should you have problems accessing the web site and registration=20 forms, please contact the conference office at DRH@kcl.ac.uk ---------------------- Helen Skundric DRH and AHC Conference Office drh@kcl.ac.uk =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 ICHIM99=20 September 22-26, 1999 Washington, DC http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ichim99.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting Washington, DC, USA=20 Sept. 22-26, 1999 Overview The ICHIM Conference series began in 1991. We've met every two years since= then, alternating between North America and Europe: Pittsburgh in 91; Camb= ridge, England in 93, and San Diego, California, in 95. ICHIM last met in P= aris, France in 97 - over 625=20 people from twenty-five countries attended ICHIM 97 at Le Louvre in Paris! = Ministries of culture and multi-institutional collaboratives were particula= rly well represented. Staff from museums, archives and universities came wi= th ambitious documentation and public access objectives, and discussed point-of-information kiosks, in-ga= llery interactives , CD-ROM publications and the World Wide Web with their = colleagues, and with international publishers of interactive multimedia and= network service providers. At each ICHIM meeting practitioners, theorists, subject specialists, develope= rs and suppliers from the public and private sector meet to share ideas and= experiences.=20 The Program Before ichim99 formally begins two full days of workshops help you build y= our technical, social and managerial skills. ichim99 itself spans three day= s: two parallel session tracks feature formal papers, panels, and many oppo= rtunities for participant inte raction. All podiums have network access, up-to-date computer technology an= d high-resolution projection to ensure that speakers have the opportunity t= o demonstrate, not just discuss, the advances they are reporting. An exhibi= tion hall features the latest=20 from a variety of commercial firms. Social events throughout ichim99 ensure= that everyone has an opportunity to meet informally and expand their circl= e of colleagues.=20 Workshops On September 22 and 23, ichim99 features a wide range of pre-conference wo= rkshops in half-day, full-day and two day formats. These workshops have bee= n designed to provide educational experiences ranging from introductory to = advanced, in formats which inc lude hands-on computer training, lectures, seminars and interactive group s= essions. Workshop instructors come from universities, museums and commercia= l organizations, in the U.S. and abroad, and have extensive experience with= small group training. A great professional development opportunity, ichim99 workshops will be attended b= y many local museum staff (Washington DC has the largest concentration of m= useums in the USA). Since workshop enrollment is limited and registration i= s on a "first come, first serv ed" basis, early registration is strongly advised.=20 Sessions The ichim99 Program Committee selected a wide variety of speakers and pres= entation formats from the many proposals received. Presentations are schedu= led in ways that best suit their content: with 1, 2, 3, and 4 papers, and w= ith or without formal commenta tors. All sessions include substantial time for audience discussion - the e= xperiences of participants make a major contribution to the meeting for eve= ryone.=20 Exhibits The range of exhibitors at ichim99, from different sectors of the cultural= heritage informatics marketplace, assures that every attendee will find so= mething new and interesting. In the twelve hours available for attendees to= visit exhibits you'll find pr oducts and services that will help with your next (or current) project. Exh= ibits are open to conference attendees only, and begin with a gala receptio= n in the Exhibit Hall the evening of September 24. On September 25 a full d= ay of exhibits begins with con tinental breakfast at 8:00 am, and closes with refreshments at 6:00 pm. For= information about exhibiting at ichim99, email ichim99@archimuse.com.=20 Social Events The ichim99 Welcome Reception and the Exhibitors' Reception are rightly re= nowned. This year, ichim99 will also feature a leisurely Sunday brunch - a = great time to catch up with people you haven't seen, and cement relationshi= p with those you've recently m et. All social events are included with full conference registration.=20 Proceedings Each full conference registrant will receive the ichim99 Proceedings upon = arrival, included in the conference registration fee. Proceedings of past y= ears meetings are also available for purchase. ICHIM Proceedings have becom= e the premier sources for unde rstanding the evolution of computer-based interactive multimedia in cultura= l settings. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 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 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: New World Orders Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:57:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 122 (122) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D The Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University in conjunction=20 with the American Studies Department at Brandeis University announce the=20 upcoming conference sponsored by the Lilly Endowment Foundation, Boston=20 University, and Brandeis University. NEW WORLD ORDERS: MILLENNIALISM IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE November 7-9. 1999 Boston, Massachusetts An interdisciplinary inquiry examining the wide range of millennial=20 movements in the Americas: their origins, traditions, interpretations and= =20 consequences, both religious and secular from the perspective of elite,=20 popular, or counter-culture. Papers on the historiography of=20 millennialism in the Americas will also be considered for presentation. DEADLINE For one page Abstracts Is JULY 1, 1999 [presentations 20 minutes= =20 in length] Submissions are also invited for roundtable discussions and entire=20 sessions. If submitting an entire session, include an abstract that=20 outlines the purpose of the session. One panelist must be designated as=20 the contact person. The Program Committee assumes all listed individuals= =20 in a session proposal agree to participate. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Featured speakers will include (among others to be announced): NORMAN COHN, [the father of millennial studies] Professor Emeritus,=20 Sussex University MICHAEL BARKUN, Syracuse University Contact: Beth Forrest Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University=09=09=09=09 =20 704 Commonwealth Ave., Suite 205=09=09=09=09=09=20 Boston, MA 02215=09 617.358.0226 cms@mille.org http://www.mille.org From: "David L. Gants" Subject: IWPT'99 CHANGE OF DATES !! Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:00:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 123 (123) [deleted quotation] In view of the closeness of the original dates (December 20-22, 1999) to=20 the millenium change, which may cause inconveniencies, the dates of IWPT'99= =20 have changed to February 23-25, 2000. IWPT'99 thus becomes IWPT 2000.=20 Below is the updated Call for papers, with revised time table. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r P a p e r s=20 IWPT 2000 =20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 23-25 February, 2000 Trento, Italy ~~~~ The ITC-IRST (Institute for Scientific and Technological Research)=20 in Trento, in the North of Italy, will host the 6th International=20 Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT 2000) from 23 to 25 February,=20 2000.=20 IWPT 2000 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing=20 technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).=20 This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989.=20 The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed=20 by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and=20 Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)=20 in 1995; and Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997.=20 More information can be found on the IWPT 2000 home page at:=20 < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ > Topics of interest for IWPT 2000 -------------------------------- Theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural=20 language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences,=20 speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) language, and parsing issues=20 arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both grammar-based and=20 statistical approaches are welcome. Submitting Papers ----------------- Prospective authors are invited to send full papers to the IWPT 2000=20 programme chairman John Carroll. Papers must be in the format given=20 at the IWPT 2000 home pages (see below). Papers should not exceed 12=20 pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript form.=20 Send papers to: iwpt2000@cogs.susx.ac.uk All submitted papers will be reviewed by the programme committee.=20 Deadline for paper submission=09: November 5, 1999 Notification of acceptance=09: December 3, 1999 Final papers due=09=09: January 7, 2000 In addition to the papers that will be accepted for full length=20 presentation, papers may be accepted for poster presentations=20 (two pages in the proceedings). Instruction for authors ----------------------- Instructions for authors can be found at URL: < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ > or can be obtained from the programme chairman. Programme Committee ------------------- Robert Berwick (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Bob Carpenter (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA) John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) (chair)=20 Ken Church (Bell Labs, Murray Hill, USA) Mark Johnson (Brown University, Providence, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Ronald Kaplan (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA) Martin Kay (Xerox, Palo Alto, USA) Bernard Lang (INRIA, Paris, France) Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands) Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Grenoble, France) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK) Oliviero Stock (IRST, Trento, Italy) Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Masaru Tomita (Stanford University, USA) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany) K. Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, Newark, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK) Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Stockholm, Sweden) Organization ------------ General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands)=20 Programme Chair: John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK)=20 Local Arrangements Chair: Alberto Lavelli (IRST, Trento, Italy) Sponsors --------- SIGPARSE, Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for=20 Computational Linguistics AI*IA, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Further information ------------------- Information about IWPT 2000 can be found at the URL: < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ > At this site you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs,=20 proceedings and SIGPARSE related activities. --=20 ------------------------------------------------------ Harry C. Bunt Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science Dean, Faculty of Arts Tilburg University=20 P.O. Box 90153=20 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- From: "David L. Gants" Subject: KRDB'99: early bird registration deadline approaching Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:46:53 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 124 (124) [deleted quotation] =09=09 6th International Workshop on =20 =09=09 KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES =09=09=09=09(KRDB'99) =09=09=09 Linkoeping (Sweden) =09=09=09 July 29-30, 1999 =09=09=09 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 6th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual= =20 international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization between= =20 the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB), started in= =20 1994.=20 KRDB'99 is an affiliate event with IJCAI'99 (Stockholm, 3-6 August 1999), and the International Workshop on Description Logics (DL'99, Linkoeping, July 30 - August 1 1999). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INVITED SPEAKERS - MOSHE VARDI (Rice University, TX, USA): Model Checking and Finite Model Theory in the different contexts of Computational Logics, Knowledge Representation, and Database Theory. - RAY REITER (University of Toronto, Canada): Modelling Transactions for Incomplete Relational Databases. - NATASHA ALECHINA (University of Nottingham, UK): Tutorial on (Modal) Logics for Semi-Structured Data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INFORMATION For detailed information on program, registration and accommodation check the web page of the workshop at: < http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/img/krdb99/ >. Early bird registration deadline: June 15. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop Chairs Enrico Franconi University of Manchester, UK < franconi@cs.man.ac.uk > Michael Kifer University at Stony Brook, USA < kifer@cs.sunysb.edu > Program Committee Elisa Bertino, University of Milano, Italy Anthony Bonner, University of Toronto, Canada Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Mokrane Bouzeghoub, INRIA-Rocquencourt, France Jan Van den Bussche, University of Limburg, Belgium Diego Calvanese, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, USA Jan Chomicki, Monmouth University, USA Rick Hull, Lucent Technologies, USA Mathias Jarke, Aachen University of Technology, Germany Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg, Germany John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Werner Nutt, DFKI, Germany Luigi Palopoli, University of Calabria, Italy Local Chair Patrick Lambrix, Linkoeping University, Sweden < patla@ida.liu.se > Executive Committee Franz Baader, Aachen University of Technology, Germany Manfred Jeusfeld, KUB Tilburg, The Netherlands Werner Nutt, DFKI, Germany From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: "Corpora and NLP" Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:50:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 125 (125) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************* "Corpora and NLP" ACIDCA'2000 session Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000 Organised by: University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS) Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia) Sponsored by: IEEE SMC co-sponsored by: TSS Supported by: Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific Research and Technology (SERST) ************************************************************************** General ------- The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but also for their evaluation. "Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000, visit http://www.chez.com/acidca2000) . The session "Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own Proceedings and Programme Committee. The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP. Main Topics ----------- We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following topics: * Lexicography * Lexical knowledge acquisition * Part of Speech Tagging * Unknown word guessing * Term recognition * Morphological Analysis * Robust Parsing * Word Sense Disambiguation * Anaphora Resolution * Discourse segmentation * Machine Translation * Agreement Error Correction * Spelling and Grammar Correction * Information Extraction * Automatic Abstracting * Text Categorisation * Speech processing * Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications * Corpus annotation * Evaluation Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus processing techniques are welcome. Honorary Chairs --------------- Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific and Technological Research Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia) Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley General Chairs -------------- Adel Alimi, National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS) Lamia Belguith Hadrich, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Programme Committee ------------------- Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom) Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville) Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble) Debili Fathi (IRMC, Tunis) Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris) Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble) Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris) Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon) Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen) Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York) Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble) Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal) Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh) Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona) Mike Rosner (University of Malta) Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei) Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki) Local Organising Committee -------------------------- Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax), Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax), Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes), Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax), Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax), Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax), Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis), Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax) International Organising Committee ---------------------------------- Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan), Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany), Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany), Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France), Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University), Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA) Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA) Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France) Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble) Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble) Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain) Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures, tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following address : ACIDCA'2000 (Corpora & NLP Session) Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe, BP 120, 3049 Sfax Tunisia In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk and copied to l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings. Schedule -------- Paper Submission Due: 1 October 1999 Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999 Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999 "Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000 Further information ------------------- Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call for Papers. There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are finalised. ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories: Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper. The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers. The call for papers is is also available at: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/NLP_Session.html This is the "Corpora and NLP" web site and any important information will be available at this site too. For any Information ------------------- Please contact : Lamia Belguith e-mail: l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn Fax: (216) 4 296 229 From: William Pencak Subject: SSA:CALL FOR PAPERS 1999 MEETING, PITTSBURGH, OCT. 28-31 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:49:49 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 126 (126) SEMCIOTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA: ANNUAL MTG. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED TO MAY 15 -- PLENARY SPEAKERS FLOYD MERRELL, PETER MCLAREN, ROBERT VISCUSI (WINNER OF AMERICAN BOOK AWARD). [deleted quotation]l [deleted quotation]ica [deleted quotation]d [deleted quotation]as [deleted quotation]d. 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[deleted quotation] Bill Pencak, Editor Pa. History Prof. of History l08 Weaver Bldg. Penn State University Park PA 16802 phone: 814-863-8949 (ans. machine) e-mail: wap1@psu.edu fax: 814-863-7840 to my attention =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 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=20 Northridge, CA 91330-8257 INTERNET email: ALAN.HARRIS@CSUN.EDU=20 WWW homepage: http://www.csun.edu/~vcspc005 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: Ross Scaife Subject: [STOA] NYT on the changing landscape Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:43:28 -0300 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 127 (127) Lots of issues that concern the Stoa come up in this article from today's paper: June 12, 1999 Hoping the Web Will Rescue Young Professors' Books By DINITIA SMITH Gregory S. Brown, an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is by almost any standard an outstanding young scholar. His dissertation adviser at Columbia University, Isser Wolloch, called him "certainly one of the very best students I've had." The dissertation committee, Wolloch said, judged Brown's thesis on the status of French writers during the Enlightenment as "extremely original, creative, insightful." But Brown is in trouble. His pioneering monograph, based on new sources, has been turned down for publication by several university publishers because, they said, its focus is too narrow and it would not sell. Brown is not alone. Caught between growing pressures on university publishers to make money and shrinking library budgets, young professors in fields ranging from military history to ancient Near Eastern studies can't get their work turned into books. Now help is on the way. Over the past five years, the New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has spent $20 million and teamed up with university presses, colleges and influential scholars to try to publish monographs on the Internet as a way of disseminating research and providing a new place for young scholars to publish that would count toward their getting tenure. The foundation awarded $744,000 to the American Historical Association this year to publish prize-winning history dissertations on the Web. Columbia University Press will edit the manuscripts, set up and administer the site and sell subscriptions to it. The project, dubbed Gutenberg-e, is aimed at expanding the definition of scholarly publishing. For the first time thousands of pages of source material and archives, upon which the dissertations are based, would be available to subscribers. In January the history association plans to award six $20,000 fellowships to recent Ph.D's in endangered fields, like African or South Asian history, European history before 1800, military history outside the United States and Colonial Latin America, so they can revise their dissertations into books and put them on the Web. "We are going to, I hope, create a new kind of scholarly book," said Robert Darnton, the president of the American Historical Association and a leader in the effort to publish books on the Web."The whole landscape is being transformed, the landscape of scholarly life in general." Unpublished monographs mean more than a disappointed author. The monograph is the cultural capital of scholarship. It is by definition original research, usually on a narrowly focused area, to make a significant contribution and stimulate further study by other scholars. It is essential for obtaining tenure and as a building block for future research. Perhaps the most serious obstacle to on-line monographs is legitimacy. Scholars need to distinguish between a book that is put on the Web by the teen-ager next door and one that is judged worthy by a committee of scholars. Hopeful that publishing big-name scholars on the Web will help gain acceptance for on-line publishing, the American Council of Learned Societies, an umbrella group that oversees scholarly works, has applied to Mellon for $3 million to publish works by senior scholars on the Internet. The council hopes its proposal will be approved at this month's board meeting of the foundation. "I think it's a good idea, almost a necessary idea," Edmund Morgan, a professor of history at Yale University, said of the project. He is writing an introductory essay to the papers of Benjamin Franklin, which are being published on CD ROM. "I wouldn't have any objection to it going on line." One well-known historian who is also thinking of publishing a work with the council's project is Bernard Bailyn, a professor at Harvard. "I am proposing to publish the Jefferson lecture I gave in Washington in that form," he said. "I'd like to see what you can do with this." Darnton said he intended to publish a book and archival material on 18th-century France on line as part of the council's project. Princeton University, where Darnton teaches, has contributed some money to putting his research on the Web. "What I think is crucial is for scholars to take the initiative in setting standards and basically mastering this new medium so that it works to the general advantage of scholarship." Hardly anyone suggests that electronic publishing will replace academic presses. Even Darnton plans to publish a shortened form of his work in hardcover. But advocates say it could supplement traditionally published books and relieve some of the pressure on scholars. Eventually, they hope the electronically published book will carry the same weight as a traditional hardcover. Indeed, one of the Mellon projects suggests that on-line publishing may increase hardcover sales. The Mellon Foundation gave an additional $360,000 to Columbia University Press in 1997 to put works on international affairs on line. Columbia International Affairs Online (ciaonet.org) has 50,000 pages of conference proceedings, papers and books on line, with 2,000 pages of material being added monthly. The service has 170 subscriber institutions. Columbia expects it to be self-supporting with 200 subscribers by September, said Kate Wittenberg, the editor in chief of the press. "We have seen no decline in hard sales," Ms. Wittenberg said. "In fact, there's been a slight increase. We think people are browsing and then purchasing." The University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with Oxford University Press, is also using $218,000 of Mellon money to try to create a digital library of history books for use on the university's internal network, to see whether digitalization affects sales of hardcover books. Young scholars have been caught in a double squeeze. On one side are the struggling university presses, which are losing their university subsidies at the same time they're being pressured to make a profit. Originally established solely to publish dissertations, more and more of these presses are picking up books that have been rejected by commercial publishers, who prefer to focus on potential blockbusters. Indeed, many university presses have stopped publishing books on certain subjects that aren't big sellers. "There are whole periods of European history we don't do at all anymore," said John Ackerman, the director of Cornell University Press. "We don't do political and diplomatic history. We focus on women's history, psychoanalysis, intellectual history. Those still do O.K. "Across the board we try to do fewer and fewer of this kind of book, first books, revised dissertations," Ackerman said. On the other side are the libraries that have traditionally bought scholarly books. A generation ago libraries might have guaranteed a sale of 1,000 copies of Brown's book. Today they would probably only ask for a few hundred copies. Although budgets at many university libraries have stalled, the price of scholarly journals has not. An annual subscription to the Journal of Brain Research, which comes only with a package of other journals about the brain, costs $15,203, for instance, up nearly 50 percent from 1995. The Journal of Comparative Neurology cost $13,900. Fifteen years ago the typical university library spent 50 percent of its budget on monographs and 50 percent on journals. "Now it's about 35 percent for monographs versus 65 percent," said Peter Givler, president of the Association of American University Presses. According to the Association of Research Libraries, library purchases of monographs have declined 25 percent since 1986. Of course, that doesn't mean younger scholars have given up trying to attract a traditional publisher. "Most graduate students don't think about what's sexy," said Joshua Landis, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, whose book on why Syria failed as a democracy after independence won the Malcolm Kerr Award from the Middle Eastern Studies Association, the top award in his field. Landis has had little difficulty getting a contract with Oxford University Press to write a general history of Syria. But it is his monograph that is giving him trouble. Landis said his monograph was being considered by a press and he was making revisions to try to broaden its scope. He said: "My publisher's immediate reaction was how do we justify such a short time span? Can't you make it bigger?" Brown complained, "We have been playing by the rules all along, and now the rules have changed." His book is being reviewed by a panel of experts in the field and he's hoping for the best. The problem is not confined to junior scholars. Carla Hesse, a pro fessor of French history at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of one scholarly work, "Publishing and Cultural Politics in Revolutionary Paris," and the editor of another, a volume of essays. She is one of the people who heads the editorial board of the University of California Press. "I've always had a fantasy of writing a little monograph on French revolutionary editions of Rousseau," Ms. Hesse said, "but I know I would never find a publisher. "So I haven't done it." 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From: Mats Dahlstr=F6m Subject: Human IT 1/99 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 13:48:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 128 (128) Dear all, [apologies for x-posting] The WWW version of [octothorp] 1/1999 (Vol. 3, Nr 1) of the=20 Swedish quarterly journal "Human IT" is now available at: <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/1-99/index.htm> (For previous issues, see <http://www.hb.se/bhs/ith/humanit.htm>) Four of the nine articles are in English and might be of some=20 interest to Humanist members; the overarching theme of the issue is=20 "Agents of literature (vs the web)". From the contents: Johan Svedjedal: "Busy Being Born or Busy Dying? : The Internet and New Combinations of Traditional Professional Functions in the Book Trade" Alex Soojung-Kim Pang: "Old Wine for New Bottles : Making the Britannica CD Multimedia Timelines" [material deleted] Edward Vanhoutte: "Where is the editor? : Resistance in the creation of an electronic critical edition" [material deleted] Dirk Van Hulle: "Authenticity or Hyperreality in Hypertext Editions : Notes Towards a Searchable "Recherche" Sincerely,=20 Mats Dahlstr=F6m Swedish School of Library and Information Science University College of Boras, Sweden mad@adm.hb.se http://www.adm.hb.se/personal/mad/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Corpora of Minority Languages - make your needs known Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:47:51 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 129 (129) [deleted quotation] The Department of Linguistics at Lancaster is currently engaged in work aimed at establishing the needs of the language engineers and linguists with regard to corpus building in non-indigenous minority languages in Europe (e.g. Chinese, Vietnamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Panjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Sinhala, Sylheti etc). We have developed a short web-questionnaire to assess such needs. The answers will be anonymised and eventually form part of a report which we are happy to send, free of charge, to all who participate in the survey. Even if you are not working with these languages, we'd like you to fill in the questionnaire with an eye to future possible work in this area. The questionnaire is at: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/monkey/ihe/mille/leq.htm Sorry if you receive this more than once! Dr. Tony McEnery, Senior Lecturer, Dept. Linguistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YT, UK. email: mcenery@comp.lancs.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu (8) Subject: Virus Alert!!! (Actually a Trojan Horse via email) Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 130 (130) (fwd) The latest threat to desktop systems comes in the form of a Trojan horse program that is being propagated across the Internet via e-mail attachments. The desktop systems that are targeted are MS Windows 95, 98 and NT workstation operating systems. This trojan horse can be received as an attachment on any e-mail system, i.e. Eudora, Pine, Outlook, cc:Mail, etc. "The ExploreZip Trojan horse is delivered via an e-mail message that contains the file called "zipped_files.exe" The body of the e-mail message usually appears to come from a known e-mail correspondent, and may contain the following text: I received your email and I shall send you a reply ASAP. Till then, take a look at the attached zipped docs. The subject line of the message may not be predictable and may appear to be sent in reply to previous e-mail. PLEASE DO NOT EXECUTE THE ZIPPED_FILES.EXE ATTACHMENT! If you receive an e-mail message similar to this, DELETE IT immediately and call the helpdesk (2-6120) and report it. LWNS will get the latest anti-virus update that will detect and remove this virus and make it available to Library staff and PC experts. Initially, LWNS technicians will remove the virus as required. If you would like to read more about this latest threat, try the following url: http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-06-explorezip.html Paul T. Payne Head, LWNS Library Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Willard Dunking Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:27:57 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 131 (131) Dear Humanists, McMaster has a long tradition of instructional technology innovation and we have just prototyped a new form of student feedback - Online Professor Dunking. To test this technology and to celebrate the editor of Humanist we are making a version available on the WWW for your amusement. With the permission of Willard McCarty I encourage you to try it out at: http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~dunker/dunkwil/ A version with me as the dunkee that has been assessed carefully as part of a Introduction to Humanities Computing course is also available at: http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~dunker/ As is often the case, the concept and coding for this project came from one of our brilliant English students, Ben Law, who has since gone on to better things. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: John Unsworth Subject: ACH/ALLC: what actually happened Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:48:49 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 132 (132) The dust is still settling, but preliminary indications of a good time had by all can be found at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/photos/ John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Brazilian literature Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:54:30 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 133 (133) [deleted quotation] Hello, We would grateful if this information could be posted to the list and=20 forwarded to other researchers.=20 Thanks, Gloria Celeste e Raquel Wandelli --- Lovers of the Portuguese language and Brazilian literature have now free access through the Internet to a dedicated site named "Literature on Electronic Medium". The chief works of the most important Brazilian authors now on public domain - thus dead for more than 50 years - can be found on this site. These include works belonging to the various literary movements, such as the Baroque period, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, all the way to the beginnings of the Modernist period. They are available on line for reading or printing and include selected editions of the famous "Sermons", by Padre Antonio Vieira; "Caramuru", the epic poem by Santa Rita Dur=E3o; and "Capitu" and "Quincas Borba", by Machado de Assis, the internationally renowned writer who is often compared to Laurence Sterne and other British authors.=20 =20 In this same page there are also links to reviews written at the time of publishing, as well as biographies, literary history, virtual libraries and similar projects in several parts of the world. The site contains pictures of the authors, images of the printed works, papers and research done by the Center for Research on Computing, Literature and Linguistics (NUPILL) of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florian=F3polis, Brazil. This research group studies the relationship between the computer and textual production. Some texts are translated into English. =20 As NUPILL was created strictly for research purposes, access is entirely free: www.cce.ufsc.br/~alckmar/literature/literat.html. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: EMLS Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:59:24 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 134 (134) [deleted quotation] Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce the launch of the delayed January issue, which is currently available at the journal's new site at http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/emlshome.html and will soon also appear at the perpetual url, http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html. The May issue will follow shortly. We are also pleased to announce a new feature, Dialogues. Its purpose is to foster and foreground scholarly interaction, taking advantage of the internet's potential for timely interchange. In the feature, three or four scholars will be invited to address a critical issue of broad interest to scholars of early modern English literature. These papers will be posted in the journal, and the discussion will be opened to the general readership (the writers of the position papers will be encouraged to continue their participation). Comments from readers will be moderated and posted allowing readers to respond to ideas at their convenience; responses are welcomed that range from one or two sentences to short essays. Each Dialogue will be closed to further discussion when, in the editors' estimation, there has been satisfactory opportunity for the full expression of the various points-of-view of the readership. At this time, the authors of the initial papers and selected writers of significant contributions will be invited to develop their pieces into full articles, which will then be published in the refereed section of the journal as a special issue. As well, the discussion itself will be archived for easy reference. Our first Dialogue, on the construction of histories of the early modern subject, features papers by Douglas Bruster, Jonathan Hart, and Linda Woodbridge. It is available at the Sheffield site and also at: http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/emls/iemls/Dialogues/01/default.html We hope that you will join us in discussing this topic. Participation guidelines are available at the site. Lisa Hopkins Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies L.M.Hopkins@shu.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Oxford Study: Paper on Digitization Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:54:53 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 135 (135) [deleted quotation] Dear All, Re: Oxford Study - Scoping the future of Oxford's Digital Collections You may be interested in a paper I have recently posted to the web site. It outlines some of the issues involved in digitization (methods, costs, throughput, etc.). Please note this is a working paper and will be influenced by forthcoming publications. However, for the moment, I hope it is of interest. That paper can be found at: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/scoping/digitization.html Stuart *************************************************************************** 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: Patrick Durusau Subject: Right to Left Language Support Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:50:33 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 136 (136) Greetings, Computing humanists may be interested in the following post from the arabic-linux discussion list: [deleted quotation] Patrick -- Patrick Durusau Information Technology Services Scholars Press pdurusau@emory.edu Interim Manager, ITS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: machines & intimate relationships Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:29:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 137 (137) Willard, The documentation of a recent exhibit of kinetic/robotic art by Jeff Mann, Mike O'Brien, Victoria Scott, and Norman White might be of interest to some Humanist readers. http://home.golden.net/~sambi/machine/ They develop intimate relationships with the technologies that they employ, and in the process, the artists see in their creations reflections of themselves. The artworks are billed as personal explorations that are equal parts technological experimentation and philosophical inquiry. "In learning to make the machine, the machine begins to make you." Victoria Scott "Machines are a lot like people. They are more like people than anything else." Jeff Mann I found some of the commentary on the process of invention and the nature of failure remind me of some of the discussions you have fostered regarding technologically assistend (enhanced?) text analyis. -- Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Peter Evans Subject: Re: 13.0065 conferences Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:40:10 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 138 (138) At 13:45 99/06/20 +0100, Humanist wrote: a 56kB message listing conferences, complete with the exact times for lunch breaks, the names of all the people on the organizing committees, etc. Here's a double-barreled proposal for Humanist's long-suffering editors: (i) Ask that any conference description should be limited to twenty lines of text. (I think that this is far more than adequate. All that's really needed is: title, place, date, URL, email address for people without web access. The web page or private message can discuss languages, prices, parking facilities, etc.) (ii) Refuse to post or even abridge anything that's longer. I know that Willard has in the past put a lot of effort and time into removing the flab from these messages. I don't see why he should bother, and suggest that conference organizers would very quickly learn to do it for themselves once they see their more verbose messages being redirected to NUL. I hope that my comments aren't seen as denigrating the organizers of and participants in these conferences. I'm sure that most do an excellent job. All that concerns me is the cumulative bulk of their . . . well, advertising. Tersely yours Peter Evans (Hosei University, Tokyo) +++++++++++++++++++++ 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: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 13.0067 e-publishing issues Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:57:01 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 139 (139) The Mellon project is very fine - but one could wish they hd found name for it that is not so similar to Project Gutenberg, a project of long standing to put works of literature on the Web in readable, search able form. Can I assume the Mellon people did this through ignorance ? Were I part of Project Gutenberg, I would be thinking of suing. From: Francois Crompton-Roberts Subject: Re: 13.0067 e-publishing Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:50:43 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 140 (140) [deleted quotation] Let's hope they find a better name to dub it with. It will cause endless confusion with the existing "Project Gutenberg" library of free e-texts. Best wishes, 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: Imaging, Visualization and Humanities Research Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:50:27 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 141 (141) [deleted quotation] 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 To request a sample issue of the journal, or download it in PDF format, search on the title from the Kluwer hom page http://www.kap.nl -------- 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 -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: teaching cyberculture Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:51:19 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 142 (142) [deleted quotation] One of the most visited wings of the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs> is "courses in cyberculture," a collection of links to over 200 cyberculture-related university and college courses. In an attempt to update the collection, we are seeking all old and new online syllabi for courses devoted to the Internet, digital culture, cybernetics, hypertext, etc. If you teach or know of such a course please fill out the online form at: <http://otal.umd.edu/~rccs/forms/courses.html> Finally, if you know any other related instructors or relevant lists, please feel free to forward this message to them. Thanks for your time, david silver ******************************************************************* 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 ******************************************************************* From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:43:03 CDT X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 143 (143) _Candidate E-Journals with Embedded Multimedia_ For a newsletter article I will be submitting early next week, I am greatly interested in listing additional e-journals that have integrated multimedia with their e-articles. Among the types of embedded multimedia I've identified to date are: - Animation - Datasets - Geospatial plotting - Interactive 3-D displays - Interactive graphs - Interactive spreadsheets, tables -' Live Math' and numerical code - Music - Sound - Video - Virtual Reality The e-journals have identified to date that include some of these multimedia features are: * Combustion Theory and Modelling (IOP) http://www.iop.org/Journals/ct * Earth Interactions http://earthinteractions.org/ * Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk/news/eva97.html * Internet Journal of Chemistry http://www.ijc.com/multimedia.html http://www.ijc.com/ * Nanotechnology (IOP) http://www.iop.org/Journals/na * Videre http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Videre/ As Always, Any and All Contributions are Most Welcome! Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It!" Alan Kay http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/GASCH.KAY.HTML ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Gloria Withalm Subject: IASS-Info CfP 2000-07-09 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:51:42 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 144 (144) 2000-07-09/14 Budapest: Cognition in Language Use: The role of perception and representation, memory and planning, and metalinguistic awareness - 7th International Pragmatics Conference. =3D09Deadline Panel proposals: 15 September 1999 =3D09Deadline Paper proposals: 01 November 1999 Info: IPrA Secretariat, P.O. Box 33 (Antwerp 11), B-2018 Antwerp, Belgium; Tel+Fax +32-3-2305574, email: "http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/" [deleted quotation] 7th INTERNATIONAL PRAGMATICS CONFERENCE Budapest, Hungary, 9-14 July 2000 Check the IPrA home page for more details at http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ The 7th International Pragmatics Conference will be held on 9-14 July 2000 on the premises of Budapest Technical University (Building K), the largest institution of higher education in Hungary, situated on the Buda side of the city, overlooking the Danube, 10 minutes from the city center. [material deleted] From: Dirk Kottke Subject: Einladung zum 76. Kolloquium Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:22:12 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 145 (145) U N I V E R S I T A E T T U E B I N G E N Z E N T R U M F U E R D A T E N V E R A R B E I T U N G Abteilung Literarische und Dokumentarische Datenverarbeitung -------------------------------------------------------------------- E I N L A D U N G zum 76. Kolloquium ueber die Anwendung der Elektronischen Datenverarbeitung in den Geisteswissenschaften an der Universitaet Tuebingen Diese Kolloquien sollen einerseits dem Erfahrungs- und Meinungs- austausch dienen, andererseits einfuehrende Information darueber geben, welche Hilfestellung die EDV dem Geistes- wissenschaftler bieten kann. Jeder Interessierte ist willkommen. T H E M E N Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philosophische Schriften: Erfahrungen und Probleme bei der Edition eines umfangreichen Nachlasses Referent: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schepers, Leibniz-Forschungsstelle der Universitaet Muenster Leibniz auf CD-ROM: Pilotstudie zu einem elektronischen Supplement f=FCr Editionen in Buchform Referent: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Tobias Ott, pagina GmbH Tuebingen Aufbereitung des philosophischen Briefwechsels von G. W. Leibniz f=FCr die Edition Referent: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Schepers, Leibniz-Forschungsstelle der Universitaet Muenster Zeit: Samstag, 3. Juli 1999, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr Ort: Seminarraum des ZDV, Waechterstr. 76 (EG) gez. Prof. Dr. W. Ott -------------------------------------------------------------------- Das Protokoll des 75. Kolloquiums finden Sie im WWW unter: http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/zrlinfo/prot/prot75.html Falls Sie keinen oder keinen bequemen Zugriff auf das Protokoll im WWW haben, schicken wir Ihnen die Protokolle auch weiterhin gerne mit der Post zu, wenn Sie uns dies mitteilen. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Dirk Kottke | Universitaet Tuebingen | Tel. 07071/29-70309 Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung | FAX: 07071/29-5912 Waechterstrasse 76 | e-mail: kottke@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de D-72074 Tuebingen | =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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: ESSLLI 1999 -- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:49:38 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 146 (146) [deleted quotation] ESSLLI'99--Call for Participation--Web Update From August 9-20, the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information is being held at Utrecht University. The summer school offers an intensive two-week programme with courses (introductory to advanced), workshops, a student session, and plenary evening lectures. The ESSLLI'99 faculty consists of 80 top researchers in the field. In addition to the scientific programme, recruitment activities are being organized by the ESSLLI industrial sponsors. There is also a social programme. Detailed information is available via the ESSLLI'99 web site at http://esslli.let.uu.nl The web site has just been updated with full programme details (including the workshops and the student session). On the ESSLLI'99 web site, you can register on-line, and arrange local accommodation. The registration fee is 450 NLG (Dutch Guilders) for students, 700 NLG for academic participants and 1200 NLG for industrial participants. Accommodation in the comfortable student residence halls is 410 NLG for two weeks. See the web page for other options. Do not hesitate to register NOW, if you want to be sure of a place to stay! We hope to see you in Utrecht this Summer! Contact address: ESSLLI'99 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands e-mail: esslli99@let.uu.nl tel: +31-30-2536183 fax: +31-30-2536000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: DIGITAL IMAGE DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCEMENTS Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:35:21 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 147 (147) [Part 1, Text/PLAIN 283 lines] [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part] =FF=03NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT June 22, 1999 =FF=04 ACADEMIC IMAGE EXCHANGE ANNOUNCED Joint Project of College Art Association and Digital Library Federation ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) AND=20 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) SIGN AGREEMENT Copyrighted Works by ARS Artists to be Included in AMICO Library =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Two important, complementary announcements have recently been made concerni= ng the distribution of digital art-related images for education purposes. = The College Art Association and the Digital Library Federation have announc= ed the Academic Image Exchange to distribute images of art and architectural works by scholar-photographe= rs who produce "high quality color photographs to aid their own teaching an= d research." The Image Exchange will produce a pool of art historical image= s for all to use for education al purposes. Meanwhile the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), building a high-quality,= metadata rich, multimedia digital library of art museum images for licensi= ng, has announced an important agreement with the Artists Rights Society. T= he agreement will enable AMICO to include in its library digital images of copyrighted works of art by ar= tists and estates represented by the ARS, where the works may be consulted = "with other multimedia documentation (extended texts and other materials) c= reated by AMICO Member Museums =2E"=20 David Green =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ACADEMIC IMAGE EXCHANGE ANNOUNCED Joint Project of College Art Association and Digital Library Federation [deleted quotation][This notice is being cross-posted to several lists. Kindly excuse the inevitable duplication.] ACADEMIC IMAGE EXCHANGE In response to a recent discussion that appeared on CAAH (the Consortium of Art and Architectural Historians discussion list), I am pleased to announce that the College Art Association (http://www.collegeart.org) and the Digital Library Federation (http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfhomepage.htm) are sponsoring the development of the Academic Image Exchange. In service to the teaching and practice of the history of art and related disciplines, the Academic Image Exchange (AIE) intends to offer students, teachers and the general public "curriculum-based" sets of screen-sized digital images for their free and unrestricted educational non-profit use. (Higher, projectable resolutions will also be available.) First to be introduced will be a selection of images that satisfies a significant portion of the digital image requirements of most college and university level introductory courses in art history. The AIE will provide several kinds of exchange facilities: -- for faculty to create and advertise want lists of images for teaching -- for scholars, museums, libraries and photographers for non-profit educational use to contribute from the public domain or provide under license high quality images sufficient for classroom projection -- for visual resource specialists to participate in shared cataloging of the images and the works they represent -- for faculty, students, and others to develop a variety of scholarly products for learning environments, such as distance learning, and for publication. Images offered through the AIE will be chosen on the basis of their proximity to traditional course selections. An on-line concordance will link images to standard art history survey books. This concordance-index will thus serve as one of the entry-points to the image database, allowing teachers and students access to a wider variety of images than is available in any single textbook. All AIE offerings will be reviewed by an independent panel of art historians. This panel will select images based on their overall quality and on their utility for teaching. The key to the present and future success of the Image Exchange will be its ability to enlist the cooperation and advocacy of the community of scholar-photographers who produce high quality color photographs to aid their own teaching and research. By using the facilities of the internet to pool this vast resource, we will have an opportunity to create a much-needed public database of art historical images for all to use for educational purposes. The College Art Association and the Digital Library Federation are currently focused on the creation of a prototype of the Academic Image Exchange. The AIE development team is composed of art librarians, art and architectural historians, visual resources curators, photographers, specialists in digital imagery and in systems design. Members and staff of the Society of Architectural Historians, the College Art Association, the Digital Library Federation, and the faculty of the Imaging Systems Laboratory of Carnegie Mellon University are contributing to the AIE prototype development effort. I am serving as Project Manager for the AIE. Our plan is to demonstrate a prototype program and a selection of images at the upcoming New York City meeting of the College Art Association in February 2000. We expect to consult a variety of groups and interested parties during the course of the prototype development. Please watch this list for updates and further announcements about the project. Robert Baron Project Manager Academic Image Exchange A joint development of the College Art Association and the Digital Library Federation ImExch@mindspring.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) AND=20 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) SIGN AGREEMENT Copyrighted Works by ARS Artists to be Included in AMICO Library [deleted quotation] AMICO Press Release June 1, 1999 Art Museum Image Consortium and the Artists Rights Society Reach Important Agreement AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA =09Contemporary and Modern art is now available for education! The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) and the Artists Rights Society (ARS) are delighted to announce they have reached an agreement to ensure that 20th century art will be available in the AMICO Library, a subscription-based resource for use in education, research, and teaching. ARS has granted AMICO a non-exclusive, North American license to include digital images of copyrighted works of art by artists and estates represented by the Artists Rights Society in the AMICO Library, where these works may be consulted with other multimedia documentation (extended texts and other materials) created by AMICO Member Museums. In return for the use of these copyrighted works of art, AMICO will share a proportionate royalty based on subscription income with ARS. =09"We've broken a log-jam," said Jennifer Trant, Executive Director of AMICO. "With this agreement the AMICO Library can fully represent the modern and contemporary works held by AMICO Members without the added burden of separate rights clearance," Ms. Trant continued. "Those AMICO Members whose collections are predominately comprised of works from these periods, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al, will certainly benefit from our relationship with ARS. This agreement eases the process for everyone involved." =09Theodore Feder, President of the Artists Rights Society, also felt the agreement was "a win-win. Contemporary artists' work will be much more available for educational purposes, while ensuring their appropriate use under an educational license agreement." He was pleased that ARS was part of the AMICO concept saying that "the Consortium really sets the standard for dissemination of digital images of works of art in a learning setting." AMICO Members also welcomed the enhanced coordination this ARS and AMICO agreement will provide. "We can really participate in the AMICO Library to our full potential," stated Director of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Hugh Davies. Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, observed, "as the arts community navigates through the uncertain waters of copyright legislation in a wired world, it is very exciting to have brought two critical constituencies together in service of education: our major modern and contemporary artists and our leading art museums. Thanks to the agreement with ARS, AMICO can now aspire to present the fullest possible dimensions of contemporary art." In the end, it's the subscribers to the AMICO Library who will benefit the most from this agreement. Contemporary art will be included in the AMICO Library without any change in the subscription fees. And individual teachers and students will not have to worry about the time consuming and uncertain process of obtaining copyright clearances. Over time, collaborations such as these will ensure that the AMICO Library grows in breadth and depth, to become a resource used in research, teaching and learning in all arts and humanities disciplines. The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a not-for-profit association of art-collecting institutions working together to enable educational use of their digital documentation. The AMICO Library is a growing collection of digital multimedia (now text and image and over time also sound and moving image), compiled by AMICO Members and made available under license for educational use. Subscriptions to the AMICO Library are available beginning July 1, 1999, through not-for-profit distributors such as the Research Libraries Group. Educational institutions, universities, public libraries, and primary through secondary schools will have access to over 50,000 works of art. Founded in October 1997, as a program of the Association of Art Museum Directors Educational Foundation, Inc., AMICO was separately incorporated as an independent non-profit corporation in June of 1998, ending its direct connection with the AAMD. The Consortium is today made up of 28 of the major art collections in North America and is regularly adding new Members. If you are interested in becoming an AMICO Member or Subscriber, please contact Jennifer Trant, Executive Director . Full details about AMICO and its activities can be found on its web site at http://www.amico.org Artists Rights Society (ARS) was appointed in 1986, by the French copyright societies for visual artists to represent the copyright and permissions interests of their members within the United States. Since then, ARS has signed reciprocal contracts with more than twenty other visual artists rights organizations worldwide. The membership lists of these organizations include the majority of artists active in this century, including Georges Braque, Joseph Beuys, Constantin Brancusi, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, John Heartfield, Wassily Kandinsky, Fernand L=E9ger, Man Ray, Joan Mir=F3, and Edvard Munch. In addition, our direct European adherents include the estates of Pablo Picasso (through the Picasso Administration ), Henri Matisse (through the Succession Matisse), and Ren=E9 Magritte. ARS also acts on behalf of American artists and active= ly lobbies state and federal legislatures for stronger and more effective artist's rights laws. Contact Information: AMICO Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 Phone (412) 422 8533 Fax (412) 422 8594 Email: jtrant@amico.org http://www.amico.org ARS Theodore Feder President Artists Rights Society 65 Bleecker Street, 9th Floor New York, NY 10012 Phone: (212) 420-9160 Fax: (212) 420-9286 Email: feder@arsny.com http://www.arsny.com ________ J. Trant=09=09=092008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director=09=09Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org=09=09Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org=09=09Fax: +1 412 422 8594 ________ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=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 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 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 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: David Zeitlyn Subject: Publication Announcement: ASA Anthropology Monographs 1-10= Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:26:22 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 148 (148) on CD Apologies for cross-posting The Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs 1-10 on CD The Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) are pleased to announce the publication on CD of the full text of the first ten ASA monographs. These classic texts have been out of print for some time and in order to make them availble at low cost the texts have been digitised and will be distributed on CD. The pagination of the originals has been preserved so references can be made in an identical fashion to the original paper editions. A Table of Contents listing is available online <http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ASA/monog_toc.html>. A discounted price is available for orders from individuals made before 1 September 1999. We expect to ship CDs from October 1999. Pricing for ASA Monographs CD Institutions (includes license to make the files available to multiple users over a LAN.) =A3100 ($160) Individuals (stricly one per user) ASA members and non-members before 1 September 1999 =A320 ($32) Non-ASA members After 1 September 1999 =A330 ($48) Postage and packing: UK =A31 Europe =A31.50 Outside Europe =A32.00 ($3= =2E00) We can accept payment in the following: Visa, UK cheques and International Drafts (made out in sterling). VISA: Card number: Expiration Date Billing address Technical information: the files are searchable and are stored in Adobe Acrobat (TM) (pdf) format on a multi-platform CD. Shipping is planned to start early in October 1999 Please send orders including payment can be sent using Visa, UK cheques and International Drafts (made out in sterling) to pay 'Association of Social Anthropologists' to Ms Audrey Dougall, ASA, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Durham, Stockton Campus, University Boulevard, Thornaby, Stockton on Tees, TS17 6BH, UK Audrey.Dougall@durham.ac.uk If you need an official invoice then an online template can be used to generate one (you can print it out, and send it to your finance office)! <http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/ASA/cdinvoice.html>. 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Joint NSF/JISC International Digital Libraries Initiative:= Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:50:12 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 149 (149) First Six projects Recommended for Funding =FF=03NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources=20 from across the Community June 25 1999 =FF=04JOINT NSF/JISC INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE First Six Projects Recommended for Funding =3D =3D =3D Cross-Domain Resource Discovery:=20 Integrated Discovery and use of Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data=20 University of California, Berkeley/University of Liverpool. HARMONY:=20 Metadata for resource discovery of multimedia digital objects=20 Cornell University/ILRT/DSTC Integrating and Navigating Eprint Archives through Citation-Linking=20 Cornell University/Southampton University/Los Alamos National Laboratory Online Music Recognition and Searching (OMRAS) University of Massachussetts/King's College, London Emulation Options for Digital Preservation:=20 Technology Emulation as a Method for=20 Long-term Access and Preservation of Digital Resources University of Michigan/CURL The IMesh Toolkit An architecture and toolkit for distributed subject gateways University of Wisconsin-Madison / UKOLN /ILRT =3D =3D =3D The UK's Joint Information Systems Committee was the first foreign agency t= o answer the NSF's call to jointly fund international digital library proje= cts. Mirroring the NSF/NEH's important DLI2 project in the U.S., this exemp= lary funding initiative recenl y announced its first awards. David Green NINCH =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D [deleted quotation] Press Release Friday 11 June 1999=20 The Joint NSF/JISC International Digital Libraries Initiative The National Science Foundation and the UK Joint Information Systems Commit= tee=20 today (Friday 11 June 1999) released a joint statement announcing the=20 first 6 projects which have been recommended for funding under the=20 International Digital Libraries Initiative NSF/JISC Joint Program. Among the most exciting of opportunities offered by a global=20 information infrastructure are international digital libraries; - content-rich, multimedia, multilingual collections created from =20 globally distributed resources by international groups engaged in collaborative efforts. While there are now uncoordinated efforts in=20 many countries, cooperative programs of research and intellectual infrastructure development can help avoid duplication of effort, =20 prevent the development of fragmented digital systems, and encourage=20 productive interchange of scientific knowledge and scholarly data=20 around the world. The digital libraries area is one in which all=20 countries stand to gain from coordinated, cooperative activities. To begin to address some of the research challenges associated with =20 creating international digital libraries the Division of Information=20 and Intelligent Systems and the Division of International Programs of=20 the National Science Foundation issued a call for proposals in=20 October 1998 for multi-country, multi-team projects involving at=20 least one research team in the United States and one in another=20 country (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1999/nsf996/nsf996.htm). The NSF=20 would support the US part of a joint project while the non-US parts=20 needed to gain its support from other sources. NSF wished to=20 co-ordinate review with the foreign funding agency and make joint=20 decisions, when possible. The UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) was the first to =20 join the NSF in this endeavour and issued a matching call=20 (JISC Circular 15/98 - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub98/c15_98.html). JISC=20 has committed =A3500,000 per year for three years to fund=20 new development work in this programme. The NSF has committed a=20 similar amount. The JISC/NSF arrangement was opportune for both organizations. It =20 allowed NSF to broaden its traditional basic research focus, and JISC=20 to draw on and connect with, in a direct way, the large set of=20 research activities being sponsored under Digital Libraries=20 Initiative Phase 2. The joint JISC/NSF projects are considered an=20 integral part of this larger multi-agency program. Michael Lesk, Division Director of the National Science Foundation's =20 Division of Information and Intelligent Systems said, "The National=20 Science Foundation is very excited at this new step in international=20 scientific cooperation. We look on this as an example of the=20 worldwide advantages and synergies from which all countries will=20 benefit." Reg Carr, Director of University Library Services, University of=20 Oxford and Chair of the Joint Information Systems=20 Committee's (JISC's) Committee on Electronic Information said, "I am=20 delighted with the joint programme of bilateral digital projects=20 which has been arranged by agreement between the National Science=20 Foundation and the JISC. The rigorous selection process has led to a well-balanced range of projects which promise to achieve much of mutual benefit for the US and the UK in the digital library arena." Six projects were recommended for funding, sharing a total of almost=20 $5million over the three year project term. The six joint projects are: ------------------------------- Cross-Domain Resource Discovery: Integrated Discovery and use of=20 Textual, Numeric and Spatial Data: University of California, Berkeley / University of Liverpool. The University of California, Berkeley and Special Collections and =20 Archives, the University of Liverpool Library are collaborating on a project to enable cross-domain searching in a multi-database =20 environment. Their aim is to produce a next generation=20 online information retrieval system ("Cheshire") based on=20 international standards that will facilitate searching on the=20 internet across collections of original materials, printed books,=20 records, archives, manuscripts, and museum objects), statistical=20 databases, full-text,geo-spatial, and multi-media data resources. ------------------------------- HARMONY: Metadata for resource discovery of multimedia digital =20 objects: Cornell University / ILRT / DSTC HARMONY, a three-way international partnership between Cornell =20 University, the Australian Distributed Systems Technology Centre and=20 the University of Bristol's Institute for Learning and Research=20 Technology, will be devising a framework to deal with the challenge=20 of describing networked collections of highly complex and mixed-media=20 digital objects. The work will draw together work on the RDF, XML,=20 Dublin Core and MPEG-7 standards, and will focus on the problem of=20 allowing multiple communities of expertise (e.g. library, education,=20 rights management) to define overlapping descriptive vocabularies for=20 annotating multimedia content. ------------------------------- Integrating and Navigating Eprint Archives through Citation-Linking:=20 Cornell University / Southampton University / Los Alamos National Laboratory In a 3-way partnership, Southampton University, Cornell University, =20 and the Los Alamos National Laboratory will hyperlink each of the=20 over 100,000 papers in Los Alamos's unique online Physics Archive to=20 every other paper in the archive that it cites. It is hoped that the=20 power of this remarkable new way of navigating the scientific journal=20 literature will help induce authors in others fields to join to=20 create interlinked online archives like Los Alamos across disciplines=20 and around the world. ------------------------------- Online Music Recognition and Searching (OMRAS): University of=20 Massachussetts / King's College, London Online music recognition and searching (OMRAS) is led by King's=20 College London in partnership with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts. OMRAS is a=20 system for efficient and user-friendly content-based searching and retrieval of musical information from online databases =20 stored in a variety of formats ranging from encoded score files to digital audio. The overall goal of this cross-disciplinary research =20 is to fill a gap in the provision of online facilities for musical collections: the inability to search the content for 'music' itself. ------------------------------- Emulation options for digital preservation: technology emulation as =20 a method for long-term access and preservation of digital resources: University of Michigan / CURL A team of researchers at the University of Michigan and research=20 staff in the UK from the Cedars project, being run at the=20 Universities of Leeds, Oxford and Cambridge under the aegis of CURL=20 (Consortium of University Research Libraries) will investigate the=20 potential role of emulation in long-term preservation of information=20 in digital form. The project will develop and test a suite=20 of emulation tools, evaluate the costs and benefits of emulation as a=20 preservation strategy for complex multi-media documents and objects,=20 and develop models for collection management decisions about how much=20 effort and resources to invest in exact replication within=20 preservation activity. The project team will assess options for=20 preserving the original functionality and 'look and feel' of=20 digital objects and develop preliminary guidelines for the use of=20 different preservation strategies (conversion, migration and=20 emulation). ------------------------------- The IMesh Toolkit: An architecture and toolkit for distributed =20 subject gateways: University of Wisconsin-Madison / UKOLN /ILRT Recent years have seen the emergence of the subject gateway approach =20 to Internet resource discovery and leading gateway initiatives have=20 recently been collaborating informally under the name IMesh. The=20 IMesh Toolkit project, a partnership of the UK Office for Library and=20 Information Networking at the University of Bath, the Institute for=20 Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol and the=20 Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, aims=20 to advance the system framework within which subject gateways and=20 related services operate by defining an architecture which specifies=20 individual components and how they communicate. =20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Notes for editors The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government =20 agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through=20 programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000=20 research and education projects in science and engineering. URL: http://www.nsf.gov/=20 The Joint Information Systems Committee is funded by the four UK =20 Higher Education Funding Bodies to stimulate and enable the cost=20 effective exploitation of information systems and to provide a high=20 quality national network infrastructure for the UK higher education and research councils communities. URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ For further details of the NSF/JISC joint program contact: Mr Stephen M. Griffin, Division of Information and Intelligent=20 Systems (IIS), Program Director: Special Projects, Digital=20 Libraries Initiative, National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson=20 Boulevard, Room 1115, Arlington, VA 22230 Phone: (703) 306-1930 Fax: (703) 306-0599 Email sgriffin@nsf.gov Mr Chris Rusbridge, Programme Director, Electronic Libraries=20 Programme, The Library, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Phone: 01203 524979 Fax: 01203 524981, Email C.A.Rusbridge@Warwick.ac.uk Mr Norman Wiseman, JISC Head of Programmes, C35 Cherry Tree=20 Buildings, University of Nottingham, University Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK Phone: 0115 951 4790 Fax: 0115 951 4791 Email head.programmes@jisc.ac.uk For further information about each of the projects contact: Cross-domain resource discovery Dr Paul Watry, Automated Projects Manager, Special Collections and=20 Archives University of Liverpool Library, PO Box 123,Liverpool L69=20 3DA, UK Phone: +44 151 794 2696 Fax: +44 151 794 2681 Email: P.B.Watry@liverpool.ac= =2Euk HARMONY Mr Dan Brickley, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, =20 University of Bristol, 8-10 Berkeley Square, Bristol BS8 1HH, UK Phone: +44 117 928 7096 Fax: +44 117 928 7112 Email: daniel.brickley@bristo= l.ac.uk ePrint Citation linking Professor Stevan Harnad, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department=20 of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton,=20 Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ UK Phone: +44 1703 592-582 Fax: +44 1703 592-865 email: harnad@cogsci.soton.ac= =2Euk OMRAS Mr Tim Crawford, Music Department, King's College, Strand, London WC2R 2LS,= UK Phone: +44 171 848 1821 Fax: +44 171 848 2326 Email: t.crawford@kcl.ac.uk Emulation options Ms Kelly Russell, CEDARS Project Manager, Edward Boyle Library, =20 University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK Phone: +44 113 233 6386 Fax: +44 113 233 5539 Email: k.l.russell@leeds.ac.u= k IMesh toolkit Mr Andy Powell, UK Office for Library and Information Networking, =20 University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK Phone: +44 1225 323933 Fax: +44 1225 826838 Email: a.powell@ukoln.ac.uk = =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=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 http://www.ninch.org david@ninch.org 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 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 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 D. Hinton" (2) Subject: [Fwd: First Issue of The Heroic Age] Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 150 (150) I am pleased to announce that the first issue of The Heroic Age entitled "Early Arthurian Tradition: Text and Context" is now online at http://members.aol.com/heroicage1/Issue1/hatoc.htm . We have something for everyone in this first issue: literature, linguistics, folklore and legend, history, and archaeology. Enjoy! Michelle Ziegler Editor-In-Chief, The Heroic Age ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Carol Rowland Subject: Arts/humanities event Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 09:47:16 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 151 (151) A note from HAN member Lisa Whistlecroft of CTI Music: [deleted quotation] Regards Carol Rowland Humanities and Arts higher education Network (HAN) c/o The Institute of Educational Technology The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tel: 01908 652870 Fax: 01908 654173 Email: c.a.rowland@open.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: ways of teaching humanities computing Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:15:10 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 152 (152) Dear colleagues, As our subject becomes more popular, numbers of students will increase -- as they already have begun to do where I ply my trade. At some point, it becomes difficult to accommodate all those who want to take a practically orientated humanities computing course in a single lab. What does one do then -- without simply hiring another full-time lecturer? There are other pressures too. As single intro courses develop into programmes, interested departments may want more choices. Unlike most if not all departments we serve, humanities computing necessarily has a prominent service component. Requests from other departments must be welcomed and dealt with. (This does not mean that h.c. is necessarily in a passive role or must be content with a lesser status, only that *collegial* service is a very important part of what it does.) Thus the need for alternative models for teaching the subject, even at institutions where courses or programmes are in place and working successfully. Where should we look for those models? Because teaching our subject involves equipment (except perhaps under rather special circumstances), it seems to me that we should look to the laboratory sciences, e.g. chemistry, physics, biology. The model I know from having taken courses in those fields specifies the large lecture section followed by practical tutorials with relatively small numbers of students per tutorial/lab. In other words, the explicitly conceptual part of the subject is separated from the explicitly practical. Because our field is interdisciplinary, this might allow us to have tutorials/labs with different emphases, though managing such a scenario might be impossibly difficult. What do the sciences do, I wonder, with the need to process the "poets" -- i.e. students in the humanities who need to take a science course, or those who simply (and laudably!) want to know what a particular science is like? In particular, how do the sciences handle a student who has taken an "X for poets" course then wants to switch into the mainstream of that subject? Is the time spent in the poets' course necessarily wasted? Because our field is a neophyte, we can hardly afford to take the robust approach, as one might call it -- do it our way or get lost. Ideas, comments? Yours, WM ----- Dr W.L. McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. +44 (0)171 848 2784 / http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/ maui gratia From: "Jim Marchand" Subject: obsolescence, evanescence Date: Wed, 30 Jun 99 10:17:33 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 153 (153) We have talked before about obsolescence and what one does with things such as old Control Data tapes, even 5 1/4 " diskettes. I just had a friend write about what to do with old fonts from Linguist's Software. These are, of course, in bitmap format. I have the same problem with FancyFont fonts. Often one has a window of opportunity to convert, but fails to do so, but it is often just a technology, and often a good one, which passes by the boards. Specific question: Does anyone know how to deal with old bitmap fonts? Things disappear from the. During my late lamented move, I was offline for a while, and an entire set of Marchandises (Latin Word Formation, Latin Roots, Old Norse + translation, Muspilli, etc. etc.) disappeared. We have been able to resurrect them, but this is not always true. What happens when a site disappears? Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Stephanie Stauffer Subject: XEROX IN MANUFACTURING PACT FOR ELECTRONIC PAPER Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:16:19 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 154 (154) XEROX IN MANUFACTURING PACT FOR ELECTRONIC PAPER Xerox will announce this week that it has partnered with 3M to commercially produce electronic paper. Electronic paper, which has until now been a Xerox research project, is a reusable electronic display that is similar to a computer screen but almost as flexible as ordinary paper. It could be used for such innovations as electronic newspapers that add late-breaking news even while being read. The product uses a display technology called "gyricon" created by Xerox almost 10 years ago. Small beads, similar to toner particles, are embedded in a uniform pattern in a flexible binder sheet. The beads rotate to display one side to the viewer when a pattern of electrical voltage is applied to the surface. The image stays until a new pattern is applied. Despite the new manufacturing deal, electronic paper will not be released for at least another year. (Reuters 06/29/99) ***************************************************** COPYRIGHT INFORMATION News abstracts Copyright 1999, Information Inc., Bethesda, MD Edupage Copyright 1999, EDUCAUSE ***************************************************** EDUCAUSE, an international nonprofit association dedicated to transforming education through information technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13.0075 long conference messages... Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:45:27 +0000 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 155 (155) [deleted quotation] Hear, hear, I'll second this proposal. If the gist of the info can be given in one screenful of a web page, so can it in a posting to Humanist. Humanist is no place for the actual booking form that we too often see! 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: New Maps Added to American Memory Project Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 10:46:26 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 156 (156) =FF=03NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources=20 from across the Community July 1, 1999 =FF=04New Maps Added to American Memory Collections: Mapping the National Parks http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/nphtml/nphome.html 1562 Map of America by Diego Guti=E9rrez http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/dsxphome.html 1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlhome.html [deleted quotation] The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress are pleased to announce a new collection to be added to the American Memory historical collections. Mapping the National Parks, which can be found at the following URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/nphtml/nphome.html provides users with information about the history, cultural aspects and geological formations of the areas that became Acadia, Great Smokey Mountain, Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Parks. The 200 maps that comprise this collection date from the 17th Century to the current day and provide samples of early mapping practices as well as information on the areas that would become the parks themselves. Each park has a Special Presentation, which provides additional information about each park and provides examples of the kinds of maps available for study. Of special interest are the nautical charts that are a part of the Acadia National Park Special Presentation. These nautical charts not only document the shore and water areas that are a part of Acadia National Park; they also document the importance of the water as a source of transportation and commerce for the area.=20 Also of interest are the maps of the Grand Canyon that can be accessed by clicking the image on the site's home page. These maps not only provide detailed information about the Grand Canyon but also glorious views of various scenes from the Canyon, many of which can also be accessed from the Evolution of the Conservation Movement collection, which is also part of American Memory. The Rockefeller Foundation provided funding for the Mapping the National Parks collection. In addition to this new collection, the Geography and Map Division has added two new special maps to its current online collections. A special presentation about the 1562 Map of America by Diego Guti=E9rrez has been added to the Discovery and Exploration Maps collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/dsxphome.html Guti=E9rrez, a noted cosmographer from the firm Casa de la Contrataci=F3n, collaborated with Hieronymous Cock, a noted engraver from Antwerp, to create a map of the Americas, what was then considered the fourth part of the world. At the time it was the largest engraved map of the Americas and presently only two copies of this map survive, one here at the Library of Congress; the other at the British Library. This richly illustrated map provides a view of an America filled with images and names that had been popularized in Europe following Columbus's 1492 voyage of discovery. Images of parrots, monkeys, mermaids, fearsome sea creatures, Patagonian giants, and an erupting volcano in central Mexico complement the numerous settlements, rivers, mountains, and capes named. This map correctly identifies the location of the Amazon River and many other bodies of water in South America. The map also identified various land areas in the Southwestern United States and in Central America. The final addition to the online map collections is the 1570 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theater of the World) by Abraham Ortelius, (1527-1598), a Dutch Scholar and geographer. This atlas has been added to the special presentation on atlases in the General Map Collections http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlhome.html Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is considered the first true atlas in the modern sense: a collection of uniform map sheets and sustaining text bound to form a book for which copper printing plates were specifically engraved. More than an original concept, the Theatrum was also the most authoritative and successful such work during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Because it was frequently revised to reflect new geographical and historical insights, contemporary scholars in Western Europe praised the Theatrum highly for its accuracy .The Theatrum atlas first appeared in 1570 and continued to be published until 1612. During this period, over seventy-three hundred copies were printed in thirty-one editions and seven different languages-a remarkable figure for the time. Many of his atlas's maps were based upon sources that no longer exist or are extremely rare. In addition, Ortelius included a listed of contemporary cartographers who served as sources in the creation of this atlas. Without this many of these cartographers would otherwise have remained unknown. Patrons who wish to just view the plates from the Ortelius Atlas can click on the words "maps only" and view the beautifully colored and designed maps that are a part of the atlas. Areas included in this atlas include Africa, Germany, Greece, Early India and Spain. 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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 15:48:47 +0200 (METDST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 157 (157) [deleted quotation]=2E... =20 The situation Willard describes, sounds much alike the problems we are facing. Probably they are very much alike at all centres for humanities computing. There are many obstacles in our task. By tradition our subjects are non- laborative and we are expected to use just paper and pencil. Humanities is poor compared with science and huge labs with many teachers are impossible to us. But I think our main problem is to define the contents of "humanities computing". I often use this expression, but can I really define it? We can distinguish a number of "courses", projects or ideas we will say are included in "h.c". When we examine these ideas it is difficult to extract the smallest common denominator. The languages might be a group with common interests, but they differ a lot from those of history, archaeology, history of art, etc. Is "h.c." really a separate subject? And why? How can service organisations as ours embrace this wide range of subjects? (One problem to compare the situation in different countries, I think, is the organisation of undergraduate studies. Our students, e.g., start their university career at another level than in the Anglo-Saxon countries.) I myself have no answer to the questions but to handle the situation in a pragmatic way, we give the students basic knowledge (if they don't already have it) in handling computers, information retrieval and useful software, all with a humanistic approach. What we can do today is to be aware of the teachers ideas in different subjects, give them all support we can, and in co-operation create useful courses. I would very much appreciate exchange of ideas in this discussion list or perhaps a web site with links to curricula in "h.c.". -- 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 =3D http://www.hum.gu.se ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Craig Branham Subject: CFP: Student Work for Research Central Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 14:55:53 -0500 (CDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 158 (158) CALL FOR WEB SITES Student Research Projects Research Central OCC @ Addison-Wesley Longman http://www.awlonline.com/ Dear Humanities Instructors: If your students have prepared research projects for the Web as part of your class, I have a possible publication opportunity that may interest them. I am collecting student-authored researched Web sites for a gallery I'm preparing as part of a companion Web site to three new writing textbooks from Addison-Wesley Longman. We're calling the site Research Central. The types of projects that could be submitted for consideration include: researched articles prepared for the Web, annotated webliographies, subject guides/enthusiast sites, researched webs, or any innovative student work that involves research and is prepared specifically for the WWW. The work obviously has to be original, and the authors must have permissions secured for any copyrighted material or borrowed images that might appear in their sites. With the authors' and instructors' permission, we hope to include some basic biographical information about the authors of each project, and links to the original class sites and instructors' home pages. We will also award an honorarium to student authors whose work is selected to appear in the site. AWL is not seeking exclusive ownership or control of the students' work, only the right to archive a stable copy on its Web server. For more information, please e-mail me at branhacc@slu.edu . Feel free to forward this message to your colleagues in other disciplines, we would like to get a wide variety of student projects if we can. I would need to see the work by August 6 to have a chance to get it into the site. Sincerely, Craig Branham Department of English Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO branhacc@slu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Quotation help Date: Tue, 6 Jul 99 09:08:58 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 159 (159) I asked this question before, but received no useful help; now I am desperate, since I am on the verge of going to press. The question is: Who was it who said "The best commentary is a translation," or "A translation is the best commentary." Previous suggestions pointed to Willamowitz (sp. ?), but nobody came up with an actual citation. Help! Jim Marchand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Workshop on manuscript transcription (fwd) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 21:44:46 -0700 (PDT) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 160 (160) If anyone can get out to San Francisco, or is in the Bay Area at the time, we would be delighted for additional hands. Charles Faulhaber Department of Spanish UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu We have, at long last, scheduled the workshop on medieval manuscript transcription using the DTD developed by Michael Sperberg-McQueen, U.S. editor of the Text Encoding Initiative. This is the announcement that I sent to my colleagues at Berkeley: We want to use you as guinea pigs to see how well it responds to the needs of scholars who are preparing machine-readable transcriptions or editions of medieval manuscript material. The workshop is scheduled for: Tuesday, July 27, 1-4 p.m. Wednesday, July 28, 1-4 p.m. Both sessions will be held in 105 Doe Library, on the UC Berkeley campus. The first session is designed to give an overview of the encoding scheme and an introduction to the emacs text editor which has been configured to make it easier to insert the coding in the transcription. The second session will be a hands-on editing session to which each participant should bring a page or two of manuscript text to practice on. Each participant will be given copies of the software as well as printed documentation. If you are interested in participating, please send e-mail to Merrilee Proffitt (mproffit@library.berkeley.edu) to reserve a space. Please feel free to pass this message on to non-UCB scholars who might wish to participant. We would like to have as many people as possible take a look at the encoding system and use the software. Charles Faulhaber The Bancroft Library UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 (510) 642-3781 FAX (510) 642-7589 cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:30:04 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 161 (161) _ M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals_ I am pleased to announcement the formal establishment of a new registry of electronic journals that incorporate or integrate embedded multimedia within their e-articles. The registry is entitled: _M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals_ and is accessible from http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm Currently the registry is only an alphabetical listing of identified e-journal titles. As time permits, I will be preparing specialized indexes by type of multimedia and plug-in as well. The registry also contains a General Bibliography of key works on the topic of multimedia in e-journals. I have prepared a 2,000 word newsletter article on "Embedded Multimedia in Electronic Journals" that is scheduled to be published within the newsletter of the Special Interest Group on Visualization, Images, and Sound (VIS) of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in the near future. The address for the ASIS SIG VIS is http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGVIS/news.html I would greatly appreciate learning of additional multimedia e-journals as well as receiving citations/sitations to any high-relevant literature not currently listed for expanded article I will be preparing this summer for a Fall deadline. I wish to express my gratitude to all who contributed nominations for this listing as well as relevant citations from my previous queries. Thanks again to all! /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "Words still have ... primacy, but they can be illuminated by images and moving pictures and by numbers and by sounds." Tom Wilson / "In the Beginning Was the Word ..." / ELVIRA2: 4 P.S. Please explore the EmBEDed multimedia in the registry's logo [Forgive for the link from the graphic - my wife's from Michigan and I couldn't resist (Go (Big) Blue {;-)] From: Charles Muller Subject: New Release of Web Dictionary of Buddhism Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:14:32 +0900 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 162 (162) Colleagues: I am happy to announce to you the availability of a newly updated version of the web Dictionary of East Asian Buddhist Terms (DEABT). This version replaces that which was issued in January of this year, having increased in coverage from 4200 entries to 5200. This is the largest single increase so far between updates--also in the shortest amount of time. The enhanced rapidity and size of the update is due to two main factors: (1) The fact that the DEABT is finally turning into the cooperative project that we had envisioned it to be, and (2) the increased speed with which input is possible, primarily due to the availability of the Composite Index of East Asian Buddhist Dictionaries (available at http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/mullertext.htm). This version is, like the prior one, available in Shift-JIS and Unicode formats. Information on these formats, and how to set up the proper font support, is provided on the dictionary main entry page. It may also be downloaded for local installation and usage. The URL for the DEABT is: http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/bdict.htm Regards, Charles Muller Toyo Gakuen University Web Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ICoS-1: Call for Participation Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:51:59 -0500 (EST) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 163 (163) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-1 http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/ Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Amsterdam, August 15, 1999 (Early registration deadline: August 1, 1999) Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics. 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: LC NDL: "Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax collection" Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 03:26:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 164 (164) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 8, 1999 NEW AMERICAN MEMORY COLLECTION: Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Collection http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html [deleted quotation]This announcement is being widely posted *************************************** The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program announces the release of Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Collection at the American memory website at the following URL: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html This multiformat ethnographic field collection includes 686 sound recordings, as well as photographic prints, fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting folksingers and folksongs discovered on the Lomax's three-month, 6,502-mile trip through eight Southern states: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia. Beginning in Port Aransas, Texas, on March 31, 1939, and ending at the Library of Congress on June 14, 1939, John Avery Lomax, Honorary Consultant and Curator of the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center), and his wife, Ruby Terrill Lomax, recorded approximately 25 hours of music from more than 300 performers. The recordings represent a broad spectrum of musical styles, including ballads, blues, children's songs, cowboy songs, fiddle tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals, and work songs. Over 100 songs are sung in Spanish. A special presentation on the collection provides a state-by-state snapshot of the Lomaxes' expedition, highlighting the diverse musical styles of each region, the variety of documentation archived by the collectors, and many of their experiences on this field expedition through the rural South in the 1930s. The sound recordings in the Southern Mosaic collection were taken from disc recordings in the Library's collections. When original discs were unavailable preservation tapes were used. The analog audio from the discs and tapes were transferred to Digital Audio Tape (DAT) to produce a master source for digitization. Some surface noise and scratching may be apparent on the recordings since they have not been enhanced or altered in any way from their original state. WAVE and RealAudio versions have been supplied for each recording. The WAVE files were created from the DAT tape at a sampling rate of 22,050 samples per second, 16-bit word length, and a single (mono) channel. The RealAudio files were derived from the WAVE files through means of digital processing and were created for users who have at least a 14.4 modem. Patrons wishing to use this collection can search for items in many ways, including by city, state, and county where the recording took place, performer name, song title, musical genre, and recording venue. Also included in the collection is an extensive bibliography and discography for those interested in doing further research on the folk music documented in this collection. The presentation of this online collection is made possible by the generous support of The Texaco Foundation. Other folklife-related online collections, selected publications of the American Folklife Center, and information about products and services are available from the Center's homepage: http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife This collection is the fifth American Folklife Center contribution to the American Memory Web site.=20 Please send any questions regarding this or other American Memory Collections to ndlpcoll@loc.gov =============================================================== 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Fwd: USDE Call for Outstanding Ed Tech Programs Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 03:19:57 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 165 (165) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 8, 1999 US DEPT OF EDUCATION CALL FOR OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS TO GAIN NATIONAL RECOGNITION Deadline for Online Submission: Sept 1, 1999 http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ORAD/LTD/panel.html. [deleted quotation] Dear Colleagues, Below is an announcement of a U. S. Department of Education Technology Expert Panel call for applications for "outstanding educational technology programs." Milton Chen, Executive Director of The George Lucas Educational Foundation, is serving as a co-chair for this 18-member Panel. An Invitation for Outstanding Educational Technology Programs to Gain National Recognition! The U.S. Department of Education has established a system of Expert Panels to evaluate educational programs and recommend those programs that should be recognized nationally as promising or exemplary. The Educational Technology Expert Panel is inviting technology programs to participate in the application process during Summer 1999. Deadline for online submission of the application of technology prog rams to the Panel is September 1, 1999. Please help the Panel disseminate information about this opportunity to technology programs within your region or constituency area. We hope to reach as wide an audience as possible in a short time span, so feel free to publicize this invitation and circulate the announcement of submission guidelines to as broad an audience as you can. Please consider posting notice of this opportunity electronically via your website or listserv. The Guidelines and Materials for Submitting Educational Technology Programs for Review can be found online and downloaded at the Department of Education's website, http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ORAD/LTD/panel.html. You may want to add this site to the list of hypertext links offered from your website. The application is also available in hard copy by contacting RMC Research by telephone or e-mail (see below). Technology programs can benefit greatly from this national designation. Information about programs designated as promising or exemplary will be disseminated through the National Education Dissemination System and other national, regional, and state school improvement systems, such as the Regional Technology Education Consortia (R*TECs) and other systemic initiatives. Other rewards include publicity and professional networking opportunities, commendation by the Secretary of Education, potential invitations to present at professional conferences and to other educational audiences, and recognition in professional journals. Various funding opportunities also may arise from a program's designation as exemplary or promising We appreciate your assistance in making programs aware of this opportunity. If you have questions or need further information, please contact Diane Aleem, the Technology Panel's Staff Coordinator in the Department of Education, at 202-219-2148 or email her at diane_aleem@ed.gov. You may also call the Panel's Support Contractor at 800-258-0802 or e-mail Susan Klaiber (sklaiber@rmcres.com), Peggy Simon (psimon@rmcres.com), or Angela Noll (anoll@rmcres.com). Technology program applications should be completed online at the website listed above no later than September 1, 1999. *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* 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 ============================================================== 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: Carol Rowland Subject: Temporary post at the OU Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:18:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 166 (166) SCHOOL OF EDUCATION CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN TEACHER EDUCATION (Temporary post) A postgraduate or postdoctoral position is available immediately in the School of Education to work on a European Funded project, Curriculum and Subject Cultures: The case of Mathematics and Visual Arts. The project will investigate the culture of teaching mathematics and teaching visual arts in lower secondary school classrooms. In particular, it aims (1) to explore the ways in which teachers use curriculum materials (including technology based resources) in these two different subject areas, and (2) to determine the problematics and the potential of constructing cross-curriculum materials for mathematics teaching. You will need to have a background and understanding of working successfully with teachers and schools. Knowledge and experience of classroom research methods is essential, as well as good oral communication, writing and organisational skills. If you wish to discuss the post informally, please contact Dr Anna Chronaki, the Director of the project, telephone 01908 858377 or email A. Chronaki@open.ac.uk. The post is tenable for 9 months full-time or 12 months part-time (3 days per week), starting as soon as possible, and will be based within the School of Education at Milton Keynes. Salary will be on either the Research Staff Grade 1A salary scale or Research Staff Grade 1B salary scale according to qualifications and experience. Initial salary will not exceed =A315, 735 p.a. (under review) (or pro rata). Application forms, further particulars and access details for disabled applicants are available from the Assistant Secretary, School of Education, The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA (telephone 01908-652148), which is also the number for enquiries about access, or e-mail education-recruitment@open.ac.uk. Closing date for applications: 30 July 1999. Applications from individuals with disabilities or from ethnic minorities are particularly welcomed, since these groups are under-represented in the School. Disabled applicants whose skills and experience meet the requirements of the job will be interviewed. Please let us know if you need your copy of the further particulars in large print, on computer disk, or on audio cassette tape. Hearing impaired persons may make enquiries on Milton Keynes (01908) 654901 (Minicom answerphone). Equal Opportunity is University Policy. www.open.ac.uk/employment Anna Chronaki (BSc, MEd, PhD) in UK: School of Education, Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK tel:+44(0)1908858377, fax:+44(0)1908652218 in Greece: 7 Kaisareias, 17237, Athens, Greece tel:+30(0)1 7610201, mob:+30(0)97 359192 From: Kim Fisher Subject: Job Announcement Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:42:48 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 167 (167) Head Librarian, Penn State Hazleton: Penn State University Libraries invit= e applicants for the position of Head Librarian at the Penn State Hazleton Campus. The head librarian is a member of the University Libraries faculty= , is responsible for overall library administration and services, instruction, participation in planning and development, supervision of staff, and effect= ive and close involvement with students, faculty, the community, and the Univer= sity Park Campus Libraries. This is a tenure-track faculty position that is supportive of the mission goals, and objectives of the campus. The Penn St= ate Hazleton Library is an 80,000-item library on a campus that emphasizes preparation in baccalaureate programs. A new BS in Business is scheduled t= o begin with the fall semester, 1999. Out of an enrollment of approximately 1,300 full-time students, 700 are residential. The campus is located on 10= 7 wooded ridge-top acres near Hazleton, PA, close to the Poconos, two hours f= rom Philadelphia, three hours from NYC, and four hours from Washington, DC. Th= e University Libraries and Penn State Hazleton seek an individual who can pro= vide leadership in learner-centered, technology-based instruction both in develo= ping appropriate library and technical courses and in support of teaching facult= y.=20 Requirements: ALA-accredited MLS, or equivalent, and three years of academ= ic library experience. Second advanced degree and instructional program and library automation experience desirable. Potential for promotion and tenur= e will be considered. Salary and rank dependant on qualifications. Excellen= t fringe benefits. To apply, send letter of application, resume and the name= s of three references to Nancy Slaybaugh, Manager, Libraries Human Resources, E5= 11 Pattee Library, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802. Applicat= ions received by February 28, 1999 will be assured of consideration. However, applications will be considered until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce. humanist Mr.Kim Fisher Paterno Family Librarian for English and American Literature Arts and Humanities Library 502C Paterno Library Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Voice 814-865-0670/ FAX 814-863-7502 =20 =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: Subject: Conf. Announcement / Call For Papers - Evaluate & Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 11:39:20 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 168 (168) Improve: Investigating Lecturers' Teaching in the arts and humanities [A message that seems to have gone astray. Apologies! --WM] [deleted quotation]e [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: Glen Worthey Subject: Stanford Digital Library job opening Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:58:04 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 169 (169) Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) is seeking an experienced librarian and/or digital library manager with an academic research library background to coordinate its Digital Library Program effective September 1999 or as soon as possible thereafter. Please see the complete announcement at <http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/humres/60.html> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Glen Worthey Humanities Digital Information Service Stanford University Libraries glenw@sulmail.stanford.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Translation - Commentary Date: Fri, 9 Jul 99 08:34:16 CST X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 170 (170) Thanks to everybody who has e-mailed me to help in my quest for a quotation: The best commentary is a translation, or words to that effect. I went back to that heisser Typ Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, "Was ist Uebersetzen?" _Reden und Vortraege von UW-M_ 3d ed. (Berlin: Weidmann, 1913), 1-29. I have never been a W-M fan, and I am less so now, though he does have some good tour-de-force translations into 3d C. Greek. Anyway, he does not say what I wanted _expressis verbis_, but the notion informs his whole article, which nails home the point that only the philologist ought to translate. Having once, many years ago, been a Professor of Germanic Philology, I felt warm inside. A great place to look for quotations on translation, BTW, is B. Q. Morgan's Bibliography, appended to Reuben A. Brower, ed., _On Translation_ (Harvard UP, 1959), 270-293. He will lead you to W. F. Leopold's review of the English translation of Cassirer's _The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms_ in _Language_ 31 (1955), p. 78: "... every act of translation is an act of interpretation." Another interesting title for a rather rambling article that makes the same point: Smith Palmer Bovie, "Translation as a Form of Criticism," In _The Craft and Context of Translation_, ed. William Arrowsmith and Roger Shattuck (University of Texas Press, 1961), 51-76. I am still lacking that pithy formulation, but I am going to go with these. Traduttore ?? 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: long conference messages Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 16:59:58 -0400 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 171 (171) Dear Colleagues: My thanks to the recent messages with support for tackling the long-conference-message problem. Perhaps as editor I am "long-suffering", though I don't really carry any such burden. I occasionally get more than a little annoyed at such messages, especially when they come from people who should know better, i.e. from those who know more about computing than I do, and esp. when their experise includes language. I ask a naive question: how can they know so little about communicating with other human beings? I have indeed contemplated taking a hard line, which is to say, summarily deleting all such messages in the hope that eventually the submitters will get the message. What troubles me, however, is that meanwhile -- and it could be a long while -- members of this seminar would be denied the information, some of which, despite the inepitude of those who have it to give, is of considerable interest. So my own preference is to hack each of these messages down to size manually and pass them on. There is some satisfaction in the hacking, though I do have to sharpen my machete quite often.... Against such annoyance as I have just admitted to, I recommend a period spent as conference organiser, particularly in that crucial time before registrations pass the break-even point. Yours, WM ----- Dr W.L. McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. +44 (0)171 848 2784 / 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: Cristian Suteanu Subject: CFP: complexity Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:32:07 +1200 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 172 (172) Dear colleagues, Please allow me to say hello to you all: I am new on this list and I am happy to meet you. As an editor of Paideusis - Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies, I was very glad to find a discussion list dedicated to problems that are important for my own research. I think I do not err if I find them also particularly significant for the journal's next issue. Call for papers. Volume 2 / 1999: (please kindly apologize cross-postings) ************************************************************* "COMPLEXITY OF NATURAL AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXTS" - natural complexity - a learning context and a mind shaping catalyst; - emerging poetry: from enveloping atmosphere to sparks for the world of arts; - surrounding complexity: insights from fractal and chaos theory; - growing challenges: social, political and economic complexity; - historical steps in coping with complexity; - traditional world views and environmental complexity; - complex worlds of signs: complexity and semiotics; - .... ************************************************************* Paideusis-JICS is an e-journal that encourages an interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. It is a refereed journal, offering possibilities for fast publication. Paideusis-JICS also offers conditions for inclusion of material that sometimes cannot be presented in printed form (graphics - dynamic models, sound etc.). For details, please visit the web pages specified below or contact me by e-mail. Thank you all and best wishes, Cristian -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PAIDEUSIS Journal for Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Studies Center for Complexity Studies E-mail: paideusis@geocities.com http://www.paideusis.matco.ro/ , mirror at: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7867/ Cristian Suteanu (Editor-in-Chief) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: [Fwd: Call for Papers] Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:23:49 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 173 (173) The Heroic Age requests the submission of articles for its millenary edition: Coming Full Circle: Reflections on the First Millennium The Heroic Age is a free online journal which concerns itself with the study of North-western Europe from the Late Roman Empire to the Norman Empire. The journal is intended for the use of professionals, students and amateurs alike and welcomes submissions from all groups. Articles submitted may consider any cultural, literary or historical aspects of medieval life within Europe during the period 959-1042 AD and should be up to approximately 7000 words in length. Articles should be submitted by e-mail to MichelleZi@aol.com no later than November 15, 1999. For further information concerning the journal and for full authors' instructions, please see: http://members.aol.com/heroicage1/homepage.html Any further enquiries may be addressed to the issue editor or the general editor. Issue editor: J. C. Weale, e-mail elp503@bangor.ac.uk General editor: Michelle Ziegler, e-mail MichelleZi@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: photos of ACH/ALLC? Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:12:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 174 (174) Dear fellow attendees of ACH/ALLC 99: I would be glad to know of any photographic images in electronic form taken of the conference and in particular of the banquet that are not already on the conference web site. Please reply privately. Yours, WM From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." Subject: Re: Announcement of Computational Linguistics Textbook Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:13:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 175 (175) I am wondering if this contains a review of current literature and extant software, and if you couldn't give us a brief description of the review on this list so that we might fit the book into its proper context and make a decision as to whether or not to purchase. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. Ergo Linguistic Technologies http://www.ergo-ling.com At 10:39 PM 7/14/99 , Strasser, Peter wrote: [deleted quotation] 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: Teachers of General Humanities Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:12:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 176 (176) [deleted quotation] Because of a last-minute surge in incoming freshmen, the General Humanities Program at Montclair State University is in severe need of adjunct faculty to teach additional sections of Earlier and Later Western Humanities and also of Mythology during the day in the Fall 1999 semester, running from September 2 through December 22. Montclair State University is located 12 miles west of midtown Manhattan in suburban New Jersey. Those in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area who have at least an M.A. in a humanities area will find teaching in our program an excellent way to develop and hone instructional skills in the humanities under the guidance of full-time General Humanities faculty. Contact Timothy Renner, Department of Classics and General Humanities, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043, telephone (973) 655-7420, e-mail rennert@alpha.montclair.edu. From: Kim Fisher Subject: Job Announcement Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 22:11:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 177 (177) Pennsylvania State University Libraries Humanities Librarian The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seek an energetic and creative Humanities Librarian to serve as subject specialist for Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Religious Studies, and Philosophy for the Arts & Humanities Library at the University Park campus. One of 8 subject libraries comprising the Pattee Library and Paterno Library complex, the Arts & Humanities Library provides collections and services for the performing arts, fine arts, history and area studies, languages and literature studies, Jewish studies, religious studies, classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, and philosophy, with holdings of approximately one million volumes and over 2,000 periodical subscriptions. The Arts & Humanities Library has strong collections in Byzantine art; American history, including U.S. Civil War history, Pennsylvania history, and African American history; English and American literature, including drama from the Restoration period to the present; and jazz. The Humanities Librarian will provide reference service and participate in user education and instructional programs that reflect a sensitivity to diverse learning styles; will be responsible for collection development in classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, religious studies, and philosophy; and will provide outreach and liaison activities to the collegiate faculty in the appropriate departments in the College of the Liberal Arts. The Humanities Librarian reports to the Head of the Arts & Humanities Libraries. Required qualifications: ALA accredited MLS or equivalent advanced degree; academic background or equivalent experience in the humanities; demonstrated commitment to reference services; familiarity with electronic and networked information resources; excellent interpersonal, decision-making, communication, and leadership skills; and the ability to work in a collegial environment. Preferred qualifications: Advanced degree in classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, religious studies, or philosophy; knowledge of German and/or Slavic languages; collection development experience in the humanities; and experience working with diverse populations. University Park, located in the center of Pennsylvania, is the largest campus of the Pennsylvania State University. The University Libraries at University Park are organized into subject libraries covering the arts, humanities, social sciences, business, education, science, and technology. Penn State University places diversity among its core values and encourages applicants who can contribute to the community. This is a tenure track faculty position. Evidence of potential for promotion and tenure will be considered. The successful candidate will be expected to be active in research, scholarship and service as a faculty member at Penn State. Salary and rank commensurate with experience. Excellent fringe benefits include liberal vacation; excellent insurance; State or TIAA/CREF retirement options and educational privilege. Penn State University Libraries hold membership in ARL, OCLC, RLG, and the Digital Library Federation. Collections exceed four million volumes. The University Libraries are located at University Park and 23 campuses throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For more information see http://www.libraries.psu.edu. To apply, send letter of application, resume, and the names and addresses of three references to Nancy Slaybaugh, Manager, Libraries Human Resources, E511 Pattee Library, University Park, PA 16802. Review of applications will begin on July 26 and continue until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce. Mr.Kim Fisher Paterno Family Librarian for English and American Literature Arts and Humanities Library 502C Paterno Library Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Voice 814-865-0670/ FAX 814-863-7502 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Announcement of Computational Linguistics Textbook Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:35:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 178 (178) [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: MT Summit VII Call for Registration Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:36:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 179 (179) [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 are pleased to inform you of the Call for Registration. We look forward to the participation of those who are interested in any aspect of machine translation. It would be of great help if you could kindly inform to relevant institutions and individuals who may be interested in participating in the conference. We hope to see you soon at the Summit. Hozumi Tanaka Chairman Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation --------------------------------------------------------------------- MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW ! The seventh Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. AAMT invites all who are interested in any aspect of machine translation - researchers, developers, providers, users, and watchers - to participate in the conference. The schedule of MT Summit VII is outlined as follows: Monday, 13 September: Tutorials Tuesday, 14 September: Main conference Exhibition Reception Wednesday, 15 September: Main conference Exhibition Banquet Thursday, 16 September: Main conference Exhibition Friday, 17 September: Workshop To register, please get "registration form" from http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99/register.htm and send it to the secretariat of MT Summit whose address is on the top of the form. Please consult the website for further information: full program for the main conference, and workshop, http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html venue and local information, registration and hotel accommodation, http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99/ By e-mail, please contact: secret-4@tokyo.intergroup.co.jp (Japan) vicky@krdl.org.sg (Singapore) We hope to see you there! Hozumi Tanaka, President of AAMT Jun'ichi Tsujii, Chair of Program Committee Low Hwee Boon, Chair of Local Organization Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************************************ Secretariat of Organizing Committee, MT Summit VII c/o Inter Group Corp. Akasaka Dai-ichi Bldg., 4-9-17, Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8486, Japan TEL:+81-3-3479-5311 FAX:+81-3-3423-1601 E-mai: secret-4@tokyo.intergroup.co.jp ************************************************ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Formal Grammar Conference Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:36:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 180 (180) [deleted quotation] REGISTRATION INFORMATION Formal Grammar 99 University of Utrecht August 7-8, 1999 FG99 will be held at the University of Utrecht, on August 7-8 in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information. The conference programme is available at the website: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/fg99program.html You can now register on-line for FG: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/fg99-registration.html Registration fee is 50 fl. which covers the cost of the conference, a copy of the proceedings and coffee/tea at breaks. If you plan to attend ESSLLI, as well as FG, you can register for both: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/registration.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mobile: ++420-603-576.687 Email: gj@ufal.mff.cuni.cz, gj@acm.org SMS: gj.kruijff@sms.paegas.cz (mobile) WWW: http://kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~gj/ "In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency." --Larry Wall in the perl man page From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Conf: CLAW2000 (Controlled Language Applications Workshop) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:37:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 181 (181) [deleted quotation] ** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ** CLAW 2000: 3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications Location: Westin Hotel in Seattle, Washington, USA Dates: 29-30 April 2000 CONTEXT The 3rd International Workshop on Controlled Language Applications (CLAW) is planned to be held 29-30 April 2000 as a 2-day pre-conference Workshop in conjunction with the ANLP (Applied Natural Language Processing)/NACLA (North American Computational Linguistics Association) in Seattle, Washington, USA at the Westin Hotel. For the full version of the call for papers, as well as for on-going and updated information on CLAW2000, please consult the workshop website: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000 For information on the past two CLAWs see: CLAW96 http://www.ccl.kuleuven.ac.be/CLAW/programme.html CLAW98 http://www.lti.cs.cmu.edu/CLAW98/ [material deleted] ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Joint Registration for Virtual Agents99 and UK VR SIG Conference Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:38:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 182 (182) [deleted quotation] Joint Registration is now open for Second Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (VA99) And The Sixth UK VR-SIG Conference (UKVRSIG99) http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/ukvrsig99/ The Centre for Virtual Environments University of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom 13th -15th September 1999 Sponsored By Simulation Solutions Ltd, VR News, NICVE ADAPT, AgentLink, Deneb Visual Interactive Systems Ltd, ESF, GEMISIS Univeristy of Salford, Silicon Graphics, Simulation Solutions Ltd, VR News= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To register for any of these events please fill in the form at http://angmar.iti.salford.ac.uk/dan/registration.htm Outline of events ------------------------- 13th of September Second Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/va99/ Keynote Speaker: Prof. Demetri Terzopoulos. (Univeristy of Toronto) --------------- 14th of September The Sixth UK VR-SIG Conference (UKVRSIG99) http://www.salford.ac.uk/cve/ukvrsig99/ Keynote Speakers: Prof. Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., (University of North Carolina, USA.) Dr Stefan M=FCller (Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt) ---------------- 15th of September VR Discussion Forum Discussion sessions on collaborative research and funding opportunities Official opening of the Centre for Virtual Environment and a the JREI faci= lities ------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: aimeefreak Subject: Re: 13.0083 curricula? disappearance? Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:32:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 183 (183) i follow the discussion regarding the teaching, learning, and administration of humanities computing with great interest. at the recent conference of COCH-COSH in Sherbrooke, a panel was devoted to to the topic of 'teaching humanities computing'; i presented a paper on this panel, from the point of view of a student who has been on the receiving as well as producing end of hc experiments. i've just put the paper online, if anyone is interested in reading it -- it's the most well-thought out contribution i can make to this discussion. http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/amorrison/otherwork/cosh-coch99.htm i look forward to any responses, and to further discussion on this topic thanks! aimeefreak -------------------------- aimee morrison phd program, dept of english university of alberta From: Francois Lachance Subject: compliment via the complementary Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:38:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 184 (184) Willard, With echoes of the recent discussions via Humanist of the status and future of the field of Humanities Computing, I came across a copy of a 1993 Report to the American Comparative Literature Association entitled "Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century". Allow me to quote a bit selectively to indicate that the related concerns of "what we do" and "with whom do we communicate" are threads in other parallel discussions. In the section on the graduate program, the authors write Our recommendation to broaden the field of inquiry -- already implemented by some programs and departments -- does not mean that comparative study should abandon the close analysis of rhetorical, prosodic, and other formal features, but that textually precise readings should take account as well of the ideological, cultural, and institutional contexts in which their meanings are produced. Likewise, the more traditional forms of interdisciplinary work, such as comparisons between the sister arts, should occur in a context of reflection on the privileged strategies of meaning-making in each discipline, including its internal theoretical debates and the materiality of the medium it addresses. They continue : The knowledge of foreign languages remains fundamental to our raison d'etre. [... Students] should be encouraged to broaden their linguistic horizons to encompass at least one non-European language. It seems to me that _Humanist_ is one of those fora in which both learnedness of philology and wisdom of philosophy are not only valued but also cultivated. I hope that others also see that it is a fine moderator such as yourself who helps the weavers produce a magic carpet because, Willard, you are not only attuned to the big conceptual questions but also very much alive to the locatedness of the interlocutors. Many thanks for your attention to the long view and to the day to day details, Francois 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: Mark Davies Subject: Polyglot Bible Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:33:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 185 (185) Information for those who might be interested: I have placed online a Polyglot Bible containing the entire Gospel of Luke (1150+ verses) in thirty different languages (or historical periods of languages), including Greek [Greek and Roman alphabet], Latin, Old Spanish, Modern Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, Present-Day English, Gothic, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Russian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Hungarian, Albanian, Haitian, Indonesian, Cebuano, Maori, and Swahili. http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/bible/ Users can see a range of verses in up to seven different languages, arranged verse-by-verse in parallel format. This means, for example, that you can compare the same passages in different stages of the same language (e.g. Old, Middle, Early Modern, and Present-Day English), or in related languages (e.g. more than seven other Germanic languages). You can also perform word and string searches on any one of the thirty languages, and see how the word or string is expressed in up to six other languages. I would welcome private email with any comments and/or suggestions. Mark Davies Illinois State University ======================================= Mark Davies, Associate Professor, Spanish Linguistics Dept. of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-4300 Voice:309/438-7975 email:mdavies@ilstu.edu Fax:309/438-8038 http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/personal/ ======================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: AMICO University Testbed Report Available Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:34:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 186 (186) [deleted quotation] ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORITUM (AMICO) UNIVERSITY TESTBED MEETING REPORT AVAILABLE The report of the AMICO University Testbed Project, is now available on the AMICO web site at http://www.amico.org. A narrative report summarizes the University Testbed Meeting, held at Carnegie Mellon University in June. The web site also includes many of the presentations made by participants at that meeting which brought together the producers and users of the AMICO Library. For your convenience, the Executive Summary and outline of Lessons Learned are reproduced below. Best wishes, jennifer J. Trant, AMICO Executive Director. ================================ AMICO University Testbed Meeting June 3-4, 1999 ================================ Executive Summary The Art Museum Image Consortium was formed in October 1997 after six months of planning by the staff of its twenty-three founding member museums. In the same month, AMICO issued a call-for-proposals from Universities interested in becoming test sites for research on the prototype AMICO Library which was scheduled to be available for the 1998-99 academic year. In January, 1998, the AMICO Board, acting on recommendations from its Users and Uses Committee, accepted research proposals from 16 universities to take part in the "AMICO University Testbed". The University Testbed AMICO Library when released in July 1998 consisted of documentation for almost 20,000 works of art. University Testbed participants each made different kinds of uses of the AMICO Testbed Library, and conducted different types of research on its uses. In the spring of 1999, they were invited to propose papers on their experiences for a research conference capping the testbed year. Papers were accepted from eight Testbed Universities, and combined with a paper from AMICO on its data processing, one from members on their methods, one from AMICO's testbed Library distributor, the Research Libraries Group, and one from a research team at Cornell University which had been hired by AMICO to conduct an independent analysis of Library use. The conference program was announced to coincide with the day before, and first day of, the AMICO members meetings so as to encourage AMICO members to attend the meeting in order to help shape the agenda for AMICO in 1999 and beyond. Papers were delivered in six sessions over two days. The first day was designed to give everyone a common sense of what had occurred in the Testbed year on campus, online, and in the trenches where the AMICO Library was made and delivered. In the first session, on Teaching with the AMICO Testbed Library, Michael May (University of Alberta) and Jeffrey Howe and Marc O'Connor (Boston College) illustrated two highly successful uses of relatively small selected subsets of the AMICO Library in art history (Canadian art) and general humanities (honors seminar) teaching by highly motivated instructors. In the second session on Who Uses the AMICO Library, researchers at CMU, Cornell University and AMICO reported on qualitative interviews, quantitative surveys and focus groups that sought to find out why users were using the Library and what they hoped to achieve. In the third session, museum participants in AMICO reported on how they created their AMICO contributed data, AMICO staff discussed the processing steps, and Arnold Arcolio of the Research Libraries Group discussed the RLG delivery system. The second day began with a session on how Rochester Institute of Technology, Washington University, Western Michigan University and the University of Toronto encouraged faculty use of AMICO. The strategies were different but the underlying problem was the same - faculty needed considerable hands on help and even examples of uses, in order to participate. In the fifth session, other uses beyond the classroom were discussed. Eelco Bruinsma reported on the widespread effect of AMICO on imaging and print work at the University of Leiden. Tammy Sopinski reported on plans to integrate the AMICO Library into museum education in the state of Minnesota. And June Ward reported on a project to exploit the AMICO Library in K-12 education in greater Indianapolis. The day ended with an open discussion of lessons learned and suggestions to AMICO members about ways to strengthen the Library and its delivery. The Presentation Slides used by many of the speakers can be found on the AMICO Web site, linked to the formal meeting program. See http://www.amico.org This summary highlights the issues dicussed and themes explored. ========================================= Lessons from the AMICO University Testbed ========================================= Teaching * Interest in/uses for digital art images is strong beyond art history * Focused study, using AMICO in assignments or projects is most effective * Adequate local technological infrastructure is essential * Publicity and administrative buy-in assist in AMICO adoption * Technological training for faculty overcomes resistance to use * When used, teacher and student response is positive - they want more. User Studies * AMICO adoption is slow within the University community as a whole * Enthusiastic individuals made use of AMICO in many disciplines * Users find it useful, like the functionality and information * Art professionals want to integrate AMICO/content from other sources * Non-art professionals more likely to use AMICO in classroom Organizational Structure * Cross-functional teams aid in establishing AMICO in a university * Librarians, faculty from many departments, administration, technical resources contribute to successful instructional use * To insure success institution administrations need to: - make a commitment to curriculum that uses resources like AMICO - recognize faculty who invest in innovative teaching (esp. tenure) - provide time and training to faculty Training * Step by step training is essential for faculty adoption * Documentation is important for self-tutoring and referral * Students benefit from hands-on workshops and search criteria advice * Need to tailor training to user needs AMICO MEMBERS Perspectives * AMICO members are still learning about effective multimedia documentation of art * AMICO members working to establish "best practices" to improve data * Members want to incorporate AMICO into day-to-day processes * K-12 curriculum development with AMICO is an exciting opportunity * Opening up potential users of AMICO to a really wide population * Different set of teacher and student requirements in the K-12 sector * IUPUI project will look to set "best practices" for K-12 use of this digital image resource =============== CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The AMICO University Testbed: Reflections, Results and Recommendations A Special Issue of Archives and Museum Informatics: the cultural heritage informatics quarterly. In the 1998/1999 academic year a select group of university campuses had beta access to the AMICO Library, a collection of museum multimedia documenting the collections of 23 AMICO member institutions. Selected based on a competitive call for proposals participating campuses pursued research into the ways in which the AMICO Library could be used, and the issues and opportunities presented by such a collection. Papers that report on the experience of the AMICO University Testbed are invited from both AMICO Members and Testbed participants. We are particularly interested in explorations of issues involved in the creation of the AMICO Library, reflections on the its delivery and reports on patterns of adoption. Papers that explore effective models for integrating museum multimedia into teaching and research at colleges and universities are welcome, as are more forward-thinking reflections of methods to encourage dialogue between museums and the users of museum multimedia documentation. Selected papers will be published in Archives and Museum Informatics, the cultural heritage informatics quarterly, a peer-reviewed journal from Kluwer Academic Publishers. See http://www.kap.nl Deadline for Submission: July 31, 1999. Questions or Comments: Email Jennifer Trant, Executive Director, AMICO, jtrant@amico.org Guidelines for Authors can be found at http://www.archimuse.com/publishing/armu.guide.html ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: MEP Prototypes for Historical Editions Online Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:34:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 187 (187) [deleted quotation] Model Editions Partnership Prototypes Online The Model Editions Partnership (MEP) prototypes for scholarly editions of historical documents officially went online July 4, 1999 (http://adh.sc.edu). The project's Markup Guidelines for Documentary Editions are also online at the Web site maintained by the University of South Carolina. The Partnership is a consortium of seven documentary editing projects headed by veteran scholar-editors who set out in 1995 to create a series of intellectual frameworks which could maintain the current standards of documentary editing. The seven projects include: The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress The Documentary History of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights The Papers of General Nathanael Greene The Papers of Henry Laurens The Legal Papers of Abraham Lincoln The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony The Margaret Sanger Papers Editors of the seven projects served as the Steering Committee and also developed the individual prototypes in conjunction with a central staff at the University of South Carolina. Information on the Partnership is maintained on the site (http://adh.sc.edu/mepinfo/mep-info.html). In the last 50 years, scholars have published the seminal writings of America's statesmen like Jefferson and Franklin, literary figures like Emerson and Thoreau, scientists like Edison and Einstein, thinkers like Santayana and James, reformers like Martin Luther King and Susan B. Anthony--as well as the papers of ordinary Americans whose roles were no less important in shaping the new nation. Documentary editions are a combination carefully prepared texts (letters, journals, public records and other primary documents) accompanied by annotation, commentary and other editorial features to make the texts understandable. These editions--now only in print or microfilm--have the potential of becoming one of the most important sources of primary materials in tomorrow's digital libraries. The Partnership undertook the task of building a foundation on which to base Web versions of documentary editions. That foundation is a markup system based on extensions to the Text Encoding Initiative's markup scheme. Both conform to the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), an international standard for designing markup systems. Six of the prototypes use the markup system; the Lincoln prototype is for a CD-ROM based edition and a sample CD can be ordered at the Web site. The six Web editions demonstrate a variety of frameworks which can be used in delivering them. Although the content is sometimes identical to that in a printed edition, the Web editions have a document-based organization. Each document is like the hub of a wheel surrounded by the biographies, chronologies, notes and other editorially supplied information. The powerful publishing system donated by the Inso Corporation enables users to take advantage of the markup to increase the precision of searches. Search templates are used to combine the user's query with the markup. Users need not understand the markup; the templates take care of that. Each search results in a new view of the documents in an edition--a subset based on the user's search criteria. The Division of Library and Information Systems at the University of South Carolina and from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) provide major support for the Partnership. NHPRC and the National Endowment for the Humanities provide support for the on-going work of the Partner projects. The University Presses of Johns Hopkins, North Carolina, Rutgers, and South Carolina; the historical societies of South Carolina and Rhode Island; and the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency gave permission for publication of material under copyright. David R. Chesnutt Project Director Model Editions Partnership David.Chesnutt@sc.edu From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: D-Lib latest issue Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:35:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 188 (188) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 16, 1999 The July/August 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/. The latest issue of D-Lib magazine includes the full list of awards under the first phase of the DLI-2 as well as an article by Michael Lesk on the DLI-2 program. David Green =========== [deleted quotation]The July/August 1999 issue of D-Lib Magazine is now available at <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/. This issue includes two articles about the Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2 Program and three stories: Perspectives on DLI-2 - Growing the Field Michael Lesk, National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative - Phase 2: Fiscal Year 1999 Awards Stephen M. Griffin, National Science Foundation Reference Linking for Journal Articles Priscilla Caplan, University of Chicago and William Y. Arms, Cornell University Creating a Large-Scale Digital Library for Georeferenced Information Bin Zhu, Marshall Ramsey, Tobun D. Ng, and Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona; and Bruce Schatz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign A Report on the PEAK Experiment: Usage and Economic Behavior Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Juan F. Riveros, Maria S. Bonn, and Wendy P. Lougee, University of Michigan The Featured Collection for July/August 1999 is the NACA Technical Report Server (Images and description of the collection contributed by Michael Nelson, NASA Langley Research Center) There are also several interesting items featured in the 'Clips and Pointers' section, including: The Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance Contributed by Phyllis S. Mirsky, R. Bruce Miller, and Karl Lo, University of California, San Diego EQUINOX: Library Performance Measurement and Quality Management System Contributed by Monica Brinkley, Dublin City University Library JISC Requests for Proposals Contributed by Chris Rusbridge, Joint Information Systems Committee Government Recordkeeping Metadata Standard Issued in Australia Contributed by Adrian Cunningham, National Archives of Australia The Inventory of Canadian Digital Initiatives Contributed by Ralph W. Manning, National Library of Canada Dublin Core Directorate Announces Revised Element Definitions Contributed by Stuart Weibel, OCLC Office of Research Bonnie Wilson Managing Editor D-Lib Magazine =============================================================== NINCH-Anounce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), a diverse coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment. The subjects of these announcements are not, unless otherwise noted, the projects of NINCH; neeither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: 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: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: CFP: Image-Based Humanities Computing Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:10:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 189 (189) CALL FOR PROPOSALS A Special Issue of _Computers and the Humanities_ Topic: Image-Based Humanities Computing Editor: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Deadline for Proposals: 1 October 1999 Deadline for Articles: 15 January 2000 Proposals are invited for articles to be submitted to a special issue of _Computers and the Humanities_ on the topic of image-based humanities computing. _Computers and the Humanities_ (CHUM) is the official journal of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and is widely acknowledged as the leading peer-reviewed journal for applications of advanced information technology in humanities teaching and research. Although the term "image-based" humanities computing has been in circulation for some time, we are now approaching a watershed: a number of pioneering projects (many of them begun in the early nineties) whose promise could heretofore be discussed only in speculative terms are now coming to fruition, while new software tools and data standards are poised to redefine the way we create, access, and work with digital images. All of this activity, moreover, is transpiring at a moment when there is an unprecedented level of interest in visual culture and representation in the academic humanities at large. This special issue of CHUM seeks to gather some of the most important and forward-looking work presently being done in image-based humanities computing, broadly defined as those humanities computing projects in which images are central and not peripheral to the intellectual mandate and technical focus of the research. Articles might address: -- image-based electronic editions and archives; -- data standards (such as JPEG 2000) and/or software development (tools for image annotation, image analysis, and search and retrieval); -- innovative imaging techniques (such as ultraviolet imaging or fiber-optic backlighting) with humanities source material; -- images in digital libraries/museums; -- medical imaging and informatics with humanities applications; -- visualization, simulation, and modeling of humanities data; -- theoretical essays on visual culture and representation that have an applied component or implications for applied research; -- depending on how the issue shapes up, I may also include a section devoted to shorter pieces such as: reviews (of projects, of products, etc.); workshop/conference reports; brief position papers on topics of broad significance. If you are interested in preparing something along these lines as opposed to a full-length article, please let me know. Proposals for articles should be 1000 - 1500 words in length. Please describe the subject of the article, its significance, and its relationship to prior research as specifically as possible. Plain text email or a URL where the proposal may be accessed are the preferred modes of submission; if you must send an attachment, please ask first. If you must send surface mail, please write me for an address. Note that acceptance of a proposal does not constitute acceptance of an article, as all articles are subject to the normal peer-review processes of the journal. However, acceptance of a proposal does indicate the issue editor's strong interest in seeing a finished article faithful to the proposal included in the special issue. Email address for submissions: mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Deadline for Proposals: 1 October 1999 Deadline for Articles: 15 January 2000 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Department of English Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Virginia mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~mgk3k/ As of 1 August 1999: Assistant Professor, Department of English Research in Computing for Humanities Group http://www.rch.uky.edu University of Kentucky From: Willard McCarty Subject: Fwd: News Items for _Journal of Internet Cataloging_ Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:11:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 190 (190) [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: Reviews of African Crossroads Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:10:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 191 (191) Several reviews of 'African Crossroads' have recently appeared (e.g. current issues of both JRAI and Africa). As fast as I am able I putting the text of these reviews on the main web page that honours the work of Sally Chilver in bridging anthropology and history in Cameroon. The full text of the introductory chapter is available as well as the contents listing. 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 (0)1227 823360 direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)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: Charles Ess Subject: suggestions for visual design course? Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:08:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 192 (192) Colleagues: In collaboration with a colleague in Architecture, I am developing an upper-level, cross-disciplinary course (involving art, architecture, and philosophy) on Visual Design. We hope to develop a course that will provide students some foundations in philosophical aesthetics, along with the basics of drawing, painting, and other forms of design (in the name of conjoining theory and praxis). In particular, I will be angling a thread of epistemology, beginning (at least) in Plato's Republic and extending through Descartes and (perhaps) Wittgenstein that argues that the visual amounts to an incomplete mode of knowledge that must be complemented by other modes of knowledge (e.g., the aural, the mathematical, and others?). In this light, student design projects will amount to empirical tests of the philosophical arguments for the limits of the visual as a mode of knowing. (Please see provisional course description, below.) I and my colleague have made tentative steps in this direction previously with first year students as well as advanced architecture students, and so we have some successful first steps behind us. But I would very much appreciate suggestions for additional resources in philosophy, aesthetics, visual design, etc. which may seem to be helpful or pertinent to our course. (Reviewing our preliminary list of resources, below, may both give you a better idea of what the course will seek to do, along with a sense of what is needed to complement what we already have planned.) Please reply to me off-list at cmess@lib.drury.edu I will happily compile responses and re-post them to the list. Thanks in advance, Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA Resources: Selections from Plato, _The Republic_; Descartes, _Meditations_; Ludwig Binswanger (a 20th ct. phenomenologist on the differences between aural and visual experience). Alex Neill, Aaron Ridley, The Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and Modern. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. ISBN: 0-07-046192-9 Monroe C. Beardsley. Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present: a Short History. University of Alabama Press, 1966. (optional) Edward Abbott. _Flatland_ Princeton University Press. "Visual Design: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Applications." The course will examine theoretical approaches to aesthetics and visual design, including classic philosophical statements (e.g., Plato's arguments in the _Republic_ demonstrating both the strengths and limits of the visual as a mode of knowledge and re-presentation; phenomenological accounts of differences between visual and aural modes of knowledge, with reference to early cultures as aural and later cultures as visual; Descartes' discussion of mathematics and the metaphors of architecture in attempting to establish the foundational epistemology of modern science; contemporary "transcendences" of the visual (e.g., non-Euclidean geometries) as forced by developments in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity theory, etc.). We will examine in equal depth classic and contemporary principles of visual design in art and architecture. A final focus of the course will be students' learning how to apply these principles to express concrete and abstract ideas in visual media - photography, painting, computer-generated graphics (including Web-based materials), etc. - coupled with _philosophical_ Project Statements which provide both conceptual background (including references to the literature studied in the course) and discussion of the project's intentions, strengths and limitations encountered, etc. The course will thus stress classic liberal arts models of textually-oriented research and learning (including emphasis on writing as a way of exploring and re-presenting important ideas) in conjunction with representative pedagogies, insights, and methods of art and architecture. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Charles Ess Subject: Conference, call for papers Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:09:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 193 (193) (Please cross-post as appropriate) CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'00): Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village 6-8 July 2000 Murdoch University, Perth, Australia http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/ Mirror site: http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac00 Communication-mediated communication networks, such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, promise to realise the utopian vision of an electronic global village. But efforts to diffuse CMC technologies globally, especially in Asia and among indigenous peoples in Africa, Australia and the United States, have demonstrated that CMC technologies are neither culturally neutral nor communicatively transparent. Rather, diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication - those embedded in current CMC technologies, and those shaping the beliefs and behaviours of potential users - often collide. This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how diverse cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and communication technologies. The conference series brings together scholars from around the globe who provide diverse perspectives, both in terms of the specific culture(s) they highlight in their presentations and discussions, and in terms of the discipline(s) through which they approach the conference theme. The first conference in the series was held in London in 1998 (see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/). For an overview of the themes and presentations of CATaC'98, see http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html. Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers (e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are invited. Papers should articulate the connections between specific cultural values as well as current and/or possible future communicative practices involving information and communication technologies. We seek papers which, taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of computer-mediated communication - especially in the service of "electronic democracy" - better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer communications systems. Topics of particular interested include but are not limited to: - Communicative attitudes and practices in diverse industrialised countries. - Communicative attitudes and practices in industrialising countries and marginalised communities. - Impact of information and communication technologies on local and indigenous languages and cultures. - Politics of the electronic global village in democratising or preserving hierarchy. - East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices. - Role of gender in cultural expectations regarding appropriate communicative behaviours. - Ethical issues related to information and communication technologies, and the impact on culture and communication behaviours. - Legal implications of communication and technology. SUBMISSIONS All submissions will be peer reviewed by an international panel of scholars and researchers. There will be the opportunity for selected papers to appear in special issues of journals and a book. CATaC'98 papers, for example, appeared in the Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication (Vol.8, Nos.3-4, 1998) and will appear in the AI and Society Journal (Vol.14, No.1, 2000). Initial submissions are to be emailed to catac@it.murdoch.edu.au as an attachment (Word, HTML, PDF). Submission of a paper implies that it has not been submitted or published elsewhere. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference. Important Dates * Full papers 31 January 2000 * Short papers 28 February 2000 * Notification of acceptance 21 March 2000 * Final formatted papers 24 April 2000 For additional details regarding conference venue, organizing personnel, editorial board, etc., please see the conference web sites as identified above. From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ichim99 Registration Deadline July 30 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:11:26 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 194 (194) [deleted quotation] ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 99 99 99 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 99 99 September 22 - 26, 1999 Washington, D.C. USA 99 99 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ 99 99 99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 Dear Friends and Colleagues, We'd like to remind you that regular registration for the fifth ICHIM meeting closes *July 30, 1999*. Plan to attend this international conference, exploring the best of museum multimedia. The full program, including workshop outlines, speaker biographies and paper abstracts is available online at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ You can also register online, to guarantee your regular registration rate. At ichim99, staff of museums, archives, universities, hardware and software vendors and network developers will meet to share ideas and learn from each others' experiences. ichim99 features a full range of sessions exploring: * New Users and Uses of Cultural Multimedia * Public Policy and International Issues * New Institutional Models * Economic, Political and Legal Challenges * Collaborations, Partnerships and Producing Income Pre-Conference Workshops also offer a range of in depth training opportunities for Educators, Curators, Exhibit Designers, Librarians Archivists, Software and Hardware Developers, or Cultural and Educational Publishers. Plan to join your colleagues to discuss theory, see the latest in practice, and explore the intersection between culture and technology. See you in Washington! David and jennifer ________ J. Trant & D. Bearman ichim99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, ichim99 Washington, DC Archives & Museum Informatics September 23-26, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Odin Dekkers Subject: new book: CALL: MEDIA, DESIGN & APPLICATIONS Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:09:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 195 (195) Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (publishers of the journal CALL) announce the publication of their new book, CALL: MEDIA, DESIGN & APPLICATIONS, edited by Keith Cameron (ISBN 90-265-1543-x). A number of international experts from seven different countries, who are acknowledged as leading research into Computer-Assisted Language Learning, were each asked to contribute to this publication with the aim of providing a critical overview of many aspects of the use of the media, the design and the applications currently being used and researched in CALL. It is thus at the "cutting edge" of current activity in the domain. Each chapter reviews what has been done, what exists, what are the current developments and gives useful pointers for future research. Each chapter has a broad bibliography, citing books, journal articles, software, URLs, etc., relevant to the research issue discussed. It has been written not only for those researchers at work in the field but also for those about to start. Students embarking on a taught masters or on a doctoral research program will find this book essential reading to find state-of-the-art criticism of what CALL has achieved and inspiration for further areas of research. It is a book which will be of use to research councils and academic authorities as a testimony of the valuable scholarly activity which CALL research involves. For more information, please contact: ODIN DEKKERS Acquisitions Editor Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers Heereweg 347B 2161 CA Lisse The Netherlands Tel.: +31-252-435287 Fax: +31-252-435447 E-mail: odekkers@swets.nl http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html From: "David L. Gants" Subject: OhioLINK and AMICO Agreement Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:11:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 196 (196) [deleted quotation] AMICO Press Release July 21, 1999 The Art Museum Image Consortium and OhioLINK Reach An Agreement on Statewide Distribution of the AMICO Library AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), a growing not-for-profit consortium currently made up of 27 museum members in North America, has reached a distribution agreement with the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Through this agreement students, professors, and staff at 17 public universities, 23 community/technical colleges, and 35 private colleges in the state of Ohio will have access to the AMICO Library through OhioLINK's Digital Media Center starting in the fall of 1999. "OhioLINK already has an established expertise in delivering library resources such as the AMICO Library, so the fit was really natural for us," commented AMICO Executive Director, Jennifer Trant. "With this Agreement the broad, diverse community of OhioLINK institutions have full access to the AMICO Library through a familiar portal. Our hope is that our relationship with OhioLINK will become a model for similar statewide distribution agreements," stated Ms. Trant. The 1999 edition of the AMICO Library documents over 50,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations. More than simply an image database, works in the AMICO Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about the artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work itself, and other related multimedia. "The AMICO Library is a welcome addition to our digital resources collection because it will expand the Digital Media Center with a rich image and multimedia database focused on art objects," states Charly Bauer, Assistant Director of Library Systems - Digital Media. Additionally, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), an AMICO Member, looks forward to this agreement building bridges to Ohio professors and students. "With this agreement providing AMICO Library access to so many universities and colleges across Ohio it's akin to having a traveling exhibition of our permanent collection visiting each school for an entire year," observes Stephanie Stebich in the Director's Office of the CMA. She goes on to say, "We hope this added exposure to the museum's fine works will enhance users' knowledge and draw visitors in the museum itself." AMICO envisions the Library functioning in innovative ways that traditional resources can not. For instance, students may curate online exhibitions using AMICO images, professors could give "on the fly" lectures searching the AMICO Library in real-time class settings, restricted-access course web sites could be created for review purposes with AMICO images incorporated in them, and much more. To investigate how the AMICO Library may be used in educational institutions AMICO has just completed a yearlong University Testbed with 16 universities across the United States and Canada. A summary of many Testbed projects may be found on the AMICO web site at the following address, <http://www.amico.org/projects/u.mtg.99/u.results.html>. "The AMICO Library should be quite useful to our member institutions and a great complement to the prodigious resources that our establishment already provides. We hope that educators and students from many disciplines will see the creative possibilities of the Library and infuse their educational efforts in a new way," said Charly Bauer. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks on an institutional subscriber basis. Images of artworks from museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the J. Paul Getty Museum are included in the AMICO Library. A recent agreement with the Artists Rights Society provides AMICO Library users unprecedented access to modern and contemporary works. Interested users may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of the AMICO Library and get further information at <http://www.amico.org>. The Ohio Library and Information Network, OhioLINK, is a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Serving more than 500,000 students, faculty, and staff at 76 institutions, OhioLINK offers access to more than 31 million library items statewide. OhioLINK also provides access to 95 research databases, and many full-text resources. Through OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center, users have access to more than 2400 electronic journal subscriptions and over one-million journal articles. OhioLINK also offers user-initiated online borrowing, the ability to electronically request items while searching the OhioLINK central catalog, and a delivery service among member institutions to speed the exchange of library items. To date, the OhioLINK central catalog contains more than 7 million master records from its 76 institutions, encompassing a spectrum of library material including law, medical, and special collections. OhioLINK's Digital Media Center will provide access to images, audio, video, and other types of digital information in a variety of disciplines such as art and architecture, medicine, and geography. The Digital Media Center will serve as a publishing outlet for OhioLINK members to contribute digital resources from their own unique collections. The AMICO Library is a product of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). Founded in October 1997 as a program of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) Educational Foundation, Inc., AMICO was separately incorporated as an independent non-profit corporation in June of 1998, ending its direct connection with the AAMD. The Consortium is today made up of 27 major museums in North America and is open to interested institutions with a collection of art. Its innovative collaboration shares, shapes, and standardizes information regarding visual data collections and enables its educational use. A full list of members can be found at <http://www.amico.org>. Contact Information: AMICO OhioLINK Jennifer Trant Charly Bauer Executive Director Assistant Director of Library Art Museum Image Consortium Systems - Digital Media 2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D Ohio Library and Information Network Pittsburgh, PA 15217 2455 North Star Road, Suite 300 Phone (412) 422 8533 Columbus, OH 43221 Fax (412) 422 8594 Phone (614) 728 3600 ext. 338 Email: jtrant@amico.org Fax (614) 728-3610 http://www.amico.org Email: charly@ohiolink.edu http://www.ohiolink.edu ---------------------------- Kelly Richmond Communications Development Intern AMICO-Art Museum Image Consortium 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Fax: +1 412 422 8594 kelly@amico.org http://www.amico.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Melina Alexa Subject: new publication - info Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:48:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 197 (197) The Center for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) in Mannheim, Germany has just published a review of 15 qualitative and quantiative software for text analysis: Alexa Melina & Cornelia Zuell: A review of software for text analysis. ZUMA-Nachrichten Spezial Band 5. Mannheim: ZUMA 1999, 176 pages. The book is in English, costs 25.- DM and is available from ZUMA: http://www.zuma-mannheim.de/publications/periodicals/zuma-nachrichten/zuma-n a-spezial.htm#zn-5 To order send an e-mail to cta@zuma-mannheim.de. Abstract -------- The book reviews a selection of software for computer-assisted text analysis. The primary aim is to provide a detailed account of the spectrum of available text analysis software and catalogue the kinds of support the selected software offers to the user. A related goal is to record the tendencies both in functionality and technology and identify the areas where more development is needed. For this reason the presented selection of software comprises not only fully developed commercial and research programs, but also prototypes and beta versions. An additional aspect with regards to the kinds of software reviewed is that both qualitative and quantitative-oriented types of research are included. The following fifteen programs are reviewed: AQUAD, ATLAS.ti, CoAN, Code-A-Text, DICTION, DIMAP-MCCA, HyperRESEARCH, KEDS, NUD*IST, QED, TATOE, TEXTPACK, TextSmart, WinMAXpro, and WordStat and the criteria and methodology used for selecting them are delineated. The last part of the book contains an extensive discussion about text analysis programs and the concrete issues raised from the review. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox" Subject: jobs at Perseus Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:47:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 198 (198) New Positions with the Perseus Project: Advance Notice The Perseus Project (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu) will soon be advertising a job opening for an architect. This person will be responsible for an archive of computer-based architectural renderings of ancient sites and monuments for the expanding Digital Library for the Humanities. We are looking for a person with a background in architecture (preferably an advanced degree), experience with computer-based design tools (CAD, VRML, etc.), and some expertise in architectural history. Experience in an academic environment is also a plus. Motivated individuals with a willingness to learn are preferred applicants. Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to the Perseus Project: Perseus Project Tufts University Eaton Hall 124 Medford, MA 02155 Official notice of the job posting will be on-line at: http://www.tufts.edu/hr/jobtop.html with further instructions on how to apply for the position. *************** The Perseus Project in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPI) (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/) is seeking an energetic pre- or post-doc in classical philology to work abroad for the MPI in Berlin. This individual will be responsible for facilitating the implementation of Perseus linguistic tools at the MPI for further research and for editing and marking up texts in TEI conformant SGML Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to the Perseus Project: Perseus Project Tufts University Eaton Hall 124 Medford, MA 02155 Or contact us for more information at webmaster@perseus.tufts.edu. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: David Zeitlyn Subject: Goody Texts of Bagre myth now online Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:47:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 199 (199) I am pleased to be able to present an online version of Jack Goody's Bagre texts. They are transcripts of texts that he reorded in Ghana in 1969. They have been made available here with the permission of Professor Goody. In the late 1960s Goody was among those pioneering the anthropological use of computer assisted textual analysis. The results were published in 1972 by OUP. In a report to the SSRC (the forerunner of the UK ESRC) Goody and Duly reported on this work and on a pioneering experiment on the preserving of fieldnotes through digisation. Sadly I have to report that those files cannot be traced! Refs: Goody, J.R. 1972. The Myth of the Bagre). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goody, J.R. and C. Duly. 1981. Studies in the use of Computers in Social Anthropology (report to the SSRC).. Note the files have been modified as little as possible in order that they be readable in some fashion via the WWW as it exist in Mid 1999. The files are presented in their entirety - guidance is given about their sizes as some are quite big. 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 (0)1227 823360 direct) Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office) Fax +44 (0)1227 827289 http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 03:53:09 -0500 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 200 (200) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT July 8, 1999 M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm [deleted quotation] _M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals_ I am pleased to announcement the formal establishment of a new registry of electronic journals that incorporate or integrate embedded multimedia within their e-articles. The registry is entitled: _M-Bed(sm): A Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals_ and is accessible from http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm Currently the registry is only an alphabetical listing of identified e-journal titles. As time permits, I will be preparing specialized indexes by type of multimedia and plug-in as well. The registry also contains a General Bibliography of key works on the topic of multimedia in e-journals. I have prepared a 2,000 word newsletter article on "Embedded Multimedia in Electronic Journals" that is scheduled to be published within the newsletter of the Special Interest Group on Visualization, Images, and Sound (VIS) of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) in the near future. The address for the ASIS SIG VIS is http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGVIS/news.html I would greatly appreciate learning of additional multimedia e-journals as well as receiving citations/sitations to any high-relevant literature not currently listed for expanded article I will be preparing this summer for a Fall deadline. I wish to express my gratitude to all who contributed nominations for this listing as well as relevant citations from my previous queries. Thanks again to all! /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.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 ============================================================== 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: ICoS-1: 2nd Call for Participation Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:27:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 201 (201) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION First workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-1 http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/ICoS/ Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Amsterdam, August 15, 1999 (Early registration deadline: August 1, 1999) Endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics. 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] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Conference: LREC-2000 - call for papers Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:29:27 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 202 (202) [deleted quotation] ***** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ******* The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and=20 the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to=20 announce: The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation=20 (LREC2000) (The detailed announcement is available on the web at: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html)=20 Location: Athens, Greece Dates: 31 May - 2 June 2000 [material deleted] CONFERENCE AIMS In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character=20 of human language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all=20 the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been=20 widely recognised. Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant:=20 1) the availability of language resources and=20 2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and=20 products.=20 Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing=20 these issues through international cooperation. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NETWORKING 2000 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:30:47 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 203 (203) [deleted quotation] NETWORKING 2000 IFIP - TC6/ European Union Broadband Communications (BC), High Performance Networking (HPN), Performance of Communication Networks (PCN) Paris, France Cit=E9 des Sciences, La Villette May 14 =96 19, 2000 Main Sponsors IFIP TC6, European Union [material deleted] INFORMATION www.noc.uoa.gr/net2000 www.prism.uvsq.fr/~net2000 From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: CONFERENCE: Reminder: ichim99 Registration Deadline July 30 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:32:06 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 204 (204) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community July 30, 1999 [deleted quotation] ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 99 99 99 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 99 99 September 22 - 26, 1999 Washington, D.C. USA 99 99 <http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/>http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ 99 99 99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 Dear Friends and Colleagues, We'd like to remind you that regular registration for the fifth ICHIM meeting closes *July 30, 1999*. Plan to attend this international conference, exploring the best of museum multimedia. The full program, including workshop outlines, speaker biographies and paper abstracts is available online at <http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/>http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ You can also register online, to guarantee your regular registration rate. At ichim99, staff of museums, archives, universities, hardware and software vendors and network developers will meet to share ideas and learn from each others' experiences. ichim99 features a full range of sessions exploring: * New Users and Uses of Cultural Multimedia * Public Policy and International Issues * New Institutional Models * Economic, Political and Legal Challenges * Collaborations, Partnerships and Producing Income Pre-Conference Workshops also offer a range of in depth training opportunities for Educators, Curators, Exhibit Designers, Librarians Archivists, Software and Hardware Developers, or Cultural and Educational Publishers. Plan to join your colleagues to discuss theory, see the latest in practice, and explore the intersection between culture and technology. See you in Washington! David and jennifer ________ J. Trant & D. Bearman ichim99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, ichim99 Washington, DC Archives & Museum Informatics September 23-26, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D <http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/>http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ ________ J. Trant & D. Bearman ichim99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, ichim99 Washington, DC Archives & Museum Informatics September 23-26, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D <http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/>http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 =============================================================== NINCH-Anounce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), a diverse coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment. The subjects of these announcements are not, unless otherwise noted, the projects of NINCH; neeither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: 18th UK Planning & Scheduling SIG Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:45:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 205 (205) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group http://www.salford.ac.uk/planning/PLANSIG99/ December 15-16, 1999 University of Salford, Salford (United Kingdom) The 1999 workshop of the U.K. Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (organised by the University of Salford) will be held at The Manchester Business School in Manchester, UK. The workshop is an annual forum where academics, industrialists and research students can meet and discuss current issues in an informal setting. We especially aim to bring together researchers attacking different aspects of planning and scheduling problems and to introduce new researchers to the community. In recent years the SIG has attracted an international gathering, and we continue to welcome contributions from around the world. Topic of interest include: Applications: empirical studies of existing planning/scheduling systems; domain-specific techniques; heuristic techniques; user interfaces for planning and scheduling. Architectures: real-time support for planning/scheduling/control; mixed- initiative planning and user interfaces. Environmental and Task Models: analyses of the dynamics of environments, tasks, and domains with regard to different models of planning and execution. Formal Models: reasoning about knowledge, action, and time; representations and ontologies for planning and scheduling; search methods and analysis of algorithms; formal characterisation of existing planners and schedulers. Intelligent Agency: resource-bounded reasoning; distributed problem solving; integrating reaction and deliberation. Learning: learning in the context of planning and execution; learning new plans and operators; learning in the context of scheduling and schedule maintenance. Memory Based Approaches: case-based planning/scheduling; plan and operator learning and reuse; incremental planning. Planning and Perception: integration of planning and perceptual systems. Reactive Systems: environmentally driven devices/behaviours; reactive control; behaviours in the context of minimal representations; schedule maintenance. Robotics: Motion and path planning; planning and control; planning and perception. Constraint-based Planning/Scheduling and Control Techniques: constraint/preference propagation techniques, variable/value ordering heuristics, intelligent backtracking/RMS-based techniques, iterative repair heuristics, etc. Coordination Issues in Decentralised/Distributed planning/scheduling: coordination issues in both homogeneous and heterogeneous systems, system architecture issues, integration of strategic and tactical decision making. Iterative Improvement Techniques for Combinatorial Optimisation: genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search, neural nets, etc applied to scheduling and/or planning. Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research: comparative studies and innovative applications combining AI and OR techniques, applied to scheduling and/or planning. ATTENDANCE Anyone with an interest in Planning and Scheduling is welcome - it is not necessary to submit a paper in order to attend. REGISTRATION The Registration fee will include attendance at the Workshop on December 15th and 16th, lunch and morning and afternoon tea/coffee, and a copy of the Proceedings (ISSN 1368-5708). ACCOMMODATION Accommodation will be available at The Manchester Business School, which is a 5-10 minute walk from the centre of Manchester. SUBMISSIONS Format of submissions: (i) Full papers: (approx 5000 words). These should report work in progress or completed work. Authors of full papers which are accepted by the Programme Committee will be invited to give a talk on the paper. (ii) Short papers: (2 pages) These should report views or ambitions, or describe problems. The author(s) will be able to discuss the paper informally with others at the workshop and may be invited to give a short presentation of their work. Three hard copies of papers should be sent to the Programme Chair to arrive no later than September 17th, 1999. Alternatively, papers can be submitted before this date via email, as compressed and uuencoded postscript files, named author.ps, or ascii text files, named author.txt, in both cases using the name of the first author. All submissions will be reviewed by two referees, and successful submissions will appear in the Workshop Proceedings. Also, accepted papers submitted in HTML format will be made available via the SIG website. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: Ruth Aylett, 18th UK Planning and Scheduling SIG, Centre for Virtual Environments, Business House, University of Salford, Salford, M5 4WT, UK. tel: +44 161 295 2922 email: sig99@angmar.iti.salford.ac.uk PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Programme Chair: Ruth Aylett, University of Salford, UK * Tim Chippington Derrick, ILOG, UK * Roberto Desimone, DERA, Malvern, UK * Maria Fox, Durham University, UK * Tim Grant, Origin (Technical Automation/Command and Control), The Netherlands * Peter Jarvis, AIAI * Gerry Kelleher, Liverpool John Moores University, UK * Lee McCluskey, Huddersfield University, UK * Louise Pryor, Harlequin Ltd, UK * Patrick Prosser, University of Strathclyde, UK * Sam Steel, Essex University, UK * Mark Wallace, IC-PARC, Imperial College London, UK IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for submission: September 17th, 1999 * Notification of acceptance sent to authors by email: October 29th, 1999 * Final copy of paper due: November 19th, 1999 * Deadline for registration: November 19th, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: John Unsworth Subject: Swedish translation needed Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:26:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 206 (206) On behalf of a colleague, Steven Railton, I'm polling Humanist to see if there's anyone out there competent and willing to translate about sixty captions for illustrations in a Swedish-language edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. It should only take about an hour to do, and the translation will be credited. The project as a whole is at: http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/ and deals with sources for, reception of, and artifacts of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The illustrations in question are at: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/ebtdocs/stowe/books/gallery/figures/ in which directory the files beginning with "sw" (as in sw051.jpg, sw052.jpg, etc.) are the illustrations captioned in Swedish. If you think you could help, please contact Steve directly, at sfr@virginia.edu. Thanks, John Unsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~jmu2m 804-924-3137 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: software design Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:26:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 207 (207) Humanists may be interested in the Vitruvius Project (Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon, U.S.), whose goal is "to elucidate the architectural level of abstraction [in software design] so that the collective experience of successful architects can be captured, organized, and made available to ordinary practioners." See <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/vit/www/>. Yours, WM From: Willard McCarty Subject: text-analysis research Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:26:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 208 (208) The French Department, University of Toronto (Canada), maintains a site dedicated to text-analysis, the "Text Analysis Research Project / Projet de recherche de l'analyse des donn=E9es textuelles", for which see <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~cleuprec/research.html>. Yours, 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: "David L. Gants" Subject: Launch of EMLS May issue Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:31:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 209 (209) [deleted quotation] Early Modern Literary Studies is pleased to announce its May issue. It contains articles on "Lives of Devotion: The Correspondence of Isaac Basire and Frances Corbett: 1635-1660" (Paul G. Stanwood, University of British Columbia), "[B]egot between tirewomen and tailors": Commodified Self-Fashioning in Michaelmas Term" (Mathew Martin, University of Alberta), "National and Colonial Education in Shakespeare's The Tempest" (Allen Carey-Webb, Western Michigan University), and "The Laureate Dunces and the Death of the Panegyric" (Peter F. Heaney, Staffordshire University), as well as a variety of book reviews. It can be found at http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html. We are also pleased to announce that, in addition to our book review section, we shall be starting to carry reviews of theatre productions, and from time to time of appropriate films. If you would be interested in offering a review, please contact the Drama Review Editor, Chet Scoville, at scoville@chass.utoronto.ca. Lisa Hopkins Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies Please note that I will be away from my e-mail 28 July - 23 August Dr Lisa Hopkins Senior Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, S10 2BP, U.K. Editor, Early Modern Literary Studies: http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html Teaching and research pages: http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/teaching/lh/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Russian/Polish/Lithuanian help? Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 07:14:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 210 (210) To the wide-ranging readers of Humanist, I ask on behalf of a colleague: he needs to learn more about battles on the Russo-Polish frontier in the 1560s involving the forces of Ivan the Terrible. He cannot find sources in a non-Slavic language and has no Slavic. (He is a classicist working on the state of 16th century classical learning, and never mind why he is driven to needing to know about these battles, but he does.) A kindly soul who has the scholarly and linguistic skills and could answer a few well-put questions? Please write directly to jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu. 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: Marian Dworaczek Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 07:14:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 211 (211) Information The August 1st, 1999 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" is available at: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials, periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected works. Over 1,000 titles were identified and indexed in great detail for this project. Thousands of URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) were added to various entries. Both the Index and the Bibliography are continuously updated. This message has been crossposted to several mailing lists. Please excuse any duplication. ************************************************* *Marian Dworaczek * *Head, Acquisitions Department * *and Head, Technical Services Division * *University of Saskatchewan Libraries * *E-mail: dworaczek@sklib.usask.ca * *Phone: (306) 966-6016 * *Fax: (306) 966-5919 * *Home Page: http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze * ************************************************* From: "C. Perry Willett" Subject: RFC: Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 07:15:08 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 212 (212) Posted to DIGLIB, ETEXTCTR-L, Humanist, TEI-L A draft of the "Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices" is available for comment on the web at <http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/tei>. These guidelines are meant for projects using TEILite, and were drafted as part of the "TEI and XML in Digital Libraries" workshop held in July 1998, sponsored by the Digital Library Federation. A full description of the workshop and links to its reports can be found at <http://www.hti.umich.edu/misc/ssp/workshops/teidlf/index.html>. The "Guidelines for Best Encoding Practices" were drafted by a Task Force of Working Group 2 of the Workshop (are you following this?). The Task Force members include * LeeEllen Friedland, Library of Congress * Nancy Kushigian, University of California, Davis * Christina Powell, University of Michigan * David Seaman, University of Virginia * Natalia Smith, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Perry Willett, Indiana University The guidelines were approved by the larger working group, consisting of about 30 librarians from the United States, Canada and Europe. We presented the guidelines at the recent ACH/ALLC conference in Charlottesville, and we would now like to hear from others who use TEILite for their projects. Please send your comments and suggestions to me by September 30, 1999. Perry Willett Main Library Indiana University PWILLETT@indiana.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: CFP&R: ACM SAC 2000 - Track on COORDINATION Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 07:14:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 213 (213) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS AND REFEREES ============================ 2000 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2000) Special Track on Coordination Models, Languages and Applications March 19-21, 2000 Villa Olmo, Como, Italy (http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/SAC2000.html) SAC 2000: ~~~~~~~~~~ Over the past fourteen 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 2000 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) and in cooperation with ACM SIGs 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: ELRA news Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 07:11:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 214 (214) [deleted quotation] ___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES *** *** Dutch PAROLE Corpus and Lexicon *** We are happy to announce the availability of the Dutch PAROLE resources via ELRA: 1) INTRODUCTION ON THE PAROLE PROJECT LE-PAROLE project (MLAP/LE2-4017) aims to offer a large-scale harmonised set of "core" corpora and lexica for all European Union languages. Language corpora and lexica were built according to the same design and composition principles, in the period 1996-1998. More details on the PAROLE project at: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html http://www.linglink.lu/le/projects/le-parole/index.html (on the Dutch PAROLE corpus and lexicon, see: http://www.inl.nl) ___________________________________________________________ 2) ELRA-W0019 Dutch PAROLE Distributable Corpus The Dutch PAROLE Distributable Corpus is a 3 million words selection fromthe 20 million words Dutch PAROLE Reference corpus The Dutch corpus annotation and checking was made accordingly to the common core PAROLE tagset. The Dutch data were also checked for type. The Dutch PAROLE Distributable Corpus contains the following texts: MEDIUM SOURCE TIMESPAN TOTAL NUMBER of WORDS BOOKS Van Sterkenburg: Wdlijst tot wdboek 1984 65,344 Taal vt Journaal 1989 56,215 WNT-portret 1992 60,133 NEWSPAPERS Short Newspaper texts: MN_Collection 1986-1988 19,537 CVNP(S)-Collection 1983-1990 179,220 PERIODICAL Short texts from - Local Papers 1985-1988 47,019 - Magazines 1985-1989 164,589 MISCELLANEOUS Texts to be read out in TV-news broadcasts for: - General audience 1992-1995 1,285,824 - Youth 1991-1995 1,008,658 Short texts from Ephemera 1985-1986 131,692 TOTAL 3,018,231 Over 250,000 words of corpus texts have been PoS-tagged automatically. A total of 59,798 running words has been manually corrected and checked at least two times with respect to maximal granularity, according to a lexicographer=92s manual. The extra 9,000 words over the required 50,000 words compensate for the occurrence of ca. 5,300 =91keywords=92 in the original texts. The fully corrected material has been subjected to an automated post-control operation, checking the pertinence relations between the various feature values, and instantiating default values in case a mismatch (indicating a correction error) was found. Ca. 200,000 words have been checked once for PoS and type. In addition tothe required PoS, type was checked for reasons of quality. This material hasbeen subjected to an automated correction procedure addressing the feature slots (positions) beyond the first two for PoS and type so as to solve discrepancies between the manually corrected PoS and type, and the possibly erroneous, automatically assigned values of the remaining slots. Special price for academic users from the Netherlands and Belgium: 150 EURO (the data will be supplied directly by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, http://www.inl.nl) Price for ELRA members For academic use: 270 EURO For research use by a commercial organisation: 800 EURO For commercial use: 1600 EURO Price for non members For academic use: 300 EURO For research use by a commercial organisation: 1300 EURO For commercial use: 2500 EURO ___________________________________________________________ 3) ELRA-L0031 Dutch PAROLE lexicon The entry list of the lexicon consists of about 20,200 entries distributed over 13 parts of speech (POS). The entries have been described along the dimensions of morphosyntax and syntax. Morphosyntactic information consists of various lexical properties, like gender, number, case, person, inflection, etc. Syntactic descriptions consist of typical complementation patterns associated with the various lemmata. The composition of the entry list of the lexicon is based on 3 corpora from the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie (INL) and 2 lexica. The corpora contain a total of about 54 million words and have been automatically annotated for part-of-speech and lemma. The lexica contain morphosyntactic information of various kinds. For verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs, lemmata that were covered by at least 2 corpora and the 2 lexica were selected on the basisof cumulative frequency, coverage (distribution over sources) and inflected forms. For the smaller parts of speech, these selection requirements appeared tobe too strict. Entry selection for these parts of speech was based on ranked frequency. The entries, uniquely defined by the combination of part of speech (e.g. noun) and subtype (e.g. common vs. proper noun), are provided with morphosyntactic information according to the Dutch set of PAROLE categories and features,and, where available, with syntactic information. Morphosyntactic information is automatically extracted from the INL lexica. Syntactic data have been collected manually, by inspection of corpus data and - where necessary - consultation of reference works. The corpus consulted consists of the newspaper componentand the varied component of the 38 Million Words Corpus 1996. Word forms in the Dutch PAROLE lexicon are not inflected according to general paradigms, but are related to their lemma by a set of string procedures. These procedures are not unique. They can be shared by many other word forms. An example is suffixation with e for adjectives, which produces =91goede=92/good from =91goed=92. Inflected forms can be derived directly by applying the string procedures to the lemma they are connected with. The lexicon is set up as an SGML file (over 30 MB of plain ASCII). Its contents have been encoded in a distributed manner: all formative entities (like lemmata, syntactic phrases, feature bundles) are SGML entities, related by a pointer mechanism to other entities. The lexicon contains the following categories: adjectives (3,298 entries), adpositions (80 entries), adverbs (554 entries), articles (3 entries), conjunctions (70 entries), determiners (59 entries), interjections (235 entries), nouns (12,279 entries), numerals (77 entries), pronouns (85 entries), residuals (186 entries), unique (1 entry), verb (3,274 entries). Special price for academic users from the Netherlands and Belgium: 200 EURO (the data will be supplied directly by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, http://www.inl.nl) Price for ELRA members For academic use: 300 EURO For research use by a commercial organisation: 1600 EURO For commercial use: 8000 EURO Price for non members For academic use: 400 EURO For research use by a commercial organisation: 3000 EURO For commercial use: 10000 EURO ___________________________________________________________ In case of potential cooperation between a user and the Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie with mutual revenues, specific conditions will apply. Nota: The prices of the Dutch PAROLE corpus and lexicon have been amended since their publication in the last ELRA Newsletter Vol.4 N.2 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: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: AMICO & OhioLINK Reach Agreement: Museum multimedia on campus networks Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 07:12:14 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 215 (215) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 2, 1999 [deleted quotation]AMICO Press Release July, 1999 The Art Museum Image Consortium and OhioLINK Reach An Agreement on Statewide Distribution of the AMICO Library AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), a growing not-for-profit consortium currently made up of 27 museum members in North America, has reached a distribution agreement with the Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK), a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Through this agreement students, professors, and staff at 17 public universities, 23 community/technical colleges, and 35 private colleges in the state of Ohio will have access to the AMICO Library through OhioLINK's Digital Media Center starting in the fall of 1999. "OhioLINK already has an established expertise in delivering library resources such as the AMICO Library, so the fit was really natural for us," commented AMICO Executive Director, Jennifer Trant. "With this Agreement the broad, diverse community of OhioLINK institutions have full access to the AMICO Library through a familiar portal. Our hope is that our relationship with OhioLINK will become a model for similar statewide distribution agreements," stated Ms. Trant. The 1999 edition of the AMICO Library documents over 50,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations. More than simply an image database, works in the AMICO Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about the artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work itself, and other related multimedia. "The AMICO Library is a welcome addition to our digital resources collection because it will expand the Digital Media Center with a rich image and multimedia database focused on art objects," states Charly Bauer, Assistant Director of Library Systems - Digital Media. Additionally, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), an AMICO Member, looks forward to this agreement building bridges to Ohio professors and students. "With this agreement providing AMICO Library access to so many universities and colleges across Ohio it's akin to having a traveling exhibition of our permanent collection visiting each school for an entire year," observes Stephanie Stebich in the Director's Office of the CMA. She goes on to say, "We hope this added exposure to the museum's fine works will enhance users' knowledge and draw visitors in the museum itself." AMICO envisions the Library functioning in innovative ways that traditional resources can not. For instance, students may curate online exhibitions using AMICO images, professors could give "on the fly" lectures searching the AMICO Library in real-time class settings, restricted-access course web sites could be created for review purposes with AMICO images incorporated in them, and much more. To investigate how the AMICO Library may be used in educational institutions AMICO has just completed a yearlong University Testbed with 16 universities across the United States and Canada. A summary of many Testbed projects may be found on the AMICO web site at the following address, <<http://www.amico.org/projects/u.mtg.99/u.results.html>http://www.amico.org /projects/u.mtg.99/u.results.<http://www.amico.org/projects/u.mtg.99/u.resul ts.html>html>. "The AMICO Library should be quite useful to our member institutions and a great complement to the prodigious resources that our establishment already provides. We hope that educators and students from many disciplines will see the creative possibilities of the Library and infuse their educational efforts in a new way," said Charly Bauer. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks on an institutional subscriber basis. Images of artworks from museums such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the J. Paul Getty Museum are included in the AMICO Library. A recent agreement with the Artists Rights Society provides AMICO Library users unprecedented access to modern and contemporary works. Interested users may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of the AMICO Library and get further information at <<http://www.amico.org>http://www.amico.org>. The Ohio Library and Information Network, OhioLINK, is a consortium of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio. Serving more than 500,000 students, faculty, and staff at 76 institutions, OhioLINK offers access to more than 31 million library items statewide. OhioLINK also provides access to 95 research databases, and many full-text resources. Through OhioLINK's Electronic Journal Center, users have access to more than 2400 electronic journal subscriptions and over one-million journal articles. OhioLINK also offers user-initiated online borrowing, the ability to electronically request items while searching the OhioLINK central catalog, and a delivery service among member institutions to speed the exchange of library items. To date, the OhioLINK central catalog contains more than 7 million master records from its 76 institutions, encompassing a spectrum of library material including law, medical, and special collections. OhioLINK's Digital Media Center will provide access to images, audio, video, and other types of digital information in a variety of disciplines such as art and architecture, medicine, and geography. The Digital Media Center will serve as a publishing outlet for OhioLINK members to contribute digital resources from their own unique collections. The AMICO Library is a product of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO). Founded in October 1997 as a program of the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) Educational Foundation, Inc., AMICO was separately incorporated as an independent non-profit corporation in June of 1998, ending its direct connection with the AAMD. The Consortium is today made up of 27 major museums in North America and is open to interested institutions with a collection of art. Its innovative collaboration shares, shapes, and standardizes information regarding visual data collections and enables its educational use. A full list of members can be found at <<http://www.amico.org>http://www.amico.org>. 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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>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/ninc h<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/>-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: interactivity Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 07:17:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 216 (216) In the Times Literary Supplement for 30 July, no. 5026, James Hall reviews a current show at the Tate Gallery, "Abracadabra", focusing in particular on the "Utopian dream of pure interactivity" at the heart of it. His title tells the tale: "Touching on child's play: Abracadabra and the recurring nightmare of 'interactive' art". Apparently a large bit within the Tate has been remade into a continuous space, carpeted in purple deep-pile, to create (in the words of the curators) "a stimulating, surprising and convivial environment where the visitor is invited to make discoveries and share the imaginary worlds of the artists" -- 15 of them from Europe, America and Japan. The design is "collaborative and inclusive". We are invited to touch and feel some of the pieces and to "interact" with all of them. I bring this review and the show to your attention not to get you to come here (ok, with one exception!), rather because interactivity lies also at the heart of computing, and more specifically because in the design of systems it seems to go without saying that interactivity is a Good Thing. Allow me to reassure you that I am not driving deviously toward a call for our return to DOS, rather that I think it's our job to turn over rocks like this one and see what's crawling around underneath. Hall traces interactivity back to two founding stories: that of the historical Zeuxis (ca. 4C BCE), whose painted grapes were so realistic that the birds tried to peck at them; and the mythical Pygmalion, so enamoured of his own "virgo eburnea" (ivory sculpture of a young woman) "that he fondles and kisses, dresses and undresses, even beds it", as Hall says, cutting to the chase. The latter story ends happily -- the goddess Venus transforms ivory into living flesh and they live happily ever after -- but not before (at least in Ovid's version) we get the uncomfortable, disturbing point. What, exactly, are we interacting with, to what end, with what consequences? The founding stories Hall points to would suggest that it's a tease -- hunger (Zeuxis) and desire (Pygmalion) are evoked only to be frustrated. Hall argues that in the history of art the interaction (touching and being touched) is a big problem (the "recurring nightmare" of his title) -- that, for example, the technique of perspective worked "to set up a cordon sanitaire between the work of art and the viewer" because of the dangers lurking in too intimate interactivity, and that in general the pressure on the artist has been to make his or her work "as innocuous as possible". (Or, thinking of recent events in London and elsewhere, as "outrageous" as possible, and so, given the current aesthetic, as innocuous as possible.) An old story, illustrated by the deaths of Socrates, Lenny Bruce and many, many others: get too close to society's anxieties and one pays the consequences. The interesting bit for us is in thinking about what we want interactivity to do for us, with us, to us. Or, to put the matter another way, what do we do about the gap between living intelligence and its inert simulation? Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Nadia Zilper Subject: Battles Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:20:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 217 (217) Please advise your colleague who would like to learn more about battles on the Russo-Polish frontier in the 1560s involving the forces of Ivan the Terrible to send his inquiry to the University of Illinois Slavic Reference Center. This center is subsidized by the state grants and staffed with reference librarians, specialists in the Slavic and East European area studies. The URL is http://www.library.uiuc.edu/spx/srs.htm ______________________________________________________ Nadia Zilper Slavic & East European Resources Bibliographer Collection Development Department Davis Library CB#3918 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Telephone: (919) 962-3740 Fax: (919) 962-4450 E-mail: Nadia_Zilper@unc.edu URL: http://www.unc.edu/depts/slavlib/html/SEERPAG1.HTM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Domenico Fiormonte Subject: Computers, Literature and Philology '99 Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:21:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 218 (218) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Department of Linguistic and Literary Sciences (DSLL) Faculty of Letters, University of Rome "La Sapienza" and the TIL (= Testi Italiani in Linea) project announce: COMPUTERS, LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY (II) An international seminar Rome, 3-5 November 1999 Following the success of CLP 1998 (http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/seminar.htm), the DSLL and the TIL project (http://til.let.uniroma1.it) are organising and sponsoring the second edition of this annual seminar dedicated to literary and linguistic computing researches and methodologies. This year meeting will focus on online resources, digital libraries, text encoding (SGML and XML applications), and the curriculum of humanities computing. Speakers will include Lou Burnard, Elisabeth Burr, Roberto Mercuri, Tito Orlandi, Allen Renear, Jonathan Usher, Antonio Zampolli, and other leading experts from Italy and abroad. For more information please contact Domenico Fiormonte at mc9809@mclink.it or call +39-06.49.91.31.83. Check regularly the TIL web site (http://til.let.uniroma1.it) for updated information on the seminar programme, bursaries, venue and timetable, or send enquiries by email to: gigliozzi@axrma.uniroma1.it or the e-mail address mentioned above. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Domenico Fiormonte University of Edinburgh School of European Languages and Cultures DHT, George Square - EH8 9XJ United Kingdom Fax: +44-131-6506536 http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/digitalv.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michael Fraser Subject: Vacancy: Humanities Hub Computer Officer Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:21:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 219 (219) [Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to interested individuals] [see further http://www.humbul.ac.uk/recruit.html] Computer Officer, Humbul Humanities Hub OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT University of Oxford Grade: RS1A #16,286 - #24,479 The Humanities Computing Unit (HCU) brings together prestigious local, national and international projects and services which include the award-winning Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature web project, the Oxford Text Archive, the HUMBUL Gateway, and the CTI Centre for Textual Studies. Information about the HCU is available from http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/. The HCU has recently been awarded funding by the JISC to develop the Humanities Hub for the new Resource Discovery Network. The Hub, based on the existing Humbul Gateway, will provide Web-based access to high quality Internet resources for teaching and research in the humanities. We are seeking a Computer Officer who will be responsible for the development of the Hub's substantial Web-based database system. The Computing Officer will also have primary responsibility for the development of the user interface. He/she will be actively encouraged to investigate the latest tools and techniques in networking and resource discovery. This is an exciting and challenging post which requires a graduate with practical experience in the development of database systems delivered via the Web, knowledge of HTML/XML and Perl. Good communication and organisational skills are essential. Applicants must be willing to acquire new skills and to work as part of a small team. This post is offered as a three-year contract in the first instance, from 1st October 1999 or as soon as possible thereafter. To apply, 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). Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 24 August 1999. Interviews will be held during week commencing 6 September 1999. (as advertised on http://www.jobs.ac.uk/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Michael Fraser Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk Head of Humbul Fax: +44 1865 273 275 Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS Tel: +44 1865 283 343 University of Oxford 13 Banbury Road http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford OX2 6NN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Chris Ann Matteo Subject: electronic pre-publication Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 22:20:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 220 (220) Dear Colleagues, I'd like to gather some opinions about wise strategies for sharing pre-publication academic essays on the WWW. I've just returned from a conference, and we have been encouraged to submit abstracts or full-text papers to be mounted on the conference website (it is envisioned that this website will develop into a more comprehensive resource for the study of this subject). These papers have already been delivered in person. What copyright protections apply? I feel divided and uneasy about my own participation in this project. The work I presented derives from my dissertation that I hope to defend in early Fall 1999. I have plans to either seek out a peer-reviewed journal or a book publisher. I dive into a job-search following my defense. While my spirit of scholarly exchange leads me to contribute, I hesitate to circulate this material at this transition in my career. My inclination is to submit the abstract and leave it at that until long-range print publication plans firm up. Opinions? This is a general question and, obviously, also a particular one. Your feedback is much appreciated. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- * Chris Ann Matteo .("."). * | chrisann@walrus.com ( \ : / ) The finest language is mostly made| * Comparative Lit (`'-.;;;.-'`) up of simple unimposing words... * | Princeton U (:-==;;;;;==-:) signs of something unspeakably | * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( .-';;;'-. ) great and beautiful. * | 69 Tiemann Place (` / : \ `) | * Apartment 31 '-(_/ \_)-' George Eliot, ADAM BEDE * | NY NY 10027 USA " | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13.0124 pre-publication online? Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:25:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 221 (221) The point raised by Chris Ann Matteo is most interesting and it echoes a good many points that have been exchanged around electronic publishing, particularly in the hard sciences. For a recent a lively debate on this topic, see the archives of the e-biomed project at the National Institute of Health. In particular, see Stevan Harnad's incisive comments on this matter. They are not always couched in the most diplomatic manner, but they certainly go at the heart of the matter. http://www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ebiomed/ebiomed.htm It is interesting that the scholar-as-reader behaves significantly differently from the scholar-as-author. In the former case, he or she insists on the widest possible access to journals and books within the University library; in the latter case, he or she insists on the highest visibility, prestige, status, *independently of the cost of the journal that the library will have to buy later*. This is even worse when the scholar puts on a third hat, that of the editor, and does it for a company like Elsevier. Elsevier sells scientific journals (about a billion dollars worth of sales per year) and makes a cool 40% profit in passing. Fundamental knowledge produced largely thanks to public money is then written up for free, refereed for free. When the article is submitted, some commercial journals already request a small fee (a "ticket mod=E9rateur" of sorts); when it is accepted, the author(s) often must pay so much per page. Then the journal is produced with little added value and it is sold at incredible prices. And it is sold to libraries that, by and large, are supported by public money. In effect, through this technique, some commercial outfits have managed to create a kind of tax on governments across the planet, or at least across the OECD nations (i.e. the richest nations of this planet). Very clever indeed! Not very equitable, nor very functional. It impedes the free flow of scholarly information among scholars; it tends to discriminate against poorer institutions, as well as poorer countries. This said, a young colleague is particularly vulnerable to this kind of situation as she or he must prepare a credible dossier in the hope of gaining academic employment. I have no direct advice to give Ms. Chris Ann Matteo, and I understand her worries. I also feel that she should not be the kind of person heroically defending a worthy cause without any solid base from where to wage battle (if so is her inclination). On the other hand, more senior people could envision organizing a humanities project similar to the physics project at Los Alamos (Ginsparg's project at www.lanl.gov) and the NIH project that is presently being discussed. Such a project could entail the following form 1. A pre-print archive where articles would be admitted on the quick and fundamental test of relevance to the domain or domains covered by the archive. 2. The copyright should remain in the hands of the author(s). 3. Editorial boards as prestigious as possible could be organized and could begin selecting the better papers so as to provide a quality of intellectual certification through some classical peer review. 4. The selected papers could then be marked in such a way that users would know that they are fully certified as if they had been published in a normal, peer-reviewed journal. The editorial boards would, in effect, overlay (to use a phrase that is being used more and more commonly in e-publishing circles) the pre-print archives. Their role, beyond providing an accountable form of certification, would be to create an intellectual identity to these texts. This is particularly important in the social sciences and the humanities. 5. A more innovative idea would be to allow for the possibility of multiple certification of a single article by several editorial boards. This could draw attention to a variety of characteristics such as the inter-disciplinary nature of an article, or its fundamental, trans-disciplinary relevance, or its extremely high quality. The "or" here does not mean mutually exclusive characteristics. Discussions have been going on on this topic for a while. A conference in California in 1997 laid some of the groundwork for such a project. More focused discussions are going on in the sciences as I have noted above. Isn't it time to launch a similar effort in the area of the social sciences and the humanities? We will not solve Ms. Matteo's difficult dilemma (and again, I fully sympathize with her) but, in due time, we may relieve some of these difficulties which ultimately rest on simultaneous desire to create as friction-free a communication system among scholars, and treat the objects of communication, documents, journals, etc., as commodities. Any interest in pursuing this kind of vision? Best regards, Jean-Claude Gu=E9don ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- =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 "INTERNET IS FOR EVERYONE!" Join the Internet Society and help to make it = so. See you at INET2000, Yokohama, Japan July 18-21, 2000=20 http://www.isoc.org/inet2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Stephanie Stauffer Subject: thoughful deliberations on technology Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:26:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 222 (222) [Forwarded to Humanist with thanks. --WM] [deleted quotation]http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.01/amish.html Look Who's Talking The Amish are famous for shunning technology. But their secret love affair with the cell phone is causing an uproar. By Howard Rheingold Technology is my native tongue. I'm online six hours a day. I have a cell phone, voicemail, fax, laptop, and palmtop. I'm connected - and lately, I've been wondering where all this equipment is leading me. I've found myself asking a question that's both disquieting and intriguing: What kind of person am I becoming as a result of all this stuff? Of course, I'm not the only one asking. And a while ago it occurred to me that, in addition to measuring my reactions against those of others in comparable circumstances, I might learn something entirely new by looking at a civilization of which I am not a member. The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology. So I turned to them for a glimpse of the future. Amish settlements have become a cliche for refusing technology. Tens of thousands of people wear identical, plain, homemade clothing, cultivate their rich fields with horse-drawn machinery, and live in houses lacking that basic modern spirit called electricity. But the Amish do use such 20th-century consumer technologies as disposable diapers, in-line skates, and gas barbecue grills. Some might call this combination paradoxical, even contradictory. But it could also be called sophisticated, because the Amish have an elaborate system by which they evaluate the tools they use; their tentative, at times reluctant use of technology is more complex than a simple rejection or a whole-hearted embrace. What if modern Americans could possibly agree upon criteria for acceptance, as the Amish have? Might we find better ways to wield technological power, other than simply unleashing it and seeing what happens? What can we learn from a culture that habitually negotiates the rules for new tools? Last summer, armed with these questions and in the company of an acquaintance with Amish contacts, I traveled around the countryside of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Everywhere, there were freshly planted fields, farmhouses with handsome, immaculate barns and outbuildings. At one farm we passed, a woman was sitting a hundred yards from her house on the edge of a kitchen garden. She wore the traditional garb of the conservative Old Order - a long, unadorned dress sheathed by an apron, her hair covered by a prayer bonnet. She was sitting in the middle of the garden, alone, the very image of technology-free simplicity. But she was holding her hand up to her ear. She appeared to be intent on something, strangely engaged. "Whenever you see an Amish woman sitting in the field like that," my guide said, "she's probably talking on a cell phone." "It's a controversy in the making," he continued. A rather large one, it turns out - yet part of the continuum of determining whether a particular technology belongs in Amish life. They've adopted horses, kerosene lamps, and propane refrigerators; should they add cell phones? Collective negotiations over the use of telephones have ignited intense controversies in the Amish community since the beginning of the 20th century. In fact, a dispute over the role of the phone was the principal issue behind the 1920s division of the Amish church, wherein one-fifth of the membership broke away to form their own church. Eventually, certain Amish communities accepted the telephone for its aid in summoning doctors and veterinarians, and in calling suppliers. But even these Amish did not allow the telephone into the home. Rather, they required that phones be used communally. Typically, a neighborhood of two or three extended families shares a telephone housed in a wooden shanty, located either at the intersection of several fields or at the end of a common lane. These structures look like small bus shelters or privies; indeed, some phones are in outhouses. Sometimes the telephone shanties have answering machines in them. (After all, who wants to wait in the privy on the off chance someone will call?) The first Amish person I contacted, I reached by answering machine. He was a woodworker who, unlike some of his brethren, occasionally talked to outsiders. I left a message on his phone, which I later learned was located in a shanty in his neighbor's pasture. The next day the man, whom I'll call Amos, returned my call. We agreed to meet at his farmstead a few days later. I couldn't help thinking it was awfully complicated to have a phone you used only for calling back - from a booth in a meadow. Why not make life easier and just put one in the house? "What would that lead to?" another Amish man asked me. "We don't want to be the kind of people who will interrupt a conversation at home to answer a telephone. It's not just how you use the technology that concerns us. We're also concerned about what kind of person you become when you use it." Far from knee-jerk technophobes, these are very adaptive techno-selectives who devise remarkable technologies that fit within their self-imposed limits. The Amish are famously shy. Their commitment to "plain" living is most obvious in their unadorned clothing - Old Order Amish even eschew buttons, requiring humble hooks instead. Any sign of individuality is cause for concern. Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as being too individualistic. Calling attention to oneself, or being "prideful," is one of the cardinal Amish worries. Having your name or photo in the papers, even talking to the press, is almost a sin. Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. The garish technicolor shirts and hand-painted shoes I usually wear sometimes startle business audiences who show up for my speaking engagements. My reasoning: If I think for myself, why not dress for myself? Dye technology has given us all these colors, so let's use 'em! Still, I didn't want to make my idiosyncrasies the focus of my visit to Amish country. So I bought a plain blue work shirt, dark blue gabardine pants, and brown shoes. I hadn't traveled so drably in many years. Amos runs a factory of sorts in the vicinity of three memorably named Pennsylvania towns: Bird-in-Hand, Paradise, and Intercourse. The sun was setting as I drove slowly down his unpaved driveway. I found myself inside a tableau that must have looked almost exactly the same 200 years ago. Several men and young boys in identical black trousers, suspenders, and straw hats were operating horse-drawn equipment in the fields beyond. One of Amos's grandsons pointed me to a plain wooden building beside the barn. The aroma of cows gave way to the pungent smell of diesel fuel and wood chips as I entered the workshop. The whine of a wood-milling machine made it futile to talk. This was not the serene place the words "Amish woodshop" conjure up. My host finished cutting a 12-foot-long plank before we greeted each other. He then lit a kerosene lamp in the small office next to his workshop and invited me in. The office had no modern technology in it, but railroad posters were tacked on the walls, and wooden locomotive models sat on the shelves. Amos had sawdust and hydraulic fluid in his beard. His blue-gray eyes fastened on me as he bounced back his own questions in reply to my queries. He had received the same eighth-grade education that all Amish youth are given, but it was obvious that Amos did some outside reading. When I asked him to describe his sense of community, he started out, "Hmm, how do you pronounce s-c-e-n-a-r-i-o?" Amos runs a successful business crafting wooden furniture, which he sells throughout Pennsylvania and beyond - primarily to the "English" (the Amish term for non-Amish). It's a trade more and more Amish are getting into. Inside Amos's home there are no telephones, radios, televisions, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, or other electrical appliances. In his shop, routers, mills, and sanders are powered by specially adapted hydraulic mechanisms connected to a diesel engine located near a large open door, exhausting outside the building. This was a good case study in Amish reasoning: Far from knee-jerk technophobes, these are very adaptive techno-selectives who devise remarkable technologies that fit within their self-imposed limits. The price of good farmland and the number of Amish families are both increasing so rapidly that in recent decades they have adopted nonagricultural enterprises for livelihood - woodworking, construction, light factory work. This, in turn, has forced the Amish to adopt technologies that can enhance their productivity. And the interface with the English brings its own set of demands: When the State of Pennsylvania refused to certify Amish-produced milk unless it was stirred mechanically and refrigerated according to state health codes, the Amish installed stirring machines and refrigeration - operated by batteries or propane gas. Amos, like many other Amish craftsmen, uses electricity in his workshop for certain tools. But the electricity does not come from public utility lines. Amos runs a diesel generator to charge a bank of 12-volt batteries. The batteries' DC charge is then sent through a converter to create homegrown 110-volt "Amish electricity." To generate more, he has to haul the diesel fuel in from town on his horse-drawn buggy. To the obvious question why allow Amish electricity but not public electricity, Amos answered slowly and deliberately, "The Bible teaches us not to conform to the world, to keep a separation. Connecting to the electric lines would make too many things too easy. Pretty soon, people would start plugging in radios and televisions, and that's like a hot line to the modern world. We use batteries and generators because you can use the batteries for only a short time and because you have to fuel and maintain the generator yourself. It's a way of controlling our use of electricity. We try to restrict things that would lead to us losing that sense of being separate, to put the brakes on how fast we change." "Does it bring us together, or draw us apart?" is the question bishops ask in considering whether to permit or put away a technology. Despite the reputation today's Amish have as old-fashioned diehards, their departure from Europe several centuries ago was driven by their success as innovators. They started out as radical religious libertarians - at a time when the price of religious radicalism was martyrdom. Catholics and Protestants were killing each other in a major religious war, but both sides took a serious dislike to these defiant theological purists, known at the time as Anabaptists, for their emphasis on adult baptism. (Today, every Amish household has a copy of Martyrs' Mirror, a text of more than 1,000 pages that details the excruciating and humiliating public executions suffered by Anabaptist martyrs in Switzerland, Germany, and Holland.) The Anabaptists developed a soil technology based on crop rotation, planting clover in their pastures, and sweetening their earth with lime and gypsum; they dramatically increased the yield of their land, and some of them became wealthy. Ironically, those same Anabaptists helped set the stage for the fast-paced changes of modern life that today's Amish reject. It was the widespread adoption of Anabaptist practices that eventually produced enough food to free other agricultural laborers, creating the workforce that would be needed for the industrial revolution. Toward the end of the 17th century, one of the Anabaptist leaders, Jakob Ammann, decided that his Swiss brethren had not been radical enough. Ammann and his followers, who came to be known as "Amish," broke with traditional Anabaptists, moved to the New World, and started farming in Lancaster County in 1710. In today's Pennsylvania Amish country, a group of 20 to 30 families who live near one another constitute a "district." Each district has a bishop, and the bishops get together twice a year to discuss church matters. This includes raising the recurring questions about which technologies should be permitted in the community, and which banned or regulated. While the say of the bishops is binding, the Amish come to their decisions quite consensually. New things are not outright forbidden, nor is there a rush to judgment. Rather, technologies filter in when one of the more daring members of the community starts to use, or even purchases, something new. Then others try it. Then reports circulate about the results. What happens with daily use? Does it bring people together? Or have the opposite effect? Despite the almost organic ebb and flow of this evaluation process, the common goal is constant submission to the judgment of one's peers. On my visit, I was constantly struck by what seemed an alien conception of community. As a kid I was encouraged to "do my thing" while being nice to others; I've lived in five states and dozens of neighborhoods. Amish communities are not just tightly knit and immobile, they're authoritarian. Yet there is some room for disagreement; consider how the bishops judged the automobile in the 1960s. Typically, the Amish have large extended families; most have dozens of cousins within walking or buggy distance. Every other Sunday, instead of attending church, the Amish are encouraged to visit relatives and the sick. Over time, it was felt that the automobile was enlarging people's traveling radius too far beyond their extended family, to diversions and recreations not related to the community, decreasing the social cohesion and personal connection the Amish so cherish. Some bishops accepted the use of the automobile under certain conditions, while others rejected it outright. The Amish are now split into traditional "Old Order" Amish who still stick to horse and buggy, "New Order" Amish who approve use of telephones and powered farm equipment but shun public electricity, and "Beachy Amish," named for the '20s liberal leader Moses Beachy, who permit both public electricity and automobiles. While all orders now allow diesel engines in the barn to blow silage, their use is still resisted in the fields - the bishops don't want increased efficiency to interfere with the practice of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, working together with horse-drawn machinery and handheld implements. Notably, some Old Order Amish allow some diesel-powered equipment in the fields - if it's hauled by animals. "Does it bring us together, or draw us apart?" is the primary question the bishops ask in considering whether to permit or put away a technology. The bishops' rulings can take decades. In daily life, the Amish take their directions in dress, thought, behavior, and custom from a body of unwritten but detailed rules known as the "Ordnung." Individuals and communities maintain a separation from the world (by not connecting their houses to telephones or electricity), a closeness to one another (through regular meetings), and an attitude of humility so specific they have a name for it ("Gelassenheit"). Decisions about technology hinge on these collective criteria. If a telephone in the home interferes with face-to-face visiting, or an electrical hookup fosters unthinking dependence on the outside world, or a new pickup truck in the driveway elevates one person above his neighbors, then people start to talk about it. The talk reaches the bishops' ears. In the middle of Amish country, it occurs to me that Internet culture itself grew out of a kind of virtual Ordnung - the norms of cooperation, information-sharing, and netiquette taught to newbies by the first generations of users. The celebrated "anarchy" of the early days was possible only because of the near-universal adherence to largely unwritten rules. But the Internet population has grown fast - so fast that the sudden influx of tens of millions of newbies has overwhelmed the capacity of the old-timers to pass on the Ordnung. In the process, the Internet loses its unique hallmarks, coming to resemble and reflect the rest of contemporary culture. "Instead of a telephone shanty, some Old Order Amish leave their cell phone overnight with an English neighbor, who recharges it." "The Amish employ an intuitive sense about what will build solidarity and what will pull them apart," says Donald Kraybill, author of The Riddle of Amish Culture. "You find state-of-the-art barbecues on some Amish porches. Here is a tool they see as increasing family coherence: Barbecues bring people together." Asked what kinds of questions the bishops will likely raise about cell phones, Kraybill replies, "Are cell phones being used 'to make a living' or just for gossip and frivolous chatter? Will permitting cell phones lead to having phones in homes, and where will that lead ... to fax machines and the Internet?" "We don't want to stop progress, we just want to slow it down," several Amish told me. Conversations about technology often turn on where to "hold the line" against the too-rapid advance of innovation. Riding in automobiles to work, but not owning them, putting telephone shanties in fields, requiring battery power instead of electrical lines are all ways of holding the line. And clearly a lot could be learned about the Amish hold-the-line philosophy by looking at those who either crossed the line or pushed it further out. So I sought out several of the more boldly experimental members of the greater Plain community (Amish and Mennonites and other religious groups sharing a kindred commitment to plain living). In ranging from farmers who ran small enterprises in barnside sheds to well-equipped machine workshops and multimillion-dollar crafts factories, I soon was directed to Moses Smucker, who runs a harness shop in Churchtown, Pennsylvania. Moses is an early adopter. He didn't mind if I used his real name, a liberty that has made him the subject of a few other journalists' stories. When I arrived at his manufacturing headquarters, I took a look at some of the harnesses on display - one of them had a price tag of $12,000. If you've ever seen the Budweiser Clydesdales Christmas commercials, you've seen harness bells from Moses Smucker's Churchtown workshop. In the back of the store, more than a dozen young Amish men were working at modern machinery powered by hydraulics and diesel-generated electricity. Upstairs, I saw a woman in traditional plain clothing seated in front of a PC. Moses Smucker might look like Abe Lincoln, in his black suit and mustache-free beard, but he bore the same time-is-money air of any factory manager taking a few minutes out of a busy day to talk to the press. Where Amos was rough hewn and wry, Moses seemed shrewd and slick. His office was certainly in a different century from Amos's. An electronic rolodex and an electric calculator sat atop an old roll-top desk. I noticed a clock in the shape of a horse and buggy. The whip ticked back and forth. "When I started this business in 1970," Moses said, "it wasn't accepted to have a telephone in the building, even in a business. But the telephone began to be accepted through popular disobedience. More businesses put them in and the bishops didn't stop them." Will the bishops also eventually allow phones in the home? I asked. "When the telephone first came out here, people put them in their homes," explained Moses. "But they were party lines. One time a woman overheard two other women gossiping about her. She objected. That wasn't what we wanted for our families or our community, so the bishops met and home telephones were banned." Is the family meal enhanced by a beeper? Who exactly benefits from call waiting? Is automated voicemail a hint about how institutions value human life? I had heard the same story from several other Amish - in fact, this story seemed to be a key part of community mythology. A writer named Diane Zimmerman Umble, who grew up in Lancaster County and had family roots in the Plain orders, traced the story to its origin, a 1986 memoir written by an Old Order Amishman born in 1897. As a graduate student, Zimmerman Umble started investigating Amish community telephones for a course on contemporary social theory, and ended up writing a book on the subject, Holding the Line: The Telephone in Old Order Mennonite and Amish Life. Among her findings was the power of anecdote in the Amish decisionmaking process. Anecdote, of course, is a key currency on the Internet, so I asked Moses if he'd heard stories about it. Although he used a computer in his business, he didn't believe the Internet as currently constituted would ever be permitted. Based on anecdotal evidence, he said, "It's too unregulated, there's too much trash, and there's a worry people will use it for purposes unrelated to work." I asked another Amish workshop owner whom I'll call Caleb what he thought about technology. He pulled some papers out of a file cabinet, handed them to me, and said, "I share some of this fellow's opinions," pointing to a magazine interview with virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier. Asked for an opinion he shared with the dreadlocked-and-dashikied Jaron, he replied, "I agree with his statement that you can't design foolproof machines, because fools are so clever." Caleb also discussed the Amish resistance to becoming "modern." They're not worried about becoming people without religion or people who use lots of technology, he explained; rather, the Amish fear assimilating the far more dangerous ideas that "progress" and new technologies are usually beneficial, that individuality is a precious value, that the goal of life is to "get ahead." This mind-set, not specific technologies, is what the Amish most object to. "The thing I noticed about the telephone is the way it invades who you are," Caleb said. "We're all losing who we are because of the telephone and other machines - not just the Amish." In Holding the Line, Zimmerman Umble writes: "Some Old Order people feel that relaxation of telephone rules reflects a movement toward an 'uncontrollable drift' which must be halted. Others see these steps as pragmatic choices necessary to hold the community together economically. The paradox in the Old Order story is that the telephone does both: It holds people together by making communication among community members possible, and it separates them from the world and from each other. The telephone is both evil and good." Donald Kraybill, who is also provost of Messiah College, on the outskirts of Amish country, believes taboos about telephones are "a symbolic way of keeping the technology at a distance and making it your servant, rather than the other way around." Can they make the cell phone a servant? My questions on this score were answered mostly with anecdote. I heard of one Amish man who was going to be late to a chiropractor appointment, so he pulled out his cell phone and called the receptionist from the bus he was on. Zimmerman Umble heard of a Plain order businessman who called his stockbroker from his company car phone, pushing three taboos at once past their boundaries. Zimmerman Umble pointed out that part of what makes cell phones so handy - the lack of a wire - also poses a special challenge for the Amish. "In the early part of the community discussion, electrical and telephone lines carried substantial symbolic freight," she said. The wires meant that anyone in the community could easily see who was using electricity and phones. "But now, in the absence of the line, behavior can't be monitored in the same way. It is harder to maintain separation between home and business when you have a cell phone in your pocket. In that sense it tests the community consensus about what is allowable." Calling around cell phone outlets in the Lancaster area, I found a merchant who has been selling cell phones to Plain folk for years. "A great percentage of my customer base is Amish and Mennonite," the merchant told me. "More Amish than Mennonite. We opened our cellular system 12 years ago. Within the first year, I had an Amish customer. He first called from his neighbor's house. He owned a painting business and told me he wasn't allowed to have a cell phone personally, but his bishop said he could buy one for his foreman to use in the company truck. It didn't take too long before I started getting quite a lot of telephone calls from the Amish." This raised quite a few interesting consumer technology questions. Ordinarily, for example, one needs a credit card (and good credit) to secure a cell phone. "The Amish pay in cash," explained the merchant, who, along with most Amish-friendly shopkeepers, didn't want his name used. "We normally ask for a driver's license for the purpose of identification when we activate cellular service - of course, the Amish don't have driver's licenses. They weren't able to get phones for several months, since we weren't allowed to open accounts without driver's licenses. So we had to make a policy change to accommodate them. We ended up asking for another form of identification. But the Amish don't believe in photography, so we couldn't get a photo ID. Eventually we told them to get Pennsylvania state IDs without photographs. "I've sold hundreds of cell phones to them, primarily business phones," the merchant continued, adding a few details about how the phones were used. "Some Old Order Amish leave their cell phones in their shanty. Some leave the phone overnight with an English neighbor, who recharges it for them; then the Amish pick up the phone in the morning." It's a pretty safe prediction that when the bishops get around to their formal ruling, cell phones will not be deemed appropriate for personal use. In the 1910s, when the telephone was only beginning to change the world at large, the Old Order Amish recognized that the caller at the other end of the line was an interloper, someone who presumed to take precedence over the family's normal, sacred, communications. Keeping the telephone in an unheated shanty in a field, or even an outhouse, was keeping the phone in its proper place. Though the Amish determination to allow phones at work but ban them at home might seem hard to accept, I appreciate the deliberation put into their decision. In fact, similar reflection might highlight conflicts between our own practices and values. How often do we interrupt a conversation with someone who is physically present in order to answer the telephone? Is the family meal enhanced by a beeper? Who exactly is benefiting from call waiting? Is automated voicemail a dark hint about the way our institutions value human time and life? Can pagers and cell phones that vibrate instead of ring solve the problem? Does the enjoyment of virtual communities by growing numbers of people enhance or erode citizen participation in the civic life of geographic communities? "What does the Old Order story have to say to members of postmodern society?" asks Diane Zimmerman Umble. "The struggle of Old Order groups to mold technology in the service of community provides a provocative model of resistance for those who have come to recognize that technology brings both benefits and costs.... Their example invites reflection on a modern dilemma: how to balance the rights of the individual with the needs of the community. For them, community comes first." Indeed, what does one's use of a tool say to other people, particularly loved ones, about where they stand in our priorities? In my own house, we decided to get a rollover to voicemail instead of call waiting - experiences on the receiving end of call waiting convinced us that both parties on the other end of the line get pissed off when you interrupt the conversation. No matter how absorbing the flame war of the moment might be, I make a point of suspending online communication when someone in my presence attempts to talk with me. And I've come to believe that face-to-face conversation should outrank disembodied conversation via cell phone or email. I never expected the Amish to provide precise philosophical yardsticks that could guide the use of technological power. What drew me in was their long conversation with their tools. We technology-enmeshed "English" don't have much of this sort of discussion. And yet we'll need many such conversations, because a modern heterogeneous society is going to have different values, different trade-offs, and different discourses. It's time we start talking about the most important influence on our lives today. I came away from my journey with a question to contribute to these conversations: If we decided that community came first, how would we use our tools differently? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Howard Rheingold (hlr@well.com) is the author of Virtual Reality and The Virtual Community and editor of The Millennium Whole Earth Catalog. Copyright (C) 1993-99 The Conde Nast Publications Inc. 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The group has a special interest in moving "beyond the library sphere specifically encompassing museums, archives, and other aspects of the cultural heritage." David Green ============ [deleted quotation] ******** This posting has been sent to the following lists: diglib, lis-elib, lis-elib-tech, cousns, mcg, ahds-all, imesh, ninch-announce, uk-zug, elag-l. We regret any inconvenience caused by duplication. ******** The UK Interoperability Focus [1] announces a new electronic mailing list for the discussion of issues related to the design, construction, and ongoing operation of interoperable services in an international cross-domain digital environment. This list, called 'interoperability', is hosted by the United Kingdom's Mailbase service [2], and is open to anyone interested in serious discussion of these issues. 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With that in mind, the following seems particularly relevant. It is a brief passage from James Gleick, Chaos: Making a new Science (Penguin, 1987, pp. 181-2), concerning the work of Mitchell Feigenbaum, who had the liberty of thinking and working as his developing intuition led him, into the interstices between mathematics and physics -- and great difficulty in getting his work recognised and published. Why this was so, according to Gleick, is what interests me. This is what Gleick writes: "Modern economics relies heavily on the efficient market theory. Knowledge is assumed to flow freely from place to place. The people making important decisions are supposed to have access to more or less the same body of information. Of course, pockets of ignorance or inside information remain here and there, but on the whole, once knowledge is public, economists assume that it is known everywhere. Historians of science often take for granted an efficient market theory of their own. When a discovery is made, when an idea is expressed, it is assumed to become the common property of the scientific world. Each new discovery and each new insight builds on the last. Science rises like a building, brick by brick. Intellectual chronicles can be, for all practical purposes, linear. "That view of science works best when a well-defined discipline awaits the resolution of a well-defined problem.... But the history of ideas is not always so neat. As non-linear science arose in odd corners of different disciplines, the flow of ideas failed to follow the standard logic of historians. The emergence of chaos as an entity unto itself was a story not only of new theories and new discoveries, but also of the belated understanding of old ideas. Many pieces of the puzzle had been seen long before... and then forgotten. Many new pieces were understood at first only by a few insiders. A mathematical discovery was understood by mathematicians, a physics discovery by physicists, a meteorological discovery by no one. The way ideas spread became as important as the way they had originated. "Each scientist had a private constellation of intellectual parents. Each had his own picture of the landscape of ideas, and each picture was limited in its own way.... Scientists were biased by the customs of their disciplines or by the accidental paths of their own educations.... No committee of scientists pushed history into a new channel -- a handful of individuals did it, with individual perceptions and individual goals." If the demography of computing humanists were available, I think one would see a highly disparate collection of students and scholars from various fields, technologists and technicians, administrators and combinations of these. One of our principal tasks, to which Humanist is dedicated, is to learn to speak a common language, see the common ground in which these areas overlap. One of the things that happens in our blind-men-and-the-elephant story, is that some of us frequently seize on the technological tusk and insist that whatever doesn't feel like that isn't part of our elephant. But, as in the development of chaos as a field of study, our story is "a story not only of new theories and new discoveries, but also of the belated understanding of old ideas" -- perhaps even primarily "the [belated] understanding of old ideas". (I bracket the "belated" because I am not at all sure thinking about what excites us as "belated" really is very helpful.) The point for us, it seems to me, is not the newness or antiquity of the gizmo but what we understand when we apply it -- and THAT is exciting and new, no matter how old the tool, how old the question in whatever field with which we begin. Of course that's only a half-truth -- I underplay the importance of new tools to underscore the importance of what they're for, or more accurately, what they are: prosthetic devices for the mind (a not entirely charming metaphor, but one that makes a good point). I note with pleasure the sentence, "No committee of scientists pushed history into a new channel -- a handful of individuals did it, with individual perceptions and individual goals." But they did come together, and that's what we've got to work on some more. Comments? Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jean G Anderson Subject: Call for Papers - ALLC/ACH 2000 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:50:01 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 225 (225) -- Please forward to any interested colleagues -- -- Apologies for any cross posting -- CALL FOR PAPERS: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH 2000 JULY 21-25, 2000 UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UK. ALLC/ACH 2000 invites submissions of between 1000 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as the point of intersection between computing methodologies and problems in humanities research and teaching, encompassing both traditional and new, and discipline-specific and inter-disciplinary, approaches. Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, creative writing, and cultural studies. We particularly encourage submissions from non-text-based areas and from library science, both of which have been under-represented in the past. Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital resources (what has been characterised as 'extending the scale and breadth of scholarly evidence') and the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering (including neural networks and image processing). We are interested in receiving technicalproposals that focus on new computational tools and approaches to research in humanities disciplines; proposalsthat focus on traditional applications of computing in humanities disciplines, including (but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and syntactic, semantic, stylistic and other forms of text analysis; proposalswhich present and discuss applications of computing methodologies and tools to audio and visual materials; proposals that focus on significant issues of creation, representation, discovery, delivery, management and preservation of digital and other resources relevant to the humanities; proposals that present and evaluate the use of computers in humanities teaching; proposals dealing with the role of humanities computing in undergraduate and graduate teaching and institutional support for humanities computing. PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those describing finished research may be submitted as papers. Ongoing dissertation research may be submitted as poster proposals. See below for details. Those interested in seeing the type of paper the committee is looking for can consult the abstracts of papers at previous conferences: University of Bergen, Norway - http://www.hd.uib.no/allc- ach96.html, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada - http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98/, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA - http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/. Students and young scholars should also read the note on bursaries later in this document. Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to facilitate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in a language other than English are submitted with an English translation. The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 15 NOVEMBER 1999. The deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 15 JANUARY 2000. FORMAT OF PROPOSALS Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software demonstrations, and sessions. The type of submission should be specified in the header of the proposal. PAPERS Proposals for papers (1000-1500 words) should describe completed research which has given rise to substantial results. Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Proposals should describe original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) are designed to give researchers an opportunity to present late- breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is provided with about 2 square metres of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but a block of time separate from paper sessions will be assigned when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The format for proposals for posters and software demonstrations are the same as those for regular papers. Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indicate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted. SESSIONS Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000- 1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1000-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. All submissions should begin with the following information: TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, session or software demonstration. TITLE: title of paper or session KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session If submitting a session proposal, give the following information for each paper: TITLE: title of paper KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author If submitting a paper proposal, give the following information: AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author PHONE NUMBER: of first author Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1 files. Where necessary, a header should indicate the combinations of ASCII characters used to represent characters outside the ASCII or ISO 8859/1 range. Notes, if needed, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. Submissions should be entered into the online form on the web page at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/ or sent to: allcach2k@arts.gla.ac.uk with the subject line " Submission for ALLCACH2k". 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: +44 141 330 4537. The cover page should reproduce the header from the electronic submission. EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh, DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), an Internet connected computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder. NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate needing NTSC, please note this information in your proposal. Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by the local organizers; requests for special equipment should be directed to the local organizers no later than January 31, 2000. DEADLINES November 15, 1999: Submission of proposals for papers and sessions, posters and software demonstrations. February 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance. PUBLICATION A book of abstracts will be provided to all conference participants. In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/ An announcement in regard to publication of full papers will be made in due course. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make recommendations to the Program Committee comprising: Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (Chair) =09 Fortier@cc.umanitoba.ca John Dawson Cambridge University =09=09 JLD1@cam.ac.uk Laszlo Hunyadi, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu Elisabeth Burr, University of Duisburg, =09=09 he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de Julia Flanders, Brown University, =09=09=09 julia_flanders@brown.edu Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia, =09 mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu Willard McCarty, King's College, London, =09=09 willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk Nancy Ide, Vassar College =09=09=09=09 ide@cs.vassar.edu LOCAL ORGANIZERS Jean Anderson, Univeristy of Glasgow, j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk Fiona Tweedie, University of Glasgow, f.tweedie@stats.gla.ac.uk BURSARIES As part of its commitment to promote the development and application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing will award up to five bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young scholars who have papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Applicants must be members of ALLC. The ALLC will make the awards after the Program Committee have decided which proposals are to be accepted. Recipients will be notified as soon as possible thereafter. A participant in a multi-author paper is eligible for an award, but it must be clear that s/he is contributing substantially to the paper. Applications must be made to the conference organizer. The deadline for receipt of applications is the same as for submission of papers, i.e. November 15, 1999. Full details of the bursary scheme, and an on-line application form will be available from the conference web page. LOCATION The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, and is a major visitor attraction in Glasgow, the 1999 City of Architecture. It has over 14,000 students and more than 120 departments. Being Glasgow's first University, it is well-placed to offer an insight into Scotland's historical, educational and cultural heritage. The main University campus is situated at Gilmorehill, overlooking the mainly residential West End, located in a landscaped parkland setting (which it shares with the City's Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery). Accommodation will be offered in nearby student residences from =A321 to =A330, and in hotels at a range of prices. See the Accommodation Office pages at http://www.gla.ac.uk/Otherdepts/Accom/index.html for more information. It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order of 150 GBP for members. This will include the printed abstracts, morning and afternoon refreshment breaks, and lunch. There will be a varied programme of social events, including tours to nearby lochs and mountains, a visit to a whisky distillery, tutored whisky tasting, and a ceilidh with traditional Scottish music and dancing. Detailed information on the conference, the university, and the city will be on the conference web page: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/ FURTHER INFORMATION... Accommodation, travel and registration enquiries: Conference and Vacation Office, University of Glasgow, 81 Great George Street, Glasgow G12 8RR, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 5385, Fax: 0141 334 5465. URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Otherdepts/Accom/ Email: conf@gla.ac.uk Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the format or content of papers should be addressed to: Jean Anderson, ALLC/ACH 2000, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH, UK. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4980 Email: allcach2k@arts.gla.ac.uk Scottish links University of Glasgow Visitors page: http://www.gla.ac.uk/General/Visiting.html Scotland Online: http://www.scotland.net/ Scottish Tourist Board: http://www.holiday.scotland.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Michael Fraser Subject: DRH99 Bursaries from CTI Textual Studies Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:15:15 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 226 (226) [Please forward to colleagues who may be interested] DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES 1999 King's College, London 12 - 15 September 1999 'Bringing together the creators, users, distributors, and custodians of digital resources for the humanities.' http://www.drh.org.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bursaries available from CTI Textual Studies http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/drh/ As part of our continuing efforts to encourage the use of technology in HE teaching, the CTI Centre for Textual Studies is offering a limited number of bursaries for attendance at the 1999 Digital Resources for the Humanities conference. Applications for bursaries are sought from Arts & Humanities teaching staff within UK higher education, and who have an established interest in the use of technology in teaching. This will primarily include HE teaching staff, but specialist IT support staff, and subject librarians are also welcome to apply. Priority will be given to applicants who have not attended previous DRH conferences. Application is by submission of a brief statement of interest (approximately 250 words) outlining your interest in the use of C&IT in HE teaching, preferably with some detail of current or planned use of C&IT in teaching. Bursaries cover the cost of the registration fee, which includes the full academic programme, lunches and dinners. Accommodation and travel costs are not included. Bursaries are limited to one per institution. Applications, including statement of interest, full contact details (including an email address), and institutional affiliation, should be submitted by *Friday 20th August 1999*. Please submit a statement of interest using the form at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/drh/ Please note: It is essential that you first register for the conference before completing the bursary form (though payment will not be required at time of registration). Enquiries may be addressed to: Stuart Sutherland CTI Centre for Textual Studies Humanities Computing Unit Oxford University Computing Services 13 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel: 01865 283282. Fax: 01865 273275 Email: stuart.sutherland@oucs.ox.ac.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ELRA News Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:15:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 227 (227) [deleted quotation]___________________________________________________________ ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News=20 ___________________________________________________________ *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES : EUROWORDNET *** We are happy to announce the availability of some EUROWORDNET resources via ELRA: A. Available Wornets Dutch wordnet - 44015 synsets English wordnet (additional relations which are missing in WordNet1.5) - 16361 synsets Spanish wordnet - 30485 synsets B. LR(1) Common Components 1. The Inter-Lingual-Index, which is a list of records (ILI-records), in the form of synsets mainly taken from WordNet1.5 or manually created. An ILI-record contains: - synset: set of synonymous words or phrases (mostly from WordNet1.5) - part-of-speech, - one or more Top-Concept classifications (Optional) - one or more Domain labels (Optional) - a gloss in English (mostly from WordNet1.5) - a unique ID linking the synset to its source (mostly WordNet1.5) 2. Top-Ontology: an ontology of 63 basic semantic classes based on fundamental distinctions. By means of the Top-Ontology all the wordnets can be accessed using a single language-independent classification-scheme. Top-Concepts are only assigned to ILI-records. 3. Domain-ontology: an ontology of subject-domains optionally assigned to ILI-records. 4. A selection of ILI-records, the so-called Base-Concepts, which play a major role in the different wordnets. These Base-Concepts form the core of all the wordnets. All the Base-Concepts are classified in terms of the Top-Concepts that apply to them. 5. WordNet1.5 (91591 synsets; 168217 meanings; 126520 entry words) in EuroWordNet format. C. LR(2) Language-Specific Components Wordnets produced in the first project (LE2-4003): - Dutch wordnet - English wordnet (additional relations which are missing in WordNet1.5) - Italian wordnet - Spanish wordnet=20 After extension of the project (LE4-8328): - German wordnet=20 - French wordnet=20 - Czech wordnet=20 - Estonian wordnet The specific wordnets are language-internal structures, minimally= containing: =B7 set of variants or synonyms making up the synset =B7 part-of-speech =B7 language-internal relations to other synsets =B7 equivalence relations with ILI-records =B7 a unique-id linking the synset to its source Each wordnet will be distributed with LR1 and will include documentation on LR1 and the distributed wordnet. All the data will be distributed as text-files in the EuroWordNet import format and as Polaris database files (see below LR3). The EuroWordNet viewer (Periscope, see below LR3) can be used to access the database version. Polaris has to be licensed to modify and extend the database version.=20 The wordnets are distributed without: =B7 glosses =B7 usage labels =B7 morpho-syntactic properties =B7 examples =B7 word-to-word translations D. LR(3) Software The multilingual EUROWORDNET Database (partly Foreground, partly Background) consists of three components: =95 The actual wordnets in Flaim database format: an indexing and compressio= n format of Novell. =95 Polaris (Louw 1997): a wordnet editing tool for creating, editing and exporting wordnets. =95 Periscope (Cuypers and Adriaens 1997): a graphical database viewer for viewing and exporting wordnets. The Polaris tool is a re-implementation of the Novell ConceptNet toolkit (D=EDez-Orzas et al 1995) adapted to the EuroWordNet architecture. Polaris can import new wordnets or wordnet fragments from ASCII files with the correct import format and it creates an indexed EUROWORDNET Database. Furthermore, it allows a user to edit and add relations in the wordnets and to formulate queries. The Polaris toolkit makes it possible to visualise the semantic relations as a tree-structure that can directly be edited. These trees can be expanded and shrunk by clicking on word-meanings and by specifying so-called TABs indicating the kind and depth of relations that need to be shown. Expanded trees or sub-trees can be stored as a set of synsets, which can be manipulated, saved or loaded. Additionally, it is possible to access the ILI or the ontologies, and to switch between the wordnets and ontologies via the ILI. Finally, it contains an interface to project sets of synsets across wordnets.=20 The Periscope program is a public viewer that can be used to look at wordnets created by the Polaris tool and to compare them in a graphical interface. Word meanings can be looked up and trees can be expanded. Individual meanings or complete branches can be projected on another wordnet or wordnet structures can be compared via the equivalence relations with the Inter-Lingual-Index. Selected trees can be exported to text files. The Periscope program cannot be used for importing or changing wordnets. E. Prices The prices are based on the number of synsets in each wordnet and differ for the kind of usage and ELRA-membership. For more information, please contact ELRA or visit our Web site. F. Technical support Technical support may be provided by members of the consortium. It will be implemented through bilateral agreements between the User and the member of the consortium responsible for the data acquired by User. As an indication the support contract will be on a yearly basis and will cost 10-20= KEURO/Year. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D 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: "Norman D. Hinton" Subject: Re: 13.0130 economics, sociology & the history of our science Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:47:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 228 (228) Willard, I recall that years ago a distinguished Miltonist told me (I won't give out his name -- let him rest in peace) "We control the field now, and we have the say in what's published. It's really helped channel research in good directions." By "we" he meant himself and maybe 10-12 other Miltonists, who were in a position to say which books and articles got printed and which did not. I hope that in the intervening years things have changed in Milton scholarship.... I recently approved an article for publication in a journal for which I'm a referee and said something like "I do not agree with the conclusions of this piece. But what it is suggesting is powerful and important for us to take into consideration, and the field would be the poorer without this speculation." I've never forgotten (though I have forgotten her name) a woman who got the Nobel a few years ago for her work on grasses. Botanists tell me that for years she was tolerated in the field as a kind of benign eccentric, and her articles were published but not attended to. Now they are regarded as indispensible....at least the situation on Botany was better than it was in Milton. and as I know you are thinking right now, we Humanists are supposed to be the ones with open minds..... From: Francois Lachance Subject: Heteroglossia vs Common Language Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:48:13 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 229 (229) Willard, On the surface Gleick's story seems smooth and seamless, especially if it is read as a variation on the blind persons and the elephant motif. I think it is worth retracing Gleick's rhetorical moves and then applying the very mechanism he celebrates in _Chaos_ i.e. "feeback". He begins with a simple, apparently common-sensical statement that economists model free market conditions with free information availibility. Gleick then measures the assumption against actuality and it is found wanting. By analogy, intellectual history develops on a ground of uneven development and lo! individualism becomes the hallmark of progress. Allow me to consider, in my uneven fashion, that built into Gleick's story is a set of bifurcating points that allow a more collectivist story to emerge. If information is a commodity then there is nothing in free market models to preclude the possible uneven distribution of the said commodity between haves and have-nots. Gleick seems to gloss over the legitimation factor because embedded in his scenario is the lone consumer. This is rather odd. Since his book deals in large part with an explication of dynamical systems far from equilibrium you would expect Gleick to not only understand but also incorporate the particular insight that the sum is greater than its parts. Regardless, the isometric mapping that Gleick produces between his own version of the "free information in free markets" topos and the discipline of the history of science leads to a rather remarkable constriction. In order to legitimate his position, Gleick casts himself as the true prophet against those nameless scholars that he says assume uniform distribution of information. Still, even if one accepts Gleick's story up to this point there is still the possibility "uneven distribution" means that certain knowledge exchange occurs in groups of various size ranging from online seminars of thousands to critical individual scholars (reflecting upon their own work) and there is no telling where novelty will emerge. Inquisitive children, hearing the blind persons and the elephant story in a second language learning context struggled to ask a very pertinent questions about the focalization of the narrative: who put the elephant in the story? what language do the blind people speak? The questions continue to pour: if blind persons possess a common language do they still need translators? does a common language assume uniform competence among its speakers/readers? does this mean that the link between articulateness and knowledge production operates along a seduction/disillusionment/reseduction narrative? how isomorphic is this amatory relation to the task of translation? fidelity : seductions :: infidelity : disillusionment Note that in the above formulation, the seductions are multiple and the disillusionment is single. But it need not be so. In any case, lack of insight can be ascribed to either. Bet you those blind persons could know alot about where to take the elephant's pulse were the beast living and throbbing? Francois for more on Gleick and the fabrication of a journalistic entity called "Chaos Theory" through the neglect of the mathematical domain of catastrophe theory see http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/ch001.htm Cognitive Styles: Chaos and Its Stories ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Chris Ann Matteo Subject: Re: 13.0128 online publication Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:14:11 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 230 (230) My friend Bob Scott at Columbia caught me sneaking about the library halls yesterday, and reminded me that I intended to let the list know what became of my electronic pre-publication dilemma. J-C Guedon offered a fascinating, and hopefully inspiring, account of the various institutional issues involved. I can only share my own personal decision. I opted to mount the full-text of the talk on my own account and link it to my online vita. Thus I coded and maintain both of these documents. I gave the link to the webmaster of the conference website, and now it is linked also to that source. The file is headed and concluded with very scary (although perhaps vain) copyright statements. I plan to seek either a peer-reviewed print or online journal, but it will remain as a convenience, a part of my online record, until such a venue is secured. I think this has a lot of advantages and limited risks. As long as I remain active in seeking another publication venue for it, I think the chances of being scooped by another qualified academic are slim -- after all, several authoritative pairs of eyes and ears were at the talk. Students might steal it, sure, but I have a hunch that Bakhtin's critical jargon would be a clear tip-off. As an advantage, folks whom I have met at the conference and I can exchange work at a low cost. Like sharing my phone number, I can choose with whom I share the link -- and likewise, it's not always possible to avoid a random obscene phone call or an impertinent salesman. I have chosen to do this for another paper I am scheduled to give at NASSR'99 on Sunday. I have a rather unappealing time-slot in the program (one of the last sessions on the meeting's last day...), so this way I can mention it to folks I meet at the conference, in advance of the actual talk, and perhaps I will be able to get some timely feedback even if audience turnout is sparse. Thanks for the helpful thoughts on electronic prepublishing. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- * Chris Ann Matteo .("."). * | chrisann@walrus.com ( \ : / ) The finest language is mostly made| * Comparative Lit (`'-.;;;.-'`) up of simple unimposing words... * | Princeton U (:-==;;;;;==-:) signs of something unspeakably | * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( .-';;;'-. ) great and beautiful. * | 69 Tiemann Place (` / : \ `) | * Apartment 31 '-(_/ \_)-' George Eliot, ADAM BEDE * | NY NY 10027 USA " | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: Willard McCarty Subject: free vs. proprietary publications Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:13:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 231 (231) This is in belated response to Chris Ann Mateo's question about the prudence of electronic pre-publication. A great deal depends on the field one is in, its conventions and what one might call the rhythm of publication in it -- for a given scholar, numerous rapid-fire, relatively minor, conversational pieces in a field that moves very rapidly at the level of granularity these pieces address, or a few, relatively major, more formal essays in a slow-moving field. The concern in the former kind is, I suppose, to get the ideas (or fragments of ideas) out there, into circulation as rapidly as possible so that things can move ahead. I'd suppose much also depends on how new the field or speciality is. In a very new field, such as humanities computing, where the people in it are feeling their way about as if in the dark, the need for discussion is great and opportunity significant for getting known simply by having an idea and circulating it. Allow me to be an idealist for a moment. As such my point of departure is the desire to communicate, which means to be taken seriously -- among other things. Some of what I do simply wouldn't be taken seriously if it were just put online and given away; it wouldn't reach those I want to reach (and so, metamorphosing into a pragmatist, I wouldn't get the credit for having done something recognisably scholarly and wouldn't move up the ranks). So I don't give this stuff away, nor do I pre-publish it. Some of what I do, however, is more likely to reach those I want to reach if it is online; besides it's so tentative that my only realistic motivation for publishing it myself is to stir discussion. Some of this reaches a point at which it crosses the line, after significant changes and enhancements, into proprietary publication -- because it reaches a point at which it needs what that sort of publication offers in order fully to communicate. The pragmatist manages the balance between the two. The idealist makes sure that communication remains uppermost. 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: statistics on the history of book production and consumption Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:50:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 232 (232) [deleted quotation] I am looking for figures on the numbers of titles and copies published during the first 300-400 years of printing, and estimates of the effects of printing on literacy. I seem to remember seeing something of this nature in a recent study of the effects of IT on the printed book .. can anyone help, please? Roly Sussex The University of Queensland From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Text Analysis Papers Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:14:38 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 233 (233) Dear Humanists, I am teaching a course on electronic texts and their study. For this course I would like my students to read examples of published papers based on computer-assisted text-analysis. By this I mean papers that are not about text tools, but about a text or linguistic corpus using computer methods to gain insight into work. Ideally the papers would have the following characteristics: 1. Accessible to an undergraduate 2. Insight into a text or corpus that would not be possible through traditional research methods 3. Uses computer methods available in accessible text-analysis environments like TACT 4. Describes the computer methods in a way that an undergraduate could understand and apply to another text While this may be a tall order, I am sure such papers are out there. Please send any references that come to mind to me (grockwel@mcmaster.ca) and I will summarize them for Humanist. 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Copies B and U are a study in contrasts, yet both are from the earliest printings of this book. Copy B, now in the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress, was printed with fifteen other copies of _Innocence_ in 1789, four of which were later joined with _Experience_ impressions, printed in 1794, to form _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_ copies B, C--which is in the Archive--D, and E. Unlike many of these early copies of _Innocence_, copy B still consists of all 31 plates originally composed and executed for _Innocence_. Like them, however, it was printed in a raw sienna ink on 17 leaves and exemplifies Blake's early printing and coloring style. The plates were wiped of their plate borders, the illustrations very lightly washed in watercolors, and the texts left unwashed. This mode of presentation, along with printing both sides of the leaves to create facing pages, emphasized the prints as book pages rather than prints or paintings. Good examples of printing and coloring illuminated plates to look like minatures can be seen in _Songs_ copy Z, also in the Archive. _Innocence_ copy U, from the Houghton Library, Harvard University, is an excellent example of printing illuminated plates to look like prints. Like etchings and engravings, they were printed on one side of the leaf in black ink and left uncolored. Copy U, which was printed with untraced copy V, had been dated c. 1814, because of some stylistic similarities it shares with illuminated works assumed to have been produced around that time. But, in fact, copy U is the _first_ copy of _Innocence_ printed. The presence of a unique first state for "Infant Joy" proves this sequence; the bottom part of the "J" in the title is missing in all extant impressions, but here it extends into the flower. Copy U was printed before copy B and all other early copies; the ink color, printing style (recto only), and lack of hand coloring suggest a date of printing before Blake had developed his special ways of producing his illuminated books and instead repeated styles and techniques long familiar to him as a commercial engraver. Both electronic editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and new images scanned and color-corrected from first-generation 4x5" transparencies; they are each fully searchable for both text and images and supported by the Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates. With the publication of these two titles, the Archive now contains 35 copies of 18 separate books, including at least one copy of every one of Blake's works in illuminated printing except the 100 plates of _Jerusalem_ (forthcoming). Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Technical Editor The William Blake Archive ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Charles Ess Subject: CFP - Computing, Philosophy, and World Cultures Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:36:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 236 (236) Panel for CAP 2000: Computing, Philosophy, and World Cultures Computers and computer networks, especially in the forms of the Internet and the Web, make possible forms of communication unprecedented in terms of speed (instantaneous), scope (global), audience (from "members only" listserves to totally public web sites), interactivity (in contrast with "broadcast only" mass media), etc. In particular, these technologies of computer-mediated communication (CMC), precisely through their global reach, enable communicative "cultural collisions": efforts to diffuse CMC technologies globally, especially in Asia and among indigenous peoples in Africa, Australia and the United States, have demonstrated that CMC technologies are neither culturally neutral nor communicatively transparent. Rather, diverse cultural attitudes towards technology and communication - those embedded in current CMC technologies, and those shaping the beliefs and behaviors of potential users - often collide. Somewhat more subtly, in the push towards "electronic democracy," users and organizations in different cultural domains frequently rely on diverse notions of what counts as "democracy" - notions that may be correlated to distinctive philosophical and cultural traditions. In philosophical terms, such technologies thus facilitate inadvertent but fundamental collisions between distinctive worldviews - those basic assumptions that include primary ethical and political values (including definitions of "democracy"); beliefs about identity, gender, and one's relationship to a larger community; and the distinctive communicative preferences characteristic of specific cultures. As these technologies occasion such cultural collisions, they may help us make explicit our otherwise largely tacit worldview assumptions - and thereby foreground these assumptions for critical examination. In this way, the cultural collisions occasioned by global CMC technologies facilitate in powerful ways the traditional philosophical enterprise of uncovering fundamental assumptions for the task of subjecting such assumptions to critical scrutiny. In order to explore how cultural collisions in the communicative environments of CMC technologies help us better reflect philosophically on diverse worldviews and related philosophical issues (see examples, below), I am organizing a panel on "Computing, Philosophy, and World Cultures" to be held next August at the 15th Annual Computers and Philosophy Conference (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA). I invite interested philosophers and interdisciplinary teams to submit presentation proposals to be considered for inclusion in the panel. Presentations of interest would include: * Explorations of how one or more cultural collisions in CMC environments (preferably, as well-documented in related fields such as communication theory, intercultural communication, cultural studies, political science, etc.) illuminate basic philosophical inquiries surrounding worldview assumptions. * Explorations of how given philosophical theories, especially those regarding communication, ethics, and politics, may be illuminated by communicative behaviors documented in CMC environments. * Explorations of what such cultural conflicts suggest regarding the role of culture in constituting fundamental assumptions regarding identity and gender. * Explorations of what such conflicts suggest regarding questions of cultural and ethical relativism. * Explorations of what such conflicts suggest regarding significant theories of CMC and the new media (e.g., postmodern celebrations of fragmentation and decentering vis-a-vis value commitments to equality, democracy, etc.; Habermasian theories of democracy as grounded in specific forms of discourse, perhaps facilitated by CMC environments, etc.) Presentation proposals will be peer reviewed by an international team of philosophers and colleagues in related fields, as well as the CAP Program Committee. In keeping with the CAP format, we are interested first of all in presentations that will provoke collegial but critical discussion. Presentations that utilize CMC technologies to demonstrate one or more pertinent concepts, events, etc. (e.g., using the Internet to contrast web page use in two different cultural domains, etc.) are especially encouraged. Presenters will be expected to attend the CAP conference on the campus of Carnegie Mellon - unless alternative arrangements for remote presentation (e.g., through teleconferencing) can be made. The CAP conference is co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Association Committee on Philosophy and Computers and the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, and has become the central meeting place for all aspects of computing and philosophy. See <http://www.lcl.cmu.edu/CAAE/CAP/CAPpage.html> for more information. Please send proposals by Sept. 30, 1999, preferably by e-mail to: Charles Ess, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College, 900 N. Benton Ave., Springfield, MO, USA, 65802. e-mail: cmess@lib.drury.edu. Fax: 417-873-7435. Voice: 417-873-7230. Possible papers/presenters Antje Gimmler deliberative democracy, public sphere and the internet. dealing partly with the situation in Germany and the US concerning the use of the internet for improvement of political participation. I hope this article will bring to the foreground not only the philosophical issues but also how these may relate to larger cultural patterns (e.g., an Anglo-Saxon empiricism/pragmatism that may incline Americans towards a more libertarian/plebiscite conception of democracy vs. a greater openness in German culture towards philosophical idealism that might be reflected in a more Habermasian-like understanding of the dialogue, debate, the public sphere, and representative democracy). From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ANLP/NAACL 2000 Call for Papers Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:36:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 237 (237) [deleted quotation] Language Technology Joint Conference Applied Natural Language Processing and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics General Conference Chair: Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies CALL FOR PAPERS Contents: 1. Overview 2. ANLP Call for Papers 3. NAACL Call for Papers 4. Format for Submissions 5. Deadlines 1. Overview The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to announce that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP) conference and the first conference of the new North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL) will be held jointly 29 April to 3 May 2000 in Seattle, Washington. The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and researchers together to explore the full spectrum of computational linguistics and natural language processing, from theory and methodology to their application in commercial software. For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17 November 1999. See submission details below. The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and standardization; tools, techniques, and resources contributing to the development of complete end-to-end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following subject areas: * Monolingual text processing systems * Multilingual text processing systems * Spoken language and multimodal systems * Integrated NLP systems * Tools and resources for developing NLP systems * Evaluation of performance of complete NLP systems The NAACL program committee invites papers on methodology, approaches, algorithms, models, analyses and experiments in computational linguistics. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main areas: * Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics * Semantics and the Lexicon * Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology * Generation and Summarization * Spoken Language * Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing * Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction * Multilingual Natural Language Processing There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP, authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a particular problem. A paper accepted for presentation at either meeting must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. A paper may not be submitted to both NAACL 2000 and ANLP 2000, but may be submitted to other conferences provided that, if accepted, it is withdrawn from all but one. Submission to other conferences should be indicated on the paper. Papers will not be exchanged between the two program committees. However, in the final program, papers may be grouped or juxtaposed in related sessions to highlight similarities and downplay artificial distinctions. We also appreciate that it can be advantageous to view the same work from both a theoretical/methodological perspective and an applied perspective; we welcome paired submissions to NAACL and ANLP, though each submission needs to make a significant contribution on its own. Please acknowledge the related submissions and include their abstracts with your submission, though decisions will be made independently and acceptance of one does not guarantee acceptance of the other. Original papers that do not easily fall within one of the suggested areas are also invited. The submission should be directed to the chair of the respective program committee, with the topic area slot in the submission template empty. 2. ANLP Call for Papers ANLP Call for Papers Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference 29 April to 3 May 2000 Seattle, Washington Program Committee Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University The ANLP program committee invites papers describing natural language processing systems -- their development, integration, adaptation and standardization; tools and resources contributing to the development of complete end applications of NLP; evaluation of system performance and related issues. In particular, submissions should be directed to one of the following subject areas: Monolingual Text Processing Systems. Area Chair: Oliviero Stock, IRST, Trento Italy Systems devoted to information retrieval, text data mining, information extraction, text summarization and related applications. Multilingual Text Processing Systems. Area Chair: Richard Kittredge, University of Montreal, Canada Systems devoted to machine translation, human-aided machine translation, machine-aided human translation, cross-lingual information retrieval, multi-document multilingual information extraction and summarization, text data mining and related applications. Spoken Language and Multimodal Systems. Area Chair: Susann Luperfoy, IET Inc. and Georgetown University, USA Text and dialog processing on telephony, workstation, and PDA platforms. Integrated NLP Systems. Area Chair: Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, USA Combinations of multiple NLP applications; multimodal and multimedia systems; adaptation and standardization of existing NLP systems, embedded NLP systems and integration of legacy systems. Tools and Resources for Developing NLP Systems. Area Chair: Lynn Carlson, Department of Defense, USA Development and content of descriptive resources, such as grammars and lexicons of particular languages or sets of languages, ontologies, processed corpora and others; the acquisition and quick ramp-up tools for NLP systems; and methodologies for development and knowledge acquisition for NLP systems and environments and tools for training developers of NLP systems. Evaluation of Performance of Complete NLP Systems. Area Chair: John White, Lytton/PRC, USA Methodologies, case studies and tools. 3. NAACL Call for Papers NAACL Call for Papers 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 29 April to 3 May 2000 Seattle, Washington Program Committee Chair: Janyce Wiebe, New Mexico State University For the general sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research contributions on all aspects of computational linguistics methodology, enabling technologies, approaches, algorithms, models, analyses, and experiments. See the separate Call for Student Papers (to be announced) for requirements for submissions to the student sessions. Program subcommittees will be organized around eight main areas, as follows. Discourse, Dialogue, and Pragmatics. Area Chair: Diane Litman, AT&T Research. Empirical and knowledge-based approaches to discourse and dialogue; Dialogue management in spoken dialogue systems; Discourse segmentation; Anaphora resolution; Discourse parsing; Narrative understanding; Design, evaluation, and use of discourse annotation schemes; Topic detection and tracking; Intentional and relational discourse analysis; Robust discourse processing; Methods for evaluating dialogue/discourse systems and their components; Integration with other levels of linguistic processing. Semantics and the Lexicon. Area Chair: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto. Semantic formalisms; Ontologies; Word-sense disambiguation; Event recognition and categorization; Logics for natural language; Extracting information from on-line dictionaries; Refining sense inventories; Computational lexicography; Lexical resource development. Syntax, Morphology, and Phonology. Area Chair: Michael Collins, AT&T Research. Grammar formalisms; Theoretical and empirical studies of parsing algorithms; Finite-state methods; Representation of syntactic, morphological, and phonological aspects of the lexicon; Robust and shallow parsing; Syntax annotation schemes; Grammar induction; Formal properties of symbolic and weighted/stochastic grammars. Generation and Summarization. Area Chair: Nancy Green, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Strategic generation for text and dialogue (text planning, argumentation strategies, etc.); Tactical generation (sentence aggregation, lexical choice, etc.); Multimodal and multimedia generation; Knowledge acquisition and resources for generation and summarization; User-customized generation and summarization; Evaluation methodologies for generation and summarization; Application of generation, information extraction, and information retrieval techniques to summarization. Spoken Language. Area Chair: Andreas Stolcke, SRI International. Language modeling; Prosody; Speech annotation; Speech synthesis; Modeling of spontaneous speech phenomena (disfluencies, discourse markers, etc.); Comparative analyses of spoken and written language; Robust NLP for speech recognition output; Higher-level knowledge sources (e.g., dialogue) for speech recognition; Automatic segmentation of speech into sentences, topics, discourse units, etc.; Integration of speech with other modalities such as text and gesture; Methods for speech-to-speech translation. Corpus-Based and Statistical Natural Language Processing. Area Chair: Dekang Lin, University of Manitoba. Annotation, including automatic and semi-automatic methods, mapping between schemes, analyzing and improving agreement, minimizing costs; Induction of patterns and structures such as selectional frames and concept hierarchies; Extraction of terms and collocations; Text mining and knowledge discovery from text; Distributional similarity; Learning applied to NLP, including bootstrapping, smoothing, and multi-strategy learning. Cognitive Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction. Area Chair: Philip Resnik, University of Maryland. Computational psycholinguistics; Models of human sentence processing, language understanding, language generation, and language acquisition; Use of natural language in human-computer interaction; Evaluation of interfaces that use natural language (including multimodal and multimedia interfaces), by field studies, laboratory experimentation, or analytical methods. Multilingual Natural Language Processing. Area Chair: Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute. Methods addressing the research challenges of multilingual environments, including cross-language divergences, producing fluent text, and dealing with non-literal translation equivalents; Methods for machine translation (direct, transfer, example-based, knowledge-based, interlingual, statistical, etc.); Design of interlinguas; Multilingual lexicons; Lexical acquisition for machine translation and cross-language information retrieval; Machine-assisted translation; Multilingual generation; Alignment of multilingual texts; Methods for exploiting parallel or comparable corpora for natural language processing tasks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Authors will be asked to identify the area or areas to which their submission corresponds. Relevant papers not fitting precisely into any of these areas are also welcome. All papers will be reviewed by at least three experts. There is some inevitable overlap between the topic areas for NAACL and ANLP. In deciding whether to submit their papers to NAACL or ANLP, authors should consider whether their paper focuses more on the methodology or the end application of that methodology to solve a particular problem. 4. Format for Submissions Submissions must use the ACL latex style aclsub.sty or Microsoft Word style ACL-submission.doc (both available from the conference web page) and may be no more than 3,200 words in total length, exclusive of title page and references. If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly, a description of the required format will be available on the conference web page. If you cannot access the conference web page, send email to anlp-naacl2000@bbn.com with subject SUBSTYLE. Reviewing will be blind. Thus, separate identification and title pages are required. The identification page should include the following. It should be sent in a separate e-mail message from the body of the paper itself. * Title * Paper ID Code: see below * Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP) * Word Count, excluding title page and references * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary The title page should include: * Title * Paper ID Code: see below * Topic Area: 1 or 2 areas most closely matching the submission * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area * Conference the paper is being submitted to (NAACL or ANLP) * Word Count, excluding title page and references * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper itself. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991)....". Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being rejected without review. SUBMISSION QUESTIONS NAACL submission questions should be sent to: naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu Program Chair, NAACL 2000 Computing Research Laboratory BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 ANLP submission questions should be sent to: anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu Program Chair, ANLP 2000 Computing Research Laboratory BOX 30001/Dept 3CRL Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 The calls for papers, style files, and information about tutorials, workshops, and the student session will be available on the conference web site. The conference web site will be reachable from the ACL Home Page, www.aclweb.org, in the near future. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE 1) Submission notification: You must submit a notification of submission by filling out a form on the conference web page at least one week before the submission deadline. This will return to you an email with an ID number that should be included on the identification page, the title page and the header of every page of the paper. Also, please use it on all correspondence with the program committee chair. The form will be available on the web after October 1. 2) Electronic submission: send the postscript or MS Word form of your submission to: naacl2000-program@nmsu.edu or anlp2000-program@nmsu.edu The Subject line should contain conference.submission_id.format, e.g., "naacl.100.ps" or "anlp.100.pdf" or "naacl.100.doc". Please submit the identification page in a separate email. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be e-mailed to the first author shortly after receipt. In extreme cases, an author unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program chair sufficiently before the submission deadline so alternative arrangements can be made. 5. Deadlines Submission notification deadline: 10-Nov-99 Paper submission deadline: 17-Nov-99 Notification of acceptance for papers: 01-Feb-00 Camera ready papers due: 12-Mar-00 Regular sessions begin: 01-May-00 A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final version. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 papers Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:38:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 238 (238) Geoffrey Rockwell and others who are interested in papers about electronic texts and computer-assisted text analysis may want to read some of my published articles that are online: http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/ericpubs.html I believe the articles should be accessible to undergraduates. The titles listed under the heading "Articles about Computers and Literary Research" are intended to show "insight into a text or corpus that would not be possible through traditional research methods." In addition, "The World Wide Web, Computers, and Teaching Literature" and "Professor Created Computer Programs for Student Research" might be of interest. -- 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: Guedon Jean-Claude Subject: Re: 13.0135 online publication Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:37:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 239 (239) Dear Chris Ann and Willard, In response to both of you, let me say that there is a possibility of having one's cake and eating it too. In other words, one can, or rather could, make texts freely available : 1. if the "pre-print" equivalent were deposited in some creditable archive where a minimal check for relevance screens out the unwanted texts. 2. if groups of recognized, preferably prestigious, in any case credible, specialists would design "journal" equivalents by overlaying their seal of approval onto specific texts. These texts could then be moved to a second bank, just as freely available as before, but clearly marked as refereed texts. Amusingly, a text could get extra visibility by being refereed several times and included within several "journals". Thus, interdisciplinary and otherwise hard-to-classify texts could be taken care of in a useful and even elegant manner. 3. Missing piece: a stable, viable, financial scheme to support the operation. Libraries? A small fee for archiving from the author (many journals already impose page charges in the hard sciences). Other? 4. This approach eliminates the tension between the realist and the idealist. I am trying to see how to transform my own journal, Surfaces, into such a device, while keeping an eye on the Scholars Forum being designed in California (no need to reinvent the wheel if it already exists). The first "journal" or overlay wil be in the area of cybercultures. Best to all. Jean-Claude Gu=E9don ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ---- =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 "INTERNET IS FOR EVERYONE!" Join the Internet Society and help to make it = so. See you at INET2000, Yokohama, Japan July 18-21, 2000=20 http://www.isoc.org/inet2000 From: Jim Marchand Subject: Re: 13.0132 economics, sociology, history of science Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:37:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 240 (240) Norm and I always seem to agree and to have had the same experiences. When I entered the Linguistic Society in the late 40s, the old buddy system seemed rampant. It was necessary for one to know that Henry Lee Smith went by the name "Haxie", etc. etc. Then came the Chomsky movement in the late 50s, early 60s and plus ca change. But that was preceded by the Curtius/Brugmann story, the stealing of an international meeting by the Prague School; you name it. Here, I have to disagree with Norm -- I don't think things have really changed all that much. Merton's "Gatekeepers of Science" are still there. I have no real proposal to end this situation, and perhaps it is a good one, though I would like to see more free flow of scholarship and "let it lodge where it may." Disagreeing with Merton for a moment, he has the Matthew Syndrome which says: The more you publish the more you are enabled. I went for years and years without having an article turned down, and I went for years and years without ever being asked to do = a more than perfunctory rewrite. Now it is a common experience for me, though my perception is that my writing is somewhat better now. I once had an article accepted by Bernard Bloch and he wrote me: "Your style is abominable," though he proposed no betterments. I sent him a short night letter (I was a grad student and had little money): Tu autem dicis, to whic= h he replied with a telegram: Touche. I unfortunately do not have the middle part of this exchange. I still perceive the Old Buddy system, the Old Girl system; I am probably a member of it myself without noticing. Man being a herd animal, it seems quite likely that it will be ever so. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: DRH Conference Registration Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:35:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 241 (241) [deleted quotation] DRH 99 @ King's College London 12-15 September 1999 is open for registration! We are pleased also to announce that the CTI Centre for Textual Studies is sponsoring several bursaries for arts and humanities teaching staff in UK higher education who are attending DRH for the first time, and that a complete catalogue of exhibitions and demonstrations is now online. So that delegates may take advantage of these new opportunities, the deadline for early registration has been extended to 24 August. The Digital Resources for the Humanities conferences are a major forum for all those affected by the digitization of our common cultural heritage: the scholar creating or using an electronic edition; the teacher using digital resources as an aid to learning; the publisher finding new ways to reach new audiences; the librarian, curator or archivist wishing to improve both access to and conservation of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and scholarship; the computer or information science specialist seeking to apply new scientific and technical developments to the creation, exploitation and management of digital resources. The conference will take up three intensive days of academic papers, panel discussions, technical reports, and software demonstrations, in the heart of London. The atmosphere will, we hope, encourage much 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, archives, museums, galleries and publishing will be there, exchanging expertise, experience, and opinions. For the three days of the Conference, 22 publishers, data providers and researchers will exhibit 45 products ranging from work-in-progress to well-established resources. These products are for teaching and research across the humanities and in the social sciences, in such fields as archaeology; art history, classics, drama, history, literary studies in English, German and Spanish, medieval studies, palaeography and philosophy. They include bibliographic aids, texts, still and moving images and integrated multimedia resources. A catalogue for the exhibition may be found online, at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drh/exhibitions/>. For the conference programme and other information visit the DRH web site @ <http://www.drh.org.uk/> You can register at: <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cch/drhahc/regis/howtoreg.htm> AHC Conference The DRH99 conference will overlap with the annual conference of the UK Association for History and Computing, which is to take place at King's College London 14th-16th September 1999. The conference aims to provide a forum for the discussion of any aspects of the use of information and computer technology in history. 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. For more information visit the conference web site @ <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ahcuk99/> Should you have problems accessing the web site and registration forms, please contact the conference office at DRH@kcl.ac.uk ---------------------- Helen Skundric DRH and AHC Conference Office drh@kcl.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: new media studies? Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:28:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 242 (242) This is more than anything else an attempt to provoke views on the relationship of what's been called "new media studies" to the rest of what we do in the humanities. A few of you will know that at the recent ACH/ALLC conference in Virginia quite a bit of attention was paid to New Media Studies, e.g. in the panels chaired by Matt Kirschenbaum (session 3B) and by Allen Renear (session 8A), for which see <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/schedule.html>. Both of these raised very interesting questions, particularly for me in light of our professional meditations on humanities computing and on the nature of the data-types with which we are involved. See, for example, session 4C, the panel that once again raised the question, "What is text?" (Given this intellectual activity, who is involved in it and what they've stirred up in discussion, I am frankly amazed that anyone doubts we have, as Blake said, the end of a golden string in our hands, waiting to be wound up. But that's another question for another time.) The so-called "new media" will not, of course, remain new for very long; similarly I find the term "multimedia" already to have the smell of mortality about it. As a good friend of mine keeps pointing out to me, multimedia is in some if not many fields already the norm. For that matter, the interface I am using as I type this note is a multimedia interface, and would even make sounds at me if I had my speakers turned on. But of course when we use this term we're referring to entities (such as the one to which we are alerted in the following message) in which the media other than the textual one are in the foreground. The Saul Bass page *stands out*, I view it as remarkable not just because of the obvious skill of the design and execution but also, perhaps even primarily, because it stretches the media, which I expect will rapidly grow in the direction stretched, and so it will no longer have the particular distinction of being unusual. What I seem to be wandering toward is the question of what is emerging from New Media Studies of a longer-term interest than the newness of it all. This is parallel to the question I keep raising and trying to answer: what of longer-term interest is arising out of computing the humanities? Surfers define themselves by involvement with what is never the same. Is there a meta-activity or blundle of them in New Media Studies? Or to put the question in a different way, is a stable methodology arising out of the field, and if so, what does it look like? What does it have to teach us in the humanities? Yours, WM From: Stephanie Stauffer Subject: online multimedia application Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:29:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 243 (243) For an effective online use of multimedia see <http://www.saulbass.co.uk/> --SJS ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: big competition Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:00:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 244 (244) The Richard Rogers Partnership, architects of the Millennium Dome, the Pompidou Centre, the Lloyds of London building and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, is holding a competition for the design of their Web site, with a first prize of 20,000 pounds sterling and a contract, second prize of 1,000 pounds, third of 500 pounds. Read about it at <http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/>. Give the major talent out there, beyond the domain of humanities computing, I'd be surprised if any of us have a chance. We can at least observe, from our academic high-ground, that the Web is being taken quite seriously. Surely there are consequences and opportunities (dangers too?) for us. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Wendell Piez Subject: Re: 13.0143 new media Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:49:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 245 (245) Willard and HUMANISTS: One thing about a good conference is that it leaves you both excited and frustrated. Excited because of the stimulus of all that good thinking, grist for the mill. Frustrated because who is able to sort it all out, process, interact, participate except in the most fleeting and cursory way? The best result, I guess, is to take the good bits home with you and get back to work. Apologies to those who were not at the ACH/ALLC conference sessions to which you have referred. Maybe Matt Kirschenbaum could be convinced to post us with a brief precis of his excellent remarks in the session on Humanities Computing vs./and New Media. What I took away from it was, that although these two fields may be, in many ways, institutionally and culturally distinct, it should be evident to all of us (notwithstanding the misgivings of each about the other) that we need each other. This is because the one treats the technologies instrumentally, while the other treats them aesthetically. The Computing Humanist asks "How can I put the machine to work for noble purposes beyond the machine itself [studying the Humanities]?" The student of New Media asks, "What are these machines, and what is the world being created in and by them?" Either question without the other has its own kind of blindness and paralysis. Which is partly why, notwithstanding being impressed by the polish of a good "multimedia" work, I am still left "underwhelmed" (as a professor of Ancient Greek once of my acquaintance used to say). But unless I can look into the wings and get a sense of what the man behind the curtain is doing, and how he's doing it and why, it amounts to just another sensation. Rhetorical effects are all very nice, but I need to have a sense of means, motive and a sympathetic purpose before I can be happily drawn in. Maybe this is to be jaded; I'd like to think of it as healthy skepticism coupled with a need for focus, balancing the commitment to open-mindedness. 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 ====================================================================== From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: Re: 13.0143 new media Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:49:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 246 (246) One way to approah Willard's questions is to look closely at some venues for new media studies. Below are URLs for three conferences (one recent, two upcoming), and the CFP, programs, and schedules of papers offer a reasonable indication of current interests and priorities in the field: Digital Arts and Culture (November 1998, University of Bergen): http://cmc.hf.uib.no/dac/ Media in Transition (Octover 1999, MIT): http://media-in-transition.mit.edu/ Digital Arts and Culture II (October 1999, Georgia Tech): http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/events/dac99/ (Full programs the MIT and Georgia Tech conferences should be available soon.) If there is a schism between humanities computing and new media studies, that schism may be relatively recent, and may be partly of our own making. A 1991 anthology of George Landow's, for example, includes papers from Steve DeRose, Elli Mylonas and Gregory Crane, Andries van Dam, and others. There are also people who are working to bridge what professional and institutional gaps do exist. Geoffrey Rockwell and his colleagues at McMaster, for example, are in the process of building a program that combines the concerns of traditional humanities computing (text analysis, document encoding) with multimedia and design. It's true, as Willard says, that the so-called "new" media are not actually very new. But it's also important to say that before there was new media studies there was an academic field called simply "media studies" -- and thus it's possible to read the "new" not as a modifer of the media, but rather as a way of differentiating a comparatively recent intellectual agenda from a previously existing one. Incidentally, as a footnote, I might dissent from the characterization of the ACH/ALLC session I recently chaired as "new media studies." The focus of the panel was on digital images and their role in electronic editions, archives, and libraries. It included presentations that were both technical (Viscomi, Kirschenbaum) as well as speculative (Drucker, McGann, Martin). Using John Unsworth's shorthand definition of humanities computing from the session Allen Renear chaired -- "Humanities computing, I submit, inverts the method/object relation that characterizes (New) Media Studies, and uses new media--meaning computers and the methods they require--to study traditional humanities content" -- it seems to me that my image session was firmly oriented around humanities computing thus defined, and not new media studies. If the session seemed daring or "new" in the context of the ACH/ALLC program, that is, perhaps, an indicator of how much our conferences have historically emphasized text-based and linguistic approaches, and how rare it is has been to have, say, a practicing art historian in the room. By the same token, I think that the digital images session would have been out of place at the new media studies venues listed above. Matt : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor, Department of English Research in Computing for Humanities Group http://www.rch.uky.edu University of Kentucky Technical Editor, The William Blake Archive mgk@pop.uky.edu mgk3k@jefferson.village.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: Chuck Henry Subject: Re: 13.0144 Web design competition Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:49:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 247 (247) If the Web page competitive entries are to reflect the body of work of the Partnership, some general criteria would need to be followed: 1. The Web page must leak content continually 2. The code (as in infrastructure, like plumbing and wiring) should be highlighted, with the content residing behind or beneath it. 3. It should be user unfriendly 4. It should borrow, without acknowledgment, from other Web pages 5. The Web page 'style' must appear aggressive yet curiously outdated the moment it goes online. This is indeed a challenge. Chuck Charles Henry, Ph.D. Vice Provost and University Librarian Fondren Library MS 44 Rice University P.O. Box 1892 Houston, Texas 77251-1892 voice: 713.527-4022 fax: 713. 285-5258 <http://riceinfo.rice.edu/> From: Mick Doherty Subject: RE: Web design competition Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:49:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 248 (248) Fascinating strategy by Richard Rogers Partnership in offering prizes for the design of their website. The competition description on the site claims "Up to 20 shortlisted entrants will be asked to develop their designs further." Essentially, RRP gets 20 professionally-developed concepts and in-depth ideas for their site done to some level of completion for the grand (prize) total of 21,500 pounds sterling. Major corporations often invest easily ten times that amount for a bleeding-edge site. Very slick. ================================= Mick Doherty, Internet Editor Dallas Convention & Visitors Bureau * editor@dallascvb.com * http://www.dallascvb.com/ * Personal: mickwrites@hotmail.com * http://www.dallascvb.com/staff/pages/doherty/ ================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Elisabeth Burr Subject: New Media Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:16:09 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 249 (249) Dear Willard, I've read your message on Humanist. I agree that the combination of media is something we should think about. I agree, that the question "what is text" is a vital question, very puzzling, indeed. What I don't understand is the problem with "new media". As I could not come to the states it seems that I have missed something vital. Let me explain. At the moment there is a programm in our region, more or less just for the Humanities. Let's be honest, the government finances it in order to reduce teachers. But I've heard enough about this subject at anglo-american congresses in order to know that this idea is stupid and that the new media mean that we have to change our approaches. Accepted. Now, I could think straight away about a topic which could have been developped even in an interdisciplinary way: 'Italian neorealisme', i.e. above all films. They could be used to teach something about language varieties, how language is being presented, how varieties are valued etc. They could be used to teach something about post 2nd world war history and social structure or the way it is presented, they could be used in conjunction with italian neorealistic literature comparing themes, ideology and much more, social geography, the difference between presentation (idealisation) and reality as it results from so-called pure facts. I won't be able to do something about this idea at the moment but as far as I know my students such a more global approach would/ could introduce them to a small but complex part of reality. Isn't multimedia about that? Just a few thoughts about how we would go about it in a traditional way: we would look at the films (Roma, open city or bycicle thieves for example). We would notice that the language is not what is presented in books etc. But we couldn't really see how it is made up. For this we would need the means to find out something about its regularities. If we just look at the script, it would be really diffi- cult to grab the whole setup. The language is part of a certain type of society, people might come from different regions, live in houses or huts, work in rice fileds or controll the work, all might wear differnt cloths, talk differently, i.e. some sort of reality is presented made up of different elements. My idea is that the integration of the different media, where this is possible, obviously, would give us the means to have a look at the inter- relationship of the different elements and how they contribute to create a certain reality. That is why I really don't understand what is going on. What is the question? Is there a tendency to limit our attention to one aspect again or is there something else? Is there a different level involved? Elisabeth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PD Dr'in Elisabeth Burr FB 3/Romanistik Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet 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: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Smelly Words Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:16:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 250 (250) Dear Willard, One way to look at your question about new media is to ask what we want such a name for. At McMaster we recently went through the exercise of choosing a name for a new program. We needed a name for the program that would communicate in one or more words what the object of study of the program was and the place of the program in the intellectual hierarchy of the university. We chose "multimedia" for a number of reasons. First, it was a short name, which is good. Why use two or more words when one will do? Second, our audience (administrators, prospective students, government officials and colleagues) was likely to know what we were talking about. Whenever I tell someone I do "humanities computing" I draw either a sarcastic comment or a look of incomprehension that is struggling with an impulse to flee. "Multimedia", on the other hand, conveys pretty well with one word what we study and create - we build what people call multimedia works and theorize about them. Prospective students can make an informed choice to find out more about the program when hearing about it. Thirdly, and this is a related point, when choosing a name for a field of study the obvious choice is to name it after the object of study and multimedia is still the best word I have found for what we are studying. "New Media" is more accurate about the novelty, but is doomed to be a dated name when it is no longer "new", as you pointed out. "Hypertext" or "hypermedia" were also candidates, but we felt they were not as clear as multimedia and did not cover the variety of things we are doing. Fourth, and most importantly, it hints at one feature that I think is important in computer-based media, that digitization allows us to combine multiple media into an artistic unity. If Bakhtin is right about the novel being a form where a diversity of voices can be artistically integrated, is it not interesting that a multimedia work is likewise a genre where the artist can integrate media? Multimedia is not about the superficial grafting of bells to your mail program, it is about the innovative integration of multiple media into an expressive work. It has more in common with what used to be called mixed-media installations or multi-media art. As for the smell of mortality to the term multimedia, I think you are simply smelling the decay of the first bloom without looking to see if the plant is healthy. It is inevitable that terms in this area sizzle, bloom and fade. The question is whether the plant is healthy after the flower drops so that we can use it to name fields of study, programs, research agendas and so on. Multimedia has lasted better than most and has proven quite servicable for everyday use. Perhaps the winds blow differently in England, but here in Canada the word has taken root and will bloom again. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell From: Willard McCarty Subject: cloven fiction Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:16:48 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 251 (251) In Humanist 13.146, Matt Kirschenbaum usefully objects to my characterisation of his panel at ACH/ALLC (and a fine one it was too) thus: [deleted quotation] Fair enough as a place to begin (which is where we are), but I would think *only* as a place to begin. In humanities computing we may start out with our new instrument and (roughly speaking) apply it to old data, but then the fun starts and nothing is quite the same. This is a story we're all familiar with, but (why is this?) we so often choose to ignore it. First of all, the stuff needs to be in electronic form, which means choosing what we're going to regard as the data -- NOT a trivial step, this -, then digitising it, then so often adding metadata. Then we humanists view the quite significantly altered result through the altering lens of software, and we start thinking in new ways about the object of study -- which is not really an object, or not cleanly so, but I've got to simplify to make my point. As computing humanists we get interested in the medium, and so get into studying media, I would suppose, but our object of study (same qualification) isn't the medium per se. It's what happens to the traditional object (idem) when it is manifested in the new medium. Or, to put the matter the other way around, it's what we do about and with the new/old entity, our transformed scholarly methods. Comments? Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Articles: Digitization & Copyright in Multimedia Collections Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:00:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 252 (252) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 23, 1999 UK VINE JOURNAL INVITES ARTICLES ON MULTIMEDIA DIGITIZATION Issue on Digitization and electronic copyright in the creation of electronic collections <http://agent.sbu.ac.uk/publications/digicall.html>http://agent <http://agent.sbu.ac.uk/publications/digicall.html>http://agent.sbu.ac.uk/pu blications/digicall.html [deleted quotation]<http://agent.sbu.ac.uk/publications/vine.html>http://agent.sbu.ac.uk/public ations/vine.html [deleted quotation] From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Issues Around Embedding Multimedia in Electronic Journals; Resource Guide to Electronic Journals Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:01:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 253 (253) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 23, 1999 ON ISSUES AROUND EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALS <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm>http://ww <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm>http://www.public.iast ate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: A SELECTED RESOURCE GUIDE - now updated <http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html>http://www.ha <http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html>http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms /ejresguide.html I am forwarding the call for ideas and experiences in embedding multimedia in electronic jounrals from Gerry Mckiernan, as it appeared in the e-journal list of the Association of Research Libraries August 7 as I believed members of this wider community might be interested and able to assist Mr. McKiernan. This is followed by another announcement on this list about an updated version of a resource guide, "an overview and summary of issues relating to electronic journals." David Green =========== ON ISSUES AROUND EMBEDDING MULTIMEDIA IN ELECTRONIC JOURNALS <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm>http://ww <http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm>http://www.public.iast ate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm [deleted quotation]<http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm>http://www.public.iast ate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm [deleted quotation]"Words still have ... primacy, but they can be illuminated by images and moving pictures and by numbers and by sounds." [deleted quotation]======================================================================= ELECTRONIC JOURNALS: A SELECTED RESOURCE GUIDE - now updated <http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html>http://www.ha <http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms/ejresguide.html>http://www.harrassowitz.de/ms /ejresguide.html [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: ichim99 -- hotel deadline and final program Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:50:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 254 (254) [deleted quotation] ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 99 99 99 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 99 99 September 22 - 26, 1999 Washington, D.C. USA 99 99 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ 99 99 99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 *** HOTEL REGISTRATION DEADLINE AND FINAL PROGRAM DETAILS *** ************** HOTEL DEADLINE ************** August 31st is the last date to guarantee the special hotel rates of $139.00 per night at the Marriott Crystal City Hotel. Don't miss out on this 50% discount off regular Washington hotel prices. Call +1 703 920 3230 this week to make your reservation. Be sure to mention "ichim99" to get this great rate. ************* FINAL PROGRAM ************* The final program for ichim99 and full details of all sessions, papers, speakers and workshops are available at http:www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Register online for the full conference and for intensive pre-conference workshops. You can also print the form and fax it to us at +1 412 422 8594 [material deleted] ********************************************************************* SEE YOU IN WASHINGTON FOR THE BEST OF INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM MULTIMEDIA ********************************************************************* ________ J. Trant & D. Bearman ichim99@archimuse.com Co-Chairs, ichim99 Washington, DC Archives & Museum Informatics September 23-26, 1999 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: POSITIONS AVAILABLE: AMICO Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:44:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 255 (255) [deleted quotation] POSITIONS AVAILABLE Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) http://www.amico.org) AMICO is seeking dynamic talented professionals to become the AMICO LIBRARY EDITOR and AMICO TECHNICAL DIRECTOR. These senior staff members will help build AMICO's programs and shape our activities. Application Deadline: September 15, 1999. Full details online at http://www.amico.org ABOUT AMICO The Art Museum Image Consortium (a not-for-profit corporation) is an innovative collaboration that shares, shapes and standardizes information regarding cultural collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open: any organization with a collection of art can be an AMICO Member. Together, AMICO members create the AMICO Library -- a multimedia archive of their collections. Works in the AMICO Library are fully documented; all entries have basic cataloguing information and may also include curatorial texts, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work itself, and other related multimedia. The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to institutional subscribers, including universities, colleges, libraries, schools and museums. Designated users include faculty, students, teachers, staff and researchers. POSITIONS AVAILABLE AMICO's expanding, and we're looking for dynamic, talented professionals to help us define, shape and develop the consortium's activities. These positions are perfect for self-directed, independent individuals, who are interested in working with teams, building consensus, and making a contribution to a quickly developing field. Both positions report to the Executive Director, AMICO. The incumbents will play key roles in AMICO growth into a self-sustaining organization. AMICO TECHNICAL DIRECTOR The AMICO Technical Director is Responsible for specification, acquisition, development, implementation and management of data processing applications supporting AMICO staff, AMICO members and the creation and distribution of the AMICO Library. A full job description and application details can be found at http://www.amico.org/amico.tech.dir.html The AMICO Technical Director: - Directs AMICO's Technical Services Program - Guides all AMICO Technical Programs and Policy - Develops, Implements, Maintains and Supports the Member Contribution Systems - Delivers the AMICO Library to Distributors - Maintains and Enhances the AMICO Web Site - Manages Network Servers And Configurations - Recruits and supervises AMICO Technical Interns (and staff as budgets allow) Qualifications: - Degree in Computer science, software engineering, information systems or allied field - Knowledge of: Linux/Windows NT; TCP/IP networks' RDBMS in a Unix Environment; C, C++ or Perl languages - Standards Oriented; Deliverable Driven. AMICO LIBRARY EDITOR The AMICO Library Editor is responsible for the application of data standards to the compiled AMICO library, for the identifications and implementation of best practices in the documentation of cultural artifacts and for the coordination of the development of the AMICO Library. A full job description and application details can be found at http://www.amico.org/amico.lib.ed.html The AMICO Library Editor: Defines Data Standards and Quality Control Procedures - Develops Guidelines and Documentation in association with the Editorial Committee - Implements Data Standards and Best Practices working with members - Collaborates Across Communities in standards development and implementation - Recruits and Manages AMICO's Editorial Interns (and staff as budgets permit) Manages AMICO Library Development - Assists Members in their regular contributions - Manages validation and enhancement routines at AMICO - Develops descriptions of the compiled AMICO Library - Identifies areas of strengths and weakness in the AMICO Library and develops programs and strategies for content development. Qualifications: - Graduate degree in art history, cultural studies, history or library and information studies (or related field; subject knowledge of art history and familiarity with arts education essential - Multiple languages and assess - Several years hand's on work with online cultural documentation; familiarity with standards in use and in development - Knowledge of the communities that create and use online cultural documentation LOCATION: The AMICO Offices are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. SALARY: Commensurate with experience; both positions are professional staff. ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594 ________ From: "David L. Gants" Subject: NEH Summer Stipend ($4,000) Deadline Announcement Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:44:40 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 256 (256) [deleted quotation] NEH SUMMER STIPENDS Deadline: October 1, 1999 for awards during the summer of the year 2000 The National Endowment for the Humanities announces the competition for Summer Stipends awards. These awards support two consecutive months of full-time work on projects that will make a significant contribution to the humanities. In most cases, faculty members of colleges and universities in the United States must be nominated by their institutions for the Summer Stipends competition, and each of these institutions may nominate two applicants. Prospective applicants who will require nomination should acquaint themselves with their institution's nomination procedures well before the October 1 deadline. Individuals employed in nonteaching capacities in colleges and universities and independent scholars not affiliated with colleges and universities do not require nomination and may apply directly to the program. Adjunct faculty and academic applicants with appointments terminating by the summer of 2000 may also apply without nomination. TENURE: Tenure must cover two full and uninterrupted months and will normally be held between May 1, 2000 and September 30, 2000. STIPEND: $4,000 INQUIRIES: 202/606-8551 stipends@neh.gov PURPOSE AND SCOPE: The Summer Stipends program provides opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in disciplines of the humanities during the summer. Projects proposed for support may contribute to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities, and they may address broad topics or consist of research and study in a single field. ELIGIBILITY: Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but neither candidates for degrees nor persons seeking support for work toward a degree are eligible to apply for Summer Stipends. Persons who have held a major fellowship or research grant or its equivalent during the 1997-98 academic year or during subsequent academic years are ineligible for Summer Stipends. (A "major fellowship or research grant" is a postdoctoral award that provides support for a continuous period of time equal to at least one term of the academic year; that enables the recipient to pursue scholarly research, personal study, professional development, or writing; that provides a stipend of at least $10,000; and that comes from sources other than the recipient's employing institution. Sabbaticals and grants from a person's own institution are not considered major fellowships.) SELECTION PROCEDURES: Reviewers consider the significance of the proposed project to the humanities, the quality of the applicant's work, the conception and description of the project, and the likelihood that the work will be accomplished. For further information and application materials, persons interested in these programs can use the telephone number and e-mail address provided above, or they can write to: NEH Summer Stipends, Room 318, National Endowment for the Humanities,1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506. All applications must be postmarked on or before October 1, 1999. Please note that the Endowment does not accept applications submitted by FAX or e-mail. Information on NEH programs is also available at http://www.neh.gov DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 in Speech and Language Processing Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:45:24 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 257 (257) [deleted quotation] MSc in Speech and Language Processing Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre Department of Linguistics Macquarie University Sydney, Australia This Masters program at Macquarie University, Sydney, has been designed to take advantage of a strong research and development base to provide a grounding in speech and language technology for graduates who want to be part of this exciting field. This is a coursework degree and can be taken over one year full time or two years part time. Starting in 2000 we are hoping to offer the degree in distance mode (by correspondence) -- you should be able to complete the degree within two years in this mode. The program includes a set of compulsory units introducing speech and language processing and a range of elective units which explore topics in detail. Students complete a one-paper research/development project in thier final semester. The course is designed for graduates in related disciplines, for example, Computer Science, Linguistics, or Electrical Engineering, who wish to gain sufficient expertise in this inherently cross-disciplinary area to effectively participate in speech and language projects in industry and academia. Further details on the course can be found at our web site: http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/masters or by sending mail to masters@srsuna.shlrc.mq.edu.au -- Steve Cassidy Course Coordinator From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: UCLA Extension Course: Document Imaging and Document Management Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:45:53 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 258 (258) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 23, 1999 UCLA Extension Course: Document Imaging and Document Management September 30-October 2, 1999. Stephen J. Gilheany <http://www.UnEx.UCLA.edu/catalog/>http://www.UnEx.UCLA.e <http://www.UnEx.UCLA.edu/catalog/>http://www.UnEx.UCLA.edu/catalog/ [deleted quotation]<http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com /abpapers.html [deleted quotation]=============================================================== NINCH-Anounce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), a diverse coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment. The subjects of these announcements are not, unless otherwise noted, the projects of NINCH; neeither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: 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/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: August Issue of RLG DigiNews Available Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:48:19 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 259 (259) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources from across the Community August 23, 1999 August Issue of RLG DigiNews Available <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.org/p <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/>http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/ Highlights of the August issue of DigiNews, published by the Research Libraries Group are essays by Anne R. Kenney and Louis Sharpe II, "Illustrated Book Study: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations," and by Thaddeus Lipinski on "Digitisation of Early Journals." Also reported is the latest news on Rlg's providing access to the AMICO library and on the RLG-DLF Task Force Addressing Long-Term Retention of Digital Information. David Green From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE Subject: Recent Articles on Legality of Hypertext Linking Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:48:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 260 (260) NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources & Issues from across the Community August 23, 1999 "Ticketmaster Sues Again Over Links," by Bob Tedeschi New York Times, August 10 <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/10tickets.html> <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/10tickets.html>htt p://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/articles/10tickets.html "Is Linking Always Legal? The Experts Aren't Sure," by Carl Kaplan New York Times, August 6 <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html>ht <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html>http:// www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/cyber/cyberlaw/06law.html These two fairly recent article from the New York Times attest to the continuing concern about the legality, or advisedness, of linking, especially deep-linking, to certain web material. Although the cases involving commercial linkage to commercial sites may be comparatively clear, the cases involving the non-commercial use of commercial sites are perhaps those more compelling for this community. An incident related to the two specific cases cited in these two articles was that involving art museums, in the Spring, protesting the deep-linking to digital reproductions of works in their collections by the on-line Grove Dictionary of Art, published by Macmillan (see the article in the May 13 New York Times, "Art Online: The Internet Mounts a Masterpiece," <http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/circuits/articles/13grov.html>htt p://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/circuits/articles/13grov.html ). David Green =========== =============================================================== NINCH-Anounce is an announcement listserv, produced by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), a diverse coalition of arts, humanities and social science organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in the evolution of the digital environment. The subjects of these announcements are not, unless otherwise noted, the projects of NINCH; neeither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate reciprocal credit. For questions, comments or requests to un-subscribe, contact the editor: 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/ninc h-announce/>. ============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Michele Peers Subject: help with a Web-based course Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:40:46 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 261 (261) Okay, so I'm a late bloomer, there is nothing to be done about it except to ask (plead) for help. I am teaching my first totally web based course. I have done a couple web assisted courses and found that the students were still totally, by choice, dependent on the traditional classroom interactions. I realize that I didn't push them out of the nest, but I find that hard to do with freshmen and sophomores. Additionally, while I knew my chosen web site links were necessary I was never quite confident that they were sufficient. Anyway, this new class will be totally web based and I will never see or be seen by this group of students. Nest problem solved!? I would like some understanding of what this group of students will need or experience emotionally/ psychologically/ educationally. I would also like some pointers on having enough (too much?) information site links for the students. Do I need pointers on my personal emotional/ psychological reactions to web teaching? Will I have to think very differently? If you could point me in the direction of articles, texts, or web sites discussing these problems I would be grateful. Your personal experiences would also be much appreciated. Let me follow up by saying that my institution has given me a small grant to study our first year doing web based classes and all the reference material you point me towards will be read. With appreciation. My personal e-mail is: Peers@NKU.edu. From: Darryl Whetter Subject: Animated Grammar? Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:41:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 262 (262) Hello Humanist, I've recently been conducting a survey of OWLs (Online Writing Labs), and was unable to find many who could make use of the so-called mutlimedia applications of the web. The hypertext possibilities of the early and mid 90s have been used in abundance at varios excellent OWLs but I remain unable to find OWLs which make use of the sound and moving image opportunities of today's web. If anyone knows of an animated/aural lab or someone doing research on their efficacy, please reply. All good things, Darryl Whetter Ph.D. Candidate UNB English Department (506) 455-7767 http://www.unb.ca/qwerte moving art From: Chris Ann Matteo Subject: Getting your money's worth Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:42:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 263 (263) I realize the following thoughts are not *strictly* related to computing, but since HUMANIST often engages in such thought-provoking discussions of institutional matters, I offer this for the list's opinions. Today while I was lunching at a deli near my friendly neighborhood BigNameIvyleagueUrban University, I was sitting near two college seniors who were on campus for training as leaders for incoming student orientation next week. They were lamenting the packed schedule and the long days of work, when the young woman made an interesting remark that I couldn't help but overhear: "Yeah, its a pain, but I figure they're paying enough money, I ought to give them what they pay for." It's been a long time since I became disabused of the economic dimension of that revered entity, Higher Education. But I was struck with how far the language of the market had trickled down to these energetic, idealistic naifs. In fact, college students can't be considered naifs anymore, whether intellectually, socially, spiritually or whatever: most of all they seem to be shrewd shoppers. Any ideas for tracing and dating what seems to be a change of attitude towards education in colleges? Certainly, "affordability" has always been an issue for all but the wealthiest families, but when do you think the object shifted from "A College Education" -- a numinous ideal however you want to define it -- to an itemized menu of goods and services to be estimated for its optimum return to paying students and their families? -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- * Chris Ann Matteo .("."). * | chrisann@walrus.com ( \ : / ) The finest language is mostly made| * Comparative Lit (`'-.;;;.-'`) up of simple unimposing words... * | Princeton U (:-==;;;;;==-:) signs of something unspeakably | * ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ( .-';;;'-. ) great and beautiful. * | 69 Tiemann Place (` / : \ `) | * Apartment 31 '-(_/ \_)-' George Eliot, ADAM BEDE * | NY NY 10027 USA " | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Character Sets Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 20:43:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 264 (264) [deleted quotation] Dear Humanists, I am in search of bibliographic references on the subject of character sets used for electronic information processing. The topics that I am interested in learning more about include: - The history of the standardization of sets like ASCII and the various ISO sets. - Technical discussions of methods for collating across languages and character sets. - Cost analysis of the use of wide-character vs. variable-length character sets for typical kinds of processing. Any pointers welcome. Reply to me or to the list. - Gregory Murphy __o 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: Sharon Cogdill Subject: MOO and teaching literature Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:46:35 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 265 (265) Apologies for cross-posting... In case anybody's interested in learning more about using synchronous communication software (in this case, MOO) for their classes, I'm going to be talking -- or, rather, writing -- at the Netoric Cafe tonight. MOO is based on old role-playing gaming software, which gives it advantages over typical "chat" software because it was designed to facilite the construction of online personality and identity. The Cafe meets this evening, Tuesday, 24 August 1999, at 8:00 EDT, which I think is, unfortunately, 0200 GMT. Please forgive the self-promotion, but it has occurred to me for some time to re-introduce on this list the idea of using MOO in classes. It has succeeded for me in Victorian novels classes where the reading load is particularly heavy to help solve the problems of helping students achieve at least a degree of critical sophistication. Electronic discourse, as you know even if all you've ever done is be a member of a busy listserv, has certain characteristics that can make it better than f2f or print discourse for some kinds of interactions. The multi-threadedness, for example, can lead to meta-discussions that can show us associations between seemingly disparate ideas as they spin themselves out. When students are able to connect two or three different threads in a discussion of a complex novel like _David Copperfield_ or _Tess of the d'Urbervilles_, for example, they are engaged at a scale I've never otherwise seen them achieve -- at least in my classes. It hasn't happened to me often, but when it has it's been exhilirating. I'm not making a case here for, say, distance learning, a radically different conversation from this. I am saying, though, that I've been able to approach some resistant pedagogical problems using MOO and even listserv software in a Victorian novels class. You don't have to have special software to take part in the discussion tonight if you have Telnet available to you somehow, but using just Telnet will make expressing yourself more difficult. More information in general can be found at the Netoric homepage: http://bsuvc.bsu.edu/~00gjsiering/netoric/netoric.html Sorry, again, for the self-promotion, but this seemed like the perfect opportunity to put this issue in front of this group. Sharon Cogdill St. Cloud State University [deleted quotation]connections [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Geoffrey Rockwell Subject: Text-Analysis For Students Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:25:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 266 (266) Dear all, I promised to get back with a summary of the suggestions for good articles/books for students on text-analysis. Here is a list of works I have put together from your suggestions and my research. This list does not include materials on the web (some of these are available on the WWW). That list I am still working on. You will also notice that this list goes beyond the scope of my original question, but it should still be of interest. Thanks to Eric Johnson, John Bradley, Joseph Raben, Gary Shawver, and Peter Liddell for their suggestions. I am sure I have overlooked something you know about - don't hesitate to e-mail me at grockwel@mcmaster. ca. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell Doing Text-Analysis Hawthorne, Mark. "The Computer in Literary Analysis: Using TACT with Students." Computers in the Humanities 28.1 (1994): 19-27. Lancashire, Ian, et al. Using TACT with Electronic Texts. New York: Modern Languages Association of America, 1996. Barnbrook, Geoff. Language and Computers: A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996. Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad, and Randi Reppen. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language and Structure Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Examples of Text-Analysis Johnson, Eric. "How Jane Austen's characters talk." Text Technology 4.4 (1994): 263-267. Johnson, Eric. "The Kinds of Words Used in the Novels of Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and James Janke." Text Technology 6.2 (1996): 91-96. Arthur, Karen. "A TACT Analysis of the Language of Death in Troilus and Criseyde." Computer-Based Chaucer Studies. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto, 1993. 67-85. Lancashire, Ian. "Phrasal Repetends and the "Manciple's Prologue and Tale"." Computer-Based Chaucer Studies. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto, 1993. 99-122. Fortier, Paul A. "Some Statistics of Themes in the French Novel." Computers and the Humanities 23.4-5 (1989): 293-299. Burrows, J. F., and D. H. Craig. "Lyrical Drama and the "Turbid Mountebanks": Styles of Dialogue in Romantic and Renaissance Tragedy." Computers and the Humanities 28.2 (1994): 63-86. Markup and Encoding Hockey, Susan. "Making Technology Work for Scholarship: Investing in Data." Technology and Scholarly Communication. Ed. Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 17. Ed. 36. Burnard, Lou. "What is SGML and How Does It Help?" Computers and the Humanities 29 (1995): 41-50. Huitfeldt, Claus. "Multi-Dimensional Texts in a One-Dimensional Medium." Computers and the Humanities 28.4-5 (1995): 235-241. Sperberg-McQueen, C. M. "Bare Bones TEI: A very very small subset of the TEI Encoding Scheme." Text Technology 5.3 (1995): 248-265. Approaches to Text-Analysis McCarty, Willard. "Handmade, Computer-assisted, and Electronic Concordances of Chaucer." Computer-Based Chaucer Studies. Ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto, 1993. 49-65. Olsen, Mark. "Signs, Symbols and Discourses: A New Direction for Computer-Aided Literature Studies." Computers and the Humanities 27 (1993): 309-314. Harris, Robert. "Variation Among Style Checkers in Sentence Measurement." Text Technology 6.2 (1996): 80-90. Smith, John B. "Computer Criticism." Literary Computing and Literary Criticism: Theoretical and Practical Essays on Theme and Rhetoric. Ed. Rosanne G. Potter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. 13-44. Allen, Robert. "The Stylo-Statistical Method of Literary Analysis." Computers in the Humanities 22.1 (1988): 1-10. Potter, Rosanne G. "Statistical Analysis of Literature: A Retrospective on Computers and the Humanities, 1966-1990." Computers and the Humanities 25.6 (1991): 401-429. The Book and Its Future Manguel, Alberto. "The Shape of the Book." A History of Reading. Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 125-147. Hesse, Carla. "Books in Time." The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 21-36. DeRose, Steven J., et al. "What is Text, Really?" Journal of Computing in Higher Education 1.2 (1990): 3-26. Kling, Rob, and Roberta Lamb. "Analyzing Alternate Visions of Electronic Publishing and Digital Libraries." Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. Ed. Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996. 17-54. Gu=E9don, Jean-Claude. "The Seminar, the Encyclopedia, adn the Eco-Museum = as Possible Future Forms of Electronic Publishing." Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier. Ed. Robin P. Peek and Gregory B. Newby. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1996. 17-54. Nunberg, Geoffrey. "Farewell to the Information Age." The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 103-138. Johnson, Steven. "Text." Interface Culture: How New Technology Tranforms the Way We Create and Communicate. New York: HarperEdge, 1997. 138-172. Lanham, Richard A. "Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Practice, and Property." Literacy Online: The Promise (and Peril) of Reading and Writing with Computers. Ed. Myron C. Tuman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. 221-243. Eco, Umberto. "Afterword." The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 295-306. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Ross Scaife Subject: CHE article on tailored digital library collections Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:24:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 267 (267) [Forwarded with thanks. --WM] Interesting piece today in the CHE: [deleted quotation] http://chronicle.com/free/99/08/99082501t.htm -------------------------------------------- The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication http://www.stoa.org From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: interesting article Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:24:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 268 (268) Humanists might be interested in the following piece, freely accessible from the Chronicle of Higher Education, on using XML to encode the many millions of email messages from the Clinton administration that the US National Archives and Records Administration will store for posterity: http://chronicle.com/free/99/08/99082401t.htm Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: BRUNI Subject: Re: 13.0148 queries to exercise the mind Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:25:31 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 269 (269) [deleted quotation] I would like to know the rationale for pushing students out of "the nest." Do we really want to further students' feelings of separation, isolation, unfamiliarity, and alienation that seem to be the norm at most colleges, where students are too often treated as numbers and/or figures on the profit sheet? What is being left out of a learning experience that refuses modes of physical interaction? I do not believe such interactions are part of the "traditional," here being read as bad, outdated, classroom; rather physical interaction is part of our lived experiences (both as students and teachers) as being embodied. I do think that technology in the classroom can contribute to our students' learning, but we have to be careful not to force them to participate in an environment that pretends to forget that they have bodies as well as minds. I also think that there may be somewhat of a condescending attitude towards students for being afraid to plunge into virtual education. Instead, students who act this way are simply not willing to pretend that a meaningful learning environment can be achieved without students "seeing" who is learning with them, and perhaps even more importantly, who is assigning their grades. John Bruni Department of English University of Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: hscher Subject: Digital Collection of Stereoscopic Views at NYPL Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:24:59 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 270 (270) Take a Summer Trip to the 19th Century via New York Public Library^=D2s Dig= ital Collection of Stereoscopic Views Like a time machine to summer fun and small town life of more than 100 year= s ago, a remarkable group of 12,000 historic images from The New York Public Library's Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views is now available through the Library's site on the World Wide Web. In addition to showcasing summer frolickers in Coney Island, Atlantic City, Asbury Park, and other seaside spots, the collection provides a remarkable assortment of candid views of everyday life in the tri-state area surrounding New York City. Horse-drawn carriages tearing up Chapel Street in New Haven, Connecticut; tourists perched on the edge of Niagara Falls; shots of a well-appointed Brooklyn living room; and a view of lavish mansions along Fifth Avenue in New York City are among the revealing images in the collection. "These materials will be of invaluable use to anyone researching life in the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century," said William W. Walker, Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries. The Dennis Collection is one of several research archives that have been made available through the Digital Library Collections site located on the worldwide web at http://digital.nypl.org/. Stereoviews were a broadly popular form of home entertainment between the 1= 850s and 1930s. Much like today's mass media such as television and home video, stereoviews featured a wide range of entertaining subjects, from depictions= of exotic locales to pedestrian images of everyday life. When seen through a special apparatus, the two slightly different photographs on a stereoscopic= =20 view card are combined by the human brain into one image with the illusion of three-dimensional depth. The 12,000 views representing the tri-state region are only part of the mor= e than 72,000 images that make up the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereosc= opic Views. Robert N. Dennis was a New Yorker who collected stereographs over ne= arly six decades. The first part of the collection=ADnearly 35,000 images=ADwas= =20 purchased from Mr. Dennis in 1941 for the Library^=D2s American History Division. Forty years later, in 1981, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis visited the Library to see their collection. The visit inspired the Dennis's to donate another 35,000 stereographs that they had collected since 1941. The physical stereographs are located in the Photography Collection of the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at The New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. The online collection is divided into 199 subdivisions such as "Stereoscopic views of Brooklyn Navy Yard and harbor scenes", "views of Sleepy Hollow and Sunnyside, home of Washington Irving," "views of Wall Street, New York," "views of Fifth Avenue," and views of such towns as Binghamton, Bridgeport, Freers Glen, Hartford, Lake Champlain, Long Branch, Nyack, Syracuse, Ticonderoga, Utica and many others. "Keyword" searching retrieves general topics such as hotels, libraries, markets and stores, post offices, prisons, the United States Military Academy, and also names, places, titles, and subjects. There are also alphabetical lists of all the places, general topics, people, events, and photographers' names in the collection. Digital Library Collections The New York Public Library's Digital Library Collections website (http:// digital.nypl.org) was launched in May 1998 with Digital Schomburg, a collec= tion of photographs and book texts relating to African American history and cult= ure. Much of the material in the collection is drawn from the Library^=D2s Schom= burg Center for Research in Black Culture. The site also currently links to two= =20 joint digital initiatives, Marriage, Women, and the Law, a collaborative project of seven libraries coordinated by the Research Libraries Group, and the Dance Heritage Coalition website, a united effort of seven organizations to provide centralized information on archival dance materials. Upcoming digital collections available from The New York Public Library inc= lude Black New York, a collection of WPA (1936-1941) manuscripts describing the history of blacks in New York City; the Digital Library for the Performing= =20 Arts, which will provide access to performing arts treasures from 1875 to 1925; and Travels Along the Hudson, a collaboration among ten organizations documenting the history of Hudson River life in the 19th Century. For a selection of color and black and white images from the Robert N. Denn= is Collection of Stereographic Views, please contact Herb Scher or Tina Hoeren= z at 212-704-8600. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Dene Grigar Subject: CFP Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:12:54 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 271 (271) Call for Proposals Computers and Writing 2K Conference Special Strand: Publishing Strand Coordinators: Sue Webb (swebb@twu.edu) and James A. Inman (jinman@umich.edu) May 25-28, 2000 Fort Worth, TX Hosted by Texas Womans University Dene Grigar, Chair; Hugh Burns and John Barber, Co-Chairs http://www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2k/bridge.html Deadline date: October 15, 1999 Computers & Writing (C&W), a national conference is actively soliciting proposals for its upcoming conference, "Evolution, Revolution, and Implementation: Computers and Writing for Global Change." We invite proposals that examine the nature of contemporary publishing, especially issues surrounding scholarly publishing (print/electronic media, genres, values) and commercial publishing (role of theory, academy/industry tension, future directions in textbook publishing). Use the online proposal submission forms found at http://www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2k/proposalcall.html for full details about formats for panels, presentations, posters, and workshops as well as for proposal submission forms. Be sure to designate "Publishing" Strand among the categories you identify for your proposal. For more general information about the conference, visit our website at: http://www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2k/bridge.html. You may contact the Strand Coordinators directly with specific questions about the Special Strand Call for Proposals, or Dene Grigar, the conference chair, with general questions about the conference. Dene Grigar, TWU, P.O. Box 425829, Denton, TX 76204; 940-898-2298; dene@eaze.net. Fax: 214-553-7764. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: an Onomasticon sampler Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:12:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 272 (272) Dear colleagues: I have put online a highly abridged version of my (I hope) forthcoming Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid, which I have called the Onomasticon Sampler, at <http://wlm.cc.kcl.ac.uk/onomasticon-sample/index.htm>. It consists of just a few entries in each of the indexes, I hope a sufficient number to allow a determined person to get an idea of how the thing might be useful. The Onomasticon is intended for Ovidian specialists and others who have some reason to want to understand how the bits of the Met might be put together into interesting patterns. There's a fair bit of scholarship, hard thinking and much slogging behind the scenes, some it still going on, about which I can be more specific should anyone care to enquire. I am very, very keenly interested in comments on any aspect of the Onomasticon, which is so new in genre, method, notation and use that I suspect it may be difficult to *see*. I sincerely hope not, since I'd really like it to be used. Some aspects of the layout and design I already have noted down for further work, including the ordering of entries; a feature to allow me to have relative clauses such as "per quem..." or "quem impositum herbis ... under the nominative singular is designed and mostly encoded but not yet recognised by the software. So infelicities abound and are being attended to, so please mix compassion with your criticisms. Many thanks. Yours, WM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Richard Bear Subject: Re: 13.0158 bodies and minds Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:00:21 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 273 (273) On distance education, some remarks which I have made elsewhere: "Distributed learning" is possibly a better term for Web-based education than "distance education." Distributed learning replaces the earlier model, where we envisioned the program as a concession to the needs of students who for whatever reason cannot reach the campus, with a model that envisions students choosing their own "teachable moment" -- be it three o'clock in the morning -- to tackle the course content. Most University of Oregon "distance learning" students (nearly 70 percent) are in fact on, not off, campus, and have chosen the option for convenience. The advantages of the format are such that it is popular even when there are no distances involved. Distributed learning is evolving rapidly with the development of the World Wide Web, and is becoming synonymous with "Web-Based Instruction," which typically consists of a core set of web pages containing the instructor's syllabus, lectures and other course content, and a selection of other Internet technologies such as email, a listserv, chatroom, or perhaps multimedia presentations such as streaming video, along with some more traditional support such as a textbook or course packet mailed from the campus bookstore. There are advantages to Web-based distributed learning. You need no longer measure your reach by the available quantity of brick, stone, and ivy. Students may enroll from anywhere in the world, rather than from campus alone or from specified sites. Students interact with one another and with the professor whenever they wish, revising their messages as much as they like before sending them, and having the opportunity to check sources and external authorities as needed to back up their points. A variety of learning styles can be addressed through the wide palette of available solutions. Search engines, dictionaries, databases and other resources are available either institutionally through a server (typically provided by the library) or, increasingly, on the World Wide Web, so that students may hold open any of thousands of resources in one window of their computer monitor while interacting with the course materials in another, and writing a class paper in still another. Students with such access to relatively unlimited materials often wind up teaching the instructor new knowledge, rather than the other way round, resulting in a better informed instructor and students with high self-esteem. Students interested in a particular topic or technique can gather together to master it without having to commit years to a specific university or program halfway around the planet in order to do so. Knowledge created during a course can be made readily available to the class, the institution, or the world. There are also concerns. Some faculty may not be comfortable with the technology, or have access to suitable equipment. Some students may not be comfortable with the technology, or have access to suitable equipment. Some faculty may not find the culture of distributed learning to their liking. Some students may find it difficult to stay motivated in an asynchronous setting, with no one close at hand to remind them of deadlines. There may be concerns about the value and authenticity of easily accessed information sources external to the course material. There may be concerns about the rapidly evolving state of intellectual property rights. Assuming we like the advantages enough to try this, how shall we address the concerns? Some students may not be comfortable with the technology, or have access to suitable equipment. Distance education is not necessarily for everyone. But with access to skills and equipment increasing all the time, the option is increasingly attractive to a wider constituency. Assistance is now available in mastering the technology from most university computing centers, schools, departments, or programs. There may be concerns about the value and authenticity of easily accessed information sources external to the course material. As the Internet matures, reliable resources are improving both in quality and quantity. (As a case in point, this is the very issue that the Spenser Project <http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/project.html> has been initiated to adddress.) A professor who feels that many students have not yet learned to discern useful knowledge databases from "popular" materials may choose to provide a pre-approved webliography. There may be concerns about the rapidly evolving state of intellectual property rights. In general, online classes and materials used in them, that are only accessible to registered students via password, are protected by fair use. For specifics consult frequently updated copyright-watch sites such as that provided by the University of Oregon Library <http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/cweb.htm> or Indiana University's excellent Copyright Management Center. <http://www.iupui.edu/~copyinfo/home.html>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Mark Wolff Subject: The Legitimacy of Humanities Computing Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:12:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 274 (274) I suppose every discipline examines itself in order to determine what its research agenda is or should be, but the recent discussion over the identity of humanities computing has left me both enthusiastic and anxious. Enthusiastic, because I feel there is real work to be done in exploring the potential of digital media. Anxious, because the discussion seems to blur what we do as members of the same field with who we are within the wider field of academia. To a certain extent doing and being are inextricable, but our discourse on what humanities computing is plays itself out for ourselves within the field and for others outside the field whom we want to persuade (for recognition, tenure, etc.). A discourse that plays both sides without self-reflexion runs the risk of misrecognizing our current place in the academy and attributing false causes for where we are today. While I agree with Norman Hinton's plea for impartiality among the editorial boards of humanities journals, I can't help but sense that the blame is being placed not on humanities computing scholars who can't get published but on publishers who won't take a chance with the new research. Willard McCarty's reference to chaos theory reassures me that even though we work in many different areas, we can still communicate our ideas and work toward defining a common language. And yet at the same time, his remarks seem directed toward those outside the field whom he wants to assure that there is an elephant out there, lest they think we were pursuing some intellectual dead end. The inside/outside dichotomy of professional discourse is inescapable I suppose, but I think we can gain more clarity if we try to objectify our roles as scholars within the academy. Instead of speaking to ourselves as insiders or to others as outsiders, we should try, as best we can, to observe where we have positioned ourselves within academia, how we got where we are today, and where we can expect to go. In his studies of various fields such as academia, literature, and art, Pierre Bourdieu has argued that in order for a field to act as a legitimate authority within society, it must attain autonomy over what it claims to specialize in. Literary scholars, for instance, can speak with authority about literature because they practice methods of scholarship they develop over a corpus of texts they define, and they evaluate the work of their peers in order to maintain standards for their scholarship. Established fields often experience minor internal struggles, such as disputes over how one should read a certain author, but these struggles usually remain within the field and do not concern people outside the field. A nascent field necessarily concerns itself with opening a space within society where its practitioners can claim positions for themselves. Members of a new field must address people outside the field in order to gain recognition for what they do which identifies who they are. Even after twenty years, humanities computing is still a nascent field because much of its discourse is preoccupied with telling other disciplines where its authority lies. I see two agendas developing for humanities computing. The first proposes that computers serve the interests of traditional humanities scholarship by creating tools for research in the disciplines without claiming that these tools represent humanities research in themselves. Those who create and maintain text- and imagebases may have definite ideas about the significance of their digital stuff (more on that below), but usually they serve the needs of researchers and students who do not see anything but greater and faster access to materials which, although now digitized, remain the same. As a former manager of large, fulltext databases at the University of Chicago, my primary mandate was to make digital resources useful to people who simply wanted their stuff online with a useful interface. In this sense humanities computing is an extension of library science: we have specialized skills in providing other scholars access to their materials. Just as most scholars do not want to think about how AACR2 was used to catalog a particular title, most scholars probably do not want to think about how TEI was used to encode a text. There are those outside of the field who insist this is our place and will hear nothing more about what we do. When I talk to people outside of humanities computing about how my use of computers can radically change the nature of humanities scholarship, I frequently meet with quizzical looks, suspicion, and outright hostility. Those who would have us encode their documents for them will certainly give us thanks and credit for the good work we do, but they will not consider our work on a par with traditional humanities research which at best recognizes computers as time-saving devices. As a result, humanities scholars may find themselves toward the bottom of the academic totem pole, providing technical support instead of receiving recognition for real scholarship. The second agenda assumes that computers have already changed humanities scholarship and pursues questions that only a humanities computing scholar could understand and appreciate. The ACH/ALLC conference in Virginia was the first humanities computing conference I attended, and it was fascinating to learn about, among other things, the intellectual aspects of text encoding. I thoroughly enjoyed the talks I heard, but I kept asking myself, "Where else would I hear someone talk at length about how to use a particular tag?" Humanities computing scholars have created fields of inquiry that belong to them and them only, and this is a sign that the field is gaining an identity and with it authority. However, as Mark Olsen argued several years ago, scholarship in humanities computing is often isolated from mainstream humanities scholarship: very few people outside the field come to our panels at the MLA or read our articles and books. This is not necessarily a problem: that botanist who ended up receiving a Nobel prize probably didn't care that people outside her specialization didn't read her articles. It depends on how you define your specialization. If the grass specialist had been bothered that other biologists ignored her, she would have seen herself belonging to a wider field and might have appealed to a more general audience by changing the direction of her research. If she was happy to continue studying grasses in the way that she did, she could continue her research and wait for others to catch up with her. "To the happy few," as Stendhal once wrote. I think we need to reconcile these two agendas if we are going to make humanities computing a legitimate discipline. We need to convince those outside the field that what we do is more than programming, encoding, and building web sites, and to do so we need to come up with methodologies for using computers in humanities research that have a real impact on humanities scholarship writ large. To a certain extent we are already doing this, but we need to focus on how people's use of computers affects their understanding of the world and to develop methods for analyzing the effects computers produce in people's encounters with texts and with each other. If I use ARTFL just to look up citations, then the database is not much more than a sophisticated concordance. If I show how using ARTFL changes the way we think about French literature and why we should continue to use databases like ARTFL, then I am on my way to claiming a position in a field formed as a new space within humanities research, and in this space I can find peers with whom I share authority. -- ================================================================== Mark B. Wolff Assistant Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages Faculty Liaison, Teaching, Technology, and Learning Center Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Willard McCarty Subject: Qur'an text encoding? Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:13:07 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 275 (275) The following query came to me from a professor of Arabic linguistics at Haifa, Israel. I told him what I could, then got his permission to pass the matter on to, I hope, wiser and more experienced heads. Please post replies to Humanist as well as to Professor Talmon directly. Thanks. Yours, WM [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: Re: 13.0161 new on WWW: names in Ovid's Met. Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:41:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 276 (276) Apologies to all those who tried to reach the Onomasticon sampler and were prevented by a security feature that I did not intend to have in place. The offending device has been removed. Yours, WM At 11:23 AM 8/30/99 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Subject: interesting experiment in text and media? Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:36:20 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 277 (277) Colleagues: Apropos of the recent reflections on the nature of text and new media, I forward to you the following call for papers/presenters. My hope is that HUMANIST readers will have thoughts and suggestions regarding at least two of the three domains we are attempting to bring together - i.e., critical thinking and the transformations of same as occasioned/ required by the "transmediation" of text (in this case, arguably an important text in Western traditions, whatever one's stance regarding its content...) I see the following as an interesting example of an experiment which will not only further some of the discussion of general interest to HUMANIST readers (precisely the questions of text, media, literacy, etc.) - but also one that may, given the texts at stake, provide some distinctive insights as well. In any case, please cross-post as appropriate. And thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide. Cheers - Charles Ess Philosophy and Religion Drury College Springfield, MO 65802 USA == Call for papers, presenters: Critical Thinking and the Bible in the Age of New Media As part of an American Bible Society project, I am identifying possible contributors for a conference on critical thinking as applied to Bible study - as the Bible is transformed into new media (e.g., hypermedia on CD-ROM and the Web). The conference (planned for February, 2000, in New York) will bring together prominent scholars and researchers in the areas of critical thinking, Bible study (both academic and lay), and media studies: both formal presentations and structured dialogues will aim toward (1) explicating current understanding of these three activities/research areas and their intersections, and (2) determining ways of developing such interdisciplinary approaches to Bible study in the Age of New Media. Presenters selected to attend the conference will receive an appropriate honorarium; selected conference papers will be published in some form (minimally, as proceedings, perhaps as a book). Suggestions and nominations (including self-nominations) should be addressed to: Charles Ess, Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College, 900 North Benton Ave., Springfield, MO, 65802 USA, by September 15, 1999. E-mail responses are especially encouraged: cmess@lib.drury.edu Brief Rationale: interdisciplinary interest in critical thinking has generated numerous definitions (e.g., Facione, 1995), workshops and conferences, and centers devoted to further study and teaching of critical thinking. While critical thinking is at least implicitly at work in academic approaches to Biblical study, it is less clear how traditional Bible study materials oriented to the laity presume or foster critical thought. At the same time, current approaches to and understanding of the Bible are being transformed - perhaps in radical ways - as the Bible is "transmediated" into new computer-based media (for example, the hypermedia versions of Biblical materials produced by the American Bible Society, Bible web pages, Internet chat rooms and discussion lists, etc.). As the Bible shifts from print to what Walter Ong calls the "secondary orality" of electronic culture - what will critical thinking in this new context mean, and how may it be fostered in the new media? From: Subject: HAN'99 Conference - Programme Details Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:36:49 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 278 (278) Conference Announcement Evaluate & Improve: Investigating Lecturers' Teaching in the arts and humanities including an exhibition of virtual learning environments. http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/1999hanconference.html The Humanities and Arts higher education Network's 5th anniversary conference will be held on the 9th October, 1999 at the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Evaluate & Improve will be a one-day conference which will focus on Arts and Humanities higher education. Dr Paul Clark, the Chief Executive of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT), will give the keynote address. Other Conference speakers include: Prof Lewis Elton - Dangers of doing the wrong thing righter (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/lewiselton1999.html) Lisa Whistlecroft - Evaluating First-Time Lecturing: Where to start? When to stop? (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/lisawhistlecroft1999.html) Dr Frances Condron - Measuring the effectiveness of electronic resources in small-group teaching: The ASTER Project (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/francescondron1999.html) John Turner and Peter Hartley - What do users really think about computer-based learning packages and what does this tell us as CBL designers? (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/johnturnerpeterhartley1999.html) Dr Judith George - Mapping the student's learning experience (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/judithgeorge1999.html) Dr William Johnston - Cultural Change in Context - evaluation in pursuit of evolution (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/williamjohnston1999.html) Kathryn Southworth - What do students really really want? (And should we give it to them?) (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/kathrynsouthworth1999.html) Arlene Oak - Evaluating Voices: Assessment talk in design and architecture education (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/arleneoak1999.html) Dr Richard Hall - Evaluating the Context of On-line History Teaching: The First Year of the Chic Project (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/richardhall1999.html) Dr Tim Hammond - Supporting Students/Supporting the Curriculum: Evaluating Tutorial Provision in the Arts and Humanities. (abstract: http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/timhammond1999.html) The attendance fee will be £35, with a concessionary rate of £25 for members of the Humanities and Arts higher education Network (HAN) and full-time students. For more information about joining HAN (membership is free) or attending the conference, please contact Kelvin Lack (k.j.lack@open.ac.uk) or visit the HAN web site at http://www-iet.open.ac.uk/iet/herg/han.html **** please forward this email to colleagues who might be interested in attending **** ________________________________________________ Kelvin Lack (Manager, Humanities and Arts higher education Network) Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA mailto:k.j.lack@open.ac.uk Telephone: (01908) 653488 From: "Michael P. Thompson" Subject: SSP Annual Meeting June 1-3, 2000 Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:37:02 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 279 (279) The Society for Scholarly Publishing will hold its 22nd Annual Meeting June 1-3, 2000 in Baltimore, Maryland. I know advance information can help in your planning, so I thought it would be helpful to post this. Hope to see many of you there. See website for more information: <http://www.sspnet.org> Thanks! ******Michael P. Thompson****** ****Director of Communications*** ***thompson@resourcenter.com*** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lorna Hughes Subject: Humanities computing job at NYU Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:34:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 280 (280) Humanities Computing Job at NYU The Academic Computing Facility at New York University is looking for a humanities computing specialist to assist in the design and implementation of ACF facilities supporting the development of a state-of-the-art digital research and instruction environment for humanities faculty, researchers, staff and students. The successful applicant will work closely with NYU faculty, providing training and support of a variety of humanities software and systems, and assist in the implementation of new technology in humanities teaching. Qualifications: a degree in a humanities discipline; strong computing and technical abilities; experience in providing computing support, preferably in a university setting; excellent interpersonal and writing skills; experience with some or all of the following: - support for Humanities Computing labs at NYU, - dissemination of materials on-line, - developing multimedia or web based resources, - computer assisted language learning. Interested applicants should contact Lorna Hughes at the address below. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lorna M. Hughes E-mail: Lorna.Hughes@NYU.EDU Assistant Director for Humanities Computing Phone: (212) 998 3070 Information Technology Services 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: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 13.0162 humanities computing Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:37:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 281 (281) Re: The Legitimacy of Humanities Computing Two questions: What happens to Humanities Computing when computers go away (i.e., when they are no longer "The Box" but are truly ubiquitous and remarkably invisible)? What happens to arguments of "is it book/text/media" when it's all bits? - hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Metacognition and Computer-Mediated Learning Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 22:37:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 282 (282) Willard, I am wondering how many of our colleagues be they involved primarily to formal pedagogy or caught on the spot in one of those infernal (er, informal) consultations, have not heard some variation of the following: Why is the machine/program not working (i.e. doing what it should)? It struck me recently while dealing with a particularly frustrated and demanding student that the constant repetition of the question of "why" might be a symptom. The work of Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlich (How to Talk So Kids Can Learn) lead me to interpret the rather why-style (and its accompanying body language and tone) as an indicator of projected guilt similar to the parent at wits end sternly addressing a child with an exasperated "why won't you behave!" Sherry Turkle (The Second Self) has offered wonderful descriptions of how in a user's cognitive development a computer may come to be anthropomorphized in very creative ways. However, a quick revisit of Turkle's book reminds me that the users in her study are seeking to program the computer to make it talk like a human being. Far cry from the prosopopeic agony of the muttered why. I am wondering if any of Humanist's readers and contributors have had any success in getting students to model what-questions. That is to begin describing what is going on in the use of a particular piece of equipment. And move from there to collaborative learning where descriptions get swapped and refined. I am planning on refining my opening statement to classes to the effect that there are no stupid questions if and only if any question can be followed up by a question about the question. -- Francois Lachance "no shame no blame" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 13 Num. 283 (283) [deleted quotation] From: Subject: Date: X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 284 (284) [deleted quotation]business.") [deleted quotation] From: "Michael S. Hart" Subject: Re: 13.0171 humanities computing Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:30:32 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 285 (285) My own opinion is that the entire question of what is a supercomputer is silly, and only an issue because governments move so slowdly as to like fall under the label of "permanently constipated." ALL computers you can buy off the shelf today are FAR more powerful than the CRAY XMP supercomputers. . .ANY of them. . .but governments, while they can see clear to buying a literal million of these for the desktop, or lap, of a million employees, cannot, in their infinite wisdom, decide what IS and what IS NOT a wartime supercomputer. . .after all, they JUST got permission to export ZIP [compression], etc. _I_ still have some LAPLINK programs! on my shelf right here that say "NOT FOR EXPORT". . . . Total silliness. . . . Let us not confuse the map with the territory. . .NONE of the computers we are discussing here are "supercomputers" even if you eventually buy one that can beat Gary Kasparov at chess. . .by the time there are millions of them out there, they will not be, by [any other that government] super- computers. . . . [deleted quotation]What really REALLY piss them off is when you can "print out" a Maserati, and drive away in it. . . . Of course, under these rules, the government will forbid it under the grounds that a hacker could print out a tank. . .or The Bomb. . . . So, fax yourself in a pizza from Domino's. . .and think about it. . . . Thanks! So nice to hear from you!! Michael S. Hart [hart@pobox.com] Project Gutenberg "Ask Dr. Internet" Executive Director Internet User ~#100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: looking to hire a web-ster Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:31:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 286 (286) I write to seek applications for some short-term web-making employment. In 1992, I published an edition of and commentary on the Confessions of Augustine with Oxford University Press. It sold well, was reviewed well, and has now gone out of print and the rights reverted to me. I would like to transform it into a hyperlinked text/commentary on the web. There are various oddities about the form in which the text now exists (it was created in the NotaBene software and still exists in those flat ASCII files with the distinctive NB formatting) and there are some interesting small issues in reorganizing material for web presentation. Mostly what is required, however, is some ability to write scripts that will do a series of global actions in the correct order -- both search/replace, but also creating links and giving them distinct names, etc. I can pay an hourly rate according to the skills brought to bear. I would like the task completed by January 2000. Text is 80,000 words, commentary is approximately 300,000 words. Good html and appropriate programming skills required. Some facility with Latin would be helpful but is not strictly necessary. Inquiries to the undersigned. Jim O'Donnell Classics, U. of Penn jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: Dene Grigar Subject: Call for Participation: Tech Design Competition Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:31:50 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 287 (287) Call for Participation Computers and Writing 2K Conference Technology Product Design Competition http://www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2k/bridge.html The Computers and Writing 2000 Technology Product Design Competition invites entries from organizations and individuals who have introduced hardware and/or software that has significant implications for teaching and learning activities associated with computer-based rhetoric and writing. We seek to award prizes to outstanding organizations and individuals in three categories 1. Teaching and Learning Technologies for Rhetoric and Writing in K-12 Education 2. Teaching and Learning Technologies for Rhetoric and Writing in University Education 3. Teaching and Learning Technologies for Rhetoric and Writing in Industry. One organizational winner and one individual winner will be selected for each of the three categories, and these winners will be recognized at the Saturday night Awards Banquet, as well as in media coverage of the competition. Qualifications Organizational honors are reserved for outstanding teams of people who design hardware and/or software; entrants should have shared or organizational rights to the technologies they enter. Individuals can enter the competition, designing technologies for profit; this category should include who have sole rights to innovations. Entry requirements All entrants should provide technologies for display and judging in a central conference area during the May 25-28 conference dates, in cooperation with competition organizers, and with the technologies, entrants should include appropriate documentation. Entries also require a short description (one page or less), which should summarize the technology's capabilities and outline its qualifications for the award. All proposals are due by October 1, 1999. Selection criteria All technologies will be evaluated for their specific contribution to teaching and learning activities associated with computer-based rhetoric and writing. In particular, judges will look for design characteristics (purpose, functionality, interface, etc.), operational characteristics (performance of specific operations, reshaping of activities, etc.), and educational value (potential to impact specific educational practices, transformative possibilities, etc.). Submission Procedure All entrants can submit proposals for the CW2K Technology Product Design Competition in three ways: 1. Use the online proposal submission forms, or 2. Submit a postal letter of application to either of the Technology Product Design Competition coordinators, whose postal addresses are provided below. This is a good choice if you want to include pictures or other documentation with your proposal, or 3. Submit an email letter of application to either of the Technology Product Design Competition coordinators, whose email addresses are provided below. Whether submitting a postal or email letter, entrants should specify the competition category they are pursuing, whether their entry's status will be organizational or individual, the name of the technology being entered, and any other information they feel important to explaning the significance of their entry. As the conference approaches, the Technology Product Design Competition organizers will contact all entrants to review set-up and judging procedure and to answer any questions entrants might have. James A. Inman Director, Center for Collaborative Learning and Communication, Furman University 3300 Poinsett Highway Greenville, SC 29613 james.inman@furman.edu Krista Homicz, JPEE 2014 School of Education University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 khomicz@umich.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: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics - Conference Program Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:33:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 288 (288) [deleted quotation] ____________________________________________ | | | 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS | | | | 34. LINGUISTISCHES KOLLOQUIUM | | | | 34e COLLOQUE LINGUISTIQUE | | | | September 7-10, 1999 | | | | University of Mainz, Germany | |____________________________________________| | | | LAST ANNOUNCEMENT | |____________________________________________| LINGUISTICS ON THE WAY INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM INVITED SPEAKERS Juergen Handke (Universitaet Marburg) Linguistics and the New Technologies: Teaching Linguistics in the New Millennium Robert D. King (University of Texas) Linguistics & Public Linguistics in the 21st Century INVITED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS Sydney M. Lamb (Rice University) The Neurocognitive Basis of Language Peter Hellwig (Universitaet Heidelberg) Natural Language Parsing, Part 1 & 2 Christian Otto (Universitaet Erlangen) Sprachtechnologie fuer das Internet Uta Seewald-Heeg (FH Anhalt) Maschinelle Uebersetzung [material deleted] Please consult our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ for - The full program - Online abstracts - A list of participants - Travel information - Registration details 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 From: "David L. Gants" Subject: FINAL CFP: 18th UK Planning & Scheduling SIG Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:35:55 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 289 (289) [deleted quotation] FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The 18th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group http://www.salford.ac.uk/planning/PLANSIG99 December 15-16, 1999 University of Salford, Salford (United Kingdom) The 1999 workshop of the U.K. Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (organised by the University of Salford) will be held at The Manchester Business School in Manchester, UK. The workshop is an annual forum where academics, industrialists and research students can meet and discuss current issues in an informal setting. We especially aim to bring together researchers attacking different aspects of planning and scheduling problems and to introduce new researchers to the community. In recent years the SIG has attracted an international gathering, and we continue to welcome contributions from around the world. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Special Events at ichim99: Sept 22-26, Washington, DC Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:37:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 290 (290) [deleted quotation] ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 99 99 99 International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting 99 99 September 22 - 26, 1999 Washington, D.C. USA 99 99 http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ 99 99 99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 ichim99 *** Program highlights *** Iinternational museum multimedia comes to Washington DC, September 21-26, 1999. Plan to join registrants from over 20 countries to hear papers, question panels, and meet your colleages at this bi-annual event. Don't miss your chance. ICHIM won't be back in North America for another 4 years. Call the Crystal Gateway Marriott (+1 703 920 3230) today and mention ichim99 to reserve at the conference hotel rate of $139. This special is only guaranteed 'til the end of August (and that's soon!). Sessions explore issues ranging from Conservation and 3-D Reconstruction to Multimedia Authoring and Evaluation. You can find the full program, including paper abstracts on the detailed conference web site at: http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/sessions/index.html Conference registration information is online at: http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/register/index.html [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ANLP/NAACL 2000-Student Session CFP Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:38:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 291 (291) [deleted quotation] Language Technology Joint Conference Applied Natural Language Processing and the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics April 29 - May 3, 2000, Seattle, Washington CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS Student Session Co-Chairs: Donna Byron, University of Rochester Peter Vanderheyden, University of Waterloo Contents: 1. Overview and Purpose of the Student Session 2. Topics of Interest 3. Format for Submissions 4. Deadlines 1. Overview The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to announce the student session of the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP) and first meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). During this session, students working in any area of computational linguistics are given the opportunity to present research in progress and receive feedback from other members of the computational linguistics community. This is a valuable opportunity for students to solicit comments on their research from a broader audience than would otherwise be possible. We encourage all students, no matter what their level, to participate. Papers submitted to the student session should describe original, unpublished work in progress. For student papers presenting joint work, all co-authors must be students. Concurrent submission to other conferences is allowed, but this must be clearly indicated on the identification page. If accepted, the paper must be withdrawn from all other conferences or alternatively may be withdrawn from ANLP-NAACL 2000. Students may not submit the same paper to the main sessions and the student session of ANLP-NAACL 2000. Students may, of course, submit different papers to the main conference and the student session, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or project. Submissions are due by November 17, 1999. See submission details below. A separate website for the student session is available at http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/dbyron/naacl2000/. All the submission and paper preparation details described in this message can also be viewed on the website. The availability of travel grants and student funding has not yet been finalized; up-to-date information will be posted to the student session webpage. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: ANLP/NAACL 2000-Call for Tutorial Proposals Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:38:43 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 292 (292) [deleted quotation] ********* NEW ANLP-NAACL Website: www.gte.com/nalp-naacl2000 ******* Keep watching further updates: Workshop CFP, Student session CFP, and more ANLP-NAACL 2000 Call for Tutorial Proposals TUTORIALS CHAIR: Jennifer Chu-Carroll Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories CALL: The ANLP/NAACL Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program for ANLP/NAACL 2000, to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, April 29 - May 3, 2000. The tutorials will be held on April 29th. Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be covered in a three hour tutorial slot (plus a 30 minute break). In exceptional cases, 6-hour tutorial slots are possible as well. There will be space and time for between four and six three-hour tutorials. [material deleted] From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Language Technology Joint Conference: ANLP/NAACL 2000 Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:34:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 293 (293) Correct$ [deleted quotation] ANLP/NAACL 2000 URL CORRECTIONS: It has been pointed out that the main conference announcement contained a typo in the URL and the Student Sessions also contained an error. The correct URLs for each are: Conference: http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000 Student Sessions: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/dbyron/naacl2000/substyle.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Lou Burnard Subject: Re: Humanities Computing Conferences in days of yore Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:38:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 294 (294) I'm looking for a full bibliographic reference for the proceedings volume from one of the very early conferences on "humanities computing" (as it then wasn't): held in Wartenstein, Switzerland, in the mid-ixties. Also for another more or less co-eval event held in Besancon, France. Anyone got those in their personal bibliographies? Lou (who, though old, isn't THAT old) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Odin Dekkers Subject: New Book Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:23:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 295 (295) Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers (publishers of the journal CALL) announce the publication of their latest book, WORLDCALL: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING, edited by Robert Debski and Mike Levy (ISB 90-265-1555-3). This volume has grown out of the unique atmosphere of the 1998 inaugural WorldCALL Conference in Melbourne, Australia, and provides a significant contribution to the literature in that it presents an expression of what is new and important in CALL from points around the world. It illustrates the creative and diverse ways in which language teachers and researchers are responding to the needs of their students and takes proper account of the priorities that are set by the particular educational context, language and culture. Yet amid this diversity, this collection provides evidence that a rational and reasoned response is indeed possible, as we face the challenges presented by new technologies and the new language learning environments that follow. For more information, please contact: ODIN DEKKERS Acquisitions Editor Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers Heereweg 347B 2161 CA Lisse The Netherlands Tel.: +31-252-435287 Fax: +31-252-435447 E-mail: odekkers@swets.nl http://www.swets.nl/sps/home.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "Jeffrey A. Rydberg-Cox" Subject: new from Perseus Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:22:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 296 (296) Members of the Humanist list might be interested in three new tools that have recently been added to the Perseus digital library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu). The first is a Greek word collocation tool that allows readers to explore the words that commonly occur within five words of each other in the Perseus Greek corpus. This allows users to explore both the primary senses of a word and also common idioms and phrases. A complete description of this tool with sample links is located at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/colloc.ann.html The second tool is a new search facility that allows users to form complex queries about the Greek and Latin texts in Perseus. Users can enter any number of query words in their inflected forms. The search program will parse the query words and find sentences that contain words derived from the same lexical forms. It is also possible for users to limit their searches by specifying words that should or should not be included in the search results. A complete description of this tool with sample links is located at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/search.ann.html The third tool suggests possible synonyms for Greek and Latin words based on computational analysis of dictionary entries. A complete description of this tool with sample links is located at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/PR/syn.ann.html These tools are the result of my recent research into the adaptation of techniques from the fields of corpus linguistics and information retrieval for Greek and Latin texts. Please feel free to send me comments and suggestions for improvement. Jeff Rydberg-Cox The Perseus Project jrydberg@perseus.tufts.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Priscilla Rasmussen Subject: ANLP/NAACL 2000 - Call for Workshop Proposals Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:24:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 297 (297) ANLP-NAACL2000 www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000 Call for Workshop Proposals Workshop Chair: Scott Miller BBN Technologies szmiller@bbn.com Call The ANLP/NAACL'2000 Program Committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the ANLP/NAACL'2000 Conference. We welcome proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community. In addition to the traditional workshops areas, we encourage proposals for workshops on applications of NLP, such as web and speech based applications. The conference will be held May 1-3; April 29-30 and May 4 are available workshop dates. The ACL has a policy on workshops. ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Information/workshop-policy.gz [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Hope Greenberg Subject: Re: 13.0171 humanities computing Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:23:36 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 298 (298) Re: ubiquitous computers, beds, and false predicaments: I like to ask myself short general questions that have been asked before, not so much to see if the answers have changed, but rather to see if the questions are now interpreted differently. In this case, the two questions about "what happens to humanities computing when computers' are invisible" and "what happens to books/text/media when it's all bits" came out of five separate events converging during the recent discussions about New Media. They were: 1) remarks by a colleague in History expressing surprise that his students seemed more adept at "close reading" films than literary texts 2) a quote from a recent interview at TechWeb (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/backtoschool/TWB19990907S0005) with Prof. Michael Kahan wherein he's quoted as saying, in part: "I did an experiment. I gave a lecture and videotaped it. Half the class watched me give the lecture. The other half, I played the videotape of the same thing. The part that watched the videotape -- the electronic part -- absorbed much more than those who watched me give the lecture. The electronic presentation had their attention much more than the personal appearance." 3) conversations on e-docs (to which, I believe, several of you here subscribe) on that annual favorite topic: "the book is dead" (with most of the usual arguments and counterarguments presented--I won't reiterate, I'm sure you've heard them) 4) recent conversations with my 15 year old daughter who last year joined the ranks of chat room enthusiasts, and who doesn't seem to differentiate, at least by language, between her face-to-face friends and her online friends 5) a conversation with my seven year old daughter. I brought her with me for "distribution," that day when the on-campus computer store and its temporary volunteers, deliver over 700 computers to incoming freshman as they are moving into dorms. She asked me why the students were getting their computers from us, and didn't they already have some? I told her that some students brought their own, but some had ordered computers over the summer and were picking them up now. She then asked "why don't the dorms just have computers already in every room?" Now, while that last may say more about her notions as a young consumer than it does about ubiquitous computing, and while it still shows that she considers computers an "other," a specific stand-alone consumable, it also reminded me that her perceptions about computers and computing are, and likely will continue to be, different from mine. Your bed example from MIT, Willard, along with other work at MIT in wearable computers, provides that same jolt of "paralax moment." So, do I wonder what we humanists will do with the supercomputers on our desks? No. I assume we'll use them for e-mail like always. (small joke, couldn't resist) I can accept that the metamorphosis of The Computer does not necessarily mean the end of computing or to put it another way, that the computing humanist's "problem [that] has always to do with the fuzzy boundary between computation and knowledge" will still be tackled by something resembling computational means. But when I hear phrases like "books will never die" (as if there ever was and always will be one unchangeable thing that is a Book, into which all knowledge is bound) or "we shouldn't just study texts, we should also look at New Media," I have to wonder if we can be complacent about the scholarly apparatus we are building. What assumptions underly the models of scholarly enquiry being developed today, and will they, like the technology we are building them on, seem laughably archaic to my daughter's generation in a dozen years' time? Is that avoidable? - Hope ---------------- hope.greenberg@uvm.edu, U of Vermont From: Rob Koch Subject: Re: 13.0171 humanities computing Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:24:04 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 299 (299) I'm studying Technology and Composition right now, so this blurb will take that angle... given that teaching in this field has become, in part and should you choose to accept it, to teach students how to become technologically proficient in research and in writing online and with technology, as long as technology changes, the need to teach new ways of doing these things should persist. The computer may become ubiquitous, but the changes shouldn't stop -- I think they might even become more radical as the technology is more available. [deleted quotation] Check Negroponte's book -- Becoming Digital -- I'm only part way through it, but it seems to me that the struggle is still in getting it to the point where it IS bits... politically, legally, etc. And we'll just have to change gears, start thinking about the new set of problems that will accompany "bits." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dominik Wujastyk Subject: Edge-recognition of manuscript fragments Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 21:24:23 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 300 (300) Dear colleagues, At the Wellcome Institute library we have an old Egyptian papyrus which is in fragments. I have a memory that some years back I read somewhere about a program which looked at scanned images of irregular objects and ran a best-fit algorithm. I can't recall if it was working on MS fragments or on pieces of amphorae. I have been in contact with Espen Ore, and found out a bit about the current work which came out of the Litera program. This is more aimed at matching written character forms, rather than fragment edges. Does any one else know of a program of the type I'm fishing for? I have read the several excellent papyrus resources on the web (Duke, etc.), but none seem to mention a program of the type we need. Best, Dominik -- Dr Dominik Wujastyk, FAX: +44 171 611 8545 Wellcome Institute for URL: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/ the History of Medicine, Email: d.wujastyk@ucl.ac.uk Wellcome Trust, 183 Euston Road, Trust URL: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/library London NW1 2BE, England. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Stevan Harnad Subject: Press Release Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:49:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 301 (301) [Forwarded with thanks from the Electronic Journal Publishing List . --WM] ================================================================ 3rd September 1999 NIH'S E-BIOMED (PUBMED CENTRAL) DEBATED ON HMS BEAGLE ================================================================ New York, September 3, 1999 - PubMed Central (nee E-BioMed), the highly ambitious - and highly controversial - Internet science publishing initiative from the National Institutes of Health, is the topic of the latest Cutting Edge debate on HMS Beagle, the BioMedNet Magazine. (http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/61/viewpts/overview). Spearheading the project is NIH director Harold Varmus, who promotes PubMed Central as an electronic "public library" of the entire life sciences/medical literature - this archive would be freely available to anyone and everyone via the Net. Such a plan has the potential to fundamentally change the way science publishing - and perhaps even science itself - is done. HMS Beagle presents extensive commentary and background on E-BioMed, from Varmus himself and from other major figures in science publishing, all of whom hold varying stakes in the outcome of the project: Mary Waltham, US President of Nature; Michelle Hogan, Executive Director of the American Association of Immunologists; and Karen Hunter, Senior Vice President at Elsevier Science Publishing (which owns HMS Beagle and its parent site, BioMedNet). These four offered their views at a June 1999 symposium hosted by the Washington DC Science Writers' Association. Also heard from in the Beagle debate is Los Alamos National Laboratory particle phyicist Paul Ginsparg, whose pioneering work in online archiving inspired the NIH project. Commercial science publisher Vitek Tracz provides further commentary. The special issue also includes descriptions of other new electronic archives of scientific material. As Varmus describes it, the NIH repository would offer "complete, seamless access to the entire literature." It would also provide users with other major benefits including great flexibility in sharing information, and the ability to evolve with the literature. Some key elements of the original proposal have been altered since the June symposium, and HMS Beagle Editor-in-Chief Lois Wingerson provides the latest updates in her synposis of the debate (http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/61/viewpts/synopsis). The project name itself has evolved from "E-BioMed" to "PubMed Central", as the site will be integrated with the existing PubMed biomedical literature database. Money, status, credibility, independence - these are just some of the issues, each more charged than the next, that have sprung up around this proposal. One hot spot appeared early on when Varmus revealed that, in order to be as inclusive as possible, the repository would post "minimally reviewed" research papers (clearly labeled as such) that would not have been through the rigorous peer-review normally associated with publication. Strenuous objections followed regarding the credibility of such material, notably from the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), a major collaborator in the venture. The issue remains a heated topic. Financial issues are, as ever, high on the list of concerns. By offering free access to research papers, PubMed Central is a potential threat to publishers' revenues. Particularly vulnerable are professional societies, which depend heavily on income from their publishing activities. At the same time, the PubMed Central proposal would shift more of the costs of archiving away from readers or institutions, and onto the researchers themselves. Many wonder whether scientists will be willing and able to bear such costs. Myriad other questions arise: would an archive like PubMed Central lead to over-involvement by the government in the dissemination of scientific information? This could further compromise the credibility of the site's content. Would such a huge undertaking distract the NIH from its fundamental mission of promoting and funding scientific research? And so on. Both the potential benefits and dangers of this far-reaching project are enormous, and feelings in all quarters run deep. This is a debate that has only just begun. About HMS Beagle ================================================================ HMS Beagle is the award-winning online BioMedNet Magazine for biological and medical researchers. It provides daily news digests from major science publications, and bi-weekly original content such as opinions, meetings coverage, debates, Website and software reviews, fiction and much more - all on the life sciences. Visit http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle For information on citing HMS Beagle, please visit: http://www.biomednet.com/hmsbeagle/current/about/citing#citing About BioMedNet ================================================================ BioMedNet is the Internet Community for Biological and Medical Researchers, which currently has over 460,000 members worldwide. BioMedNet provides the life science community with access to an unparalleled range of information resources, including: a full-text library; scientific databases including Evaluated MEDLINE; HMS Beagle; an interactive Job Exchange; BioMedLink, the 'Yahoo' for scientists; overnight conference coverage and much more. Membership to BioMedNet is free. http://www.biomednet.com For further information please contact: Barbara Sullivan/Lois Wingerson HMS Beagle, The BioMedNet Magazine Tel: 212-462-1928/212-462-1926 Email: barbara@hmsbeagle.com/lois@hmsbeagle.com Simon Prodger Press Officer, BioMedNet Tel: +44 (0)171 323 5348 Email: simon.prodger@biomednet.com ================================================================ Visit http://www.biomednet.com/display/info/pr.html to see archived BioMedNet press releases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Dominik Wujastyk Subject: Re: 13.0179 humanities computing Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:47:45 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 302 (302) Hope Greenberg wrote, Re: 13.0171 humanities computing [deleted quotation] This reminds me of the policy adopted in recent years by many airlines of showing flight passengers a video of the emergency procedures talk, rather than having the cabin crew do it live. I assume this change is based on research showing much the same as the above passage. Dominik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13.0180 edge-recognition of mss. fragments? Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:47:10 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 303 (303) I don't know the answer, but I know somebody who might. # Bezalel Porten, Hebrew University # E-mail address: msporten@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il # Fax number: +972 2-5322545 # Business phone: +972 02-5883568 # Business address: # Mount Scopus # Jewish History # Institute of Jewish Studies # Hebrew University # Title: Prof. # Uniqname: msporten alias Porten 'msporten@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il' He did the work on the Elephantine papyri many years ago. If he does not know, he may know somebody who does. Regards!! _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Don Weinshank weinshan@cse.msu.edu http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weinshan Phone (517) 353-0831 FAX (517) 432-1061 Computer Science & Engineering Michigan State University From: Giovanni Adamo Subject: Re: 13.0176 bib refs for early conferences? Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:48:03 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 304 (304) Dear Lou, I could only find the reference of the Besanon Colloquium: Actes du Colloque international sur la Mcanisation des recherches lexicologiques (Besanon, 6-10 Juin 1961), edits par Bernard Quemada, "Cahiers de lexicologie", 3, 1962, 226 p. Bye, Giovanni At 20.48 06/09/99 +0100, you wrote: [deleted quotation] ************************************************* Giovanni ADAMO Lessico Intellettuale Europeo - CNR Via Nomentana, 118 - 00161 ROMA (Italy) Tel. +39-06-4991.7324 Fax +39-06-4991.7215 Posta elettronica: adamo@rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it sito web: http://www.cnr.it/CSLIE/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Gerry McKiernan Subject: Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 20:47:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 305 (305) _Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journal Candidates_ I am greatly interested in learning of other electronic journals that have integrated or incorporated a multimedia component within their issues for listing in _M-Bed(sm)_, my Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals. M-Bed(sm) is available at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/M-Bed.htm Common types of multimedia include audio and video files as well as two-dimensional and 3-D models, and supplemental datasets As a adjunct to the registry, I have also compiled a General Bibliography of key works on Web multimedia that include Web sites as well as recent and forthcoming books and articles that I believe will be of interest to a wide audience. As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, critiques, questions, etc. etc. regarding multimedia e-journals or candidate book titles about multimedia on the Web are Most Welcome. Regards, /Gerry McKiernan Theoretical Librarian Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu "Some problems are so difficult they can't be solved in a million years unless someone thinks about them for five minutes" / H. L. Mencken ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: lawson Subject: ELAN Internet Service Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:51:56 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 306 (306) Apologies for multiple copies! ANNOUNCEMENT : NEW LANGUAGE RESOURCES INTERNET SERVICE ELAN: European Language Activity Network (EU-funded MLIS 121 Project) Dear All, A new language resources internet service is to be launched soon: The European Language Activity Network (ELAN). ************************ What is new about this service? For a user with network access to various linguistic resources, exploration is often hampered by the fact that each provider grants access to his data by means of an exploration environment that is specifically designed for the local resources. The aim of the project ELAN is to eliminate this problem by forming a convergence of the technological achievements so far. ELAN aims at the design of a common query language (ELAN-CQL) which will reinforce or, where necessary, create international standards. ************************* The Benefit. That means ELAN will provide a userfriendly online service for querying European language resources using a single uniform interface. The default operating language of the graphical interface will be English but translations of the operating terms into many of the languages involved will be available, too, to enable members of the User Community belonging to different language communities to do research ON their language as well as IN their language. ************************ Language Resources: the basis of ELAN. ELAN will provide standardised resources of the following languages: Belgian French, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. They will comprise textual resources (corpora) ranging from 1 - 4 million words or more for each language, and lexical resources (several kinds of lexicons) ranging from 5000 to 20 000 entries or more for each language. ************************* Service: ELAN User Community. To guide the User through its various facilities and and help with any problems or questions, ELAN will offer a User Community. Members of this Community will have full access to the ELAN Network, an e-mail user group, and a hotline they may turn to with questions and requests. ************************* More information? Anyone interested in the new service who would like more information or would like to become a member of the ELAN User Community, please visit our website http://solaris3.ids-mannheim.de/elan/ or send an e-mail to elan@ids-mannheim.de . ********************************************************************** Dr Ann Lawson Multilinguale Forschung TELRI-II/SIMPLE/DHYDRO Abteilung LEXIK lawson@ids-mannheim.de Institut für deutsche Sprache Tel: +49 621 1581 112 R5, 6-13 Fax: +49 621 1581 415 D-68161 Mannheim ********************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Francois Lachance Subject: Simulation and Interactivity Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:52:42 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 307 (307) Willard, In a relatively recent posting <http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v13/0123.html> there is a turn of phrase you used in your moderator-provacteur role which caught my eye being placed in the final position of a concluding paragraph. And having been noted, the phrase replayed its metaphoric echoes when there was to be found only one WWW occurence of the literal string "inert simulation". I was inclined to search out a typology of simulations and attempt to map the various kinds of simulations onto the activities of document production/reception or semiotic manipulation in general. Not a superfluoous exercise for those concerned with epistemological questions as to whether to model text as event, object or environment. To me the answer matters very little since objects so easily launch events which are in turn reified, fetishized, liquidated, translated. Indeed the one 2D depiction of an "inert simulation" (found through the use of several search engines) bears an uncanny resemblance to a hybridization of a Walbiri graphic design and an Adrinka stamped textile. This view of an inert simulation gives the impression of topographic eleveations coupled with representations of tiny vectorized particles. Quite apart from my clumsy ekphrakis which tends to metaphoric allusion, the intertextuality set up between the use of the key phrase "inert simulation" in a Humanist posting and its use in an other document arises from interactivity. [And the non-citation here of the URL ofthat other document sets up other interactive possibilities.] Now this sense of interactivity is not the haptic-privileging interactivity of the Pygmalian sort reported in the McCarty precis of the Hall review of the ABRACADABRA exhibit. No, it is a far more magical interactivity than mimesis a la 3D. For to take Lippman's dialogue-based definition of interactivity from Stewart Brand's book _The Media Lab_ and transpose it slightly is to arrive at an understanding of interactivity as the creation or the discovery of intratextual portals to intertextuality. Now that's a leap to decode [I've made a note to check the Humanist archive for references to Lippman.] Portals for mortals... interesting that Abracadabra is explained in certain quarters as a palindromic corruption of "open cadaver" ....stimulating the inert. Interactivity requires memory --- holding two sides of a portal in some mental dimension that is neither the before there or the here after. It is fortuitous that I choose to remember that the phrase "inert simulation" was modified in your posting by a possessive pronoun "its" with as antecedent "living intelligence" if the arrangement were to be abstracted it would translate your question of what is to be done into a very Ovidian issue concerning the relation between possessor and possessed. And as you know the "gap between" permits others to pass with prepossession. Ever intrigued by moderately blocked provocative gaps, Francois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Grover Zinn Subject: Re: 13.0182 edge recognition; bib refs for early conferences Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:50:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 308 (308) It strikes me that the people working on the Dead Sea Scrolls have faced this problem repeatedly and might well have a solution. Don't have any names/references with me now, but will try to forward some later. Perhaps someone on the list will know who to contact. Grover Zinn Department of Religion Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: "David L. Gants" Subject: LOFT4: call for papers Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:30:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 309 (309) [deleted quotation] CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Conference on "Logic and the Foundations of the Theory of Games and Decisions" (LOFT4) ICER, Torino (Italy), June 29 - July 2, 2000 Organizers: Giacomo BONANNO (University of California Davis, U.S.A.), Wiebe van der HOEK (University of Utrecht, Holland). AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE This is the fourth in a series of conferences on the applications of logical methods to foundational issues in the theory of (individual and interactive) decision-making. The previous three conferences took place at CIRM (Marseille, France) in January 1994 and at ICER (Torino, Italy) in December 1996 and December 1998. LOFT4 has been planned in cooperation with the TARK community and it is hoped that it will attract researchers who have participated in past TARK conferences. The aim of the LOFT conferences is to promote exchange across different disciplines. The organizers express their preference for papers which bring together the work and problems of several fields, such as game and decision theory, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence, philosophy, cognitive psychology, mathematics and mind sciences. The complete programs of the last two LOFT conferences are available at: LOFT3: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/~bonanno/loft3a.html LOFT2: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/~bonanno/loft2.htm Among the topics of particular relevance are: 1) Modal logic: multi-agent logic, temporal logic, dynamic logic, probabilistic and multi-valued logic, logic of belief revision, the logical-omniscience problem. 2) Game and decision theoretic applications of modal logic: epistemic foundations of decision theory, epistemic foundations of equilibrium concepts in games, reasoning and belief revision in extensive-form games, applications of complexity theory. 3) Learning and information-processing models: economic aspects of information processing, learning in game-theoretic contexts, inductive learning and inductive decision making. FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE AND SUBMISSION The four-day conference will include 11 invited lectures and 11 contributed papers. Submission for contributed papers are encouraged from all those who are working in one or more of the broad areas above, whatever their professional fields. Potential contributors should send one copy of an extended abstract (not more than 3 pages) to: The Organizing Committee, LOFT4 International Centre for Economic Research Villa Gualino Viale Settimio Severo, 63 10133 Torino, ITALY (Fax: +39.011.6600082, E-mail: icer@inrete.it, URL: http://pages.inrete.it/icer) Complete papers are also welcome, but they will not be considered if they are not accompanied by an extended abstract. If not obvious from the abstract, the authors should mention whether and how their work fits the list of topics suggested above. The deadline for submission is February 15, 2000, and authors will be notified of acceptance decisions by March 31, 2000. People presenting contributed papers will have their local expenses (accommodation and meals) covered by ICER, while they are expected to rely on other sources for travel expenses. Further details will be communicated following acceptance of the papers. Those who wish to participate in the conference without submitting a paper should express their interest to the Organizing Committee at ICER. PROCEEDINGS Selected papers from the previous LOFT conferences were published (or are forthcoming) in special issues of Theory and Decision, Mathematical Social Sciences, in a volume by Kluwer Academic Press and in Games and Economic Behavior. It is the intention of the organizers to publish a selection of the papers presented at LOFT4 in one or more special issue of a suitable journal. Details will be given at the conference. Giacomo Bonanno Professor and Graduate Program Chair Department of Economics University of California One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616-8578 Tel (530)-752 1574 Fax (530)-752 9382 e-mail: gfbonanno@ucdavis.edu URL: <http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/~bonann>http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/~bonanno From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Translating and the Computer 21 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:38:17 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 310 (310) [deleted quotation] **************************************************************************** *** TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 21 - Conference Participation ***************************************************************************** *** This year's exciting conference is supported by EAMT, IAMT, BCS, ITI and Institute of Linguists. Further details, including the full conference programme, from: NICOLE ADAMIDES Aslib, The Association for Information Management, Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB Tel: +44 (0)20 7903 0032 Fax: +44 (0)20 7903 0011 Email: barbara.hobbs@aslib.co.uk WWW: www.aslib.co.uk From: "David L. Gants" Subject: Join delegates from 20+ countries at ichim99: Sept 22-26 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:38:51 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 311 (311) [deleted quotation] International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting September 22 - 26, 1999 Washington, D.C. USA http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Are YOU ... ----------- * interested in how museums can use multimedia to meet their educational goals? * wondering who else is making interactives in the museum, educational and cultural context? * trying to make sense of the web, CD-ROMs, in-gallery kiosks and other technologies? * wishing you could get an overview, quickly and easily? You CAN, at ichim99! About ichim99 ------------- International museum multimedia comes to Washington DC, September 21-26, 1999. Plan to join registrants from over 20 countries to hear papers, question panels, and meet your colleages at this bi-annual event, next held in Europe in 2001. At ichim99, sessions will explore issues ranging from Conservation and 3-D Reconstruction to Multimedia Authoring and Evaluation. Preconference workshops offer unique training opportunities in Multimedia Design, Evaluation, Metadata and lots more. The full program, including paper abstracts and workshop descriptions is on the detailed conference web site at: http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ichim99.html Advance Registration Saves Time and Money! ------------------------------------------ Send in your registration form in advance, and * Don't wait in long lines when the conference begins. * Don't pay on-site registration rates. Register on line at http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/register/index.html OR print out the form there, and fax your form to ichim99 at +1 412 422 8594 If you need us to fax you the form, call +1 412 422 8530 or email ichim99@archimuse.com See you soon! jennifer and David J. Trant & D. Bearman ichim99 Co-Chairs, ichim99 Washington, DC Archives & Museum Informatics September 22 - 26, 1999 2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/ Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA ichim99@archimuse.com From: "David L. Gants" Subject: CFP: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 21 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:41:05 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 312 (312) [deleted quotation] *************************************************************************= TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 21 - Conference Participation *************************************************************************= [for more information, see <http://www.aslib.co.uk/conferences/>] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: 13.0186 edge recognition: Dead Sea Scrolls Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 06:50:44 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 313 (313) [deleted quotation] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Chiara & Federico Subject: greek-sanskrit isoglosses Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:27:41 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 314 (314) Is anybody interested on a research about greek-sanskrit isoglosses? For my degree I collect about 25 isoglosses ( not all of them involving just these two languages) but I didn't find anything specific abuot this, exept Birwè, Griechish-arische Sprachbeziehungen im Verbalsystem, 1956. Do you know if there's something new about this specific argument? Please send me notices or information, Chiara Fardella ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Matt Kirschenbaum Subject: CFP: Image-Based Humanities Computing Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:16:33 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 315 (315) CALL FOR PROPOSALS A Special Issue of _Computers and the Humanities_ Topic: Image-Based Humanities Computing Editor: Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Deadline for Proposals: 1 October 1999 Deadline for Articles: 15 January 2000 Proposals are invited for articles to be submitted to a special issue of _Computers and the Humanities_ on the topic of image-based humanities computing. _Computers and the Humanities_ (CHUM) is the official journal of the Association for Computers and the Humanities and is widely acknowledged as the leading peer-reviewed journal for applications of advanced information technology in humanities teaching and research. Although the term "image-based" humanities computing has been in circulation for some time, we are now approaching a watershed: a number of pioneering projects (many of them begun in the early nineties) whose promise could heretofore be discussed only in speculative terms are now coming to fruition, while new software tools and data standards are poised to redefine the way we create, access, and work with digital images. All of this activity, moreover, is transpiring at a moment when there is an unprecedented level of interest in visual culture and representation in the academic humanities at large. This special issue of CHUM seeks to gather some of the most important and forward-looking work presently being done in image-based humanities computing, broadly defined as those humanities computing projects in which images are central and not peripheral to the intellectual mandate and technical focus of the research. Articles might address: -- image-based electronic editions and archives; -- data standards (such as JPEG 2000) and/or software development (tools for image annotation, image analysis, and search and retrieval); -- innovative imaging techniques (such as ultraviolet imaging or fiber-optic backlighting) with humanities source material; -- images in digital libraries/museums; -- medical imaging and informatics with humanities applications; -- visualization, simulation, and modeling of humanities data; -- theoretical essays on visual culture and representation that have an applied component or implications for applied research; -- depending on how the issue shapes up, I may also include a section devoted to shorter pieces such as: reviews (of projects, of products, etc.); workshop/conference reports; brief position papers on topics of broad significance. If you are interested in preparing something along these lines as opposed to a full-length article, please let me know. Proposals for articles should be 1000 - 1500 words in length. Please describe the subject of the article, its significance, and its relationship to prior research as specifically as possible. Plain text email or a URL where the proposal may be accessed are the preferred modes of submission; if you must send an attachment, please ask first. If you must send surface mail, please write me for an address. Note that acceptance of a proposal does not constitute acceptance of an article, as all articles are subject to the normal peer-review processes of the journal. However, acceptance of a proposal does indicate the issue editor's strong interest in seeing a finished article faithful to the proposal included in the special issue. Email address for submissions: mgk@pop.uky.edu Deadline for Proposals: 1 October 1999 Deadline for Articles: 15 January 2000 : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Matthew G. Kirschenbaum Assistant Professor, Department of English Research in Computing for Humanities Group http://www.rch.uky.edu University of Kentucky Technical Editor, The William Blake Archive mgk@pop.uky.edu mgk3k@jefferson.village.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: John Bourne Subject: ALN Conference Reminder Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:18:30 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 316 (316) *********** The ALN Conference is fast approaching. You have until September 20 to register for the pre-conference workshops. Registration for the conference remains open on the web (see below). See you in Maryland on Oct 8,9,10! *********** CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT The Fifth International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks http://www.aln.org/alnconf99 Making the Transition to Mainstream Education: The Art and Practice of Online Learning October 8-10, 1999 * College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. Sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in conjunction with University of Maryland University College University System of Maryland ALN Center at Vanderbilt University Goethe-Institut Washington Join us on the campus of the leading institution for distance education in the United States-just minutes away from Washington, DC-for the premier conference devoted exclusively to online learning. NEW features this year include: * 7 tracks, including one on international issues * 6 pre-conference workshops * Special evening activities reflecting Washington and international cultures This conference is for both experienced professionals and interested newcomers to online learning who work in higher education, continuing education, business, government, health care, professional associations, and nonprofit organizations. It's designed to meet the needs of: * College-level faculty and administrators * Instructional technology and media professionals * Instructional designers * Trainers in public- and private-sector organizations You'll have the opportunity to study key issues, learn new approaches, see new technologies, share best practices, hear research results, and become part of an international community that's shaping education for a knowledge society of lifelong learners. After attending the information-packed plenary addresses, breakout sessions, workshops, exhibits, and roundtable discussions, you'll be treated to a gala reception and dinner with Washington-style entertainment performed by the musical comedy troupe The Capitol Steps, as well as options to attend Wine Tasting and Dim Sum or other excursions in the nation's capital. Register online! To learn more about The Fifth International ALN Conference, please explore our Web site at http://www.aln.org/alnconf99. [material deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Humanist Discussion Group Information at <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/> ========================================================================= From: Jim Marchand Subject: Greek-Sanskrit isoglosses Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:18:58 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 317 (317) I am not quite sure what you mean by isoglosses, Chiara. If you mean cognates, such things as Skt. pitar :: Gk. pater `father', a look into any of the comparative Sanskrit grammars, e.g. Wackernagel, Thumb, would yield hundreds of isoglosses. Ditto for any of the comparative Greek grammars, e.g. C. D. Buck. An easier way to gather sets of isoglosses between Greek and Sanskrit might be to look in: Carl Darling Buck, _A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages_ (University of Chicago Press, 1949). Jim Marchand. From: Jim Marchand Subject: edge-finding Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:19:18 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 318 (318) I think we may be having a terminological problem with "edge finding". Determing the edge of areas in a digital representation is an old procedure, and the algorithms for it are well known. Rafael C. Gonzalez and Paul Wintz, _Digital Image Processing_, 2d ed. (Addison-Wesley, 1987): 334: "We define an edge as the boundary between two regions with relatively distinct gray-level properties." If finding an edge under this definition is what is sought, then most commercial "photo" and "paint" programs do this. Old as it is, Gonzalez-Wintz will tell you all about "edge detection", "edge linking", "boundary detection", "detection of discontinuities", and there are many, many newer discussions. Edge-finding and edge-linking are important in working with manuscripts where the letters may be blurred, broken, flaked off, you name it. On the other hand, many of the tasks one encounters with shards, pieces of papyrus, lead plates, etc. are more on the order of jig-saw puzzle problems, and, whereas there are programs for this, none seem overly successful. We need to ask the original poster precisely what he is looking for. ! 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: browser problem Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 15:20:16 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 319 (319) As you may have concluded from a recent announcement on Humanist, completion of my Analytical Onomasticon to the Metamorphoses of Ovid is relatively near at hand. For that reason, I am beginning to let some of the interface issues bother me, and one in particular has me worried because it seems to be a browser problem in no way caused or provoked by anything under my control. I'd be very grateful for any insights you may have. Teachnically the Onomasticon consists of a set of densely interlinked HTML files generated from the encoded text by perl scripts; a very small amount of Javascript is included to keep the three frames of the Onomasticon synchronised. (It will help if you can have the Onomasticon Sampler on screen to see how the following works -- please refer to <http://wlm.cc.kcl.ac.uk/onomasticon-sample/>.) Typically the user clicks on a book-and-line reference in the left-hand frame to see the cited line with tags appear in the right-hand frame. On the PC, in Netscape, a common problem is that the cited line often (but not always) appears partially or wholly beyond the top of the frame, forcing the user to scroll the frame up a bit to see the line. This is a small annoyance that quickly becomes a big one. As far as I can tell, the problem occurs only with Netscape, not with Internet Explorer, and only in the PC version of Netscape. (The Mac version that I have worked with has an even more annoying problem; it causes a referenced file to be reloaded every time you click on a link to another location in the same file.) I could simply tell my readers to use Explorer but would rather not force anyone to change browsers, for obvious reasons. Besides I prefer Netscape, for stylistic reasons. Any ideas on how to avoid the problem? 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: Jack Lynch Subject: Re: 13.0195 ideas on browser problem? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:11:29 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 320 (320) Willard McCarty writes of his _Onomasticon_ project: On the PC, in Netscape, a common problem is that the cited line often (but not always) appears partially or wholly beyond the top of the frame, forcing the user to scroll the frame up a bit to see the line. This is a small annoyance that quickly becomes a big one. . . . Any ideas on how to avoid the problem? Which version or versions of Netscape? I use IE as my main browser, but I keep an old copy of Netscape 2.0 on my machine, and it gives me no trouble: everything lines up correctly. I've learned from experience not to expend energy working around the bugs or quirks of a specific browser if it departs from the HTML standard. In the time it takes you to jerry-rig a solution (if one is even possible), a new browser with a new set of bugs and quirks will be out. Besides, the more you twiddle with the niceties of HTML, the more likely you'll give another browser trouble. From: David Halsted Subject: Re: 13.0195 ideas on browser problem? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:11:52 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 321 (321) Yeah, that's a pain. One thing you could try (you probably already have) is to generate another line right above the entries for the individual lines, and put the anchor for the line in that, so that the browser would hit the table row above the one you actually want to display. Then you could use JavaScript to highlight the number of the line people are actually trying to see (turn it red or something), so that it'd be easy for the eye to fall immediately on the line requested. Highlighting the search terms might be a nice trick as well--if you want to leave the whole thing on the browser, though, you may have to do some work to find a way to do this that runs equally well in Netscape and in IE. I've done it in IE (which, for all its Microsoftness, offers much better support for some JavaScript/style sheet tricks that are actually kind of nice). You could also try adding cellpadding and/or spacing to the table that generates the whole page, and you could stick in

tags defined in a style sheet in such a way that you add some leading spaces. On another topic entirely, I wonder why you're loading the whole book on the right (and all that info on the left). Would it be possible to load, say, the ten lines surrounding the line sought? I'm running a cable modem and a K6 II 350 with 64 MB of RAM; not a great machine, but even it took time to load the text files, and I'd imagine that somebody on a slower connection with less RAM and a slower processor might really have to wait. Delivering it in smaller chunks might also help solve that Mac problem. On the left side, why not enable scrolling through by section entry, instead of loading, say, all the names with M? I don't mean to be too critical. I like the resource and I'd like to see it made as accessible as possible. David G. Halsted, PhD Head of Technical Research and Development Centromine, Inc Ann Arbor, MI From: Tim Reuter Subject: Re: 13.0195 ideas on browser problem? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:12:12 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 322 (322) Presumably the simple fix is to make the left-hand link refer to line n-1 rather than n -- a straight tweak of the perl generator? Perhaps someone can explain why browsers when following a linke put the target at the top of the page rather than in the middle anyway -- that would seem more practical, no? 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: Garvin Tate Subject: Re: 13.0195 ideas on browser problem? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:12:37 +0100 X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 323 (323) Willard McCarty, We have to deal with these aggravating issues constantly, so I asked one of my programmers to take a look at your frames problem. I am no programmer, but his response follows. I spent some time at the URL in question with NS 4.05 for the PC. I did not directly experience the problem referred to but have a couple ideas. First, there are some well-known 'oddities' with the way Netscape displays information in frames. This is particularly annoying when one lays out a frameset with a specific number of pixels with the intent to display a background image in one of the frames. IE displays the image perfectly, and NS offsets the frame border by some annoying amount. I don't think that is necessarily the problem here, although it needs to be understood in advance before planning a site layout using frames. I looked at the source code for one of the right-hand frames. If I understand the proposed problem, one possible remedy might be to move the tags outside the tags. Also, the way the code is marked up, anchors split across table columns -- not recommended. In other words, replace 21

Tartara, descendi,
nec uti villosa colubris

with something like

21
Tartara,
descendi, nec uti villosa colubris

Play around with variations on this theme with a known page that does
not behave correctly.  Might cure the problem.

Hope these ideas help.

Garvin

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From: Elisabeth Burr 
Subject: International congress SILFI
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:08:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 324 (324)

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International Society for Italian Linguistics and Philology (SILFI)

                              6th International Conference

                                 «Tradition & Innovation»
Italian Linguistics and Philology at the start of a New Millennium

                                  June 28th - July 2nd 2000
                        Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH
                                      Duisburg, Germany

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and Philology (SILFI), which following Siena (1988), Cambridge
(1991), Perugia (1994), Madrid (1996), and Catania (1998) will
be held in Duisburg, from June 28th to July 2nd 2000.
Societa' Internazioinale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI)

More information can now be found at:

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From: "Peter D. Junger" 
Subject: Query:  Laundry List Embedded in Pound's Cantos
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:10:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 325 (325)



As part of an overly long article on copyright and computer programs
I find myself worried about the copyright status of texts embedded in
computer programs and of computer programs embedded in texts.

While thinking about such matters, I began to think that there might
be some sort of analogy to the embedding of a laundry list in a poem,
which I believe was done by Pound in one of his Cantos.  (But perhaps
that belief is just an artifact of old age, rather than a true
memory.)

I would greatly appreciate it if someone could either assure me that
Pound never did such a thing or, preferably, give me a citation to the
Canto where the laundry list occurs.

Thanks,
Peter

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From: Klaus Schmidt 
Subject: New Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:09:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 326 (326)


[This information will be sent simultaneously to the following lists:
ARTHURNET, GERLINGL, MEDIAEVISTIK, MEDTEXTL. Therefore, please, excuse us,
if you receive the following text several times!]

Dear subscribers of ARTHURNET,

we would like to direct your attention to the new version of the Middle
High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB), which has been accessible since
September 1, 1999 under the following URL:

                http://mhdbdb.bgsu.edu:7700

MHDBDB is the result of a long-time close cooperation between the following
two long-range projects:

     Names in medieval German Literary Texts
     (University of Kiel/Germany: Prof. Dr. F. Debus (until spring 1998) and
     Dr. Horst P. Puetz)

     The Conceptual Dictionary of Medieval German Literature
     (Bowling Green State University: Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Schmidt)

For twenty-five years, both projects have created and stored electronic
texts of MHG standard editions. Joining the two projects has resulted in
the largest electronic text archive of medieval German literature.
Moreover, Klaus M. Schmidt and Horst P. Puetz, along with their assistants,
  have created a very complex and powerful information retrieval system for
on-line access. This menu-driven retrieval system, which had to be accessed
via a TELNET connection, had been in operation since 1994. It had seen more
than 2000 users during a five year period, although it was still somewhat
cumbersome to use, as it was based on now outdated database technology.

The host-computer, OPIE at Bowling Green State University, which had housed
MHDBDB, went off-line on August 2, 1999.

Since this development had been anticipated, a completely new and all
Web-driven database(running on ORACLE) has been developed, which has gone
into service on September 1, 1999, although some of the modules are still
under construction.
It can be accessed through a simple mouse click from any current standard
browser via the revised old MHDBDB-Homepage:

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/greal/MHDBDB.html

There you will also find additional information on the database and an
introduction to the use of the information retrieval system.

When you log in you can use your own name as USERNAME and you may set your
own password. Absolute confidentiality is guaranteed and addresses are
passed on only upon the consent of the individual user.

Please, keep in mind that the texts, which are integrated with MHDBDB,
reflect different stages of editorial processing. The greater portion of
the epic texts has only been partially lemmatized and integrated with the
system of conceptual categories.  Only about 30 texts have been fully
integrated.

We are very interested in your feedback and suggestions for improvement,
and we hope that with MHDBDB we are providing you with a useful tool for
research in the area of medieval German literature in particular as well as
for medieval studies in general. We will conduct an introductory workshop
on the use of MHDBDB as a research tool at the International Medieval
Congress in Kalamazoo in spring 2000. Until then we wish you the best
success for your studies.

Klaus M. Schmidt                    Horst P. Puetz
schmidt@bgnet.bgsu.edu      puetz@germsem.uni-kiel.de

Dr. Klaus M. Schmidt, Professor
Director, Middle High German Conceptual Database (MHDBDB)
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Dept. of GREAL
Bowling Green State University
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From: Charles Muller 
Subject: Media Revolution: Article
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 21:10:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 327 (327)


Colleagues,

I have written an article that examines recent developments in the usage of
computing in the humanities, and which makes a few somewhat radical
predictions regarding the changes that will be seen in the coming years.
Although the examples used in the article are drawn primarily from
Asian/Buddhist studies, most of what is said applies directly to humanities
research in general. The article is entitled "Digitization and the
Revolution in the
Media of Buddhist and Asian Studies: Where We Have Come, and Where We Are
Going." It is located at:

http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/articles/mediarevolution.htm

Regards,

Charles Muller
Toyo Gakuen University
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From: "John M. Unsworth" 
Subject: Re: Fwd: 13.0195 ideas on browser problem? (fwd)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:52:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 328 (328)

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: humanities computing centres (and centers)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:51:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 329 (329)


Dear colleagues:

I am compiling a list of URLs pointing to online descriptions of humanities
computing centres everywhere. So that your centre is not unaccountably,
culpably overlooked, please send me the URL. I would be particularly
grateful for pointers to statements that describe the intellectual and
academic aims of these centres.

Of course if someone has already done the job, then I need only one URL.

Many thanks.

Yours,
WM
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From: Chuck Bearden 
Subject: Re: 13.0199 ideas on browser problem
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 06:28:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 330 (330)


On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:



From: 
Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 331 (331)

[deleted quotation][etc.]
[deleted quotation]
I wrote a small Perl script to un-split the anchor tags and move them
all into the first table cell, around just the number:

   18
obstabatque aliis
   aliud quia corpore in uno


instead of

   18
obstabatque aliis
   aliud qui a corpore in uno


I am appending the script to this message.  It saves the original
files by appending '.bak' to their names.  Once this problem is fixed,
and a DOCTYPE is added, your text pages should validate as HTML 4.0
Transitional.
[deleted quotation]
I modified the script to do this as well, but it didn't remedy the
problem with the Win/Netscape workstations I was able to test it on.
In fact, putting the anchor tags between the  and the  cause
links like:

   http://wlm.cc.kcl.ac.uk/onomasticon-sample/txt/met-01.htm#1.018">

to stop working altogether: the page/frame just stays at the top of
the page instead of jumping down to the anchor name.

Chuck
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: prophylaxis
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 07:31:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 332 (332)


Dear colleagues:

This last Saturday as I was cleaning the kitchen and, as is my habit at
such times, listening to Radio 4, I heard a number of professional people
speaking to the issue of whether "the book" or the Internet is a better
source from which children should learn. It was formally a kind of debate,
with a vote at the end from the audience (who voted for the book, 3-to-1),
so the issue was put just that crudely. No objection there -- debates are
that way. What appalled me, however, were the uncritical endorsements given
to the Internet by people who really should know better but clearly haven't
looked very hard at the nature and extent of what's online nor thought
about what they've seen. Apparently they've simply believed what promoters
have told them. To a person they spoke about access to "information" -- as
if that were all that one ever gets either from books or from the Internet.
Furthermore, no one challenged the binary opposition. No one said, the book
is good for this and that, the Internet for these other things.

I will let those with greater knowledge and experience of teaching children
comment on the radical difference between sitting at a computer with a
child, however snuggly and warm the seats, and sitting with that child and
a book. Yes, I know all the arguments, and the engineering of electronic
"paper", etc., etc., but hey, we're living right now, when the physical
difference between the two technologies is enormous, and so the
experiential too. But then I suppose if you regard reading to a young child
as a pedagogical exercise meant to convey information about some subject,
such as the fate that awaits all mischievous rabbits, then you won't be
seeing the experiential difference, or it won't matter. But let me speak
selfishly, as one who loves babies. Of all the joys of parenthood, reading
to one's children just before bedtime, warm from the bath, holds such deep
pleasure as almost to guarantee that we won't run out of babies anytime
soon. (Ah, beware the Tale of the Fierce Bad Rabbit and all its kind! ;-)

If we think that knowledge is technologically mediated, and so the
experience of gaining knowledge, then surely the technology we use with our
children, with ourselves, matters.

Professionally speaking, we clearly have a job to do. I know that promoting
our trade is necessary, but I think we'd be well advised to promote with an
increasingly critical attitude. Much more effective than a cheerleader's
enthusiasm, at least among our colleagues. But how do we reach outside the
established/tenured circle of fellow academics? It's hard enough to be
successful with some senior university administrators (PRESENT COMPANY
EXCEPTED!), who out of ignorance or for strategic reasons feel compelled to
fund rampant technologisation at the expense of book budgets, salaries
etc., etc. Machiavelli possibly has something to tell us here.

We could start, as a very few of us have, by appearing on radio talk-shows,
writing reviews in the right places, developing our talents as
popularizers. The undergraduate classroom is an excellent forum -- not the
how-to-push-buttons "short-course" but the class where the effects and
consequences of pushing those buttons is at least a matter for discussion
-- what the computer cannot do as well as what it can, and what one can do
with the failures of computing. All the daily fare of computer-assisted
research.

Comments?

Yours,
WM
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From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: Blake Archive's September Update
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 06:27:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 333 (333)


20 September 1999

The William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake> is pleased
to announce the publication of new electronic editions of _The Book of
Thel_ copy J and _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy G.

_The Book of Thel_ is dated 1789 by Blake on the title page, but the first
plate (Thel's Motto) and the last (her descent into the netherworld)
appear to have been completed and first printed in 1790, while Blake was
working on _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_. Copy J is from the first of
three printings of _Thel_, during which Blake produced at least
thirteen copies, printed in five different inks to diversify his stock.
Copies from this press run were certainly on hand when Blake included the
book in his advertisement "To the Public" of October 1793: "The Book of
Thel, a Poem in Illuminated Printing. Quarto, with 6 designs, price 3s."
Copy J joins copies in the Archive from the other two printings: copy F,
printed and colored c. 1795, and copy O, printed and colored c. 1818. It
also joins copy H, which is from the first printing, and, like copy J, is
printed in green ink and lightly finished in watercolors. Copy J, however,
was recolored when two of its questions ("Why a tender curb upon
the youthful burning boy!/Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our
desire?") on plate 8 were deleted. The lines were scraped away from the
paper, apparently by Blake, since the washes over it--and those added to
the other texts as well--are in his hand. This second tinting also
included pen and ink outlining, the modeling of figures through the
addition of complementary colors and shadows, and the over-painting of
Thel's yellow dress with green on plate 6. Texts streaked in light
yellows, pinks, and blues were characteristic of Blake's later coloring
style and suggests that the recoloring occurred around the time the work
was sold, c. 1816.

This refinishing may have been undertaken to make the book more compatible
with the dark hues of _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy G, with
which it appears to have been sold, and with which it was bound, probably
by their original owner, c. 1816. In keeping with the poem's dark events
and brooding mood, the hand coloring of _Visions_ copy G is impressively
detailed and sombre. Rather than tinting the designs with
semi-transparent washes in single hues, as in the first coloring session,
Blake layered his colors to deepen the tones. This style shows the
influence of color printing on Blake's hand coloring during the 1794-96
period. The techniques used for copy G even include some stipple-like
effects imitating the reticulations caused by color printing. Washes were
also added in text margins on plates 5, 7, 10, and 11, with a splendid
sunrise bursting into the text on plate 3, as in late copies O and P. Copy
G is unusual in other respects as well. The frontispiece and title page
are placed sequentially, as in copies O and P, rather than facing each
other, but uniquely with the title page coming first. This unconventional
arrangement is confirmed by Blake's pen and ink plate numbers. He
originally etched numbers 2-3, 5-7 in the top right corners of plates 5-6,
8-10, but all leaves in copy G are foliated in pen and ink in a single
sequence, 1-11, with the new numbers written over the old on plates 5-6,
8-9.

Copy G was printed and colored c. 1795 as part of a set of illuminated
books printed on large paper and joins other works from that set now in
the Archive (_The Book of Thel_ copy F, _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_
copy D, _There is No Natural Religion_ copy L, _All Religions are One_
copy A, and _America, a Prophecy_ copy A) and forthcoming (_The First Book
of Urizen_ copy B and _Europe, a Prophecy_ copy H). It also joins copies
of _Visions_ in the Archive from other printings: copies C and J,
different issues from the first printing of 1793, and copy F, color
printed c. 1794. Copy P, an exemplary copy from the fourth and final
printing of c. 1818, is forthcoming.

In Blake's advertisement, _Visions_ was described as "Folio, with 8
designs, price 7s.6d." Copy G, though, was trimmed to quarto size when
bound with _Thel_ copy J. Both works are now in the Houghton Library,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The electronic editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and new
images scanned and color-corrected from first-generation 8x10"
transparencies; they are each fully searchable for both text and images
and supported by the Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our
previous updates.

With the publication of these two titles, the Archive now contains 37
copies of 18 separate books, including at least one copy of every one of
Blake's works in illuminated printing except the 100 plates of _Jerusalem_
(forthcoming).

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
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From: Miran Hladnik 
Subject: Critical editions -- with friendly Javascript?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 06:26:41 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 334 (334)


Dear colleagues, could anyone direct me to such a critical edition of a
verse text where the poet's corrections and changes appear in a cursor
frame on the screen when passing a verse with the mouse -- the effect
similar to the comments or footnotes in MSWord. Is there a friendly Java
script?

Best regards

Miran Hladnik, Uni of Ljubljana, Slovenia
miran.hladnik@uni-lj.si





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From: Humanist Discussion Group 
Subject: Re: 13.0204 perl script for browser problem
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:10:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 335 (335)

To: Humanist Discussion Group 
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 2:33 AM
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From: 
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From: "Price, Dan" 
Subject: Children and the Internet
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:10:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 337 (337)


Regarding children and learning by the book and\or the Internet.

As I was reading I was struck by variety of images for "children."  Willard,
obviously you were appealing to personal experiences of  reading to very
young children. When I started to read the message about the debate, I was
thinking first of children, well, of middle school age, then of primary
school, and I was aware of how the argument was shifting in my mind in going
from those of one age group to another.  Then your personal example brought
the age down another couple of notches.  Is this a matter of it all depends
on what one means by "children?"

Can we push the imagination still further?  What of the reaction of the
tribal story teller to the advent of new fangled thing called a book and
daring to use it in raising children? Might he say something like  "What a
mechanical intrusion on such traditional and even sacred activity?  How
crass the use of a material object for the telling of a tale!"

In other words, to what extent do our perceptions and consequent valuations
depend on personal past experiences?  Is this a case simply that it takes
some time for new inventions (such as the book and the Internet) to take
their places within our accustomed habits?

Remember, too that widespread use of the Internet is new, very very new.  It
really only took off with the advent of Windows and browsers to read Windows
and that was in '93.  That's only 7 years ago!!!  Not much time to become a
part of our raising of children.


--dan
Sincerely,
Dan Price, Ph.D.
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From: John Unsworth 
Subject: Re: 13.0202 critical edns -- with friendly Javascript?
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:09:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 338 (338)


At 07:37 AM 9/22/99 +0100, you wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I can offer examples of the effect you describe, though the content and context
are slightly different:

http://dazzle.village.virginia.edu:1778/dynaweb/meyer/boeotia/@Generic__Book
  View
pick an inscription in the left frame, then mouse over the red text in the
right frame)

http://dazzle.village.virginia.edu:1321/dynaweb/dante/inferno/@Generic__Book
  View
pick a canto in the left frame, then mouse over an asterisk in the right frame)

In both cases, you also get a second, different result if you click on the
red text or
asterisk.  Both are done with Javascript:  taking an example from Boetia, the
javascript and markup in the document looks like this:

(Kleon being
archo<http://dazzle.village.virginia.edu/ebt_boeotia/forms/rs_help.html>n

John Unsworth


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From: Domenico Fiormonte 
Subject: Re: 13.0202 critical edns -- with friendly Javascript?
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 06:09:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 339 (339)

[deleted quotation]
Dear Miran, you can find something close to your description on
Digital Variants. If you go to http://www.ed.ac.uk/~esit04/frame.htm
you'll see a manuscript linked to a bottom frame (sorry, explanations are in
  Italian!). The  manuscript is draft "A1" out of  8 [A-H] passages of
  Francesca Sanvitale's short story "Orient-Express". If you scroll the
manuscript
  all down to the right side, you'll notice a large handwritten note; a
  frame pops out  providing a diplomatic transcription of
  Sanvitale's handwritten note. I don't think that it would be a problem to
have an
image instead of a text inside the frame.

There are  other similar Java scripts on
  the site, but you'll need to know a little  Spanish or
  Italian...

Hope this helps

Bests

Domenico





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From: Wendy Shaw 
Subject: Prophylaxis
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:30:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 340 (340)


Willard,
I too was in the kitchen on Saturday afternoon and listened to the
very same Radio 4 debate programme. I wished now that I had taped it
for those who missed it. A pity that it was not on a week prior to
the DRH99 conference - that would have been a really stimulating
discussion point at coffee times!
My brief response to yours...
Before I commenced my first degree in 1994, I worked as a qualified
NNEB in a state lower school with deprived children making up a huge
proportion of the numbers (by that I mean socially, financially and
some with hearing problems).
At that time, we had one PC in the corner of the classroom which was
used soley for educational games and drawing packages. None of the
staff were technically minded, and as a result the computer was a fun
thing, for set times with adult help provided. Usually myself, or a
parent.
However, technology, such as it was for the school then, was not a
replacement, never should be, never will be. I always read a great
number of books to the 4-5 year old children each day. The school was
a great believer in books. We had new books far more often than
anything else because of the delight that they gave to these
children. It meant that all the class could benefit from that one
printed copy in a cosy corner with cushions. The oversized books
were a particular hit at the end of the school day. Of course, the
member of staff could add sound effects and change voices for
characters. The story Peace at Last! about a bear who couldn't sleep
would not be the same digitally.
Similarly I read bedtime stories to my nephew and niece during the
conference week. A rare treat for them and for me due to geographical
constraints. I couldn't imagine a half hour storytime being quite the
same with a screen and a mouse for stimulation.
A chapter in a book by Miall said,
....An act of reading is a complex process of imagination, in which
ideas, memories, images, feelings are reconfigured, enabling a new
whole to exist with our being. A computer screen is not an
appropriate interface for the primary act of reading.
He finishes with .... a computer method will support, but cannot be a
substitute for the discipline of analysis, discussion and systematic
reporting.
So, yes, the technology we use with our children and ourselves is
important. We have to think about Miall's four issues of motivation,
method, accountability and authority when we want to use technology
(especially so in English Studies) to avoid confusion.
It will be intersting to see if any other responses are forthcoming.
My points are minimal, but a point none the less,
Best Wishes,
Wendy Shaw

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: being fruitful and multiplying
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:30:32 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 341 (341)


In Humanist 13.208, Dan Price asks in regard to my posting in 13.205,
[deleted quotation]
Despite the extravagance ("That wanders out of bounds; straying, roaming, 
vagrant"), I was trying to be rather careful about this point: not to make 
any absolute, principled statements, at least not directly, only to observe 
the current state of affairs and the sometimes uncritical reactions to 
them. But let me wander again, and return to the point.

In the primal experience of reading to my own children, beginning before 
the first of them was (in the usual sense) able to understand what was 
being read, I was reaching for the orality that Dan speaks of, mediated by 
the book and so changed profoundly by that technology, no question. We can 
reasonably suppose that an oral storyteller, a Homer, might have looked on 
the newfangled written medium with disfavour and, from a not indefensible 
perspective, condemned it. ("Damned commercial nonsense brought by those 
shifty Phoenicians!") Plato did, as we all know -- though not in propria 
persona. We are, right now, where and how we are, not where and how we will 
be, as that imagined storyteller was. Right now, if I want to introduce a 
young child to the narrative dimensions of the human imagination, I will 
sit somewhere comfortable with him or her, open up a book, and read out 
loud, not go to a computer and click on a link. With an older child, I'd 
think that both would be part of the evening wind-down. The point, however, 
is not to war over what technologies we use but to think about the 
qualities of the experience, whether the tool as it is now really fits the 
job we want to do, which is more intelligently to think about what job the 
tool (mouth, hands, book, computer) is doing, in the case of the new tool, 
how it is transforming what we have grown up with. As computing humanists 
our job (if I may say so) is to observe and understand that transformation; 
as very privileged members of society, mirabile dictu *paid to think about 
and make things with this tool*, it is to communicate what we understand to 
be happening, to say, hey, look here at what we are doing! Do we *want* to 
be doing this?

Two very simple points, really: first, that we're still running around with 
our new hammer, not yet having understood, or not always, that it's for 
hitting long, thin pointy things made of hard metal, not everything that 
can be hit; second, that we have a choice -- and (forgive the Wesley in me, 
my heart being "strangely warmed" this morning), a moral obligation to pay 
attention and call others to pay attention. To carry intimate knowledge of 
what is happening with computers in the humanities out to those who rightly 
spend their time trying to make ends meet in other ways than we do.

My children sat on my lap when they first tapped at a computer keyboard (an 
Osborne, remember that?). Couldn't find any stories to read on it then, but 
I think the human-machine bond was shaped by the lap-sitting warmth of the 
encounter. Now, a couple of decades later, with nine time-zones separating 
me from the elder and five from the younger, we use the machine in ways 
difficult to imagine then, deeply, intimately human ways, in response to a 
separation that would not have happened were it not for the computer. And 
I'm hardly unique in how profoundly the computer has altered my life. My 
point here is that we're right where the action is happening. What a story 
to tell.

Yours,
WM
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From: "Patricia J. Moran" 
Subject: Re: 13.0208 children and the Internet
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:31:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 342 (342)

[deleted quotation]Random responses:

Teaching inner-city San Antonians high school
English, I tried to get through to Mexicans, Mexican-Americans,
Americans who were of Mexican descent (but refused to be called anything
by American), Chicanos, Koreans, and African-Americans the fact
that Standard English grammar is a tool.  Though they came from
different neighborhoods and had begun forming their idiolect in various
locations, they now needed to master a different tool--Standard English.

Now I would tell them that, though they began with
books, there is another tool they must master if they want a certain
result--and that tool is the computer with Internet.

It is not that any of us leave behind completely the language we started with.
It is, rather, that we hone it as we grow, adding to our word repertoire.

Isn't our task to add to the repertoire of our students (if we are teachers)--
to provide more and superior tools for dealing with the universe?  The Internet
is a tool.  If it is appropriate (and if the electricity is on), use the
Internet.  If it is not appropriate, don't.

I read aloud to 8th graders in Mississippi in 1979 and 9-12th graders in
Texas in 1973-1975.  I have read to college students since 1983.  Television
is television. Live performance is live performance.  For some students,
television (the computer) is the right tool.  For others, live performance 
(an adult reading to
children at night or college instructors to adults) is correct.

Luckily we do not yet have to choose between the two, but can apply either
medium to the given student.

Also, though "we" have only been on the Internet in such numbers for seven 
years, it is incumbent upon us to remember that those seven years are 100%
of the lives of Kindergarteners, first graders, and some second
graders--and students in middle school have had knowledge of the Internet
for 100% of their school careers.   "Only seven years" has little validity
for them.

Pat Moran
Student: FSU
Adjunct Faculty: TSUFL
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From: Richard Bear 
Subject: Re: 13.0206 friendly Javascript for critical edns
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:29:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 343 (343)


For an implementation of notes in frames not requiring Javascript, see
the Prothalamion <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/proframe.html> or
the Lady of May <http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/may/mayframe.html>.

But I'm hoping to avoid frames. It's my understanding, after
conversation with techies, that in recent versions of Internet Explorer
one can mouse over text and get a cursor popup (as opposed to a browser
window or frame) without using an anchor, whereas Netscape requires an
anchor. I'd like to see simple glossing appear as the mouse pointer
reaches a glossed word or phrase, then disappear as the mouse pointer
rolls away, and I'd like to do this without sprinkling anchors all over.
Is there a way to do that yet?



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From: Tharon Howard 
Subject: Jobs at Clemson
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:32:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 344 (344)



1.	Assistant Professor, specializing in African American/Ethnic Literature

Pending approval and funding, the Department of English at Clemson is
seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant
professor, beginning August 2000, in African American/ Ethnic Literature.
Teaching load is three courses per semester and will include undergraduate
courses in American Literature and African American Literature and the
opportunity to develop undergraduate and graduate courses in area of
specialization. Ph.D. required by appointment date. Application deadline
is November 12 for MLA interviews; however, the search will remain open
until the position is filled. Women and minorities are especially
encouraged to apply.

Please send a letter of application and a current CV to: Martin Jacobi,
Chair, Department of English, College of Architecture, Arts, and
Humanities, Clemson University, Box 340523, Clemson, SC 29634-0523.
Clemson University is an AA/EO employer.

  2.	Assistant Professor, specializing in Journalism

Pending approval and funding, the department of English at Clemson is
seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant
professor, beginning August 2000, in Journalism. Teaching load is three
courses per semester and will include undergraduate journalism courses and
the opportunity to develop courses in such areas as electronic journalism
and web publishing for our interdisciplinary masters degree in
professional communication (technical communication, composition studies,
and speech). Ph.D. in Journalism or related field required by appointment
date. Application deadline is November 12 for MLA interviews; however, the
search will remain open until the position is filled. Women and minorities
are especially encouraged to apply.

Please send a letter of application and a current CV to: Martin Jacobi,
Chair, Department of English, College of Architecture, Arts, and
Humanities, Clemson University, Box 340523, Clemson, SC 29634-0523.
Clemson University is an AA/EO employer.

3.	Assistant Professor, specializing in Sociolinguistics/Applied
Linguistics

Pending approval and funding, the department of English at Clemson is
seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant
professor, beginning August 2000, in Applied Linguistics. Teaching load is
three courses per semester and will include undergraduate courses in the
history of the language and modern grammar for students in the English
Education major and the opportunity to develop courses in such areas as
sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and language and culture for our
interdisciplinary masters degree in professional communication (technical
communication, composition studies, and speech). Ph.D. in Linguistics,
English, or related field required by appointment date. Application
deadline is November 12 for MLA interviews; however, the search will
remain open until the position is filled. Women and minorities are
especially encouraged to apply.

Please send a letter of application and a current CV to: Martin Jacobi,
Chair, Department of English, College of Architecture, Arts, and
Humanities, Clemson University, Box 340523, Clemson, SC 29634-0523.
Clemson University is an AA/EO employer.

  4.	Assistant Professor, specializing in the English Novel
Pending approval and funding, the department of English at Clemson is
seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant
professor, beginning August 2000, in the History of the English Novel.
Teaching load is three courses per semester and will include undergraduate
courses ranging from the English Novel (especially nineteenth-century) to
Modern Fiction with the opportunity to develop undergraduate and graduate
courses in area of specialization. Secondary areas of interest include:
postcolonial approaches, world literature, cultural studies, and popular
culture. Ph.D. required by appointment date. Application deadline is
November 12 for MLA interviews; however, the search will remain open until
the position is filled. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to
apply.

Please send a letter of application and a current CV to: Martin Jacobi,
Chair, Department of English, College of Architecture, Arts, and
Humanities, Clemson University, Box 340523, Clemson, SC 29634-0523.
Clemson University is an AA/EO employer.


5.	Assistant Professor, specializing in Film Studies
Pending approval and funding, the department of English at Clemson is
seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant
professor, beginning August 2000, in Film Studies. Teaching load is three
courses per semester and will include undergraduate courses in Film
(intro, theory, directors, genres) and the opportunity to develop
undergraduate and graduate courses in area of specialization. Secondary
fields of interest include screenwriting, film production, film and
literature, and new media studies. Ph.D. required by appointment date.
Application deadline is November 12 for MLA interviews; however, the
search will remain open until the position is filled. Women and minorities
are especially encouraged to apply.

Please send a letter of application and a current CV to: Martin Jacobi,
Chair, Department of English, College of Architecture, Arts, and
Humanities, Clemson University, Box 340523, Clemson, SC 29634-0523.
Clemson University is an AA/EO employer.

  6.	Assistant Professor, specializing in Technical/Professional
Communication

Pending approval and funding, the department of english at Clemson is
seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant
professor, beginning August 2000, in Technical/ Professional
Communication. Teaching load is three courses per semester and will
include the opportunity to teach in our interdisciplinary masters program
in professional communication. PhD required by appointment date. Possible
but not required specialities may include: publication management, visual
communication, electronic literacies, legal writing, or
public/governmental documentation. Application deadline is November 12 for
MLA interviews; however, the search will remain open until the position is
filled. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply.

Please send a letter of application and a current CV to: Martin Jacobi,
Chair, Department of English, College of Architecture, Arts, and
Humanities, Clemson University, Box 340523, Clemson, SC 29734-0523.
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From: Ross Scaife 
Subject: Re: 13.0206 friendly Javascript for critical edns
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:47:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 345 (345)


The javascript called Pop-o-Vitz in an article at
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2218756,00.html may do
what the original poster wanted.



From: Jakob Fix 
Subject: Re: 13.0209 critical editions with frames &c.
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:48:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 346 (346)

[deleted quotation]
you might want to look at Erik Bosrup's script library which does exactly
what you want:

http://www.bosrup.com/web/overlib/

Hope this helps,
Jakob.

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From: Wendell Piez 
Subject: Re: 13.0209 critical editions with frames &c.
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:48:33 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 347 (347)


Richard Bear writes:
[deleted quotation]
Later versions of Netscape and (I believe) IE support this on an IMG tag
(the value of an ALT attribute will pop in a cursor popup), and IE will do
this with TITLE attributes (if I'm not misremembering) on various tags. Of
course, as always with HTML browsers, Your Mileage May Vary.

To get this in Netscape you could have those images be micro-gifs, for
example of an asterisk, discreet flag, or some such. Unfortunately, in both
cases the popup disappears after a few seconds, which is annoying, and
crippling if the gloss is long.

Also you can't put entities into the attribute values, etc. etc.

Wouldn't standardization on a rich, extensible feature set for web browsers
be nice? ;-)

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From: Chuck Bearden 
Subject: Re: 13.0210 children and the Internet
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:49:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 348 (348)



Regarding kids, computers, and the humanities:

Yes, we should be drawing peoples' attention to the wonderful things
computers are permitting us humanities folk to create.  I think we
are also especially well-suited to explaining why people shouldn't
uncritically accept computing and the cult of information.

Three things concern me:
1.  the atomization and commodification of 'information':
     Computers, among other technologies, hold out the promise of
     information as a commodity--something that can be purchased,
     warehoused, and shipped in whatever measure, like pork bellies,
     titanium, and brent crude.  Information becomes atomized and cut
     out of the larger contexts that give it meaning.  Information is
     power--if you know enough facts, you will achieve your political
     or economic goals.  Are we overlooking the the contextual
     schemata that allow fact a + fact b + fact c to add up to more
     than three facts?  Are students of whatever age being taught the
     importance of these schemata and how to form them?  This is of
     course an extremely vague idea, and will necessarily remain so in
     this email.  Perhaps someone else can either expand, or shoot
     down this notion.  N.b. that I'm not railing against intellectual
     property nor against telecommunications.
2.  computer-mediated interaction replacing in-person interaction:
     There's a big difference between sitting in front of a computer
     with a child in one's lap vs. sitting in front of a computer with
     a child on other side of the modem, yet people are uncritically
     pushing (and accepting) 'virtual communities'.
3.  computing changing our habits of mind:
     About a year and a half ago I started reading _The future does
     not compute : transcending the machines in our midst_, by Stephen
     L. Talbott, and published by, of all presses, O'Reilly & Assoc.
     I didn't get very far in the book, but it has a compelling premise:
     that computers are accelerating negative changes in our
     intellectual habits, changes that became noticable with the
     advent of the industrial revolution.  One rubric under which he
     describes these changes is something like 'the abdication of
     consciousness to automated processes'.  He takes as his guide
     Owen Barfield's work on the evolution of consciousness (with
     which I have only the most superficial acquaintance).  Has
     anyone finished this book?  Does it seem relevant to this
     discussion?

Best wishes,
Chuck
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From: Rob Koch 
Subject: Re: 13.0205 prophylaxis
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 11:49:38 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 349 (349)


All--

At the airport yesterday I was reading Christine Haas' Writing Technology, and
she asks right away if we're asking the right questions about computing -- not
the use for the individual, or the cultural statement made by the computer use,
but what exactly is it we're using, how, and why?  Those are questions quickly
passed when the mainstream wants a quick -- and as you point out -- ugly answer
to book vs. computer.  As educators, we do have a responsibility to speak about
the proper place for both books and computers, and that ties directly to what
Haas suggests we ask in our research.  The freshman comp class, or any and
every class where we use computers, is as good a place to start as any.  It's
fine to do research for scholarly journals, but how much of the mainstream
really will access Computers and Composition, for instance, just to see what's
new?  We would have better luck in classes where there is the immedate question
"why the book AND a computer?"  And we'd be better off targeting some more
mainstream journals and magazines.

Rob





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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:46:51 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 350 (350)

[deleted quotation]

                      KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                             Volume 9
              Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis


                   Syntactic Wordclass Tagging

                            edited by
                         Hans van Halteren

                   Dept. of Language and Speech
              University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands


This book provides an in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic
wordclass tagging, i.e. the annotation of the words in a text with tags
indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of
the two main groups who take an interest in tagging: the users of tagged
text and the developers of tagging software.=20

The book starts out by examining the field foremost from the user's point
of view. After a brief historical overview, the nature and uses of tagging
are discussed and current practice is described. Here the user will find
what tagging is and the software developer what it is the user wants.=20

The book then switches to the other point of view and continues with a
detailed explanation of the most common computational techniques for
automatically tagging large amounts of text. Here the software developer
finds information needed for the implementation of a tagger while the user
gains insight into the possibilities and impossibilities of automatic
tagging and how computer-provided tags should be interpreted.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht=20
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1
August 1999, 300 pp.
NLG 280.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00

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Contents and Contributors

Preface.
Contributing Authors.

Part I: The User's View.

1. Orientation; A. Voutilainen.
2. A Short History of Tagging; A. Voutilainen.
3. The Use of Tagging; G. Leech, N. Smith.
4. Tagsets; J. Cloeren.
5. Standards for Tagsets; G. Leech, A. Wilson.
6. Performance of Taggers; H. van Halteren.
7. Selection and Operation of Taggers; H. van Halteren.

Part II: The Implementer's View.

8. Automatic Taggers: An Introduction; H. van Halteren, A. Voutilainen.
9. Tokenization; G. Grefenstette.
10. Lexicons for Tagging; A. Schiller, L. Karttunen.
11. Standardization in the Lexicon; M. Monachini, N. Calzolari.
12. Morphological Analysis; K. Oflazer.
13. Tagging Unknown Words; E. Brill.=20
14. Hand-Crafted Rules; A. Voutilainen.
15. Corpus-Based Rules; E. Brill.
16. Hidden Markov Models; M. El-Beze, B. Merialdo.
17. Machine Learning Approaches; W. Daelemans.

Appendix A: Example tagsets.
References.
Index

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                             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

    Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
              Lexical Knowledge Bases

    Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
              Tomek Strzalkowski
              Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

    Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
              Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
              Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999


Check the series Web page for order information:

    http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Book: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:47:02 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 351 (351)

[deleted quotation]

                      KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                             Volume 8
             Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V=E9ronis


                  Techniques in Speech Acoustics

                                by

                        Jonathan Harrington
                          Steve Cassidy

             Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
               Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia


"Techniques in Speech Acoustics" provides an introduction to the acoustic
analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book
covers aspects of the source-filter decomposition of speech, spectrographic
analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic
cues. The second part is based on computational techniques for analysing
the acoustic speech signal including digital time and frequency analyses,
formant synthesis, and the linear predictive coding of speech. There is
also an introductory chapter on the classification of acoustic speech
signals which is relevant to aspects of automatic speech and talker
recognition. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing extensive speech
corpora, the EMU speech analysis tools, extensions to the X-LISP-STAT
programming language that are adapted to speech analysis, and numerous
exercises that are linked to the major themes of the book and which can be
run on Windows-95 and UNIX platforms.

The book and CD-ROM are intended for use as teaching materials on
undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics
courses; they are also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics,
computer science, psychology and engineering who wish to gain an
understanding of the basis of speech acoustics and its application to
fields such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition.=20

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht=20
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0
July 1999, 336 pp.
NLG 250.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 88.00

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Contents

Preface.

Vowel and Consonant Transcriptions.
Contents of the CD-Rom.

1. The Scope of Speech Acoustics.
2. The Physics of Speech.
3. The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production.
4. Segmental and Prosodic Cues.
5. Time-Domain Analysis.
6. Frequency-Domain Analysis.
7. Digital Formant Synthesis.
8. Linear Prediction of Speech.
9. Classification of Speech Data.

References.=20

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                             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

    Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
              Lexical Knowledge Bases

    Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
              Tomek Strzalkowski
              Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999


Check the series Web page for order information:

    http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB







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From: 
Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 352 (352)

[deleted quotation]
Thank you so much for your answer, Mr Marchand. The couple of words you
wrote is an isogloss (is an European concept, from Trubeckoj, 1939,  I
think), from a lexical point of view. What I am looking for is the deep
connection between Greek and Sanskrit, according with a componential model
of linguistics genesis (If you are intrested I will be glad to talk about
this, anyway see the paper of A.Ancillotti in Journal of Indo-European
Studies, 1993). The most important isoglosses for this aim are the
morphological ones, like -tero Skr. -teros Gr. used for comparatives. I
consulted several comparative grammars, but I wonder if a specific
publications exists (something new compared whith Wackernagel, Brugmann,
Thumb...) or if there is someone intrested on the argument of my degree. I'm
sorry for my english: I am a bit out of practice...
Chiara Fardella





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From: Rebecca Morales 
Subject: Networking2000:SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to OCTOBER 1
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:47:57 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 353 (353)


********************************
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO
OCTOBER 1, 1999
********************************


              ///////////////////////////////////////

                                       Call for Papers
                                    Networking 2000
                                      May 14-19, 2000
                                          Paris, France
                                //////////////////////////////////////

                            More information and submission:
                            http://www.noc.uoa.gr/net2000
                            http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~net2000

Networking 2000 conference is a joint conference of:

HPN (High Performance Networking) Aaren 1987, Liege 1988, Berlin 1990,
Liege 1992, Grenoble 1994, Palma 1995, New York 1997, Vienna 1998, Paris 2000.

BC (Broadband Communications) Paris 1995, Montreal 1996, Lisboa 1997,
Stuttgart 1998, Hong-Kong 1999, Paris 2000.

PCN (Performance of Communication Networks) Paris 1981, Z=FCrich 1984, Rio
de Janeiro 1987, Barcelona 1990, Raleigh 1993, Lund 1998, Paris 2000.





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From: Stephanie Browner 
Subject: nesting boxes
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:44:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 354 (354)


Recently, I was explaining the nesting box problem in SGML to a friend.  He
found it hard to believe that it really is impossible to tag both page breaks
and a stanza if a stanza starts on one page and continues on another.

What I understand about multiple, concurrent or overlapping hierarchies being
problematic in SGML I understand only from reading (and not from encoding).  I
have read about these difficulties in such papers as Daniel Pitti's and John
Unsworth's 1998 "After the Fall."

But my friend's dismay that such a problem was insurmountable has shaken my
confidence.  Is this really a problem?  Is it insurmountable?  Why?  Is the
problem at the level of software?  Have things changed recently?

thanks for any help,
Stephanie Browner
browner@berea.edu
Dept. of English
Berea College
Berea, KY 40404







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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: online book on cyberspace
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:43:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 355 (355)


See Peter Ludlow, ed., High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual
Issues in Cyberspace, at
<http://semlab2.sbs.sunysb.edu/Users/pludlow/highnoon.html>.

WM
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From: Patrick Durusau 
Subject: XPentateuch (.01) release
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:43:35 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 356 (356)


Greetings,

Just a short note to announce the release of XPentateuch (.01). The release
consists of the King James and Vulgate versions of the Pentateuch encoded
at the
word level in XML markup with a container element surrounding each "book" as a
corpus of words. Each word bears a unique ID to facilitate the addition of
annotations to the text or for imposing verse/chapter or other divisions
onto these
materials. These should not be considered canonical versions of either text and
should be used for experimental purposes only. (Please see the Readme file for
further information.)

I hope to include examples with future releases of this material, including
demonstrations of constructing XML documents using XLinks and XSL
stylesheets for
transforming as well as displaying the text for various purposes. All
contributions
of XLink/XSL materials will be acknowledged in the Readme file as well as
in any
future release announcements. The distribution is available at:
ftp://shemesh.scholar.emory.edu/pub/XPentateuch.tar.gz

The file XPentateuch.tar.gz consists of:

FileList
Readme
deuteronomy-kjv.xml
deuteronomy-vul.xml
exodus-kjv.xml
exodus-vul.xml
genesis-kjv.xml
genesis-vul.xml
leviticus-kjv.xml
leviticus-vul.xml
numbers-kjv.xml
numbers-vul.xml

Comments, suggestions and contributions are welcome.

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Information Technology Services
Scholars Press
pdurusau@emory.edu
Manager, ITS



From: Paul Brians 
Subject: Nuke Pop site up now.
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:44:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 357 (357)


Long-time readers of this list may remember various queries I've made in
the past relating to nuclear imagery in popular culture. I've now created a
Web site containing the results, located at
<http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/nukepop/>. I'll be polishing it further, but
the contents are pretty well set.

Paul Brians, Department of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians@wsu.edu
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians





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From: Bob Godwin-Jones 
Subject: Another option for glossing/notes
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:45:58 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 358 (358)


As a follow-up to the discussion on using pop-ups or frames for notes, you
can see an example of giving the user a choice on how to highlight glossed
items and what to do on text select/mouse click/mouseover at:

   http://www.vcu.edu/hasweb/for/grimm/aschen_dict.html

One of the advantages of giving the user that choice is that users with
older browsers can still use the glosses/notes by, for example, choosing
hypertext links rather than DHTML enhancements like glossing automatically
on text selection.  It's also possible that way to allow display of
glossed items according to user prference (unmarked, colored, italicized,
etc.).

   Robert Godwin-Jones
     rgjones@vcu.edu
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/gj.html



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Re: 13.0206 friendly Javascript for critical edns
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 22:46:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 359 (359)

[deleted quotation]

Dear John, Domenico, Stéphan and Richard, thank you for the help provided.
Unfortunately, my MS IE 4.0 wouldn't allow me to admire all of the scripts'
effects. However, I am stimulated by the various ways of presenting the
text alternatives on screen. Feel free to visit the critical edition of
Alojz Gradnik's Collected Poems where I experimented with a script that
fited my purposes the most -- look at the first poem Vecni studenci in the
right frame of the document. Font ISO-Latin 2 or Central European ISO is
used. The poet's changes should appear in a small popup frame when the
sensitive word or line is  touched with the mouse:

http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/slovjez/mh/grad_zd.htm


You'll find the Javascript helpmaster.js in the same directory.


Best regards

Miran
http://www.ijs.si/lit/hlad_ang.html





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From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: announcing LOOKSEE (for Humanist)
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:46:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 360 (360)


Announcing LOOKSEE: Resources for Image-Based Humanities Computing

         http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/

LOOKSEE is intended as a community focal point for discussion and
development of next generation image-based humanities computing projects.
Although the term "image-based" humanities computing has been in circulation
for some time, we are now approaching a watershed: a number of pioneering
projects (many of them begun in the early nineties) whose promise could
heretofore be discussed only in speculative terms are now coming to
fruition, while new software tools and data standards are poised to redefine
the way we create, access, and work with digital images. All of this
activity, moreover, is transpiring at a moment when there is an
unprecedented level of interest in visual culture and representation in the
academic humanities at large.

At present, LOOKSEE consists of:

1. The Web materials at the URL above, collecting resources ranging from
computer science to medical informatics to art history in order to create a
kind of sketchbook of image-based humanities computing.

2. A listserv discussion forum, chaired by Matthew Kirschenbaum.
Subscription details are available at the URL above (all are welcome to
join; the list already includes many of the persons behind the current
generation of image-based humanities computing projects). Though the list is
unmoderated, it will be run as a structured discussion in which topics will
be brought forward at set intervals for the participants' consideration. The
first discussion, to begin shortly, will revolve around humanities
applications of techniques in medical imaging and image processing (examples
to be provided); the second discussion will feature Johanna Drucker's
Wittgenstein's Gallery, a series of over one hundred conceptual drawings
constituting a working model of vision, perception, and (re)cognition. (We
will use Drucker's work as the basis for a discussion of computer-assisted
image analysis.) Later discussions will be given over to producing specs for
a suite of open source image analysis tools which, taking advantage of
emerging data standards such as JPEG 2000, will attempt to do for images
some of what has already been done for text-based computing.

3. The LOOKSEE Web site will expand to include source code, demos, and
documentation.

LOOKSEE is hosted by the collaboratory for Research in Computing for
Humanities, at the University of Kentucky: <http://www.rch.uky.edu/>.



: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

                                                Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
                             Assistant Professor, Department of English
                             Research in Computing for Humanities Group
                                                 http://www.rch.uky.edu
                                                 University of Kentucky

                            Technical Editor, The William Blake Archive

                                                        mgk@pop.uky.edu
                                   mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
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From: JA de Beer 
Subject: Internet Resources concerning Renaissance Topics
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:54:13 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 361 (361)


Dear Humanists,

Herewith the URL for a new E-mail discussion list re the above.
See <http://www.phil-hum-ren.uni-muenchen.de/Web4Ren/>

Regards,
Jennifer de Beer

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Jennifer de Beer - Project Assistant
Cape Library Cooperative (CALICO) & INFOLIT
c/o the Adamastor Trust
Cape Town, South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)21 686-5070     Fax: +27 (0)21 689-7465
E-mail: jennifer@grove.uct.ac.za
CALICO:  http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Calico/portal.htm
INFOLIT: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Infolit/default.htm

POINT TO PONDER:
All writing is useless that does not contain a stimulus to activity - Nietzsche



From: Ross Scaife 
Subject: [STOA] waypoints
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:54:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 362 (362)


The Stoa electronic publishing consortium would like to announce the
availability of the Stoa Waypoint Database (http://www.stoa.org/stoagnd/).

The database is designed to serve as an archive of geographic data
(longitude and latitude coordinates) for ancient sites, buildings, objects,
geographic features, archaeological excavations,  etc.  Our goal is to
provide a freely accessible source of geographic data that can be used by
the widest possible audience.  We hope that this data will be useful, for
example,  in GPS units and GIS software for archaeologists in the field,
students working on research projects, and digital map makers, or anyone
else engaged in study and research.

All the data in the database may be browsed and searched on the web, and it
is also freely available for downloading into a generic comma-delimited
text file.

In addition we hope to grow the database through contributions of
geographic data from students, scholars, or anyone else who is interested.
All contributions are welcome.  If you would like to contribute geographic
data, please refer to the Stoa's Guidelines for Recording and Submitting
GPS Waypoints (http://www.stoa.org/guides/gps.shtml) for more information.

For more information about the database please feel free to contact Robert
Chavez (rchavez@perseus.tufts.edu) or Ross Scaife (scaife@pop.uky.edu).  We
welcome all comments, suggestions or questions.

Robert Chavez
Perseus Project
rchavez@perseus.tufts.edu
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The Stoa: A Consortium for Electronic Publication
http://www.stoa.org



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Live Art Archive; Digital Performance Archive
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:54:56 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 363 (363)


According to a deliberately tangential, open-ended definition (if that's
not a contradiction in terms), "live art" is "work that broadly embraces
ephemeral, time-based visual and performing arts events that include a
human presence and broaden, challenge or question traditional views of the
arts". More enlightening is the online Live Art Archive at
<http://art.ntu.ac.uk/liveart/>, based at Nottingham Trent University
(U.K.), in the Performance Practice Unit, Department of Visual and
Performing Arts of the Faculty of Art and Design,
<http://art.ntu.ac.uk/vpa/reshome.htm>. The Archive "holds information
about existing Live Art / Performance Art materials, records and
publications primarily in England and the UK".

The same unit is also responsible for the newly funded Digital Performance
Archive, <http://art.ntu.ac.uk/dpa/>, "a major collection and analysis of
digital performance events and developments".

Yours,
WM





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From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." 
Subject: Version 27, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:56:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 364 (364)


Version 27 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over
1,000 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 97: 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 using
Boolean operators.

The HTML document also 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 250 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>
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From: Nobel Foundation WWW Server 
Subject: 
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 17:01:32 +0200
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 365 (365)



The Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on Thursday,
September 30, at 1 p.m. (= 11 a.m. GMT)

The Announcement and the Press Release will be distributed on the www
server at The Swedish Academy
(http://www.svenskaakademien.se/) and The Nobel Foundation
(http://www.nobel.se/). The Announcement will also be mirrored to our
permanent mirror in North America (http://nobel.sdsc.edu/) as well as
temporary sites around the world (choose mirror at
http://www.nobel.se/announcement-99/index.html)

   Webmaster of The Nobel Foundation (webmaster@www.nobel.se)



From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." 
Subject: Review of all Parsers
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:58:27 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 366 (366)


-Karen Smith, an employee here at Ergo, has put together a very nice
web based guided tour of the parsers of the world which makes it easy
to find and try all the different parsers of the world.  It is also a very
convenient way to compare parsers and make notes about their
various strong and weak points.  The site also contains a section
with sample sentences chosen from the domain of practical
applications and a set of standards for evaluating parsers.  Both
are available at http://www.ergo-ling.com.  The parser tour is under
the heading "Parsers of the World" and the sample sentences and
standards are under "Parsing Contest".

I highly recomend this site for anyone with an interest in NLP.

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
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: uses of the Web
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:55:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 367 (367)


Occasionally I encounter a site that causes me to stop a moment for
reflection on the sort of communication that is now possible. One such is
The Hunger Site, <http://www.thehungersite.com/>. The homepage displays a
map of the world on which a country chosen by algorithm goes dark every 3.6
seconds to indicate a death by hunger according to the calculated
statistic. One can compare that view of things with, say, a
turn-of-the-century American small-town newspaper, in which a "World News"
column could be found perhaps on the back page.

Yours,
WM
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From: Hope Greenberg 
Subject: Re: 13.0210 children and the Internet
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:52:51 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 368 (368)


There have been several eloquent replies to Willard's comments about
children, lap-time, books, chairs and computers, so I won't re-state,
but simply add one more image:
My elder daughter, up until a year ago, showed no particular interest in
computers-- probably a "first daughter can't like what Mom likes"
response. Last year she discovered chat rooms. This year it is not
uncommon to find her curled up and perched precariously on the chair in
front of the computer reading a book and "chatting" at the same time.
Sometimes it's chat about her homework with her classmates, sometimes
it's chat about that room's topic with her room friends while she's
doing her homework. I ask her if she's comfortable like that. "Well, of
course, Mom." (Oh to be young and have rubber bones again.) I ask her if
she can do her homework like that. "I'm a teenager, Mom, multitasking is
what we do."
My younger daughter still does lap time, or sometimes it's just "ear
time." Location is determined by what we're reading, whether I'm reading
to her (couch, chair, by computer) or is she's reading to me (couch,
chair, computer, kitchen floor while I do the washing up, etc.)

- Hope

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From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: 13.0214 children, the Internet, ourselves
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:53:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 369 (369)


I'm always on guard when I read what adults think children should or
should not do.  It's been my experience that children do what they damn
please, only making enough concessions to adults to keep the fiction
that they are obeying.  And when you think of the dumb things that
adults want children to do, it's a good thing they don't do them.





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From: Arie Zukerman 
Subject: We should have a web-based multi-lingual email service!
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 04:58:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 370 (370)


PLEASE RESPOND TO: azukerman@netscape.net

   In spite of the fast growing number of the multi-language users
   (other than English) joining the internet every single day,
   they (we) experience difficulties communicating by email using
   their native languages for global and local communication.

   I am talking about a email system that will let you send and
   receive emails using any possible language from-and-to any
   computer in the world without the need to download fonts or
   any other pre-conditions.

   Let us take, for instance, an American/Korean that wishes to
   communicate by email from the US with his family or business
   partners living in Korea or other countries for this matter.
   He is unable to do so using a free e-mail service that is based
   on an Internet platform (such as Hotmail or similar).
   The only way for him to do so is to download various softwares
   that cost money, complicated to set up and operate, require
   "cut and paste" operations and/or have to be sent as an
   attachment which really makes life complicated.

   I wish to improve the above unfair and inconvenient situation!!!
   The first step, which is the most important one, is to accumulate
   as many support emails from potential multi-lingual users like
   you and me. It will be very helpful and a real time saver, if you
   could recruit as many people you know (family, friends, co-workers,
   pen pals and so on) that are potential supporters of such a
   petition and ask them to send support emails to me as soon as
   possible. Please ask them to continue and keep the chain of support
   emails alive and kicking with their friends and so on and so forth.

   Please mention in the support email the following information:

   -Which languages will you use to write and receive emails when the
   service will be available
   -How do you overcome the problem in the present, if at all
   -How many people (estimate) that are on the net will you communicate
   with when the service will be available.
   -Suggestions and ideas will be an asset

   I will do everything in my power to get such a service available
   as fast as can be for the benefit of all of us, the multi-lingual
   first-class internet "citizens".
   Please mailto:azukerman@netscape.net
   Thanks
   Arie Zukerman


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From: Jack Lynch 
Subject: Re: 13.0223 multilingual online communication: not good!
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 22:27:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 371 (371)


Arie Zukerman writes:

     In spite of the fast growing number of the multi-language
     users (other than English) joining the internet every
     single day, they (we) experience difficulties
     communicating by email using their native languages for
     global and local communication.  I am talking about a
     email system that will let you send and receive emails
     using any possible language from-and-to any computer in
     the world without the need to download fonts or any other
     pre-conditions.

You'll be pleased to see that a new standard is under
development: Unicode.  You can find full details at

		http://www.unicode.org

The nearly 50,000 characters in its character sets (so far) cover
those needed in most of the major the writing systems in the
Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, India, and Africa.
Unless you need the Pahawh Hmong or Tifinagh alphabets, you'll be
in good shape with Unicode . . .

.. . . once it's supported.  Unfortunately, no widely available
software uses the standard yet.  But Unicode is big enough and
important enough that, in a software-generation or two, most of
the Web browsers and E-mail programs will have to take it into
consideration.  So the limitations of ASCII's puny 128 characters
should one day be history.  Until then, nothing to do but
download the special character sets.





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From: David Smith 
Subject: Perseus European mirror site
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 22:28:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 372 (372)


The Perseus Project is pleased to announce that the Max-Planck-Institut
for the History of Science in Berlin have donated a machine for
mirroring the Perseus web site. Users in Europe can now access Perseus
at:

http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

The content of this mirror site is identical to the main Perseus web
site at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Please send any comments, questions, or problems to
webmaster@perseus.tufts.edu

Best regards,
The Perseus Project



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Humanities computing units and institutional resources
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 22:28:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 373 (373)


Dear Colleagues:

This is to announce a directory to "Humanities computing units and
institutional resources", a structured and annotated list of activities in
our field, at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/hc/>, and to issue a call for
additional contributions to the list. In putting this together, we have
been keenly aware of the difficulties in reducing a complex group of
activities to any one structure. We think, however, that the most effective
way to provoke clear, incisive thinking about the shape of what we are all
doing is to propose a structure for it so as to give those on the ground
(like ourselves) something to think against as well as with.

Comments, discussion, corrections and additions are most welcome. We have
taken the annotations for each centre from its web page wherever possible
and used the online information to place it within the given structure.
Apologies wherever necessary for errors in the placement. Fundamental
questions are especially welcome, e.g. as to what is meant by an "academic
appointment" or by "research in humanities computing". International
consensus on such basic points does not strike us as trivial to achieve.

Yours,
Willard McCarty (King's College London)
Matt Kirschenbaum (University of Kentucky)


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From: Willée 
Subject: Re: 13.0214 children, the Internet, ourselves
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:49:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 374 (374)


re: contribution of david reed

the opinion of d. reed that reading a text from a printed book is not at
all different to reading it from a monitor is to be doubted, or better
said: must be doubted. david obviously has a quite uncritical belief in
technical progress as always being good and useful, forgetting in the
case of reading texts the use of computers as a medium was a step
backwards compared with the development of the techniques of  reading
printed or written material in history.
it was a great revolution, when the romans began to replace writing
texts on parchment rolls by writing them in volumina (bond books), where
the navigation within the texts could be improved a lot. scrolling
upwards or downwards was no longer necessary, one could aim more or less
directly to the page or section of pages, where one wanted to read, one
could go through the pages, stopping here, stopping there, going back
directly to the place, where one was reading before, and so on.
and now, in the golden (gilden?) age of computers we have to scroll
again, all instruments for a proper navigation being mere crutches.
moreover the quality of reproduction of text on screens is far worse
than it normaly is on paper, even recycled one.
in printed material the contrast is better, the density of pxels is far
higher, there is no flickering (even if the latter might be no longer a
problem in future).
the reading prosition as for books is better adjustable  than as for
computers (there ARE lots of problems occuring when working in front of
a pc, an unknown fact for readers of books), and - last not least -
making notes in a text one is reading is more or less impossible on the
screen.
only if one admits the differences and disadvantages of reading from a
screen compared with reading printed material one can discuss the
advantages or disadvantages - and the consequences for our thinking and
intellectual behaviour - which will occur when using a pc for reading.
disabled people are no argument at all for the not-disabled rest of the
world, as for those there are other conditions to be considered.
otherwise one could suggest no longer to walk but to use these wonderful
electrical wheel chairs, as they are so useful for people who cannot
walk any longer.

to close like willard: any comments?

yours

gerd

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      |    Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik
      |    Universität Bonn
      |    Poppelsdorfer Allee 47
      |
      |    D-53115  Bonn            Tel.:   +49 228 73 56 20
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Museum Computer Network Conference: Philadelphia, Oct 27-30
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:55:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 375 (375)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
OCTOBER 7, 1999



                 MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE
                     October 27-30, 1999: Philadelphia
                             <http://www.mcn.edu>http://www.mcn.edu
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From: David Zeitlyn 
Subject: Anthropological Index Online: not just another update!
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:51:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 376 (376)


No indeed, AS WELL AS another routine update, a lot of behind the scenes
improvements have just gone live on the Anthropological Index Online:

All the data now has both contracted and full Journal Titles, and both are
automatically searched by a term entered in the journal field. Users have
the option to select which form of the title is displayed.

The large accumulation of data in the "Recent" has now been sorted by
publication year and merged with previous data.  The file now in "Recent"
is the latest data to be added. From now on when the index is updated the
file in "Recent" will be sorted by year of publication and merged with the
existing data, so the recently-added  file will be small and current.

Where data was available (but in a note field) first name information has
been merged with the main author names so searching for "Claude" in the
author field  will find a variety of different anthropologists... (Query: I
would be interested to hear of a actual situation in which anyone really
wants to do this. The only scenario I can come up with involves a
conference meeting and the next day having a bleary memory of an article by
some one called "Charles". Other examples would be welcomed).

We will shortly be looking for pilot testers for an email notification
service that will run stored searches on updates to Anthropological Index
Online.

best wishes as the autumn term gets underway

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,
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UK.
Tel. +44 (0)1227 823360 direct)
Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office)
Fax  +44 (0)1227 827289
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Current Cites: "Content-Based Image Retrieval;" "Z39.50"
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:52:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 377 (377)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
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October 5, 1999

                     Two Selections from "Current Cites"
                       "Content-based Image Retrieval"
                              "Z39.50 for All"

Following are two citations with comments from the most recent "Current
Cites," that I thought readers might be interested in.

David Green
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    Eakins, John P. and Margaret E. Graham Content-based Image Retrieval:
    A report to the JISC Technology Applications Programme Newcastle, UK:
    Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at
    Newcastle, January 1999
    (<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/cbir/report.html>http://www.unn.ac.
(<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/research/cbir/report.html>http://www.unn.ac.uk/i
idr/research/cbir/report.html). - Have you ever
    wanted to find images based on color, texture, shape, or other image
    characteristics? I haven't, but read on. This technology, called
    alternatively Query By Image Content (QBIC) or Content-Based Image
    Retrieval (CBIR), seeks to provide a method whereby images can be
    retrieved without first indexing or cataloging them. The idea is that
    a) indexing or cataloging images is a time-consuming (expensive)
    undertaking, and b) indexing has it's own problems, such as the
    difficulty of pre-selecting every aspect of an image by which someone
    may eventually wish to search. Having the ability to search for images
    that "look like" a reference image, for example, may be useful in
    particular instances, such as automatic fingerprint matching and face
    recognition. If this idea intrigues you, this report should be
    required reading. Eakins and Graham are relentlessly thorough in their
    coverage of current CBIR systems and the literature describing such.
    They conclude that CBIR is exciting but immature, and that it although
    it is unlikely to completely replace other methods of locating images,
    it nonetheless will be essential for some applications. - Roy Tennant



    Miller, Paul. "Z39.50 for All" Ariadne 21 (September 1999)
    (<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950/intro.html>http://www.ariadne.a
(<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950/intro.html>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk
/issue21/z3950/intro.html). - Miller has
    succeeded in what I have long thought to be impossible: he has
    explained Z39.50 briefly, simply, and understandably. The text is
    embellished with screen shots, diagrams, and even its own glossary -
    an essential element for any explanation of Z39.50. The URLs alone are
    worth a lot, as Miller has pulled together a lot of pointers to the
    essential web sites, technical information, and working systems.
    Anyone interested in Z39.50 should check this out. The rest of us can
    look (in vain) for the famous Ariadne caption contest; or, better yet,
    check out the latest Brian Kelly column (see elsewhere in this issue).
    - Roy Tennant

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: NEH Outlook: Vinton Cerf; John Unsworth
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:52:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 378 (378)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
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October 6, 1999


                        NEH OUTLOOK - OCTOBER 1999
                             Features Include:
             * 8th White House Millennium Evening With Vint Cerf
      <http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html>http:
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html>http://www.
whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html

               * "Changing the Nature of Humanities Research:"
                Report on article on University of Virginia's
             Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
                     Converge Magazine: September, 1999
                        <http://www.convergemag.com/>http://www.convergemag.
<http://www.convergemag.com/>http://www.convergemag.com/

These two notes in the NEH's online newsletter for October might catch
readers' attention: the NEH-funded 8th White House Millennium Evening on
Tues Oct 12 featuring Vinton Cerf discussing in an interactive cybercast
the changes information technology may bring to our lives in the next 30
years; and an article in Converge magazine discussing how the Institute of
Advanced Technology in the Humanities is helping to change the way that
some practitioners conduct their research.

David Green
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NEH OUTLOOK
A MONTHLY E-MAIL NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
(www.neh.gov)
OCTOBER 1999

In this issue: The National Humanities Medalists

New subscriptions: Send an e-mail to newsletter@neh.gov and type the word
"subscribe" in the body of the message.  To unsubscribe, type "unsubscribe"
in the body of the message.

Past issues: Go to
<http://www.neh.gov/html/public_affairs/outlook>http://www.neh.gov/html/publ
ic_affairs/outlook.

Comments: Send to outlook@neh.gov.

CHAIRMAN'S NOTE
by William R. Ferris, Chairman
Fall has gotten off to a running start at NEH, as the news and schedules in
this issue of NEH Outlook indicate.  George Farr, director of the
Endowment's Division of Preservation and Access, is currently serving as
acting deputy chairman.  He replaces Juan Mestas, who left the Endowment in
mid-September to begin his new job as chancellor of the University of
Michigan-Flint.  In addition to the usual plentiful business of the
Endowment, the White House recently held the annual presidential ceremony
honoring the National Humanities Medalists.  It was an inspiring celebration
and a fitting reminder that the humanities express the deepest meaning of
civilization.

CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE
by Michael Bagley, Director, Office of Governmental Affairs
Fiscal Year 1999 ended at midnight Thursday, Sept. 30.  To avoid a
government shutdown on Friday, Oct. 1, due to expired spending authority,
Congress passed a continuing resolution (CR) covering a three week period
from Oct. 1 to Oct. 21.  A CR allows the government to continue spending at
levels equal to the previous fiscal year for the period covered by the
resolution.  Because the Interior Appropriations bill for FY 2000, which
funds the Endowment, has not been signed into law, the agency will be
covered by the CR.  Versions of the bill, however, have passed the floor in
both the House and the Senate.  The House version recommends an FY 2000 NEH
budget of $110.7 million, representing no increase in the current level of
funding.  The Senate version recommends an NEH budget of $115.7 million, or
$5 million more than the current level.  A House-Senate conference, which
could occur at any time, will determine the final outcome of NEH's budget
for the next fiscal year.

NATIONAL HUMANITIES MEDALISTS HONORED
The 1999 recipients of NEH's National Humanities Medal came to Washington on
Sept. 28 and 29 to be feted for their outstanding contributions to the
nation's cultural life.  This year's recipients are Patricia Battin,
librarian and preservationist; Taylor Branch, historian of the civil rights
era; Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, scholar of the New South and oral history expert;
Garrison Keillor, storyteller, radio host, and author; Jim Lehrer,
journalist and TV news anchor; John Rawls, political philosopher; Steven
Spielberg, filmmaker; and August Wilson, playwright.  During the two-day
celebration of their work, the awardees spoke to a standing-room-only forum
at NEH, received their medals and citations from President Clinton and the
First Lady in a ceremony at Washington's Constitution Hall along with the
recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Medal of Arts,
and dined at the White House.  The President's remarks at the Constitution
Hall ceremony are located at
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/New/html/19990929.html>http://www.whitehouse.g
ov/WH/New/html/19990929.html.  For NEH's press
release and bios, go to
<http://www.neh.gov/html/public_affairs/medals99.html>http://www.neh.gov/htm
l/public_affairs/medals99.html.

EIGHTH WHITE HOUSE MILLENNIUM EVENING
If we were looking back from the year 2030, what changes occurring now will
have most affected our lives by then?  That is the question on Oct. 12 in
the eighth of a series of interactive discussion forums called White House
Millennium Evenings. The series is cosponsored by NEH with major support
from Sun Microsystems.
The program, to be cybercast live from the White House at 7:30 p.m. ET, will
focus on developments in the fields of information technology and genetic
research.  These two fields are full of possibilities and challenges that
will affect the lives of everyone.  Presenters are Vinton Cerf, senior vice
president of Internet architecture and technology for MCI WorldCom, and Eric
Lander, director of the Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research.
For information on how to participate in the cybercast, visit
<http://www.whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html>http://www.
whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/mill_eve8.html.

PHARAOHS OF THE SUN EXHIBITION OPENS IN NOVEMBER
The NEH-funded traveling exhibition "Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten,
Nefertiti, Tutankhamen" opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Nov.
14.  Focusing on the Amarna Period (1353-1336 B.C.), which saw the
abandonment of Egypt's age-old pantheon of deities in favor of a sole god,
the show will include approximately 300 artifacts ranging from large-scale
royal sculpture and reliefs to jewelry, handicrafts, and articles of daily
use.  An interactive Web site will enable users to see every object in the
exhibition, navigate through a re-creation of the ancient city of Amarna,
and visit the excavation site. Exploring a period of unprecedented change in
Egyptian society, the exhibition will be the first to present a
comprehensive picture of daily life in Amarna.  The show runs in Boston
through Feb. 6, 2000, before traveling to the Los Angeles County Museum of
Art (March 19-June 4, 2000), the Art Institute of Chicago (July 17-Sept. 24,
2000), and the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Holland (Nov. 23,
2000-Feb. 18, 2001).

THE CIVIL WAR ON THE INTERNET
The NEH-funded "Valley of the Shadow" Web site has been reviewed in
Converge, an on-line magazine about cutting-edge uses of technology in
education.  The article, titled "Changing the Nature of Humanities
Research," is available at
<http://www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGSept99/FeatureVirginia/FeatureV
i>http://www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGSept99/FeatureVirginia/FeatureVi
rginia.shtm.   "Valley of the Shadow" is among the 49 top-quality humanities
Web sites linked through EDSITEment, NEH's educational Web site located at
<http://edsitement.neh.gov>http://edsitement.neh.gov.  Twenty-three new
peer-reviewed humanities Web
sites will be added to EDSITEment later this month.  Approximately 40,000
teachers and students use EDSITEment every month.

REMINDER ABOUT HUMANITIES ON THE RADIO
Last month's NEH Outlook ran a heads-up piece on "StoryLines America," an
NEH-funded series of live radio programs developed by the American Library
Association (ALA) in which listeners can call in to discuss U.S. regional
literature with authors and scholars.  Beginning Oct. 3 and continuing each
Sunday through Dec. 26, two separate series of radio programs will highlight
the literature of California and of the Coastal Southeast (southeastern
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and northern Florida).
To check program schedules, visit the StoryLines Web site at
<http://www.ala.org/publicprograms/storylin/itsback.html>http://www.ala.org/
publicprograms/storylin/itsback.html.  You can also
contact the ALA's Susan Brandehoff at (312) 280-5054 or sbrandeh@ala.org.

And don't forget to listen in to National Public Radio's "All Things
Considered" on Fridays, when you will hear the latest segment of  "Lost &
Found Sound," the NEH-funded series that documents the history of recorded
sound in the 20th century.  The series runs through Dec. 31, 1999.

FLORIDA AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES LIBRARY BREAKS GROUND
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Broward County Library's African American
Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will take
place October 23.  NEH awarded a $600,000 challenge grant for the facility,
which will be a major focal point for the study of African American heritage
in South Florida.  With a collection of 75,000 books and documents by and
about African Americans, the center will be a research hub linking area
universities.

KUDOS
.......to Robert Patten, a professor of humanities at Rice University, whose
"George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art" (Rutgers University Press) was
recently named "best biography of the decade" by the respected British
newspaper "The Guardian."  Patten received two NEH research grants to
complete the two-volume biography of the renowned British illustrator......
NEH-funded documentaries aced a number of Emmy Awards categories this year.
A PARALYZING FEAR: THE STORY OF POLIO won Best Research in News and
Documentary Programming, as did AFRICANS IN AMERICA for the episodes "The
Terrible Transformation" and "Judgment Day."  THE U.S.-MEXICAN WAR 1846-1848
won Best Historical Programming with Limited Dramatization for the episode
"The Fate of Nations."  And MACARTHUR took a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding
Non-fiction Series, as part of WGBH's The American Experience...... Two
NEH-supported efforts have received this year's top annual awards from the
Society of American Archivists.  The Coker Award, recognizing innovation and
excellence in finding aids, goes to the archival team of Francis X. Blouin,
director of the Bentley Library at the University of Michigan, for "Vatican
Archives: An Inventory and Guide to the Historical Records of the Holy See"
(Oxford University Press).  The Preservation Publication Award goes to "The
Storage Guide for Color Photographic Materials," produced by James Reilly,
director of the Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of
Technology.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Division of Public Programs
*
<http://www.neh.gov/pdf/other/cal_199904.pdf>http://www.neh.gov/pdf/other/ca
l_199904.pdf
Division of Education Progams
*       Oct. 6 and 7:  Schools for a New Millennium project directors
meeting at NEH.
*       Oct. 18 and 19:  2000 summer seminars and institutes project
directors meeting at NEH.
*       Nov. 14 to17:  Annual Historically Black College and University
(HBCU) Faculty Network Meeting in Houston, Texas.  Two NEH program officers
attending; past NEH grantees presenting.

CHAIRMAN'S MONTHLY COLUMN
Honoring Excellence: National Humanities Medal Awarded to Great Americans
(<http://www.neh.gov/html/chairman/papers/usa199910.html>http://www.neh.gov/
html/chairman/papers/usa199910.html)

CHAIRMAN'S SCHEDULE
October 1
Colorado Endowment for the Humanities, Center for the West, and the Denver
Public Library
Public lecture
Denver, CO

October 2
Federation of State Humanities Councils
Annual meeting (Chairman's remarks:
<http://www.neh.gov/html/chairman/speeches/19991002.html)>http://www.neh.gov
/html/chairman/speeches/19991002.html)
Denver, CO

October 5
American Council on Education/President's Network for International
Education
Education panel
Washington, DC

October 14
West Virginia Humanities Council
25th anniversary celebration--Annual McCreight Lecture
Charleston, WV

October 27
NEH headquarters
Chairman's Forum with Adele Alexander
Washington, DC

October 29
Community College Humanities Association
National conference--luncheon address
Chicago, IL

November 10
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Humanities lecture
Baltimore, MD

November 16
Humanities Council of Washington, D.C.
D.C. Public Humanities Awards Ceremony
Washington, DC

November 18-19
National Council on the Humanities
Washington, DC

SUBSCRIBE TO "HUMANITIES," NEH's award-winning magazine.  The
November/December 1999 issue focuses on family history.  The issue also
profiles the 1999 National Humanities Medalists and looks at the fall of the
Berlin Wall 10 years later. "HUMANITIES" subscriptions are $22 for six
issues. A subscription form and information are available at
<<http://www.neh.gov/html/magazine/hm_order.html>http://www.neh.gov/html/mag
azine/hm_order.html>.


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitization and Preservation
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:53:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 379 (379)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community

OCTOBER 6, 1999


             IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitization and Preservation
                  <<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm>http://www.ifla.o
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.
htm>
[deleted quotation]The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Core
Programmes for Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and Universal
Availability of Publications (UAP) have carried out, on behalf of UNESCO
within the framework of its Memory of the World Programme (MOW), a major
worldwide survey on digitisation and preservation. The results of this
survey, and an analysis of the responses, have now been published.

The report `IFLA/UNESCO Survey on Digitisation and Preservation'
is free and available from this office:

      IFLA Offices for UAP and Interlending
      c/o The British Library
      Boston Spa
      Wetherby
      West Yorkshire
      LS23 7BQ
      United Kingdom

      Fax: +44 1937 546478
      email: richard.ebdon@bl.uk

N.B.
Because the publication is very popular, more copies are being printed at
the moment. Therefore there may be a slight delay in sending out copies.

For more information about:

- the Survey take a look at
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p1/miscel.
htm>
- IFLA-PAC take a look at
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/4/pac.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/4/pac.htm>
- IFLA-UAP take a look at
<<http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/uap.htm>http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/uap.htm>
- UNESCO-MOW take a look at
<<http://www.unesco.org/webworld/mdm/index.html>http://www.unesco.org/webwor
ld/mdm/index.html>

*****


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Two New CLIR Reports: Dance Documentation & Preservation;  Social Science Data and Metadata
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 21:54:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 380 (380)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 6, 1999



                      TWO NEW CLIR REPORTS AVAILABLE

                Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach
               to Rescuing Social Science Data and Metadata

                       Securing Our Dance Heritage:
          Issues in the Documentation and Preservation of Dance


The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) recently published
two new reports. The full text of these reports is available online and
they are also available in PDF format. Take a look at the list of CLIR
reports at:
<<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html>http://www.clir.org/pubs/rep
orts/reports.html>

Publication number 83

Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social
Science Data and Metadata
by Ann Green, JoAnn Dionne, and Martin Dennis
ISBN 1-887334-68-8

Published in June 1999, Preserving the Whole appears as the
second publication of the Digital Library Federation and reflects the
Federation's interests both in advancing the state of the art of social
science data archives and in building the infrastructure necessary for the
long-term maintenance of digital information. The paper is especially
valuable as a meticulously detailed case study of migration as a
preservation strategy. It explores the options available for migrating both
data stored in a technically obsolete format and their associated
documentation stored on paper, which may itself be rapidly deteriorating.
The obsolete data format known as column binary was born in the same era of
creatively parsimonious coding techniques that have given rise to the
widely publicized Year 2000 (Y2K) computer problems.



Publication number 84

Securing Our Dance Heritage: Issues in the Documentation and Preservation
of Dance
by Catherine J. Johnson and Allegra Fuller Snyder
ISBN 1-887334-69-6

Published in July 1999, Securing Our Dance Heritage addresses the full
range of issues involved in evaluating, documenting, preserving, and making
accessible the history of dance. It will be of interest not only to members
of the international dance community, but also to libraries and archives
that house dance materials, many of which are dispersed throughout
collections of sport, anthropology, and religion. It will also interest
historians and funders of the performing arts, scientists, and scholars of
all types, who will find in dance documentation rich new resources for
investigating this uniquely expressive human activity, and, more broadly,
the managers of research institutions that hold or are acquiring
collections in nonprint form.

*****

European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA)
P.O. Box 19121, NL-1000 GC  Amsterdam,
visiting address: Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, NL-1011 JV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
tel. +31 - 20 - 551 0839   fax  +31 - 20 - 620 4941
URL: <http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/>http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/
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From: Susan Schreibman 
Subject: announcement
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 05:55:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 381 (381)


The Computer Science English Initiative at University College Dublin is
please to host a public lecture by Daniel Pitti, Project Director at the
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities entitled Thematic
Research Collections, A New Genre in Humanities Publishing:

7:30 pm, Tuesday 19th October, Room C108, The Arts Block
University College Dublin

All Welcome

for further information about this and other talks hosted by Cosei, please
contact Dr Susan Schreibman at susan.schreibman@ucd.ie
phone 706-2077, or see http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei/seminars.html



From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." 
Subject: Last Chance for Free Software
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 06:03:04 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 382 (382)


As of next week all of Ergo Linguistics Tools including the newest "Roswell
Teaches English"  will change from free software to paid software.  Those
of you would like to work with these tools for free should download them
before October 15th. You can get to the site at http://www.ergo-ling.com.

These software products will be kept on the ergo server but will be
distributed and advertised more widely and will no longer be offered for
free.  We are making this last time free offer for researchers and students
of NLP and theoretical linguistics.

All programs are written in C++ have programmer SDK's available upon
request are Windows 95/98/NT compatible.


The programs include:

MemoMaster -- An add on for speech recognition products that significantly
increases the navigation and control abilities of those products as well as
adding more sophisticated messaging and reminders and notes.

BracketDoctor -- A program for linguists which provides tree diagrams and
labelled bracketings for sentences in the Penn Treebank II style.  Great
for students who would like to include computer generated trees in their
papers using this standardized framework.

ChatterBox -- A product that provides sophisticated question and answer
abilities that are easily added to animations (e.g Microsoft Agents) and
are useful for educational and entertainment programs.

Roswell Teaches English  -- A stand alone product to help students of
English as a Second Language practice their English using natural language
questions and responses.  Includes a manual and textbook.


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
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From: Francois Lachance 
Subject: Teaching Online in Higher Education Conference
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 06:03:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 383 (383)


An online conference being organized out of Indiana University ....


	  International Online Conference on
           Teaching Online in Higher Education

        "ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES"

                     November 8-9, 1999
  Preconference Web Site: http://www.ipfw.edu/as/99tohe/

  ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !


This conference provides an international forum for discussing online teaching
and learning.  Eighty-five presenters from around the world and from a variety
of disciplines will be presenting papers and discussing their ideas with
participants online.  Discussions will cover online interactions with
students, course design and development, research, theory, support and
training, and administrative issues.  For a complete listing of topics,
visit our preconference Web site at
	http://www.ipfw.edu/as/99tohe
Send questions and/or comments to Deb Sewards, the conference coordinator,
at sewards@ipfw.edu



From: Domenico Fiormonte 
Subject: CLP '99 -- Reminder
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 06:04:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 384 (384)


          COMPUTERS, LITERATURE AND PHILOLOGY (II)
                  An international seminar
    University of Rome "La Sapienza", 3-5 November 1999

Conference programme now available at:
http://til.let.uniroma1.it/appuntamenti/seminar.htm

KEY INFO:

Fees:   (1 US $ = approx. 1.850 ITL)

          45.000 ITL - educational
         60.000  ITL - commercial
           15.000  ITL - student

Venue: Facolta' di Lettere e Filosofia, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5,
Odeion Room (Ground floor), 2.30pm.

Registration form:
http://til.let.uniroma1.it/appuntamenti/modulo.htm

For more information on accommodation, registration, bursaries,
etc. please e-mail Domenico Fiormonte (Conference Organizer) at
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From: "Michael S. Hart" 
Subject: Re: 13.0226 children, the Internet, ourselves
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 06:06:21 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 385 (385)



I am replying somewhat in the tone this was written,
please do NOT consider this inflammatory. . . .mh
[deleted quotation]

Actually, it is not up to doubting or personal opinions at all.
The next generations have already spoken, and I get email from
professors complaining that their students will not read from
any paper sources at all, they only read what is online.  As
for their reasoning, it probably doesn't have anything to do
with the "fact" as YOU see them, they don't care about pixels
and refresh rates. . .they just want the information, fast and
easily searchable. . .pages?. . .got em if you want em. . .but
ANY kind of marker will do. . .who needs pages when you can do
a quick search for a few words that are as unique as page #s.
[deleted quotation]
Gee, didn't I start doing that with my computers back in the age of
WordStar???
[deleted quotation]
Not to mention recycled computers and monitors.
[deleted quotation]
With millions of colors, various persistences, refresh rates, etc.,
so anyone should be able to find something just right for them,
even though perhaps a longer search than Goldilocks had to choose
the right porridge and bed.
[deleted quotation]
Right. . .there are so many unknown facts for readers of books,
as they haven't been around long enough for any REAL research.

I am sure there has never been any published research on how to
read best, avoid cricks in the neck, arms, hands, back, etc....
[deleted quotation]
Obviously no one will have as much thinkgin and intellectualizing when
in front of a screen, as in front of books, papyrii, clay tablets, or
stone tablets. . .how could they?
[deleted quotation]You got em. . . .

Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!!

Michael S. Hart
[hart@pobox.com]
Project Gutenberg
"Ask Dr. Internet"
Executive Director
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: French Studies Fair / Foire des etudes francaises
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:24:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 386 (386)

[deleted quotation]
French Studies Fair

	FOIRE DES ETUDES FRANCAISES
	octobre 1999 - juin 2000
	http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/foire2000

Le Departement d'Etudes francaises organise une exposition des multiples
facettes de la presence sur Internet des etudes francaises de l'Universite
de Toronto et des liens qu'elles entretiennent avec le monde francophone.

The Department of French of the University of Toronto is running an
exhibition of the multiple facets of UoT French studies on the Internet and
their links with the francophone world.

Russon Wooldridge
wulfric@chass.utoronto.ca

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From: Charles Ess 
Subject: Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:23:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 387 (387)


Colleagues:
Please distribute as you can - with apologies for cross-postings.


Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Drury College
31 March - 1 April 2000



The third annual Undergraduate/Faculty Interdisciplinary Research
Conference will be held on the campus of Drury College, 31 March - 1 April
2000. 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 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.



For examples of student and faculty papers from last year's conference,
see: "http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/irconf/program99.html".



Submissions of abstracts or completed papers are due by 17 December 1999.
Notification of acceptance is 31 January 2000. All submissions 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 accomodations 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/cfp00.html".



Previous conferences have attracted students and faculty from colleges and
universities across the United States, including participants from
Washington State University and ANAC members Quinnipiac College and North
Central College. Student presentations have 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/program99.html".


For further information, please contact: Dr. Lisa Marie Esposito,
Philosophy and Religion Department, Drury College, Springfield, MO,
65802.
E-mail: lesposit@lib.drury.edu
Voice mail: 417-873-7229
Fax: 417-873-7435



From: Jeff ALLEN 
Subject: Conf reminder: LREC-2000 - call for papers
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:24:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 388 (388)


Please note that the submission deadline is soon approaching.

            ***** REMINDER:  CALL FOR PAPERS *******

   The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute
   for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and
   the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to
   announce:

   The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
   (LREC2000)

   (The detailed announcement is available on the web at:
    http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html)

   Location: Athens, Greece
   Dates:   31 May - 2 June 2000

[material deleted]

   For general information about ELRA, please contact:

   Khalid CHOUKRI=20
   55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin
   75013 Paris  FRANCE
   Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33 - Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 30
   e-mail: choukri@elda.fr
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From: Hope Greenberg 
Subject: Physiology of Reading
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:18:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 389 (389)


Two topics that usually rear their heads during any conversation about
reading electronic texts are the difficulties of reading from a screen
and the general "un-cuddle-bleness" of the electronic grey box. While in
such discussions I usually find myself spouting the by-now standard
phrases like "yes, but on the screen you can adjust font and font size"
or "reading is a learned behavior. Ask your children or anyone who reads
more online than off what their experience is." Meanwhile, it has been
interesting to follow two developments in this area. The first is that
of hand-held electronic books. Some companies in this arena,
particularly those that are marketing to the popular reading sector, are
experiencing difficulties--the time does not seem quite right. Others,
particularly those that are marketing to specialized areas like medicine
seem to be faring better.

Another technology that seems to be doing well, particularly in light of
this week's news of an alliance between Lucent and E Ink, is that of
electronic paper. Similar work is being done by Xerox and 3M. Below are
excerpts from a 12 Oct 1999 article in Wired that you may find of
interest. I've excerpted a few bits:


E-Paper Closer to Delivery
by Leander Kahney
Wired News
3:30 p.m. 12.Oct.99.PDT
http://www.wired.com/news/print/1,1294,31877,00.html
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.. . .
Electronic paper -- an ultra-thin, lightweight screen that can be rolled
or folded like a newspaper -- may soon materialize.
.. . .
E Ink's electronic ink displays are made of millions of tiny capsules
filled with light and dark dyes that change color when zapped with an
electric charge. The e-paper displays are thin and lightweight and will
be made from inexpensive materials in a manufacturing process that more
closely resembles printing than the expensive silicon fabrication
process used to make LCDs, the companies said.
.. . .
Further down the pipe -- in three to five years -- the companies hope to
have an electronic newspaper that can be rolled up and stuffed into a
pocket, the executives said.
.. . .
Further, economies of scale may make electronic paper displays
ubiquitous, allowing them to be built into  clothes and footwear, food
and drink containers, coffee cups, and new electronic gadgets.
.. . .
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: JOBS in NLP in Sheffield
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:19:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 390 (390)

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Three posts are available in Language Engineering at the
University of Sheffield. Informal enquiries may
be made in reply to this mail, or see contact details below.

Hamish Cunningham
Fellow in Computer Science, University of Sheffield
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/


Research posts in Natural Language Engineering

Three researchers are required for a period of 2 years (in the first
instance) to work in the Natural Language Processing Group
(http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/nlp.html) of the
Department of Computer Science (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/), at the
University of Sheffield (http://www.shef.ac.uk/).

Two positions involve working on Information
Extraction (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/extraction/)
(IE) and on the General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE -
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/nlp/gate/),
which is a domain-specific software architecture for research and
development in Human Language Technologies. A main area of research
in this project will be the adaptivity of IE systems to new genres
and domains. The third post involves computational linguistics or
statistical expertise to work on an EPSRC-funded project on the
reuse of texts.

The successful candidates will preferably be competent programmers,
probably with a sound knowledge of Natural Language Processing theory
and practice, and/or statistical methods. Knowledge of some of the
following will also be an advantage:

   statistical language processing;
   Information Extraction research;
   programming in Java;
   database programming, especially using JDBC (or ODBC);
   foreign languages, and the Unicode standard;
   corpus processing.

The appointments will be made on the RA1A or RA1B scales.

Further details of how to apply may be obtained from:

The Personnel Department,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1631

Informal enquiries may be made to Yorick Wilks, Hamish Cunningham
or Rob Gaizauskas, phone +44 (0)114 222 1804/1981/1827.



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Jobs at Unilever
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:21:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 391 (391)

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Dear All,

The Adaptive Computation Unit at Unilever Research, Wirral UK, is involved
in industrial applications of leading edge technologies. We are currently
recruiting two scientists, in optimisation/evolutionary systems and text
analysis/computational linguistics. The text of our 'advert' is below, I
would be very grateful if you would pass this on to anyone who you think
may be interested.

We are also highly like to have a position for an EU Marie Curie post-doc
one of this areas, which would be open to members of the EU and other
associated countries [Switz, Israel etc] who are not resident in the UK.

Kind Regards
Shail Patel

- apologies if you have received this twice!


At Unilever it is our ability to recognise and cater for the diverse yet =
subtle needs of a global marketplace, that differentiates us from the
competitio= n. Totally committed to scientific exploration and discovery,
we invest 50 million in pioneering new research so our products remain the
preferred choice, 150 million times a day.

Adaptive Computation techniques play a key role in the development of a
wide spectrum of our product and manufacturing applications for such
leading foods, home and personal care products as Impulse, Organics,
Persil, Flora and Wall's Ice Cream. This is why we have have recently
established a Centre of Excellence in Port Sunlight that is committed to
this area and to developing and maintaining links with leading academics.

Here you will discover exciting opportunities for talented individuals who
will relish the challenge of developing leading-edge solutions to complex
industrial problems. A combination of world-class research and an
understanding of how technology may be applied in practice will enable you
to extend both your technological capabilities and application areas.

Flexible, self-motivated and a strong team player with a broad scientific
interest, you will need a high level of numeracy and the ability to work to
tight deadlines. Your good first degree with a strong mathematical
component should be supported by a PhD/MSc and/or industrial experience. We
are loo= king for one or two specialists in the following areas:

*) Evolutionary systems; Multi-criteria optimisation; Adaptive Agents;
Complex Adaptive Systems *) Statistical Text Analysis; Computational
Linguistics; Natural Language Engineering

As a world-leading organisation we can offer an atractive salary and bene=
fits package, and excellent career opportunities.

Make a noticeable difference to your career by writing with full CV quoti=
ng re 1253/SP to Vanessa Gilroy, TMP Response Management, 32 Aybrook St,
London, W1M 3JL or email you details to: response@tmp.co.uk

Contact Shail.Patel@unilever.com for further information

Closing date for applications is Nov 12 1999





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From: Elisabeth Burr 
Subject: SILFI: VI International Congress - Registration
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:55:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 392 (392)


Please distribute - Per favore, fate circolare - Bitte, weiterleiten

                                VI International Conference
	               IV Internationaler Kongress
                                VI Convegno Internazionale

		«Tradition & Innovation»
                                 «Tradizione & Innovazione»

      Italian linguistics and philology at the start of a new millennium
      Italienische Linguistik und Philologie am Beginn eines neuen Millenniums
      Linguistica e filologia italiana alle soglie di un nuovo millennio

                                    28 Giugno 2 Luglio 2000
                              Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet
                                        Duisburg, Germany

                             Online registration is now open.
                          La registrazione elettronica e' aperta.
                       Sie koennen sich jetzt online registrieren.

                http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000/


We are sorry to say that the university is not able to accept payment by
credit cards. Ci dispiace ma l'universita' non e' in grado di accettare
pagamenti con carta di credito. Es tut uns wirklich leid, aber die
Universitaet kann Bezahlungen per Kreditkarte nicht akzeptieren.


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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: humanities computing and editing & al.
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 07:55:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 393 (393)


Recently a colleague pointed out to me that in my attempts to think through
what we call "humanities computing", computer-assisted projects that
prepare editions, archives and other electronic resources did not seem to
fit. I'm not an editor by trade, though my primary (traditional) scholarly
focus for the last decade has been on preparation of a reference work, and
this has involved me with many issues common to editing. So I feel
qualified to reply, and I reply in public because I think the basic
question is important.

In my project I distinguish between two sorts of activity:

(1) everything involved in preparing the reference work, including research
on problems raised in its traditional scholarly field and those that occur
in the course of using computational methods;

(2) study of the consequences and implications of those computational methods.

It seems to me that (1), however scholarly and consequential to the
traditional field in which I work, does not constitute humanities computing
per se, only (2) does. Now the two are of course so intimately intertwined
and grown together that in fact they cannot be separated, but they can be
distinguished.

Let us say for the purposes of argument that I did (1) but not (2).
Actually this happens all the time by scholars in traditional areas who
either don't have the time to pursue (2) while they are doing (1) or don't
think (2) important, or perhaps don't even notice it. Would, then, my
project properly qualify as "humanities computing"? I think not -- it would
only be one of the many that unselfconsciously use computing on a
humanities project. (It would also have much, much less to contribute to
its traditional field, but that's a whole issue in itself.)

If we were to say that all projects qualify in which the computer plays a
significant role, then we would have more difficulty finding research that
did not qualify than research that did. But in so enlarging the domain of
our practice, we would in effect be declaring that it had no intellectual
integrity, no distinguishing point of view, no definition.

Philosophers, for example, like to say that their field includes all
thought, historians everything that has ever happened, biologists all
living systems, linguists all language. Works well in promotional blurbs to
attract students and does root each field solidly in human culture. But of
course when you enroll in a programme in one of those fields you discover
that only some aspects of thought, happenings, life, language are of
interest and the ways of looking at them are sharply focused. Excluding
most happenings from history neither denigrates those happenings (such as
being in love, or finishing one's dissertation) nor kills history. The
limitations thus imposed make the field able to put the excluded phenomena
into meaningful context and so inform these phenomena.

Comments?

Yours,
WM






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From: Charles Faulhaber 
Subject: Re: 13.0236 humanities computing & editing &al.?
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 06:05:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 394 (394)


If I read Willard right, then projects such as my database of medieval
Spanish manuscripts, PhiloBiblon, do not qualify as humanities computing,
since the intent is not to study "the consequences and implications of
computational methods" but rather to provide a resource for my colleagues
in the field of medieval Spanish literature.

If this is so, then the proposition is manifestly absurd.

Charles Faulhaber	Department of Spanish	UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590
(510) 642-3781		FAX (510) 642-7589      cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu


On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
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From: Mark Horney 
Subject: Re: 13.0232 physiology of reading
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 06:05:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 395 (395)


In our work in creating and investigating the utility of electronic
textbooks we have come to believe that the trade off between the better
"readablilty" of printed text and the flexibility of digital text comes
when readers shift from just reading the text, to studying it. Studying
often requires the juxtaposition of multiple texts and intra-textual
references, and search tasks. In assisting these operations, the computer
comes to the fore.
--Mark Horney
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Mark Horney, Ph.D.
Center forAdvanced Technology in Education
University of Oregon
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From: "by way of Humanist "
Subject: Re: 13.0239 humanities computing projects
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:12:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 396 (396)


Charles Faulhaber	Department of Spanish	UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590
wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I do not think so. The issue at stake is rather: does there
exist a discipline which we may call "humanities computing",
distinct from "philology computing" -- that would be your
case -- "history computing", "archaeology computing", etc.
etc. etc.? And what would qualify that discipline? Or simply
"humanities computing" is a general way to indicate all
individual applications?

For the sake of research, this is perhaps not much relevant,
but when one tries and organize academic courses...

Tito Orlandi

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From: Martin Mueller 
Subject: Re: 13.0239 humanities computing projects
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:12:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 397 (397)


I agree with Charles Faulhaber that Willard's division probably doesn't
work.  In fact, one might want to argue that "the study of the consequences
and implications of those computational methods" isn't humanities computing
either, but some subset of the sociology of knowledge.

Perhaps a subtraction model offers a practical definition. If I write a
book on a word processor but might just as well have banged it out on a
manual typewriter, I'm not doing "humanities computing," however much I say
that I could never have done it without my laptop. If I do a project that
couldn't be done without a computer or if I pay some systematic attention
to the ways in which the new tool allows me me to ask a new question, or
solve old questions more economically or address them in a more
comprehensive fashion, then I'm doing "humanities computing" even if I
couldn't tell one line of code from another.

Then there are the toolbuilders, the much smaller community of technically
minded scholars who produce software or are involved in the development of
standards. You couldn't make an argument that only what they do is
humanities computing in a strict sense. But it would seem silly to draw a
sharp line between the folks who build tools and the folks who use the tools.


Martin Mueller
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.  USA
martinmueller@nwu.edu



From: jhumphre 
Subject: Re: 13.0239 humanities computing projects
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:12:56 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 398 (398)


On the other hand, perhaps Willard is correct.

Is it possible that there is a need for two distinct groups or lists, namely, a
humanities list and a humanities computing list?  Although I use computers, web
sites, multi-media, etc. in my teaching, I am using technology only as a
means to
an end and not as an end in itself.  I am pleased that there are those who are
studying the use of computing in the humanities; if they make advances that
I can employ in my teaching, I will be happy to use their results.  But my
real interest is in the humanities.

The main reason that I come to this list is that sometimes there is either
information that can be used by my students, or there are links to interesting
humanities sites.  By saying this, of course, I am not suggesting that
those who are interested in humanities computing should cease their
efforts or change the orientation of their research.  But would it not be
helpful to have an additional list devoted more specifically to the
humanities (content)?

jfhumphrey




From: Daniel O'Donnell 
Subject: Re: 13.0239 humanities computing projects
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:13:09 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 399 (399)


Willard's distinction between humanities computing as 1) using computers
to do humanities and 2) thinking about how computers can be used to do
humanities seems to be a real one to me.  I am doing an electronic
edition of a 9-line Old English poem (i.e. aspect #1) but spend what
seems to me to be an inordinate amount of time working out how to do it
(aspect #2).

At the same time, however, I wonder how useful the distinction is if it
applied in an exclusionary way.  Currently the two parts of humanities
computing work symbiotically.  People's decisions about what goes into
their work is still influenced by what their computers can do, and what
computers can do is still changing in response to what people want to do
with them.  Our practice has not yet developed to the point that
somebody beginning a major or even a minor computer-based project can be
assured that the tools will be available to allow him or her to complete
the job without any kind of thought about basic technological
issues--something that happens with paper humanities all the time.
There really still are no--or if I've missed something, very few-- 'off
the shelf' humanities computing kits.

Just as importantly, the solutions people are developing in the response
to specific problems in their own projects are still having a general
effect on the field as a whole.  I've been developing a way of encoding
a textual apparatus so that it is self-lemmatising.  This is a response
to a particular problem in my edition of Caedmon's Hymn.  Since
announcing that I was working on it, I've had requests from scores of
people doing nothing remotely connected to Old English for more
information.  Apparently there is still room for generalising from
specific examples.

I think this will change in time.  I think we will gradually come to see
a division between Willard's aspects 1 and 2.  There are already people
who are expert in specific systems and languages rather than specific
projects.  Some of the questions we are asking--about database theory or
building artificial intelligence into our projects--are ultimately going
to need to be addressed by experts whose principle interest lies in
these topics rather than their application to specific texts or data.
But we are still not there yet.  The people who are primarily interested
in their subject and not the media are still making important
technological and theoretical contributions to the study of humanities
computing in abstract.

-dan



From: Roberta Astroff 
Subject: Re: 13.0239 humanities computing projects
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:13:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 400 (400)


McCarty suggests that humanities computing should be defined as:
[deleted quotation]  only.  But (1) any study, or field of study, that attempts to analyze
consequences and implications while excluding the production, design, and
content of that which is causing consequences is by definition incomplete.
The equivalent in media studies produced decades of research on "media
effects" that, by not taking into account producers, production, design and
content (as anything more than message delivery), isolated media use from
its contexts.  (2) It also creates a pointless separation between those
scholars creating databases, critical electronic editions, electronic
archives, and hyperlinked criticism and analyses and those scholars who are
investigating the impact of these new tools and media.  I don't see what we
gain by the distinction.

Roberta Astroff, Ph.D.
Humanities Librarian
Arts & Humanities Library
The University Libraries
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park PA 16802

r4a@psulias.psu.edu
814 865-0660



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: what is a humanities computing project?
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:15:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 401 (401)


In Humanist 13.236 I made an attempt to discriminate the aspects of a
computer-assisted project that we would call "humanities computing" from
those we wouldn't. I noted two components to my own:
[deleted quotation]
commenting that I thought
[deleted quotation]
Charles Faulhaber in Humanist 13.239, having read my deliberate provocation
correctly, found the criterion I offered "manifestly absurd", since it
excluded his database of medieval Spanish manuscripts, PhiloBiblon -- and
clearly many other scholarly works. Although he may be correct in his
assessment, I'd think that the attempt to figure out what we mean by a
"humanities computing project" is worth the effort. Otherwise how are we
going to evaluate, say, a student's dissertation or a colleague's work that
claims to be in whole or in part such a project? This is not a question for
the future; I have received four such projects for evaluation within the
last few months.

Let's try another approach. Let's say we have a range of projects with the
following characteristics. Irrespective of how good the projects are in the
field of application, where would you draw the line between those that are
humanities computing projects and those that are not?

1. Published papers on the project written using a word-processor;
otherwise no involvement with the computer.
2. Wordprocessing, plus a Web site describing the project, perhaps offering
online papers in which its results in the field of application are discussed.
3. The above, plus access (online and/or CD-ROM) to the data of the project
through some straightforward query mechanism, e.g. concordancer, list of
contents.
4. The above, plus a significant role for the application of standard
computational tools, such as a concordancer or image-manipulation program,
to problems in the field of application.
5. The above, plus significant scholarly contribution in metadata and/or
through specialised analytic algorithms, e.g. which allow lemmatised
searching, automatic generation of probable synonyms from an ancillary
lexical database, location of similar shapes in image data.
6. Some or all of the above, plus explicit, published analysis and
discussion of the consequences and implications of the computational
methods employed for scholarly problems in the field of application and in
other fields in the humanities.
7. The above, plus cogent discussion of how the project and others like it
affect the epistemology and sociology of knowledge.

The first is set *very* low, the last *very* high to allow the spectrum to
appear out of and disappear into the invisible, as it were.

Please note that the intent here is not to exclude in the social or
academic sense, only to be more precise about the research agenda in our field.

Comments, including a better list, most welcome.

Yours,
WM
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Don Fowler
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:36:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 402 (402)


Dear Colleagues:

I am deeply saddened and sorry to report to you that Don Fowler, an
extraordinary human being, my friend and animi hortator, classicist and
long-time computing humanist, died last Thursday of cancer. Don was one of
the leading figures in literary criticism of the classics, one of those
rare people whose scholarly imagination matched the kind of command of the
languages and literatures in Greco-Roman studies that many only dream of. A
real scholar, a real mensch.

The last time I saw Don was in his rooms at Jesus College Oxford; he had
recently been given a Sun workstation, which he had tucked away in a little
room to the side of his books-and-papers littered office, not exactly sure
what he was going to do with it, but surely something interesting. We had a
great time, as always. The first time I met Don was many years ago, I think
Lou Burnard introduced us. Don set up a lecture for me at Jesus on my then
newly begun research project on Ovid and managed somehow to get about 15-20
people there, quite a crowd for Oxford, including Richard Tarrant, *still*
editor of the great edition of the Met we all want to see someday. I was
terrified, but it all went well, and afterwards Don took me out to dinner
with a group of students and, with the help of copious quantities of wine,
we all sang "What a friend we have in Jesus", which was paying the bill, as
I recall. On another occasion he arranged for me to have dinner with the
fellows of the College; quite an experience, I can tell you, and no doubt
he enjoyed watching as well as eating.

I will miss him.

Below is Michael Fraser's note, from which I learned of Don's death.

Yours,
WM
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From: Michael Fraser 
Subject: Systems Developer, Humanities Hub
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:15:25 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 403 (403)


[Please forward to any individuals who might be interested]
[Apologies for cross-posting]

OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES

Humbul Humanities Hub, Humanities Computing Unit

Title: 	Systems Developer
Grade:	RS1A #16,286 - #24,479

The Humanities Computing Unit brings together prestigious local, national
and international projects which include the award-winning Virtual Seminars
for Teaching Literature project, the Oxford Text Archive, and the CTI Centre
for Textual Studies. Information about the HCU is available at
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/.

The Humanities Computing Unit has recently been awarded JISC funding to
develop the Humanities Hub for the new Resource Discovery Network. The Hub
will provide Web access to quality Internet resources for teaching and
research in the humanities (see http://www.humbul.ac.uk).

We are urgently seeking a Systems Developer who will be responsible for the
development of the Hub's substantial Web-based database system and to
investigate the latest tools and techniques for delivering online databases
and resource discovery.

The post requires a graduate with practical experience in the development of
database systems delivered via the Web, knowledge of advanced HTML and CGI
scripting. Good communication and organisational skills are essential. The
Systems Developer will work as part of a small team and will be encouraged
to participate in the overall development of this national service.

This post is offered as a three-year contract in the first instance.

To apply, 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, email: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk.) Further
details are also available via http://www.humbul.ac.uk/recruit.html

Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 29 October 1999.
Interviews will be held during week commencing 8 November 1999.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Book Studies Exhibition at Univ. of Iowa Libraries
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:16:14 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 404 (404)

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A new exhibit is now showing in the North Exhibition Hall in the Main
Library on campus.  "Open Book: The Book Studies Community at the
University of Iowa" runs through January of 2000.  The virtual exhibition
can be viewed at: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/exhibits/center/

The Book Studies Community at the University of Iowa consists of a diverse
interdisciplinary mix of faculty, staff, and students, with interests in
all facets of book production, distribution, and use. Some actively
research the history of the book, examining the role of books in cultural
and historical processes, and how changes in book production affect the
way books are viewed as artifacts. Specialists in the arts and
technologies of the book study the history and technique of the book
crafts, including letterpress and offset printing, typography,
calligraphy, papermaking, and bookbinding. Still others engage in the
conservation or the production of books, including artists' books and
literary fine press publications. Local book specialists, through their
expertise and enthusiasm, are a vital part of this growing community. This
exhibition is an overview of some of the faculty, staff, students,
facilities and area book specialists associated with the increasingly
multi-dimensional field of Book Studies.

"Open Book: The Book Studies Community at the University of Iowa" was
prepared by Timothy Barrett, Lissa Lord, David Schoonover, Rijn Templeton,
and Carlette Washington-Hoagland, with assistance from Cynthea Mosier,
Gary Frost, and Suzanne Micheau. We wish to thank Barry Moser for lending
special materials from his personal collection.  We wish to acknowledge
additional support from the University of Iowa Center for the Book.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Friends of the University of Iowa
Libraries.



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Nov 3 NRC Symposium: "Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property  in the Information Age"
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:17:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 405 (405)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 21, 1999


      The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
                        Public Briefing and Symposium
              November 3, 1999 (Reservations Required By Oct. 29)

                Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
                           National Research Council
                            Green Building-Room 104
                          2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
                             Washington, DC  20007

I would encourage as many NINCH Members as possible attend this public
briefing on the CSTB Report, "The Digital Dilemma," and the attendant
symposium.

David Green
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[deleted quotation]Revised Announcement for the Public Briefing and Symposium on

THE DIGITAL DILEMMA:
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE INFORMATION AGE

The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
will release its new report The Digital Dilemma at
a public briefing and symposium on Wednesday,
November 3, 1999, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
at the Georgetown Facility of the National Research
Council in Washington, DC.

**REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (see below).**
If you have already registered there is no need to reregister.

Advances in computer technology and networks confound
the system of intellectual property, which is evolving
in a legal context that began with the Constitution.
These technological advances make more intellectual
property possible, from more sources and in more places,
than ever before.  At the same time, these technological
advances enable more approaches to controlling the supply
and use of intellectual property.

How does it all add up for citizens, businesses, schools,
libraries, and government?  What can we learn from today's
MP3 craze in digital music distribution?  Does the new
"information economy" make the legal tradition of intellectual
property obsolete?

The Digital Dilemma discusses the complex labyrinth of technology,
law, economics, social science, and public policy that shapes digital
intellectual property, with an emphasis on copyright.  Acknowledging
and describing profound differences in outlook among stakeholders, it
illuminates the major policy issues relating to intellectual property in
the networked environment, describes the principal differences in
opinion on those issues, distinguishes among the more and less
tractable issues, and offers recommendations.  Specific issues
examined include the implications of digital intellectual property for
fair use, private use, public access and archiving,
technical protection mechanisms, business models, and much more.

The November 3rd event is designed to stimulate discussion of intellectual
property issues associated with the networked environment.  The issues,
the politics, and the policies will evolve over the next few years, and
the conversation must be seen as a continuing one.  Beginning with a
presentation of the new report, The Digital Dilemma, it will expand into a
broader discussion of the issues.

The Digital Dilemma is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

**Registration is Required by October 29th:  Confirmation of your
attendance and specific questions on meeting logistics should be
directed to Margaret Marsh at mmarsh@nas.edu or 202-334-2605.**
Driving directions and parking information may be found at the end
of this message.

A G E N D A

Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
National Research Council
Green Building-Room 104
2001 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC  20007

The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age
Public Briefing and Symposium

Public Briefing for The Digital Dilemma
10:30 a.m. to Noon
Chair:
Randall Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Committee Members:
Joan Feigenbaum, AT&T Labs-Research
Karen Hunter, Elsevier Science, Inc.
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Christopher C. Murray, O'Melveny and Myers

The study chair and members of the committee will
present the key findings and recommendations of
The Digital Dilemma and respond to questions from the audience.

Lunch
12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Symposium on The Digital Dilemma
1:00 - 4:30 p.m.

Panel 1:  Protecting Digital Intellectual Property: What is
the Role of Technical Protection Mechanisms and Business Models?
Chair:
Bernard Sorkin, Time-Warner
Panelists:
Alex Alben, RealNetworks, Inc. (invited)
Julie Fenster, ParentTime, LLC
Bob Lambert, The Walt Disney Company (invited)
Jack Lacy, InterTrust (invited)

Panel 2:  Public Access and the Digital Dilemma: Ensuring
the Collection, Preservation and Access to the Social,
Cultural, and Scientific Heritage of the Nation.
Chair:
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
Panelists:
Scott Bennett, Yale University
Deanna Marcum, Council on Library & Information Resources
Marybeth Peters, U. S. Copyright Office

For each panel, the panel chair will provide a brief summary
of the relevant findings and conclusions from The Digital Dilemma.
Panelists will then discuss their reactions to these conclusions and
recommendations, which will lead to a general discussion that
includes questions from the audience.

STUDY COMMITTEE FOR
THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN THE INFORMATION AGE

RANDALL DAVIS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chair
SHELTON ALEXANDER, The Pennsylvania State University
JOEY ANUFF, Wired Ventures
HOWARD BESSER, University of California at Los Angeles
SCOTT BRADNER, Harvard University
JOAN FEIGENBAUM, AT&T Labs-Research
HENRY GLADNEY, IBM Almaden Research Center
KAREN HUNTER, Elsevier Science, Inc.
CLIFFORD LYNCH, Coalition for Networked Information
CHRISTOPHER MURRAY, O'Melveny & Myers LLC
ROGER NOLL, Stanford University
DAVID REED, Cable Television Laboratories Inc.
JAMES N. ROSSE, Freedom Communications Inc.
PAMELA SAMUELSON, University of California at Berkeley
STUART SHIEBER, Harvard University
BERNARD SORKIN, Time Warner Inc.
GARY E. STRONG, Queens Borough Public Library
JONATHAN TASINI, National Writers Union/UAW Local 1981

Staff

ALAN S. INOUYE, Program Officer
JERRY SHEEHAN, Senior Program Officer
MARJORY S. BLUMENTHAL, Executive Director
MARGARET MARSH, Project Assistant


Directions to the National Research Council
Green Building-Room 104
2001 Wisconsin Avenue
Washington, DC 20007
[deleted quotation]Wisconsin Avenue towards Washington, DC. Turn left onto
Whitehaven Parkway, next to the Holiday Inn.*
[deleted quotation]Cross the Key Bridge and turn right on to M Street.  Take a left
on to 33rd Street.  33rd Street will merge into Wisconsin Avenue;
veer left.  Turn right on to Whitehaven Parkway, next to the Holiday Inn.*
[deleted quotation]Constitution Avenue. Take a right onto 23rd Street to Washington Circle.
Take the 3rd exit off the circle on to Pennsylvania Avenue, Pennsylvania
Avenue
merges into M Street.  Take M Street to Wisconsin Avenue.
Turn right onto Wisconsin Avenue.  Turn right onto Whitehaven Parkway,
next to the Holiday Inn.*
[deleted quotation]Leave the White House from 17th and Pennsylvania Ave NW. Turning
left onto Pennsylvania Ave.  Go around Washington Circle.
Take the 3rd exit off the circle back on to Pennsylvania Ave.
Pennsylvania Ave eventually merges into M St. NW. Take M St to
Wisconsin Ave. Turn right onto Wisconsin Ave NW. Turn right onto
Whitehaven Parkway, next to the Holiday Inn.*

*Take the second right into the garage in the Harris Building
across from the Green Building.  Complimentary parking is available
for participants.
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Call for Papers-REMINDER
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:46:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 406 (406)

[deleted quotation]

                              ***  NEW WEB SITE  ****

                         http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000

                         Language Technology Joint Conference
                      Applied Natural Language Processing
                                    and the
                         North American Chapter of the
                   Association for Computational Linguistics
           General Conference Chair:  Marie Meteer, BBN Technologies

                                  CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to
announce that the 2000 Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP)
conference and the first conference of the new North American Chapter of
the ACL (NAACL) will be held jointly 29 April to 3 May 2000 in Seattle,
Washington.

The joint conferences will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry
and researchers together to explore the full spectrum of computational
linguistics and natural language processing, from theory and methodology
to their application in commercial software.

For the general sessions, substantial, original, and unpublished
contributions to computational linguistics are solicited. (See the
separate Call for Student Papers to be announced soon for requirements
for submissions to the student sessions.) Submissions are due by 17
November 1999. See submission details at
http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000.

[material deleted]

IMPORTANT DATES:

Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline     October 28, 1999
Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline     November 1, 1999
Paper Submissions Deadline                November 17, 1999



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Tutorial CFP REMINDER
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:46:29 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 407 (407)

[deleted quotation]

                 ***** REMINDER REMINDER REMINDER *****

       ***** NAACL/ANLP TUTORIAL PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE *****

                 ***** OCTOBER 28 (NEXT THURSDAY) *****


                            ANLP-NAACL 2000
                     Call for Tutorial Proposals


TUTORIALS CHAIR:

   Jennifer Chu-Carroll
   Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories


CALL:

The ANLP/NAACL Program Committee invites proposals for the Tutorial Program
for ANLP/NAACL 2000, to be held in Seattle, Washington, USA, April 29 - May
3, 2000.  The tutorials will be held on April 29th.

Each tutorial should be well-focused so that its core content can be
covered in a three hour tutorial slot (plus a 30 minute break). In
exceptional cases, 6-hour tutorial slots are possible as well.

There will be space and time for between four and six three-hour tutorials.

Submission Details:

Proposals for tutorials should contain:


  * A title and brief (< 500 word) content description of the tutorial topic.

  * The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the
    tutorial speakers, with one-paragraph statement of the speaker's(s')
    research interests and areas of expertise.

  * Any special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure,
    etc.)

Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII
(iso8859-1) text as soon as possible, but no later than October 28, 1999.

Please E-mail proposals to jencc@research.bell-labs.com, with the subject
line: "ANLP/NAACL 2000 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".

Please Note: Proposals will not be accepted by regular mail or fax.


PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENTS:

Accepted tutorial speakers must provide descriptions of their tutorials for
inclusion in the Conference Registration material by January 10, 2000. The
description must be provided in three formats: a latex version that fits
onto 1/2 page; an ascii (iso8859-1) version that can be included with the
email announcement; an HTML version that can be included on the Conference
home page.

Tutorial speakers will provide tutorial materials, at least containing
copies of the overhead sheets used, by March 17, 2000.


FINANCES:

The current ACL policy is that tutorials are reimbursed at the following
rate: $500 per session plus $25 per registrant in the range 21-50 plus $15
per registrant in excess of 50. Note that this is per tutorial, not per
presenter: multiple presenters will split the proceeds, the default
assumption being an even split.  The ACL does not usually cover travel
expenses except where the presenter(s) are not independently attending the
conference and getting travel reimbursed.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline for Tutorial Proposal           October 28, 1999
Notification of acceptance of Tutorial Proposal     November 8, 1999
Tutorial descriptions due to Tutorial Chair         January 10, 2000
Tutorial course material due to Tutorial Chair      March 17, 2000
Tutorials Date                                      April 29, 2000



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: North American ACL Chapter Constitution
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:46:50 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 408 (408)

[deleted quotation]
Dear ACL member,

In 1998, the ACL Executive decided to create a chapter of the Association
specifically to serve the interests of North American members.  This
chapter will parallel the European ACL chapter, and possibly be followed
by a chapter representing Asia as well.

The Executive formed a committee consisting of Sandra Carberry (University
of Delaware), Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute of the University
of Southern California) and Marilyn Walker (AT&T Laboratories) to establish
the new chapter.

This committee presented a draft constitution for the new chapter to the
Executive at the recent ACL conference in June 1998.  The Executive agreed
to a plan leading up to the formation of the new chapter by January 2000,
involving the following steps:

1. September 1999: draft constitution of the new chapter made public to
    ACL membership via ACL website
2. September 1999: electronic discussion forum created for comments
3. October 1999: call for nominations for chapter officials
4. November 1999: electronic voting for chapter officials
5. December 1999: announcement of elected officials
6. January 2000: first electronic meeting of new chapter officials
7. April 2000: meeting of new chapter membership at NAACL/ANLP conference

The chapter creation committee will moderate the open discussion and will
act as Nominating and Electoral Committee for the election.  This committee
will dissolve at the end of December, 1999.



We invite you to peruse the new chapter constitution from the ACL website,
at
   http://www.aclweb.org/naacl/

We invite you to subscribe to the discussion list by sending an email
message to hovy@isi.edu, consisting simply of the line
   "subscribe naacl-setup"
in the subject line.

We invite you to post comments and suggestions for the activities of the
new chapter to
   naacl-setup@isi.edu

We invite you to nominate officers for the new chapter by electronically
sending the following information to Sandra Carberry
(carberry@eecis.udel.edu):
- the name and affiliation of the nominee,
- the position nominated for,
- a short statement of some of the nominee's achievements and/or
   qualifications in the context of computational linguistics,
- a short statement by the nominee expressing the willingness to stand
   for election.
Nominees must be members of ACL in good standing at the time of nomination.


The chapter creation committee,
Sandra Carberry, Eduard Hovy, Marilyn Walker



From: Harry.Bunt@kub.nl (Harry Bunt)
Subject: IWPT 2000 Final Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:47:43 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 409 (409)


------------------------------------------------------------------------

               F i n a l   C a l l   f o r   P a p e r s

                             IWPT 2000

         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         6th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

                      Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE

                         23-25 February, 2000
                           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 2000) from 23 to 25 February,
2000.

IWPT 2000 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.


     !~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!
     !  IWPT 2000 will feature the following invited speakers:  !
     !                                                          !
     !               ERIC BRILL (Microsoft Research)            !
     !    MARTIN KAY (Stanford University and Xerox Research)   !
     !             GIORGIO SATTA (University of Padua)          !
     !                                                          !
     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


More information can be found on the IWPT 2000 home page at:

         < http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ >


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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: AISB-00: Extended Deadline for SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS, 29th of  October
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:49:25 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 410 (410)

[deleted quotation]
Hello

TO ALL AI RESEARCHERS, especially but NOT EXCLUSIVELY those interested
in :

   * representing and reasoning about time or change
   * effects of AI on society (in work or leisure)
   * societal aspects of cognition
   * societies of agents
   * learning (especially in multiagent systems)

               	*****************************************
               	**                                     **
               	**            AISB'00 CONVENTION       **
               	**                                     **
              	**       ``Time for AI and Society''   **
               	**                                     **
               	** SECOND CALL FOR SYMPOSIUM PROPOSALS **
               	**                                     **
		**	    Extended Deadline	       **
		**	   29th October  1999	       **
               	*****************************************

The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of
Behaviour (AISB) is pleased to announce its forthcoming convention and
to invite proposals for the Symposia which will largely constitute the
event.

DATES:    from 17th April 2000 until 20th April 2000 inclusive
LOCATION: University of Birmingham, England
FORMAT:   up to ten serial/parallel Symposia on AI or Cognitive Science
           topics preferably related to the overall Convention theme of
                    Time for AI and Society
PROGRAMME OVERSEERS and LOCAL ARRANGERS:
   John Barnden & Mark Lee
   School of Computer Science
   University of Birmingham
   Birmingham B15 2TT
   England

   {J.A.Barnden,M.G.Lee}@cs.bham.ac.uk
   Tel: (+44)(0)121-414-{3816,4765}

SYMPOSIUM WEB PAGE:  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl/aisb/
     (currently doesn't contain much but will be added to later)

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: MT 2000: Conference and Call For Papers
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:50:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 411 (411)

[deleted quotation]
The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group,
part of the British Computer Society
URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm

PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
and CALL FOR PAPERS


MT 2000 - MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS
IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Exeter, United Kingdom
20-22 November 2000


The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG)
of the British Computer Society (BCS) announces an
international conference to be held at the University of
Exeter (UK) on 20-22 November 2000. The focus will be on
machine translation and other multilingual NLP applications.
MT 2000 will continue the tradition of the friendly and
informative events organised by the Specialist Group at
Cranfield in 1994 and 1984. The organisers aim to attract
a wide range of contributions from researchers, users and
educationalists in the field of multilingual language
engineering.

The conference will take the form of invited keynote
speakers plus individual papers. Papers will be refereed by
a programme committee. All papers accepted and presented
will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference.
Selected papers will be published in book form soon after the
conference. There will also be an exhibition area and an
opportunity for poster sessions.

Details of the time-table for submissions/reviewing,
length and format of papers, the membership of the
programme committee, and of the cost will be announced
shortly and will be posted on our web-site at
http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm

We invite papers covering but not limited to
multilingual aspects of the following topics:

    Machine translation (developments, advances, applications, uses)
    Translation aids
    Lexicography
    Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation)
    Evaluation
    Part-of-speech tagging
    Parsing
    Computer-assisted language learning
    Machine translation in education
    Information retrieval
    Information extraction
    Automatic abstracting
    Word-sense disambiguation
    Anaphora resolution
    Text categorisation
    Speech processing

The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference
Centre at the University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic
city in the heart of Devon in the South West of England.
The campus is celebrated as one of the most beautiful in
the United Kingdom. The University has an international
airport and good rail and coach links to London, Birmingham
and other UK cities.

Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk

MT 2000 web-site at Exeter University:
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/flc/MT2000
It is expected that this site will commence during October 1999.

Further information:

Derek Lewis (Co-chair: Programmme Committee)
Director of the Foreign Language Centre, Queen's Building,
University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QH, United Kingdom.
E-mail: mailto:D.R.Lewis@exeter.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1392-264 296
Facsimile: +44 (0)1392-264 293

Professor Ruslan Mitkov (Co-chair: Programme Committee)
School of Languages and European Studies, University of
Wolverhampton, Stafford Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB, United Kingdom.
E-mail: mailto:r.mitkov@wlv.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1902-322 471
Facsimile: +44 (0)1902-322 739

If you would like to receive further information by e-mail
then please send a blank e-mail message with 'SUBSCRIBE' in
the subject line to mailto:MT2000-request@rwsh.dircon.co.uk
You can cancel your subscription by typing 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in
the subject line.





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From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: 13.0241 humanities computing projects
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:08:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 412 (412)

[deleted quotation]
Excuse me -- Philology is not one of the Humanities ?  In that case,
nothing is.
(And History is, too, despite misguided administrators who want to lump it with
Psychology and Sociology.)

____________________________________

I'll take a crack at it:
[deleted quotation]
No.  That's just The World's Fastest Typewriter.
[deleted quotation]discussed.

Maybe, though it seems marginal as far as computing goes.  But inventories of
materials have been part of Humanities scholarship for centuries, so why not ?
[deleted quotation]
Yeah, though marginal still. Here and above we may still be in the "monkeys
with
typewriters" stage.
[deleted quotation]
Yes, why not ?
[deleted quotation]
Of course.
[deleted quotation]
Indeed.
[deleted quotation]
Well, the last part doesn't have much to do with computing, I think.

Where are databases ?  Information storage, analysis, manipulation, and
retrieval
are some of the most cogent things scholars have been doing for many centuries.
These techniques form the heart of many famous and applauded scholarly
investigations.  Most of them can e done better on computers, and no, the
standard
commercial packages are not very good for doing this without modification.
In the
Old Days it was necessary to write one's own database program:  now one needs a
"runtime module" quite often.  Developing this may take all the humanistic
scholarly techniques one has assembled over many years.  (Otherwise you
just have
Eeyore and the pot and the busted balloon.)



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: re: what is a humanities computing project?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:08:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 413 (413)

[deleted quotation]discussed.
[deleted quotation]
I would propose to draw the line between 1 and 2. Criterion for the
distinction could be
the question whether the use of the computer gives the recipient access to
information
he or she couldn't have realistically otherwise. The typical use of
computers in our field
(mixing media, hypertext, information retrieval / statistical analysis,
instant
communication world wide) cannot not be achieved without a computer - if
you consider
the time factor (that's the "realistically").
If the entry to the field of humanities computing is so easy and the field
is so wide, it
could be also of interest to differentiate activities in the field, maybe
along the axis how
much of your activity is concerned with the computer problems, something which
changed a lot and is going to change even more.
Fotis Jannidis
________________________________________
Forum Computerphilologie
Dr. Fotis Jannidis
http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de



From: Francois Lachance 
Subject: What is "what is"?
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:11:42 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 414 (414)


Willard,

o the great difference between a keyword and a literal string search.
Guess what database I was searching when this message was returned:

    Error: All your search words were considered too commonplace. (e.g. a,
    and, or the) Please try again using less common words.

Yes, I would have to read through many an posting to Humanist to award
the frequency prize for the uncommon tenacity of the query "what is
Humanities Computing".

o if it were simply a matter of differentiating "to Calculate" from "to
compute", the pebble praxis from the stoneless theory...


okay. let me propose something less spectral than a series of permissible
visibilities... are you not after the difference between performer and
composer.

.... and is this not a better way to sell the discipline to funders and
decisions makers?

and may I add that the performers are the poor cousins to the composers
for the moment and for the moment alone.

E.g. Recently two non-academic members of the computing in the humanities
community were dining and the conversation turned to a tale from Zen Flesh
Zen Bones. One of the interlocuters related a summary of the story:

	master expressess wish; student commits an action
	snippet of dialogue is reported
	"what have you done?"
	"what have you said?"

without a computer in sight or at hand, one of the other interlocutors
comments on the tense (both the saying and the doing are in the past
tense) and immediately begins a narrative parsing that positions a
narrative action (the deed) at t1 and an other narrative action (the
saying(s) at t2 (a saying before the being done) and t3 (a saying after
the being done) and explains that t1 is intercalcated between t2
and t3 in the diagesis ..... is this not counting, not reckoning,
sequencing and playing with matrices and intently translating the
calculation textual markers into a compution of possible logical
connectives? Now to transpose the example to the field/discipline of
humanities computing: is not the function of your expanded series
still based upon the visible/invisible and does not that single sensory
mode imply the lone practicioner whereas if we took a transactional
approach could we not contemplate certain activities within the field
being akin to a second party sounding/listening the markings of another?
This, I believe, is close to Geoffrey Rockwell's very Peircean formulation
of Humanities Computing being in the last instance a community [of users]?
If this indeed be the case is the call of "what is" also a phatic marker
testing the channels of communication? I.e. what if "what is" were a
lovely refrain too too commonplace to be a concept... One senses the need
for a conference on Humanities Computing:  The Discipline and the Noise.
One wonders if the expression is commutative [it is for Judith Schlanger
in L'invention intellectuelle where there is much to be said for the
noise of discipline].



--
Francois Lachance
Post-doctoral Fellow
projet HYPERLISTES project
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Four NLP research positions at Sheffield
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:40:39 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 415 (415)

[deleted quotation]
Four researchers are required for a period of 2 years (in the first
instance) to work in the Natural Language Processing Group of the
Department of Computer Science, at the University of Sheffield.

Two positions involve working on Information Extraction (IE) and on the
General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE), which is a
domain-specific software architecture for research and development in Human
Language Technologies. The area of research in this project (MUSE) will be
the adaptivity of IE systems to new genres and domains. The third post
involves computational linguistics or statistical expertise to work on an
EPSRC-funded project (METER) on the reuse of texts and its detection.
The fourth post involves adapting IE work within a new
EPSRC-funded project on the contents
of crime scenes (jointly with the University of Surrey).
The successful candidates will preferably be competent programmers,
probably with a sound knowledge of Natural Language Processing theory and
practice, or statistical methods. Knowledge of some of the following will
also be an advantage:

*statistical language processing;
*Information Extraction research;
*user interface programming in Java;
*database programming, especially using JDBC (or ODBC);
*foreign languages, and the Unicode standard;
*corpus processing.

The NLP research group's work can be viewed at
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/
The appointments will be made on the RA1A or RA1B scales.

Further details of how to apply from (quoting reference R1842):
The Personnel Department,
Firth Court,
Western Bank,
Sheffield
S10 2TN.
Phone: +44 (0)114 222 1631
Informal enquiries may be made to Yorick Wilks (yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Museums and the Web 2000
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:51:15 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 416 (416)

[deleted quotation]
	              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

	             Museums and the Web 2000
	                April 16-19, 2000
	            Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
                  http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/


You are invited to participate in Museums and the Web 2000!  Deliver a
paper, host an on-line activity, make a demonstration, or present a
workshop that highlights your work with cultural heritage online at this
annual conference.

MW2000 will be held April 16-19, 2000 at the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis,
Minnesota. This meeting will bring together professionals working to
enliven the delivery of culture and heritage online. Plan to participate in
the in-depth analysis of issues and lively, practical exchange of ideas and
strategies for building cultural web sites.

Proposals are due November 15, 1999. Proposed activities, papers and
workshops must address web-related issues for museums, archives, libraries
and other cultural heritage institutions or their audiences.

Submit your proposal using our online form at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

MW 2000 proposals will be reviewed by the international program committee;
speakers are selected based on the quality of their proposal, their
previous work and the recommendations of their peers. Selected speakers
will be notified by December 15, 1999. Speakers must write full papers for
the Conference Proceedings. These are due February 15, 2000. Demonstrators
may write papers, also due February 15, 2000.

Printed proceedings containing selected papers will be distributed at the
meeting. All submissions will also be available online. Many of the papers
(and all the abstracts) from Museums and the Web 1997- 999 are available
online, linked from http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html


Proposed Topics
---------------

Questions of interest to the international attendees of Museums and the Web
include:

Social Issues

	Applications of the Web by Museums
	Web Publication of Content Developed with/by/from Museums
	Use of Museum Webs in Schools and Education
	Collaboration and Cooperation in Website Development
	Evaluation

Organizational Challenges

	Internal Management of a Web Presence
	Multi-Institutional Ventures
	Sales, Advertising and Editorial Control
	Contracting Out
	Management Issues and Strategy

Technical Approaches

	Database Publishing
	Multi-media online and museum webcasting
	New standards, protocols and tools for site development
	Maintenance Strategies
	Interface design and beyond


Proposal Deadlines
------------------

* Proposals for papers will be accepted until November 15, 1999

* Proposals for demonstrations (showing features of a site without an
explicit thesis) will be accepted until February 15, 2000


Paper proposals must include:

	- Full identification of the presenter(s), including name, job
title, institution, address, phone, fax, email, and URL
	- The title of the proposed paper
	- An abstract clearly stating the specific thesis of the paper
	- AV Requirements for presentation


Demonstration proposals must include:

	- Full identification of the presenter(s), including name, job
title, institution, address, phone, fax, email, and URL
	- The title of the proposed paper
	- An abstract clearly stating the value of the demonstration
	- AV Requirements for presentation


Workshop proposals must include:

	- Full identification of the instructor(s), including name, job
title, address, phone, fax, email, and URL.
	- A syllabus outlining the content to be presented and learning
objectives for the workshop
	- Dates and places where this workshop has been previously presented
	- Proposed contract terms
	- AV Requirements for presentation


Submit Your Proposal
--------------------

* Online (preferred) using our submission form at
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

* By email, to mw2000@archimuse.com

[If you must send hardcopy, fax to Archives & Museum Informatics at
+1 412-422 8594]


Best of the Web 2000
--------------------

The MW2000 Best of the Web contest will open November 15, 1999. Nominations
will be accepted, through an online form linked from
http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/ between November 15, 1999 and February 15,
2000. Nominated sites will be peer-reviewed by a panel of judges, who will
make the awards.

We look forward to seeing you in Minneapolis!
________
J. Trant and D. Bearman			mw2000@archimuse.com
Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web		Minneapolis, Minnesota
Archives & Museum Informatics		April 16-19 1999
2008 Murray Ave, Suite D		http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/
Pittsburgh, PA 15217			phone +1 412 422 8530
USA					fax +1 412 422 8594
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Information Request
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:18:09 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 417 (417)

[deleted quotation]
Dear all,

Where can I obain information on the history of corpora either for
dictionary-making or for lingustic pursuit?

Thanks.

Gao Yongwei
Fudan University,
Shanghai, China





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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: "what is...?" once again
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:42:11 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 418 (418)


My latest go at the question of what humanities computing might or might
not be, "Humanities computing as interdiscipline", is now online, at
<http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/essays/inter/>, with an appended note on
terminology. Anyone who thinks I think I am speaking the truth at last has
another thing coming, namely the next version of my ongoing attempt to do
just that.

Comments welcome.

Yours,
WM
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Invitation to bid for COLING 2004 at COLING 2000 in  Saarbruecken
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:42:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 419 (419)

[deleted quotation]
COLING2000 will be held at Saarbruecken in 2000 (www.coling.dfki.de)
from 31 July to August 4. At that meeting the International Committee
on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) will consider bids to host COLING2004
after COLING2002 in Taipei. Normally, COLING2004 would be in the
Americas, but no site or area is excluded from bidding.

Hints on preparing a bid can be found under the last two links on:
www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/iccl.



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: AiML-ICTL 2000: First Call for Papers
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:43:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 420 (420)

[deleted quotation]
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

AiML-ICTL 2000
Advances in Modal Logic - International Conference on Temporal Logic 2000

October 4-7, 2000, University of Leipzig, Germany

AiML-ICTL 2000
In the year 2000, the Advances in Modal Logic workshop and the International
Conference on Temporal Logic will be run as a combined event, bringing
together the strongly related modal logic and computer science oriented
temporal logic communities to present and share the latest exciting results
in all relevant areas.

TOPICS
Topics of interest include: common-sense temporal reasoning, complexity of
modal and temporal logics, deontic logic, description logics, dynamic logic,
epistemic logic, modal logics of agency and space, modal logic and game
theory, modal logic and grammar formalisms, modal realism and anti-realism,
modal and temporal logic programming and theorem proving, model theory and
proof theory of modal and temporal logic, representation of time in natural
language semantics, non-monotonic modal logics, provability logic, temporal
databases. Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

[material deleted]

IMPORTANT DATES
   Submission deadline: May 15, 2000
   Notification: July 15, 2000
   Workshop: October 4-7, 2000
   Preliminary version for workshop volume due:  at the workshop
   Notification of acceptance for publication:   December 1, 2000

FURTHER INFORMATION
E-mail enquiries about AiML-ICTL 2000 should be directed to
. Information about AiML can be obtained
on the World-Wide Web at <http://www.illc.uva.nl/~mdr/AiML/>.



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: TAG+5 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:43:58 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 421 (421)

[deleted quotation]
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                       ____  __   __    _    ___
                      (_  _)(  ) / _) _( )_ | __)
                        ||  /__\( (/\(_   _)|__ \
                       (__)(_)(_)\__/  (_)  (___/
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                                 TAG+5
                         International Workshop
           on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Formalisms
                           May 25 - 27, 2000
                         Jussieu, Paris, France
                                                            =20
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                         FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS


(version fran=E7aise infra)

    The fifth workshop on tree-adjoining grammars and related
frameworks (hence the + after TAG) will be held at the University of
Paris 7, from May 25 to May 27 2000, sponsored by ATALA (Association
pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues).

    Previous workshops were held at Dagstuhl (1990), UPenn (1992),
Univ. Paris 7 (1994) and UPenn (1998).

    Original submissions on all aspects of TAGs (linguistic,
mathematical, computational, and applicational) are invited, as well
as those relating TAGs to other frameworks, lexicalized (dependency
grammars, categorial grammars...), tree-based (DTG, TFG, GB...) or
feature-based (LFG, HPSG...).

    As in the past, there will be some invited talks on other grammar
formalisms which have interesting relationships to TAGs.

[material deleted]

CONTACT ADDRESS
ADRESSE

    TAG+5
    UFRL, Universit=E9 Paris 7
    TALaNa, case 7003
    2, place Jussieu
    F-75251 Paris cedex 05

    phone: +33 1 44 27 53 70
    fax:   +33 1 44 27 79 19
    email: Alexandra.Kinyon@linguist.jussieu.fr
    web:   http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/~alex/TAGPLUS/

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
COMIT=C9 LOCAL D'ORGANISATION

    Anne Abeille (Paris 7)
    Marie-H=E9l=E8ne Candito (Paris 7 and Lexiquest)
    Lionel Clement (Paris 7)
    Kim Gerdes (Paris 7)
    Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7 and U. Penn)
    Patrice Lopez (DFKI, Saarbr=FCcken)





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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: performer/composer, merchant trader
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:41:06 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 422 (422)


In Humanist 13.244, Francois Lachance suggests that the question I am
asking might be making a distinction parallel to that commonly made between
performer and composer, which in its crudest form privileges the latter as
the creative genius, the former as mere conduit. More precisely, in
Francois' terms the distinction would be between the mere performer and the
composer-performer, or perhaps even better, the performer of explicitly
transcribed music and the improvisational jazz musician. In sitting as
judge on the scene, though, all we have are performances; in other words,
we need to ask, where is the music?

I suppose that there will never be more than a relatively small minority of
people who are directly concerned with humanities computing as such, but
there will continue to be many who use computers in research, some of these
very intelligently. Those of us specialists in the field will rejoice when
one of the intelligent applications is accompanied by an explicit concern
with the consequences and implications of computing for the research it
manifests. One hopes that more of our colleagues will make observations on
the computing -- after all, they are right there where the action is -- but
I suppose that it would be foolish to think that this would be the usual
outcome. We can hardly require it! If I am right, then usually the
specialists, such as myself, will need to continue to be observers and
interpreters of the work of others as well as researchers in our own right.
That is, a significant portion of what *we* mean by research is extraction
of consequences and implications from the research of others.
Methodological anthropologists? So, we come full-circle back to the
rootless trader in intellectual goods, the Phoenician merchant of the
settled academic world, who is the only one in any position to invent the
alphabet.

I quote Palladas (4th C), whose words, translated by Toni Harrison, I found
the other day as a Poem on the Underground:

   Loving the rituals that keep us close,
   Nature created means for friends apart:
   pen, paper, ink, the alphabet,
   signs for the distant and disconsolate heart.

Our job in these terms is, as William Morris said, to awaken in our
colleagues the realisation that "fellowship is life, lack of fellowship is
death" -- to make them realise how disconsolate they are :-).  I agree, we
certainly won't succeed by telling them that they don't belong; resentment
is different from disconsolate longing! Better to ask the question, how do
they belong? Better to make ourselves so attractive that they'd leap an
ocean to be with us.

I am quite concerned that we do not isolate ourselves behind a bristling
wall of specialisation, that we do not construct ourselves as a "science"
in the popular sense of that term -- a kind of honorific, as Searle notes,
that we would be much better without (Minds, Brains and Science, p. 11). He
goes on: "The rival picture I want to suggest is this: what we are all
aiming at in intellectual disciplines is knowledge and understanding. There
is only knowledge and understanding, whether we have it in mathematics,
literary criticism, history, physics, or philosophy."  By nature much of
our knowledge and understanding comes directly from elsewhere in the
humanities, and we get this partially by observation, partially through
collegial service. Without the years many of us have spent helping our
colleagues, where would we be? What would we know?

So, again, I recommend we begin with the image of the rootless
merchant-trader, not a slave to anyone, not denizen of yet another
fortified city, but a new kind, with a unique sort of perspective. And
again, for what it is worth, I cannot recommend strongly enough Peter
Galison's study of interdisciplinarity in microphysics, Image and Logic. He
is very, very good at demonstrating the intellectual power and excitement
that the truly interdisciplinary perspective has to offer.

Comments?

Yours,
WM

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From: Wendell Piez 
Subject: Re: 13.0244 humanities computing projects
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:41:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 423 (423)


Willard and HUMANIST:

I was struck by something interesting in Norman Hinton's coverage of your
"spectral analysis" of Humanities Computing. After nos. 4 and 5, which
successively qualify, we get:
[deleted quotation]
In other words, according to Norman, the spectrum ranges in and then out
again at both ends....

To summarize: "traditional Humanities" becomes Humanities Computing as
computing-based methods are, first, applied, and then especially when those
methods become the overt center of attention. Then, as discussion shifts
away from the methods themselves and back towards the "meta-concerns" of
discipline, society and culture that are implicated in their application
and study (and in the natural stress implicit in the first shift from
"humanity" to "computing" as subjects for our attention), it becomes less
"Humanities Computing" per se, and more "plain old" Humanities. So: the
relation of humanity to computing is a Humanities issue, but is it one in
Humanities Computing?

It may be characteristic of any academic discipline that it tends to become
its own subject. More true of some than others, I suppose. Where this is
healthy (being necessary to ground any claim to knowledge), and where
pathological (being naval-gazing) seems to be a deeper question. My sense
is that at a certain point, literary studies, history and philosophy all
seek to liberate themselves from themselves, and not just from their
methods but from their matter, to re-enter a discourse that is both larger,
and (begging some questions) more "generally relevant" than their narrow
fields of investigation. So the crisis of identity is bound up not just
with the question of what the discipline is, but also with its aspiring to
this reaching-beyond, and an anxious wondering whether, when and if the
aspiration is realized, the discipline at the foundation is necessary in
the first place. We should not forget that the question we ask about
Humanities Computing besets its parent disciplines as well.

Ironic that the wellsprings of creativity seem to lie in such impossible
endeavors, isn't it, with their reasonless passion to be at once within and
beyond?

Best regards,
Wendell


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From: Francois Lachance 
Subject: reading,writing,listening,speaking
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:41:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 424 (424)


Willard,

Since in my last missive I came very close to declaring that in a
certain cognitive fashion arithmatic is no differenct from the
language arts, I wish to treat you to some excerpts of a little report to
a colleague...

  ----- Forwarded message from lachance -----
[deleted quotation][snip]

You asked what I'm working on these days.

I'm concluding the online learning course for continuing studies.
I've got a couple of additional pieces to add to the course
site. Namely a "translation" of the four literacy skills [reading,
writing, speaking,listening] into four multimedia skills (i.e. more than
applicable to verbal arts). I've manage to rename them thus:

	reading		parsing   (attentive to breaks & groupings)
	writing		scripting (writing as a score for performance)
	listening	observing (careful looking too)
	speaking	performing (evident bit to storytellers)

Evidently there is a theatrical model at work here.

What I did discover when I presented this in class last week and moved to
the third phase of the translation was an amazing divide between machine
and human rooted in some very fundamental assumptions about the activity
of reading (i know rooting a divide ... is a mixed metaphor *smile*).

Keeping with the theme of skills, I wanted to build up the findings of
the School of Continuing Studies (University of Toronto) research into
online learning from the 1997 Carrier Pigeon Project. For that project I
had designed an evaluation instrument that summarized human-computer
interaction in terms of producing, exchanging, and finding (basically
using the computer to create files, to communicate with other file
creators and to locate creations and contact info for creators and
creations). All this seemed very machine-centred. I had taken for granted
the activity of reading (on and off screen) and with the help of a most
insightful committee the evalutation instrument was revamped.

When I introduced this in class I presented a 3:1 grouping. Three
machine-centred activities and 1 human centred. Reading was just so
different. Well upon further reflection and considering that I am
soon presenting on helping students experience searchable text databases
(TACTWeb) for the Teaching On in Higher Education conference, I want to
take up the last translation in terms of working _with_ the machine. In
retrospect, it is evident we create with the computer, we communicate with
the computer, we manage files and store information with the computer.
This is a bit different than those advertizing promises that claim
computers do things _for_ us.

So now I can complete the translations from language arts (literacy
skills) to theatre (performance/perception skills) to a networked
environment in what I might call, after Selia Karsten's work, a more
holistic fashion.

Having done this thinking in a message to you, I just might send a copy to
the course participants who somehow got me to discussing the four
language arts during a discussion of Andy Lippman's definition of
interactivity and how it is built out of contrasting conversation
with lecture. Interactivity modeled principlely as interruptable
conversation may not sufficiently value certain skills such as
listening. Of course most of the Lippman material has come to me through a
single source (Stewart Brand's _The Media Lab_) so there is a bit more
research to do here or a least some caution in any further write up of
these cognitive explorations.

Thanks for the question.
Hope you like some of the answer.

  --
Francois

----- End of forwarded message from lachance -----
the URL for site for the oline learning course
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/oline
with a splash page illustrated by graphic collectively designed and
approved by the students themselves (it was their first assignment and a
very good icebreaker)

f.
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From: Sawyer Seminar Program 
Subject: Fall Quarter Sawyer Seminar Conference
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:39:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 425 (425)


The 1999-2000 Sawyer Seminar at the University of Chicago
"Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization"
Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

SYNESTHETIC EDUCATION AND THE CULTURAL ORGANIZATION OF THE SENSES
An international conference at the University of Chicago
October 29-November 1, 1999
_________________________________________________________________

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Autumn 1999 conference of the 1999-2000
Sawyer Seminar at the University of Chicago, "Computer Science as a Human
Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization."

This quarter's conference, "Synesthetic Education and the Cultural
Organization of the Senses," will be held at the Franke Institute for the
Humanities on Saturday, October 30, and Sunday, October 31.  The keynote
address by Simon Penny of Carnegie Mellon University, "Modalities of
Interaction: Embodiment and Digital Cultural Practice," will be held in
Social Sciences, Room 122, on Friday, October 29th at 5:00 pm with a
reception to follow.  Finally, a concluding roundtable and panel discussion
will take place at the Franke Institute on Monday, November 1, at 4:00 pm.

A detailed conference schedule and interactive discussion list, as well as
information about the seminar's aims and other events related to the
1999-2000 Sawyer Seminar, can be found at the seminar web site:

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/sawyer/CSasHS

We invite your participation and look forward to a productive and rewarding
conference.

Best wishes,

Margot Browning, Associate Director
The Franke Institute for the Humanities
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The 1999-2000 Sawyer Seminar at the University of Chicago
"Computer Science as a Human Science: The Cultural Impact of Computerization"
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/sawyer/CSasHS
sawyer-seminar@uchicago.edu

The Franke Institute for the Humanities
The University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street, JRL S-102
Chicago, IL  60637



From: Chuck Bearden 
Subject: Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals, Houston
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:40:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 426 (426)


[This announcement is being cross-posted.]

          Digitization for Cultural Heritage Professionals
                   HATII, University of Glasgow
                 Fondren Library, Rice University
                Houston, Texas, March 5 - 10, 2000
                http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/DCHP00/

Following the great success of the 1998 and 1999 Glasgow Digitisation
Summer Schools, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information
Institute (HATII) and the Fondren Library at Rice University are
pleased to announce the first offering of this course in North America.

Full details of the course and preliminary registration materials can
be found at:

   http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/DCHP00/

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 program will be of value to
students, academics, and professionals working in the cultural and
humanities sector (archives, museums, libraries).

It introduces skills, principles, and best practice in the
digitization 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 digitization 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:

   o be familiar with major digitization projects and how they are
     being run;
   o acquire the skills to select materials for digitization and
     provide sound justifications for these decisions;
   o 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 digitization initiative;
   o gain the skills to manage the digitization process from end-to-end;
   o appreciate the role and types of metadata used to assure the long
     term reusability of digital materials;
   o acquire the skills to create suitable metadata;
   o be able to determine the costs of digitization projects;
   o be able to plan appropriate storage and access facilities; and,
   o understand the application of the techniques to various heritage
     sectors, including archives, libraries, special collections, and
     museums.

Time scale
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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 a visit to the Woodson
Research Center (Fondren's special collections and archives unit) as
well as a visit to another Houston-area special collection.

Daily schedule: 9:00-9:55 Lecture, 10:00-11:00 Seminar, 11:30-12:45
Lecture, 2:00-4:15 Practical I, 4:30-6:30 Practical II)

Costs, Registration, and Deadlines
----------------------------------
Course Fees (including study materials, mid-morning coffee, lunch,
and afternoon tea breaks, not including accommodation):
   - Advanced booking price: $700 (fees paid by January 15, 2000)
   - Normal price: $800 (fees paid after January 15, 2000)

More information can be found at:

   http://www.rice.edu/Fondren/DCHP00/

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

The Fondren Library, Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
Telephone: (+1 713) 527 4022 | Fax: (+1 713) 285 5258
cbearden@rice.edu

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Charles Henry, Ph.D.
Vice Provost and University Librarian
Fondren Library MS 44
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892
voice: 713.527-4022  fax: 713. 285-5258
<http://riceinfo.rice.edu/>

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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

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From: "Jan K. Rybicki" 
Subject: History of Humanities Computing
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:40:45 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 427 (427)


Anyone:

Any suggestions for texts that deal with the (tempestuous) history of
Computing in the Humanities (especially with that of textual analysis)?


Jan Rybicki
Pedagogical Academy
Krakow, Poland



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: revision in public
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 20:41:24 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 428 (428)


I suspect that what I call "revision in public" is becoming commonplace but
is perhaps worth our notice. I have found myself on several occasions now
self-publishing an essay or talk online, drawing it to the attention of
friends and colleagues, then revising it as comments come in and inspire
changes. When the published piece is discursive rather that, say, a list of
items, I find it utterly impractical to signal the changes in any way other
than to specify the revision date, usually at the top. As one would expect,
revisions tend to cluster in the early days of circulation, then taper off.

How many of us do that with our own work? Is it an effective pedagogical
technique in a writing class? What implications does it hold for how we work?

WM
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Leonard Boyle 1923-1999
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:15:26 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 429 (429)


Dear Colleagues:

It is my sad duty to tell you that Father Leonard Boyle, an extraordinary
human being, one of the great palaeographers and a scholar keenly
interested and involved in our field, has died at the age of 75. An
obituary from the New York Times is included below.

Boyle was formerly Prefect of the Vatican Library. Before he went to Rome
he was professor in the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto,
where he taught palaeography to generations of students in the Institute
and in the Centre for Medieval Studies. I first encountered Boyle when I
was a student of Old English, in a course taught by Angus Cameron (fons et
origo of the Dictionary of Old English), at Toronto in 1976. For a final
project I submitted to Angus a amateur's palaeographical study of some
vernacular Anglo-Saxon hands (I had done palaeography on my own as a
calligrapher years before). Much to my delight Angus thought well of the
project. Without asking me he passed it on to Boyle, who then contacted me
and asked me to see him. I went to the Institute expecting a stuffy
academic scholar totally ignorant of the practical side of lettering.
Boyle, the speed of whose wit and clarity of mind recall many a story of
samurai swordsmanship, quickly disabused me of such expectations; he knew
all about the American Arts-and-Crafts Revival of calligraphy and had on
his bookshelf most of the rather difficult-to-obtain books I was very proud
of having in my collection. He knew of my mentor, Lloyd Reynolds, at
Reed College. I was impressed! We became friends.

I saw him again from time to time in Toronto, always intending to take his
palaeography course, but as a budding Miltonist never did, alas, alas.
While working at the Records of Early English Drama project I became
friends with a number of medievalists and as a result joined the long
chain of beneficiaries of Boyle's insomnia. It seems that to while away
the hours Boyle would read mystery novels, and at such a rate that a
constant stream of them flowed from his study to the many others like
myself needing some relief from our day jobs.

Boyle was then called to Rome. Some years later I found myself there for
the first time, on a Sunday. I was approaching the Vatican when I spotted
him walking briskly along in plain black. The only thing I remember about
the conversation (other than the warmth of his greeting) was his telling
me which of the nearby "bars" (Italian style) was the best place to get a
sandwich. He explained that he could not go to the best one because the
owner knew him and would refuse to take money from him. "I have a very dim
view of a man not earning his living!" he exclaimed -- and walked on.

Some years after that I was giving a talk on computing at the Institute
when Boyle turned up unexpectedly to introduce me. He commented that the
sort of thing I was about to lecture on was precisely what he had had in
mind when he established the lecture series 15 years previously. Computers
were rather new to our academic  world then, but Boyle was the kind of
person who could recognise a good thing for scholarship when he saw it,
however obscured by temporary crudities of form.

I referred above to samurai swordsmanship. The particular accomplishment I
have in mind is the ability to slice a burning candle in half without
disturbing the flame. But the metaphor doesn't do justice to his
salt-of-the-earth wit, the sparkle of rebellious, conspiratorial delight in
his eyes, the burning intelligence, the etymologically precise magnaminity,
the passion for letterforms, for the life of the mind. A great loss to us all.

Yours,
WM
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King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. /
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From: A Morrison 
Subject: Re: 13.0251 history of humanities computing? revision in
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 05:23:01 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 430 (430)

                 public?
[deleted quotation]work?

oh my goodness.  isn't this how we all work?  i run things past at least
two different readers, in several different versions, before i commit to
handing it in/sending it off. but the visibility of the process is very
narrow ... and i owe favours to those who read my over-semi-coloned
writing.

obviously, this semi-public revision process works best when my readers
know what i'm talking about -- to move this system onto the web is just a
means (i think) of broadening the cast-for-readers who will challenge and
extend your thinking on a topic.  that's good for the writer, for sure.

for how we work?  well ... how often will we reread a paper posted/edited
this way?  how do we mark off the newly-hatched from the well-thought-out?
how do you cite something that's constantly in flux?  will this make us
lazier as writers or crankier as readers?  probably ...

for teaching purposes, it's grand.  i'm always trying to convince my
students that i rewrite everything at least five times, that writing, even
by professional writers -- hey, especially by professional writers -- is a
process of constant, thoughtful revision.  if we can *mark* this process
in our semi-published works, then the point is really hit home.

i think taking reader responses into account is great, but that anything
web-previewed should at least demonstrate that the writer has in fact put
in time and effort enough to make it worth my (very pressed) time as a
reader.  so, no typos, etc (unlike in this email ...)  it's not about
transfering responsibility from the writer to a cadre of anonymous
editors, but rather of extending the writer's responsibility by making
him/her more immediately accountable/available.

always putting on that positive spin on things ...
aimeefreak
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aimee morrison
phd program, dept of english
university of alberta
edmonton, alberta
ahm@ualberta.ca
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From: Francois Lachance 
Subject: restless re rootless
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 18:51:51 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 431 (431)



Willard,

Who is this Phoenician guy?

Your circling back to the lone figure of the trader echoes eeriely
with the fourth section of EliotUs _The Wasteland_

Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell
And the profit and loss.

One reads on, learns that Phlebian corpse has passed on to the whirlpool, and
one comes to the invitation to "Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome
and tall as you." Short people get off the hook and need not, for the
moment, contemplate the vanitas theme. Indeed anyone can get off the
hook unless they occupy the position of pilot, someone at the helm for
the "you" of the poem refers internally to "Gentile or Jew/ O you who
turn the wheel and look to windward".

Intrigued, I took a little spin leeward (nice to think of an archive
being temporarily on the sheltered side of the datastream). I found
that Maureen Donovan read your spring time pointing to Phoenician
traders and inventors of the alphabet as an implicit and strong
endorsement of networking in both the social and computational senses.
I went back and checked the record. You did indeed use the plural in
that previous invocation.

But, I feel partly responsible for this recent downsizing in your
Phoencician cohort. I did after all use both terms, composer and
performer, in the singular with every intention of eliciting the image
of the individual --- the node in the network.  And you most
delightfully hyphenated the functions demonstrating thereby they could
nest in one body.  We are still in the realm of sets of behaviour.

However, unlike Eliot's poem, there is no easy way, for me, to find a
lever of non-identification in your invitation to contemplate a model
of behaviour.  You wrote:

   So, again, I recommend we begin with the image of the rootless
   merchant-trader, not a slave to anyone, not denizen of yet another
   fortified city, but a new kind, with a unique sort of perspective.

If the composer-performer hyphenation is meant to be homologous to the
merchante-trader hyphenation, then there is something at odds in the
attribution of rootlessness. Just as composer-performer implies the
pair "plan & execute," the  merchant can be the sedentary city dweller
and the trader, the roamer. However, the daily commute from home to
place of business may mean that the merchant-city dweller actually
travels a greater distance than the trader who is perhaps inclined to
seasonal displacement over vast distances but very much bounded to
camp while _in situ_.

Of course, this toying with scales does not advance the
consideration of your original question as to positioning of
the scholar-figure in relation to the inventor-explorer and
the trader-merchant.

Allow me to dwell on the attribute "rootless":

The full biomass of even the most sturdy of oaks ressembles
the drifting spores of mushrooms: not all acorns have
sprouted; not all saprophytes feed at once upon the same
detrius. Reproductive reserve may be that unique sort of
perspective on the unhidden hidden...

My oaken example is inspired by an institution which has as a motto
"velut arbor aevo" and remains silent with regards to the invisible
growth referenced in its source:

	 cresit occulto velut arbor aevo fama Marcellis
	 Horace _Odes_, Book 1 Ode 12

The motto with its silencing of silent growth stands at the base of
the crest whose topmost part displays a tree sans roots but
bearing fruit. See
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utcrest.html

I shall avoid allegorical readings of this material and simply
conclude that it is the restless not the rootless, that read as Humanists
from the swaying crowsnest (royal oak become mast) or calculate as Humanists
from the humble patch of garden dirt enriched by oak leaf humus.

Francois

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From: Wendy Shaw 
Subject: Humanist request please
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:36:42 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 432 (432)


I am a third year postgraduate researcher who is investigating the Use
of the Internet by academics in the discipline of English Literature
for research and teaching purposes. For part of my studies I am
looking at discussion lists and the way in which they are used by
academics to answer a query or request for information. As a member of
the Duet list I wondered if you would mind answering a couple of
questions for me?

1) What other lists do you subscribe to/and/or contribute to on a
regular basis?

2) What are your reasons for using these lists and why?

Any advice, comments and answers would be appreciated.
Yours,
Wendy Shaw







--
Wendy Shaw, BSc Econ                             wws94@aber.ac.uk
Dept of Information & Library Studies
University of Wales, Llanbadarn Campus, Aberystwyth,
Wales. SY23 3AS   http://www.aber.ac.uk/~wws94
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From: "Patrick T. Rourke" 
Subject: [STOA] The Suda On Line's Suda Classics
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 09:29:45 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 433 (433)


[I forward the following for your attention. It announces an addition to
the Suda On Line project, the objective of which is to publish the
Byzantine lexicon known as the Suda in such a way as to allow readers
access to its entries as they proceed through the editorial process. SOL
thus takes advantage of online publication in a way I have not seen
before, one that differs fundamentally from print-based publication as it
is usually done. The Suda is, of course, important in its own right; an
edition with translations and commentary is most welcome to many people
outside the domains of Byzantine and Classical scholarship. The publishing
design, however, extends to all large works whose preparation time keeps
them out of sight for a long period. It will be interesting to follow the
progress of the SOL to see how well its design suits its very demanding
audience. --WM]

[Apologies for cross-posting.]

The Suda On Line (SOL) presents Suda Classics - a weekly message featuring
the best of recent additions to the Suda On Line database of translations
from the Suda.  For this first week, we'll be featuring an extract from
Marcelo Boeri's marvelous annotated translation of Suda lemma Tau 282 Adler,
"telos," "end."  Use this url to look up the full translation entry in the
Suda On Line database (there should be no spaces):

http://www.stoa.org/sol-cgi-bin/search.pl?searchstr=tau,282&field=adlerhw_gr


Telos, tau,282 [End]

End: "that for the sake of which", that is to say "the end", is twofold:
"that in view of which" and "that in view of whom"[1]. For instance, for the
builder the end as "that for the sake of which" is to produce a covering
preventive of rain and burning heat for us, for he produces such a covering
for us. Therefore, we are the builder's end in the sense of "that in view of
whom". The same thing can be considered with regard to all the things
constituted by nature as well. For example, desire for the divine, the
desire in virtue of which each animated thing makes itself a different
thing, is an end in the sense of "that in view of which". For generation is
in view of it. But since bodies become instruments for the souls, these are
ends in the sense of "that in view of whom" [2]. Thus nature is analogous to
the builder, who is a craftsman, and the soul becomes a covering for the man
giving commands, and the house for the body. But the end not only is twofold
("that in view of which" and "that in view of whom") in the case of animals
but also in the case of plants [. . . .]

Translated by: Marcelo Boeri


After you've taken a look at the full entry, please feel free to forward any
comments to the SOL Managing Committee at the address below. Perhaps you'd
like to volunteer your services as an editor (vetting completed entries like
the above for possible improvements) or translator - some related entries
we'd like to see translated soon include hypotelis (Upsilon,603) and
demiourgei, demiourgoi (Delta 435,437).  If you're interested in
volunteering as either a translator or an editor, please register at the SOL
website, http://www.stoa.org/sol/.


[Future mailings of Suda Classics will be made on Sunday evenings after 8:00
pm EST. With next week's mailing, we will provide you with a web address
where you'll be able to find previous weeks' Suda Classics. If you'd like to
receive these messages directly to your mailbox, or you'd like to suggest a
future Suda Classic feature translation, please contact the SOL Managing
Committee at the address below.]

**********
Suda On Line - http://www.stoa.org/sol/  - sudatores@lsv.uky.edu
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From: Haskell Springer 
Subject: Re: 13.0259 Internet for research & teaching in English?
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 14:34:05 -0600
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 434 (434)


Subscribe to:
HUMANIST-L
ISHMAIL-L (Herman Melville)
T-AMLIT
MTT-L
HTECH-L
tomorrow's professor
EDOCS
I am not a member of the Duet list

Purposes:
Learning about tech, theory, applications; keeping up to date in lit.
field; community.

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From: Peter Batke 
Subject: List Based Searching
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 10:46:18 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 435 (435)


Dear Willard and Humanists;

Although the site is still and ever a work in progress,
[the plumber are still in the building, checking all the
links] the "List Based Searching" web is ready for its first
visitors. The front door is still lacking its flash movie,
but come on in anyway:
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/lbs/

List Based Searching
A Web of Examples, Theory and Practice in Using Lists
as Input for Search Algorithms

Abstract:
The chief idea is to differentiate key-word
searching from searching based on a
list of the vocabulary of a text. While
key-words work for libraries and
dictionaries, they do not work for
running texts.

A secondary idea is to give the user
a "query staging area" - where queries
can be composed from the wordlist
before they are sent off the the engine.

This work resulted from some specific
problems with Judeo-Arabic documents
that would not work with commercial
searching programs. More on this at:

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/geniza/ts_search/ins3.htm

Contents:
There is a 20 page explanatory essay with
links and illustrations:

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/lbs/lbs.htm

as well as three working examples:

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/dante/minor/
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/geniza/ts_search/
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/charrette/

and a dip into the history of humanities computing
the reprint an essay by Stephen M. Parrish:

http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/lbs/parrish.htm

and some work from my own electronical
workbench which can be reached from
the "Site Map."

I would welcome comments at
batke@princeton.edu

I would also welcome anyone who
would like to use some of these techniques
with their own texts. The perl scripts
and the list making scripts are published
on the site, and I would love to become
involved in some collaborations.

Since I have taken pains to offend a large part
of the text searching establishment in my review
of the existing offerings, I would also submit
to a public discussion of my ideas, although
I cannot promise to be very active I my
defense.

With kind regards,

Peter Batke
Humanities Specialist, CIT
Princeton University
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From: Jean G Anderson 
Subject: ALLC/ACH 2000 conference
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 10:55:34 GMT
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 436 (436)


Apologies for cross postings.

CALL FOR PAPERS

ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES

JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH 2000

JULY 21-25, 2000 UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UK.

ALLC/ACH 2000 invites submissions of between 1000 and 1500
words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as
the common ground between computing methodologies and
problems in humanities research and teaching.

We welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, including
interdisciplinary work. Appropriate discipline areas include, but are
not limited to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music,
art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, creative
writing, and cultural studies.We particularly encourage
submissions from new media and multimedia studies and from
disciplines such as library science, linguistics and other social
sciences, where these overlap significantly with the humanities.

Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital
resources, and the application to humanities data of techniques
developed in such fields as information science and the physical
sciences and engineering, including neural networks and image
processing.

Successful proposals might, for instance, focus on:
 - new computational tools and approaches to research in
humanities disciplines;
 - traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including
(but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora,
computational lexicography, statistical models, and text analysis;
 - applications to the digital arts, especially projects and
installations that feature technical research of potential interest to
humanities scholars;
 - information design in relation to the academic humanities,
including visualization, simulation, and modelling;
 - pedagogical applications within the humanities;
 - the institutional role of humanities computing within the academy,
including research and teaching in the subject and collegial support
for these activities in other fields.

PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those
describing finished research may be submitted as papers. Ongoing
dissertation research may be submitted as poster proposals. See
below for details.
Those  interested in seeing the type of paper the committee is
looking for  can consult the abstracts of papers at previous
conferences:
University of Bergen, Norway - http://www.hd.uib.no/allc-
ach96.html,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada -
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/,
Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary -
http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98/,
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA -
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/.

Students and young scholars should also read the note on
bursaries later in this document.

Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to
facilitate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in
a language other than English are submitted with an English
translation.

The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 15
NOVEMBER 1999.
The deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 15
JANUARY 2000.

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS
Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software
demonstrations, and sessions. The type of submission should be
specified in the header of the proposal.

PAPERS
Proposals for papers (1000-1500 words) should describe completed
research which has given rise to substantial results. Individual
papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including
questions.

Proposals should describe original work. Those that concentrate on
the development of new computing methodologies should make
clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or
teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical
assessment of the application of those methodologies in the
humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in
the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based
approaches to the problem and should include some critical
assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals
should include conclusions and references to important sources.
Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should
follow these guidelines as far as possible.

POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS
Poster presentations and software and project demonstrations
(either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) are
designed to give researchers an opportunity to present late-
breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined
problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational
mode.

By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more
interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the
opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to
discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the
same topic. Each presenter is provided with about 2 square metres
of board space to display their work. They may also provide
handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will
remain on display throughout the conference, but a block of time
separate from paper sessions will be assigned when presenters
should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions.
Specific times will also be assigned for software or project
demonstrations.

The format for proposals for posters and software demonstrations
are the same as those for regular papers.

Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indicate
the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is
accepted.

SESSIONS
Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:

(a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word
statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000-
1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing
to participate in the session; or

(b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should
submit an abstract of 1000-1500 words describing the panel topic,
how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an
indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session.

The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for
papers.

FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS
All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay particular
attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not
conform to this format will be returned to the authors for
reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to
the deadline.

All submissions should begin with the following information:

TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, session or software
demonstration.
TITLE: title of paper or session
KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main
contents of the
paper or session

If submitting a session proposal, give the following information for
each paper:

TITLE: title of paper
KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main
contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author
AFFILIATION: of first author
E-MAIL: of first author

If submitting a paper proposal, give the following information:

AUTHOR: name of first author
AFFILIATION: of first author
E-MAIL: of first author

AUTHOR: name of second author  (repeat these three headings as
necessary)
AFFILIATION: of second author
E-MAIL: of second author

CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact
person for session proposals
FAX NUMBER: of first author
PHONE NUMBER: of first author

Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1 files. Where
necessary, a header should indicate the combinations of ASCII
characters used to represent characters outside the ASCII or ISO
8859/1 range. Notes, if needed, should take the form of endnotes
rather than footnotes.

Submissions should be entered into the online form on the web
page at:
    http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/

or sent to:
    allcach2k@arts.gla.ac.uk   with the subject line "
Submission for ALLCACH2k".

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: +44 141 330 4537. The cover
page should reproduce the header from the electronic submission,
clearly stating  Submission for ALLCACH2k.

EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY
Presenters will have available an overhead projector, a slide
projector, a data projector which will display Macintosh,
DOS/Windows, and video (but not simultaneously), an Internet
connected computer which will run Macintosh OS programs or
DOS/Windows programs, and a VHS (PAL) videocassette recorder.
NTSC format may be available; if you anticipate needing NTSC,
please note this information in your proposal.

Requests for other presentation equipment will be considered by
the  local organizers; requests for special equipment should be
directed to the local organizers no later than January 31, 2000.

DEADLINES
November 15, 1999: Submission of proposals for papers and
sessions;
January 15, 2000: Submission of proposals for posters and software
demonstrations.
February 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance.

PUBLICATION
A book of abstracts will be provided to all conference participants.
In addition, abstracts will be published on the conference web page
at:  http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/
An announcement in regard to publication of full papers will be
made in due course.

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers who will make
recommendations to the Program Committee comprising:

Paul Fortier, University of Manitoba (Chair)
Fortier@cc.umanitoba.ca
John Dawson  Cambridge University
JLD1@cam.ac.uk
Laszlo Hunyadi, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen,
hunyadi@llab2.arts.klte.hu
Elisabeth Burr, University of Duisburg,
he229bu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de
Julia Flanders, Brown University,
julia_flanders@brown.edu
Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Virginia,
mgk3k@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Willard McCarty, King^Òs College, London,
willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk
Nancy Ide, Vassar College
ide@cs.vassar.edu

LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Jean Anderson, Univeristy of Glasgow, j.anderson@arts.gla.ac.uk
Fiona Tweedie, University of Glasgow, f.tweedie@stats.gla.ac.uk

BURSARIES
As part of its commitment to promote the development and
application of appropriate computing in humanities scholarship, the
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing will award up to
five bursaries of up to 500 GB pounds each to students and young
scholars who have papers accepted for presentation at the
conference. Applicants must be members of ALLC. The ALLC will
make the awards after the Program Committee have decided which
proposals are to be accepted. Recipients will be notified as soon as
possible thereafter. A participant in a multi-author paper is eligible
for an award, but it must be clear that s/he is contributing
substantially to the paper.

Applications must be made to the conference organizer. The
deadline  for receipt of applications is the same as for submission of
papers, i.e. November 15, 1999. Full details of the bursary scheme,
and an on-line application form will be available from the conference
web page.

LOCATION
The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451, and is a major
visitor attraction in Glasgow, the 1999 City of Architecture. It has
over 14,000 students and more than 120 departments. Being
Glasgow's first University, it is well-placed to offer an insight into
Scotland's historical, educational and cultural heritage. The main
University campus is situated at Gilmorehill, overlooking the mainly
residential West End, located in a landscaped parkland setting
(which it shares with the City's Kelvingrove Museum and Art
Gallery).

Accommodation will be offered in nearby student residences from
£21 to £30, and in hotels at a range of prices. See the
Accommodation Office pages at
http://www.gla.ac.uk/Otherdepts/Accom/index.html for more
information.

It is expected that the conference fee will be on the order of 150 GBP
for members. This will include the printed abstracts, morning and
afternoon refreshment breaks, and lunch.

There will be a varied programme of social events, including tours
to nearby lochs and mountains, a visit to a whisky distillery, tutored
whisky tasting, and a ceilidh with traditional Scottish music and
dancing.

Detailed information on the conference, the university, and the city
will be on the conference web page:
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/


FURTHER INFORMATION...
Accommodation, travel and registration enquiries:
Conference and Vacation Office, University of Glasgow, 81 Great
George Street, Glasgow G12 8RR, UK.
Tel: +44 (0) 141 330 5385, Fax: 0141 334 5465.
URL: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Otherdepts/Accom/
Email: conf@gla.ac.uk

Queries concerning the goals of the conference or the format or
content of papers should be addressed to:
Jean Anderson,
ALLC/ACH 2000,
University of Glasgow,
6 University Gardens,
Glasgow G12 8QH, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4980
Email: allcach2k@arts.gla.ac.uk

Scottish links
University of Glasgow Visitors page:
http://www.gla.ac.uk/General/Visiting.html
Scotland Online: http://www.scotland.net/
Scottish Tourist Board: http://www.holiday.scotland.net/



____________________________________________
Jean Anderson, Resource Development Officer, HATII
STELLA, University of Glasgow, 6 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH
phone: +44 (0)141 330 4980
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/STELLA/
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/





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From: Paul Halsall 
Subject: Destruction of the Document Archive at
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 15:41:45 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 437 (437)


American University in DC has long provided a major Internet repository
of early church and later catholic documents. These were established by
members of a number of email lists long based at american.edu,
especially members of the "Free Catholic List." The major collections
are under the URL
http://listserv.american.edu/catholic/

In recent weeks American University has informed all non-AU lists based
at its servers that they must move. This is inconvenient, and will out
date many print based references to such lists, but I suppose AU has the
right to change its policy. (It did, however, long ago promise such
lists that they could run from AU in perpetuity.)

Today I have learned that not only is AU booting the various email
lists, but will also destroy the directories associated with those
lists. This means that the entire library of texts on church history
will be destroyed. The date of destruction has been specified as
Thanksgiving weekend. Needless to say I, at least, am unhappy about a
wilful destruction of a library.

Currently Altavista reports 4757 links pointing to the Catholic Files
library, which gives some idea of the disruption american.edu is about
to visit upon users of online texts.

Some people may think that this is worth protesting to AU staff, AU
campus newspapers, and perhaps in other venues. For others, this would
be a good time to download the texts in question.

Note that many of the texts are available at other sites, but none have
quite the range of the AU collection. Moroever many of the other sites
now carry advertising, promote non-academic agendas, or practice a
rotation of URLs (which makes stable links hard to maintain.)

The contact person at AU appears to be Ann Hennings,
henings@american.edu, but the person responsible for the decision is
Carl Whitman, Executive Director of OIT.

Paul Halsall



From: Paul Halsall 
Subject: Re: Catholic Archives at American University
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 16:38:58 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 438 (438)


In response to a number of private messages about the "Catholic Files"
site.

First, wrt to the files themselves -- the total memory storage is not
that much -- much less that 50MB -- and Jim M cIntosh (former web master
at AU, and the guy who set up the whole site) is already trying to set
up a set of forwarding links.

The issue, however, is more than these particular files. Obviously I am
deeply involved in web presentation of scholarly materials, and one of
the *biggest* problems we have in getting scholars to take e-texts
seriously as citable resources is that URLs are unstable. The AU
Catholic Files directory was one of the most cited, and most stable, of
all online resources, so for it to fall is a major problem *even if*
forwards are put in.

Cheers.

Paul

[PS: for non US residents -- Thanksgiving in the US is the last Thursday
in November]





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From: 
Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 439 (439)

Dear Colleagues:

Change to the mailer here at King's College London has inadvertently
crippled the software I use for digesting Humanist messages. For that
reason they will be sent out individually until the problem can be fixed. I
very much hope the problem can be solved within the next day or so.

Many apologies for the inconvenience this problem no doubt causes.

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: Marcel Marien 
Subject: WordCruncher
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 440 (440)


Dear all,

over the past few years I have prepared a comprehensive body of mainly
religious texts in several languages to be indexed with WordCruncher
(giving reference to chapter, sub-chapter and paragraph). Since the users
have moved from a DOS to a Windows environment I inquired if there was an
upgrade to the program. I found several infos on the Internet, which
discuss a WordCruncher for Windows version and therefore turned to
"WordCruncher Internet Technologies", but after a lengthy e-mail exchange I
learned, that the software is no longer supported and there was no
possibility any more to obtain a copy of WordCruncher for Windows.

My question is now: Does any one know how I can still obtain a copy of
WordCruncher for Windows other than from WCIT? (I found the viewer on the
Internet, but not the indexing software.) Alternatively is there any
possibility to use the prepared texts with an alternative software? If yes,
what software and where can I get it?

The indexing software should at least be able to:
* index text on at least 3 hierarchical levels, more levels would be welcome,
* map each of 255 characters to a freely choosen alternative character (so
    that in a search no accented letters have to be keyed in)
* define the function of each of 255 characters (is it UpperCase or LowerCase
    or Apostroph, does it switch the index on or off etc.)
* join indexed texts into large books (15 Mbyte and more)

The viewing software should at least be able to:
* make complex boolean searches
* store search results
* accept word-lists as search input
* output text
* allow to cut text to be pasted into other applications

I am grateful for any hint and information

Marcel Marien


From: Dominik Wujastyk  (by way of Humanist
Subject: Re: 13.0194 clarifications: Greek-Sanskrit; edge-finding?
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:52:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 441 (441)

:
:
:

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:



From: 
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I was the original enquirer, and I had this latter problem in mind.  At
the Wellcome Library where I work, we have some Egyptian papyrus
fragments, badly broken up.  We were wondering whether we could scan the
fragments, stick them into some pattern-matching program, and have the
images put into likely patterns of contiguity.

The many leads offered have been extremely helpful, and I'd like to thank
everyone for their suggestions.  I have passed the information on to a
colleague here at Wellcome who will decide what to do next.

Best,
Dominik Wujastyk

--
Wellcome Library
London.



From: "R.G. Siemens"  (by way of Willard McCarty
Subject: COCH/COSH 2000: General Call for Papers and Sessions
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:58:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 443 (443)

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General Call for Papers and Sessions

The Consortium for Computers in the Humanities / Consortium pour
ordinateurs en sciences humaines will have its annual meeting at the
Canadian Congress of Learned Societies, Edmonton, Alberta (May, 2000), and
welcomes proposals for papers or sessions for that event.

Sessions thus far established are as follows:

1) Statistics and software for literary and linguistic analysis
    Statistiques et informatique pour l'analyse littéraire et linguistique

2) Humanities / Arts Computing Centres
    Les centres d'informatique en sciences sociales et humaines

3) Humanities Computing Curriculum; Software in the Classroom.
    L'Enseignement de l'informatique pour les sciences sociales et humaines;
    Les logiciels dans la salle de classe.

4) Software demonstrations
    Démonstration de logiciels

5) Open sessions on Humanities computing
    Séances ouvertes sur l`informatique en sciences sociales et humaines

Should you wish to participate in these sessions or wish to propose others,
please contact W. Winder before December 15 at .

Further details about the meetings will be posted, as they arise, to the
COCH/COSH website, at <http://purl.oclc.org/NET/cochcosh.htm>.


	William Winder,
		U of British Columbia (Secretary)
	Raymond G. Siemens,
		Malaspina University-College (Editor of Publications)


From: "R.G. Siemens"  (by way of Willard McCarty
Subject: CFP: The Future of the Arts & Humanities Computing Centre
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:59:17 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 444 (444)

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[please excuse x-posting; please redistribute]

Call for Papers:

*The Future of the Arts & Humanities Computing Centre*

Computing centres serving the Arts and Humanities have seen some notable
changes in recent years, and the future promises a continued evolution --
one concurrent with a number of influential forces, among them the changing
perceptions of what constitutes 'computing' in Arts and Humanities
disciplines.

Proposals for papers that treat issues central to the future of the Arts &
Humanities Computing Centre are invited for a panel presentation and
discussion at the meeting of the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities
/ Consortium pour ordinateurs en sciences humaines at the Canadian Congress
of Learned Societies, Edmonton, Alberta (May, 2000).

Accompanying this panel will be presentations by

	Alan Burk, U of New Brunswick
		Electronic Text Centre
			<http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/>
	Terry Butler, U of Alberta
		Technologies for Learning Centre
			<http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/TLC/>
	Peter Liddell, U of Victoria
		Language Centre
			<http://web.uvic.ca/langcen/>
	Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster U
		Humanities Computing Centre
			<http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hcc/>

Each will speak about their centre, its history and role, and its projected
future.

Detailed paper proposals on the future of the Arts & Humanities Computing
Centre should be submitted for consideration, by December 15, to

	R.G. Siemens
	English, Malaspina University-College
	Nanaimo, BC, Canada. V9R 5S5
	e-mail: RaySiemens@home.com


From: Patrick Durusau  (by way of Humanist
Subject: Markup & Scholarly Practices
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:00:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 445 (445)

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Greetings,

There was a lively discussion at the recent Electronic Publication of Ancient
Near Eastern Texts conference (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago,
Oct. 8-9, 1999) on the topic of how much markup should be imposed in the
creation of electronic versions of historical texts. After thinking about the
presentations and informal discussions it occurred to me that the
organization of encoding projects is having a profound influence on the level
of markup that is seen as appropriate for such texts.

Mark Olsen (ARTFL) and Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox (Perseus) made strong arguments
for what I term middle-level markup in terms of delivering "large" bodies of
texts to users by relatively small groups of scholars. Anyone familiar with
either of these projects recognizes the benefits that markup even at this
level has brought to the scholarly community. The objections (as I understood
them) to imposing more markup on these texts were ones of time and personnel.
(Some scholars dispute the usefulness of extremely detailed markup but
usually in defending traditional research contexts that make such markup
unavailable.)

In their respective projects such objections are certainly valid but what if
scholars change the context in which such projects were operating?  What if
scholars began following the open source model that has lead to much of the
software infrastructure that supports the Internet for the production of
scholarly texts? Expanding the number of scholars involved in such projects
would certainly answer the objections concerning time and personnel.

If electronic texts were shared like the source code for Internet software
then if an individual wanted to impose character level markup or
morphological/syntactic information on a text they could do so without having
to duplicate the prior efforts of others. If we develop a culture of sharing
such additions to a base text, then other scholars can build upon that work
as well. That would avoid determining the level of markup to be imposed on a
text by what resources the project has on hand or decisions made within the
project. Scholars would be free to impose such additional markup as they deem
useful.

I am not advocating that we simply adopt the open source model uncritically
from the software development community but I would like to see a discussion
of how such a model could be used to produce scholarly electronic texts for
research and teaching.

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Information Technology Services
Scholars Press
pdurusau@emory.edu
Manager, ITS



From: "Dr. Don Weinshank"  (by way of Willard
Subject: Fellowships of interest?
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 20:59:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 446 (446)

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TITLE: HUMANE STUDIES FELLOWSHIPS - INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
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SPONSOR: INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES
PURPOSE: To support research in the humanities.

DEADLINE: December 31, 1999

SUMMARY: Humane Studies Fellowships, begun in 1983 as Claude R. Lambe
Fellowships, are awarded by the Institute for Humane Studies to support
the work of outstanding students interested in the classical liberal/
libertarian tradition. The core principles of this tradition include
the recognition of individual rights and the dignity and worth of each
individual; protection of these rights through the institutions of
private property, contract, and the rule of law, and through freely
evolved intermediary institutions; and voluntarism in all human
relations, including the unhampered market mechanism in economic
affairs and the goals of free trade, free migration, and peace.

Approximately 90 scholarships covering tuition and stipend are awarded
each year to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. In 1999,
successful applicants received awards totaling over $400,000.

Awards are for students pursuing degrees at any accredited domestic or
foreign school and are based on academic performance, demonstrated
interest in classical liberal ideas, and potential to contribute to
the advancement of a free society.

URL :
http://www.usalert.com/htdoc/usoa/fnd/any/any/proc/any/ihus09179801a.htm

Matching Keywords :
         Higher Education
         Undergraduate Education


From: "Steve Mason"  (by way of Humanist )
Subject: Job Posting: Humanities in the Information Age
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:01:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 447 (447)

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Dear Colleagues:

     I post the following employment opportunity on behalf of my colleague,
Prof. Katey Anderson (kateya@yorku.ca), to whom all queries should be
directed. Please feel free to circulate this notice further.
                                                         Steve Mason
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Steve Mason
Professor, Programmes in Classics and Religious Studies, Division of
Humanities
219 Vanier College, York University
Toronto, ON  M3J 1P3, Canada
smason@yorku.ca; 416-736-2100 x66987; fax 416-736-5460
http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/smason


From: "Dr. Don Weinshank"  (by way of Willard
Subject: 2nd grant opportunity
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:00:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 448 (448)

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TITLE: 2000-2001 FELLOWS PROGRAMS - DIBNER INSTITUTE
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SPONSOR: DIBNER INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
PURPOSE: To support advanced research in the history of science
and technology.

DEADLINE: December 31, 1999

SUMMARY: Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
invites applications to its two fellowship programs for 2000-2001;
the Senior Fellows program and the Postdoctoral Fellows program.
The Dibner Institute expects to have 20 Fellows each term.

The Dibner Institute is an international center for advanced research
in the history of science and technology, established in 1992. It draws
on the resources of the Burndy Library, a major collection of both
primary and secondary material in the history of science and
technology, and enjoys the participation in its programs of faculty
members and students from the universities that make up the Dibner
Institute's consortium: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the
host institution; Boston University; Brandeis University; and
Harvard University.

The Institute's primary mission is to support advanced research in the
history of science and technology, across a wide variety of areas and a
broad spectrum of topics and methodologies. The Institute favors
projects that address events dating back thirty years or more; and,

URL :
http://www.usalert.com/htdoc/usoa/fnd/any/any/proc/any/dihs10139801a.htm

Matching Keywords :
         Higher Education


From: "Norman D. Hinton"  (by way of Humanist
Subject: [Fwd: Continuation of Catholic ListServ]
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:03:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 449 (449)

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE  (by way of Humanist
Subject: "Digital Dilemma:" NRC Report on I.P. & the Internet Available
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:03:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 450 (450)

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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
November 10, 1999


             THE DIGITAL DILEMMA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY & THE NET
          NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL REPORT AVAILABLE ONLINE NOV. 18
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attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and appreciate
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From: SJ Stauffer  (by way of Willard
Subject: Perseus Image Browser
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:04:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 451 (451)

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========  The Scout Report                                            ==
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======                                   Internet Scout Project ========
====                                    University of Wisconsin ========
==                              Department of Computer Sciences ========

5.  Perseus Image Browser
Perseus Project -- Tufts University
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
European Mirrors:
Berkin, Germany
http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/
Oxford, England
http://perseus.csad.ox.ac.uk/

The Perseus Project at Tufts University (discussed in the January 1,
1999 _Scout Report_) has recently added a new image browsing tool to
its digital library of the ancient world. Users can access more than
30,000 images in several ways. Probably the easiest is via the
internal keyword search engine, or Lookup Tool. Most searches will
return multiple image categories, such as coins, sculptures, or
sites. A sample search for "Zeus," for example, produced over 550
thumbnails under various headings. Users can access the images by
clicking on the adjacent Thumbnail menu bar and full catalog entries
by clicking the category headings on the search return page or from
the thumbnails. The Image Browser can be loaded within one of the art
and archaeology catalogs by clicking the View Thumbnails button at
the top of the results page, or from the Browse Images link at the
top of any art and archaeology catalog page. [MD]

====== General Interest ====

12. Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com/

As is probably well-known to most readers, a few weeks ago
_Encyclopaedia Britannica_ decided to place the entire contents of
its 32-volume set online for free. The decision was widely reported
both online and in the print press, and the site promptly crashed
under the huge strain. Though a bit slow and sometimes buggy,
Britannica.com is now officially up and running, offering full access
to the encyclopedia content as well as articles from over 75
magazines. The front page of Britannica.com is partially designed as
a news portal, with recent US and world stories. From the front page,
users can also select from fifteen broad categories (e.g., Books,
Health, History, Science, Society, etc.) and access news, selected
Websites from Britannica's Internet guide, and the relevant
encyclopedia entry. Detailed encyclopedia entries and articles (as
well as related books and Websites) for specific topics are accessed
through the keyword search engine at the top of the page. Users may
find that the _Britannica_ server is still having difficulty meeting
the high demand and that several search requests or visits are
necessary. However, when the site does provide returns, it offers a
depth of reliable, if somewhat basic, information that few other
sites can match. With time, Britannica.com will no doubt smooth out
the rough edges and become a primary reference resource for general
users and K-12 students. [MD]

19. 1000-2000 A Thousand Years -- _Christian Science Monitor_ (_CSM_) [Flash]
http://www.csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/athousandyears/index.html

The first in a series of special millennium reports from the _CSM_,
this attractive site explores scientific theories and discoveries of
the past 1000 years. The site basically consists of six articles on
this subject, accompanied by several special features such as the
evolution of the telephone and the microchip revolution. Also
included is an interactive timeline of discoveries (sometimes slow
loading), viewable by year or topic, and links to other related
millennium stories. Additional special features on sports, religion,
and home and family life are scheduled to appear over the next
several months. [MD]


From: "Domenico Fiormonte"  (by way of Humanist
Subject: CLP 2 seminar report
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:00:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 452 (452)

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I am pleased to be able to respond to those who were
asking for news of what happened at the seminar
"Computers, Literature and Philology".  The seminar web-
page contains all the abstracts we were sent
(http://til.let.uniroma1.it/appuntamenti/seminar.htm)  whilst
Repubblica On Line and other e-magazines talked about
the event (see
http://www.repubblica.it/online/cultura_scienze/classici/cla
ssici/classici.html and http://www.edscuola.com).

I'd like to preface what I have to say with a few words:
Humanities Computing in Italy is pretty lively. It's an
important, perhaps even critical moment for the
recognition of Humanities Computing as an
independent discipline. We have groups which are active
in all the major universities: Rome, Milan, Turin, Florence,
Bologna, Trieste, Pisa, Siena, Catania, Viterbo, etc.
Some of these groups are made of young researchers
who work on a voluntary basis, some others enjoy full-time
jobs and have access to national funding.

There was a time when many members of this varied
galaxy met to talk about common projects. With the
advent of the Web and multimedia, each group went off
on its separate way. If this scattered potential were
harnessed together, even partially and minimally, Italy
would be one of the European leaders in the
Humanities Technology field.

The Rome meeting aimed to be a step in this direction:
comparing ourselves with our major foreign counterparts,
and trying to find areas of collaboration within the Italian
scene.

The 'theoretical' core of the conference was the debate
on electronic encoding of texts. For many (not Humanist
members, of course!) encoding is an arcane concept,
stuff for specialists. Speakers at this conference
explained in simple words that this procedure represents
a crucial turning point in contemporary culture: the move
from paper-based to electronic media.
Encoding is in fact the procedure by which a digitized text
retains a 'memory' of what it used to be like on paper:
formatting, first lines, spelling features, etc.. Just think of
the enormous library and archive heritage in our country.
The scenario is clear: this 'obscure' concept of
encoding is going to play a vital role in our cultural
inheritance. A lot of financial resources, too, are at stake.
Who will decide / influence the way in which our
country's cultural resources will be put into electronic
form? What tools will be used? What criteria will be
adopted? As you can see, the theme of
the conference went far beyond its title.

Today, every library, archive, or documentation centre has
to think seriously about the 'transportability' and the
'fidelity' through time of the information they hold. It was to
respond to this need, to make information available and
searchable, that mark-up languages were evolved, and in
particular, special embedded signs which
assign a structure or a specific feature to a sequence of
characters. But what interpretative problems, at a
theoretical and even practical level, does text-encoding
present?
This is what Dino Buzzetti (University of Bologna) talked
about on the first day, followed by Lou Burnard (Oxford
University) who gave illustrations of what could be
achieved with XML mark-up language. Lou Burnard also
presented the Text Encoding Initiative, the international
consortium which is involved in standardising encoding
using SGML. The TEI standard has been adopted (for the
first time, I think, in Italy) by the TIL (Italian Texts Online)
project, presented on the second day.

In the afternoon, Fernando Magan (Centro Ramon
Piñeiro, Santiago de Compostela)  spoke about a project
to digitize manuscrits of medieval Galician which include
iconographic and musicological elements, adopting, for
precise philological reasons to do with the texts in
question (issues sometimes overlooked by non-
specialists), SGML but not TEI standards. The day had
opened with Jon Usher (University of Edinburgh) who
reminded delegates of the primacy of the cultural object,
the 'text in search of interpreters' (cfr. abstract
http://til.let.uniroma1.it/appuntamenti/usher.htm)

The other speakers of the day, all of an excellent
standard, ranged in their topics from encoding the
"Novelle Porrettane", to the didactic planning and
application of the Decameron Web, one of the first
hypertexts on line dedicated to the teaching of Italian
language and literature. A novel feature, and an
intellectual success, was the participation of the
commercial sponsors, who spoke in an illuminating way
about the real-world parameters within which they worked
to produce their software. IBM, Expert
System and Inso / Sherpa are involved in different
sectors: high-level public access (IBM's major project with
the St Petersburg Hermitage Museum);
practical language tools (Expert System); large-scale
textual database management (Inso).

On the last day, Allen Renear (Brown Univesrity),
Elisabeth Burr (Duisburg University) and Tito Orlandi
(University of Rome) closed the proceedings with a
discussion on the practical and theoretical principles
which might be used to create a formal curriculum in
Humanities Computing. The divergent perspectives of
Renar and Orlandi were particularly revealing (and
useful): Renear stressed the importance of the
relationship between the market and society
in general, Orlandi, instead, underlined the need for a
prior, rigorous,  academic training before specific
Humanities Computing studies.
For Allen Renear, we are at a turning point, and this
implies re-thinking all the humanities disciplines, whilst for
Tito Orlandi, the problem is how to respect
(preserve?) the traditional, existing disciplines, when
faced with the challenge and possibilities of new
technologies. In other words, here too, we were faced
with the fequent USA-Europe dichotomy: dynamism (and
haste?) on one side, prudence (conservative?) on the
other.

Apart from the papers, the final discussion justified the
whole conference by achieving a political goal: a
representative group of the Italian delegates at the
conference will present a request to the CUN (Italian
Universities National Council) for the inclusion of
Humanities Computing amongst the recognised
disciplines in the Reformed University Code.

The battle has hardly begun, and will require the
commitment of everybody who considers that this subject
is not just a device for protecting the 'self-interest' of arts
graduates, but that it can be the means of effecting and
managing the large-scale changes which the 'information
society' will inevitably bring about (digitizing our cultural
heritage, distance education, etc.)

Thanks for bearing with me,

Domenico Fiormonte (translated by Jonathan Usher)
University of Edinburgh
School of European Languages and Literature


From: Steven Totosy 
Subject: CLCWeb, a new online journal
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 453 (453)


This is an announcement to members of the humanist listserve:
Since March 1999 there is a new online journal, CLCWeb: Comparative
Literature and Culture: a WWWeb Journal
<http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/> (ISSN 1481-4374). CLCWeb
publishes new scholarly work about literature and culture in an
international and global -- that is, "comparative" -- context; it is a
peer-refereed quarterly with a distinguished advisory board; it is archived
by the National Library of Canada; its material is indexed in the MLA
International Bibliography; it is now being considered for listing and
indexing by ISI: a database publisher with a focus on Web-based products
that offer scholarly research information in the sciences,
social  sciences, and arts & humanities; CLCweb maintains a Library with
bibliographies for the study of literature and culture, an international
directory of comparatists, relevant links, and a moderated listserve for
news in comparative literature and culture. For the aims and objectives of
CLCWeb, its editorial and advisory board, procedures of submission and
publication, its statistics of web traffic and use, etc., please link from
its index page. To date, CLCWeb has published four issues: Volume 1.1-4 (1999).
Interested colleagues please contact the editor, Steven Totosy, at
steven.totosy@ualberta.ca


From: "Fotis Jannidis" 
Subject: Re: 13.0264 WordCruncher help?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:29:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 454 (454)


We just moved an old WordCruncher Edition (ca. 30 MB) to FolioViews, a
quick text
retrieval programm on win32. With some smaller perl scripts the transfer
was easily
done.
Further info:
http://www.nextpage.com/lpbin/lpext.dll/npcom/folio/index.html?f=file[main-
products.htm]
Drawbacks: 1) Folio has changed ownership at least 3 times in the last few
years 2) The
viewer is not free 3) It doesn't use an open standard encoding.
If you are not in a hurry to publish your texts (we were), the best way
would propably be
to move them to an XML enviroment using teixlite p.e.
Fotis Jannidis


________________________________________
Forum Computerphilologie
Dr. Fotis Jannidis
http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de


From: Mark Wolff 
Subject: Re: 13.0270 markup & scholarly practices
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:33:34 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 455 (455)

References: <4.2.1.10.19991116220150.019a41a0@mail.kcl.ac.uk>

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ARTFL and others have advocated an open source development model, but
with a focus on software and tools for data analysis.  The problem with
"thick encoding" is not duplicating the efforts of others:
organizations like the Oxford Text Archive make their texts available to
other humanities computing projects as part of a collective endeavor.
The problem is finding ways to integrate texts from different projects
which encode documents in different ways.  When I was working with ARTFL
one of my responsibilities was converting SGML-encoded documents to
ARTFL's local encoding scheme.  Even an organization like
Chadwyck-Healey that has encoded tens of thousands of documents produces
inconsistencies from one database to another.  ALthough the encoding of
each database can be validated, the agglomeration of multiple databases
into even larger databases forces the database manager into writing
ever-more complicated DTDs and parsing routines.  This problem only gets
worse when one tries to integrate encoded texts from different sources.

Humanities computing scholars should seriously think about working
collaboratively on tools for text analysis.  See Humanist 13.0015, "TEI,
gadfly and meta-gadfly," for Olsen's remarks on open source development.
At the end of the ACH/ALLC 1999 meeting Olsen was trying to organize a
"Hacker's Ball" to come up with a software initiative that would produce
useful tools and help humanities computing scholars figure out how to do
open source programming.  The last I heard, there was some interest in
developing UNICODE utilities (e.g. a program that sorts strings).  Is
anyone still interested in this?

mw


--
Mark B. Wolff
Modern and Classical Languages
Center for Learning and Teaching with Technology
Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY  13820
(607) 431-4615

http://users.hartwick.edu/wolffm0/ 



From: Skip Warnick 
Subject: Job Posting: Electronic Text and Imaging Center Coordinator
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 10:43:16 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 456 (456)

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University of Maryland Libraries
Associate Staff Position Vacancy / AS-5881

TITLE: Manager, Electronic Text and Imaging Center
LOCATION:Information Technology Division and Public
Services Division
CATEGORY:Associate Staff, Full-Time (12 Month Appointment)
SALARY:Commensurate with qualifications and experience

RESPONSIBILITIES:  Reporting to the Head of Digital Library
Operations, the incumbent will be responsible for daily
operations of the ETIC, a new service unit at the
University of Maryland Libraries.  The initial focus of the
ETIC is to support the humanities, and it is closely
aligned with the Maryland Institute for Technology in the
Humanities (MITH) which is housed adjacent to the ETIC.
Long-range plans are to expand activities into other
disciplinary areas.  The Center assists faculty and
students in identifying, accessing, creating, and using
scholarly electronic texts and images.
The ETIC Manager will serve as the primary resource person
in all phases of this service, from working with users to
conceptualize options to assisting in the design of
curricular and research projects using specific texts and
tools; identifies, evaluates, and acquires appropriate
electronic texts and images for research and instruction in
collaboration with subject librarians; keeps informed of
new trends and standards for digital projects; supervises a
graduate assistant and undergraduate students who will
provide technical support and public service assistance;
collaborates with the Director and staff of MITH on
research and instruction projects; provides individual and
group instruction on electronic text and image content,
use, and production; participates on the Libraries'
Collection Management and Resource Allocation Committee as
requested.

QUALIFICATIONS:  Required: ALA-accredited Master's degree
in Library and Information Science; subject expertise in
the humanities as demonstrated by degree, coursework, or
experience; at least two years experience in one or more of the
following areas: authoring languages, instructional design,
web development, database management, and multimedia.
Experience with HTML, SGML, XML.  Demonstrated ability to
work with a variety of hardware and software utilized in
electronic text and imaging work (e.g., scanning, text
analysis software).  Must be able to work effectively with
technical and non-technical users.  Excellent oral and
written communication skills.  Supervisory experience.
Familiarity with electronic text and imaging content.
Reading knowledge of one or more foreign languages
preferred.

BENEFITS: 22 days annual leave and 3 personal days; 14 paid
holidays; 15 days sick leave.  Employer contributes to
health insurance and retirement (State pension or
TIAA-CREF), tuition remission.

APPLICATIONS:  For full consideration, submit a cover
letter and a resume and names/addresses of three references
by January 10, 2000.  Applications accepted until the
position is filled.  Send resume to: Ray Foster, Library
Personnel Services, Room #4105, McKeldin Library,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-7011.  You
may also fax your resume: (301) 314-9960.  Libraries Web
Address: http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP

THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, EQUAL
OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.  MINORITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.

----------------------
Fernandes, Guadalupe
Library Personnel Services
Room 4105, McKeldin Library
University of Maryland Libraries
(301) 405-9249
E-mail: gf4@umail.umd.edu


From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: perfectability of texts
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 18:20:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 457 (457)

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Like Jean-Claude I am fascinated by the idea of the perfectability of texts
through early publication, even (in the case of those we write) their
communal evolution. The former is illustrated by the Suda On Line project
<http://www.stoa.org/sol/>, the latter by my own practice of publishing
essays and then changing them as people react to the contents.

Let me ask some questions about the "open source" approach, if that is the
right term.

(1) What are the technical problems to be faced? There's version-control,
which is to say a tinker-proof mechanism for identifying the version by
number and/or date. But this must be subsumed, I'd think, by an identity
mechanism that would allow you to tell you had an out-of-date version, yes?
Any ideas here?

(2) What are the implications of maintenance? If issuing texts in immature
states becomes a regular feature of academic publishing, then who takes on
the responsibility for their perfection? Who becomes the reliable parent of
the child? Do we have orphans and foster homes? Problems of abuse?

(3) What are the professional implications? How do we tell what sort of
recognition to give someone for publishing an immature work? When do we
give whatever kind of recognition? If multiple hands are involved, some of
them only slightly, to whom to we give how much credit?

(4) What are the intellectual implications for a world in which radically
imperfected work is based on radically imperfected work?

(5) Does what we know of medieval scholarship give us any insights into
such a fluid world?

Yes, fascinating!

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: Darryl Whetter 
Subject: thehungersite.com
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 17:45:46 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 458 (458)

Status:

Dear Humanist,

Has anyone read anything negative about http://www.thehungersite.com ?

The site appears to work with the UN's Wold Food Programme and seems to be
a benign and laudable combination of web advertising and the accountable
traffic of a web site. Visitors click on a "Feed Someone" button and a
donation is then suppossedly made to the UN's WFP. Visitors exit via
one-page of advertising. The advertisers are billed on a per-click basis
and they pay the small amount necessary for one unit of food in the WFP.

I am sad to admit that the site appears too good to be true. Has anyone
heard any hoax/prank stories about http://www.thehungersite.com ?


Darryl Whetter
Ph.D. Candidate,
UNB English Dept.
ph. (506) 455-7767
http://www.unb.ca/qwerte
	moving art


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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: Hardy Cook 
Subject: Communications Media Position
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:53:39 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 459 (459)


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR:
COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

  The Department of Communications Media seeks candidates for a
tenure-track position to teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs
at the Assistant Professor level, to begin August, 2000.  Duties include
teaching courses in the production and utilization of digital technologies
including multi-media, web design, and authoring languages as well as more
traditional offerings.  Other responsibilities may include one or more of
the following: supervision of the University student managed FM radio
station, teaching of introductory courses, international broadcasting,
scriptwriting and other writing intensive courses.  All CM faculty members
are expected to advise students, conduct discipline appropriate scholarship
and work on committee assignments.


Earned doctorate or terminal degree in discipline related field with Mass
Communications Bachelor's or Master's an asset.  Strong knowledge of
emerging digital technologies and related production skills required.


Review of applications will begin January 20, 2000, and will continue until
the position is filled.  Part of the interview process may include a
teaching demonstration.  EEO.


Send a letter of application, resume, and the names, current addresses and
phone numbers of three references.

For information contact:

Mary Beth Leidman, Ed.D., or Jay Start Ph.D.
Co-Chairs, Search Committee
Department of Communications Media
121 Stouffer Hall, IUP
Indiana, PA 15705
(724) 357-2492
Internet:  MBLEID@GROVE.IUP.EDU or
                JSTART@GROVE.IUP.EDU


From: Andrew Brook 
Subject: Re: 13.0280 validity of www.thehungersite.com?
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 14:54:46 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 460 (460)

In-Reply-To: <4.2.1.10.19991118182304.02610010@mail.kcl.ac.uk> from 

"Willard McCarty" at Nov 18, 99 06:24:41 pm

I've seen a number of people claim that the worldhunger site is legit. I
myself check the UN site they reference. It is a real UN site and
endorses the hunger site. What corporations won't do to get their name in
front of a new audience.

  --

Andrew Brook, Professor of Philosophy
Director, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
2217 Dunton Tower, Carleton University
1125 Col. By Drive, Ottawa, CANADA   K1S 5B6
Phone: 613 520-3597 Fax: 613 520-3985
Web: www.carleton.ca/~abrook/


From: "Elizabeth A. Style" 
Subject: New MA Track in Applied Ethics and Multimedia
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:01:45 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 461 (461)

Message-ID: <155327.3151926105@mac36381.hss.cmu.edu>

New MA Track in Applied Ethics and Multimedia

The Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University announces a new
track in its MA Program.

The track in Applied Ethics and Multimedia provides students with the
opportunity to combine the study of applied ethics with the exploration of
issues in multimedia authoring. Special courses include "Issues in
Multimedia Authoring" and "Designing Interactive Multimedia". Students in
this track can study the theoretical and pedagogical relationships between
form and content that bring these initially diverse spheres together. They
will also have the opportunity to use the advanced multimedia computing
facilities of the campus to develop hands-on authoring skills.

The Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at Carnegie Mellon
University is a research and development environment that focuses on
teaching people practical methods for analyzing and responding to real
ethical problems. The Center's members combine knowledge and experience
from different areas including interactive multimedia, business and
professional ethics, and conflict resolution.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate some programming and/or
design skills.

Online application forms can be found on  the Philosophy Department's
HomePage: hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/philosophy/philosophy.html

The Ethics Center's HomePage can be found at:

caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/CAAE.html


Liz Style
Research Associate
CAAE  154 Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

es5w@andrew.cmu.edu
412.268.7641 (O)
412.268.6074 (fax)


From: "Francois Crompton-Roberts" 
Subject: Re: 13.0281 perfectibility of texts
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:53:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 462 (462)


It may be that the notion of the unique, perfect, immutable text,
variants from which were considered always to be defects was an
aberration imposed upon us by the printing press. I remember a paper
given many years ago at the University of London's Seminar in
Humanities Computing by someone who had edited Petrarch's sonnets (I
forget his name). He said (I quote from distant memory) that these
sonnets exist in numerous contemporary versions, sometimes dozens and
many indeed is Petrarch's own hand, and that the editor's task was
more like arriving at a decision as to which of the variants Petrarch
used most, or latest, or when he was deemed at the height of his
powers, or simply most to the editor's taste, or...

All this disappeared when the text in every copy of a printed book
was identical to that in the other books in the print run--is it for
Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that the only way to distinguish the
first edition from the second is that there is a word with 3 "p"s
instead of two on page 17? That third "p" boosts the value of the
book by orders of magnitude.!

The "fuzziness" of a text written on a computer seems to be very much
like that of one of Petrach's sonnets. It may be a good thing if a
dump of a pc's temporary files makes us understand how the author
arrived at the formulation of what he says rather than just read how
he says it.

All this may make the job of the editor of the future far more
difficult, but it will be infinitely more interesting too. Wouldn't
you prefer to classify the readings of the manuscripts of a sonnet to
counting the typos in a printed book?

Francois C-R
F.Crompton-Roberts@qmw.ac.uk


From: Licia Landi 
Subject: International Conference Announcement
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 19:19:36 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 463 (463)

Status:

Apologies for cross-posting.


We are pleased to announce the conference "Biblioteche elettriche. Letture
in Internet:
una risorsa per la ricerca e per la didattica".
The conference will be held at the University of Verona (Italy) on November
26 - 27, 1999.

Sponsored by Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, in conjunction with the
"Dipartimento di Linguistica, Letteratura e Scienze della Comunicazione"
(University of Verona) and Internet Scuola/Enea Campus.



LIST OF SPEAKERS:


Friday November 26 - h. 9.30
All the lectures will take place in "Sala Barbieri" (Palazzo Giuliari), via
dell'Artigliere, 8

Saluti e parole di apertura
prof. Elio Mosele, Rettore dell'Università di Verona
prof. Erasmo Leso, Direttore del Dipartimento di Linguistica, Letteratura e
Scienze della Comunicazione dell'Università di Verona
prof. Claudio Leonardi, Direttore Fondazione Ezio Franceschini, Università
di Firenze

Introduzione
Jose Manuel Diaz y Bustamante (Università di Santiago de Compostela)

Between source and screen: considering textual integrity in an electronic
edition - Julia Flanders (Textbase Editor and Project Manager Women Writers
Project)

Friday November 26 - h. 15.30

Riflessioni sul markup. La pratica di codifica dei testi e la critica,
testuale e letteraria - Dino Buzzetti (Università di Bologna)

Archival holdings and edited texts: the blurring of a clear division -
Manfred Thaller (University of Bergen, Director of research, Humanities
Information Technologies Research Programme)

La Biblioteca Vaticana e Internet - Ambrogio Piazzoni (Biblioteca Apostolica
Vaticana)

Il progetto ALIM (Archivio della latinità medievale italiana in Internet)
-Giancarlo Alessio (Università di Venezia)

Per un archivio metrico elettronico: il Canzoniere di Petrarca e la lirica
delle origini - Arnaldo Soldani (Università di Verona) - Sergio Bozzola
(Università di Padova)

Saturday November 27 - h.9.30
All the lectures will take place in the "Dipartimento di Linguistica,
Letteratura e Scienze della Comunicazione", in Via San Francesco, 22 (hall 5)

Analisi formulare computerizzata dei poemi omerici - Federico Boschetti
(Università di Verona)

Classici virtuali e classi reali. Le reti per la didattica del latino -
Rossana Valenti (Università di Napoli)

Biblioteche elettriche e didattica multimediale del mediolatino - Antonio De
Prisco (Università di Verona) - Licia Landi (Università di Verona)

Insegnamento e apprendimento a scuola tra saperi di base e nuove tecnologie
didattiche -  Luciana Iannaco (Università di Siena)

Conclusioni
Marcello Morelli (Università di Siena)

For all information concerning "Biblioteche elettriche. Letture in Internet:
una risorsa per la ricerca e per la didattica", please consult
http://www.sismel.meri.unifi.it
or write to: prof. Antonio De Prisco (Dipartimento di Linguistica,
Letteratura e Scienze della Comunicazione) deprisco@chiostro.univr.it) or
dott. Sara D'Imperio (Fondazione Ezio Franceschini) fef@cesit1.unifi.it

For hotel accomodation, please contact:
ENDES. Iniziative per comunicare. endes@endes.it
tel +39 45 8015702 - fax +39 45 8043387.


From: 
Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 464 (464)

Please ignore.

Yours,
WM


From: Anton Monshouwer 
Subject: NEW BOOK ON HIGHER EDUCATION
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:22:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 465 (465)


Has appeared:

Peter Baggen, Agnes Tellings, and Wouter van Haaften (Eds.),

THE UNIVERSITY AND THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

Bemmel-London-Paris: Concorde Publishing House
ISBN 90-76230-03-X; Pb; 144 p.; price Dfl. (NLG) 35.- (= about 17.50 US$)

Keywords: Philosophy of Higher Education; University; Knowledge Society

For more information see http://www.concorde-publisher.com

CONTENTS

  INTRODUCTION

1. Peter Scott:
DECLINE OR TRANSFORMATION? THE FUTURE OF THE UNIVERSITY IN A KNOWLEDGE
ECONOMY AND A POST-MODERN AGE
2. Sheldon Rothblatt:
LIBERAL EDUCATION: A NOBLE, TROUBLED AND IRONICAL HISTORY
3. Ido Weijers:
THE EDUCATION OF THE REFLECTIVE EXPERT
4. Ulrich Teichler:
TOWARDS A EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY?
5. Peter Baggen:
KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY AND THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY
6. Michiel Korthals & Harro Maat:
RISE AND FALL OF A KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
7. Hans P.M. Adriaansens:
BRINGING BILDUNG BACK IN

BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE AUTHORS

For order forms, methods of payment, and a picture of the book see

http://www.concorde-publisher.com

For more information please contact mailto:concorde@bigfoot.com


Dr. Anton Monshouwer,
University of Nijmegen,
The Netherlands


From: Paul J. Constantine 
Subject: www.thehungersite.com
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:17:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 466 (466)

[deleted quotation]
 From the November 18th 1999 NY Times:

SECTION: Section G; Page 17; Column 1; Circuits

LENGTH: 1036 words

HEADLINE: Where the Wired Consumer Can Give as Well as Receive

BYLINE: By CATHERINE GREENMAN


... . .  Shoppers who are low on funds or just browsing can head to the
Hunger Site (www.hungersite.com), where it's not necessarily the thought,
but the click that counts. Hitting the Donate Free Food button will call up
a page of banner advertisements from companies including Games2Learn and
ProFlowers. Each company pays the Hunger Site a half-cent every time its
advertisement appears, enough to buy a quarter-cup of rice for the United
Nations World Food Program, which serves 80 countries. The combined
sponsors add up to about three cents for each click, ultimately generating
100 tons of food each week, said John Breen, a computer programmer in
Bloomington, Ind., who opened the site in June.





__________________________________________

Paul J. Constantine
Head, Reference Services Division
Olin-Kroch-Uris Libraries
Cornell University
106D Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853

E-mail: pjc6@cornell.edu
Telephone: (607) 255-3319



From: srlclark 
Subject: Hunger Site
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:17:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 467 (467)


What's odd about Hunger SIte? Some small businesses find that it's a good
way of advertising (and quite possibly *want* to donate to a good cause
via their advertising budget). The sponsors listed don't look like
Multi-national Powers. Nor have I had any unwanted email as a result of
clicking on the site. And I might occasionally find a sponsor's site of
interest (I certainly hadn't heard of any of those businesses before
Hunger Site - so it's a very *good* advertising ploy).

Stephen Clark
Dept of Philosophy
University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 3BX
UK
srlclark@liverpool.ac.uk


From: Wilhelm Ott 
Subject: Tuebingen Colloquia No. 77
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:18:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 468 (468)


The Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung of Tübingen University invites
to the 77th Colloquium on Computer Applications in the Humanities.
Guests are welcome. The language of the Colloqium is German.

Datum:  Samstag, 27. Nov. 1999, 9.00 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr
Ort:    Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung, Wächterstraße 76, D-72074 Tübingen
         Seminarraum
Themen:
        1. Der Einzug des Computers in die Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.
           Stand und Perspektiven
             (Dr. Jürgen Herres, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der
             Wissenschaften, Berlin)

        2. Cross media publishing: das Roche Lexikon Medizin im WWW
             (Tobias Ott, pagina GmbH Tübingen)

See also http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/kolloq-nxt.html
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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                    http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/
D-72074 Tuebingen



From: Elisabeth Burr 
Subject: SILFI 2000  - 2nd  CFP
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:19:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 469 (469)



International Society for Italian Linguistics and Philology (SILFI)

                              6th International Conference

                                 «Tradition & Innovation»
Italian Linguistics and Philology at the start of a New Millennium

                                  June 28th - July 2nd 2000
                        Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH
                                      Duisburg, Germany

              http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000/

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We cordially invite you to participate in the 6th International
Conference of the International Society for Italian Linguistics
and Philology (SILFI), which following Siena (1988), Cambridge
(1991), Perugia (1994), Madrid (1996), and Catania (1998) will
be held in Duisburg, from June 28th to July 2nd 2000.
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THE SOCIETY

SILFI, the sole international society of Italian Linguistics and
Philology was founded at a very informal level in early Sep-
tember, 1985, during the 7th International Conference on
Historical Linguistics, held at Pavia. It was founded in order
to promote the study of Italian linguistics and philology and to
bring together all those working in Italian studies in Italy and all
over the world.
The congresses of SILFI are open to all scholars working  in the
vast field of Italian linguistics and philology. At the General Meeting,
the right to vote is, however, reserved to official members of SILFI.

SILFI currently has about 200 members. Membership fees cover the
two years in between two congresses. They can also be paid during
the congress
Membership fees for the period 2000-2002 are:
Students & PhD-students: 25,00 DM (ca. Euro 12,50)
others:                              40,00 DM (ca. Euro 20,00)
Exchange rate: 1 EURO = ca. 2 DM
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THEMES

In order to allow as many scholars of Italian linguistics and philology
to participate and exchange research results, research in progress, ex-
periences and ideas, congresses of SILFI are generally open to all
topics of Italian linguistics and philology. Tradition has it, however,
that each time one section of the congress is reserved in advance for
a specific topic.
Following the decision of the last congress held in Catania, the topic
of this section at the congress in Duisburg will be:

                              «L'italiano parlato / Spoken Italian»

As the motto of the congress in Duisburg «Tradition & Innovation»
indicates, the aim of the congress is to bring together the wealth of know-
ledge gained by using traditional resources and methodolgy with projects
which either try to exploit the possibilities offered by the electronic media
for research and teaching or try to find new ways of integrating scientific
studies with society. The topic «Spoken Italian» seems to be an excellent
starting point for such an endeavour.

For more information see:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000/eng/theme01.htm
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000/eng/theme02.htm

[material deleted]

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PD'in  Dr.  Elisabeth Burr
FB 3/Romanistik       Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet
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

President of SILFI and organizer of SILFI2000:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Z39.50 TRAINING TUTORIAL, Jan. 18, San Antonio, Texas
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:27:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 470 (470)


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From: Carol Rowland 
Subject: Consultancy
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:22:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 471 (471)


[Forwarded with thanks. --WM]

A message from HAN member Dr Anna Chronaki:


To HAN members
Dear colleagues,

We will be able to offer a consultancy job for an experienced person to
undertake literature reviews and www searches for an EU funded project in
the area of curriculum implementation and practice (The project is called
'Subject Cultures' and addresses the teaching of mathematics and visual
arts --get in touch for more details). If you are interested or know
somebody who might be interested, please get in touch with me as soon as
you can (direct line 858377 wk or 01225-443436 hm). We will need to
finalise this appointment by the end of next week. Looking forward to your
response.

Best regards,
Dr. Anna Chronaki.
(a.chronaki@open.ac.uk)


From: Elizabeth A. Style 
Subject: New MA Track in Applied Ethics and Multimedia
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:21:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 472 (472)


New MA Track in Applied Ethics and Multimedia

The Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University announces a new
track in its MA Program.

The track in Applied Ethics and Multimedia provides students with the
opportunity to combine the study of applied ethics with the exploration of
issues in multimedia authoring. Special courses include "Issues in
Multimedia Authoring" and "Designing Interactive Multimedia". Students in
this track can study the theoretical and pedagogical relationships between
form and content that bring these initially diverse spheres together. They
will also have the opportunity to use the advanced multimedia computing
facilities of the campus to develop hands-on authoring skills.

The Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics at Carnegie Mellon
University is a research and development environment that focuses on
teaching people practical methods for analyzing and responding to real
ethical problems. The Center's members combine knowledge and experience
from different areas including interactive multimedia, business and
professional ethics, and conflict resolution.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate some programming and/or
design skills.

Online application forms can be found on  the Philosophy Department's
HomePage: hss.cmu.edu/HTML/departments/philosophy/philosophy.html

The Ethics Center's HomePage can be found at:

caae.phil.cmu.edu/CAAE/Home/CAAE.html


Liz Style
Research Associate
CAAE  154 Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

es5w@andrew.cmu.edu
412.268.7641 (O)
412.268.6074 (fax)


From: Christian Wittern 
Subject: RE: 13.0281 perfectability of texts
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:19:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 473 (473)


Here are some thoughts on the recent discussion of scholarly practices,
markup and perfectability of texts.

I have been promoting the idea of  a "open source" policy  in text projects
at several occasions during the last year. I still believe, there is a lot
we can learn from open source software projects, but there are also some
important differences.

Open source projects usually center around a code maintainer, who receives
bug reports and generally develops the project. In bigger project, this
might actually be a group of people, but even there is a 'pumpkin holder'
needed. Now, while software projects might get away with the notion of some
single 'ideal' goal, towards which the project develops, markup, in so far
as it imposes some interpretation  on the text, can not be considered as so
simplistic: We need to accomodate the possibility of several, mutually
exclusive ways of marking up a text.

With the application of markup, we have become used to ask a processing
software to generate multiple, entirely different views of a text,
depending on what we want to do with the text. I think, we have to carry
this notion one step further, to extend the creation of views to the markup
itself: Of course, I could in theory have one densely marked up text with
lingustic markup, markup for the needs of historians and yet another type
for literary studies. Instead of loading all this into one file, I suggest
we think of different layers of markup, from which one instance is
generated depending on the needs we have at a certain moment.

Although the source sharing is important and needed, this should not be the
only perspective of collaboration: What we need to develop is also some
protocol through which distributed layered portions of markup, which might
be located on entirely different physical locations, can be used to
generate a view of a text. We might also want to think of  "open
workgroups", where markup can be added remotely to texts located somewhere
in cyberspace. As Tim O'Reilly pointed out in a recent address to a forum
of Linux developpers[1], the Web is not just an information server anymore,
but an application by itself and it is important to develop more
sophisticated ways for these applications to communicate with each other.

[1] _Where the Web Leads Us_
  http://xml.com/pub/1999/10/tokyo.html?wwwrrr_19991006.txt
  In a talk from Linux World in Tokyo, Tim O'Reilly offers a broad
perspective on the confluence of Open Source software and open standards,
looking at past and future developments.


Dr. Christian Wittern
Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies
276, Kuang Ming Road, Peitou 112
Taipei, TAIWAN
Tel. +886-2-2892-6111#65, Email chris@ccbs.ntu.edu.tw



From: Jan Christoph Meister 
Subject: Humanities Computing and Narratology
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:20:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 474 (474)


NARRATOLOGY in HUMANITIES COMPUTING

The "Working Group on Narratology" at Hamburg University - comprising some
20 scholars of literature, language, film and media from various
departments (French, Slavic Languages, English, Medieval Studies, German,
Film Studies etc.) is currently planning for a 3-5 year funded
collaborative research project which will investigate various historical,
theoretical and methodological aspects of "Narratology".

One of the individual projects falling under this ambit aims to survey and
discuss examples of theoretical and practical "cross-overs" between
Narratology and Humanities Computing / Literary Computing. We would be very
grateful for any information on projects, both in teaching and research, as
well as in editorial practice, where narratological categories have either
been informed, or the subject of a Humanities Computing approach in the
widest sense.

In our understanding this would cover the entire spectrum ranging from
discussions on the operational validity of "high-level concepts" such as,
"author", "narrator", "discourse" from a HC point of view right to the very
concrete level of defining mark-up conventions for narratological
categories, and implementation of these in software design. In other words,
we are looking for ANY occurence of the "usual Narratological suspects" -
in whatever numeric, digital or conceptual disguise and disciplinary
context they may have been encountered: "plot/story", "point
of  view",  "function", "motif", "plot grammar", "narrated time vs.
discourse time" / "erzählte Zeit/ Erzählzeit", "move", "implied author"
etc. etc..

Any assistance and information is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Chris

**************************

Dr. Jan Christoph Meister
Arbeitsstelle zur Sozialgeschichte der Literatur
Literaturwissenschaftliches Seminar
Universität Hamburg
E-Mail:  jan-c-meister@rrz.uni-hamburg.de


From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: DIGITAL IMAGE RESEARCH
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:23:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 475 (475)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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       NEW DISCUSSION LIST ON IMAGE-BASED HUMANITIES COMPUTING: LOOKSEE
                     <http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uk
<http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/


               U.K. REPORT ON DESCRIPTION & INDEXING OF IMAGES
                      <http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ARLIS/>http://www.unn.ac.uk
<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ARLIS/>http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ARLIS/

                                  *    *    *

       NEW DISCUSSION LIST ON IMAGE-BASED HUMANITIES COMPUTING: LOOKSEE
                     <http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uk
<http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/

Readers may be interested in a new discussion list designed for inquiries
as well as deeper, structured discussion on issues related to hiumanities
image-based computing. LOOKSEE is organized by Matt Kirschenbaum at the
University of Kentucky. For further information go to LOOKSEE's Webpage
<<http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>
.. Here is an earlier introductory comment from Matt: "As noted in the
introductory message, however, I also intend that LOOKSEE be a venue for
more structured kinds of discussion, in which participants will be asked to
turn their attention to particular topics that will unfold in sequence.
(Our first such topic will be medical imaging and informatics.) In short, I
envision LOOKSEE as a space for both informal exchange and for directed
discussion, with the group eventually working towards some collaborative
applied research.

====================================================================

                            U.K. REPORT ON DESCRIPTION & INDEXING OF IMAGES
                      <http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ARLIS/>http://www.unn.ac.uk
<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ARLIS/>http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/ARLIS/
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 14:34:50 +0100 Catherine Grout
 wrote:
[deleted quotation]<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/CBIR/cbir.html)>http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/CBIR/cb
ir.html) , with particular emphasis
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Resources:  Ancient World Atlas Projects
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:27:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 476 (476)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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November 24, 1999

                    FROM: CIT INFOBITS, Nov, 1999
           <http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html>http://www.unc.edu
<http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html>http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobi
ts/infobits.html
                    Ancient World Atlas Projects
[deleted quotation]CIT INFOBITS    November 1999           No. 17          ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information technology and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.

.......................................................................

Directory of Educational Technology Dissertations
International Journal of Educational Technology
A Virtual Tour of ERIC
Ancient World Atlas Projects Links
More Atlases on the Web
How to Proctor from a Distance
Teaching and Learning Journal
Occasional Papers in Open and Distance Learning
Editor's Note

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ANCIENT WORLD ATLAS PROJECTS LINKS

On November 3rd, Richard Talbert and Thomas Elliot gave a presentation
on Ancient World Atlas Projects for the UNC-CH Scholarly Communication
Working Group. Here are the URLs for the projects that were discussed.

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
The Barrington Atlas (to be published by Princeton University Press in
September 2000) traces ancient Greeks and Romans, the lands they
penetrated, and the peoples and cultures they encountered in Europe,
North Africa and Western Asia.
<http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas/>http://www.unc.edu/depts/cl_atlas/

Interactive Ancient Mediterranean
IAM is an online atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world designed to
serve the needs and interests of students and teachers in high school,
community college and university courses in classics, ancient history,
geography, archaeology and related fields.
<http://iam.classics.unc.edu/>http://iam.classics.unc.edu/

The Apollo Project
The Apollo Project site provides a large, searchable, online library of
images relating to Classical Antiquity. The purpose of this site is to
collect and catalog imagery useful in the Ancient Studies' classroom.
<http://apollo.classics.unc.edu/>http://apollo.classics.unc.edu/

Register of Ancient Geographic Entities
The Register of Ancient Geographic Entities (RAGE) is intended to serve
as a clearinghouse where users can identify geographic features covered
in a variety of projects. It does not duplicate the functionality of
those projects, nor does it duplicate their data, except for names of
features that the projects have registered. For end users, it provides
a means of identifying complementary material from multiple sources;
for collaborators, it isolates and frees them from the problem of
interpreting multiple names for a single object.
<http://perseus.holycross.edu/RAGE/>http://perseus.holycross.edu/RAGE/

The Stoa Waypoint Database
The Stoa Waypoint Database is a repository of geographic coordinates
for sites, features, objects, routes, etc. of the ancient world. The
goal of the database is to facilitate the sharing of geographic
information among a wide audience for study and research purposes.
<http://www.stoa.org/cgi-bin/gnd.cgi>http://www.stoa.org/cgi-bin/gnd.cgi

Perseus Project
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the
study of the ancient world and beyond. Collaborators initially formed
the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of
materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek
world.
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Perseus Atlas Index
<http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/atlas/>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cg
i-bin/atlas/

For more information about the UNC-CH Scholarly Communication Working
Group, see their website at
<http://ils.unc.edu/schol-com/>http://ils.unc.edu/schol-com/

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MORE ATLASES ON THE WEB

MAPPA.MUNDI MAGAZINE focuses on "representations not just of
geographical knowledge but also of the realms of spirit, of myth, and
of imagination." The publication is a rich resource for map
enthusiasts, webmasters trying to map complex websites, and researchers
trying to visualize complex masses of data.

Articles and links from the November 1999 issue include:

"The Atlas of Cyberspaces," created by Martin Dodge, a Researcher in
the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College
London, is an "atlas of maps and graphic representations of the
geographies of the new electronic territories of the Internet, the
World-Wide Web and other emerging Cyberspaces." The atlas includes
examples of how people try to visualize and represent link structures
of the Web, the social patterns of an electronic community, and site
maps of complex Web sites.

"Imaginary Places," by Stephanie Faul, director of public relations for
the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, provides links on geography in
fictional works by Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy, J. R. R. Tolkien, James
Thurber, and others.

Mappa.Mundi is available on the Web at no cost at
<http://mappa.mundi.net/>http://mappa.mundi.net/

Mappa.Mundi Magazine is published by Invisible Worlds, Inc., 660 York
Street, San Francisco CA 94110 USA. For more information, contact:
Marty Lucas, Editor; tel: 219-896-4952; fax: 219-896-3013; email:
marty@mappa.mundi.net

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: UK Museums Resources: "Museums and the Information Age"
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:27:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 477 (477)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
November 24, 1999


             UK "Museums & the Information Age" Resources
               <http://www.s-keene.dircon.co.uk/infoage>http://www.s-keene.d
<http://www.s-keene.dircon.co.uk/infoage>http://www.s-keene.dircon.co.uk/inf
oage


Readers may be interested in some UK developments. Suzanne Keene, head of
Collections Management at London's Science Museum is the author of "Digital
Collections: Museums and the Information Age," published recently by
Butterworth Press
<<http://www.s-keene.dircon.co.uk/infoage/orders.htm>http://www.s-keene.dirc
on.co.uk/infoage/orders.htm>.

Here, she announces a useful website for keeping track of UK developments.
Note especially the link to the UK's National Lottery Fund's Guidelines for
its New Opportunities digitization fund
<<http://www.nof-digitise.org/>http://www.nof-digitise.org/>

David Green

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: change in Humanist
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 18:03:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 478 (478)


Dear colleagues:

The editor's account for Humanist has moved from  to
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restrictions on the former machine. As a result Humanist at Princeton seems
to have sent you an empty message. There may be other problems while we are
working through installation of new processing software at Virginia. Please
accept my apologies for the bits of unwanted e-junk that float your way.

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From: Toby Burrows 
Subject: Some recent books
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:13:08 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 479 (479)


Cooper, Alan. The inmates are running the asylum.  Indianapolis: Sams, 1999.
ISBN 0-672-31649-8   US$25.00

Computers may be everywhere, but why are they so hard to use? What's wrong
with software that it often makes us feel stupid? What can we do about it?
Alan Cooper thinks he knows. Drawing on more than twenty years in the
software design business, he anatomizes the current state of "insanity" in
software development and offers a radical, but eminently sensible, solution.

The extent of our present problems is clearly and sharply drawn. A culture
dominated by programmers and engineers produces "dancing bearware" -
software which is both too clumsy and too clever. Epitomized by Microsoft's
products, this kind of software suffers from incoherent design and a
proliferation of unnecessary features.

Cooper's answer is interaction design. Not to be confused with interface
design, this approach involves designing software around the practical goals
which users want to achieve, while being careful not to violate their more
personal goals (such as not wanting to feel stupid). The design process
takes place before programming begins, and is modelled through specific user
personas - hypothetical archetypes of actual users - using the software in a
small number of key scenarios. This is the antithesis of traditional
software development, with its task-directed approach, its emphasis on
meeting as many needs of as many potential users as possible, and its
tendency to see design as something added at the end of the programming
process. While he recommends interviewing potential users and observing
their behaviour, he advises against focus groups and customer-driven "wish
lists" of features.

Cooper's aim is to make a hard-headed business case for software development
firms to improve their products, and he does this very effectively. But his
methodology is also relevant to anyone designing computer applications -
including Web or CD-ROM resources in the humanities. His views on the
broader effects and implications of technology - though less sophisticated
and wide-ranging than, say, Donald Norman's in The Invisible Computer - are
forthright and refreshing. "Technology doesn't have to be so dehumanizing",
he says. We should get away from a culture which blames the user for the
faults of the software, and the key to this is the right design methodology.


Fleming, Jennifer. Web navigation: designing the user experience.
Sebastopol, CA.: O'Reilly, 1998. ISBN 1-56592-351-0  US$34.95

There are still far too many Web sites which are hard to navigate. Faced
with inconsistent layouts, ambiguous labels and complicated structures,
users tend to give up and go elsewhere. In a highly competitive environment,
Web site designers can't afford to provoke this kind of reaction.

With this in mind, Jennifer Fleming offers the first systematic guide to
designing navigational structures for Web sites. Her focus is on
user-centred design, and she discusses a range of methods for finding out
what users want and how they are likely to use a site. These include user
profiles and scenarios as well as focus groups, prototyping and testing. She
also offers advice on the process of creating and maintaining a Web site.

The second half of the book is devoted to specific types of sites, including
shopping, entertainment, educational and community sites. For each of these,
Fleming discusses the likely goals and expectations of users, and examines
how they should be reflected in the navigational design of the site. She
also takes a couple of leading Web sites in each category and looks at the
way they design their navigational paths.

This is an excellent guide to the issues and principles of designing the
intellectual structures underlying Web sites. It's practical without being
overly prescriptive or technical, and is full of useful advice and tips.


North, Simon, and Paul Hermans. Sams teach yourself XML in 21 days.
Indianapolis: Sams, 1999. ISBN 1-57521-396-6   US$29.99

This is the latest in a rapidly lengthening line of "introductions to XML".
It is not aimed at programmers but does presuppose some technical knowledge
about the Web and HTML. Some familiarity with SGML is not expected, but
would help nevertheless. It follows the standard format for this series - 21
daily lessons, with specific exercises and questions - and builds quickly
from basic information to quite advanced applications.

The content is mainly technical, covering such topics as the structure of
XML documents, XML objects and the Document Object Model, stylesheets and
XSL, and hyperlinking with XLink and XPointer. But it also aims to cover
"real world XML applications", which includes information on how Web
browsers handle XML and guidance on using the Omnimark programming language
to process XML documents. All this is explained clearly and precisely, with
good use of examples. But like all books on XML this one suffers from the
lack of mature XML applications out there in the "real world" and its focus
remains largely experimental.


XML Developer's Resource Library. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall,
1999. ISBN 0-13-020311-4   US$119.99

This package of three books and two accompanying CD-ROMS - also published
separately - offers a rich source of expertise for anyone working on
XML-based applications. In "XML: The Annotated Specification", Bob DuCharme
presents the entire official specification for XML, as approved by the World
Wide Web Consortium, with extensive and detailed annotations. David
Megginson's "Structuring XML Documents" focuses mainly on DTDs (Document
Type Definitions) in both SGML and XML. He looks at the design and
maintenance of DTDs, drawing on model DTDs like the TEI (Text Encoding
Initiative) and HTML 4.0. The emphasis is on book-oriented DTDs rather than
database-oriented ones. Megginson also tackles concepts and issues
associated with Architectural Forms, which enable common DTD architectures
to be mapped and linked.

The third component, "Designing XML Internet Applications" (by Michael
Leventhal, David Lewis and Matthew Fuchs), is the most practical. The
authors show how to build specific Web-based applications - a bulletin
board, customer database, search engine, and so on - using XML for the
underlying data format. They also look at XML e-mail and parsers, as well as
data gathering and negotiation. A knowledge of Perl and Java programming is
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From: Phyllis Wright 
Subject: "to pay the penny"?
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:11:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 480 (480)


Can someone provide the meaning for the phrase "to pay the penny"  as used
in the following which I believe is from a translation of a sermon by Alfric.


"Verily from the eleventh hour the chief of the house [begged] to pay the
penny, when he led the thief into the kingdom of heaven, before he led
Peter or his other apostles, and rightly so, for the thief believed in
Christ at a time when his apostles were in great doubt".

Thanks so much,
Phyllis Wright
Phyllis M. Wright
Head, Reference & Information Services Department
James A. Gibson Library
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario
Canada L2S 3A1

Telephone: (905) 688-5550, ext. 3961
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From: Stefan Sinclair <4ss42@qsilver.queensu.ca>
Subject: Hacker's Ball?
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:12:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 481 (481)



I've been reading through piles of accumulated unread mail and arrived on
this thread. Was there any response?

I tried to kickstart things awhile ago with my humanities computing
repository, but as a visit there will tell you, it's a fairly lonely place.

http://qsilver.queensu.ca/QI/HCR/
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From: Haradda@aol.com
Subject: Re: 13.0277 WordCruncher help
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:12:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 482 (482)


WordCruncher is being supported I am told at BYU.  That is Brigham Young
University.  I am told that a James Rosenvall is the project leader.  His
e-mail is james_rosenvall@byu.edu.

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From: "Fiona J. Tweedie" 
Subject: Workshop : CIMQL 2000
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:13:25 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 483 (483)


               THIRD WORKSHOP IN COMPUTATIONALLY-INTENSIVE
                  METHODS IN QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS

               AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS IN LINGUISTICS

                       Department of Statistics
                      University of Glasgow, UK
                            17-21 July 2000

                Announcement and Call for Registration

In recent years techniques from disciplines such as computer science,
artificial 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. The two previous CIMQL workshops have had invited speakers
presenting their own work in these areas, but in response to
participant demand, the third CIMQL workshop will be devoted to
introductory methods in Statistics.

The workshop is designed to introduce the participants to statistical
techniques in a practical environment.  Time will be spent in
traditional lectures as well as working with statistical software on
examples taken from linguistics and literature. The presenters, Fiona
Tweedie and Lisa Lena Opas-Hanninen, have experience of teaching this
material to a wide variety of students from European countries. 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.

Topics covered will include:
* Introduction; Basic approaches and vocabulary,
* Summary statistics and displaying data,
* Confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; differences in
   means and proportions,
* Tests of Association - Chi-square test, correlation
* Linear Regression; One-way Analysis of Variance.

The workshop will be held in the Boyd-Orr building of the University
of Glasgow, commencing on Tuesday 18 July at 1pm.  The workshop
sessions will take place on Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday 19 July,
Thursday 20 July and the morning of Friday 21 July. There will
also be a half day tour on the Friday afternoon and a reception in
the Hunterian Art Gallery on Tuesday evening.

Accommodation has been arranged in university accommodation. The
reception, tea and coffee, lunches on 19, 20 and 21 July and evening
meals on 18, 19 and 20 July are included in the registration fee. The
registration fee, until 1 May, is GBP200.00 and GBP150.00 for
students. Participants who are also attending the ALLC/ACH Conference,
21-25 July are eligible for a discount in the ALLC/ACH 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
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From: Jennifer de Beer 
Subject: Regional Research Update
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 08:13:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 484 (484)


Dear Humanists,

New on the WWW:

Regional Research Update

http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/rru/index.htm

ABOUT the Regional Research Update

The pilot edition of the Regional Research Update was published in
print form in February 1998 and we are pleased to introduce the first
web-based edition of the newsletter. As a joint project between the
Adamastor Trust in the Western Cape and the National Research
Foundation (NRF), the objective of the Update is to keep the research
and academic community in the Western Cape, South Africa informed of
research opportunities, news and resources available locally,
nationally and internationally. At present, the specific target
audiences of the Update include postgraduate students and their
supervisors, and other academics and researchers in the social
sciences and humanities.

Please forward this information to your colleagues who may be
interested in the Regional Research Update.

Contact:

Tracy Bailey, The Editor
tgbailey@iafrica.com



Regards,
Jennifer de Beer

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Jennifer de Beer - Project Assistant
Cape Library Cooperative (CALICO) & INFOLIT
c/o the Adamastor Trust
Cape Town, South Africa
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Regional Research Update: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/rru/index.htm
CALICO:  http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Calico/portal.htm
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From: Ken Friedman 
Subject: Design Research discussion group
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 20:03:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 485 (485)



This message is an invitation to join the Design Research Society email
discussion group.

DRS is the electronic discussion list of the Design Research Society. It
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Since June, there have been substantive threads on design theory, doctoral
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This research field is of interest to scholars and researchers in:
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design, systems design, the larger disciplines of engineering, information
technology, information science, computer science, cognitive studies,
economic history, logistics, ergonomics, communication, library science,
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urban design, design leadership and design management.

To join the discussion, or simply to lurk and read, all you need to do is
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When you subscribe, you will see you can also set your subscription to come
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From: "Joseph Jones (UBC Library)" 
Subject: Re: 13.0295 "to pay the penny"?
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 20:02:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 486 (486)


Re: pay the penny

How about Matthew 20 as background?
There is a penny paid, there is the eleventh hour, there is the
goodman of the house.

Joseph Jones    University of British Columbia Library
jjones@unixg.ubc.ca    http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: a poem on commentary
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 19:58:46 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 487 (487)


The following poem by Yehuda Amichai may be of some interest to those here
who live with or write commentaries, itself a poetic commentary on the
genre. In any case, for what it may be worth to you, I recommend your
attention to this man's work, which has been my joy to read for only about
a month now.
----------

For my birthday

Thirty-two times I went out into my life,
each time causing less pain to my mother,
less to other people,
more to myself.

Thirty-two times I have put on the world
and still it doesn't fit me.
It weighs me down,
unlike the coat that now takes the shape of my body
and is comfortable
and will gradually wear out.

Thirty-two times I went over the account
without finding a mistake,
began the story
but wasn't allowed to finish it.

Thirty-two years I've been carrying along with me
my father's traits
and most of them I've dropped along the way,
so I could ease the burden.
And weeds grow in my mouth. And I wonder,
and the beam in my eyes, which I won't be able to remove,
has started to blossom with the trees in springtime.
And my good deeds grow smaller

and smaller. But
the interpretations around them have grown huge, as in
an obscure passage of the Talmud
where the text takes up less and less of the page
and Rashi and the other commentators
close in on it from every side.

And now, after thirty-two times,
I am still a parable
with no chance of becoming its meaning.
And I stand without camouflage before the enemy's eyes,
with outdated maps in my hand,
in the resistance that is gathering strength and between towers,
and alone, without recommendations
in the vast desert.


from "Two Hopes Away", in The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai, rev. edn.,
transl. Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell (Berkeley: Univ of California
Press, 1996), pp. 15f.


Yours,
WM
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From: Fotis Jannidis 
Subject: Re: 13.0281 perfectability of texts
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 19:58:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 488 (488)

[deleted quotation]
Maybe a look at self-descriptions of the open source movement like Eric S.
Raymond "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" [1] or Tim O'Reilly's "Ten Myths
about Open Source Software" [2] can help to find criteria what kind of
text produced by scholars are better suited for an open source approach. A
key to the understanding of this movement seems to be that projects are
started by someone (or a group) who has a problem to solve. They start to
develop a solution and make their new solution public, because going
public and winning users is an integral part of the solution. The users of
the new tool can easily become contributors to the development process
themselves, and they are motivated by the wish to adapt the tool to their
own problems.

Probably some kind of texts we produce are better suitet for such an open
source approach: electronic editions of important texts, hypertext
tutorials or bibliographies per example. These tools of our trade are used
by others - often very long after the original author stopped working on
them. Quite often we are updating parts of these materials anyway, even if
we wouldn't want to be responsible for the whole text.

(There is a handbook of German text editions which was published 20 years
ago. I don't want to write a new edition of it but I do so for some texts
anyway and I would like to have access to an hypertext edition of it
growing by the efforts of some interested researchers.)

Monographies, essays etc. are probably not so suitable to this kind of
approach, because others are not really motivated to contribute.

So it would be an important step to make the tools of the open source movement
accessible to scholars. CVS, the versioning software in use in many o.s.
projects, isn't so easy to handle even on the client side with an
anonymous access although there are now graphical user interfaces for mac
and win. Quite useful are probably the ways o.s. projects  developed to
reach decisions. The difference between stable versions which can be used
by the public without constraints and developer versions could also be
used to combine the possibilities of quick internet publishing with the
wish for stabilized products.

Fotis


[1] http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_3/raymond/index.html
[2] http://opensource.oreilly.com/news/myths_1199.html



From: Mark Olsen 
Subject: Re: 13.0295 Hacker's Ball?
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 19:59:17 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 489 (489)


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Gee, and I thought I left no written trail. ;-)  I had plenty of
expressions of great interest at ACH in Virginia to the notion of an
invitational, small and informal (lots of whisky) two day meeting of
humanities computing hackers to actually think about joint development efforts,
possibly aimed at Unicode tools as a start, but considering other
options.  Tentatively planned for late, last summer at Chicago, in order
to jump on the enthusiasm coming out of the ACH meeting, it foundered
on the all too common rocks of over-committment of some key individuals
and an inability to schedule a suitable time before school resumed.
So, the notion was backburnered.

I did not make any formal announcement since I did not know if
there would be interest or if it could be organized quickly.
Like Olivier North, a written record has surfaced to flush me out!  :-)

I will take this opportunity, to suggest that open source, collaborative
development among the individuals working on software in humanities computing
is probably the only way we will even see the development of a new generation
of sophisticated tools.  Tools that might leverage the expressive power of TEI
and it's future XML incarnation [wow, it must be nearing Christmas, 'cause
even Olsen's bein' nice about TEI ;-)], lower level tools such as
Unicode smart utilities in order to foster real multi-lingual computing,
or full text indexing, retrieval, and display utilities.  Cooperative
development could start with an existing, freely accessible system
or by targetting a set of lower level problems and working on UNIX/Linux
style utilities that would serve as building blocks for real systems.

The notion of the "hackers ball" was to bring together the relatively small
number of developers in the humanities to discuss, in a more focussed
manner than is possible at our annual conferences, issues of possible
open source, collaborative development.  At the time, I suggested that
we use Tom Horton's ELTA Project:

                     http://www.cse.fau.edu/~tom/elta/

as the vehicle for this effort.  As a developer in humanities computing,
I am quite convinced that few of the even largest and best-funded projects,
such as ARTFL, can continue to work independently.  The Linux-style open
source approach has proven itself to be remarkably effective and should be
adopted by humanities computing developers as a way to address the demand
for software that can treat increasingly complex data on all fronts.

I would also be more than willing resurrect this notion and help plan
for it.  Without Tom's knowledge -- sorry, mon! --  I propose that
we move this discussion offline to Tom's ELTA site.  I have only one
question: what is the dress code to a "Hackers Ball".  ;-)

Best regards,

Mark

Mark Olsen
Assistant Director
ARTFL Project
University of Chicago
(773) 702-8687
WWW: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html

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From: "Joseph Jones (UBC Library)" 
Subject: to pay the penny
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 20:02:37 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 491 (491)


Re: pay the penny

How about Matthew 20 as background?
There is a penny paid, there is the eleventh hour, there is the
goodman of the house.

Joseph Jones    University of British Columbia Library
jjones@unixg.ubc.ca    http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones

**************************************************************************

Both Jones and Wright are right.  This is from a sermon by Aelfric, badly
translated, on the Gospel reading for Septuagesima Sunday, Matth. 20.1-16. M.
Godden, _Aelfric's Catholic Homilies: the Second Series. Text._ EETS s. s. 5
(London, 1979), p. 46. The entire homily is pp. 41-51.  Aelfric translates
the Latin text and then offers a homily on it.  He expounds in the following
way: (p. 42): Se hyredes ealdor is ure scyppend `The householder is our
Creator'. Then he equates those who come at the eleventh hour with the good
thief at the crucifixion. The OE text reads: "Verily from the last the
householder began to pay the penny, when He led the thief into the kingdom of
heaven before He led Peter or his other apostles." He has already told us the
householder is Christ. A typical sermon of the day.

!
Jim Marchand.



From: Neil Fulton 
Subject: Re: 13.0302 "to pay the penny"
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:34:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 492 (492)


"Joseph Jones (UBC Library)"  writes:
[deleted quotation]
Correct.  The text is from Aelfric's homily for Septuagesima,
which interprets the parable from Matthew 20 allegorically:  God
is the owner of the vineyard (the world), and the workers he hires
at various times of the day represent the prophets sent through
history, the eleventh hour being the time between the incarnation
and the end of the world.  Those who were hired at the eleventh
hour, including the thief who was crucified with Christ, are the
first to be paid.

The translation is accurate, with one exception:
[deleted quotation]
The verb in the first sentence is "ongann", which means "began",
not "begged".

Neil


--
Neil Fulton
Sen. Asst. Editor (Etymology)
Oxford English Dictionary



From: Paul Brians 
Subject: Augustine quotation?
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:35:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 493 (493)


If anyone has an e-text of Augustine's Confessions handy I would be
grateful if you could see whether, as a Jesuit correspondent suggests, the
following passage from Walter M. Miller's A Canticle For Leibowitz is
indeed from that book:

Repugnans tibi, ausus sum quaerere quidquid doctius mihi fide, certius spe,
aut dulcius caritate visum esset. Quis itaque stultior me

Rough translation:

Resisting you, I have dared to seek whatever seemed to me to be more
learned than Faith, more certain than Hope, sweeter than Love

Paul Brians, Department of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
brians@wsu.edu
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: eager learners fending for themselves
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:59:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 494 (494)


In the past six months I've reviewed a number of projects in or touching on
humanities computing. Some of these have been encouragingly good, I am
happy to say. Some, however, have not. The situation that bothers me most
is one in which an intelligent, energetic person of good will is simply
left to fend for him- or herself in a university that sees fit to encourage
work in our field but is not actually able to supply the people who can
guide and judge it properly. I would suppose that the situation is only
temporary -- holding true for the next 5 or 10 years, perhaps. The thing
is, quite a number of people can go wrong while we're getting our act
together.

Take the case of a postgraduate/graduate student who is eager to apply
computing to a discipline in the humanities. Suppose the supervisor is in
favour of the project and encourages the student but doesn't have the
knowledge to keep him or her on track. Suppose that there is no one in the
university capable of or willing to take the student on. It's quite
possible for the student to finish his or her project, submit it and then
have the bad/good luck to get me or somebody like me for an external
reviewer. Or worse, not get caught until much later.

Take the case of a lecturer/professor who is enthusiastic, hard-working but
not very knowledgeable technologically, who dabbles in humanities
computing, then expects to get rewarded for doing work that he or she would
never dream of submitting as scholarship in his or her field of origin.
What then? What do we do about innocent or not so innocent dabbling?

I have no proposal, modest or otherwise. Rather I'd like to see some
discussion of how the few of us who know what's what in the field can be
deployed to help out -- which might mean to agitate for universities taking
responsibility. Departments can be reviewed, and are. What about the
not-yet-departments?

Yours,
WM
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Rare Book School Winter/Spring Sessions
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:35:58 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 495 (495)


RARE BOOK SCHOOL
Winter/Spring Sessions 2000

Rare Book School (RBS) Winter and Spring Sessions 2000 offer various
five-day, non-credit courses on bookish subjects. These courses have all
been offered at RBS in the past, and they are identical in content to the
RBS summer session versions (for course evaluations, see the RBS Web site,
listed below). Students make a full-time commitment to any RBS course they
attend, from 8:30 am to 5 pm, Monday-Friday; most students also attend an
informal dinner on the Sunday evening before their first class on Monday.
The tuition for each five-day Winter and Spring Session course is $640.
Reasonably-priced hotel accommodation is readily available nearby. For an
application form, write Rare Book School, 114 Alderman Library, University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2498; or fax 804/924-8824; or email
oldbooks@virginia.edu; or telephone 804/924-8851. Electronic copies of the
application form and other RBS documents can be accessed through our World
Wide Web site:

<http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks>


MARCH 2000 SESSION
Monday 13 March - Friday 17 March 2000

22 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 online texts. See
<http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/99> for details about last summer's
course. Some experience with HTML is a prerequisite for admission to the
course. Offered again in Week 4. Instructor: David Seaman.

This course will provide a wide-ranging and practical exploration of
electronic texts and related technologies. It is aimed primarily (although
not exclusively) at librarians and scholars keen to develop, use, publish,
and control electronic texts for library, research, or teaching purposes.
Drawing on the experience and resources available at UVa's Electronic Text
Center, the course will cover the following areas: how to create
archival-quality etexts, including digital image facsimiles; the necessity
of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) for etext development and
use; the implications of XML; text analysis software; and the management
and use of Web-based SGML text databases. As a focus for our study of
etexts, the class will create an electronic version of an archival
document, mark its structure with SGML ("TEI") tagging, create digital
images of sample pages and illustrations, produce a hypertext version, and
make the results available on the Internet. Applicants need to have some
experience with the tagging of HTML documents. In their personal
statement, applicants should assess the extent of their present knowledge
of the electronic environment, and outline a project of their own to which
they hope to apply the skills learned in this course.

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.



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: 3 Day UCLA Extension Course in Document Imaging - Document Management, Winter 2000
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:36:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 496 (496)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
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November 29, 1999


        UCLA Extension Course in Document Imaging - Document Management
                      Los Angeles: January 27-29, 2000
                <http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.Arc
<http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com
/abpapers.html
[deleted quotation]
*****
3 Day UCLA Extension Course in Document Imaging - Document Management,
Winter 2000
*****

For those persons who cannot attend the class, all of the class materials
are available free at
<http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com
/abpapers.html

Almost all of the course materials have been updated, the course slides have
been added, so all of the course materials are now available on the website.
All the materials can now be downloaded as a single PDF file and printed
with one click.

Three days, Winter 2000: Thursday, January 27, 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Friday,
January 28, 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, and Saturday, January 29, 9:00 AM to 5:00
PM, 2000, location TBA.  Courses are also planned for Thursday, March 30,
through Saturday, April 1, 2000 and for Thursday, June 22 through Saturday,
June 24, 2000,  The course is generally offered every quarter.

This course is for managers who have been assigned to manage a document
imaging system or digital library, and must start immediately. Students
will gain an understanding of how document imaging can be used and managed
in both small and large-scale organizations.  Document imaging is the
process of taking documents out of file cabinets, and off shelves, and
storing them in a computer.  This course provides an understanding of the
details that there is often no time to review in the rush to implement a
system.  The course content is intended to be useful to students in their
professional work for twenty years into the future and is also intended to
be useful for planning to preserve digital documents forever.

Students will learn about the technology of scanning, importing,
transmitting, organizing, indexing, storing, protecting, locating,
retrieving, viewing, printing, and preserving documents for document
imaging systems and digital libraries.

Image and document formats, metadata, multimedia, rich text, PDF (Portable
Document Format), GIS (Geographic Information Systems), CAD (Computer Aided
Design), virtual reality indices, image enabled databases, and knowledge
management will be discussed.  System design issues in hardware, software,
ergonomics, and workflow will be covered.  Emerging technologies such as the
DVD Digital Video Disk and very high speed Internet, intranet, and extranet
links and protocols will be discussed.

The course will include the DVD's role in completing the merging of the PC
and television, the merging of telephony, cable, and the Internet, the
merging of home and office, the merging of business and entertainment, and
the management of the resulting document types. Many professionals
including records managers, librarians, and archivists work with document
management issues every day.  While not limited to these professionals,
this course builds on the broad range of tools and techniques that exist in
these professions.

The class content is designed so that students can benefit from each part
of the class without fully understanding every technical detail
presented.  This course is designed for non-technical professionals.
Several system designs will be
done based on system requirements provided by the students.  System designs
are done to provide an understanding of the design process, not to provide
guaranteed solutions to specific problems. There is no hands-on use of
scanning equipment.  The course is intended to improve the ability of
non-technical managers to participate in, and to direct, technical
discussions. The UCLA Extension Catalog is at:
<http://www.UnEx.UCLA.edu/catalog/>http://www.UnEx.UCLA.edu/catalog/
Please use the search keywords document imaging document management. Course
number 814.14  Reg # D9956U.  Cost: US$395.  Please call +1 310-825-9971 to
register by phone.  Please call +1 310-937-7000 for questions about course
content. Please call +1
310-825-4100 for enrollment questions.

Most instruction materials are available free at
<http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com
/abpapers.html    (The materials are updated
from time to time, please check version numbers.)

Instructor:  SteveGilheany@ArchiveBuilders.com, BA CS, MBA, MLS
Specialization in Information Science, CDIA (Certified Document Imaging
System Architect), CRM (Certified Records Manager), Sr. Systems Engineer,
www.ArchiveBuilders.com   +1 310-937-7000, Fax: +1 310-937-7001.

If the class location is on campus: overnight accommodations: on/next to
campus: UCLA Guest House +1 310-825-2923 $84/89, Hilgard House +1
310-208-3945 $94/$99 (UCLA rate); near campus, shuttle to UCLA: Summit Hotel
Bel Air +1 310-476-6571 $105 (UCLA rate), Brentwood Holiday Inn +1
310-476-6411 $99 (UCLA rate), Westwood Doubletree +1 310-475-8711 $102/$112
(UCLA rate)  For hotels, transportation, restraints, see also
<http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses>http://www.unex.ucla.edu/shortcourses
     Prices subject to change without
notice.

The instructor has taught classes similar to this course to document imaging
users and managers, to digital project librarians, in legal records
management, and to various industry groups.  He has worked in digital
document management and document imaging for eighteen years.  His experience
in the application of document management and document imaging in industry
includes:  aerospace, banking, manufacturing, natural resources, petroleum
refining, transportation, energy, federal, state, and local government,
civil engineering, utilities, entertainment, commercial records centers,
archives, non-profit development, education, and administrative,
engineering, production, legal, and medical records management.  At the same
time, he has worked in product management for hypertext, for windows based
user interface systems, for computer displays, for engineering drawing,
letter size, microform, and color scanning, and for xerographic,
photographic, newspaper, engineering drawing, and color printing.

In addition, the instructor has nine years of experience in data center
operations and database and computer communications systems design,
programming, testing, and software configuration management.  He has an MLS
Specialization in Information Science and an MBA with a concentration in
Computer and Information Systems from UCLA, a California Adult Education
teaching credential, and a BA in Computer Science from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison.  His industry certifications include:  the CDIA
(Certified Document Imaging System Architect), the AIIM Master, and AIIM
Laureate, of Information Technologies (from AIIM International, the
Association of Information and Image Management,  www.AIIM.org  ), and the
CRM (Certified Records Manager) (from the ICRM, the Institute of Certified
Records Managers, an affiliate of ARMA International, the Association of
Records Managers and Administrators,  www.ARMA.org   ) 28995v085

The following is an example of the materials available at
<http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com
/abpapers.html     There are also several
papers that describe various document management topics in prose.

Computer storage requirements for various digitized document types:

1 scanned page (8 1/2 by 11 inches, A4) = 50 KiloBytes (KByte)
(on average, black & white, CCITT G4 compressed)

1 file cabinet (4 drawer) (10,000 pages on average) = 500 MegaBytes (MByte)
= 1 CD (ROM or WORM)

2 file cabinets = 10 cubic feet = 1,000 MBytes = 1 GigaByte (GByte)
10 file cabinets = 1 DVD (WORM)

2,000 file cabinets = 1,000 GigaBytes = 1 TeraByte (TByte) = 200 DVDs

1 box (in inches: 15 1/2 long x 12 wide x 10 deep) (2,500 pages) =
1 file drawer = 2 linear feet of files = 1 1/4 cubic feet = 125 MBytes

8 boxes = 16 linear feet = 2 file cabinets = 1 GByte
8,000  boxes = 16,000  linear feet = 1,000 GBytes = 1 TByte
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From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: DAC2000 Call for Proposals (fwd)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:36:46 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 497 (497)


This will be of interest to Humanist readers. Note the proximity to the
ALLC/ACH in Glasgow at the end of July. DAC has emerged as an exciting
venue, and I think the organizers would be open to proposals with a more
traditional humanities computing orientation (if indeed there is such a
thing). Matt
[deleted quotation]jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU id KAA23646
[deleted quotation]


From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: LOOKSEE: opening discussion: Medical imaging and humanities imaging
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:39:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 498 (498)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
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December 2, 1999


     LOOKSEE: opening discussion: Medical imaging and humanities imaging
                  <http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky.e
<http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/>http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/looksee/


Although perhaps for a specialized audience, the discussion on the new
LOOKSEE listserv on image-based humanities computing is a compelling one to
which I would direct your attention. To subscribe, send the message:
subscribe LOOKSEE yourfirstname yourlastname to LISTSERV@LSV.UKY.EDU.

David Green
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From: Eve Trager 
Subject: The latest issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:37:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 499 (499)


WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE

On the eve of 2000, we offer the December 1999 issue of The Journal
of Electronic Publishing < http://www.press.umich.edu/jep > for your
reading enjoyment.

In this issue JEP authors share their experiences to give us lessons
from history to take into the next thousand years.

       Novas, Niches, and Icebergs:
       Practical Lessons for Small-Scale Web Publishers
       http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/sowards.html
Steven W. Sowards' Balkan Lectures Web site suddenly hit the big
time. What would he do differently next time?

       Preservation of Scientific Serials:
       Three Current Examples
       http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/arms.html
William Y. Arms sees possibilities in three approaches to
archiving electronic texts, although none of them is quite perfect.

       Authors' Rights
       http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/bennett.html
Scott Bennett looks at who has had control of scholarly
communication, and concludes its time for a change.

       Looking Good
       http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/lieb0502.html
Contributing Editor Thom Lieb explains why Web publications look
different on your home and office computers -- and what to do about
it.

       Reprint:
       Five Years and Counting
       http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/labovitz.html
John Labovitz recounts the history of his E-ZINE LIST.


Finally, share your thoughts at
Potpourri < http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/potpourri.html >
where we're asking "How are we doing?"

Enjoy!


          Judith Axler Turner
                 Editor
The Journal of Electronic Publishing
     http://www.press.umich.edu/jep
            (202) 986-3463



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: ARTERY: new online journal/forum accompanying ArtistsWithAids VIRTUAL COLLECTION
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:38:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 500 (500)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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November 29,1999

                          Artery: The AIDS-Arts Journal & Forum
                                 Edited by Robert Atkins
                               Launching December 1, 1999
                             <http://www.artistwithaids.org>http://www.artis
<http://www.artistwithaids.org>http://www.artistwithaids.org
[deleted quotation]

Artery: The AIDS-Arts Journal & Forum
Edited by Robert Atkins
Launching December 1, 1999
www.artistwithaids.org

The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS (a project of the Alliance for the
Arts) is a national organization committed to preserving artworks created
during the AIDS crisis so that they can be used by curators and historians
to provide a subjective view of this time of crisis.  In December of 1998,
the Estate Project worked with partner organizations such as Visual AIDS,
Visual AIDS Boston, Visual Aid San Francisco and the LA Gay and Lesbian
Center to launch an extraordinary website at www.artistswithaids.org. The
website and it's Virtual Collection were an excellent first step towards
centralizing important information and images.

Now, with the creation of Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum - an on-line journal
and forum by critic and activist Robert Atkins -
<http://www.artistswithaids.org>http://www.artistswithaids.org takes
another important step forward. This site is, by its nature, democratic.
The thousands of images available for viewing in the Virtual Collection,
for example, are purposely not curated. The Estate Project has left it to
the viewer - the general public, curator, historian, artist living with HIV
- to make their own judgements about the information they are presented with.

However, we do feel that it is necessary to bring critical voices and
interpretation to this site both to discuss specific artworks you might see
and to illuminate the larger issues that surround them. To that end, the
Estate Project asked Robert Atkins to create an on-line journal and forum
to enlarge the discussion surrounding art and AIDS while building a sense
of community amongst those using the site.

Artery's premiere issue contains an Artist in the Archives interview with
Gregg Bordewitz - a videomaker and activist who is involved in the Estate
Project AIDS Activist Video Preservation Program.  Other features include a
moderated Dialogue entitled "Plays, Lies and Ticket Sales,"
playwright/screenwriter Craig Lucas's and novelist/playwright Sarah
Schulman's lively discussion about AIDS and theatre between (moderated by
Michael Bronski); an online Symposium about the current states of AIDS-arts
by Chris Dohse (dance), Stephen Holden (television and film), Eileen Myles
(literature) and Nancy Princenthal (visual arts); and an illustrated
Feature by Robert Atkins, "Off the Wall: AIDS and Public Art."

In typical, online fashion, "Artery" is being launched in process. Not all
of the interactive features or planned editorial resources have been
developed yet. In the near-future, expect to see photo-essays, book
reviews, photo-essays and community projects, a timeline of two decades' of
AIDS-arts, as well as more of what's available now.  We hope that you will
come back to the site in 2000 for both new issues of Artery as well as new
operating software allowing the Virtual Collection to accommodate a greater
range of viewers.

Robert Atkins is an art historian and writer who has been an innovator in
the areas of both digital culture and AIDS activism. Currently, Atkins is a
research fellow at Carnegie-Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry and art
editor of the Media Channel. In 1995, he created TalkBack! A Forum for
Critical Inquiry, the first American online journal about online art, and
from 1996-98, was editor-in-chief of the Arts, Technology, Entertainment
Network, a New York Times Company start up producing arts programming for
television and the Internet. Since the beginning of the epidemic, Atkins
has written widely about AIDS and in 1990 co-curated, "From Media to
Metaphor: Art About AIDS," the first travelling museum exhibition surveying
art about AIDS. He was also one of the four founders of Visual AIDS, the
ten-year-old New York-based non-profit responsible for the annual Day
Without Art, the Red Ribbon Project, and many other educational activities.
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Findings Released in Networked Moving Images Project for British Universities
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:38:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 501 (501)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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         IMAGINATION: British Universities Networked Moving Images Project
                               Findings Released
          <http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/ImaginationPilotProjectCollection>http
<http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/ImaginationPilotProjectCollection>http://www.pad
s.ahds.ac.uk/ImaginationPilotProjectCollection
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Dear Friends

During 1998 and 1999, The UK's Performing Arts Data Service (PADS) was
involved in a significant national initiative concerned with researching
and developing  the dissemination of moving image resources over computer
networks to  users in UK Higher Education. The project, known as
the  BFI/BUFVC/JISC Imagination/Universities Networked Moving Images Pilot
Project, was initiated jointly by the British Film Institute  (BFI), the
British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) and the Joint
Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding
Councils.

The PADS is pleased to announce that the findings of this project, together
with the catalogue data created is now freely available from the PADS web
site at:
<http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk/ImaginationPilotProjectCollection>http://www.pad
s.ahds.ac.uk/ImaginationPilotProjectCollection

Users should note that due to copyright restrictions on the moving image
material, it is regrettably not possible to provide online samples  from
this site at the present time.  However, we understand that the BFI is
negotiating with selected copyright holders with a view to extending
the  licences so that further demonstrations of our archived material might
be possible. In the meantime, users have full access to the essential
metadata  created for the original project along with some digitized study
materials offered in support of the clips.

For more information about the PADS, or the Imagination/Universities
Project please contact Catherine Owen, Collections Manager at
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From: Astrid Wissenburg 
Subject: Job at King's College London
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:54:46 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 502 (502)


Apologies for cross-postings
Please forward as appropriate


Advert: Senior Project Manager MALIBU, King's College London


MALIBU Senior Project Manager (0.8 fte, 12 months)
Directorate: Information Services and Systems (ISS)
Institution: King's College London
Location: London

JOB DESCRIPTION

MALIBU (MAnaging the hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of Users) is a
national three-year research and development project on hybrid
libraries, funded under Phase 3 of the national Electronic Libraries
Programme (eLib).  By 'hybrid' is meant the integration of electronic
and traditional information services within the higher education
environment. The project's scope is the humanities disciplines, and it
focuses in particular on services and service delivery, on
organisational and management issues, and on the involvement of end
users. The project is a collaboration between King's College London, the
University of Oxford and the University of Southampton, with King's as
the lead partner.

Following the appointment of the current Senior Project Manager to a
senior information services post in King's College London, we are now
looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and experienced project
manager to co-ordinate the project in its final year and bring it to a
successful conclusion. The post offers the opportunity to take a lead
role in a project of national and international significance.

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for:
* co-ordinating the project work across the partner institutions and
project teams, including project planning;
* maintaining relations with a range of external organisations,
including the eLib Programme Office, testbed institutions, and
information and system suppliers;
* financial monitoring and reporting;
* developing strategic directions for the project in collaboration with
the Steering Committee.

The successful candidate will have:
* excellent organisation and project management skills and experience;
* excellent interpersonal and team working skills;
* at least 3 years relevant experience in an information management
environment;
* a post-graduate degree and/or relevant professional qualification.
Experience within Higher Education would be an advantage, in particular
in the areas of service development or digital resources and the range
of technical issues relevant to resource discovery and information
retrieval and delivery.

SALARY:
An appointment will be made on Grade 4 of the Administrative, Library
and Computing Staff scale (29,585-34,705 per annum inclusive of 2,134
London allowance, pro rata 0.8 f.t.e).
**Secondments will be welcomed, and variations in the fte level may also
be considered.**

CONTACTS AND APPLICATIONS

Informal enquiries may be directed to Harold Short,
harold.short@kcl.ac.uk, tel: +44 171 848 2739/2684, fax: +44 171 848
2980).

Application forms can be obtained from the Alison Aleppo, Personnel
Department (see contact details below). Further particulars and more
information about MALIBU can be found at the project
website:  http://www.kcl.ac.uk/malibu

Application forms should be returned to: Alison Aleppo,
alison.aleppo@kcl.ac.uk, Personnel Department, King's College London,
James Clerk Maxwell Building, Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA, fax: +44
171 872 3481

The closing date for receipt of applications is 22 December 1999.
Interviews for this post are expected to take place in the week
beginning 17 January 2000. Candidates will be asked to indicate their
availability with their application.



****************************************************
Drs. Astrid Wissenburg (astrid.wissenburg@kcl.ac.uk)
Assistant Director ISS (Information Resources)
King's College London, Library
Strand, London WC2R 2LS
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From: Einat Amitay 
Subject: Re: 13.0307 teething problems
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 16:53:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 503 (503)


Hi Willard,

As a PhD student I must admit you're right... But it seems it's not a domain
specific problem but a more general problem in academia today. The more diverse
the research becomes the less skilled people we have to validate/correct/guide
it.

My work "sits" on the intersection between linguistics, NLP, HCI, sociology and
information retrieval (did I forget something +:o). Currently I have four
different supervisors/advisors - each is specialised in a related area but they
all hesitate to criticise when it comes to something not related enough.

The problem, I believe, is that traditional academic research relies heavily on
identifying oneself with a single community or volume of work, while in recent
years we have identified many "holes" and "gaps" between those formed
communities that need to be filled or researched.

I don't think the problem you are talking about will be solved within 10 or
even 15 years, but I believe it will only become greater. In my view the
academic reviewing process is the one that needs change and re-thinking. That's
my personal opinion, being a PhD student with a simple idea that closes
(maybe?) a crack between communities...


+:o)
einat
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From: Patrick Durusau 
Subject: Re: 13.0307 teething problems
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:52:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 504 (504)


Dear Willard,

I agree with your concerns about computing in the humanities but I think there
is too much focus on gatekeeping and too little on farming. By gatekeeping I
mean concerns like universities developing standards for computing in the
humanities or that poorly done (or understood) use of computers in the
humanities will get undue credit. Most disciplines have standards for academic
work but they develop as part of the academic culture and are at best
formalized (some would say fossilized) by university based standards. I think
we should discuss how to promote the development of a computing in the
humanities community. One consequence (characteristic?) of a community is the
development of commonly accepted practices and norms that answer the question
of what is in or out and what conduct is acceptable.

By farming I mean promoting computing in the humanities as a community by
example and developing materials to introduce scholars to the field. There are
examples of computing in the humanities projects in every issue of "Computers
and the Humanities" and "Literary and Linguistic Computing." Unfortunately,
these projects are not easily accessible to scholars not already conversant
with computing in the humanities. Nor is there an abundance of textbook like
materials for either young scholars or more senior ones interested in entering
computing in the humanities. We would be surprised if the physics community
decided to rely upon the "Physical Review Letters" as the only source of
materials for training young physicists. It is an important journal in physics
but it is not the starting place for a physics curriculum, even for physics
majors.

It seems to be more discussion if there is a proposal (modest or otherwise) so
I propose that:

Computing humanists should make publically available research guides and
tutorials on their areas of interest during the academic term Fall, 2000 -
Spring, 2001. Such materials should be similar to computing in the humanities
classics such as: "Snobol Programming for the Humanities" (Susan Hockey, 1986),
and "Computer Programs for Literary Analysis" (John R. Abercrombie, 1984).
Research guides should liberally illustrate techniques with actual working code
and sample data while tutorials should provide a graded introduction to both
concepts and techniques for particular topics.

Interested?

(Note I will be out of my office December 4-9, 1999 for the XML '99
conference.)

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Information Technology Services
Scholars Press
pdurusau@emory.edu
Manager, ITS



From: Darryl Whetter 
Subject: Re: 13.0308 disciplinary/interdisciplinary problems
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:52:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 505 (505)


Flair play to Willard and nice opening.

Einat Amitay's response, though, does invoke the crucial factor of
exponential growth. How much has academia responded to the fact that
information increases at an exponential rate? I believe a new Shakespeare
article is published every 30 minutes. We have passed the point at which a
single person can evaluate any claim about Shakespeare. Shakespearean
criticism has become much like the law or medicine where we can no longer
pose general questions. Isn't today's popular reply either "that's not my
speciality" or a frustrated suggestion that whatever work is being done by
an academic it will not "survive the paraphrase" (to use a phrase from lit.
crit.)?

George Steiner's _Real Presences_ suggests that 90% of the total number of
scientists to live in the history of the world are alive today. Perhaps
Steiner--admirably a generalist--is wrong. Perhaps even by as high as 15%.
Maybe even 25%. Point being, most of what we consider knowledge, like
pollution incidentally, has been produced in the latter half of this
century.

Coleridge and Goethe wondered if they would be the last men to have read a
good fraction of what was going and they were undoubtedly being naive or
self-promoting.

We've got more stuff than we can handle as individuals. I suspect bees
might have the answer. The very idea of 'networks' should take us into more
elliptical models (rather than the univesity fiefdom).

And yet perhaps I too am speaking from too inside my discipline. Simple
factual errors are published in literary criticism. Scholars are crowned
and dethroned as mysteriously (although still more slowly) than Hollywood
'actors.' Perhaps Willard is speaking with a confidence that does come from
a snyoptic mastery of one's subject. For how much longer will this be
possible?

Best,
Darryl


Darryl Whetter
Ph.D. Candidate,
UNB English Dept.
ph. (506) 455-7767
http://www.unb.ca/qwerte
	moving art



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: curriculum vitae
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:54:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 506 (506)


Many of you will know of the very fine publication series of the American 
Council of Learned Societies, the ACLS Occasional Papers 
<http://www.acls.org/pub-list.htm>, and will know about the yearly Charles 
Homer Haskins lecture, "A Life of Learning". The introduction to the series 
notes that each year "The lecturer is asked to reflect and to reminisce 
upon a lifetime of work as a scholar, on the motives, the chance 
determinations, the satisfactions and the dissatisfactions of the life of 
learning." I strongly recommend to your attention this year's lecture, by 
Clifford Geertz <http://www.acls.org/op45geer.htm>. He is disarmingly 
candid, often profound and in places very funny. His independence of mind 
in spite of the received sizes and shapes in which conventionalised 
knowledge comes is salutory for us as we think about where and how 
humanities computing fits into the academic world. He doesn't tell us 
everything is all right, as is so easy to do from the comfortable shelter 
of a long-tenured position. He's aware of how the world tends to look as if 
it's in eclipse when viewed by those who themselves are being overtaken by 
the shadows of age.

The lecture came to mind when it did because of Einat Amitay's immediate 
broadening of the question I asked about the specific problems of 
supervision and assessment in our field. Of course she's right, that truly 
interdisciplinary work always tends to have such problems. What I think 
this means is that we should be able to tap into the thinking of many 
others about how to solve these problems. Are there any models for 
multi-institutional supervision? One would think that the online medium 
could be used quite effectively. A number of practical problems spring 
immediately to mind, but none I can think of seem insoluble.

Comments?

Yours,
WM
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 2000
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:54:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 507 (507)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
December 3, 1999


                            MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 2000
                      April 16-19: Minneapolis, Minnesota
                       <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/>http://www.archimus
<http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/>http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/
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         MUSEUMS AND THE WEB 2000
         April 16-19, 2000
         Minneapolis, Minnesota

         <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/>http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

The international conference about museums and the web!

Now in its fourth year - can you believe it? - Museums and the Web
2000 will be the place to review the state of the web in arts and
heritage. Speakers from around the world will present their ideas in
sessions and panels that explore theory and practice at both basic
and advanced levels. Pre-conference workshops provide in-depth study
of methods and issues. Exhibits will feature hot tools, new
techniques and services to help you get things done.

WHEN?
         April 16 - 19, 2000


WHERE?
         Hyatt Regency Hotel
         Minneapolis, Minnesota
         Great conference rate of $109 per room!

WHY?
* Meet the best museum webmasters from around the world
* Learn how to enhance your museum's Web site
* Hear papers exploring the issues facing museums on the web
* Debate approaches and ideas with your colleagues
* See demonstrations of the best new museum applications on the web
* Explore the work of the best commercial design and development firms
    who are working with museums.
* Discover the latest products and services available to help you
* Examine the inter-relationships between libraries, museums
    schools, and educators, as they all use heritage information on the web.
* Meet old friends and make new ones -- it's the personal network that
    gets you through the tough times and deadlines!


PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
The formal deadline for paper proposals was November 15, 1999. We've
now received and acknowledged a great many proposals, and the final
selection is being made. The Preliminary Program will be announced by
December 10.

LAST CHANCE for PAPERS
If your proposal has not been acknowledged or you have a late
breaking proposal to submit, please email mw2000@archimuse.com


DEMONSTRATIONS
Demonstration proposals will be accepted through the online form at
<http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/demos/index.html>http://www.archimuse.com/m
w2000/demos/index.html until February 15,
1999.


EARLY REGISTRATION
Remember, early registration ends with Y2k. Take advantage of
significant discounts, and register early.


NEED HELP IN ATTENDING?
A limited number of Scholarships are available. See the
Application Instructions online at
<http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/>http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/.


HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

jennifer and David

________
J. Trant and D. Bearman                 mw2000@archimuse.com
Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web          Minneapolis, Minnesota
Archives & Museum Informatics           April 16-19 1999
2008 Murray Ave, Suite
D
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From: "James J. O'Donnell" 
Subject: seeking e-Ukrainian
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:53:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 508 (508)


I  interested in taking a somewhat difficult-to-read typescript in a
rather old-fashioned (pre-Bolshevik) style of Ukrainian and preparing an
on-line edition.  Some limited funding available for what would
essentially be a data entry task complicated only by the need for
appropriate fonts and ability to represent Ukrainian well on WWW.  Replies
to the undersigned directly, please.

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
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From: "James J. O'Donnell" 
Subject: Re: 13.0304 the Humanist Quotation Service not Augustine
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:51:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 509 (509)


Better translation:  "Resisting you, I dared to to search out whatever
seemed to me more learned by means of faith, more certain by means of
hope, or more sweet by means of love.  Who therefore is more foolish than
I?"  I wonder whether Miller had the Latin to know that or whether he
meant it to mean something else.

But it's not anywhere in Augustine.

Jim O'Donnell
Classics, U. of Penn
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:53:33 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 511 (511)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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December 3, 1999


                 A MUSEUM GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT & TRADEMARK
               American Association of Museums Publication
                 <http://www.aam-us.org/text/bookstore.htm>http://www.aam-us
<http://www.aam-us.org/text/bookstore.htm>http://www.aam-us.org/text/booksto
re.htm

    Michael S. Shapiro and Brett I. Miller/Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
               Edited and introduced by Christine Steiner
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"This guide introduces the legal regimes of copyright and trademark in a
museum context and offers museums a series of best practices for
identifying and administering intellectual property. Topics discussed
include copyright law, trademark law, the World Wide Web, and licensing.
Intended to help museums make informed, careful decisions about copyright
and trademark, including establishing institutional policy and procedures.
Developed based on input from the museum field and from museum and legal
professionals experienced in intellectual property issues. Produced in
collaboration with the J. Paul Getty Trust and funded by the Pew Charitable
Trusts. A resource for individuals working in museums of all types and
sizes. Not available for sale until Nov. 1, 1999."

David Green
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-----Original Message-----
[deleted quotation]<http://www.aam-us.org/text/bookstore.htm>http://www.aam-us.org/text/booksto
re.htm or by calling 202-289-9127.
[deleted quotation]<http://www.aam-us.org/intellectual.htm>http://www.aam-us.org/intellectual.h
tm or review the attached press
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: NET-CONDITION: Two Sets of Online Exhibits
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 20:53:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 512 (512)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
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                     TWO ON-LINE NET-ART EXHIBITS
                      Walker Art Museum/Webwalker Magazine
               Emegence+Convergence: Digital Media and Online Art
                  <http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.w
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.walkerart.org/galle
ry9/webwalker/

                Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM): net_condition
       <http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/defa
<http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/>
http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/




I thought this was an interesting mix of a clutch of new, online exhibits
at the Walker together with a large show at the German ZKM Museum that is
about artists reviewing the interaction between society and technology.

David Green
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                      Walker Art Museum/Webwalker Magazine
               Emegence+Convergence: Digital Media and Online Art
                  <http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.w
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/webwalker/>http://www.walkerart.org/galle
ry9/webwalker/
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Emegence+Convergence: Digital Media and Online Art

** Mark Amerika, PHON:E:ME
<http://phoneme.walkerart.org>http://phoneme.walkerart.org
** Auriea Harvey, preview of AN ANATOMY
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/jerome/>http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9
/jerome/
** Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, AIRWORLD
<http://www.airworld.net>http://www.airworld.net
** Jon Winet, DEMOCRACY: THE LAST CAMPAIGN (February 2000)

This program is part of the Walker's "Emerging Artists/Emergent Medium"
series, made possible with the support of the Jerome Foundation.
<http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/jerome/converge.html>http://www.walkerart
..org/gallery9/jerome/converge.html

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                Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM): net_condition
       <http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/defa
<http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/>
http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/
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                Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM): net_condition
       <http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/defa
<http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/>
http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/



 From the WebPage:

              " As the title of the exhibition supposes, net_condition is
not about
               "net-art for net-art's sake"; rather, it's about the
artist's look at the
               way society and technology interact with each other, are each
               other's "condition": At the dawn of information society,
there's a
               growing demand for knowledge, data exchange, entertainment,
and it
               frequently has to be "just in time", "on demand", "in real
time". The
               technical answer to this is called "internet". At the same
time, the
               net itself is shaping society, new fields of social,
commercial, and
               artistic interaction emerge. There are new possibilities,
even those
               no one ever asked for.

               "In this rich field of opportunities, utopian and
emancipatory hopes
               re-appear on stage; equality of chances, world citizenship,
               participation without borders are regarded as technically
doable and
               are promoted by private communities, while the global
players in the
               commercial world go for their goals with the very same
technical
               means.

               "Social interaction is changing with the net. From the point
of view of
               the history of media, we also see a change in the way people
play
               music, remember, tell stories, design, play. net_condition
is talking
               about how these changes are reflected, presented, and
researched
               by net artists. Also, net_condition is about how events in
real space
               and events in the virtual "space" of the net react to each
other,
               trigger each other, or just collide. Distributed Virtual
Reality,
               Shared Cyberspace, non-local communications, multi user
               environments and net games - these are some of the main
topics of
               net_condition.

               "For Peter Weibel, head of the ZKM and curator of
net_condition, has
               high hopes for the role net-art is about to play. Says he: »At
               present, net art is the driving force, which is the most
radical in
               transforming the closed system of the aesthetic object of
modern
               art into the open system of post-modern (or second modern)
fields
               of action.«

To view the on-line component of the show please go to:
<<http://on1.zkm.de/netCondition.root/netcondition/start/language/default_e/
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: IMPACT OF DIGITAL IMAGES ON ART HISTORY: Online Questionnaire
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:06:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 513 (513)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
December 6, 1999



         IMPACT OF DIGITAL IMAGES ON ART HISTORY: UK Online Questionnaire
                      <http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/CC/survey1.html>http://www.
<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/CC/survey1.html>http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/CC/surv
ey1.html


The questionnaire cited in this announcement is part of COMPARE & CONTRAST,
a larger project funded by the UK's Arts & Humanities Research Board to
study the impact of digital image technology on art history.

David Green
===========
[deleted quotation]
forwarded by request of Margaret Graham at the Institute for Image
Data Research


THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL IMAGES ON ART HISTORY:
Online Questionnaire

***************************************************

If you are an art historian please read on!

We are conducting a survey into how digital images are being used now
by members of the art history community and how access to such images may
be changing the way research into art history is being conducted.  Art history
is intended to encompass historians of all forms of visual culture including
design, architecture, photography and film.  Please complete our online

questionnaire at:
<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/CC/survey1.html>http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/CC/surv
ey1.html

(We estimate it should take about 15-20 minutes to fill in.)

The survey is intended for art historians, especially those involved
in higher education research or teaching.  However, we are also
interested in hearing from librarians, curators and others in art galleries,
museums and other organisations, commercial or public, who use digital
images in
their work or research.

The research is being carried out within the Institute for Image Data
Research at the University of Northumbria by Professor Chris Bailey
and Mrs Margaret Graham and forms the first part of a larger, AHRB funded,
project: Compare and Contrast: a study of the impact of digital image
technology on art history. We will make the results of this
preliminary survey available as soon as possible.  Watch for future mailings!

All information on the returned questionnaire will be treated in
confidence. If you would like to be involved in the next phase of the
project please complete the last section of the questionnaire with
your name and contact details. Please answer each question as fully as
possible.  All the information that you can provide, however
incomplete, is useful to us.

If you have any queries about the questionnaire or the survey itself,
please contact either Chris or Margaret directly:


Professor Chris Bailey
Department of Historical and Critical Studies
Tel: 0191 227 3119
Email:  c.bailey@unn.ac.uk

Margaret Graham
Institute for Image Data Research
Tel: 0191 227 4646
Email: margaret.graham@unn.ac.uk

Postal address:
Institute for Image Data Research
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Thanks for your time!
===================================================
*Catherine Grout*Visual Arts Data Service Project Manager*
**Surrey Institute of Art & Design**Farnham**Surrey**
****URL: <http://vads.ahds.ac.uk>http://vads.ahds.ac.uk *tel: 01252 892723****

Providing, preserving and promoting . . .
high quality digital resources for the visual arts
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From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 13.0310 quotation not from Augustine
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:04:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 514 (514)


Poking around in the Patrologia Latina (Chadwyck-Healey) didn't get much
forwarder. Only a verbal reminiscence for dulcius caritate:

Vol. 21: Auctor incertus (Rufinus Aquileiensis?): COMMENTARIUS IN LXXV
PSALMOS.  (C,G) 1322Kb PSALMUS LXVII. 49Kb ...Et apte ait, In dulcedine
tua. Quid enim (Ex Aug.)  dulcius caritate? Opus autem gratiae non ex
timore poenae perficitur,...

Nothing on "repugnans tibi" "ausus sum quaerere" "certius spe" "stultior
me"

Charles Faulhaber	Department of Spanish	UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590
(510) 642-3781		FAX (510) 642-7589      cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu



From: MARTHA KREISEL 
Subject: "Old eyes, why do you betray me?"?
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:05:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 515 (515)


Would anyone be familiar with the source of this quote? A faculty member
asked at the library and we went through the usual sources.
"Old eyes why do you betray me?  Why do you cheat me of my last sight
of my splendid son?"  We have the book it was used in, but he things
this is an allusion to something earlier.  thanks for your help.
Martha Kreisel, Hofstra University   librfmzk@hofstra.edu





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From: Madonnalisa Gonzales-Chan 
Subject: RE: 13.0307 teething problems
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:02:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 516 (516)


It's interesting that you posed this question.  My university has made
extraordinary moves in humanities computing.  There is a centralized
academic computing group with the full support of the University Library to
deploy instructional technologists into various departments on campus.  The
primary mission is to assist faculty in incorporating new technologies for
teaching/research.  I believe many other universities are beginning to
develop/grow the infrastructure for making this happen campuswide.  This
infrastructure includes (ideally)tenure appointments recognizing the use of
technical innovations, (in practice)instructional tech consulting, and (in
practice)technical support structure for basic desktop assistance.

In my case, I am the academic technology specialist for the English
Department and the first projects I had to tackle in my department was
getting the faculty to warm up to basic desktop software(aside from word
processing and email).  I research business and educational tools and
figure out how they can be adapted for teaching/research.  I also keep my
eyes open for tools being developed at other universities.

I have slowly brought a few of the faculty into the realm of course web
page publishing and the use of newsgroups for teaching.  There are also a
few faculty members getting involved with voice recognition software and
hopfully I will get a few of them involved with collaborative critical
analysis using hypertext tools.

It's an endless tug between basic computing skills and seeing the value for
innovations in teaching.  It is also at times a frustrating battle to get
junior faculty and graduate students realizng the information wealth that
technology can do for their teaching and research.

Long term goals would be to meet with other humanities computing folks and
find out how we can help each other grow similar edu tech support groups so
that we can share tools, ideas, innovations, what worked/didn't work, etc.

Just my $0.02 from a practitioner's pov.



From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 13.0311 disciplinary/interdisciplinary problems
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 19:03:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 517 (517)


Allow me to applaud and second Patrick Durusau's suggestion. This is
precisely the problem. I would only add that in addition to books and
tutorials, we might add real working programs. My Christmas wish: A decent
and inexpensive SGML editor.
[deleted quotation]humanities
[deleted quotation]1986),
[deleted quotation]working code
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Happy/Merry Christmas & al.
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 22:35:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 518 (518)


Dear Colleagues:

Twice a year, as long-time members of Humanist will know, I take the
opportunity to ruminate about our seminar, our field and, yes, on occasion
about my own life, which is to say, whatever bits seem relevant or are
simply irrepressible. Christmas is one of the two times when, as a Tammany
Hall politician named Plunkitt once said in self-defense, "I seen my
opportunities and I took 'em" (William Riordan, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall,
<http://longman.awl.com/history/primarysource_19_7.htm>). Like the early
morning before dawn Christmas brings silence, and before that an
anticipation of silence, and so for me the inclination to slow down,
listen, quietly observe and clackingly ruminate. It is a busy time, to be
sure, for me compressed this year as last by an imminent, eagerly awaited
departure across the pond to that "tankard scooped in pearl". Humanist will
continue, though perhaps somewhat less frequently, all the while. Like a
love affair, it requires constant care and feeding ;-). It is, in fact, a
kind of love affair, is it not?

Recently I was involved in a limited-term online seminar run by my
undergraduate college, Reed. Having proclaimed loudly the virtues of Peter
Galison's majesterial study, Image and Logic: a material culture of
microphysics -- perhaps the most intellectually exciting book I've
read in a long time -- I found myself officially launching and stirring up
the discussion of that book for the seminar. A good thing it was, too.
Galison's conception of the multidisciplinary bundle of fields we call
microphysics, as you may know, is based on the anthropological/linguistic
model of the formation of pidgins by disparate cultures that come together
to trade. He notes that in such situations, microphysics included, people
who disagree about the meaning of an object outside the particular
occasions on which they trade it can, when they come to trade, negotiate
meaning and value for the occasion. Galison uses this model with great
skill and attention to the historical detail, so it becomes a powerful
instrument for understanding what happens or can happen when different
fields come together. I got to wondering, however, about his notion of
global disagreement. In particular, I found myself asking, what then keeps
the operation going when there's no money involved or, as in the
humanities, when there's no government-funded project or practical
spinoffs. Do we really not agree beyond the local interactions, or are we
just too short-sighted to see that on the large-scale it's the group as a
whole that knows?

Yes, I realise this might seem to be steering toward a Gaia-type
hypothesis, which is intriguing but for my immediate purposes a
distraction. Rather I'm thinking of the fact that electronic communication
(such as we've been pushing along for the last 12 1/2 years on Humanist)
and other effects of computing are transforming the humanities into a much
more highly conversational way of working. At minimum that's a possibility,
if not a threat, that we really do need to pay attention to.

In the recent book Speaking into the air: a history of the idea of
communication, John Durham Peters noted that the common complaint
of "not communicating" is a fascinating and quite recent social phenomenon.
Not, once you think about it, a terribly surprising outcome -- discovering
that communication doesn't necessarily happen well when you exchange lots
of words. I wonder what are the byproducts of the activity, however, those
outcomes that are more or less independent of what is said? What kinds of
scholarly activity are now on the rise because we can collaborate at a
distance so easily, can ask questions in a diverse crowd such as this one
so easily? How is the idea of scholarship, of what it means to be a
scholar, changing?

I observe how deeply, intimately my own life is interpenetrated by all the
modern devices of communication, including the airplane about to
communicate me, body and soul. For the past 20 or so years I've put
together a nuclear-family Christmas card with contributions from everyone.
This year the contributions have come from three countries and across 9
time-zones, the results assembled in London with Photoshop and put online
for the daughter in Alaska and the son in Toronto to print out for their
own use. I'll not pretend that a face-to-face gathering wouldn't be
preferable, but for various reasons it cannot happen. It is true that the
technology we use to bring ourselves together was involved in creating the
distances in the first place, but I want to stretch beyond the irony of
that. My point is that the technology is part of who we now are, what we
have to hand to remake ourselves, and that life without it is inconceivable.

Galison talks about how computing fundamentally altered what the word
"experiment" designated in physics, what it meant to be an experimenter. Do
we really need to talk about computer-implants or artifically intelligent
body parts, indeed about artificial intelligence at all in order to measure
our own transformation by this invention of ours? In humanities
scholarship, I would argue, the most important computing we do is done in
wetware, for example in the marking up of a text, when anticipating how
what we perceive about the text must be rendered for the computer to
process it, we think now like a computer, now like a human, and as a result
zero in on the zone between. And as a result start to think very
differently about the old cultural artefacts. Scholarship begins to mean
something new. It must. Without the need for implants, or really very
"advanced" computing.

Were we face-to-face I'd be tempted to ask, "Am I making sense?" And
someone might quote St Paul's powerful formulation, "Now we see in a glass
darkly.... nunc per speculum in aenigmate...." and so suggest that
face-to-face promises an apocalyptic fulfillment devoutly to be wished for
-- as indeed it is, and will be so valued when it occurs. (That's a
promise.) Several times in the past I've compared virtual gatherings such
as Humanist to its historical/literary predecessors, for example as
depicted in the Decameron, though we do not tell stories quite like those
Boccaccio relates (for which see
<http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/dweb.shtml>). We're
not so different either. My point here is that face-to-face and
screen-to-screen complement each other, or can, and that both are means of
communicating better than before. Humanist and other virtual gatherings
like it are not substitutions for anything; they are manifestations of the
desire to communicate that increase that desire, no? If the observation
that lack of communication is a recent complaint is true, then could it not
be as much due to an increased desire, pricked on by the expanding
opportunities, as to a modern failure in performance? Formerly we thought,
if only I could talk to him or her. Now we can, and we discover that
communion requires more, including a whole new set of skills mirroring the
characteristics of the medium and people's behaviour in response to these.
The demands on us reach farther down into us.

Has Humanist been a part of the change so far? Undoubtedly. But as in
classroom teaching, there's really no very good way to measure the effects,
to know what's happened that might not otherwise. (Personally I could make
a long list that would define the life I now live, but that's a somewhat
special case, I suppose :-). Humanist itself has not changed very much in
quite a while. In the past year, thanks again to John Unsworth and most
recently Malgosia Askanas, its operations have become easier and more
reliable. I continue to hope that others will more often be inspired to
stir the pot. At the moment, however, as the year, the century and the
millennium wind down to a close, I wish only to praise what we have made
together, to celebrate it with you, to recognise that the ONLY reason why
it is what it is and why it continues is that we wish it so. Everyone under
his or her fig tree; this is ours.

So, salutations from your editor, from his very quiet 99 year-old house in
Wesley Road, in the village of Leyton, at the southern tip of the Epping
Forest, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, in the southeast of
England, getting toward midnight on the 9th of December. Happy/Merry
Christmas! -- and may your cultural translator render this very merry wish
into whatever form is most welcome to you.

Yours,
WM





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From: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." 
Subject: Version 28, Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:56:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 519 (519)


Version 28 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over
1,060 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 97: 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 using
Boolean operators.

The HTML document also 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 250 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.

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From: Paul Brians 
Subject: Attribution of popular e-texts
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:57:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 520 (520)


Is there any site or newsgroup which attempts to determine and list the
authors of those popular bits of humorous writing that float around the
Net? Anonymizing is a plague in Intenet authorship.

Paul Brians, Department of English
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-5020
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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: New Book: The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 06:23:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 521 (521)

                 Telepistemology on the Internet

Greetings Lists,

Hi, I would like to make an interesting announcement of this century, Ken
Goldberg's new book [He is Professor at University if California,
Berkeley] "The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology
on the Internet" is coming in next Spring 2000 from MIT Press.

For details, please point your browser to
<http://queue.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/art/mitpress.html>
[deleted quotation]Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very close
range by way of its likeness, its reproduction. --Walter Benjamin, 1936
The book examines the relationship of distance and knowledge in the
context of new technology. The book also discussed What is knowledge? What
can we know? What should we rely on as evidence?

Some of the confirmed contributors are Albert Borgmann, Hubert Dreyfus,
and many others.

Enjoy the reading on above site!
Kind Regards
Arun Tripathi



From: Susan Schreibman 
Subject: 
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:17:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 522 (522)


What's all the Hype in Hypertext About?
A Humanities Computing Colloquium
10-11 March 2000
University College Dublin, Ireland
Sponsored by the Computer Science English Initiative


Digital technologies are changing the way we teach and conduct
research. It changes the ways in which our students acquire
information, and challenges the power structures of traditional
publishing.

What's all the Hype in Hypertext About? provides delegates with an
opportunity of examining how the newer technologies are changing
humanities teaching and research. Invited speakers examine the
theoretical, pedagogical and interpretative dimensions, as well as
the challenges, opportunities, and limitations of this multi-
disciplinary genre. The colloquium is designed for those with little
experience of humanities computing as well as those already
working with digital technology. It begins on Friday evening, 10
March at 7:30, and continues on Saturday, 11 March. On Friday
10th an optional pre-colloquium workshop provides a hands-on
introduction to the basics of humanities computing.  For further
details, including registration, see
http://www.ucd.ie/~cosei/hype.htm


Programme of Events:

A keynote lecture by Professor Jerome McGann, University of
Virginia
Scholarly Adventures in Computerland. Field Notes from N-
Dimensional Space

Dr Marilyn Deegan, University of Oxford
Digital Resources and Digital Libraries: New Opportunities for the
Humanities

Professor Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen
Teaching Humanities in the Information Age

Dr Willard McCarty, King's College London
Essential Problems of Humanities Computing

Dr Susan Schreibman, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Time and Space in Hyperspace: A New Frontier

Dr Susan Schreibman
The Semester in Irish Studies Newman Scholar
Univesity College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
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From: Elisabeth Burr 
Subject: SILFI2000-Submission Deadline for papers/panel proposals
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 01:23:23 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 523 (523)



International Society for Italian Linguistics and Philology (SILFI)
                             6th International Conference
                                «Tradition & Innovation»
Italian Linguistics and Philology at the start of a New Millennium
                                 June 28th - July 2nd 2000
                       Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH
                                     Duisburg, Germany
             http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000/
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We would like to remind you that the deadline for the submission
for papers/panel proposals  is the 20th of December 1999.

Regarding the countries/continents represented so far at the
congress we can tell you that there will be scholars from:

Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, France, Great Britain,
Israel, Italy,  the Netherlands, Poland, Russia,  USA, Slovenia,
Spain, Switzerland.

Sessions include:

spoken Italian
corpora of oral languages
design of corpora
corpus linguistics
linguistics of Italian
linguistics and society
diatopic varieties of Italian/dialectology
geolinguistics/linguistic atlases
diaphasic varieties of Italian/registers
phonetics and phonology
grammar
lexicography
lexicology
text linguistics
diachronic linguistics
philology
Dantesque philology

Already a broad range of approaches are
represented (traditional, computational, multimedial).

Publishing houses/book shops from Italy and Germany
and probably also other countries will be present at the
congress. For new developments see the www site of
the congress.

Please reserve rooms if possible before the 15th of January 2000.
A printable booking form is provided on the www site.
Those who have difficulties getting it from there should contact us
and we will provide it.

We require you to cover the bank charges that are due on payment
for  conference registration/membership of SILFI/room reservation
at the Wolfsburg.

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the number of
rooms available at the Wolfsburg is diminishing daily.

With best regards
Elisabeth Burr



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+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

President of SILFI and organizer of SILFI2000:
http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000



From: John Lavagnino 
Subject: Computer-related sessions at the 1999 MLA
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:02:39 GMT
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 524 (524)


Some Humanist readers may be attending the 1999 Modern Language
Association convention in Chicago 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/mla99/guide.html


John Lavagnino
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From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: Blake Archive's December Update
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:01:01 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 525 (525)



14 December 1999

The William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/> is pleased
to announce the publication of new electronic editions of _The Songs of
Innocence and of Experience_ copies R and AA. Copy AA has been reproduced
only once previously, as a microfilm many years ago; copy R has never been
reproduced before.

_Songs_ copies R and AA are both in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
England. They join copies of _Songs_ in the Archive from other printings:
copies C (1789/1794), F (1789/1794), L (1795), and Z (1826). Copies O and
V, from 1795 and c. 1818 printings, are forthcoming.

The electronic editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and new
images scanned and color-corrected from first-generation 4x5"
transparencies; text and images are each fully searchable and supported
by the Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous
updates.

With the publication of these two titles, the Archive now contains 39
copies of 18 separate books, including at least one copy of every one of
Blake's works in illuminated printing except the 100 plates of _Jerusalem_
(forthcoming).

We are also pleased to announce that the Archive was recently named to
the NEH's prestigious EDSITEment list of "Top Humanities Web Sites"
<http://edsitement.neh.gov/>.

Copy R, printed and colored c. 1795, is of special interest because it was
Blake's own copy and, with slight variations, provided the plate order for
the last seven copies, printed between 1818 and 1827. This was the first
time that Blake printed the _Innocence_ and _Experience_ plates in the
same session. All copies of _Songs_ produced before copy R--for example,
copies C and F in the Archive--were compiled from _Innocence_ impressions
printed in 1789 (either from the raw sienna issue, as in copy C, or green
issue, as in copy F) and _Experience_ impressions printed in 1794 (either
lightly color printed, as in copy C, or heavily color printed while
_Experience_ was still in progress, as in copy F). And copy R marks the
first time that Blake printed plates 34-36 ("The Little Girl Lost" and
"The Little Girl Found") as _Experience_ plates; in the earlier copies of
_Songs_ he printed them as _Innocence_ poems and transferred them to
_Experience_ at the time of compilation.

Though Blake printed the _Innocence_ and _Experience_ plates in the same
session, he apparently meant for them to be separate works. He printed
the plates in various shades of greenish and grayish black ink, but did
not print the combined title plate, and stabbed and numbered the two
parts as separate volumes. He produced copy R, in other words, almost
exactly as he advertised its two separate sections in his prospectus of
October 1793, where _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_ was not
advertised as such, but rather as "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of
Experience," with each part listed as a separate work and described as
"Octavo, with 25 designs, price 5s." Almost exactly, but not quite,
because copy R was printed on one side of folio-size leaves and its
_Experience_ had only twenty-four designs, since it did not include "To
Tirzah," which had not yet been executed, or plate a, which had been used
as a tailpiece in copies B-D.

_Songs_ copy R now has the combined title plate and "To Tirzah," but
both were inserted late. "To Tirzah" may have been printed and inserted
with the copy's impression of "The Tyger," which is watermarked "J
Whatman / 1808" (the only impression so marked). Both plates were
printed in a solid black ink, not the greenish and grayish black of the
other plates, and are numbered sequentially as part of _Experience_
(1-25) and thus must have been inserted before this numbering and the
numbering, in the same style and medium, of _Innocence_ (1-28). The
combined title plate was also printed in this solid black ink, but it is
unnumbered and may have been printed and/or added later, though almost
certainly before copy R was sold to Linnell in 1819, by which time the
pages had been given four framelines, the _Experience_ pages had been
renumbered 29-53 to continue the sequence of numbers in _Innocence_, and
many _Experience_ impressions had been recolored.

Copy R was produced with _Songs_ copy A as part of a set of illuminated
books printed on large paper, approximately 38 x 27 cm., the size of the
"I Taylor" paper it shares with copy A. It was trimmed to 30 x 22 cm. when
bound to match Linnell's other illuminated books. Copy R joins other works
from the large-paper set now in the Archive (_The Book of Thel_ copy F,
_The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ copy D, _There is No Natural Religion_
copy L, _All Religions are One_ copy A, and _America, a Prophecy_ copy A,
and _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy G) and forthcoming (_The
First Book of Urizen_ copy B and _Europe, a Prophecy_ copy H).

_Innocence_ and _Experience_ were printed together as a single, combined
work in 1826 to form _Songs_ copy Z, which is in the Archive, and copy AA.
Both copies sold for L5.5s., half what Blake listed _Songs_ for in an 1827
letter. Both copies Z and AA were printed in the same orange ink Blake
used ca. 1818 and 1821-22 (works from these sessions include  _The Book of
Thel_ copy O, which is in the Archive, and _Jerusalem_ copy E, _America, a
Prophecy_ copy O, _Europe, a Prophecy_ copy K, _Visions of the Daughters
of Albion_ copy P, and _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ copy G, each of
which will enter the Archive within the next year). Like the books
produced in these sessions, both copies were given single red framelines,
though the pen and ink page numbers (1-54) were placed outside rather than
inside the frameline.

In the future, with the release of our revised site interface, users
will be able to instantly compare impressions from various copies of an
illuminated book within the same browser window. At the moment, users
need to open other browser windows to make such comparisons. Doing so with
impressions from copies AA and Z, however, is instructive and well worth
the effort. Impressions from the same plate, though printed and colored in
the same style, often appear quite different if the text was rewritten or
an image was strengthened in pen and ink (either black or red). But this
characteristically Blakean bounding line was usually necessitated by an
otherwise illegible text or undifferentiated images. Overall, the
impressions in copy AA were better printed and required less pen and ink
salvaging than those used to form copy Z.


Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, editors
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Technical Editor
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From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." 
Subject: FREE ESL CONVERSATION SOFTWARE
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:23:27 -1000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 526 (526)



The following is an announcement concerning new ITS (interactive tutoring
system) software for conversational English as a Second Language.  As
such software is important for researchers who participate in these lists we
are making it available for free to all those who would contact us with a
request for the software and a 3 or 4 sentence description of the research
interests that would be benefited by using this software.

Phil Bralich

Here is the message.

Until now there have been no ESL software products to help students practice
their CONVERSATION skills.  But now, based on a patented new theory of grammar,
it is possible for students to practice their ESL conversation skills with a
3-D tutor.  His name is "Roswell" and the program is called "Roswell Teaches
English".  He is a cute alien from outer space and he offers six chapters
of six lessons each in tasks and skills that are targeted to high basic
and low intermediate students. Just two examples are lessons on ordering
at a fast food restaurant and going through customs.  It's a great
supplement for classroom work or a great tool to practice with
on your own.

Roswell can actively engage the student in question and answer exchanges based
on the material in the students workbook.  He can both ask and answer questions
within the lessons.  The workbook/manual provides plenty of guidance for the
students to get involved.  The student types in questions and answers and
Roswell responds with a generated voice and synchronized lip movements.  A
great practice environment for all students.  Roswell's knowledge base and
grammar skills will be updated every six months.

The INTRODUCTORY PRICE is just $29.95 for these 36 lessons.  That's just 83
cents per lesson, and it will help the shyest and the most outgoing
students alike participate in your classes and have more fun with English.
We can provide discounts for schools which would like to install this
program on multiple machines or in a lab situation.

It is possible for teachers to custom design lessons for Roswell teaches
English.  Contact Ergo Linguistic Technologies at http://www.ergo-ling.com.
Or if you forget our name just type in "ESL Software" at Amazon.com.

In addition, the technology in Roswell Teaches English can be used for a
variety of educational programs in fields of study that are based on factual
information such as the sciences, history, and geography.

Try this new software and enter the latest era in interactive computing.

Phil Bralich

Job or Business Support:
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From: Charles Ess 
Subject: Re: 12.0578 ACH/ALLC registration reminder
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 99 10:07:20 CST
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 527 (527)


Colleagues:
One of our very best seniors is casting about for an appropriate
graduate program - I'm requesting you aid in identifying a good
place for him.
The student is a double major in English and Philosophy, and
has done a fair amount of work in structualism/poststructuralsm
(as illumined by the history of philosophy, from Plato to
Postmodernism), and some fine cross-disciplinary work in
visualization and design. His senior honors thesis takes up
aesthetic theory, specially Kant and the German idealists on
imagination, and develops out of this a framework for exploring
the works of Virginia Woolf and Wallace Stevens - in part, so as
to critique some central claims in postmodernist literary theory.
The student would like to pursue study in a graduate program that
would allow him to continue his exploration of German Idealism,
postmodernism, philosophy of language, and semiotics.  Broadly,
this would be a program that would conjoin (at least) philosophy
and literature.
The student is doctoral material if ever there were such, but is
looking in the first instance for a Master's program.

Comments and suggestions welcome!  Thanks in advance, and best
wishes for the holidays and new year.
Cheers,
Charles Ess
Philosophy and Religion
Drury University
Springfield, MO  65802  USA





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From: "Norman D. Hinton"            (1)
Subject: [Fwd: Heroic Age Issue 2]
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 528 (528)



I am pleased to announce the second issue of The Heroic Age is now
online.

Our second issue focuses on the interface between Late Antiquity and the
early medieval period in Britain, covering topics ranging from the
chronology and figures of post-Roman Britain to the formative period of an
Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

The permanent URL is http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/2/ha2toc.htm.

We have also established a mirror site at
http://members.aol.com/heroicage2/ha2toc.html.
The mirror site will remain posted only until February.

On behalf of the staff of The Heroic Age, I would like to wish you all a
Happy Holidays!

Enjoy!

Michelle Ziegler

Editor-in-Chief, The Heroic Age





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From: "James J. O'Donnell" 
Subject: a new Augustine seminar
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 15:22:42 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 529 (529)


In spring 1994 I taught an Internet seminar on the work and thought of

Augustine of Hippo, with 500 auditors from around the world.  Now, about

three generations later in Internet time, I propose to repeat the seminar,

with multiple improvements.

In spring 2000 (beginning 1/17/2000) I will teach a course for advanced

undergrads and grad students at Penn called "The Unknown Augustine".  For

now, see http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augsem.html.  The purpose of the

course is to introduce students to Augustine and his work, but to do so in

a nontraditional way.  We will begin by emphasizing his "ordinary" work --

sermons and letters, including texts newly discovered in the last twenty

years -- in order to form a picture of the man and his message and his

style.  Only then will we return to the more familiar works, concluding

rather than beginning the course by reading the Confessions.  It is being

offered at Penn as Latin 409 (for those who will do substantial reading in

the original) and Religious Studies 432 (for those who will do most or all

readings in English).  

I am writing to offer you two ways to participate in this course.  

        (1) A small number of individuals will be invited to be

        full participants alongside the students who meet in a 

        Penn classroom.  We have new software systems to facilitate

        this and it would be a good experiment in just how far and

        well "distance learning" can interact with traditional

        forms.  This is the most exciting option.  The University

        has agreed to allow us to do this for a one-time fee of

        $200 and I will limit the number of participants in this 

        form to no more than one "virtual" student for each

        registered traditional student.  If you are interested in

        this option, please write me directly.  You will be expected

        to participate fully and perform all assignments, but your

        work will be non-graded and not-for credit.

        (2) If you would simply like to "audit" a limited set of

        the course's activities (mainly an e-mail discussion

        facilitated by weekly summaries of the in-class discussion),

        please send e-mail to listproc@ccat.sas.upenn.edu with

        the simple message "subscribe augsem Your Name" -- and you

        will be added to that list.  This old list (augustine@ccat.sas)

        will be discontinued after I send this message -- many of the

        addresses have gone bad and many of the recipients are no longer

        interested.  There is no charge for this kind of participation,

        which will resemble (for those of you who were there) the 

        1994 internet seminar in form.

With best wishes to all for the new year:  I hope many of you will choose

to join us in wrestling with Augustine in all his brilliance,

obstreperousness, charm, and stubbornness!

Jim O'Donnell

Classics, U. of Pennsylvania

jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS 2000
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 19:51:09 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 530 (530)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources 

from across the Community

January 3, 2000

PLEASE FORWARD

                   NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS 2000 SERIES: 

                      "COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY"

             <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html>

 

                    January 11 - Chicago Historical Society

                       February 4 - Syracuse University

          February 26 - College Art Association Conference, New York

         March 7 - Triangle Research Library Network, North Carolina

      April 5 - Visual Resources Association Conference, San Francisco

       May 18 - American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, Baltimore 

With support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the National Initiative

for a Networked Cultural Heritage announces a new series of six Copyright

Town Meetings for the cultural community during the year 2000.

The series of day-long and half-day meetings builds on the popular

1997-98 Town Meetings on Copyright & Fair Use, organized jointly with the

American Council of Learned Societies and the College Art Association,

which focused on the Conference on Fair Use and its aftermath. 

The 2000 series of Town Meetings will be held in Chicago, Syracuse, New

York City, Chapel Hill, San Francisco and Baltimore and will be hosted by

the Chicago Historical Society, Syracuse and Cornell Universities, the

College Art Association, the Triangle Research Library Network (North

Carolina), the Visual Resources Association and the American Association

of Museums.

Issues to be covered by the meetings include changes in copyright law as

it affects working online; fair use and its online future; the status of

the public domain; ownership and access of online copyrighted material;

distance education; and the development and implementation of

institutional and organizational copyright policies and principles.

A hallmark of the Town Meetings will be the balance of expert opinion and

audience participation. Speakers to date will include among others:

Robert Baron, Howard Besser, Kathleen Butler, Kenneth Crews, Eric Eldred,

Dakin Hart, Peter Hirtle, Tyler Ochoa, Rodney Petersen, Christine Sundt,

Barry Szczesny, Sandy Thatcher, Richard Weisgrau and Diane Zorich.

For full details on the Town Meetings, including information about

registration and any admission fees, agendas and speakers as they are

announced, as well as for later reports on the meetings, see

<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html>

For a full report on the 1997-98 Town Meetings series, see

<http://www.ninch.org/News/CurrentAnnounce/TownMeeting-FinalReport.html>

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Local committees have organized the town meetings, which have been

coordinated and reviewed by the NINCH Town Meetings Working Group. The

Copyright Town Meetings series is a component of the NINCH Copyright

Education Program, organized by the NINCH Advocacy Working Group.

NINCH TOWN MEETINGS WORKING GROUP:

Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association 

Mary Case, Association of Research Libraries 

Robert Baron and Katie Hollander, College Art Association  

Kenneth Crews, Indiana University

Georgia Harper, University of Texas

Sanford Thatcher, Pennsylvania State University Press/Association of

American University Presses 

Pat Williams & Barry Szczesny, American Association of Museums

Martha Winnacker, University of California.

NINCH ADVOCACY WORKING GROUP

Kathe Albrecht, American University/Visual Resources Association 

Rachel Allen, National Museum of American Art/Museum Computer Network

Kimber Craine, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

Anita DiFanis, Association of Art Museum Directors

Susan Fox, Society of American Archivists

Charles Henry, Rice University

Pat Williams/Barry Szczesny, American Association of Museums 

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The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH) is a

diverse coalition of over 70 arts, humanities and social science

organizations created to assure leadership from the cultural community in

the evolution of the digital environment.

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Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The subjects of

announcements are not the projects of NINCH, unless otherwise noted;

neither does NINCH necessarily endorse the subjects of announcements. We

attempt to credit all re-distributed news and announcements and

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From: Hope Greenberg 
Subject: Re: 13.0331 technology on the verge
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 531 (531)


Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
[deleted quotation]
As you wish: 

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. "More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household

Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave." New York: Basic

Books, Inc., 1983.

The study examines how time saving technologies don't always result in

actually saving time, but also at how the sexual division of labour that

has been constructed over the past 150 years need not have turned out as

it did. It raises questions like: If you cook a one-pot meal over an

open fire, then get a four burner closed stove and are now expected to

prepare multi-course meals, what time have you actually saved? or Why

are certain tasks completely industrialized and moved out of the home

while others are only partially industrialized and remain home-centered?

This last question is of particular interest as we see shifts in our

perceptions of what tasks are appropriate for in-home and out of home.

Though not addressed in this book (it was, after all, published in 1983)

information technology must certainly be counted now as a shaper of

change. Education, child care, shopping, cooking, communication,

telecommuting--all in flux for a variety of reasons--what role does

technology play in those shifts and how do our preceptions of where such

activities belong impact how we shape the technology? And what does

techno-based humanities scholarship have in common with washing socks

and sweeping floors? Well, lots actually, but you had other questions in

your post which deserve more attention, so I'll leave this here for now

and ruminate on those a bit.

- Hope

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From: Marian Dworaczek 
Subject: Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 532 (532)


                 Information

The January 1, 2000 edition of the "Subject Index to Literature on

Electronic Sources of Information"  is available at:

         http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUBJIN_A.HTM

The page-specific "Subject Index to Literature on Electronic Sources of

Information" and the accompanying "Electronic Sources of Information: A

Bibliography" (listing all indexed items) deal with all aspects of

electronic publishing and include print and non-print materials,

periodical articles, monographs and individual chapters in collected

works. This edition includes 1,095 titles. Both the Index and the Bibliography

are continuously updated.

Introduction, which includes sample search and instructions how to use the

Subject Index and the Bibliography, is located at:

         http://library.usask.ca/~dworacze/SUB_INT.HTM

This message has been crossposted to several mailing lists. Please excuse

any duplication.

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From: Michael Fraser 
Subject: DRH 2000: Call for Participation
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:06:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 533 (533)


This message contains a call for participation in DRH 2000 and a call for

proposals to host DRH 2001 and DRH 2002.

DRH 2000 : 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 DRH 2000 conference will take place at the University of Sheffield,

10-13 September 2000.  Proposals for academic papers, themed panel

sessions, posters and workshops are invited.

The deadline for submission is 6 March 2000.

Full details about the conference and the submission of proposals may be

found at:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/

Please address any queries to drh2000@sheffield.ac.uk

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CALL FOR HOSTS : DRH 2001 and DRH 2002

The DRH Standing Committee warmly invites proposals to host the DRH

conferences in 2001 and 2002. Further information about DRH together with

the conference Protocol, which includes guidelines for prospective hosts,

is available via the DRH Web site at http://www.drh.org.uk/.

Proposals to host DRH should be submitted by 8 April 2000 to the Chair of

the Standing Committee, Marilyn Deegan

(marilyn.deegan@queen-elizabeth-house.oxford.ac.uk), giving as much detail

as possible to help the Committee in its selection process.  Previous

hosts of DRH have found running the conference very rewarding and have

also found that it can be an opportunity to alert their wider institution

to research activities in this area.

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From: Einat Amitay 
Subject: CFP for a workshop on search results
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:07:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 534 (534)


Please accept our apology for multiple postings.

=======================

Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link

May 30th 2000

San Antonio, Texas, USA

<http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/>http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat 

/info_doors/

A workshop held in conjunction with the

ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/)

=======================

Introduction

The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new 

hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the 

context of search results.

Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created 

on-the-fly. Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen 

hypertext form of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends 

to identify the presentation search results with Information Retrieval 

research. This workshop will consider search results as a form of 

hypertext, encouraging discussion about the nature of this dynamically 

created textual point-of-departure.

The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of 

navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text 

to represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext 

representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new 

on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The 

purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new 

hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the 

context of search results. The workshop will focus on the textual aspects 

of the problem:

- How texts are read online?

- How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people who 

search for information?

- How people navigate through textual search results?

- What are the informative role and value of the newly created intermediate 

page?

- Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users?

- Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are 

perceived by readers?

- Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation

   within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used in

   order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming of links

   conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns in annotation

   systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and positioning, use of

   lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and authors' frequent

   vocabulary choices).

The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such 

as Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural 

Language Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and 

psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently 

seen hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results. It 

will address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext 

representations of search results by looking at evaluations and studies of 

hypertext representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text 

representations should be designed in terms of language coherence and 

on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve navigation with a 

smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The term 'textual 

representation' relates to how a document or a group-of-documents is 

represented in text (short or long texts, coherently summarised or 

organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated, citations, 

generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on). We will aim for 

gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our experience about 

hypertext in order to improve the options users are presented with while 

searching for information. The goal of the workshop is to create an 

interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning 

search results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system.

The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of 

results. It will not look at graphical representations of search results 

unless these shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison 

between textual and graphical representations of documents. The following 

list of suggested topics is only a short one and authors are encouraged to 

add more related issues and directions of investigations that are missing 

from it.

Topics

Issues of presentation

- Choosing what information to show about found entities

(summaries, titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.)

- Grouping of results

- Labelling Groups of documents

- Creating hierarchies of results

- Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results

Issues of results refinement

- Similarities detected between results (represented in text)

- Query refinement (textual options)

Issues of evaluation

- How results are read

- Does presentation change users navigation experience

- Different users - different presentations?

- Large scale studies

- Task-specific studies

Issues of speed and efficiency

Commercial applications

Important Dates

     Submission of papers - 5 April 2000

     Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000

     Workshop - 30 May 2000

Submission

Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted 

electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are 

preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or 

MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages.

Workshop Organiser:

   Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO)

   einat@ics.mq.edu.au

Committee:

   Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University)

   Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft)

   Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University)

   Sue Dumais (Microsoft)

   Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington)

   Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL)

   Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems)

   Christina Haas (English, Kent State University)

   Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University)

   Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University)

   Vibhu Mittal (Just Research)

   



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: 2nd CFP: Workshop "Integrating Information ..."
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:08:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 535 (535)

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This is the Second Call for Papers for the

                            WORKSHOP

                            ========

        "Integrating Information from Different Channels

         ===============================================

                    in Multi-Media-Contexts"

                    =======================

to be held as part of ESSLLI 2000 at Birmingham (UK), August 6-18, 2000

URL: http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic

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Description:

In everyday situations agents must combine information from different

sources: Reference and predication can be based both on gestural and

spoken information. Inferences demand extracting information from

diagrams and the text built around them. Focus of attention is often

indicated by visual, gestural or acoustic means.

The growing number of researchers interested in multimodal information

reflects its practical relevance, not least in the construction of

man-machine interfaces. In order to model complex multimodal

information, a notion of composite signal is called for in which

the different "threads of information" are integrated. Understanding

composite signals may be necessary for all fields of science dealing

with information, whether empirically or formally oriented. Research

in this area is bound up with logical, linguistic, computational and

philosophical problems like

      - assessing the semantic contribution of information from

        different sources,

      - compositionality in the construction of information

      - extending the notions of reference, truth and entailment in

        order to capture the content of "mixed information states" and

      - experimentally measuring the activity on different channels or

      - investigating timing problems concerning "interleaving

        threads" of information.

Despite their foundational flavour, emerging theories in this area

have applications in domains as diverse as discourse analysis

(monitoring and back-channelling behaviour), styles of reasoning,

robotics (reference resolution by pointing) and Virtual Reality

(integration of gesture and speech).

Consequently, the workshop is addressed to scholars from different

fields: We welcome experimental researchers investigating

e.g. gesture, eye movement or other means of focussing in relation to

speech. At the same time workshop contributions of linguists,

logicians or computer scientists are invited who work on the

description and the formal modelling of complex signals. Finally, work

concerning the simulation of production or understanding of complex

signals, Virtual Reality type, neural net like or other, is also

encouraged.

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For further and occassionally updated information, please visit

http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic

Kenneth Holmqvist (LUCS), Hannes Rieser (SFB360) and

Peter Kuehnlein (SFB360)



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Museums and the Web 2000
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:08:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 536 (536)

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             Museums and the Web 2000

               April 16-19, 2000

           Minneaoplis, Minnesota, USA

           program now online at

         http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000

Thousands of cultural heritage institutions are now on the web,

offering programs and sharing information. But museums, libraries,

archives, academics and educators have much to learn about what makes

web sites successful. And there is lots to be gained from a dialog

among users and creators of cultural information online. To

facilitate this exchange of information, Archives & Museum

Informatics organizes an annual international conference devoted

exclusively to Museums and the Web.

MW2000 offers an international perspective; speakers and delegates

from over 20 countries were represented last year in New Orleans. The

full program for MW2000, including paper abstracts and speaker

biographies, is now available at (http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/).

Before the conference begins, full papers will be on the web so that

speakers can highlight major issues and allow more time for active

discussion. About 150 papers given at three previous MW conferences

are still available online.

WORKSHOPS

Full and half day workshops precede the conference on April 16, and allow

in depth exploration of topics and themes. If you are just venturing out

onto the net or are a seasoned cybersurfer, there is a workshop for you. A

Pre-conference tour on April 15 allows a limited number of people to

get  a first hand look at award-winning web development studios in

Minneapolis and St. Paul.

PROGRAM

Speakers from around the world will present papers on the entire process of

web implementation. During the 3 days of the conference, beginners

and veterans can explore themes including: design & development,

implementation, evaluation, site promotion, education, societal

issues, research, museology and curation. Sessions, papers, panels

and up-close mini-workshops explore theory and practice. The Exhibit

Hall features hot tools, techniques and services. Demonstrations of

museum web sites will let you meet and question designers and

implementers of some of the coolest museums on the web.

DEMONSTRATIONS

There's still space in the MW2000 Demonstration Hall. If you've got a

hot new feature on your site, and you'd like a chance to show it off

to your friends and colleagues, visit

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/demos/ and make your proposal to

demonstrate. The deadline is February 15, 2000.

BEST OF THE WEB

Once again, an international panel of judges will award the Best of

the Web, to the museum or heritage site that best uses the web to

meet its mission. Visit http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/best/ to

nominate your favourite site for consideration. (Judges are not

eligible to win awards.)

JUST THE FACTS

        MW2000

        April 16-19, 2000

        Hyatt Regency Hotel

        1300 Nicollet Mall

        Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

        Great hotel rate of $109 (per room per night)

        http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

REGISTER ONLINE

Full registration information is available at

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/register/ You can register online or print

out a form and return it to us. Early registration rates are

available until January 15, 2000.

NEED TO KNOW MORE?

Email mw2000@archimuse.com with any questions about Museums and the

Web.

Best wishes for a bug-free Year 2000. See you in Minneapolis!

jennifer and David

________

J. Trant and D. Bearman			mw2000@archimuse.com

Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web		Minneapolis, Minnesota

Archives & Museum Informatics		April 16-19 1999

2008 Murray Ave, Suite D		http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

Pittsburgh, PA 15217			phone +1 412 422 8530

USA					fax +1 412 422 8594

________



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CL2000: 3rd call for papers
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:08:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 537 (537)

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   First International Conference on Computational Logic, CL2000

                Imperial College, London, UK

                   24th to 28th July, 2000

               http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/cl2000

                     3rd call for papers

The deadline for submission of papers to CL2000 is FEBRUARY 1, 2000.

Papers on all aspects of the theory, implementation, and application

of Computational Logic are invited, where Computational Logic is to

be understood broadly as the use of logic in Computer Science.

Papers can be submitted to one the following seven streams of CL2000

(each stream has its own separate program committee):

    - Database Systems (DOOD2000)

    - Program Development (LOPSTR2000)

    - Knowledge Representation and Non-monotonic Reasoning

    - Automated Deduction: Putting Theory into Practice

    - Constraints

    - Logic Programming: Theory and Extensions

    - Logic Programming: Implementations and Applications

The last three streams effectively constitute the former ICLP

conference series that will be now integrated into CL2000.

Please note the following:

    - Further details on formatting of the papers, publisher,

      etcetera are available via the webpage of the conference.

    - Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by

      15th April, 2000.

    - Camera-ready versions must be received by 15th May, 2000.

CL2000 is co-locating with ILP2000, the 10th International

Conference on Inductive Logic Programming. The call for papers

of ILP2000 (deadline for submission of papers: 29 March 2000)

and further information is available via

    http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ILP-events/ILP-2000

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: software patents and humanities computing
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:11:09 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 538 (538)

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In one of the recent posts to Humanist (13.0324 free ESL software) there

was an advertisement for a new ESL program.  I have no intention of

slamming the software or its producers, but I do have a question that

hopefully someone out there who knows more about this than I do can

answer.  In the ad the author states that the commercial software in

question (despite the subject header, the software is not free) utilizes

"a patented new theory of grammar."  Now this is something new to me as

a scholar in the humanities:  patents on knowledge.  Other disciplines,

especially in the physical sciences, apply for patents all the time for

things like new polymers, pharmaceuticals, computer chips, etc.  Authors

of texts are compensated for their intellectual labors through

copyright, but copyright only protects authors from unauthorized

reproduction:  I can read a text (or use a computer to read a text, as

in the case of software) and talk about it all I want, provided that I

have access to a copy of it.  Copyright restricts my ability to make

(illegal) copies of a text.  Patents on the other hand describe a

process by which a thing is made which can then be sold for a profit.

Scientists can discuss the process by which a new polymer is made, they

just can't make the substance in their labs for sale on the market.

The thing that bothers me here is that if knowledge in the humanities

(in this case, linguistics) can be patented, what effect will this have

on research in humanities computing?  Suppose someone takes the ideas in

this patented linguistic theory and creates an original program (ie they

write the code from scratch) that allows one to parse a sentence for

language learning.  Or suppose that the linguist/programmer in question

develops a new theory and creates a better language parser that depends

on the original patented theory.  Would the programmer/linguist infringe

on the patent?  The recent lawsuit between Amazon.com and one of its

e-commerce competitors would suggest that software innovation such as

this would make scholars and/or universities liable for damages.  One of

the issues surrounding the Amazon patent, which you can read about at

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html, is that Amazon has patented

an obvious idea for e-commerce:  the use of client-side cookies to keep

track of what online shoppers want to buy before they "check-out."  The

competitor did not copy the actual code running on Amazon's machines,

they just implemented the same idea which Amazon claims is "theirs."

Many of us who write code for humanities computing get ideas from what

we observe when we visit other web sites, academic and commercial.  I

don't think this is copyright infringement because we don't copy the

code, just the ideas. Of course, we often do grab each other's code, but

we ask for permission and acknowledge each other's contribution.  If I

were to write a program for a search engine that could handle texts

encoded in XML (a big "if," but what the hey), would I have to patent

the program in order to protect myself?  What if I made the code open

source and distributed it freely to anyone who wanted to use it?  Are

humanities computing scholars forced to work for software companies if

they want to develop research tools, or must they be consumers of

software products and let companies outside of academia decide how we

will use our computers?

mw


--
Mark B. Wolff
Modern and Classical Languages
Center for Learning and Teaching with Technology
Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY  13820
(607) 431-4615
http://users.hartwick.edu/wolffm0/


From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: call for comments: revision of evaluation guidelines
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:11:46 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 539 (539)

On behalf of the MLA's Committee on Computers and Emerging Technologies
(CCET), I would like to invite members of Humanist to review and comment
on the proposed revision of the MLA's "Guidelines for Evaluation of
Computer-Related Work." The draft version of the new document, entitled
"Guidelines for Evaluating Work with Digital Media in the Modern
Languages," can be found here:
http://www.mla.org/reports/ccet/ccet_call.htm
The importance of this document should be obvious to all. Please help
the committee to ensure that it will serve the profession effectively.
See also a second document recently drafted by the CCET, entitled "Draft
Guidelines for Institutional Support and Access to Information
Technology for Faculty and Students in the Modern Languages," available
for review and comment at that same address.
Please address comments on either document to Douglas Morgenstern,
.
For the CCET,
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
					       Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
                             Assistant Professor, Department of English
                                   Research in Computing for Humanities
                                                 University of Kentucky
	                   Technical Editor, The William Blake Archive
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Position Available: AMICO
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:09:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 540 (540)

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AMICO LIBRARY EDITOR

DEADLINE: This competition has been reopened. Applications will be=20

reviewed on a rolling basis, and accepted until the position is=20

filled.

A PDF version of this file is available at=20

http://www.amico.org/jobs/AMICO.Library.Editor.pdf

AMICO Library Editor: Responsibilities

  The AMICO Library Editor is responsible for the application of data=20

standards to the

  compiled AMICO Library, for the identification and implementation of=20

best practices

  in the documentation of cultural artifacts, and for the coordination=20

of the development

  of the AMICO Library.

1. Data Standards and Quality Control

  Staffs Editorial Committee

  Provides support and assistance to by the AMICO Editorial Committee in the

  specification of data standards, controlled vocabulary and authority files.

  Documents Editorial Committee decisions.

  Identifies items for Editorial Committee consideration.

  Analyzes the implications of implementing Editorial Committee decisions.

  Where necessary, completes research on data standards, and reports=20

on the result to

  AMICO and the Editorial Committee.

  Develops Documentation

  Maintains the AMICO Data Specification, documenting the technical=20

formats, transfer

  syntax, data structure and data values required and recommended for the AMI=

CO

  Library.

  Enhances documentation to record recommended practice.

  Develops guidelines for the application of other art documentation=20

standards (such as

  the AAT and ULAN) in the AMICO Library.

  Develops examples of the application of the AMICO Data=20

Specification, on a field, and

  record level. Maintains a selection of sample records illustrating catalogi=

ng

  problems, and highlighting the depth and breadth of the AMICO Library.

  Maintains maps between the AMICO Data Specification and other art=20

documentation

  standards and specifications, such as the VRA Core and the Categories for t=

he

  Description of Works of Art, the Dublin Core and in-house=20

collections documentation

  systems.

  Implements Data Standards and Best Practices

  Develops strategies to implement of data standards and consistent indexing.

  Maintains and develops AMICO's Artists Authority (biographical) file.

  Designs and conducts indexing and authority development projects to provide

  additional and consistent access points to the AMICO Library.

  Works with AMICO Technical Staff to specify and supervise Library-wide data

  cleanup and standardization projects.

  Supervises interns in the execution of indexing and authority=20

development projects.

  Collaborates across Communities

  Serves as liaison to data standards activities in the field.

  Works with professional organizations such as ARLIS, CAA, CIMI, MCN,=20

and VRA to

  develop common strategies for cultural documentation and networked access.

  Works with users of the AMICO Library to determine most effective=20

and efficient

  means of meeting their access needs.

  Prepares and presents papers and reports on the construction and use=20

of the AMICO

  Library.

2. AMICO Library Development

  Member Contributions

  Assists members in their regular contributions to the AMICO Library, includ=

ing

  assisting with maps between local systems and the AMICO Data Specification,

  supporting the contribution process, providing help with the=20

web-based Contribution

  Management System, analyzing error reports, and debugging files.

  Manages the validation and correction of new contributions to the=20

AMICO Library,

  following up with Members where required to ensure necessary corrections ar=

e

  made.

  Works with AMICO Technical staff to ensure the integrity of the=20

AMICO Library as

  delivered to AMICO's distribution partners.

  Content Profiling

  Develops and implements methods to characterize the AMICO Library=20

and illustrate

  its breadth and depth.

  Identifies and develops subsets of the AMICO Library that meet=20

particular curricular

  or user requirements.

  Recommends (and if possible implements) web-based features=20

highlighting aspects of

  the AMICO Library and its possible use.

  Content Development

  Identifies areas of strength and weakness in the content of the AMICO Libra=

ry.

  Works with AMICO Members to define areas of content contribution.

  Develops programs and strategies for content development.

  Prepares funding applications for the support of specific content=20

creation projects.

3. AMICO Library Editor: Qualifications

  Education

  Graduate degree in art history, cultural studies, history or library=20

and information

  science or related field.

  Subject knowledge of art history and familiarity with arts education=20

essential.

  Multiple Languages an asset.

  Experience

  Several years hands-on work with online cultural documentation.

  Familiarity with existing and developing art documentation standards.

  Knowledge of the communities that create and use online cultural=20

documentation.

  Aptitude

  Independent, self-directed and highly motivated.

  Facility working with teams and building consensus.

  High degree of comfort in extremely automated environment.

  HTML and Web-based programming and/or specification highly desirable.

  Reporting Structure

  Reports to the Executive Director of AMICO.

  Collaborates with Technical and Client Services Staff.

  Supervises interns.

  Salary

  Salary commensurate with experience (30-45,000 $US); this is a=20

professional position.

  Location

  The AMICO Offices are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

4. AMICO Library Editor: Application Details

  Written Applications for this position, outlining professional experience a=

nd

  expertise, should be addressed to:

  Jennifer Trant

  Executive Director

  Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)

  Email: jtrant@amico.org

  Applications MUST Include:

  Cover letter highlighting relevant experience

  A full R=E9sum=E9

  A list of Publications and presentations and URLs of any web sites

  An Email address where we can reach you.

  APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY

  EMAIL TO JTRANT@AMICO.ORG

  Include cover letter in the body of the message

  Append Resume and publications list as attachments to your email message

  List attachments and corresponding file names at the end of your cover lett=

er

  Name your attached file with your last name, and number them=20

sequentially. (e.g.

  Smith1.doc Smith2.doc)

  DEADLINE: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis;=20

applications accepted until the

  position is filled.

About AMICO

The Art Museum Image Consortium is an independent, not-for-profit membership

association of institutions with collections of art. Incorporated in=20

June of 1998, AMICO is an innovative collaboration, not seen before=20

in museums, that shares, shapes and standardizes information=20

regarding cultural collections and enables its educational use. The=20

AMICO Library is a multimedia archive compiled by the Art Museum=20

Image Consortium, and distributed, under license for educational use.=20

AMICO partners with not-for-profit distributors, to make the AMICO=20

Library available over secure networks to institutional subscribers,=20

including universities, colleges, libraries, schools and museums.=20

Designated users include faculty, students, teachers, staff and=20

researchers. See http://www.amico.org for full background information.

________

J. Trant			2008 Murray Ave, Suite D

Executive Director		Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA

Art Museum Image Consortium

http://www.amico.org		Phone: +1 412 422 8533

jtrant@amico.org		Fax: +1 412 422 8594

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Call for Applications for the American Memory Fellows Institute
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 21:10:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 541 (541)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 5, 2000

          CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: YEAR 2000 AMERICAN MEMORY FELLOWS INSTITUTE

                                LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

                          <http://learning.loc.gov/learn/>http://learning.lo 

<http://learning.loc.gov/learn/>http://learning.loc.gov/learn/
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Institute

This announcement is being sent to a variety of lists. Please accept our

apologies for any duplication.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

YEAR 2000 AMERICAN MEMORY FELLOWS INSTITUTE

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

American Memory Fellows Program

The American Memory Fellows Program is an exciting opportunity for

outstanding teachers, librarians, and media specialists to work with the

Library of Congress in better understanding how primary sources can

enrich grades 4-12 curricula. This is a yearlong professional

development opportunity, the cornerstone of which is the summeri

nstitute, held this year in Washington, DC, at the Library of Congress,

in two sessions:  July 16-21 or July 23-28, 2000.

The American Memory Fellows Institute

The American Memory Fellows Institute sponsors 24 two- person-teams of

exemplary grade 4-12 educators to come to Washington for a summer

institute. Each six-

day session will accommodate 12 teams of 24 Fellows. Teams will not

attend both sessions; however, to be eligible to apply, teams must be

available for both

sessions.  To apply, use the application found on-line at

<http://learning.loc.gov/learn/amfp/intro.html>http://learning.loc.gov/learn 

/amfp/intro.html.

Applications must be postmarked by February 28, 2000.

During the 6-day institute, Fellows will work with Library of Congress

staff and consultants, examine both actual and virtual primary source

artifacts-photographs, maps, graphic arts, video, documents, and texts -

plus learn strategies for working with these electronic primary source

materials, and develop sample teaching materials that draw upon the

American Memory online materials.

The Fellowship Year

Following the Institute, Fellows will continue to develop, refine, and

'road test' their teaching materials with other colleagues and

students.  These teacher-created materials are then edited for

presentation on the Library of Congress Learning Page at

<http://learning.loc.gov/learn/>http://learning.loc.gov/learn/. Throughout 

the school year, Fellows

participate in on-line discussion groups as this process evolves.

American Memory Fellows, as mentors to their professions, are also asked

to share their knowledge with other

colleagues throughout the nation at workshops and seminars, or in

writing.

Selection Criteria:

The Library is seeking applications from 2-member teams of humanities

teachers, librarians, and media specialists who:

*Have frequent access to and a high level of comfort using  the World

Wide Web, e-mail and other technologies;

*Have experience using primary sources to motivate students, promote

critical thinking, and help students connect history to their own lives;

*Are active leaders in their fields, and/or have the ability to

disseminate their expertise to teachers and/or librarians in their

community and region;

*Work with student populations that are diverse (e.g. by region, income,

race and ethnicity, language, disability, etc.).

If you meet these criteria, please print out and complete our online

application at 

<http://learning.loc.gov/learn/amfp/intro.html>http://learning.loc.gov/learn 

/amfp/intro.html. You may

make copies of the application for interested colleagues.

Remember, applications must be postmarked by February 28, 2000.   (No

email, fax or disk-based applications, please.)  Notification letters to

all applicants will be mailed the week of April 24, 2000.

Please send any inquiries to NDLPEDU@LOC.GOV

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From: alessio@helios.unive.it
Subject: request for dictionary
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 542 (542)


We need to build a dictionary of classical and medieval Latin with spelling 

check (and the possibility to create an exclude dictionary) for Word 97, 

Word 95 and Word 2000 (in the next future). Since Microsoft doesn't 

distribute any Latin dictionary and we haven't found any third part 

solution yet we think that we have to build a new one. For this purpose we 

would like to have an empty main dictionary, that will be filled gradually 

during the time. Could anybody help us?

Many thanks from

Giancarlo Alessio (alessio@unive.it)

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From: cafrica@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
Subject: book on social history of technology
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 543 (543)


Another Cowan book:

Cowan, Ruth Schwartz, 1941- A social history of American technology / Ruth

Schwartz Cowan. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Chris Africa

University of Iowa Libraries

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Trademark Dispute: Leonardo Art/Science Network under Legal Attack for Use of the Word "Leonardo"
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 544 (544)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

January 4, 2000

                               TRADEMARK DISPUTE

               Leonardo Art/Science Network under Legal Attack

                         for Use of the Word "Leonardo"

                <http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/>http://mitpres 

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/>http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-jour 

nals/Leonardo/

I thought readers should know of the latest in a string of recent 

Internet-related trademark disputes - this one regarding the 

well-established and well-respected pioneering Leonardo Art/Science Network 

that, among many other activities, produces the LEONARDO Journal.

David Green

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From: Elli Mylonas 
Subject: Position openings, Florence, Italy
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 545 (545)


This may be of interest:

Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 23:45:51 -0500
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      [Elli Mylonas

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      Box 1843-CIS

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From: Elli Mylonas 
Subject: Position openings, Florence, Italy
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 546 (546)


This may be of interest:
[deleted quotation]
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From: "James J. O'Donnell" 
Subject: epicene names?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:17:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 547 (547)


I need a list of probably 25-30 epicene names, that is "first" names that

do not distinguish themselves by gender.  Dorian and Cameron come to mind.

I've also known two females named Lawrence, but that won't work.  Ideally,

there's a list somewhere.  (Why do I need this?  So students in a course

can login under gender-free pseudonyms for a discussion session online in

which gender is masked.  I could just assign numbers or random nouns, but

names feel more appropriate, as long as gender is not marked.)

Jim O'Donnell

Classics, U. of Penn

jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu



From: rosemary franklin 
Subject: Need Contact in Grenada
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:17:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 548 (548)


Would you please ask members of this list for any name/email

address/contact information of faculty or administrator at St. George's

University in Grenada, WI who is associated with the arts and sciences

curriculum and/or library.

Thanks very much.

Rosemary Aud Franklin

Associate Senior Librarian

English Literature Bibliographer

University of Cincinnati

ML 0033

Cincinnati, OH  45221

513.556.1729  fax

513.556.0666  voice

rosemary.franklin@uc.edu

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From: LeeEllen Friedland 
Subject: Preservation Digital Reformatting at LC
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 549 (549)


The Preservation Reformatting Division of the Library of Congress

announces the web release of its first digitizing project, the full

ten-volume set of the periodical Garden and Forest: A Journal of

Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry.  This landmark publication

was the first American journal devoted to horticulture, botany,

landscape design and preservation, national and urban park development,

scientific forestry, and the conservation of forest resources.  The

digital reproduction can be viewed at the following URL:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/gardfor/gfhome.html

The National Digital Library provided experience and personnel in the

planning and execution of this preservation project.  The Garden and

Forest project is the first Library of Congress initiative to adapt the

use of digital technology to serve the traditional preservation goals of

reformatting deteriorating originals.    Preservation goals and

requirements for selection, completeness, fidelity to the original

content and structure, and cataloging as applied to this digital project

are described in the "Digitizing and Delivery" link from the Garden and

Forest site.

New policy information that addresses the integration of digital

technology among the options available for crafting preservation

strategies has also been added to the LC Preservation web site:

http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/presdig/presintro.html

Garden and Forest contains approximately 8,400 pages, including over

1,000 illustrations and 2,000 pages of advertisements.  Each issue

contains articles that are both literary, as well as scholarly and

scientific, and are of interest to readers ranging from curious amateurs

to practicing professionals. It provides practical information on

specific plants as well as horticultural practices, guidance on the

design of gardens, the growth of trees, and the care and management of

public and private grounds.  Many of the articles are illustrated.  The

art work includes line drawings, halftones, diagrams, plans, botanical

illustrations, portraits, and landscapes.  Every issue also contains at

least four pages of advertisements that provide a valuable snapshot of

contemporary commercial products, services, and establishments.

The Preservation Reformatting Division is working collaboratively with

the University of

Michigan on the digital conversion and online delivery of Garden and

Forest with the goal of building a foundation for interoperability with

other Making of America digital materials (see

http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/).  This has involved developing a model for

phased delivery that allows progressive additions of features and

functionality to be provided by different parties, over time.  Another

collaborative effort with the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University has

focused on the phased addition of access and interpretive aids, such as

background essays and a comprehensive subject index; the first

historical background essay is available online with this Phase 1

release.

Please send all comments and questions to lcweb@loc.gov.


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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: apologies
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 550 (550)


Dear Colleagues:

You will have noticed a spurious message from Humanist, "13.340 jobs in 

Florence, Italy", originating from "willard@lists.village.virginia.edu" 

rather than from the "Humanist Discussion Group". Please disregard. It is a 

result of some teething problems with new software for processing messages.

With apologies,

WM

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: philosophy of humanities?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 551 (551)


Dear Colleagues,

Recently I have been reading around in the history and philosophy of 

science, noting parallels between the sciences, especially physics, and 

humanities computing. These readings have convinced me that we have much to 

learn from the historians and philosophers who have concerned themselves 

with experimental, empirical research. I have been increasingly puzzled, 

however, by the scanty attention that research in the humanities has 

attracted from scholars in history and philosophy. Why is this so? Why now 

that computing has become so important to humanities research does the need 

for this attention seem (at least to me) so acute?

So far the only answer I have been able to manage points to the fact that 

we must objectify our research methods before we can compute the artefacts 

we study, and in so doing we bring out into the open what has formerly been 

hidden from view. Hence as a direct consequence of humanities computing new 

areas for historians and philosophers to study are opening up. Am I wrong 

about this?

Part of the problem has been the attitude in the humanities by which the 

physical bits and craftsmanship of research, its technology, are relegated 

to a lesser status. (Do we smell here traces of the the old mind/body 

problem, i.e. the pure mind vs the corrupt flesh?) Thus we do not have an 

intellectual history of the concordance -- a badly needed study waiting to 

be researched and written. Correct me if I am wrong, but is it not the case 

that the history of the book, of the alphabet and alphabetization and 

palaeography (with emphasis on the techniques by which letterforms were 

produced) are typically marginalised subjects? Why is it -- correction 

again most welcome -- that research methods courses are typically not given 

much emphasis in our postgraduate/graduate programmes? Might this in part 

be because so few of us, until we begin to compute our research, have any 

idea of how we do what we do, and why?

Yours,

WM

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From: avital  (by way of Willard McCarty
Subject: collaborative work on the web - a new software
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 552 (552)


hi,

   as a member of humanist list for some years i would like to recommened

   a new software that might have educational significance as it enables

collaborative work on the net.

the software is free at the site: http://www.expression-net.com

there is a demo that explain its concept.

Dr. avigail oren

tel aviv university

school of education



From: orso steven n 
Subject: Re: 13.0343 epicene names? contact in Grenada?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:20:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 553 (553)


On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
[deleted quotation]
            Alexis       Evelyn        Marion          Tony

            Ashley       Jackie        Meredith        Val

            Beverly      Jamie         Morgan          Vivian

            Carol        Jan           Pat

            Chris        Jerry         Robbie

            Dale         Lee           Shirley

            Elf          Lynn          Sidney

STEVEN N. ORSO

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign



From: Joseph Jones 
Subject: epicene names
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:20:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 554 (554)


Epicene names?  Try these 33.  It's even from Pennsylvania!

Joseph Jones    University of British Columbia Library

jjones@unixg.ubc.ca    http://www.library.ubc.ca/jones

Barry, Herbert; Harper, Aylene S.

Feminization of Unisex Names from 1960 to 1990

Names 41:4 (Dec 1993) 228-238

The evolution of the use of unisex given names was studied in an

examination of the frequencies of names given to boys & girls in

1960 & 1990. Data were taken from the electronic data files of the

PA State Health Data Center. A total of 33 unisex names, given with

substantial frequency to children of both sexes, was identified. An

examination of baby name books reveals that most of these unisex names

were, prior to 1960, given mostly to boys, whereas in 1990 most of

these names were given to girls. The findings support previous findings

that names tend to evolve from masculine to unisex to feminine over time.

2 Tables, 21 References. Adapted from the source document



From: "Tim Reuter" 
Subject: Re: 13.0343 epicene names? contact in Grenada?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:21:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 555 (555)


I suspect that this is determined by the local culture, not just

the language. For the UK,

one might offer Beverley, Hilary, Vivien, Evelyn, Kim, Leslie,

possibly Winifred, Jean,

George (George/short form of Georgina).

But if the aim is to prevent presuppositions, I don't think it

will work, because most of these are 'normally X' names and

though gender Y is possible it will not be the initial

assumption.

----------------

Tim Reuter

Department of History, University of Southampton, Southampton

SO17 1BJ

tel. 023 80 594868; fax 023 80 593458

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tr/tr.html

History Department: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~history/

Wessex Medieval Centre: http://www.soton.ac.uk/~wmc/



From: "Prof. Roly Sussex" 
Subject: Re: 13.0346 history & philosophy of research?
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:21:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 556 (556)


Willard is quite right. Especially in the "high" humanities the

idea of "methodology" seems marginal: certainly it has a quite

different place from the social sciences, where published papers,

and grant applications, fail at once unless they have a competent

and comprehensive description of how the work's mechanics are

arganized. The relation between methodology and epistemology

is different in the social sciences, and in those areas of

Linguistics, especially text- and corpus-oriented linguistics,

where social science techniques are more prominent. There

would be few postgraduate courses in applied linguistics, for

instance, which do not have a subject on research methods and

methodology.

What is interesting about computational methods in language

research - sorry, ONE of the interesting things - is that these

methods are providing us with both a new methodology and a new

epistemology. The notion of "data" is undergoing a reworking.

Humanists are learning to interpret statistical reports on

what our software says the text is doing. This whole process

is tending to bring some areas of the Humanities closer to

questions of methodology in other disciplines, and indeed

to make the Humanities more scientific.

Roly Sussex

Centre for Language Teaching and Research

The University of Queensland



From: Steven Totosy 
Subject: the humanities
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:22:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 557 (557)


your letter about shortcomings in the humanities, especially with regard to

the empirical, is unfortunately an important observation. i have been

working on and in this for a long time now and it is difficult with our

colleagues and with the field as a whole, indeed. on the other hand, there

are many of us who do recognize the importance of the issue and there is a

sizable corpus of work out there. for example, the approach i am pushing,

the systemic and empirical approach to literature and culture (based on an

array of other schools of thought such as radical constructivism and the

Empirische Literaturwissenschaft), is perhaps worth to look at. just go to

my journal, CLCWeb and its library (it has several bibliograophies in the

approach) at <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/> (see also the

journal's aims and objectives, off its index page). best,

Steven Totosy

Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal

<http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/>

-- CLCWeb 1.4 (December 1999) is online now --



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: An article by Geoffrey Nunberg
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 558 (558)


Dear Humanist Groups,

I would like to forward an article from The American Prospect Magazine ON

"WILL LIBRARIES SURVIVE?" Written by Dr. Geoffrey Nunberg, who also wrote

a book entitiled "Future of the Book". I thought this might interest to

the members! Thank you!

{..Excerpts from the article..}

In a Washington Post interview a couple of years ago, Bill Gates

discussed his plans to give away the bulk of his fortune and suggested

he already had in mind doing with the personal computer "something

like what Carnegie did with libraries where he said, Okay, books are

this empowering thing that people . . . should have access to.' " That

was presumably the impetus for the announcement in late 1997 of two

grants programs for public libraries, one consisting of $200 million

worth of software from the Microsoft Corporation, the other of $200

million from the personal fortunes of Bill and Melinda Gates, directed

at providing digital technology and internet access to underserved

libraries.

The period between 1850 and the First World War was the golden age of

the American public library. The number of public libraries went from

around 50 in 1850, to 300 by 1875, to several thousand by the turn of

the century. A lot of this growth was the direct result of Carnegie's

largess, but he was responding to a very general conviction that

libraries were essential institutions for social progress, to the

point where he could say the public library "outranks any other one

thing that a community can do to help its people." The library

movement battened on the late-nineteenth-century ideology that saw

literacy both as crucial for social advancement and as ensuring an

enlightened civic discourse. As J. P. Quincy wrote in 1876, "[To the

free library] we may hopefully look for the gradual deliverance of the

people from the wiles of the rhetorician and stump orator. . . . As

the varied intelligence which books can supply shall be more and more

widely assimilated, the essential elements of every political and

social question may be confidently submitted to that instructed common

sense upon which the founders of our government relied."

The founders of the library movement envisioned the public library as

an equal partner of the public school in achieving these goals. It was

a time, after all, when schooling was more limited than it is today-in

1890 only a quarter of American students finished high school-and when

the curriculum was mired in rote learning that had little relevance to

the forms of literacy that reformers wanted to establish. (Charles

Eliot estimated in 1890 that it would take a Massachusetts high school

graduate only 46 hours to read aloud all of the books that were

assigned in the last six years of schooling.) The public library, by

contrast, seemed to offer a venue that was accessible to everyone, one

that "appeals to and nurtures every idiosyncrasy," as one enthusiast

put it. And as the libraries went up, they were staffed by cadres of

"apostles of culture," as the historian Dee Garrison describes them,

many of them graduated from the newly established library schools, the

first of which was founded by Melvil Dewey (of Dewey decimal system

fame) at Columbia University in 1887.

The article can be read in FULL at

<http://www.prospect.org/archives/41/41nunb.html>

Comments are welcome!!

Sincerely

Arun Tripathi



From: "Christine Jewell" 
Subject: Symposium on Electronic Theses and
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 559 (559)


Dear Colleagues:

We invite you to attend The Third International Symposium on Electronic

Theses and Dissertations, March 16th-18th, 2000, University of South

Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida.  Preconference: March 15, 2000.

This symposium is organized by the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of

Theses and Dissertations), a consortium of research universities committed

to improving graduate education by developing digital libraries of theses

and dissertations.  This conference will serve as a multi-disciplinary forum

for graduate deans and their staff, librarians, faculty leaders, and others

who are interested in electronic theses and dissertations, digital

libraries, and applying new media to scholarship.

Featured keynoters and plenary workshop leaders include Ed Fox, Director,

NDLTD; Clifford Lynch, Director, CNI; Ann Hart, Provost, Claremont Graduate

School; Gerry Lang, Provost, West Virginia University; John Eaton, Associate

Provost, Virginia Tech; Delphine Lewis, Director of Dissertations, UMI; Roy

Tennant, Digital Library Project Manager, University of California,

Berkeley; Stuart Weibel, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC.

Concurrent sessions will introduce participants to world-wide ETD

initiatives, including presentations by Jean-Claude Gudon, Universit de

Montral, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Felix Ubogu, Rhodes University, South

Africa; Peter Diepold, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany; Tony

Cargnelutti and Fred Piper, University of New South Wales, Australia;

Christine Jewell, University of Waterloo, Canada.  Concurrent sessions also

include reports from leading ETD universities, including VT, UWV, USF, MIT,

and Emory.

Workshops in computer classrooms will provide hands-on training in Adobe

PDF, XML, SGML, and Microsoft Office 2000.
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view the program or download the registration materials.

The Council of Graduate Schools, the NDLTD, and West Virginia University

Libraries are cosponsoring this year's publication of the Symposium

Proceedings.

Please note that we expect to limit the number of registrants.  Because

March is such a popular time in Florida, we encourage you to make your

reservations early, whether you stay at the conference hotel or along the

Gulf beaches.   For content questions email Joe Moxley:

moxley@chuma1.cas.usf.edu  

For registration questions, contact the Division of Conferences: 813 974

2403.

Conference Web Site: <http://etd.eng.usf.edu/Conference>

Conference Sponsors: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations;

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From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: 13.0351 research in the humanities
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:58:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 560 (560)

[deleted quotation]


From: 
Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 561 (561)

[deleted quotation]
I wasn't aware that Willard said these were shortcomings, and I'm not sure I

think so.  Now I 've been in "humanities computing" since the early 1970's, and

have been using stat and suchlike tools in my research in historical

linguistics for about the same length of time, and Willard knows I've been an

enthusiastic member of Humanist off and on for a long time--but much of what I

read here these days just seems irrelevant to anything I do or care about

doing.

I regard that as a shortcoming of many of the writers to the List, not mine (so

there).



From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705"
Subject: Empirical Approaches to the Humanities
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 22:59:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 562 (562)


I would like to second (or third or whatever number we may be

at) the points made by Steven and others on the need for empirical

research in the humanities and particularly in the study of

literature.  There are, at least, two ways that empirical

studies can be useful.  First as an adjunct to other theoretical

approaches--a way of testing out some of the basic and perhaps

unexamined hypotheses upon which theories are grounded.  Second

as a way to generate new questions and new approaches--I've never

yet done a quantitative/statistical analysis that has not yielded

some results that were entirely unexpected.  The "not what I was

looking for at all" experience is one of the best a researcher

can have.

In line with this I'd like to encourage humanists moving in this

direction to submit proposals to the Computer Studies in Language

and Literature Discussion Group meeting for next December's

MLA.  David has posted or will post the call--if you missed

it as I may have--David Hoover's address is dh3@is.nyu.edu.

I will also call for submissions in this area to Studies in

the Humanities, the journal I edit.  Most of the articles we've

published over the last 30 years have been on literature and film

and have been informed by literary theory.  I'd like to broaden

our perspectives and include articles that take an empirical

approach.  Work may be sent to me: Malcolm Hayward, Editor,

Studies in the Humanities, English Department, Indiana University

of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705.

Malcolm Hayward



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: shortcomings
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:03:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 563 (563)


In Humanist 13.346 I was indeed pointing to SOME shortcomings in the

humanities: (1) the lack of attention to research methods, which if taught

would save graduate/postgraduate students precious time and effort; and (2)

the relegation of material culture in humanities research to a lesser

status than the supposedly vehicle-free content. These failings concern me

because computing the humanities depends on attention being paid to them. I

certainly did not intend to suggest that a data-centred (or empirical)

approach is the only one, though I am intensely interested in the

differences that it makes to what we see -- and don't see.

Why is it, do you suppose, that research methods are often given such a

short shrift? What is the argument, if any, against a strong methodological

component to the postgraduate curriculum? What do we gain, if anything,

from ignoring the technological vehicle, be it codex or hypertext, as if

the artefact were simply words without specific material embodiment?

Subtracting the straw men and women, what sort of a battle do we have here?

Yours,

WM

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From: "Gerda Elata" 
Subject: Re: 13.0350 epicene names
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 564 (564)


re: epicene names

You would perhaps be interested to know that epicene names are more and more

common in Israel with - on the face of it - more masculine names used for

women than the opposite. Since I haven't been following this discussion,

this may be  old hat.

Gerda Elata



From: jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (James J. O'Donnell)
Subject: from print to web
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 565 (565)


Augustine's Confessions:

Print scholarship takes to the WWW

I am pleased to announce release of the Internet edition of a substantial

work of scholarship, coinciding with availability of a paper reprint

edition.  These steps demonstrate that it is no longer necessary for

scholarly works to be "out of print" and unavailable, and also show that

high-quality scholarship of the sort until now available only in

expensive, limited press-run editions, can be made widely and freely

available to students and scholars.

In 1992, I published with Oxford's Clarendon Press imprint the three

volumes (approx. 1200 pages) of Augustine:  Confessions (introduction,

text, and commentary by James J. O'Donnell:  ISBN 0-19-814378-8).  The

work sold for c. $300 and eventually went out of print after selling

approximately 1200 copies.

The entire work is now available on the Internet free of charge to users:

http://www.stoa.org/hippo.  No special equipment or software is required

and the work can be read with all commonly used browsers.  A duplicate

copy is available at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/conf.  The work

provides a complete Latin text of the Confessions, a detailed scholarly

commentary on the text line-by-line, and a lengthy interpretive

introduction (http://www.stoa.org/hippo/comm.html) - the most accessible

part of the book to the Latinless reader.

At approximately the same time, a reprint edition of the hardcover

original is being published by Sandpiper Books, in association with Oxford

University Press.  The American distributor is Powells Bookstore, 1501 E.

57th Street, Chicago, Illinois   60637 (tel:  773-666-5880; fax:

773-955-2967; e-mail:  PowellsChicago@msn.com), with books due for

delivery in early February 2000 (price TBD, but substantially lower than

the original hardcover).  British distribution is done through Postscript,

24 Langroyd Road, London SW17 7PL (0208-767-7421).

The WWW edition has been prepared in cooperation with the Stoa Consortium

(www.stoa.org), under the leadership of Ross Scaife of the University of

Kentucky with SGML encoding and HTML conversion by Anne Mahoney of Boston

University.  I am deeply grateful to these colleagues for their interest

in the project and the quality of the result.  The Stoa project seeks to

make available and preserve for the future high-quality peer-reviewed

scholarly work available on the Internet.  Financial support for the

conversion of this work was provided by the University of Pennsylvania,

for which I am very grateful as well.

E-versions and p-versions of the "same book" are not identical and I

expect there will continue to be users of both versions of this text -

indeed many individuals will find both useful.  The two versions are close

enough, however, that it makes sense to represent them under the same

library cataloging record.  I am happy to report that they can be seen

this way in the Online Public Access Catalogs of two great universities

with which I have had the honor of association, Penn

(http://www.franklin.library.yale.edu) and Yale

(http://webpac.library.yale.edu/webpac/orbis.htm).  (My thanks to my

colleagues Patricia Renfro of Penn and Ann Okerson of Yale for

facilitating this demonstration.)



From: Elisabeth Burr 
Subject: SILFI2000 - deadline for
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 566 (566)


Sorry, if you receive this message more than once.

Please distribute:

Societa' Internazionale di Linguistica e Filologia Italiana (SILFI)

                               VI Convegno Internazionale

                                  Tradizione & Innovazione

Linguistica e filologia Italiana alle soglie di un nuovo millennio

                                   28 Giugno 2 Luglio 2000

                         Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet GH

                                       Duisburg, Germania

               http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000/

Having been urged by many people, we herewith announce

that the deadline for the submission of abstracts for posters/

demonstrations has been extended to the 30th of January 2000.

For more information about posters/demonstrations and the

format of the abstracts please see:

http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000/index2.shtml

We would like to inform you, too, that we are in the middle of

the revision process of the many, many proposals for papers

which have reached us, and that it should be concluded, if all

goes well, the 10th of February.

With best regards

Elisabeth Burr

President of SILFI

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Prof'in Dr.  Elisabeth Burr

FB10/Romanistik     Universitaet Bremen

eburr@uni-bremen.de

FB3/Romanistik

Gerhard-Mercator-Universitaet Duisburg

Elisabeth.Burr@uni-duisburg.de

Personal homepage:

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

President of SILFI and organizer of SILFI2000:

http://www.uni-duisburg.de/FB3/SILFI/SILFI2000



From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 13.0354 research in the humanities
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:50:41 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 567 (567)


Willard's reference to straw men jogged my memory, of an argument that I

used to have with one of my colleagues in graduate school in illo

tempore. He was a strong proponent that graduate students needed a better

knowledge of litrary theory, while I would argue that you had tohave

something to theorize _about_.

He used one argument that I found very powerful: If you're going to study

architecture, you don't really have to know very much about the

combination of clay and straw that's used to make bricks.

Charles Faulhaber	Department of Spanish	UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590

(510) 642-3782		FAX (510) 642-7589      cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu



From: "Fotis Jannidis" 
Subject: Re: 13.0354 research in the humanities
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:51:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 568 (568)

[deleted quotation]
been an
[deleted quotation]
what I
[deleted quotation]
mine (so
[deleted quotation]
Interesting point, maybe you could describe in little more detail what

shortcomings you

are talking about?

Fotis Jannidis



From: Wendell Piez 
Subject: Re: 13.0354 research in the humanities
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:51:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 569 (569)


Willard and HUMANISTS:
[deleted quotation]
Because they are the elephant in the living room. I think a strong history

of Humanities disciplines (in particular, English and Literature programs)

would have to focus on the evolution of methodologies as a core aspect of

the generational churn between different schools of theory ever since the

New Criticism slew the Titans.
[deleted quotation]
Probably not much. In my experience, however, when the argument in favor of

the methodological component has been made, it has failed in the face of

the considerable political problem of what that methodology should be, and

by what rhetoric it should be formalized and prosecuted. Since (to extend

the well-worn analogy) we are all wearing blindfolds and can't agree on

what the elephant really is, it is easiest to agree simply to let the

students figure it out for themselves.

In the best case, the students may be provided with a survey of

currently-fashionable approaches (each of which does entail a methodology),

buffet-style, and then left to gravitate, by personal and political

affinity, to those faculty who practice something they might learn by a

kind of *Imitatio* (which is not a bad way to learn, either).
[deleted quotation]
One less thing to worry about. (Willard, as you know, to my mind the

"specific material embodiment of the artefact" is a crucial aspect, though

not the entirety, of the text as a subject of study -- which is one reason

I do the work I do, having sought refuge from my own confusions about these

things, unwilling to take sides.)

Interestingly, the growing importance of technological literacy in the

curriculum may, in some places, make room again for this concern.

Especially since the material embodiment plays such an important role in

our arguments about media.

A: "I find a bound volume comforting, stable, intimate."

B: "Hypertext is so exciting, fluid, responsive."

A: "But it's so loud, so hurried. A book is much more interactive, so much

better for listening."

B: "Dead trees."
[deleted quotation]
The Cynic would say: Go ye to your Dunciad (Book IV), and ye shall know.

(That's Alexander Pope's allegory on the Court of Dulness--admittedly not

something everyone has read.)

The Romantic would say: the only battle that really matters. How is the

past, such as we know it (its material and its mentality), an objective

legacy, a cause-and-effect whose necessities we ignore to our peril? How is

it a mere projection of our personal and collective psyches, our

resentments, aspirations, anxieties and hopes? Can it be both? In its

glass, what do we learn about ourselves, and how?

Respectfully,

Wendell Piez

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From: Ken Litkowski 
Subject: Re: 13.0352 Nunberg article online
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 570 (570)

[deleted quotation]
Seems that we have heard these words used about the Internet.  Doesn't

seem as if we've been delivered from the rhetorician and stump orator.

Less and less is said with more and more.  In 50 years, will my

grandchildren look at similar statements made in the fin de siecle of

the last millennium and laugh at the naive prognostications of the great

Internet democratization?  Probably, but we will make strides toward

turning information into knowledge.


--
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: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Humanities computing units and institutional
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 571 (571)


The online directory, "Humanities computing units and institutional

resources" at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/hc/>, has been updated with a

number of European sites. Corrections and additions most welcome.

Willard McCarty (King's College London)

Matthew Kirschenbaum (University of Kentucky)

-----

Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities /

King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. /

voice: +44 (0)171 848-2784 /  fax: +44 (0)171 848-2980 /

ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/

maui gratia



From: "Nancy M. Ide" 
Subject: JOurnal publication: Computers and the Humanities
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:00:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 572 (572)


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JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED

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                     COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES

                         Volume 33 No. 3 1999

                           Table of Contents

                           -----------------

FEATURE ARTICLES

----------------

     Elementary Dependency Trees for Identifying Corpus-Specific

     Semantic Classes

         B. Habert, C. Fabre

         pp. 207-219

     Contrast and Change in the Idiolects of Ben Jonson

     Characters

         Hugh Craig

         pp. 221-240

NOTES AND DISCUSSION

--------------------

     The User-Oriented Bengali Easy Orthography

         S.M. Babulanam, K.F. Beena

         pp. 241-245

     Annotating The Satanic Verses: An Example of Internet

     Research and Publication

         Paul Brians

         pp. 247-264

     Text Indexation with INTEX

         Max Silberztein

         pp. 265-280

BOOK REVIEWS

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     Colorado Castellary, Arturo, Hipercultura Visual El reto

     hipermedia en el arte y la educacisn

         Antonio Cortijo Ocaqa

         pp. 281-282

     Irizarry, Estelle, Informatica y literatura. Analisis de

     Textos hispanicos

         Antonio Cortijo Ocaqa

         pp. 282-283

     Michael R. Brent, Computational Approaches to Language

     Acquisition

         Dominique Estival

         pp. 284-287

     Branimir Boguraev and James Pustejovsky, Corpus

     Processing for Lexical Acquisition

         Dominique Estival

         pp. 287-290

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        The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the

        Humanities

Editor-in-Chief:

        Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA

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.

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From: "Nancy M. Ide" 
Subject: Journal: Computers and the Humanities 33:4 (1999)
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 13:00:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 573 (573)


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JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED     JUST PUBLISHED

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                      COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES

                         Volume 33 No. 4 1999

                             SPECIAL ISSUE

                                   on

                             DIGITAL IMAGES

                           Table of Contents

                           -----------------

     Introduction to Special Topic Issue of Computers and the

     Humanities: "Digital Images"

         A.A. Goodrum, B.C. O'Connor, J.M. Turner

         pp. 291-292

     Access to Pictorial Material: A Review of Current Research

     and Future Prospects

         Corinne Jvrgensen

         pp. 293-318

     Managing Full-indexed Audiovisual Documents: A New

     Perspective for the Humanities

         Gwendal Auffret, Yannick Prii

         pp. 319-344

     No Longer a Shot in the Dark: Engineering a Robust

     Environment for Film Study

         Bertrand Augst, Brian C. O'Connor

         pp. 345-363

     The Emergence of a Digital Cinema

         Roger B. Wyatt

         pp. 365-381

     Six Ways from Sunday: Approaches to Indexing Digital Text

     Images

         Scott J. Van Jacob

         pp. 383-407

     Attitudes of the Canadian Research Community toward

     Creating and Accessing Digitized Facsimile Collections of

     Historical Documents

         B. Burningham

         pp. 409-419

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COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES

        The Official Journal of The Association for Computers and the

        Humanities

Editor-in-Chief:

        Nancy Ide, Dept. of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA

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.

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voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081

 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>

maui gratia



From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: 13.0360 new on WWW: updated directory
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 574 (574)


[The following extracted from a note sent to me. --WM]

....

It's about a company named Octavo Editions operating only on the Web, and

dedicated to the electronic publishing of antiquarian rare books, including

manuscripts. They actually partner with librairies and private collectors

anywhere to get the books on loan, photograph every page (even the cover)

with very high resolution, with the due precautions for conservation, and

then publish the complete work (including sometimes a translated text or

more, and searching facilities) in PDF format on CD-ROMs which they sell

for rather reasonable prices. The Octavo site is at http;//www.octavo.com/

Disclaimer:

I have absolutely no links with them, but I was delighted to discover them,

and I think book lovers like myself would be happy to know the place and

give it a look.

After thoughts:

Shouldn't librairies (at least the large national and academic ones) get

copies of these kind of electronic books, and actually of any kind of

e-books? But what about the problem of permanency? I don't necessarily

refer to the durability of the CD-ROM media (often discussed), but rather

to that of its technology dependent format, and that of the PDF format

itself (version whatever), and the supporting operating systems? Do (large)

librairies have policies of maintaining the means to ensure such resources

will keep legible in the long term? For example by planning ahead the

transfer of the resources onto new media as they appear, or by collecting

and conserving the adequate tools (viewers, operating systems, computers)?

Is it not imaginable that any large library could have a room with shelves

filled with one (or several?) portable computer of a current type at the

moment and with the current software (OS, viewers, etc.), with CD-ROM drive

and most importantly the possibility to be fed directly from the grid,

without a battery (to avoid at least this permanency problem!)? After all,

a portable computer is about the size a book, and is certainly less

expensive that a single rare book or manuscript...

With my very best regards,

Thierry

___________________________

Thierry van Steenberghe

mailto:t_vs@compuserve.com

Bruxelles  -  Belgium

___________________________



From: "R.G. Siemens" 
Subject: Workshop Announcement: INSTITUTIONAL READINGS
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 575 (575)


[please excuse x-posting; please redistribute]

INSTITUTIONAL READINGS:

EARLY MODERN EUROPE AND THE MODERN UNIVERSITY

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

University of British Columbia

March 9-11, 2000

http://www.InstitutionalReadings.org

Should the university target an elite student population?  Should the

Humanities curriculum, especially at the undergraduate level, attempt to

foster knowledge of what has been called the Western Tradition, or should

it introduce students to a wide range of cultural traditions -- even if it

means slighting canonical Western figures?  How might we begin to reconcile

opposing arguments of those who advocate interdisciplinarity in graduate

teaching and scholarship with those who view such work as partly or

altogether "undisciplined"?  How should scholars share the credit for

collaborative work?  To what degree might graduate research assistants be

entitled to a share of the credit for projects with which they have been

involved? Should we integrate or endeavor to keep apart the traditional

activities of the school and the operations of the commercial sphere?

Institutional Readings is a workshop, to be held at the Peter Wall

Institute for Advanced Studies (9-11 March 2000), where ideas will be

exchanged about how knowledge of the past could contribute fruitfully to

present debates within the university and about how awareness of the

institutional conditions of scholarship could help to improve scholarly

practices. The meeting will bring a group of Renaissance scholars together

with a number of experts on the modern university in order to study the

interrelationship between early modem European culture and the

institutional culture of the modem academy.

The goal of Institutional Readings is threefold:

- to consider how the environment of the university has influenced

scholarly accounts of Renaissance literature, history, and society;

- to investigate the origins of academic culture, with special emphasis on

Renaissance innovations such as the expansion of market relations, the rise

of vernacular literatures, the tendency toward disciplinary specialization,

the formation of the modem idea of authorship, and the literature of

proto-feminism;

- and to discuss how we might develop a more complete long historical view

of the university, one that would no doubt involve study of other

historical periods and other academic areas such as Science, Medicine, and

Education. We will ask all participants to consider how the knowledge of

the past could help us make the future university a better place for

teaching, learning, and doing scholarship.

Since one of the purposes of the workshop is to outline a cultural history

of the academy with a special focus on the Renaissance, our focus will not

be the history of the university per se. Rather than seeking to compare

sixteenth-century Cambridge University with its present-day counterpart or

with the American university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we are inviting

participants to elaborate a broader account of the relationship between

some element of early modern culture in toto and the institution of the

modern university.

For further information, please explore the workshop's website, at

        http://www.InstitutionalReadings.org

or contact the organizers, Paul Yachnin and Nancy Frelick, at the addresses

below.

Paul Yachnin

Department of English

397 - 1873 East Mall

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC.  V6T 1Z1

Ph: (604) 822-4226

Fax: (604) 822-6909

yachnin@interchange.ubc.ca

Nancy Frelick

Department of French, Italian, and Hispanic Studies / Comparative Literature

797 - 1873 East Mall

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC.  V6T 1Z1

Ph: (604) 822-2365

Fax: (604) 822-6675

frelick@interchange.ubc.ca



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 13.0354 research in the humanities
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:57:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 576 (576)


Willard

I would invite you to answer your own question. But before I would do

that I invite you to consider speaking from the first person and

translating the abstract "we" into a differently abstract "I"...

Your question:

What do we gain, if anything, from ignoring the technological vehicle, be

it codex or hypertext, as if the artefact were simply words without

specific material embodiment?

My limited response:

I gain a certain intellectual space that allows me to compare different

cultural manifestations, different semiotic artefacts, different texts.
[deleted quotation]
manifestation, artefact or text by relating it both to an instantiation

(or to use your term "material embodiment" which doesn't quite cover the

event nature of theatre and ritual) and to a social formation.

Let me retrace, this rather cumbersome attempt to capture the essence of

humanities work as a movement of comparisons, from a perspective alluding

to Snow's two cultures. If a concern for material embodiment brings the

researchers using a certain technology closer to science, then is it

possible that a more pronounced concern for abstraction might lead the

same or other researchers using that certain technology to occupy a

position closer to art? I am here reasoning by analogy with inter-arts

translation and have in mind the type of work covered by Karin von Maur

surveying modern painters and their relation to music. I am also thinking

of the position of design history at the intersection of cultural and

social history. See, for example, Joy Parr's Domestic Goods: The Material,

The Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years.

I know for me there is a certain joy in taking a tabulation of the

discursive elements I might find in a text and rendering them in a visual

form. I find it beautiful to be able to compare both the methods of

tabulation and the methods of rendering. As John Cage asked in one of the

pieces collected in Silences, "Would I have to know how to count in order

to ask questions?" and as I have come to understand it in the light of a

cybernetic model of feedback: questions preceed counting and follow

counting. Are you asking us which questions or methods change the way we,

you or I, might count? Or are you asking which ways of counting modify the

questions we might ask? Is it important to label as art or science which

of these two questions begins the your or our inquiry?

What if Snow was wrong in tallying up the number of cultures?


--
Francois Lachance
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/portfolio/p.htm


From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: a view from the sciences
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:58:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 577 (577)

Dear Colleagues:
Consider the following long quotation from Ian Hacking, Representing and
intervening: Introductory topics in the philosophy of natural science
(Cambridge, 1983), pp. 248-9:
[deleted quotation]By speculation Hacking means, "the intellectual representation of something
of interest, a playing with and restructuring of ideas to give at least a
qualitative understanding of some general feature of the world" (pp. 212f).
By calculation he means Th. Kuhn's "articulation" applied only to the
theoretical side of scientific work, thus "the mathematical alteration of a
given speculation, so that one brings it into closer resonance with the
world" (p. 214).
My question is this. In the light of what he says about the social
sciences, what do we see when we look at scholarship in the humanities as
this is transformed by computing?
Yours,
WM
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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: Paul Brians 
Subject: Offprints of Internet reseearch article
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:26:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 578 (578)


Over the years I've made several queries on this list to support my

research on Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses. As a message from

humanist today notes, an article by me on this research has just appeared

in Computers and the Humanities:  "Annotating The Satanic Verses: An

Example of Internet Research and Publication." It may be of interest if you

are concerned with designing or evaluating Internet-based research.

If you do not have access to the journal, I do have a limited number of

offprints I can send to people who are interested.

Paul Brians, Department of English

Washington State University

Pullman, WA 99164-5020

brians@wsu.edu

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ELRA News
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:43:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 579 (579)

[deleted quotation]
___________________________________________________________

                                ELRA

                European Language Resources Association

                               ELRA News

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                     *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES ***

We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA:

        _______________________________________

        ELRA-S0076 French SpeechDat(II) FDB 5000

        _______________________________________

        The French SpeechDat(II) FDB-5000 comprises 5040

        French speakers recorded over the French fixed telephone

        network. 40 speakers have been added to the original 5,000

        speakers to fit the requirements of the database. This

        database is partitioned into 18 CDs, each of which comprises

        300 speakers sessions (except for CD 4, with 100 speakers

        sessions). 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 speech files are stored as sequence of 8-bit, 8kHz A-law speech files

        and are not compressed. Each prompt utterance is stored within a separate

        file and has an accompanying ASCII SAM label file.

        The following items were recorded:

        - 5 application words;

        - 1 sequence of 10 isolated digits;

        - 4 connected digits: 1 sheet number (5+ digits), 1 telephone number

        (9-11 digits), 1 credit card number (14-16 digits), 1 PIN code (6 digits);

        - 3 dates: 1 spontaneous date (e.g. birthday), 1 prompted date (word

        style), 1 relative and general date expression;

        - 2 word spotting phrases using an application word (embedded);

        - 1 isolated digit;

        - 3 spelled-out words (letter sequences): 1 spontaneous, e.g. own

        forename; 1 spelling of directory assistance city name; 1 real/artificial

        name for coverage;

        - 1 currency money amount;

        - 1 natural number;

        - 5 directory assistance names + 1 spelled-out name: 1 spontaneous,

        e.g. own forename, 1 city of birth / hometown (spontaneous); 1 most

        frequent city (out of 500); 1 most frequent company/agency (out of 500);

        1 forename surname, 1 spelled-out city of birth;

        - 2 questions, including "fuzzy" yes/no: 1 predominantly "yes" question,

        1 predominantly "no" question;

        - 9 phonetically rich sentences;

        - 2 time phrases: 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1 time phrase (word style);

        - 8 phonetically rich words.

        The following age distribution has been obtained: 215 speakers are below

        16 years old, 2531 speakers are between 16 and 30, 1208 speakers are

        between  31 and 45, 910 speakers are between 46 and 60, and 176 speakers

        are over 60.

        A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in SAMPA is also

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Upcoming conference: The Cognitive Basis of
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:31:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 580 (580)

[deleted quotation]
Announcing an international interdisciplinary conference on:

THE COGNITIVE BASIS OF SCIENCE

Earnshaw Hall, University of Sheffield, UK 2 pm Wednesday 28 June to 2

pm Saturday 1 July 2000

Sponsored by the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, University of

Sheffield

The conference will address such questions as the following: What is it

about human cognition which either enables us, or fits us, to do

science? Do scientific abilities have some sort of distinctive innate

basis? (Is there a science "module"?) Or are scientific abilities

socially constructed out of general-learning mechanisms? How do

different elements of our cognition fit together to underpin

scientific reasoning? To what extent are there continuities between the

cognitive processes involved in child development, those engaged in by

hunter-gatherer communities, and those which are distinctive of

scientific enquiry? How fundamental is the concept of "cause" in

scientific reasoning, and how do we come by it? (Is the concept of "ca=

use" innate?) How important is simplicity as a constraint on scientific

explanation, and to what extent does its use in science reflect some

more general cognitive constraint? What place do the emotions have in an

adequate account of scientific activity?

Participants will include the following: =

Atran, Scott (Anthropology, CNRS Paris & Michigan)

Butterworth, George (Cognitive Science, Sussex)

Carruthers, Peter (Philosophy, Sheffield)

Chater, Nick (Psychology, Warwick)

Evans, Jonathan (Psychology, Plymouth)

Gelman, Rochel (Psychology, UCLA)

Harris, Paul (Psychology, Oxford)

Hilton, Denis (Psychology, Toulouse)

Koslowski, Barbara (Psychology, Cornell)

Laurence, Stephen (Philosophy, Sheffield)

Lipton, Peter (History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)

Mithen, Steven (Archaeology, Reading)

Nemeroff, Carol (Psychology, Arizona State)

Over, David (Philosophy, Sunderland)

Papineau, David (Philosophy, King's London)

Ravenscroft, Ian (Philosophy, King's London)

Siegal, Michael (Psychology, Sheffield)

Stich, Stephen (Philosophy, Rutgers)

Subbotsky, Eugene (Psychology, Lancaster)

Thagard, Paul (Philosophy, Waterloo)

Varley, Rosemary (Human Communication Science, Sheffield)

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR PAPERS. All conference slots are by invitation

only. There will be an opportunity to display posters. Abstracts should

be submitted to the e-mail address below by 1 May 2000.

Details of the conference programme will be available in April or May

2000. To be placed on the distribution list and/or to receive a

break-down of conference costs and a registration form, e-mail the

following address:

hang-seng@sheffield.ac.uk

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: MW2000 Update and Deadline Reminders
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:32:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 581 (581)

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                     Museums and the Web 2000

                        April 16-19, 2000

                    Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

                    http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO PARTICIPATE

You can still propose to demonstrate your web site, provide an

in-depth mini-workshop, or participate in the Crit-Room. See the web

site at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/ and make your proposal

online. Deadline for all proposals is February 15, 2000.

DEADLINE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

Are you from a small museum, or under-represented country? You can

still apply for and MW2000 scholarship, but hurry the deadline's

soon. See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/scholarships/  Your

application must be complete, including supervisors signature, by

January 31, 2000.

BEST OF THE WEB NOMINATIONS

Nominate your favourite site for review by our international panel of

judges in the Best of the Web Awards. See

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/best/ for the full list of categories

and the names of the committee. (no lobbying please. Judges can't win

awards).

NEW ATTRACTION: CRIT ROOM

New this year! We've borrowed an idea from art and design education!

In the Crit Room you'll have a chance to get first-hand feedback from

your colleagues and peers about your site, or your newest site

design, facilitated by Larry Friedlander and Rob Semper. Got

something almost out of beta that could use some feedback? Or do you

want to know what everyone else REALLY thinks about your site?

Propose yourself as a subject in the Crit Room (the MW2000 site will

be first -- please be kind!)

UPDATED PROGRAM

You'll find a fully updated program on-line now at

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/sessions/. Or try the tabular view at

http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/sescal/sescal_20000416.html

FULL LIST OF PAST MW PRESENTERS

There's now a full list of MW presenters, and their on-line papers

available from http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html

MW2000 DEADLINES

        Scholarships: Extended to January 31, 2000

        Regular Registration, Feb. 15, 2000

        Proposals for Demos, Up-Close Sessions, Crit Room: Feb. 15, 2000

        Nominations for Best of the Web: Feb. 15, 2000

        Hotel Reservation Cut off Date: March 24, 2000

QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS?

Email MW2000@archimuse.com for further info.

See you in Minneapolis!

jennifer and David.

________

J. Trant and D. Bearman			mw2000@archimuse.com

Co-Chairs, Museums and the Web		Minneapolis, Minnesota

Archives & Museum Informatics		April 16-19 1999

2008 Murray Ave, Suite D		http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/

Pittsburgh, PA 15217			phone +1 412 422 8530

USA					fax +1 412 422 8594

________



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop 2nd Call for Papers
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:33:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 582 (582)

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                        Second Call for Papers

                  Workshop on Automatic Summarization

        

        (pre-conference workshop in conjunction with ANLP-NAACL2000)

                website: http://www.isi.edu/~cyl/was-anlp2000

sponsored by

ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)

MITRE Corporation

Sunday, April 30, 2000

Seattle, Washington, USA

I. OVERVIEW

The problem of automatic summarization poses a variety of tough challenges

in both NL understanding and generation. A spate of recent papers and

tutorials on this subject at conferences such as ACL/EACL, AAAI, ECAI,

IJCAI, and SIGIR point to a growing interest in research in this field.

Several commercial summarization products have also appeared. There have

been several workshops in the past on this subject: Dagstuhl in 94, ACL/EACL

in 97, and the AAAI Spring Symposium in 98. All of these were extremely

successful, and the field is now enjoying a period of revival and is

advancing at a much quicker pace than before. ANLP/NAACL'2000 is an ideal

occasion to host another workshop on this problem.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Final CFP: Integrating Information from
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:34:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 583 (583)

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This is the Final Call for Papers for the

                             WORKSHOP

                             ========

         "Integrating Information from Different Channels

          ===============================================

                     in Multi-Media-Contexts"

                     =======================

to be held as part of ESSLLI 2000 at Birmingham (UK), August 6-18, 2000

URL: http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic

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Description:

In everyday situations agents must combine information from different

sources: Reference and predication can be based both on gestural and

spoken information. Inferences demand extracting information from

diagrams and the text built around them. Focus of attention is often

indicated by visual, gestural or acoustic means.

The growing number of researchers interested in multimodal information

reflects its practical relevance, not least in the construction of

man-machine interfaces. In order to model complex multimodal

information, a notion of composite signal is called for in which

the different "threads of information" are integrated. Understanding

composite signals may be necessary for all fields of science dealing

with information, whether empirically or formally oriented. Research

in this area is bound up with logical, linguistic, computational and

philosophical problems like

       - assessing the semantic contribution of information from

         different sources,

       - compositionality in the construction of information

       - extending the notions of reference, truth and entailment in

         order to capture the content of "mixed information states" and

       - experimentally measuring the activity on different channels or

       - investigating timing problems concerning "interleaving

         threads" of information.

Despite their foundational flavour, emerging theories in this area

have applications in domains as diverse as discourse analysis

(monitoring and back-channelling behaviour), styles of reasoning,

robotics (reference resolution by pointing) and Virtual Reality

(integration of gesture and speech).

Consequently, the workshop is addressed to scholars from different

fields: We welcome experimental researchers investigating

e.g. gesture, eye movement or other means of focussing in relation to

speech. At the same time workshop contributions of linguists,

logicians or computer scientists are invited who work on the

description and the formal modelling of complex signals. Finally, work

concerning the simulation of production or understanding of complex

signals, Virtual Reality type, neural net like or other, is also

encouraged.

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For further and occassionally updated information, please visit

http://www.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/~wicic

Kenneth Holmqvist (LUCS), Hannes Rieser (SFB360) and

Peter Kuehnlein (SFB360)



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ACL-2000 Call for Papers
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:35:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 584 (584)

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                        ACL 2000 Call For Papers

               38th Annual Meeting of the Association for

                      Computational Linguistics

                        3--6 October, 2000

                             Hong Kong

   The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of

   papers for its 38th Annual Meeting. As was the case with last year's ACL

   conference, the technical  sessions of the conference will be of two kinds.

   There will be  General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic

   Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational

   linguistics community.

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   Further information on the individual themes and topics appropriate to each

   can be obtained from the  ACL-2000 conference website

   (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/).

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP ESSLLI-2000
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:36:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 585 (585)

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--- Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science ---

                  --- We apologize for multiple copies ---

              --- Please circulate and post among students ---

========================================================================

                         SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                      ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION

              August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain

                 Submission Deadline : March 15th, 2000

             http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html

========================================================================

We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 12th European

Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2000) organized

by the University of Birmingham and located at the same University in

August 2000 (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli). We will welcome

submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session

and for appearance in the proceedings.

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ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION

In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, at least one

student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant

at  ESSLLI-2000. Nevertheless, the authors of accepted papers will be

eligible for reduced registration fees.

For all information, please consult the ESSLLI-2000 web site:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: LREC Workshop on meta-descriptions and
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:39:33 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 586 (586)

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*******************************************************************

*                                                                 *

*                 First EAGLES/ISLE Workshop on                   *

*          Meta-Descriptions and Annotation Schemas for           *

*            Multimodal/Multimedia Language Resources             *

*                                                                 *

*                                                                 *

*               LREC 2000 Pre-Conference Workshop                 *

*                         Athens, Greece                          *

*                                                                 *

*                       29 or 30 May 2000                         *

*                                                                 *

*                       1st Announcement                          *

*                              and                                *

*                       Call for Papers                           *

*                                                                 *

*                                                                 *

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1. Workshop Outline

Currently, we can identify a number of trends in the community dealing

with multimodal/multimedia language resources:

   - The number of resources is increasing rapidly.

   - Due to multimedia extensions and rich annotations the structural

     complexity of the resources is entering new dimensions.

   - The quantity of data to be handled is increasing enormously due to

     multimedia extensions, demanding new solutions.

   - The development of technology makes us assume that more and more of

     these resources will be available on the Internet.

The joint EC/NSF funded EAGLES/ISLE [1] initiative aims to create

standards and guidelines that can be applied to natural interactivity

and multimodal language reources (e.g. speech, gesture, facial

expressions, manual languages) that support the creation, use, re-use

of and access to such resources. As part of this initiative, the

workshop will address current trends and discuss structures which

could simplify and assist the creation and use of annotated

multimodal/multimedia resources, the process of finding suitable

resources, and accessing them, for instance, via the Web. The workshop

will address two related areas: annotation schemas and

meta-descriptions for multimodal/multimedia language resources.

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Information

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Information about the workshop such as call, schedule, and program can

be found on the web-page:  http://www.mpi.nl/world/ISLE

Information about the LREC conference can be found on the web-page:

http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Corpora and Conversation: Seminar Series
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:27:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 587 (587)

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CORPORA AND CONVERSATION:

ASPECTS OF PRAGMATIC ANNOTATION IN SPOKEN CORPORA

A Seminar Series, Spring 2000

While recent years have seen a rise in the use of corpus evidence in spoken

language studies, the use of such evidence remains controversial,

particularly with reference to pragmatic and discoursal categories. In this

series, we address a range of issues concerning corpus data and the

analysis of the spoken language, focussing on such topics as theoretical

implications of discoursal and pragmatic annotation; discoursal and

pragmatic annotation in relation to the transcription and mark-up of spoken

data, and the

feasibility of corpus data in pragmatic and discoursal analyses of

conversation and other forms of spoken language.

Speakers:

January 26

Susan Mandala (Royal Holloway): Discourse Coding and Spoken Corpora: The

State of the Field

        

February 9

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Speakers, Hearers and Annotation - Why

it's

Difficult to do Pragmatics with Corpora

February 23

Anne Wichmann (University of Central Lancashire) Discourse Prosody and

Spoken Corpora

March 8

Jenny Thomas (University of Wales, Bangor) TBA

March 22

Bas Aarts and Gerald Nelson (Survey of English Usage, University College

London) Annotation Systems	

Time: 4-6 pm

Venue: Institute of English Studies, 3rd Floor, Senate House, Malet Street,

London WC1E 7HU

Enquiries: Institute of English Studies; Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8675; Fax: +44

(0)20 7862 8672; email: ies@sas.ac.uk

Organisers:

Susan Mandala, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London;

Bas Aarts, Survey of English Usage, University College London, University of

London; Gerry Nelson, Survey of English Usage, University College London,

University of London

Apologies for cross-postings

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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

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Tuebingen Kolloquia No. 78
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 06:27:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 588 (588)

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The Zentrum fr Datenverarbeitung of Tbingen University invites

to the 78th Colloquium on Computer Applications in the Humanities.

Guests are welcome. The language of the Colloquium is German.

Datum: Samstag, 5. Februar 2000, 9.15 bis ca. 12.30 Uhr

Ort:   Zentrum fr Datenverarbeitung, Wchterstr. 76, D-72074 Tbingen,

         Seminarraum

Themen:

         1. Dialektlexikographie mit TUSTEP:

            Die digitale Dialektdatenbank sterreichs (DB) und

            das Wrterbuch der bairischen Mundarten in sterreich (WB)

              (Dr. Ingeborg Geyer,

               sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)

         2. Texte und Noten: Das Evangelische Gesangbuch

            in allen seinen Regionalausgaben auf CD-ROM

              (Dr. Winfried Bader,

               Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart)

See also httl://www uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/tustep/kolloq-nxt.html

----------------------------------------------------------------------

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                    http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/zdv/

D-72074 Tuebingen



From: Sebastien Jean 
Subject: Latest volume of Surfaces
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 589 (589)


The latest volume of _Surfaces_ is available at the following URL:

http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol8/vol8TdM.html

    ________________________________________________________________
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From: Heejin Lee 
Subject: Special issue on time and IT
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 590 (590)


Special Issue of The Information Society

"Time and Information Technology"

Edited by Heejin Lee and Edgar A. Whitley

The Information Society (TIS) invites authors to submit papers for a

special issue on the topic of "Time and Information Technology".

CALL FOR PAPERS

Traditional notions of time and space are being challenged by information

technology based phenomena such as the internet, globalisation of business

and virtual work. Whilst it is easy to simply describe the temporal effects

of these changes in terms of everything being faster, in practice the

changes are much more fundamental. Indeed, a useful comparison can be made

with the wholesale transformation of time perception and time discipline

that arose when mechanical clocks were introduced into societies that had

previously based their notions of temporality on the seasonal passage of

the sun.

Thus, it is possible to consider time not simply as an objective,

clock-time based phenomenon, which is typically used as a constant or an

independent variable in studies. Instead, time can be viewed as a

subjective, socially constructed phenomenon which can be studied as a

dependent variable.

This special issue of TIS hopes to further research and discussion on time

and information technology by publishing papers on aspects of this theme

from diverse viewpoints, in particular, from information systems,

sociology, philosophy, computer science and organisation studies. Topics of

interest include but are by no means limited to:

  information technology and the social construction of time

  virtuality and temporality

  philosophy of time and information technology

  polychronicity, monochronicity and information technology

  ethnographic studies of temporal behaviour in cyberspace

  temporal implications of IT/IS generated organisational change

  the internet and new time keeping systems

  history of time, horology and information technology

  the politics of time with relevance to information technology

  time and communication behaviour

  electronic commerce and consumers' time

  discourses of time (saving/gaining time, historical and future

orientations, etc.)

Papers of empirical research (either qualitative or quantitative) are

welcomed as are theoretical papers that provide new insights or state of

the art reviews that cover diverse disciplines.

As is common practice with special issues for The Information Society,

authors are invited to nominate up to four reviewers who are knowledgeable

about the topic (authors, however, should avoid any nominations that

involve a conflict of interest). Nominations should include name, complete

address, telephone, fax, and electronic mail address.

We encourage prospective authors to become familiar with TIS and to discuss

possible articles with the Special Issue editors before they submit.

Manuscript guidelines and a list of the titles and abstracts of articles

published in TIS can be found on the journal's web site

(http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/).

Please send your manuscript, as a word or .rtf document, formatted

according to the TIS guidelines

(http://www.slis.indiana.edu/TIS/basic_info/tisinst.html) to the first

editor:

Heejin Lee, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel

University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH, United Kingdom, ph: +

44-1895-274000, fax: + 44-1895-251686, Email: heejin.lee@brunel.ac.uk

Edgar Whitley, Department of Information Systems, London School of

Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, ph + 44-207-955-7410, fax

44-207-955-7385, Email: e.a.whitley@lse.ac.uk

Feel free to correspond with the special issue editors if you have any

questions or are planning to submit an article.

The deadline for accepting manuscripts for consideration for publication is

June 26, 2000. All manuscripts will be reviewed by a select panel of

referees, and those accepted will be published in the special issue.



From: "Steve Killings" 
Subject: Text Explorer
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 591 (591)


Hello all,

I have been a member of Humanist for some time but have, alas, rarely

contributed to the great discussions. I have been developing (slowly) a

large text database system for Medieval Latin texts which may be of some

interest to Humanist participants. It has now reached a more or less

significant level and I'd like to offer it here to anyone interested. It can

be downloaded at

http://www.commpact.com/TExplorer/

There are two principle elements: the .tdb Encoder and the TE Interface. At

present I am only making the TE Interface available with some sample texts

as I hope to integrate build, view and edit functions in later builds. The

texts available are:

1.Biblia Vulgata cum Glossa Ordinaria: Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam

Clementinam and the Glossa Ordinaria from the Douay edition. Filesize: (16.0

MB) (n.b. this is a monster database with over 1.3 million words. It is the

prototype db for this system)

   2.Historia Scholastica of Peter Comestor: Filesize: (4.12 MB) (255,107

words)

   3.St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei: Filesize: (3.69 MB) (300,047 words)

   4.Medieval Latin Verse - Carmina Burana: Filesize: (1.11 MB) (38,027 words)

The TE Interface includes some functionality taken over from the TACT system

(namely Collocates) and some standard Contextual Search and Browsing

features. Some additional features include Word Frequencies and the ability

to find word definitions using the on-line Lewis and Short Dictionary at

Tufts. The program can save collocates, search results and browse text in

Plain Text, Rich Text, MS Excel 97 and HTML.

I welcome function requests and bug reports.

Enjoy!

-Steve Killings



From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." 
Subject: Jobs for 1 Linguist and 2 ESL Curriculum
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:12:44 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 592 (592)


Ergo Linguistic Technologies currently has job openings for one linguist

(full-time) and 2 full-time or 4 part-time (80 hours per week) ESL

curriculum developers to work on Software and Internet ITS (Interactive

Tutoring Systems) tools.  To learn more about the company and the tools you

will be working with go to http://www.ergo-ling.com.  The Ergo working

environment is comfortable and a little casual but it is working with state

of the art NLP tools and software.  Located at the Manoa Innovation center

in Honolulu we are convenient to the University of Hawaii for those with

on-going research interests.  We also have a beautiful location as well as

access to restaurants and shopping.  We cannot pay a relocation allowance

but the lifestyle in Hawaii is worth the effort to work here.  Job

descriptions follow:

Linguist:

Knowledge of Syntax and a knowledge of English Grammar required.  Must also

be proficient in standard software applications (Word Processors, Internet,

Spread Sheets, etc.)  Experience teaching ESL grammar classes a plus.  Job

will entail working with programmers and curriculum developers to improve

lexicographical, syntactic, and standard grammar tools made from the Ergo

parser.  The main project is the development of interactive tutors which

use a 3-D character to do interactive question and answer exchanges with

users in the areas of ESL, Geography, and Biology.  The use of in-house

tools as well as standard software required.  Temporary for now (six to

twelve month project), perhaps long term.

ESL Curriculum Developers:

Experience teaching ESL and in Curriculum development.  Must have a good

eye for English grammar.  The position entails designing and writing

curriculum for Interactive tutors.  Job will entail working with

programmers and linguists to improve lexicographical, syntactic, and

standard grammar tools made from the Ergo parser.  The main project is the

development of interactive tutors which use a 3-D character to do

interactive question and answer exchanges with users in the area of ESL for

a stand alone software product and for the Internet.

Contact me by email or at the following numbers.  Resumes may be sent by

email, fax, or regular mail but all jobs start as soon 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)539-3920

Fax: (808)539-3924

bralich@hawaii.edu

http://www.ergo-ling.com



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: dialect
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 08:13:31 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 593 (593)


You may enjoy playing with Samuel Stoddard's The Dialectizer,

<http://rinkworks.com/dialect/>, for the accidental/serendipitous

misrenderings of certain words from (may I say without being shot?)

STANDARD English into one of the dialects his page purports to produce.

Alas the technology behind it is far too unsophisticated to render, say,

the introductory blurb on Humanist's homepage into REAL Cockney -- though,

admittedly, I cannot quite imagine getting any of my Cockney neighbours to

render that blurb out loud. The statement is as follows:
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The Dialectizer renders it thus:
[deleted quotation]
(U.K.).

Curiously, our auto-Cockney is particularly chuffed about what we do (dial.

f. "chuff", "pleased, satisfied, happy") and thinks we're right. Well,

then....  Quite how the machines we use became French Tutors I am not sure,

but perhaps if you are one (a French tutor, that is) you should start

getting worried. The real hoot is, of course, what has happened to our many

"American" friends, but not only those honoured colleagues in the ACLS -- I

tried the adjective on its own, and guess what? The Dialectizer apparently

has one and only one opinion of my native land. No other dialect in The

Dialectizer does that. I must say that my experience of Cockney speakers

and other East Enders is that they have rather the opposite opinion of

America -- streets paved with gold and all that. (I have numerous times

been asked by my genuinely puzzled neighbours, "Why did you move from a

place like that to a place like THIS????" I recall one particularly

memorable occasion, sitting in a moldy shoe shop in Brick Lane, charmed to

the gills by the delightfully reticent attitude of the owner, whom I had to

persuade to sell me a pair of very nice shoes. Now there's a high mark for

an AI-powered dialectizer to aim for.)

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: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Searle's Enlightenment project; AI and the humanities
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:41:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 594 (594)


Humanists will likely be interested in the following two online publications:

(1) "Reality Principals: An Interview with John R. Searle. Eminent

philosopher John R. Searle defends free speech, free inquiry, and the

Enlightenment", Reason Online (2/2000)

<http://www.reasonmag.com/0002/fe.ef.reality.html>.

(2) "Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and the

Humanities", Stanford Humanities Review 4.2

<http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html>. (This one

points to articles on shr.stanford.edu, which seems to have been

down for the last couple of days. Does anyone know what the

problem is?)

Yours,

WM

-----

Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities /

King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. /

voice: +44 (0)171 848-2784 /  fax: +44 (0)171 848-2980 /

ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/

maui gratia



From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: 13.0371 linguistics: jobs, dialectical play
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:42:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 595 (595)


Willard, I must admit to being less than enchanted by The Dialectizer.

The Elmer Fudd and the Pig Latin work okay because they are simply

rewrite rules (wewite oolrays). But the others work at about the level

of newspaper Sunday Supplements, which is to say, not hardly at all.

Only as bad stereotyping of rich  materials.  Having  lived in Redneck

Territory for years and years, I find the presentation offensive,

actually.



From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 13.0362 Octavo Editions & related matters
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 596 (596)


CD-ROM disks drive librarians crazy. Large libraris have hundreds if not

thousands of them. They all have different software and they all must be

installed. Some can run on networks; some can't. They are _much_ more

dificult to deal with than printed books for these reasons.

Large libraries are beginning to consider the problem of the preservation

of digital materials, both digitized and born digital. No one has a good

solution, although two basic strategies have been proposed: (1) migration;

(2) emulation. In the former data are kept separate, to the extent

possible, from a specific hardware and software environment, so that they

can be migrated from that environment to whatever comes next. In the

latter, new hardware and software environments would provide software that

would emulate the environment of previous generations (a common strategy

in he computer industry).

This is a HUGE problem, and no one is close to solving it.

In re Octavo, PDF is not a non-proprietary standard, which would be

preferable, but it's pretty close. Also Octavo will provide mapping tools

to allow conversion from PDF into SGML.

Charles Faulhaber	Department of Spanish	UC Berkeley, CA 94720-2590

(510) 642-3782		FAX (510) 642-7589      cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Director, Digital Library of Georgia
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 597 (597)


Fellow Humanists,

The University of Georgia is currently seeking to fill the position of

Director, Digital Library of Georgia position. The URL for the job

description is:

    http://www.libs.uga.edu/humres/digitaluga.html

Please forward this information to anyone you feel may be interested.

Thanks,

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)

                (Industrial Archeologist)



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CL2000: deadline postponed to February 21st
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:43:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 598 (598)

[deleted quotation]
       First International Conference on Computational Logic, CL2000

                      Imperial College, London, UK

                         24th to 28th July, 2000

                     http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/cl2000/

Due largely to the difficulties caused by related conferences having

submission dates at about the same time, the submission deadline for

CL2000 is postponed to

                     Monday 21st February, 2000.

If you wish to take advantage of this extension, you are asked to email

the Chair of the Stream to which you intend to submit the title, author(s),

abstract, and keywords for your paper *as soon as possible*.

Highlights of the conference include 8 invited speakers, 12 tutorials, and

a strong workshop programme held in-line with the conference. Collocating

with CL2000 are DOOD2000, LOPSTR2000, and ILP2000. Full details about the

conference, including the email addresses of the Stream Chairs, are given

at the above URL.



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Call for Demos
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:43:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 599 (599)

[deleted quotation]
        Call for Proposals: Software Demonstrations Program

Demonstrations Chair:

Jeff Reynar

Microsoft Corporation

jreynar@microsoft.com

                                Call

The ANLP-NAACL2000 Program Committee invites proposals for the

Demonstrations Program for ANLP-NAACL 2000, to be held at the Westin Hotel

in Seattle, Washington, USA, May 1-3, 2000. The goals of this program are to

encourage both the early exhibition of research prototypes and the

demonstration of mature systems (commercial sales and marketing activities

are not appropriate in the Demonstration program, and should be arranged as

part of the ANLP-NAACL2000 Exhibit Program).

Areas of Interest

We would like to encourage the submission of proposals

for demonstrations of software related to all areas of

computational linguistics. Areas of interest include, but are

not limited to:

Natural language processing systems, including

Dialogue systems and interfaces

Machine translation systems and translation aids

Message and narrative understanding systems

Language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction systems

Application systems using embedded language technology components

Reusable components (parsers, generators, speech recognizers, etc.)

Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research

Software for demonstrating or evaluating computational linguistics research

Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts

Format for Submission

Demo Proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to

the Demo Chair (electronic submissions preferred).

An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two

pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and

acknowledgements. (This will be published in an addendum to the proceedings,

so please submit in camera ready format.)

A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be

provided by the local organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible

in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different

logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what

you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment

and resources but nothing

can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power. Please contact the

demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions.

A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying

narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids

(e.g. screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total.

Submissions Procedure

Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but before March 15th, to

the ANLP-NAACL2000 Demonstrations Chair. Please submit your proposals and

any inquiries to:

Jeff Reynar

Microsoft Corporation

One Microsoft Way

Redmond, WA 98052-6399

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to

computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution,

presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical

constraints.

Other Details

Further details on the timing and format for the demonstrations sessions

will be determined and provided at a later date. We anticipate charging a

$40 fee for presenting demos, to help defray costs.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline for Demo Proposal: 15 March 2000

Notification: 1 April 2000

Conference Dates: 1-3 May 2000



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Second International Workshop on Hybrid Logic (HyLo
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:44:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 600 (600)

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                   Twelfth European Summer School

                 in Logic, Language and Information

                          ESSLLI-2000

                       August 6-18, 2000

                   Birmingham, Great Britain

                     WORKSHOP ON HYBRID LOGICS

                   (Bringing Them All Together)

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

THEME:

Modal logic suffers from a certain asymmetry: even though the basic

semantic notion in modal languages is truth at a state, classical

modal logics lack the expressive power to talk about the states

themselves. Whether we think of states as intervals, geometric points,

nodes in a feature structure, or individuals in a description, this is

a genuine weakness.

Hybrid Logics are modal languages which use "terms as formulas".

Although they date back to the late 1960s, the last three years have

seen a resurgence of interest, with new results in expressivity,

interpolation, complexity, and proof techniques. It has also become

clear that hybrid logics offer a theoretical framework for uniting the

work of a surprisingly diverse range of research traditions.

This workshop is likely to be relevant to a wide range of people,

including those interested in description logic, feature logic, modal

logics for information systems, temporal logic, and labelled deduction

for modal logic. Moreover, if you have an interest in the work of the

late Arthur Prior, note that this workshop is devoted to exploring

ideas he first introduced 30 years ago --- it will be an ideal

opportunity to see how his ideas have been developed in the

intervening period.

In this workshop we hope to bring together researchers and students

from all the different fields just mentioned (and hopefully some

others) in an attempt to explore just what they all have (and do not

have) in common.  If you're unsure whether your work is of relevant to

the workshop, please check out the newly opened Hybrid Logic Site:

       http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos/hybrid

[material deleted]

CONTACT DETAILS:

Please visit http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos/hybrid for further

information.

Send all correspondence regarding the workshop to the organizers:

       Carlos Areces

       e-mail: carlos@wins.uva.nl

       http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos

       Patrick Blackburn

       e-mail: patrick@coli.uni-sb.de

       http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~patrick

***********************************************************************


--
Carlos Eduardo Areces
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
University of Amsterdam.
Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Phone : +31 20 525-6925
e-mail: carlos@wins.uva.nl
WWW   : http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos


From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: TSD 2000 - First Announcement and Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:44:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 601 (601)

[deleted quotation]***************************************************
   TSD 2000 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
***************************************************
Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
(TSD 2000)
Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September 2000
TSD Series
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing
from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues.
Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published
by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence series).
[material deleted]
The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/
[material deleted]



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Digisation Summer School 2000
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:38:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 602 (602)

[deleted quotation]
Digitisation for Cultural Heritage Professionals

HATII, University of Glasgow

3-8 July 2000

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS00/

        

Following the great success of the 1998 and 1999 Glasgow Digitisation

Summer Schools, the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information

Institute (HATII) is pleased to announce the third annual international

Digitisation Summer School, 3-8 July 2000.

This course, designed for archive, library and museum professionals,

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 lectures will be supplemented by seminars and practical exercises. In

these, participants will apply the practical experience of digitisation

across a range of printed, image (photographic or slide), manuscript, or

map material. The focus will be on working with primary source material.

The course will visit the Glasgow University Library Special Collections

and the University Archives. The detailed programme is available at the

HATII website--http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS00/

Costs, Registration, and Deadlines

Course Fees (including comprehensive course notes and reading packs,

mid-morning coffee,  lunch, and afternoon tea breaks, not including

accommodation):

- Advanced booking: =A3550 sterling (payment by 15 April 2000).

- Normal price: =A3600 sterling  (applies after 16 April 2000)

Please use the web page to register online at:

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/DigiSS00/

or contact:

Mrs Ann Law,

Secretary, HATII

University of Glasgow

2 University Gardens

GLASGOW G12 8QQ, UK

Tel.: (+44 141) 330 5512

Fax: (+44 141) 330 2793

Email: a.law@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

**************************************************************************=

**

*********

-------------------

Ann Gow                         	Tel: (+44) 0141 330 5997

Resource Development Officer  	Fax: (+44) 0141 330 3788

HATII	                        	email: A.Gow@hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk

Glasgow University              	http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk



From: Fay Sudweeks 
Subject: Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:39:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 603 (603)


PAPERS DUE 14 FEBRUARY 2000!!

----------------------------------------

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on

CULTURAL ATTITUDES TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY

AND COMMUNICATION (CATaC'00)

Conference Theme:

Cultural Collisions and Creative Interferences in the Global Village

12-15 July 2000, Perth, Australia

http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/

http://www.drury.edu/faculty/ess/catac00

Computer-mediated communication networks, such as the Internet and the

World Wide Web, promise to realise the utopian vision of an electronic

global village. But efforts to diffuse CMC technologies globally, especially

in Asia and among indigenous peoples in Africa, Australia and the United

States, have demonstrated that CMC technologies are neither culturally

neutral nor communicatively transparent. Rather, diverse cultural attitudes

towards technology and communication - those embedded in current CMC

technologies, and those shaping the beliefs and behaviours of potential

users - often collide.

This biennial conference series aims to provide an international forum for

the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research on how diverse

cultural attitudes shape the implementation and use of information and

communication technologies. The first conference in the series was held in

London in 1998. For an overview of the themes and presentations of

CATaC'98 and links to the papers, see

http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac98/01_ess.html.

Original full papers (especially those which connect theoretical frameworks

with specific examples of cultural values, practices, etc.) and short papers

(e.g. describing current research projects and preliminary results) are

invited. Papers should articulate the connections between specific cultural

values as well as current and/or possible future communicative practices

involving information and communication technologies. We seek papers which,

taken together, will help readers, researchers, and practitioners of

computer-mediated communication - especially in the service of "electronic

democracy" - better understand the role of diverse cultural attitudes as

hindering and/or furthering the implementation of global computer

communications systems.

Topics of particular interested include but are not limited to:

- Communicative attitudes and practices in diverse industrialised countries.

- Communicative attitudes and practices in industrialising countries and

marginalised communities.

- Impact of new communication technologies on local and indigenous languages

and cultures.

- Politics of the electronic global village in democratising or preserving

hierarchy.

- East/West cultural attitudes and communicative practices.

- Role of gender in cultural expectations regarding appropriate

communicative behaviours.

- Ethical issues related to new technologies, and their impact on culture

and communication behaviours.

- Legal implications of communication and technology.

[material deleted]

-----------------------

Fay Sudweeks

Senior Lecturer in Information Systems

School of Information Technology

Murdoch University WA 6150 Australia

+61-8-9360-2364 (o) +61-8-9360-2941 (f)

sudweeks@murdoch.edu.au

www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks



From: "Ralph Mathisen" 
Subject: [STOA] WWW Conference
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:39:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 604 (604)


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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Symposium in Cuba, 2001
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:40:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 605 (605)

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*****

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

On its 30th Anniversary

SANTIAGO DE CUBA

JANUARY 23-26, 2001

The Center of Applied Linguistics of the

Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of

Science, Technology and the Environment, is

pleased to announce on the occasion of its

30 Anniversary, the Seventh International

Symposium on Social Communication. The event

will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd

through the 26th, 2001. This interdisciplinary

event will focus on social communication processes

from the points of view of Applied Linguistics,

Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice

Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore.

[material deleted]

http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html

[material deleted]



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: at CAA NY 2000: NINCH Copyright Town Meeting
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 21:41:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 606 (606)

[deleted quotation]
The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher for Rights to the

Products of Contemporary Education

NEW YORK CITY Saturday, February 26, 2000

College Art Association Conference

Speaker Biographies and Abstracts:

http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.html

Session One: 9:30 - 12:00: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street.

(Doors open 9:00am) In session one speakers will offer their presentations.

Session Two: 12:30 - 2:00: New York Hilton Hotel, 1335 Sixth Avenue,

(between 53 & 54th Streets) Session two will be devoted to discussion of

presentations offered in session one.

OPEN TO ALL (nominal session fee for non-conference attendees)

Call 212.691.1051 x206 for reservations.

Welcome:

Robert Baron, Independent Scholar and Chair CAA Intellectual Property

Committee.

Overview of Town Meetings Series:

David Green, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).

Speakers:

Christine Sundt, Professor & Visual Resources Curator, University of

Oregon. Overview: The State of the Question Regarding Copyright, Fair Use

and Intellectual Property in the Arts.

Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic

Property Law Columbia University Law School. Issues concerning faculty

ownership of their intellectual property, an analysis of current cases.

Sanford Thatcher, Director, Pennsylvania State University Press. Issues of

ownership in the context of a University Press.

Rodney Petersen, Director of Policy and Planning in the Office of

Information Technology, University of Maryland. Managing electronic course

materials developed by academics and related university policy issues.

===========================

Robert A. Baron

mailto:rabaron@pipeline.com

http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/



From: Leo Robert Klein 
Subject: Re: 13.0375 CD-ROMs in libraries & Octavo matters
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 607 (607)


On Fri, 4 Feb 2000,cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu wrote:
[deleted quotation]
This is particularly true not merely for the relatively benign pdf

format but for the ton of cdroms that came with books using interactive

technology.  Already, CD-ROMs authored in Director 4, a common enough

authoring package circa 1995, do not play correctly on modern machines.

I don't really see how libraries will be able to do much since they're

having enough trouble coming to grips with current technology.  Also, the

cd-rom itself is an end product--something "compiled" from original

authoring files (a.k.a the assets).  Having the cdrom is much like having

a java application already compiled in bytecode--there's not much you can

do with it.

I think in five years we can forget about such titles as the celebrated

cdrom that accompanied "Passage to Vietnam" (1994).  The plastic disk will

outlive the content it holds.

LEO

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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

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: what's interesting about Web pages?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 608 (608)


This is the situation. Two people are given the task of assessing a

student's Web page, one of them a tutor in the subject area that the page

addresses, the other a tutor in humanities computing. My question is, what

criteria does the latter person employ? What from a humanities computing

perspective makes the page academically interesting -- or not?

There are ancillary questions too. How time-dependent are these criteria?

If, as I have observed, they are time-dependent, then let us project into

the future a few years and ask the same question with which I began. In

five years' time, say, will a Web page be -- from a humanities computing

perspective -- at all interesting? If so, where will the interest lie? Of

course there's the question of whether anyone will be writing Web pages

then, and what metalanguage they will be using, but for purposes of

discussion let's say that the Web is still current, and let us further

stipulate that HTML is the metalanguage and that it stays more or less the

same.

If we humanities computing people are creatures of the technological

frontier, then where is that frontier now? Unless I am badly mistaken (it

happens :-), one patch of the current frontier is in the deployment of live

data within an argument or other discursive prose. (Envision, if you will,

reading someone's argument in which he or she, rather than give a footnote

or a quotation, supplies a link to an online database. Envision further not

just the thrill of getting to look at his or her stuff but also the

problems that may arise in relating what the author says, if in the welter

of interesting data you can remember, to the data you see.) What's the

rhetoric of the situation? How do we train our students to conduct an

argument using live data? (Yes, I know, there's the problem of having to

train our students to conduct an argument FULL STOP. Where do we turn for

wisdom on that subject?)

It seems one little question has turned into several. Discussion on all of

them would be quite helpful, among other things to clarify our contribution

to the training of students. Many of mine these days want to grow up to

write Web pages, which among other things means identifying the

intellectually stimulating aspects of the technology.

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



From: Carolyn Kotlas 
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- January 2000 Newsletter
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 17:54:40 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 609 (609)


Reply-To: The infobits mailing list 

To: The infobits mailing list 

CIT INFOBITS	January 2000		No. 19		ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the

CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a

number of information technology and instructional technology sources

that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic

dissemination to educators.

........................................................................

The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals

Humanities and Computing Articles

ERIC/HE Critical Issues Bibliographies

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Electronic Publishing

Books that Shaped Science

Directory of U.S. Educational Resources

The Internet and Higher Education Journal

The Decade in Computing

Recommended Reading

Infobits Subscribers -- Where Are We in 2000?

........................................................................

THE FUTURE OF PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

In "Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals" [D-LIB

MAGAZINE, vol. 5, no. 12, December 1999], Stevan Harnad (Professor of

Cognitive Science, Department of Electronics and Computer Science,

University of Southampton) argues for the electronic archiving of

scholarly writing as a means to wider-spread dissemination. He explains

how, with the support of universities (primarily through librarians and

networks) and the use of interoperability standards (such as the Open

Archives Initiative), scholars could "self-archive" their work, and

users could locate papers regardless of where it is stored. You can

read Harnad's article on the Web at

<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december99/12harnad.html>

D-Lib Magazine [ISSN: 1082-9873] covers innovation and research in

digital libraries. The magazine is available, free of charge, only in

electronic format, either on the Web or via email. Subscription

information is available at <http://www.dlib.org/dlib/subscribe.html>

Back issues are available at <http://www.dlib.org/back.html>

D-Lib Magazine is published eleven times a year by the D-Lib Forum,

which is based at the Corporation For National Research Initiatives

(CNRI) and is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency (DARPA). For more information about D-Lib Forum see their

Website at <http://www.dlib.org/dlib.html>

........................................................................

HUMANITIES AND COMPUTING ARTICLES

The theme for the latest issue of SURFACES [vol. XII, December 1999] is

"Humanities and Computing: Who's Driving?" Articles include:

"Adapting Web Electronic Libraries to English Studies"

by Christopher Douglas, Dennis G. Jerz, and Ian Lancashire, Department

of English, University of Toronto

        The authors argue that "academia needs to build local academic

content into electronic libraries by supplying faculty essays, notes,

lecture materials, and dedicated databases . . . [which] requires a

long-term institutional infrastructure with peer review, and coherent

goals -- a model not found in individual or commercial Web collections,

in purely administrative departmental sites, or on the World Wide Web

itself."

"Legitimizing Electronic Scholarly Publications: A Discursive Proposal"

by Rod Heimpel, Department of French, University of Toronto

        Heimpel asserts that "electronic publication of scholarly work

is not merely a paper publication in disguise. Legitimizing electronic

scholarly publications calls for a new understanding of institutional

underpinnings of the scholar's world."

"La Toile fait-elle autorite?"

by Sylvain Rheault, Department of French, University of Regina

        Rheault compares the work of putting humanities information on

the Web to that of an encyclopedist. "Can modular accumulation, which

is encouraged by the Web change our writing practices, and eventually

our modes of thought? As for organization, even more crucial, it calls

for a reengineering of the refereeing process."

The entire issue of Surfaces is available at

<http://pum12.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/vol8/vol8TdM.html>

The articles are in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format. You can download the

Acrobat reader from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html

Surfaces [ISSN : 1188-2492] is an annual, refereed electronic

publication of Les Presses de l'Universite de Montreal, Universite de

Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal (Quebec) Canada H3C

3J7; tel: 514-343-5683; fax: 514-343-5684;

email: surfaces@ere.umontreal.ca;

Web: <http://www.pum.umontreal.ca/revues/surfaces/>

........................................................................

ERIC/HE CRITICAL ISSUES BIBLIOGRAPHIES

The ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education (ERIC/HE) recently completed

the quarterly update of all its Critical Issues Bibliographies (CrIB)

Sheets. Each CrIB Sheet is a brief ERIC bibliography on a topic of

interest in the field of higher education. Topics of particular

interest to Infobits readers include assessment, distance education,

collaborative learning, technology in higher education, and technology

in the classroom. All the CrIB Sheets are available on the Web at

<http://www.eriche.org/Library/index.html#cribs>

........................................................................

AVOIDING THE PITFALLS OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING

In "Looking Good" [THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING, vol. 5, no. 2,

December 1999], Thom Lieb briefly examines the "sad plight of

electronic publishers caught up in the struggle to produce uniform

pages in spite of browsers' variations in supporting Java and

Javascript, frames, style sheets, dynamic HTML (DHTML) and tables."

Lieb believes that the "best content is far more important than having

the latest technology," but he offers some practical advice on getting

the technology to show your electronic publication at its best. The

article is available on the Web at

<http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-02/lieb0502.html>

The Journal of Electronic Publishing [ISSN 1080-2711] is published free

of charge on the Web by the University of Michigan Press, 839 Greene

Street, P.O. Box 1104, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106-1104 USA. For more

information contact JEP: email: jep@umich.press.edu; Web:

<http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/>

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BOOKS THAT SHAPED SCIENCE

In the "Scientists' Bookshelf" (AMERICAN SCIENTIST, vol. 87, no. 6,

November-December 1999) Philip and Phylis Morrison have compiled their

list of the "100 or so Books that shaped a Century of Science." The

titles include "memorable and influential English-language books"

supplied by readers, reviewers, and editorial staff at the American

Scientist. The list is organized in nine sections, including:

Biography, Field Guides, the Physical Sciences, History of Science, The

Evolution of Life, The Nature and Rise of Our Own Species, and Novels.

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Directory (EROD) is a free, online resource intended to help users

identify and contact organizations that provide information and

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includes information on more than 2,400 national, regional, and state

education organizations. You can search EROD at

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For more information on other U.S. Department of Education resources,

see their Website at <http://www.ed.gov/>

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THE INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION JOURNAL

THE INTERNET AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A QUARTERLY REVIEW OF INNOVATIONS IN

POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION is a refereed journal "targeted at those

faculty, administrators, and librarians charged with the responsibility

of fostering the use of information technology and the Internet on

their respective campuses."

Themes for upcoming issues include:

        Designing collaborative learning environments

        Developing online learning communities and community forums

        Connecting IT strategic planning to organizational strategic

                planning

        Devising guidelines for developing hypertext courses

        Surveying good design practices for online trainers and

                educators

        Changing instructional models (from traditional to

                constructivist)

        Distance learning administration in higher education

        The future of online learning environments

        Human-computer interaction considerations for online distance

                learning

The Internet and Higher Education (IHE) [ISSN: 1096-7516] is published

by Elsevier Science; Web: http://www.elsevier.com/

For more information about IHE, including subscription costs, see

<http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/6/2/0/1/8/7/>

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The editors of CNET, a publisher of technology news and producer of

television shows about technology, have prepared a report on the

people, products, trends, and companies that shaped computing in the

1990's. Sections are devoted to people whose ideas changed the face of

technology, products that made a difference in how we compute, dominant

high-tech trends, and the companies that made the products and spurred

the trends. The report is available at

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"Asking the Right Question: What Does Research Tell Us About Technology

and Higher Learning?" by Stephen C. Ehrmann, Director of Flashlight,

American Association of Higher Education

<http://www.learner.org/edtech/rscheval/rightquestion.html>

"It takes just as much effort to answer a useless question as a useful

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Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at

Berkeley

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For details about the book and a list of contributors, see

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"Remote control technologies permeate our daily lives: we have remote

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In this book, we focus on a new technology that permits cameras and

mechanical robots to be remotely operated over the Internet."

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CENTURY, edited by Bernice A. Pescosolido and Ronald Aminzade

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ISBN: 0-7619-8613-8 hardcover; ISBN: 0-7619-9045-6 paperback

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From: "Paul F. Schaffner" 
Subject: Job (Michigan): encoding early English texts
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 610 (610)


I draw your attention to a text-encoding position that

has been posted here at UM/Ann Arbor. See this URL for

application info:

    http://www.umich.edu/~jobs/current/postings/T-00-07653-DB.html

Despite the vague and offputting title ("Comp Systems Specialist I")

we're looking mainly for someone with a humanities background,

especially in early English, capable of applying an analytical

understanding of texts to the review of SGML-encoded Middle

and Early Modern English books in a production environment. In

the past, linguists, archivists, and historians have been among

those who found the work congenial, but we are open to candidates

with diverse education and experience.

The job is that of a production assistant, and is funded

initially for one year, with the strong likelihood that the

person who takes the job will fairly rapidly be given increased

responsibilities and longer tenure.

The largest part of the job will be reviewing the tagging added

to keyed texts by outside data-conversion firms: deciding whether

they have correctly interpreted the text in calling (say) this

prose and that verse; this a stanza and that a mere run-on line;

this a note, that a heading, or that other thing a catch word;

and so on, both in individual cases and, more importantly, in

general. There will probably be some straight proof-reading,

to keep the keyers honest; some supervision of student or contract

workers as they become available; and probably some mundane book

preparation work (checking for completeness and legibility;

ensuring consistent identification of the item; etc.).

The first part of the year will be devoted to producing electronic

versions of Middle English texts taken from public-domain editions.

There may also be some leftover / maintenance work on the Middle

English Dictionary. The latter half of the year will be devoted

to the first actual text production under the "EEBO" project

(Early English Books Online), which hopes to produce encoded text

versions of as many as 25,000 of the titles listed in the

Pollard & Redgrave and Wing short-title catalogues of early English

printed books. Michigan is taking the lead on this undertaking,

in collaboration with Oxford, and it seems likely to be a project

with a high profile.

Facility with this kind of work is a must, as are basic computer

skills; some familiarity with the material (and the language)

is preferred; experience with text markup (e.g. HTML, SGML) and/or

text processing (e.g., regular-expression syntax, Perl), would

certainly be helpful but are not essential.

This is a middle-level non-librarian university library job with

excellent benefits, a decent chance for advancement, and (for

the uninitiated) a good opportunity to learn practical SGML

while working on important humanities resources in a

leading digital library program.

Paul

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Text-encoding Coordinator + Middle English Compendium Production Mgr

University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service

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[Cross-post and forward as you will.]



From: "Patrick T. Rourke" 
Subject: What's interesting about Web pages?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 22:04:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 611 (611)

[deleted quotation]
Dr. McCarty,

The criteria for evaluation, to me, for at least continuous text-based

resources* are obvious: the use of new technologies and the adherence to

open standards (of readibility, of editability, &c.). I'll ignore the "use

of new technologies" for the moment to simplify my argument (in part because

it's difficult to manage new technologies and maintain such standards

without very precise criteria), and ignore databases and non-text resources

for the same reason.

Perhaps an analogy to the making of books is in order.  What makes a book a

fine book, aside from the content, is the quality of the printing (the fonts

and how well they are integrated, how well they represent differences in

structure and semantic content, use of white space and general readability),

of the use of illustration (are the illustrations properly processed so that

one may discern the features of importance in the argument? Are the

illustrations properly captioned and integrated with the text?) and similar

design matters, of the paper, of the binding and cover, and of the use of

the "book-model" (chapters, pagination, indexing, etc.) to organize

information.

For an electronic text (to use the simplest example, and one less likely to

be affected by changes in standards), analogous features would include the

following standards, which have the virtue of being more forward looking

than time-bound (at least in the immediate future):

Did the student use platform-independent markup standards? Platform

dependence (and technology dependence) is as discussed in another thread the

biggest headache for librarians.  [That's why I think XML has a bright

future - properly written, the markup code doesn't obscure the content and

is itself human-readable and "transparent," without reference to a DTD or

other external document (excepting entities, the one problem area).

Transparent, human-readable markup would thus by my definition be part of

"platform independence."]

Is the student's markup sufficiently upgradeable (e.g., is it XML-valid)?

Is the student's markup clear and easy to understand (so that future editors

can more easily upgrade the markup)?

Is the student's markup tagged in ways that will make linking to the

document more robust (e.g., either direct linking to each section break, or

some kind of tagging of sections with id attributes so that in the future

they will be easily transformed to permit direct linking)?

Is the student's use of typographic features (directly analogous to the book

criteria above) clear, unambiguous, and non-distracting?

What measures has the student taken to ensure the stability of the page and

its currency (e.g., how easy is it to make changes to the page, are links to

outside resources relative or absolute [prefer absolute]; are links to

internal aspects of the associated site relative or absolute [prefer

relative] - features that improve portability)?

Has the student worked out a method of indicating revision numbers and dates

that will be easy for readers to understand, and has the student provided

for proper archiving of old versions and reference thereto so readers who

have linked to a section that is no longer printed in the current version

don't end up with broken links?

Most importantly, what is the quality of citation in the document? Are the

resources (whether primary or secondary sources) to which the student has

linked of a high reliability and stability (e.g., as I've said in another

forum, resources with URIs like

http://www.someplace.ac.uk/~tutorsname/essay.html are unstable, as they are

subject to renaming, and of only moderate reliability, as they do not

suggest that they have been thoroughly reviewed)? Has the student properly

integrated his (or her) citations with his argument?
[deleted quotation]
live
[deleted quotation]
not
[deleted quotation]
I think that simple, unlinked footnotes will eventually become unacceptable

in electronic publication.  A hypercitation, or linked footnote (leaving

aside how those are manifested on the page, whether with a footnote number

linked to a traditional footnote linked to the resource, or a direct link to

a resource, which is preferable), if it is direct enough (and contextualized

enough) a link to the argument cited actualizes the citing argument's

reliance upon the cited, and makes it far easier for the reader to compare

what the citing author says about her resource with what the reader

perceives about that resource.  A footnote to a journal no one can find

isn't terribly useful; eventually, "footnotes" to print-only resources will

be of far less utility than hypercitations to online resources for the same

reason - ease of reference. [Sorry for the bad prose; it's early here.]
[deleted quotation]
contribution
[deleted quotation]
I hope this is an appropriate start to such discussion.

Patrick Rourke (ptrourke@mediaone.net)

Webmaster, Physical Sciences Inc.

Evening Instructor, Nashoba Valley Tech HS

&c.



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 13.0378 what's interesting about Web pages?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 22:04:45 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 612 (612)


Willard,

Is growing up wanting to write Web pages any different from growing up

wanting to write and to be read, wanting to compose and be heard, wanting

to drawn and to show? Are there two desires here? One to create. The other

to receive feedback. Now the BIG question: can we as pedagoges inculcate a

desire to create feedback, i.e. foster active critique?

This, of course, returns to the question you raise about how to judge

(it does abstract if from the context of a tutor evaluating or

assessing a student's work).

Some people approach this task by applying search and discover criteria.

This page is good. I can find what I want quickly and with ease. This page

is not so good. It could be organized otherwise. Material may be missing,

may not be presented in a helpful order, the display may be distracting,

etc. etc. etc.

An other way to approach this task is to consider the document (argument +

data) as a set of action items. The reader/viewer is the subject of an

interpellation (click here). Even a document which reads like an

encyclopedia-like entry participates in this rhetoric. Do this, then this,

then that, is implied by a discursive invitation to accept this

statement as a fact or to ponder the possibility of a given situtation.

Approached in this transactional fashion, the act of reading/viewing

becomes a matter of granting or withholding assent. In terms of judgement,

it becomes possible to ask if the creator and shaper of the material takes

into account the sceptical receipients.

The true sceptic is curious.

A list of instructions for curious folk, as I have experienced with

cookbooks and XML manuals and not often with WWW pages, should demonstrate

an appreciation of alternatives. If a choice is given is the contrary

explored? Are users informed of the consquences of not performing an

instruction as specified? One is reminded of Alice B. Toklas, as reported

by Poppy Cannon, stating that "stir" and "beat" in the creation of cakes

are not the same action. One would wish that writers and copy editors of

books on XML would be so careful in refering to "nodes" and "elements".

But that is an aside and a woeful moan about the need to recognized

the intensely collaborative care required to produce good material.

In emphasing the transactional nature of the encounter with cognitive

artefacts, there is the danger of the formulaic rendering of an

application of practical reasoning. There is without doubt here a strong

hint of the bureaucratic mind.  Option one, Option Two, Option Three....

Recommendation. The transactional emphasis does capture well the temporal

nature of the encouter. It applies equally to a genetic or archeological

understanding as to how the artefact came to be created as to a

telelogical or rhetorical understanding of the actions the artefact

invites.

The parsing of arugments and the evaluations of invitations gets

complicated quite quickly even with the simplest of documents with or

without hyperlinks.

[to click] or [not to click]  ::  (if, then) | (if, then)

On the side of the creator there are the factors that influence the

insertion (or not) of links. On the side of the reader/viewer, the factors

influence the persual (or not) of a link, the postponed persual and the

order of persuing links. Not very different from the old questions

regarding the proper use of footnotes: how many, how often, in what order.

What goes for the inclusion (or not) of footnotes/links also goes for

images, lists, paragraphs, sentences, words, colours, fonts, numbering.

The trick, as text encoders, know is to distiguish between the accidental

and the essential properites. *smile and pause*

Book-knowledge in my experience never stood alone. Never did and never

does. It requires supplementation either with other books, time in the lab

or the kitchen, or concourse with other readers and researchers. Is

Web-lore any different?  A Web-site which otherwise is not grand can

provide a valuable piece of bibliographic information, can provide the

lingo necessary for further searches, can provide links to discussion

lists, or even a good textbook example of poor design.

So search and discover criteria are not so far away from transactional

criteria, after all. There is a sociality to be savoured. Can we say that

the well-constructed argument tastes good? Or, if it tastes bad, at least

it is good for you?


--
Francois Lachance
Post-doctoral Fellow
projet HYPERLISTES project
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hyplist/


From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: 13.0378 what's interesting about Web pages?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 22:07:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 613 (613)

In some way, Willard, the situation is not so different from that in the
old PLATO days.  You had teachers (of varying degrees of ability in
presenting their materials), programmers (who often wanted bells and
whistles but had no interest in content or method at all),   'distance
learning' "experts" who only wanted to ride a wave or be in a fad....in
other words, there was no way to tell what any given PLATO lesson would
be like.  It seems to be about t he same with educational WEB sites  --
in other words, the human race has not improved any since the 1970's.



From: Glen Worthey 
Subject: Re: 13.0376 two new on WWW; one questionable old one
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 614 (614)


Willard recommended:
[deleted quotation]
....and noted:
[deleted quotation]
Though I don't have any connection to this publication other than

geographic (does that even count anymore?) and institutional, I have

discovered that if one simply replaces the "shr.stanford.edu/shreview/"

chunk of the given URLs with "www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/" -- or,

alternately, if one even more simply replaces the final chunk of the Table

of Contents URL as given above with the final chunk of each given URL,

e.g. <http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/introduction.html> --

then we get to the articles -- which appear to be tempting reading indeed!

I'm sending an e-mail to the website editors, which is a lot easier than

walking across the street to talk to them -- or no, perhaps I will indulge

in the perverse physical pleasures of our shirtsleeve February weather...

Glen Worthey

Humanities Digital Information Service

Stanford University Libraries



From: Paul Brians 
Subject: Re: 13.0377 CD-ROMs in libraries
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 615 (615)


CD-ROMs are not only headaches for libraries. I recently received a free

sample CD-ROM for a World Civilization text. Installing it cluttered my

hard disk with 100 megs of files and then it tried to establish a live

connection to the Internet without any action on my part. Such ill-behaved

CD-ROMs are all too common. I've had one install an older version of

QuickTime  into my System Folder, wiping out the newer version that was

already there. No option to avoid installing QuickTime was provided.

CD-ROMs at the least should be self-contained, and not require that files

be installed on hard drives or permanent links be available to the

Internet. Ideally they would also be bootable disks, with their own

operating systems. But they would still grow out of date, of course, as

hardware changes. I agree the CD-ROM in its present form is a clumsy

dinosaur.

Paul Brians, Department of English

Washington State University

Pullman, WA 99164-5020

brians@wsu.edu

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians



From: "Theodore F. Brunner" 
Subject: Re: 13.0375 CD-ROMs in libraries
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 616 (616)


On Friday, 04 Feb 2000, Charles Faulhaber wrote:
[deleted quotation]
On February 6, 2000, Leo Robert Klein  added:
[deleted quotation]
-----------------------------------------------------------

These two comments are an indicator as to how times have changed.  In

October of 1991, I attended an Invitational Symposium on Knowledge

Management in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.  The vast majority of the

conference participants were librarians and library administrators;  I was

one of a small handful of professors who attended by virtue of the fact

that they had been instrumental in creating large-scale electronic

resources (in my case, the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae data bank,

disseminated on CD ROM).

Throughout the three-day meeting, the librarians kept maintaining the

following:  The professors should be allowed to crate their electronic data

banks and CD ROMS, but once they had done their duty, they should, much

like the Moor in Othello, disappear from the scene and let the librarians

take over.  Librarians, it was held, are far better equipped to manage

scholarly resources--electronic or otherwise--than professors.

My own response was drawn from Wilhelm Busch--"Vater werden ist nicht

schwer, Vater sein dagegen sehr," i.e.,the difficulties posed by data bank

creation are nothing compared to those inherent in data bank maintenance

and enhancement; keeping scholarly data banks viable in long-range terms

means keeping abreast not only of technological change but also of

scholarly progress, and librarians should not be charged with the former

task and could not be charged with the latter.

My views were deemed to be derogatory of librarians.  Librarians, I was

told, most certainly could handle any potential problems arising out of

technological progress, and producing periodic "new and improved editions"

of CD ROMS was, once the original CD ROM was in hand, not really such a big

deal--librarian could handle that also.  The latter assertion, in

particular, caused me some concern.  In any event, I turned out to be the

bete noir of the conference.

I doubt very much that the Berkeley Springs Symposium participants would

still hold the same views they held in 1991, were they to reconvene in 2000.

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From: aaup-catalog@press-www.uchicago.edu
Subject: On The Internet: New Issues from AAUP
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 11:44:16 -0600
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 617 (617)


To: tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de

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Title: Brook/Schmid: Nation Work

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Questions assumptions about nationalism by examining the particular

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Illuminates the powerful writing of a Renaissance humanist.

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How the government and private interests in Germany cooperated to create

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Reflections by the author of Dancing at Lughnasa on Irish

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A groundbreaking contribution to the emerging field of disability

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An accessible introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry by

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Previously unpublished letters that shed light on the personal side of

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Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Meditations on network culture, hypertext, the geography of cyberspace,

and interactive film.

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Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry

and philosophy.

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Publisher: University of Michigan Press

The most important modern reference work for Middle English studies.

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Title: Lugo/Maurer: Gender Matters

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

The first reexamination of a key theorist of anthropology.

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A groundbreaking exploration of the themes of faith and doubt in Emily

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From: "J. Sternberg" 
Subject: First Media Ecology Association Convention
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:05:37 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 618 (618)


Greetings, fellow Internet reseachers. I've been lurking here on the

list for a while, and I thought some of you might be interested in the

conference in described below. I hope to present a paper there about

some aspect of my own research on misbehavior in virtual communities,

and would be interested in hearing by private email from any of you who

might like to propose an all-Internet panel with me for this event. The

MEA's website, BTW, is <http://www.media-ecology.org>

Janet Sternberg

Ph.D. Candidate

Media Ecology Program, New York University

<http://pages.nyu.edu/~js15>

==============================================================

Call for Papers

First Media Ecology Association Convention

June 16-18, 2000 at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in

Manhattan

What little technologies changed the course of history?  What in the

thinking of McLuhan, Mumford, Innis, Ong, Fuller, Ellul, Wiener, et al

can help us make sense of today and tomorrow's worlds?  Who is doing

comparable thinking today?  Does it make a difference if those thoughts

are spoken at conferences, published in journals, available on web pages

or listservs like this? To what degree are our media out of our

control? Will MP3 recordings obsolesce the music business?   Is DNA a

digital medium?

Send a 100-word abstract that delves into the above or any related

topic to Paul Levinson at PaulLevinson@compuserve.com by April 1.

Be prepared to jump into the fray with a 15-25 page paper on the subject

by June 1.  Let us know if you'd like to be a discussant for papers by

other participants.

Proposals for panels, roundtables, workshops, or other kinds of special

sessions are also welcome.

Join us we look around and take stock of  ourselves, our media, and our

discipline at the dawn of the new millennium (or the year before,

depending upon your mathematical metaphysics).

The Media Ecology Association was founded in 1998, as a way to organize,

formalize, preserve, disseminate, and expand the study of how

communications, media, and technology make a difference in our lives,

our history, and our future. This will be our inaugural convention.

Inquiries and submissions are preferred via e-mail to

PaulLevinson@compuserve.com -- but can also be

directed as follows:

      Professor Paul Levinson, Convention Coordinator

      Department of Communication and Media Studies

      Fordham University

      Bronx, New York  10458

      (718) 817-4863

Please feel free to disseminate this notice -- by any and all media.

==============================================================



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: CFP: Technoscience, Citizenship and Culture
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 20:50:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 619 (619)


Greetings,

_Worlds in Transitions_

The greatest challenge to studies of science, technology and society at

the end of the second millennium is to understand how science and

technology are implicated in the processes of change and transformation

that are massively reshaping our world of society in the New Millennium.

For more details about the Conference..Please visit

<http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/conference2000/>

The conference will be held at Vienna (Austrian's capital) on 27-30

September 2000.

Thanks!

Sincerely

Arun Tripathi



From: Johanna Drucker 
Subject: what's interesting about Web pages
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 620 (620)


Interesting this question that you pose. Ed Ayers, in equally lucid (to

your prose) remarks on a visit this fall posed the same conundrum, his face

as he spoke expressing a scholar's puzzlement: What does it mean to write

as a historian when all of the archive is available to the reader?

A few preliminaries: I might make a substitution for "write as a historian"

and say "write history" and pull apart the act of production from product.

This is not just a nuance, and I think making the distinction is useful as

part of answering the question since the shift of emphasis in the first

example is to a "making" that is always understood as contingent and

performative and the second presupposes some more fixed value in what is

"made". But the two concepts, making and made, production and product,

stand in a similar (though not the same) relation to the archive, so on to

that more fundamental discussion (as long as the caveat stands that in a

more detailed discussion I would want to examine the differences sketched

here).

The first line of a work of mine (that takes its title from the opening

phrase) begins, "Figuring the word against the jealous ground [...]" This

is the crux of the matter as I see it. The ground, that extensive archive

with its inexhaustible seeming repleteness, will ALWAYS want to claim

authority in its apparent-seeming primacy. As if IT IS ALREADY

MEANING,  and all meaning. Thus its "jealous" character, wanting to pull

the figure that is produced as a meaningful trope, back INTO itself. Primal

matter attempting to keep separation  from occuring. I see this so vividly

as an image -- the primordial swamp of the archive and the figure of

interpretive meaning forming above (though this hierarchy isn't meant to

carry moral valuation).

Ultimately, it seems that the issue of meaning is always only resolved

within finite limits -- that IS the lesson of structuralism, after all. So

the archive, in some sense, has NO meaning. It awaits the act of

"configuration" to be rendered useful. We will, I think, come to appreciate

rhetoric more finely again as the task of constructing a persuasive,

seductive, and engaging argument (the "figure") comes to be recognized as

the scholarly act. The tasks of complete recovery of "evidence" (always

accidental and incomplete) as a scholarly enterprise will be less valued,

except in gazing towards those portions of antiquity that erode behind us

into dust, the contours of old forms barely discernible as fragments,

figments, of an unrecoverable totality. In Figuring the Word, one text

"emerges" from a font of unproofed foundry type that is rearranged, a

demonstration of this idea of the figure of a text coming out of the

inexhaustible possibility of the archive of the type.

So, my answer to your query comes in this form: In relation to the replete

archive, the scholar's task is one of configuring meaning, producing an

interpretation, as a conductor makes a performance from a score (or, as

above, writing makes specific discourse out of the generality of the

alphabet). It is what we have always been doing, only the claim to

authority that the replete archive seems to presume must be qualified just

as thoroughly as when the archive was incomplete. The interpretive act

never attempted to replicate the essence of the archive, but to activate a

dynamic relation among the discourse of figured meaning and the body of

material from which it is written.

Somehow I am NOT managing to reach closure here -- every point seems to

open to other possibilities for understanding this dyanamic relation. I'll

stop, but with the final suggestion that in the next generation a

descriptive langauge for apprehending the *forms of dynamic metalanguage*

that address the tropes of process will come to occupy us. An idea we could

not have even grasped before being posed with this new condition.

Johanna

P.S. After a talk with Will Thomas of VCDH this morning, another more

practical image also became clear. As the "archive" of The Valley of the

Shadow exists, it has potential for a variety of constituencies, some of

whom would be completely unable to use it without assistance. The

"interface" becomes almost a custom tailored tool -- not for each person,

but each kind of user. Thus, school teachers make "lesson plan" interfaces,

scholars have their own search engines, and the lay public might actually

want an "entertainment" interface to display material in a more passive

way. The design of and conception of these interfaces will be a crucial

part of the educational industry in forging useful connections between the

online archives we create and the broader communities of users we wish to

reach.



From: Leo Robert Klein 
Subject: Re: 13.0384 CD-ROMs in libraries
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 621 (621)


On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, "Theodore F. Brunner" wrote:
[deleted quotation]
Being a librarian, I didn't mean to say that librarians are all

thumbs nor would I take it on myself to affect the bete noir status of

a fellow human being.  Multimedia cdroms and material built around highly

proprietary software are simply tough to migrate no matter what the

institution.

Since I don't feel libraries have particularly distinguished themselves in

their use of current multimedia techniques, it's hard to imagine what they

could do with the CDROMs of five years ago or more.

That said, there's a whole welter of material from text to image which

I'd happily consign to a library for preservation and access.  The

contribution by libraries in this area has been significant--particularly

in regard to following open standards and developing archival criteria for

electronic media, as any visit, for example, to LC's tech pages will show.

LEO

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: what's interesting about Web pages?
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:49:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 622 (622)


When I asked the question, "What's interesting about Web pages?", I had in

mind the moving target of students' abilities and was wondering out loud

toward what it was moving. In his long and helpful contribution, Patrick

Rourke details several technical criteria, which are focused on emerging

standards and robustness of code, and mentions some graphic design

features. Francois Lachance pays attention to "the transactional nature of

the encounter with cognitive artefacts", i.e. to genuine communication.

(And when does THAT happen, even face-to-face???? Remember what Paul had to

say on the subject....) Johanna Drucker speaks about the frontiers of the

online archive.

Understanding the trajectory of this moving target is important to me for

immediate pedagogical reasons. Each year the average level of technological

knowledge and ability of our incoming students increases. This year, for

example, a number of them managed to get through some exercises in 1/4th of

the allotted time -- and that allotment was based on the performance of the

students from the year before. As a result the emphasis of instruction

needs to shift from learning the basic ABCs, as it were, to the skills of

putting the letters together -- and, yes, this means both the linguistic

and the graphic skills. In consequence I am forced to ask, what are those

skills, and how do I teach them?

The technical. Merely writing any old HTML that produces some reasonable

effect on screen clearly isn't good enough, and many of the students

already know how to do that. If they don't, Microsoft Word or some other

such tool will do it for them. Bad practice automatically! Thus Patrick

Rourke's points about standards and other issues of robustness. The

equivalent of Latin prose composition? There's also Javascript, though in

our experience that is too demanding, i.e. demands too much of the year to

get across successfully.

Design. Basic principles of graphic design, layout, typography etc are not

difficult to present. Symmetrical vs asymmetrical balance &c. Anything more

ambitious begins to require talent and technical skills that are best left

to those who are in professional training as page designers, I'd guess.

Design also, however, verges on and overlaps with my next category.

Rhetoric of communication. How does a page catch your attention AND

persuade you to continue looking at it, taking in what it has to say? How

is your attention shaped and managed? Partly this has to do with graphic

design, but when that is kept at a simple level, what emerges most

prominently are the issues of identity and navigation. By "identity" I mean

how the page identifies itself as suitable for, attractive to a particular

audience. By "navigation" I mean how the reader is orientated and how his

or her attention is directed from one item to the next.

Reference. This is a subdivision of rhetoric, I suppose, and particularly

relevant to the academic audience. How does the page refer to supporting

materials and evidence? We can and do mimic the footnote and the selected

quotation, but when referenced data can be brought to screen (a.k.a. "live"

data), then the situation changes fundamentally. The obvious danger is that

the reader will get lost in the flood of evidence, either distracted or

simply overwhelmed; when as author you want your reader to try other

possibilities than those you present is a real question.

Argument. Strictly speaking, the skills of argumentation are not our

business in humanities computing, but we simply cannot depend on the

schools to have taught these skills, and in many cases the students will

only be beginning to learn some of them in other courses, if at all. So

some elements we do have to get across, and it would be useful to know

about a Strunk-and-White of basic argumentation. What is our business, it

seems to me, is teaching those skills as they are modified by the amounts

and kinds of evidence provided by online sources. Who knows what to do with

sources of evidence too massive to read through, e.g. the Web? Many of our

colleagues "solve" this problem by dismissing the Web altogether, but

whatever value the contents may have -- many values, actually -- the Web

does present us with a representative situation it seems to me the coming

generations of students have to know how to cope with. Clearly, then, we

also need to get into basic skills of doing online research -- following of

clues, query-construction, the various kinds of search engines (e.g.

Altavista vs Google), sampling.

Perhaps other categories -- even before we get to the frontier that Johanna

is exploring? Much of interest to humanities computing, that's for sure.

Yours,

WM

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voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081

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maui gratia



From: Johanna Drucker 
Subject: what's interesting about Web pages
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 19:49:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 623 (623)


Interesting this question that you pose. Ed Ayers, in equally lucid (to

your prose) remarks on a visit this fall posed the same conundrum, his face

as he spoke expressing a scholar's puzzlement: What does it mean to write

as a historian when all of the archive is available to the reader?

A few preliminaries: I might make a substitution for "write as a historian"

and say "write history" and pull apart the act of production from product.

This is not just a nuance, and I think making the distinction is useful as

part of answering the question since the shift of emphasis in the first

example is to a "making" that is always understood as contingent and

performative and the second presupposes some more fixed value in what is

"made". But the two concepts, making and made, production and product,

stand in a similar (though not the same) relation to the archive, so on to

that more fundamental discussion (as long as the caveat stands that in a

more detailed discussion I would want to examine the differences sketched

here).

The first line of a work of mine (that takes its title from the opening

phrase) begins, "Figuring the word against the jealous ground [...]" This

is the crux of the matter as I see it. The ground, that extensive archive

with its inexhaustible seeming repleteness, will ALWAYS want to claim

authority in its apparent-seeming primacy. As if IT IS ALREADY

MEANING,  and all meaning. Thus its "jealous" character, wanting to pull

the figure that is produced as a meaningful trope, back INTO itself. Primal

matter attempting to keep separation  from occuring. I see this so vividly

as an image -- the primordial swamp of the archive and the figure of

interpretive meaning forming above (though this hierarchy isn't meant to

carry moral valuation).

Ultimately, it seems that the issue of meaning is always only resolved

within finite limits -- that IS the lesson of structuralism, after all. So

the archive, in some sense, has NO meaning. It awaits the act of

"configuration" to be rendered useful. We will, I think, come to appreciate

rhetoric more finely again as the task of constructing a persuasive,

seductive, and engaging argument (the "figure") comes to be recognized as

the scholarly act. The tasks of complete recovery of "evidence" (always

accidental and incomplete) as a scholarly enterprise will be less valued,

except in gazing towards those portions of antiquity that erode behind us

into dust, the contours of old forms barely discernible as fragments,

figments, of an unrecoverable totality. In Figuring the Word, one text

"emerges" from a font of unproofed foundry type that is rearranged, a

demonstration of this idea of the figure of a text coming out of the

inexhaustible possibility of the archive of the type.

So, my answer to your query comes in this form: In relation to the replete

archive, the scholar's task is one of configuring meaning, producing an

interpretation, as a conductor makes a performance from a score (or, as

above, writing makes specific discourse out of the generality of the

alphabet). It is what we have always been doing, only the claim to

authority that the replete archive seems to presume must be qualified just

as thoroughly as when the archive was incomplete. The interpretive act

never attempted to replicate the essence of the archive, but to activate a

dynamic relation among the discourse of figured meaning and the body of

material from which it is written.

Somehow I am NOT managing to reach closure here -- every point seems to

open to other possibilities for understanding this dyanamic relation. I'll

stop, but with the final suggestion that in the next generation a

descriptive langauge for apprehending the *forms of dynamic metalanguage*

that address the tropes of process will come to occupy us. An idea we could

not have even grasped before being posed with this new condition.

Johanna

P.S. After a talk with Will Thomas of VCDH this morning, another more

practical image also became clear. As the "archive" of The Valley of the

Shadow exists, it has potential for a variety of constituencies, some of

whom would be completely unable to use it without assistance. The

"interface" becomes almost a custom tailored tool -- not for each person,

but each kind of user. Thus, school teachers make "lesson plan" interfaces,

scholars have their own search engines, and the lay public might actually

want an "entertainment" interface to display material in a more passive

way. The design of and conception of these interfaces will be a crucial

part of the educational industry in forging useful connections between the

online archives we create and the broader communities of users we wish to

reach.



From: mgk@pop.uky.edu (Matt Kirschenbaum)
Subject: 2000 MLA session
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 624 (624)


I am organizing the following session on behalf of the MLA's Committee on

Computers and Emerging Technologies for next December's annual convention in

Washington DC:

Digital Media and Graduate Students in the Modern Languages

Panel addressing professional issues for graduate students: digital media,

jobs, and marketability; online dossiers and portfolios; electronic

dissertations; networking on the network; teaching practices; workplace

issues. 1-page abstracts by plain-text email by March 24; mgk@pop.uky.edu.


--
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Research for Computing in Humanities
University of Kentucky
mgk@pop.uky.edu
mkirschenbaum@palm.net (wireless)
http://www.rch.uky.edu/~mgk/



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: two alternatives in decision-making
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 625 (625)


Dear Willard McCarty:

I'd like to entitle this contribution Computer Testing of Two Alternative

THeories in Decision-Making.  I'm going to translate everything into

ordinary Humanist English here, under the plausible conjecture that if it

can't be expressed that way, it's probably not real.

Microsoft decision-making algorithms and programs are based on Bayesian

conditional probability algorithms.  For the non-specialist, a simple

illustration of conditional probability is the probability that it will

rain given that it is snowing, which is calculated as the probability of

both rain and snow divided by the probability of snow.  This is

symbolically written P(rain given snow) or more simply P(rain/snow), where

/ means given.  Notice that this is undefined when the probability of rain,

symbolically P(rain), is 0, since you can't divide by 0 in mathematics.

Logic-based probability (LBP), which the author has developed since 1980,

assigns a probability to the logical conditional (which in unrelated to

conditional probability) if a then b, which can be written a arrow b or

a-->b or with the above example if snow then rain, i.e., snow---> rain. So

we calculate the probability that if it snows then it rains.  It turns out

purely mathematically that this probability is the probability of rain and

snow minus the probability of snow plus 1, and it is denoted P(snow -->

rain) = P(snow and rain) - P(snow) + 1 where P(  ) is probability of.

If you compare the two, Bayesian P(rain/snow) and LBP P(snow --> rain),

they only differ algebraically by replacing division in the former by

subtraction in the latter, noting that the occurrence of 1 insures that the

result is a singule probability in P(snow --> rain).  The Bayesian

P(rain/snow) does not contain a 1 in its formula, and therefore turns out

not to be a single probability but a ratio of probabilities, which has the

disadvantage of being undefined when the denominator P(snow) is 0.    Of

course, the actual computed results for the two alternative types will be

very different in most situations, because the results of division and

subtraction differ enormously mathematically.

Now comes the computer.  Microsoft wants very much to market its

(statistical) decision algorithms, based on Bayesian conditional

probability, also called Bayesian probability or conditional

probability.  So it does just that.  The author, on the other hand,

develops a computer algorithm using LBP probability.  Which do you think

works much better?  The answer is LBP.

Why does LBP work much better than Microsoft's Bayesian version?   After

all, they only differ algebraically by changing division to

subtraction.  But that is precisely the point.  Since you cannot divide by

0 in Microsoft's division-based algorithm, you miss very rare events

(which, believe it or not, are assigned probability 0 under certain general

assumptions in probability and statistics - technically continuous

probability distributions if you want to know).  So Microsoft cannot deal

with very rare events (genius, great inventions, catastrophes, strokes of

enormous luck, etc.).  This does not happen with LBP, because it has no

division.   It also turns out that there are some very common events which

have probability 0, believe it or not, namely, what are called lower

dimensional objects in ordinary 3-dimensional space under the above

techincal continuous probability assumption.  For example, a line or a

piece (segment) of a line in 3 dimensional space has dimension 1 because it

only has length, and a plane or planar object like a rectangle has

dimension 2 because it only has length and width, and a single point in 3

dimensional space has dimension 0 because it has neither length nor width

nor depth.  All of these objects have probability 0.  Since it can be shown

that the surface of any 3-dimensional object (for example, a person's skin,

or the surface of the earth) is 2-dimensional, it also has probability

0.   Therefore, Microsoft's program cannot deal with the surface of the

earth, the surface of a person's body (the skin), the surface of a person's

internal organs, the surface of a cell, etc.

The most remarkable result of all this is that Microsoft's programs only

give comparatively trivial decisions.   After all, if you cannot handle

rare or unexpected events, and you cannot deal with the surfaces of

physical objects, and you cannot deal with centers of physical objects

(which are points of dimension 0), etc., what else is there?

Well, there is still enough left to make somewhat obscure

predictions.  After all, there really is such a thing as conditional

probability, the probability of rain given snow for example.  So Microsoft

can compute (it theory, anyway) the probability of rain given snow, and if

you translate that into business or economic or political or other

decisions, it can compute various probabilities that tend to be on the

mediocre level of conceptual interest and importance.

The really conceptually interesting and important decisions come from LBP

probability algorithms.  For example, LBP can tell you what decisions to

make if a rare meteor hits a spacecraft,  if a politician is assassinated,

if a star is born, and so on ad infinitum.    One important qualification

should, however, be noted.  Microsoft's Bayesian probability ratios tell

you the probability of rain if the event of Snow is fixed.  In other words,

no pun intended, if you freeze the event that It is Snowing at a moment in

time, and then asked what the probability of rain occurring is for that

level of fixed Snowing, Microsoft's Bayesian probability ratio will give

you an accurate result.  LBP's probability P(snow --> rain) gives you

something different entirely.  Instead of telling you the probability that

it will rain for a fixed or frozen level of snow, it tells you the probable

influence which snow will have on rain.  On a scale from 0 to 1, which is

the standard probability scale, an LBP probability of snow --> rain of

value 1 means that snow has maximum possible influence on rain, and so

on.   In analyzing decisions, it obviously is much more important to know

how much one event influences another than to know what happens to one

event when a second event is fixed or frozen, but there are conceivable

scenarios (like simple gambling with cards) where both are useful to know.

In the above situations, computer algorithms and the results of computer

programs even in thought experiments or Gedanken experiments helped to

clarify the nature and the preferences of and between two competing

probability types.  Hopefully, readers will be interested in following up

or adding to these examples.



From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." 
Subject: New Search Engine Company
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 626 (626)


There is a new search engine company (start up phase) called "Thrownet" at

http://www.thrownet.com which is advertising for linguists and

computational linguists who can provide a one question one response

functionality for a search engine front end.  Does anyone know what

technologies they are using (if this is public information)?   The last I

heard they were looking at the Franklin parser out of New Jersey.  For

those of you who are interested they seem to be offering a lot of jobs.

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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Hubert Dreyfus ON "Kierkegaard and the Information
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:48:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 627 (627)


Fellow Scholars,

Actually..The event is two years old..but the message is new and timely..

AT UCB Colloquium on Art,Tech, and Culture: 1997-98 - Prof. Hubert Dreyfus

The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium on Wednesday, October 15, UC

Berkeley --an iteresting observations by Prof. Dreyfus..Comments are

welcome on the following abstracts..

Hubert Dreyfus has written..

In The Present Age (1846) Soren Kierkegaard condemns The Press for

contributing to the nihilism of his age by cultivating risk-free anonymity

and idle curiosity and thereby leveling all meaningful differences. He

would surely have denounced the world wide web for the same reasons. I

will spell out Kierkegaard's objections by considering how the web

promotes the nihilism of Kierkegaard's two nihilistic spheres of existence

and repels the third non-nihilistic sphere.

In the aesthetic sphere, the aesthete lives in the categories of the

interesting and the boring and wants to see as many interesting sights

(sites) as possible. The web promotes surfing which is surely a matter of

being attracted by whatever is interesting and dropping whatever is

boring, a paradigmatic form of nihilism.  In the ethical sphere, the

ethical person's whole life consists in making and keeping commitments.

Ethical people might use the Internet to make up and keep track of their

commitments but would be brought to the despair of meaninglessness by the

ease of making and unmaking commitments in any domain. Only in the

religious sphere is nihilism overcome by making a risky, unconditional

commitment.  But the net, which promises a risk-free simulated world,

would tend to undermine rather than support such a commitment.

FULL Text of the paper is available at

<http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/kierkegaard.html>

Please visit UC Berkeley Art, Technology and Culture Colloquim is at

<http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/>

Kindest Regards

Arun Tripathi

Research Scholar

University of Dortmund

Germany

EdResource Moderator

Online Facilitator



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: ALA Online Copyright Tutorial
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:48:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 628 (628)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 9, 2000

            American Library Association Online Copyright Tutorial

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: essay online
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 07:49:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 629 (629)


At the request of Dr Gerd Wille (Bonn), I have published online his essay,

"The Proper Way of Teaching Computers to Humanities Students - Is There a

Problem?", at <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/gw/willee.txt>. All

correspondence about this essay should go to Dr Wille, .

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: rarice@bsuvc.bsu.edu
Subject: _Kairos_ Call for Reviews
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 630 (630)


To: acw-l@listserv.ttu.edu

All:

Sorry about the cross-postings.

For a deadline of March 5, 2000, _Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of

Writing in Webbed Environments_ <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos> is seeking

reviews composed in hypertext.  Reviews that could be printed in a

traditional paper journal are not appropriate to this venue.  Some reviews

lend themselves more readily to hypertext than others; however, we

encourage authors to experiment, collaborate, and explore ideas and

options not only in the text they write but also the directions in which

they write it.

We are looking for reviews of the following: pertinent software; web sites

that serve as teaching tools or resources; listservs, listprocs or

newsgroups; and papertexts, including these recent publications:

*Eric Hoffman and Carol Scheidenhelm's _An Introduction to Teaching

Composition in an Electronic Environment_

*Michael Palmquist and Donald E. Zimmerman's _Writing with a Computer_

*Donna Haraway and Thyrza Goodeve's _How Like a Leaf: An Interview with

Donna Haraway_

*Frederick S. Lane's _Obscene Profits: The Entrepreneurs of Pornography in

the Cyber Age_

Though we expect all submissions to be coded by the authors prior to

review, the editors and other staff will work with authors on the process

of constructing webtexts for submission.  URLs should be directed to

either Reviews Co-Editor: Rich Rice  or Jennifer

Stimson .

_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.

----------------------------------



From: "Nancy M. Ide" 
Subject: XML Version of the Corpus Encoding Standard
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:30:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 631 (631)


                            ********

                              XCES

                            ********

           XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard

                          BETA RELEASE

                  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/XCES

We are pleased to announce the availability of a Beta release of XCES,

which instantiates the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) DTDs for

linguistic corpora endorsed by the Expert Advisory Group for Language

Engineering Standards (EAGLES). XCES was developed by the Department

of Computer Science, Vassar College, and Equipe Langue et Dialogue,

LORIA/CNRS.

The current version includes a set of XSL stylesheets for cesDoc

documents. We are in the process of developing stylesheets for cesAna

and cesAlign documents.

We appreciate feedback on XCES. Please contact Nancy Ide

(ide@cs.vassar.edu) or Patrice Bonhomme (bonhomme@loria.fr).



From: David Zeitlyn 
Subject: AIO Statistics for 1999
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:31:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 632 (632)


Greetings.

Consolidated usage statistics are now available for Anthropological Index

Online during 1999. Congratulations are due to the heaviest users (top ten

follows note that 6 of these are from Canada!).  Detailed breakdown is now

available online. A reminder though: those institutions that make heavy use

of AIO are being asked to contribute towards the indexing costs. We are NOT

trying to make money from this, merely to cover our costs.

We hope that about 100 000+ back entries will be added over the next year

in a retroconversion programme funded by Getty, Wenner-Gren and Mellon

among others - more annoucements will follow.

9250:  2.59%:   ualberta.ca

8041:  2.25%:   ubc.ca

6864:  1.91%:   sfu.ca

5224:  1.49%:   uvic.ca

5122:  1.42%:   upenn.edu

5075:  1.47%:   wisc.edu

5061:  1.41%:   ucalgary.ca

4528:  1.19%:   pitt.edu

4506:  1.25%:   bc.ca

4284:  1.20%:   wwu.edu

best wishes

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 (0)1227 823360 direct)

Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office)

Fax  +44 (0)1227 827289

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/AIO.html

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/ (personal research)



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: experimenting?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 633 (633)


Dear Colleagues:

I am currently preoccupied with the following bundle of interrelated questions.

When we do humanities computing, are we conducting an analogue of a

laboratory experiment? If we are, what are we experimenting on? What and

where is the reality we are trying to determine? What is uncertain?

I raise these questions because I think that we might get somewhere

interesting by considering laboratory experimentation as a model for our

use of the computer. Of course this raises the prior question of what an

experiment actually is -- and this is not an obvious or trivial matter.

Historically Peter Galison shows, in Image and Logic, how the introduction

of computing to physics altered what practicing physicists were willing to

call an "experiment" and refined the characteristics and so identity of

experimental physicists. Philosophically Ian Hacking works out, in

Representing and Intervening, an interventionist theory of knowledge that

brings experimentation into the light of his discipline, gives us powerful

ways of thinking about what happens. Sociologically, in Changing Order:

Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice, Harry Collins explores

the social dynamics of how experimental results affect and are affected by

the social network of experimenters. In other words, experimentation is a

rich and complex topic having to do with how we come to know our world

through the use of instruments. Since we computing humanists as a group are

defined by our common instrument, perhaps we have something to learn from

those who've been at an apparently similar kind of work for a bit longer

than we have. (To be fair, though, the understanding of experimental

practice to which I refer is thanks to an historian, a philosopher and a

sociologist....)

I'm certainly not suggesting that we ape the scientists, since only apes

can ape, and however much we don't believe in progress and get in tune with

our animal natures, I'd rather not do a bad imitation of an ape. Or even,

especially, a convincing one! What I'm suggesting is that in our effort to

understand what we do, we should take a look around. Collins, for example,

has quite a bit to say about how new ideas do or do not get established,

and what he says puts our struggle into a useful perspective. It's good to

understand how resistance to new ways of doing things tends to happen.

Being socially, institutionally clever does play a big role sometimes.

Comments on those questions?

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: Barbara Bordalejo 
Subject: Canterbury Tales Project Conference
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:28:27 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 634 (634)


Online registration is now available for the Canterbury Tales Project

conference at:

http://www.cta.dmu.ac.uk/projects/ctp/conference.html/

One-day conference: Wednesday 26th April 2000

Using electronic texts in teaching and research

Timetable

10: 30am: Coffee and introduction

11am:  Electronic text projects: production and publication

    Andrew Prescott: The Electronic Beowulf

    Linne Mooney: The Electronic Index of Middle English Verse

    Kevin Taylor:   Publishing Electronic Texts

12:30pm Lunch

1: 30pm: Access to and uses of electronic texts

    Simon Horobin:  Electronic Texts and Middle English Spelling

    Mike Fraser:  'We seik all nycht, bot na thing can we find': Humbul as

a source for Medieval literature

    Ralph Hanna:  The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism in All

Modes, with Apologies to A. E. Housman.

3pm:  Coffee

3:30:  Peter Robinson:  Where next for the Canterbury Tales Project?

This talk will include a demonstration of The Canterbury Tales Project

materials, including the General Prologue CD-ROM, and other work in

progress.

4pm:  Round table discussion on the possibilities and problems in using

electronic  texts for teaching and research.

The conference will be held at the Queen's Building, De Montfort

University,

Leicester, on Wednesday 26th April.

Registration fees for the conference are:

20 standard

10 students/concessions

This fee includes refreshments and a sandwich lunch.

For further details about this conference, please contact Claire Jones

at jonesmc@dmu.ac.uk



From: "J. Sternberg" 
Subject: What little technologies changed the course
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 19:05:37 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 635 (635)


Greetings, fellow Internet reseachers. I've been lurking here on the

list for a while, and I thought some of you might be interested in the

conference in described below. I hope to present a paper there about

some aspect of my own research on misbehavior in virtual communities,

and would be interested in hearing by private email from any of you who

might like to propose an all-Internet panel with me for this event. The

MEA's website, BTW, is <http://www.media-ecology.org>

Janet Sternberg

Ph.D. Candidate

Media Ecology Program, New York University

<http://pages.nyu.edu/~js15>

==============================================================

Call for Papers

First Media Ecology Association Convention

June 16-18, 2000 at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in

Manhattan

What little technologies changed the course of history?  What in the

thinking of McLuhan, Mumford, Innis, Ong, Fuller, Ellul, Wiener, et al

can help us make sense of today and tomorrow's worlds?  Who is doing

comparable thinking today?  Does it make a difference if those thoughts

are spoken at conferences, published in journals, available on web pages

or listservs like this? To what degree are our media out of our

control? Will MP3 recordings obsolesce the music business?   Is DNA a

digital medium?

Send a 100-word abstract that delves into the above or any related

topic to Paul Levinson at PaulLevinson@compuserve.com by April 1.

Be prepared to jump into the fray with a 15-25 page paper on the subject

by June 1.  Let us know if you'd like to be a discussant for papers by

other participants.

Proposals for panels, roundtables, workshops, or other kinds of special

sessions are also welcome.

Join us we look around and take stock of  ourselves, our media, and our

discipline at the dawn of the new millennium (or the year before,

depending upon your mathematical metaphysics).

The Media Ecology Association was founded in 1998, as a way to organize,

formalize, preserve, disseminate, and expand the study of how

communications, media, and technology make a difference in our lives,

our history, and our future. This will be our inaugural convention.

Inquiries and submissions are preferred via e-mail to

PaulLevinson@compuserve.com -- but can also be

directed as follows:

      Professor Paul Levinson, Convention Coordinator

      Department of Communication and Media Studies

      Fordham University

      Bronx, New York  10458

      (718) 817-4863

Please feel free to disseminate this notice -- by any and all media.

==============================================================



From: "Nancy M. Ide" 
Subject: Call for participation: meeting on annotation
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 09:29:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 636 (636)


                     *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

              Large Corpus Annotation and Software Standards

             Post-conference session held in conjunction with

                             ANLP/NAACL'00

            Thursday, May 4, 2000, 1-6pm, Seattle, Washington

This meeting is intended to bring together researchers and developers

from a variety of domains in text, speech, video, etc., to look

broadly at the technical issues that bear on the development of

software systems and standards for the annotation and exploitation of

linguistic resources. The goal is to lay the groundwork for the

definition of a data and system architecture to support corpus

annotation and exploitation that can be widely adopted within the

community.

Among the issues to be addressed are:

       o layered data architectures

       o system architectures for distributed databases

       o support for plurality of annotation schemes

       o impact and use of XML/XSL

       o support for multimedia, including speech and video

       o tools for creation, annotation, query and access of corpora

       o mechanisms for linkage of annotation and primary data

       o applicability of semi-structured data models, search and query

         systems, etc.

       o evaluation/validation of systems and annotations

The motivation for this meeting is the American National Corpus (ANC)

effort, which will begin corpus creation within the year. We

anticipate that the ANC will provide a significant resource for

natural language processing, and we therefore seek to identify

state-of-the-art methods for its creation, annotation, and

exploitation. Also, as a national and freely available resource, the

data and system architecture of the ANC is likely to become a de facto

standard. We therefore hope to draw together leading researchers and

developers to establish a basis for the design of a system to support

the creation and use of the ANC.

At present, the format of the meeting is open, and we invite

suggestions for topics, presentations, etc. Those interested should

contact ide@cs.vassar.edu before April 1, 2000.

Organizer:

Nancy Ide

Department of Computer Science

Vassar College

Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA

Tel: +1 914 437-5988 Fax: +1 914 437-7498

ide@cs.vassar.edu

NOTE: A Birds-of-a-feather meeting for those interested in the American

National Corpus effort will be held immediately following the discussion.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

A related workshop will be held at the LREC conference on May 29-30,

2000; see http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc/lrec.html for information.



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: New Issue of the Electronic Book Review
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 637 (637)


Dear Fellow Scholars,

[Following announcement is received via Prof. Steve Jones and

Association of Internet Researchers  Thank you. --Arun]
[deleted quotation]
at Y2K
[deleted quotation]
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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 13.0391 decision-making alternatives
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:53:33 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 638 (638)


Willard and Osher,

The recent posting on decision-making and probability theory is for me

fascinating, exciting and thrilling. Osher's explanation invities one to

extend the very physical examples of rain and snow to textual elements.

Given the presence or absence of an element how are we to assess the

chances for another element to occur (before, after, concurrently) or not?

I use "occur" here loosely since the occurance of an element can also

stand it for the interpretation given an ambiguous element. What I do like

about this type of calculation or computing is that it allows, for

example, researchers working on the stylistic dimensions of oral delivery

of poetic matter to compare their modelling with that of researchers

tracing out the occurence of distinct letter forms in a set of manuscripts

Willard, I was wondering if you would venture a few comments as to how the

territory brought to our attention by Osher might shape your own research

and experimentation into the problem of "weighting" and markup as related

to the Onomasticon project...


--
Francois Lachance
Post-doctoral Fellow
projet HYPERLISTES project
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hyplist/


From: Osher Doctorow, osher@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Subject: Experimenting?
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:54:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 639 (639)

Dear Colleagues:
I am replying to Willard McCarty's question as to whether, when we do
humanities computing, we are conducting an analogue of a laboratory
experiment, and if we are, what are we experimenting on, and where is the
reality we are trying to determine, and what is uncertain?
The question is deep, and only a few points will be mentioned here.  The
advantages of a scientific laboratory experiment approach are perhaps
obvious, although even in astronomy it needs to be generalized to the sense
of many repeated controlled observations by trained persons.  However,
there are also dangers arising from a lack of philosophical training by
scientists.  Bayesian statisticians, for example, have presented a number
of proposals formulated as axioms to outlaw competing types of statistics
and probability which have already permeated the field of Artificial
Intelligence in the USA and some of its friends under the name of
Non-Monotonic Reasoning.  Their favorite arguments involve half-thought-out
arguments about birds flying in the air and the supposed ability of
Bayesian approaches to update or correct knowledge based on new
experimental or related data via Bayes Rule or versions of it.  However,
its competitor Logic-Based Probability (LBP) has an analogous updating
equation involving addition and subtraction rather than
multiplication/division as in the Bayesian approach.  If an LBP person
tries to publish a paper in mainstream Bayesian journals or in statistics
journals sympathizing with this mainstream approach, it simply is rejected
with such obscure comments as: It does not seem right, or even no comment,
or 3 out of our 4 reviewers recommended rejecting it and the Editor concurs.
What is happening here is largely bureaucratic defense of the accepted
mainstream approach having nothing to do with laboratory or other
experiments and much to do with protection of reputations, publishing
versus perishing, promotions based on numbers of publications, and simply
in-group over-identification versus the outsiders.  Philosophy would cure
the problem if carefully administered in large doses, but psychology itself
is only at the initial phases of beginning to understand character and
personality disorders which seem to go along with bureaucracy whether in
higher education or politics.  There is as yet absolutely no treatment for
it.  Perhaps a philosophy-psychology dialogue would be a starting point.
Yours truly and sincerely,
OD
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Osher Doctorow, Ph.D., Doctorow Consultants, Culver City, California,
voice: 310-398-0693, fax 310-398-7954,
osher@ix.netcom.com



From: Ian Butterworth 
Subject: Conference: Virtuality in Europe
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:49:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 640 (640)


Some Humanist readers may be interested in a Conference:

"Virtuality in Europe:Trends, Opportunities and Risks" on 23-26 March 2000

at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany. It is organised by the

Academia Europaea, the ESRC Virtual Society? Programme and the Heinz Nixdorf

MuseumsForum. Details can be found at:

http://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/virtsoc/events/padhome.htm

with links to the detailed programme and further links to an on-line

Registration Form.

For Further Information contact Peter Colyer, Executive Secretary Academia

Europaea. Phone: +44 (0) 207 734 5402 Fax: +44 (0) 207 287 5115

e-mail:  acadeuro@compuserve.com

===========================================================

Professor Ian Butterworth CBE FRS

Vice-President Academia Europaea

E-Mail: i.butterworth@ic.ac.uk



From: Ken Friedman 
Subject: LAST CALL FOR PAPERS -- Doctoral Education in
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:50:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 641 (641)


LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

Doctoral Education in Design: Foundations for the Future

An international conference

La Clusaz, France

8 - 12 July, 2000

Organized by

Norwegian School of Management Nordic Innovation Project

Design Research Society

ICS - Interactive Coaching Services

Co-sponsored by

The Norwegian School of Management Center for Knowledge Management

Staffordshire University, Advanced Research Institute

Conference call:

The past five years have seen a dramatic growth in all areas of design

research. New professional demands, emerging research streams, and the new

educational challenges of the knowledge economy are reshaping the context

of design. As universities around the world develop models of doctoral

education in design, the challenges involved mirror these larger forces.

This conference will focus on four central themes: 1) philosophies and

theories of design, 2) foundations and methods of design research, 3) form

and structure for the doctorate in design, 4) the relationship between

practice and research in design.

A distinguished international group will meet at Doctoral Education in

Design to consider these issues. Participants will present findings, debate

ideas, and propose benchmarks for the future development of the PhD in

design. Participants will interact and confer in each session and in

breakout workshops. This conference will encourage significant working

relationships among participants, leading to research alliances and

partnership agreements among schools.

A careful refereeing process will select papers. The number of participants

will be limited to ensure a high quality international audience positioned

to make decisions on the future of doctoral education in design within

their universities. We also believe that such an audience will be able to

generate a broad dialogue useful to the wider field. Selected papers will

be published in a conference book.

Conference sessions:

Session 1. Philosophies and theories of design. The character and

epistemology of a field define its parameters. Exploring these issues will

be a central issue of the next decade for doctoral education in design and

for design research. We must articulate a philosophy of design that

considers the general principles under which the phenomena of design are

comprehended, explained, and structured. Session 1 will address the central

challenges in the philosophy of science and theory development for the

field of design.

Session 2. Foundations and methods of design research. There is no single

set of research methods for design research. A rich diversity of methods

has been developed for the field of design and adapted from other fields

with new methods under development. We have begun to examine the

foundations of these methods for suitability and rigor. The simultaneous

location of design research within natural science, social science,

technology and the humanities poses unique challenges to the issue of

method. Session 2 will examine these issues and highlight areas of strength

and weakness in current method and directions for fruitful application..

Session 3. Form and structure for the doctorate in design. A doctorate in

design may be awarded in several subject disciplines and involve a range of

doctoral traditions. Despite differences, there seems to be a common form

to the PhD project based on a written thesis with an oral defense. While

many issues in design research and doctoral traditions vary from field to

field, there is strong consensus on issues of form and structure. Session 3

will attempt to develop an international consensus statement on appropriate

forms of PhD study that will be useful at the local level while helping to

develop the field across national boundaries. The session will also attempt

to establish international guidelines helpful to directors of doctoral

programmes and doctoral supervisors. Finally, the session will consider

issues of program and department structure appropriate to the integrative

and interdisciplinary nature of doctoral programs in design.

Session 4. The relationship between practice and research in design. Design

integrates several fields with different research traditions and competing

methodological claims. The relationship between theory and practice poses a

challenging problem for doctoral education in design. Design disciplines

such as engineering or computer systems have well established doctoral

traditions. Others, such as industrial design or information design, have

hardly begun. The relationship between practice and theory is a challenge

in established fields and new areas. This gives rise to debate on what is

called "practice-based research." Session 4 will address the general issue

of the relationship between practice and theory and the specific issue of

"practice-based research."

To propose a paper:

The organizing committee invites proposals for consideration under the four

conference themes. Proposals should include the names of all authors

together with institutional affiliations. Please indicate the name of the

presenting author. Please give a working title; conference theme; summary

of the presentation; and state how the issues in the proposal affect

conference themes.

Proposals should be one A4 page for refereeing. Brief biographies of the

authors may be added on a second page. Proposals by email only, to:



Deadlines:

18 February 2000: Deadline for proposals.

18 March 2000: Authors notified.

9 June 2000: Final papers due.

On acceptance, authors will be invited to expand proposals for publication

in the conference proceedings.

Publications:

All conference participants will receive three publications.

The proceedings will be published before the conference. The proceedings

will be delivered to all participants on arrival. Staffordshire University

Press will publish the proceedings.

The record of sessions will transcribe conference dialogue, response to

papers and open sessions. The record of sessions will be delivered to all

participants on departure. The Norwegian School of Management Nordic

Innovation Project will publish the record of sessions.

Following the conference, selected authors will be invited to revise papers

into book chapters for a book aimed at an international, audience of

academic readers and research scholars. The book will be mailed to all

participants in December 2000. Elsevier will publish the book.

All three publications are included in the conference fee.

Arrangements:

Our four-star hotel charges 660 French francs per day including gourmet

meals and all wine at the meals. If two people share a room, the second

person in the room pays only 330 francs per day. La Clusaz is a beautiful

resort village in the French Alps with choice location and close proximity

to Geneva Airport.

The conference fee will be announced within the next two weeks.

Six scholarships covering the full conference fee will be provided to

doctoral candidates willing to help with conference management.

The working language of the conference is English.

Co-chairs:

David Durling, Staffordshire University, UK

Ken Friedman, Norwegian School of Management, Norway

International Conference Committee:

Bruce Archer, Royal College of Art (Professor Emeritus), UK

Richard Buchanan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Nigel Cross, Open University, UK

Clive Dilnot, Hong Kong Technical University, China

John Heskett, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Ming-Chyuan Ho, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Lorraine Justice, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Klaus Krippendorff, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Kun-Pyo Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Johan Olaisen, Norwegian School of Management, Norway

Sharon Poggenpohl, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Keith Russell, University of Newcastle, Australia

Chris Rust, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Anders Skoe, ICS - Interactive Coaching Services, Switzerland

Kazuo Sugiyama, Chiba University, Japan

Cal Swann, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

Khaldoun Zreik, University of Caen, France


--
Ken Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Department of Knowledge Management
Norwegian School of Management
+47 22.98.51.07 Direct line
+47 22.98.51.11 Telefax
Home office:
+46 (46) 53.245 Telephone
+46 (46) 53.345 Telefax
email: ken.friedman@bi.no


From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: 10th International Symposium on Electronic
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 10:53:05 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 642 (642)

Greetings Humanist Groups,
[A spectacular event..I thought, this might interest you..The SYMPOSIUM on
Electronic Art will be on, Digital Art, Interactivity And Generactivity:
Transmitters Of New Forms, New Arenas Of Revelation, The Internet
foreshadows the interconnection of a multitude of virtual spaces
for exchange and expression populated by nomadic communities. Thank
you.--Arun Tripathi]
----------------------------------------------------------
ISEA2000, 10th International Symposium on Electronic Art
Paris, France
December 7-10 2000
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Deadline: April 15, 2000
ISEA2000 is organized by ART3000 in collaboration with ISEA - The
Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, with the support and the
collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Communication (DDAT, DAP,
DAI,CNC, DMDTS), and in partnership with the Forum des images, CICV Pierre
Schaeffer Center, Canadian Cultural Center, ACROE and the General Quebec
Delegation.
ISEA2000
<http://www.art3000.com>
<http://www.isea.qc.ca>
Email : isea2000@art3000.com
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PRESENTATION
ISEA2000 will be a major international event for members of the artistic
community involved with new media. It consists of:
1- an international symposium composed of papers and panel sessions, poster
sessions, workshops and institutional presentations,
2- a program of exhibitions, concerts, performances, electronic theater,
"street scenes" (outdoor activities),
3- and publications.
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From: Michael Fraser 
Subject: DRH 2000: Final Call for Proposals
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:45:41 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 643 (643)


*** REMINDER: Deadline for submissions to DRH 2000 is 6 MARCH 2000 ***

This message contains a call for participation in DRH 2000 and a call for

proposals to host DRH 2001 and DRH 2002.

DRH 2000 : DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES, University of Sheffield,

10-13 September 2000

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 DRH 2000 conference will take place at the University of Sheffield,

10-13 September 2000.  Proposals for academic papers, themed panel

sessions, posters and workshops are invited. Themes include: the creation

of digital resources; their delivery, use and integration; the impact of

digital resources on humanities research and education.

The deadline for submission is 6 March 2000.

Full details about the conference and the submission of proposals may be

found at:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/

Please address any queries to drh2000@sheffield.ac.uk

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CALL FOR HOSTS : DRH 2001 and DRH 2002

The DRH Standing Committee warmly invites proposals to host the DRH

conferences in 2001 and 2002. Further information about DRH together with

the conference Protocol, which includes guidelines for prospective hosts,

is available via the DRH Web site at http://www.drh.org.uk/.

Proposals to host DRH should be submitted by 8 April 2000 to the Chair of

the Standing Committee, Marilyn Deegan

(marilyn.deegan@queen-elizabeth-house.oxford.ac.uk), giving as much detail

as possible to help the Committee in its selection process.  Previous

hosts of DRH have found running the conference very rewarding and have

also found that it can be an opportunity to alert their wider institution

to research activities in this area.

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    Dr Michael Fraser                       Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk

    Head of Humbul                          Fax:   +44 1865 273 275

    Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS         Tel:   +44 1865 283 343

    University of Oxford

    13 Banbury Road                         http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

    Oxford OX2 6NN                DRH 2000: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Call for Participation - LREC2000
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:47:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 644 (644)

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Call for Participation - 2nd international Language Resources and

Evaluation Conference  (LREC2000)

Year 2000 marks the beginning of a new era for Human Language

Technology and Language Engineering. The European Commission

and the US National Science Foundation have announced

Multilinguality as one of their main action points.  The 2nd

international Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

(LREC2000), the second of a series of leading biennial events

representing cross-sectoral research and development in

speech, text, multi-media, and multi-modal processing, is

committed to promoting the language engineering initiatives

of these and similar organizations.

LREC2000, scheduled to take place 29 May - 2 June 2000 in

Athens, Greece, has accepted nearly 300 papers for

presentation at the main conference. About 10 pre- and

post-conference satellite workshops will also take place.

Many commercial and research systems for speech and natural

language processing will be demonstrated at the LREC2000

Exhibition in parallel with the conference sessions.  From

500 to 700 conference delegates are expected to attend this

conference, with half coming from the corporate and

industrial sectors and half coming from the academic field.

For more information with regard to LREC2000, please

contact:

LREC2000 Conference Secretariat

Institute for Language and Speech Processing

6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.

15125 Marousi

Athens, Greece

Tel: (+301) 6800959

Fax: (+301) 6856794

E-mail: LREC2000@ilsp.gr

LREC2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html

For more information about the European Language Resources

Association (ELRA), please contact:

Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO

55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin

75013 PARIS, FRANCE

Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33

Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30

E-mail: choukri@elda.fr

ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Workshop Second Call for Papers
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:48:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 645 (645)

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******************  SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS  ***************************

              EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS

                          WORKSHOP II

            held in conjunction with NAACL/ANLP2000

                    Thursday, May 4, 2000

                   Seattle, Washington, USA

           Embedded MT Systems homepage for this workshop

            http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems

WHAT IS AN "EMBEDDED MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT) SYSTEM"?

An "embedded MT system" is a computational system with one

or more MT engines among its components.  These systems

accept multilingual, multimodal inputs and create various outputs

that enable the users to access the original information in their

own language.  An MT component embedded in an end-to-end system

allows users to perform their specific tasks on foreign language

input that they previously only had been able to perform in

their native language. To date, these tasks have included

summarization, content extraction, filtering and document

retrieval.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Beyond Control? Colloquium, Oxford Union 28th
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:48:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 646 (646)

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Beyond Control or Through the Looking Glass? Threats and Liberties in the

Electronic Age

Friday 28 April 2000

The Oxford Union Debating Chamber

Organised by: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/

Overview

--------

We are constantly being told that the new technologies, and particularly

the Internet will bring unparalleled benefits to society by increasing

access to all manner of resources, educational, cultural, and

entertainment. Yet at the same time we read of Internet scare stories

about the availability of pornography, racist material, and information

inciting violence. How can we square this circle? Is the Internet 'Beyond

Control', or are we 'Through the Looking Glass' into a wonderland of

strange and new adventures.

Set in the historical Debating Chamber of the Oxford Union, distinguished

speakers will present their views and debate the future shape of our

culture's landscape. The format of Beyond Control will be a mixture of

presentations, open discussion, and debates. We will aim to stimulate

discussion between the speakers and encourage the audience to participate

fully.

The list of invited speakers is growing all the time, and at the

moment we are pleased to announce the following.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: AMTA-2000 Call for Participation
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:49:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 647 (647)

[deleted quotation]
                --- PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---

        The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

AMTA-2000 Conference

Location:  Cuernavaca, Mexico

Dates:  October 10-14, 2000

Envisioning Machine Translation in the Information Future

The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) is happy to

announce the plans for the fourth biennial conference, planned for October

10-14 at Mision del Sol, near Cuernavaca, Mexico.

The theme of AMTA-2000 is "Envisioning MT in the Information Future." The

focus will be on the articulation of future visions of MT: in the '00

decade, the 21st century, and even in the third millennium.  Ubiquitous,

instant internet access will be available very soon from a host of

appliances and apparel.  Later on, ways of thinking about the universe of

information will transcend our current metaphors of networks, clients,

servers, and communication.  How will these and other possible paths into

the future affect our exponential need for translation?  Will the process of

translation become transparent? How long before we each have a true

babelfish in our ear?  Will the quality ceiling finally be broken by

incremental improvements, or by an as yet unimagined breakthrough?  Will

translation even be necessary - will globalization lead to a single

language, or will translation allow for the growth of local languages?

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For complete information about the conference, please see the web site at:

http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/conferences/

<http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/conferences/>

David Farwell, General Chair

John S. White, Program Chair



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Demonstration of Academic Image Cooperative's
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:51:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 648 (648)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 14, 2000

             DEMONSTRATION OF THE ACADEMIC IMAGE COOPERATIVE (AIC)

                            DIGITAL IMAGE REPOSITORY

                   <http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfinit.htm#a>http://www.clir.

<http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfinit.htm#a>http://www.clir.org/diglib/dlfinit

..htm#a

       at Annual Conference of College Art Association (Feb 23-26, 2000)

                            <http://www.collegeart.org>http://www.collegeart.

<http://www.collegeart.org>http://www.collegeart.org

The Academic Image Cooperative will be demonstrating the prototype version

of its digital image repository during the upcoming conference of the

College Art Association in New York City. The images within this digital

library, and the objects they represent, are either in the public domain,

or have been licensed by their copyright holders to be distributed for use

in non-profit teaching and learning.

David Green

===========
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From: Michael Fraser 
Subject: Don Fowler's Memorial Meeting
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:44:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 649 (649)




Peta Fowler has asked me to let you know that Don Fowler's memorial

meeting will take place on Saturday 6 May 2000, 2.30pm at the Examination

Schools, High Street, Oxford. Refreshments will be served in Jesus College

afterwards. All are warmly invited to attend.

Michael

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    Dr Michael Fraser                       Email: mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk

    Head of Humbul                          Fax:   +44 1865 273 275

    Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS         Tel:   +44 1865 283 343

    University of Oxford

    13 Banbury Road                         http://www.humbul.ac.uk/

    Oxford OX2 6NN                DRH 2000: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS; Chicago Report
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:45:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 650 (650)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 14, 2000

                         NINCH COPYRIGHT TOWN MEETINGS

                          Chicago Meeting Report Available

          <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/chicagoreport.html>htt

<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/chicagoreport.html>http://www.n

inch.org/copyright/townmeetings/chicagoreport.html

                         New York City Meeting: Feb. 26, 2000

                      College Art Association Annual Conference

             "The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher

                for Rights to the Products of Contemporary Education"

                <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.html>http://

<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.html>http://www.ninch.org/c

opyright/townmeetings/nyc.html

                         Chapel Hill Meeting: March 7, 2000

                      <http://www.unc.edu/~pmpittma/ninchreg.htm>http://www.u

<http://www.unc.edu/~pmpittma/ninchreg.htm>http://www.unc.edu/~pmpittma/ninc

hreg.htm

              http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/triangle.html

CHICAGO: "The Public Domain"

A report is now available on the CHICAGO COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN MEETING,

first of the series of town meetings on COPYRIGHT & THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY,

organized by NINCH, with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The

meeting, held on January 11 and hosted by the Chicago Historical Society,

focused on issues of the Public Domain, while also reporting on the current

status of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The opening paper of the Town Meeting, "Why the Public Domain Is Not Just a

Mickey Mouse Issue," by Diane Zorich, is also available on the Chicago Town

Meeting site (or directly at

<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/chicagozorich.html)>http://www.

ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/chicagozorich.html). Other speakers

included Eric Eldred, director of the Eldritch Press; Peter Hirtle,

Co-Director of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections; Brad Nugent,

Assistant Director for Imaging at The Art Institute of Chicago; Tyler

Ochoa, Associate Professor at Whittier Law School; and Richard Weisgrau,

Executive Director of the American Society Of Media Photographers.

The next two town meetings will be co-sponsored by the College Art

Association at its annual conference in New York City on February 26 and by

the Triangle Research Libraries Network in Chapel Hill on March 7.  Details

of these two meetings are below:

NEW YORK CITY: "The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher

for Rights to the Products of Contemporary Education."

                    NEW YORK CITY Saturday, February 26, 2000

                        College Art Association Conference

                        Speaker Biographies and Abstracts:

                <http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.html>http://

<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/nyc.html>http://www.ninch.org/c

opyright/townmeetings/nyc.html

The Town Meeting in New York City will consist of a double session of the

College Art Association's Annual Conference. The first session will be held

at the Museum of Modern Art (Titus One Lecture Theater); session two will

be held at the Hilton Hotel. For those not attending the conference, there

is a nominal session fee: please register by calling 212-691-1051 x 206.

"The Tug of War between Faculty, University, and Publisher for Rights to

the Products of Contemporary Education."

** Session One: 9:30 - 12:00: Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street.

(Doors open 9:00 am) In session one speakers will present their reports.

** Session Two: 12:30 - 2:00: New York Hilton Hotel, 1335 Sixth Avenue,

(between 53 & 54 Streets) Session two will be devoted to discussion

of presentations offered in session one.

OPEN TO ALL (nominal session fee for non-conference attendees)

Call 212.691.1051 x206 for reservations.

A G E N D A

Welcome:

Robert Baron, Independent Scholar and Chair CAA Intellectual Property

Committee.

Overview of Town Meetings Series:

David Green, National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH).

Speakers:

Christine Sundt, Professor & Visual Resources Curator, University of

Oregon. Overview: The State of the Question Regarding Copyright, Fair

Use and Intellectual Property in the Arts.

Jane Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic

Property Law Columbia University Law School. Issues concerning faculty

ownership of their intellectual property, an analysis of current cases.

Sanford Thatcher, Director, Pennsylvania State University Press. Issues

of ownership in the context of a University Press.

Rodney Petersen, Director of Policy and Planning in the Office of

Information Technology, University of Maryland. Managing electronic

course materials developed by academics and related university policy

issues.

CHAPEL HILL: Copyright & Distance Education Online

                         Chapel Hill Meeting: March 7, 2000

                        Triangle Research Libraries Network

              The William and Ida Friday Continuing Education Center

                     University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

         REGISTRATION REQUIRED:

<http://www.unc.edu/~pmpittma/ninchreg.htm>http://www.unc.edu/~pmpittma/ninc

hreg.htm

              http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/triangle.html

Copyright & Distance Education Online: A Discussion

A summary of recent and pending legislation having implications for

distance education, such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),

will lead off the event. Attendees then will be asked to respond to

questions and scenarios posed by the moderators, bringing their own

teaching and professional experiences to the discussion, and interacting

with meeting moderators and others participating. In the true spirit of a

"town meeting," active engagement by everyone in the issues raised and

healthy debate of the complex problems being encountered in such areas as

fair use of copyrighted materials and ownership of digital-based courses

will be encouraged.

Speakers/Facilitators

James Boyle, Professor of Law, American University

Peggy Hoon, North Carolina State University's scholarly communication

librarian

==========================

SYRACUSE: Access: The DMCA and Digital Copyright Issues - February

4  (Meeting Report in progress)

SAN FRANCISCO: The Public Domain: Implied, Inferred and In Fact - April 5

BALTIMORE: Copyright Confusion? CommunityGuides - May 18

==========================

ABOUT THE NINCH COPYRIGHT & FAIR USE TOWN MEETINGS

With support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the National Initiative

for a Networked Cultural Heritage is sponsoring a series of six Copyright

Town Meetings for the cultural community during the year 2000.

The series of day-long and half-day meetings builds on the popular 1997-98

Town Meetings on Copyright & Fair Use, organized jointly with the American

Council of Learned Societies and the College Art Association, which focused

on the Conference on Fair Use and its aftermath.

The 2000 series of Town Meetings will be held in Chicago, Syracuse, New

York City, Chapel Hill, San Francisco and Baltimore and will be hosted by

the Chicago Historical Society, Syracuse and Cornell Universities, the

College Art Association, the Triangle Research Library Network (North

Carolina), the Visual Resources Association and the American Association of

Museums.

Issues to be covered by the meetings include changes in copyright law as it

affects working on-line; fair use and its on-line future; the status of the

public domain; ownership and access of on-line copyrighted material;

distance education; and the development and implementation of institutional

and organizational copyright policies and principles.

A hallmark of the Town Meetings will be the balance of expert opinion and

audience participation. Speakers include, among others: Robert Baron,

Howard Besser, Kathleen Butler, Kenneth Crews, Eric Eldred, Jane Ginsburg,

Dakin Hart, Peter Hirtle, Tyler Ochoa, Rodney Petersen, Christine Sundt,

Barry Szczesny, Sandy Thatcher, Richard Weisgrau and Diane Zorich.

For full details on the Town Meetings, including information about

registration and any admission fees, agendas and speakers as they are

announced, as well as for later reports on the meetings, see

<<http://www.ninch.org/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html>http://www.ninch.org

/copyright/townmeetings/2000.html>

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Job: Director, Digital Library Program at Indiana
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 651 (651)

[deleted quotation]
Indiana University Libraries

Director, Digital Library Program

The Indiana University Libraries are seeking an experienced and innovative

individual to administer the operations of the Indiana University Digital

Library Program. Responsibilities:  The overall direction of the Indiana

University Digital Library Program is provided by a steering committee

comprising the University Dean of University Libraries, the Vice President

for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, and the Dean of

the School of Library and Information Science, all of whom contribute

resources to the program.  The director, whose position is jointly funded

by the University Libraries and University Information Technology

Services, is responsible to those offices and the steering committee for

the successful operation of the program.  Although the director's

appointment is as a librarian and as such he/she reports to the University

Dean of University Libraries for evaluation purposes and daily operations,

input from the partners will be included annually in the evaluation of the

director. The Director of the Digital Library Program provides operational

management for the Program. The director supervises the Associate

Director, who oversees planning activities and project management for the

Digital Library Program.  The director also works with the Digital Library

Steering Committee on long-range planning.  The director has significant

responsibility for outreach beyond the Bloomington campus to develop

projects and initiate collaborative ventures. Qualifications: Graduate

degree required, coupled with significant relevant experience in an

academic research library or other academic environment; MLS degree from

an ALA-accredited library school preferred.  Significant supervisory

experience, including management of staff, budget, and planning.

Experience working in the field of digital libraries in a leadership role,

and broad knowledge and understanding of current practices in digital

libraries are highly desirable. Experience in analysis and design, and

management of technical staff are highly desirable.  Demonstrated ability

to work in a collaborative environment is required. Salary and Benefits:

Salary and rank are negotiable and competitive dependent upon

qualifications and experience. This is a tenure track academic

appointment, which includes eligibility for sabbatical leaves. Benefits

include a university health care plan, TIAA/CREF retirement/annuity plan,

group life insurance, and liberal vacation and sick leave.  To apply, send

letter of application, professional vita, and names, addresses, and phone

numbers of four references to: Yolanda Cooper-Birdine, Indiana University

Libraries, Main Library C-201, Bloomington, IN 47405. Phone: (812)

855-8196; fax: (812) 855-2576; e-mail: ycooperb@indiana.edu.  Review of

applications will begin no later than March 24, 2000. The search will

remain open until the position is filled. For further information

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From: Chris Ann Matteo 
Subject: computer-assisted college writing instruction
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 652 (652)


Hello Humanists,

I'd like to familiarize myself with some of the new programs and tools now

being used to teach composition at the college level.  Do any listmembers

know of any sites/programs that are especially promising?  I'm especially

interested in course plans and specific assignments.  Reply offlist, if

you prefer: chrisann@walrus.com.

Much obliged.

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From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Re 13.0391 decision-making alternatives and
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:54:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 653 (653)


Dear Francois and Willard:

Thanks to Francois' communication, I have begun reading the Analytic

Onomasticon Project at

<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/Onomasticon>http://www.princeton.edu/~mcc

arty/Onomasticon, although it can also be accessed by a browser just by

inserting the name Onomasticon Project if the browser is user friendly.

This is fascinating and enjoyable reading.   Although I am only a beginner,

several ideas almost immediately occur to me (perhaps naively).  If the

Metamorphoses are as important as it appears, then they might just be works

of maximum (1 on a scale of 0 to 1) LBP influence.  I can see this

occurring due to the genius of the poet Ovid, but it makes me wonder what

events in his life interacted with and contributed to this genius and in

turn how it affected those of his times.  This may not be entirely lost to

us.  When I think of the genius of Beethoven and the critical times of

Napoleon that gave background to them and with which Beethoven interacted

in opposition (not to mention Beethoven's alcoholic father), I am tempted

to ask whether there were similar events (even similar in a very wide

sense) in the time of Ovid.  Even if we have no direct evidence of this,

could we explore scenarios which derive from the assumption that these

events exist somewhat as we do with the Onomasticon?   Could the

Onomasticon be extended to include these events as metatext?   Could we in

fact go further and postulate these events simultaneously for the times of

Beethoven, Mozart, Ovid, the Bible, Pythagoras, etc.?

At the opposite extreme, there is the remote possibility that the

Metamorphoses have no common thread or influence, and there are many

possibilities in between the two scenarios of maximum and zero

influence.  This has given me the idea of further studying the logic-based

probability (LBP) of null sets/events.  Null sets/events are a special

subcategory of zero probability events which do not and cannot occur, at

least within standard logic.  Whether they can occur within multivalued

logic is a question that, e.g., the multivalued logic group at the

University of Vienna and the Technical University of Vienna might be able

to tell us, or their fuzzy logic group for an analogous situation in fuzzy

logic.   However, there is plenty to study just within LBP.  In fact, the

complementarity principle of Bohr and Heisenberg in quantum theory is just

such a null set/event which has now been discredited on empirical grounds

(not on logical grounds - physicists are not that well trained in

philosophy in general).  These theorists would have had us believe in

contradictions, and because of their stature in the physics community

almost the entire community of physicists said: "Amen,"  until

recently.  But there is more: in conducting a study of how contradictions

and null sets/events differ from rare events, we may hope to avoid some of

the future incorrect decisions of scientists which are even now in the making.

I have been unable to touch on the questions of continuity versus

discontinuity which permeate the Onomasticon.  It might be enough to start

by realizing that this question is just as important and unanswered in the

physical and life and behavioral and social sciences.  The current fad in

physics, string theory, a completely discrete theory, is close to becoming

the mainstream which it once opposed (though it is hard to find any genius

of the level of Beethoven or Mozart who actually began and developed the

school, except for one late joiner, the brilliant Nobel Laureate Stephen

Weinberg).  The string theorists whom I have communicated with are usually

incredibly non-humanist in their outlooks and personalities.  It may seem

that we could not possibly fall into that trap, but the computer itself has

a hidden danger in that it cannot calculate at present continuous equations

without making some finite discrete approximation, and the string theorists

and their allies the topological field theorists usually regard the

universe as a bunch of disconnected strings or knots in various stages of

(semi-) interaction and change.

I do not think at my present early stage of reading the Onomasticon that

Ovid believed that his work was continuous and eternal only in the sense of

being open ended and intended to be completed by others.   The Aristotles

and Socrates and Beethovens and others (including Chopin, I might add),

were global continuous advocates.  In the Judeo-Christian tradition, i

think that the notion of spiritual and conceptual unity which the Jews

introduced into the divided and discrete ancient world came partly from the

rare events of those times, of which I mention only one which I think is

critical: slavery.  The Jews were slaves of the Egyptians.  How this

affected them, how it made them unify rather than divide, is one of the

fascinating questions that may well be answered by projects such as the

Onomasticon.



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Discrete versus Continuous and Computers
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:54:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 654 (654)


Francois and Willard,

You are probably familiar with the fact that the digital computer basically

operates by discrete finite processes rather than continuous and/or

infinite processes, but in terms of the Onomasticon Project and also

physical science projects this does not represent a choice of discrete

models versus continuous models.

To understand how this comes about, it is perhaps best to view the computer

in terms of what it really is: a stupid machine which does only what you

tell it to.  Of course, very wise things can be constructed by stupid

machines if they are given wise instructions and controlled very carefully.

If you tell the computer to imitate a continuous process as closely as it

can, it will come close enough to the continuous process in most cases so

that it is very hard to tell that the computer is only approximating.   On

the other hand, if you create a discrete model of a continuous process,

which often is very different from the continous process, then the computer

will give you exact results fairly easily, especially if you make the model

computer-friendly (which is more easily done for discrete models).  This

has led many computer programming scientists to create discretized models

of continuous processes and to forget the original continuous processes

entirely.  For example, this has recently has been done with the

Schrodinger equation in quantum theory, which is somewhat amusing to

creative physicists and mathematicians because Schrodinger, like Einstein,

was a Mozart-level genius and was least likely of anybody to believe that

the world is discrete.  Luckily, even string physicists do not usually

believe that the Schrodinger equation is discrete.  His equation, the

Schrodinger equation, is probably the most influential equation in quantum

theory in its continuous form.

There is a way to "computerize" continuous processes in probability using

digital computers, and at some point humanists and scientists will probably

have to decide whether to use it.  It can be illustrated at one of the

biggest trouble points, namely, at zero (nil, 0).  A discrete digital

computer does not calculate zero exactly; it is in a sense too dumb, and

comes up with something like .0000001 instead (perhaps much smaller).  Here

is where the decision has to be made for the computer to interact with a

human being, much to the dismay of some, or else to simply program the

computer to assign probability zero to a certain list of humanly

preassigned events, or to truncate very small decimals of certain size

determined by human beings into 0.   This cannot be done with Bayesian

programs because they are based on division, and division by zero will

cause big trouble for the computer.  It can, however, be done with

logic-based probability (LBP) programs.

The insertion of tagged text and metatext into the Onomasticon is a similar

human process of interacting with the computer, and the two problems are

part of one larger problem.

Osher Doctorow



From: Einat Amitay 
Subject: Search results -- online experiment
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:37:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 655 (655)


Hi,

I would like to invite you to participate in an experiment I am

conducting as part of my PhD research on users' interaction with search

results. The experiment is conducted online and should take less then 10

minutes to complete. After analysing the data, I will make the results

available through my web page.

In order to participate, your browser should allow JavaScript to run

(JavaScript enabled in your browser options). It is best to view the

pages with commercial browsers like Netscape or IE (other browsers may

lose or distort some of the information).

The URL for the experiment is:

http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/experiment3/

Thanks for agreeing to participate!

+:o)

einat


--
Einat Amitay
einat@ics.mq.edu.au
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat


From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: portraits of the Web
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:38:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 656 (656)

I suspect that many of us have favourite examples of how useful the Web can
in fact be. I offer the following in order to provoke others.
A while ago I was in conversation with a learned and interesting professor 
of philosophy, who it seems had to give a public lecture on any topic that 
would entertainingly illustrate the widespread influence of ancient Greek 
culture on subsequent arts and letters. His idea was to talk about the 
story of King Candaules, his bodyguard Gyges and Candaules' wife. The story 
occurs in two major versions, one told by Plato, in the Republic, the other 
by Herodotus. (Those of you who know the story will grasp the appeal of 
both versions immediately; if you don't know it, go to e.g. www.google.com 
and search first for "candaules" and then for "gyges", and enjoy.)
The philosopher wondered out loud to me if perhaps the Web might turn up an 
example or two of how the story had been used, but he doubted the value of 
making an effort. This stirred my curiosity, I used google.com as 
recommended and lo! what a wealth of examples tumbled out -- Michael 
Ondaatje's The English Patient, Vargas Llosa's In Praise of Older Women and 
Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head among them. He knew some of them already, 
being widely read, but many were new to him.
I do wonder if the value of the results, even for such a limited query 
(less than 1,000 hits total), would be obvious to the sceptical user? How 
many of our colleagues are apt to understand the necessity and usefulness 
of sampling? How tolerant are they to the irrelevant bits? Could they see 
the individual trees for the forest?
Ah but then just a few moments ago I went looking via google.com for a 
precise definition of "adumbrate", being temporarily parted from my e-OED. 
And what did I first get but a page asking me if I knew my "sex IQ"?
Yours,
WM
-----
Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities /
King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. /
voice: +44 (0)171 848-2784 /  fax: +44 (0)171 848-2980 /
ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/
maui gratia


From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: Chaucer and Valentine's Day
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:40:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 657 (657)

I noted yesterday that I was unable to connect to the In Parentheses site,
which I had bookmarked as
www.inPar.dhs.org/inPar.html
Today I went to "www.dhs.org" and used its search function for "In
Parentheses:: Papers in Medieval Studies".  The dhs search engine reported no
such folder anywhere at the dhs.org site.
This may suggest a problem in on-line publishing:  sites can go away without
notice.  I wonder what rights Jean and others have to the articles they
published there?  I'd like to see them re-printed someplace, or somehow made
available. (Being made available on-line doesn't sound very helpful in light of
what happened.)
I have been very much in favor of on-line publishing and am on the Editorial
Board of _Heroic Age_  about to have its 2nd issue.  We feel fairly secure and
the publisher has promised to keep it available on her site.  This still raises
questions as to what happens to the material in the long run  Not exactly the
same as having the volumes securely bound in a University library.
I noticed the other day that the British Library is about to start an on-line
journal of Celtic studies, but I see no promise rom the BL that archives
will be
kept....
Note: I am going to forward this to Humanist and to the Heroic Age editors.
Jean Jost wrote:
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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Lectures ON The Internet and Its Impacts on Society
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:41:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 658 (658)

Greetings Scholars,
The lectures were to promote interest and discussion about the Internet
and its impact on society..
This free lecture series was designed to create an interdisciplinary community
at the University of Maryland-College Park focussed on the Internet and
its impacts on society on the following themes. I have tried to write a
short abstract of each lectures with useful pointers, that might be
interesting to you!
I)
Universal Usability: A Research Agenda for Every Citizen Interfaces
Ben Shneiderman, UMCP Dept of Computer Science
Discussant: Robert Kolker, Dept of English
Short Abstract: Even if information technology becomes low in cost or
free, designers will still have to deal with the difficult question: How
can web-based information and communications services to made usable for
the citizen? His talk presented some agendas based on universal usability
a) Technology variety, b) User diversity and c) Gaps in user Knowledge
Ben Schneidermann is the author of the book, "Designing the User
Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction".
The home page of Ben Schneidermann is at
<http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ben/index.html>
II)
Online Courses As Effective Learning Environments: The Importance of
Collaborative Methods
Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Discussant: Maryam Alavi, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Discussant: Margaret Chambers, UM-University College
Also sponsored by the Center for Engineered Learning
Systems, Institute for Systems Research
Short Abstract: Are there any differences in outcomes between traditional
classroom-based university courses and courses delivered online? The
presentation was a briefly review the attacks of critics on the 'Virtual
University' and then describe the NJIT Virtual Classroom(tm) projects.
Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, both jointly authored the classic book
"In the Network Nation: Human Communication via Computer"(1978,
republished 1998)
The home page and publications of Murray Turoff is at
<http://eies.njit.edu/~12932/mthome.html>
and at <http://eies.njit.edu/~turoff>
The home page and publications of Starr Roxanne Hiltz is at
<http://eies.njit.edu/~hiltz>
III)
The Internet and Civil Society
Peter Levine and Robert Wachbroit, School of Public Affairs
Discussant: Harry Hochheiser, Dept of Computer Science
Short Abstract: Although they disagree what defines "Civil Society" and
what purposes it ought to serve, almost all theorists and activists
believe that will be changed profoundly by the Internet. But it remains
unclear whether the change will be good or ill, because the key definition
and values are contested. Besides, much of the relevent empirical information
about current Internet use is ambiguous or incomplete. Peter Levine and
Robert Wachbroit have discussed concepts of civil society and the existing
data.
IV)
Evaluating a Consumer Health Website's Interface: Heuristic Evaluation and
Usability Testing
Keith Cogdill, College of Library and Information Services
Discussant: James Reggia, Department of Computer Science
Short Abstract: In this lecture, Developed and maintained at the National
Library of Medicine, MEDLINEplus <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus>
provide users with access to sources of authorative health information on
the Web.
V)
Online Communities: Sociability and Usability
Jennifer Preece, UMBC - Dept of Information Systems
Short Abstract: In this lecture, they tried to answer the question on
Develop a software with good usability! They also think that, half the
answer lies in -if community starts life with suitable social policies.
Jennifer Preece is the lead author of the book, "Human-Computer
Interaction" and her latest book is "Thriving Online Communities:
Usability and Sociability", to be published ny John Wiley & Sons.
His site is at <http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/~preece/>
VI)
World-Wide Web Surveys: A Tower of Babble?
John Robinson, UMCP Dept of Sociology
Short Abstract: Several different survey organizations are attempting to
track the evolution of the Internet in terms of access and usage. In his
lecture, he tried to answer some questions like, Do survey organizations
reach different conclusions about the inequality of usage of and benefits
from the usage of this new "democratizing" medium of the information
superhighway?
VII)
Patterns of Internet Diffusion in Developing Countries
Ernest J. Wilson III, UMCP
Director, Center for International Development and
Conflict Management
The home page and publications of Dr. Ernest J. Wilson III is at
<http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/wilson/>
VIII)
The Internet, Electronic Media, Trust, and Civil Society
Eric Uslaner, Dept of Government and Politics
November 30, 1999 Tuesday 3:00* Reckord Armory Rm.0117
The Home page of and publications Eric M. Uslaner is at
<http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/uslaner/>
The home page of "Human-Computer Interaction Lab" is at
<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil>
The list of publication of books by "Human-Computer Interaction" Lab is
available at <http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/books>
Reference:-
"Internet and its Impacts on Society"
<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/f99-lectures.html>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Sincerely
Arun Kumar Tripathi



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: LLC: Archive of Abstracts
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:46:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 659 (659)

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We are pleased to announce that a searchable archive of abstracts going

back to 1986 from the ALLC's journal, Literary & Linguistic Computing, is

now availble. To access this go to:

http://www3.oup.co.uk/litlin/contents/

Stuart Lee, Assistant Editor (LLC)

&

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Etica & Politica - second issue -
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:50:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 660 (660)

[deleted quotation]
Dear Colleague,

the second isue of "Etica & Politica" the electronic journal of the

Philosophy Department of the University of Trieste, is online. Access is

free of charge at:=20

http://www.univ.trieste.it/~dipfilo/etica_e_politica/index.htm

Index

Special issue: 'Computer Ethics'

Guest Editor: Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford.=20

Articles by=20

Guest Editor's Preface

Floridi & Sanders - Entropy as Evil in Information Ethics

University of Oxford, UK.

Van den Hoven - Knowledge and Democracy in Cyberspace

Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Johnson - Sorting Out the Uniqueness of

Computer-Ethical Issues

School of Public Policy of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,

Georgia, USA.

Maner - Is Computer Ethics Unique?

Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio

Moor - Can Cyberspace Be Just?

Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA.

Nissenbaum - Can Trust be Secured Online? A theoretical perspective

Princeton University, USA.

The issue contains the following articles in Italian:

Roberto Festa (Universit=E0 di Trieste), Chi ha diritto di parlare di Aids?

Fabio Franchi (medico ospedaliero, Trieste) & Pierpaolo Marrone (Universit=

=E0

di Trieste), Sex virus? Implicazioni etiche e politiche della ricerca

sull'Aids

Elisabetta Zannier, Aspetti etici della teoria della reminiscenza platonica

Best regards,

Dott. Pierpaolo Marrone

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Dipartimento di Filosofia

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Casa: +39-040-311534

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: NEH Announcement
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:42:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 661 (661)

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From: Kelly Richmond 
Subject: AMICO Press Release
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:51:55 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 662 (662)


AMICO Press Release

February 11, 2000

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Announces

Three New Members for Start of the New Year

AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is pleased to welcome the Dallas

Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Museum of the Americas

Foundation to our growing Consortium.  These three new Members further

increase the depth and variety of the AMICO Library, enhance its usefulness

as an educational tool, and add strength to the institutional knowledge

sharing of the Consortium.  "With AMICO membership now over thirty

institutions we are hitting our stride as an organization and as a tool for

humanities studies," states AMICO Executive Director, Jennifer Trant.

"Dallas and Denver bring significant collections and the MOA Foundation

adds a new dimension to the AMICO Library reaching into the Caribbean,

Mexico, and Latin America," Ms. Trant adds.

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), located in Dallas, Texas, houses an

impressive encyclopedic collection of nearly 25,000 objects - from the arts

of Africa, ancient America, Asia, and the Pacific, to European and American

decorative arts and paintings and sculpture by old master, impressionist,

modern, and contemporary artists. Additionally, the DMA has been a leader

in providing public access to its collection records via the GTE

Collections Information Center.  As DMA Director John R. Lane notes,

"Joining AMICO will be a great way to provide that information more widely,

as well as enhance the content of the Center for our visitors through AMICO

Library access."

Colorado's Denver Art Museum (DAM) has the largest and most comprehensive

collection of world art between Kansas City and the West Coast, with over

40,000 works of art.  The varied holdings include a particular strength in

the Native Arts with more than 17,000 objects from the indigenous peoples

of North America, a collecting commitment to the area of architecture,

design, and graphics, and many standards that capture the spirit of the

American West.  DAM also is a rich repository of Asian art, locally and

world-renowned Modern and contemporary works, over 5,000 objects from the

pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial periods, and fine selections of European

and American masters.  Lewis Sharp, DAM's Director, hopes this

collaboration with AMICO will "broaden exposure of DAM's collection to new

users and help us further our educational mission."

The Washington, DC-based Museum of the Americas Foundation was established

in 1998 through the shared work of the Organization of American States, the

Inter-American Development Bank, and the Smithsonian Institution with the

ambitious mission to create an inclusive museum devoted to the art and

culture of the Western Hemisphere.  The Foundation will work closely with

the Smithsonian Institution as well as museums throughout North America,

the Caribbean, and South and Central America to bring public attention to

the existing, rich collections that chronicle cultural achievement in the

Western Hemisphere.  "The MOA is scheduled to open in 2007, but with our

online presence and our contributions to AMICO, we have a great opportunity

to build awareness and provide valuable resources virtually to our

potential audiences," observes Christopher C. Addison, President of the

Foundation.

The AMICO Library, officially launched July 1st, 1999, has made multimedia

documentation of artworks from the collections of leading museums across

North America available to universities, colleges, schools, and public

libraries. The 1999-2000 edition of the AMICO Library documents over 50,000

different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary

installations.  More than simply an image database, works in the AMICO

Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about the

artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work

itself, and other related multimedia.  As Jennifer Trant, AMICO Executive

Director, notes, "subscribers find the AMICO Library of interest because it

combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence

and academic weight of traditional library reference sources."

The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to institutional

subscribers, including universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and

museums.  Designated users can include faculty, students, teachers, staff,

and researchers. Educational institutions may subscribe to the AMICO

Library by contacting one of its distributors.  These include the Research

Libraries Group (RLG) and the Ohio Library and Information Network

(OhioLINK).  A subscription to the AMICO Library provides a one-year

license to use works from the compiled AMICO Library for a broad range of

educational purposes.  Interested subscribers may preview a Thumbnail

Catalog of the AMICO Library and get further information at

http://www.amico.org.

The AMICO Library is a product of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO),

an independent non-profit corporation, with 501 (c) 3 designation from the

IRS.  The Consortium is today made up of 31 major museums.  It's an

innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares,

shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections

and enables its educational use.

Current List of AMICO Members:

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Institute of Chicago

Asia Society Gallery

Center for Creative Photography

Cleveland Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College

Denver Art Museum

Detroit Institute of Arts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library

George Eastman House

J. Paul Getty Museum

The Library of Congress

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Montral Museum of Fine Arts

Muse d'art contemporain de Montral

Museum of the Americas Foundation

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

National Gallery of Canada

Philadelphia Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Jose Museum of Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Walker Art Center

Whitney Museum of American Art

Contact Information:

AMICO				

Jennifer Trant, Executive Director

Art Museum Image Consortium			Phone (412) 422 8533	

2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D			Fax (412) 422 8594

Pittsburgh, PA 15217				Email: jtrant@amico.org

http://www.amico.org

----------------------------

Kelly Richmond

Communications Director

AMICO-Art Museum Image Consortium

2008 Murray Ave, Suite D

Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA

Phone: +1 412 422 8533

Fax: +1 412 422 8594

kelly@amico.org

http://www.amico.org



From: "Robert Ellison" 
Subject: Re: 13.0405 composition teaching tools?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 663 (663)

[deleted quotation]
We've used Norton's CONNECT (http://www.wwnorton.com/connect/ ) at ETBU

since Fall 1997 & are very happy with it.  It runs in the background of MS

Word and handles all file sharing, collaborating, messaging, etc very

seamlessly.

Robert

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English Department                    (903) 935-7963, ext. 434

East Texas Baptist University

1209 N. Grove St.

Marshall, TX 75670

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From: Serge Noiret 
Subject: Re: Head of Library and Head of IT systems at the
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 664 (664)


The EUI, European University Institute, Florence, Italy is looking for two

important posts:

Type of post:

Head of Computing / Information Technology (IT) Services

The European University Institute in Florence, founded by the Member States

of the European Union to advance post-graduate teaching and research in

Humanities and Social Sciences, is seeking to fill the post of Head of

Computing / Information Technology (IT) Services

Deadline - March 24th 2000 (postdate)

Type of post:

Head Librarian and Director of Information Services and Systems (ISS)

The European University Institute in Florence, founded by the Member States

of the European Union to advance post-graduate teaching and research in

Humanities and Social Sciences, is seeking to fill the post of Head

Librarian and Director of Information Services and Systems (ISS)

Deadline - March 24th 2000 (postdate)

Information at: [http://www.iue.it/General/posts.html]


--
Serge Noiret - Ph.D. in Contemporary History
@,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@
European University Institute
Address: Via dei Roccettini 9 - I-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
Phone: +39/055/4685-348 - Fax: +39/055/4685-283 -
Email:[noiret@datacomm.iue.it]
Home Page: [http://www.iue.it/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html]
@,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@



From: Serge Noiret 
Subject: Re: Internet and History
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 665 (665)


This is to announce the special issue of  "Memoria e Ricerca", an Italian

journal of Contemporary History, 3, january-june 1999, enterely dedicated to

Internet and History with the Italian title:  "Linguaggi e Siti : La Storia On

Line" ("Languages and Sites : History Online"). The Journal is available on the

internet at [http://www.racine.ra.it/oriani/memoriaericerca/index.html], and

gives English summaries of the articles which are he following:

Linguaggi e siti: la storia on line a cura di Serge Noiret

         5

              Premessa

          7

              Serge Noiret, Storia e Internet: la ricerca storica all'alba del

tezo millennio (english

              summary)

          21

              Michelangelo Vasta, Internet e le politiche pubbliche. i

modelli di

diffusione in Italia

              (english summary)

          31

              Peppino Ortoleva, La rete e la catena. Mestiere di storico al

tempo

di Internet (english

              summary)

          41

              Luca Toschi, Il multimedia d'autore. Un linguaggio per la memoria

del futuro? (english

              summary)

          57

              Renato Giannetti, Tecnologie dell'informazione e reclutamento

accademico (english

              summary)

          67

              Franco Andreucci, L'esperienza di H-Net (english summary)

          75

              George M. Welling, L'Association for History and Computing

(AHC) su

Internet: una

              prospettiva olandese (english summary)

          85

              Debra L. Morner, Robert Whaples, Samuel H. Williamson, La storia

ecomomica on line

              (english summary)

          99

              Oscar Struijv, L'History Data Service (HDS): Usare Internet per

fornire accesso a collezioni

              di risorse storiche (english summary)

          115

              Lynn H. Nelson, Prima del Web: gli sviluppi della storia on line

(english summary)

          131

              Ignacio Lopez Martin, INternet e la storia di Spagna, tra realt e

progetti (english

              summary)

          151

              Marc Jean Willem, L'Unione Europea su Internet: fonte di

informazione per gli storici?

              (english summary)


--
Serge Noiret - Ph.D. in Contemporary History
@,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@
European University Institute
Address: Via dei Roccettini 9 - I-50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI)
Phone: +39/055/4685-348 - Fax: +39/055/4685-283 -
Email:[noiret@datacomm.iue.it]
Home Page: [http://www.iue.it/Personal/Staff/Noiret/noiret.html]
@,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_@



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: summaries of work?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 666 (666)


I would be grateful to know in which fields and by what means published

research that significantly involves computing is identified as such and

reported on. Is the best place to look the annual meetings of scholarly

societies? Can anyone give me examples, preferably with URLs?

Thanks.

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: "Charles W. Bailey, Jr." 
Subject: Version 29, Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 06:15:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 667 (667)


Version 29 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

is now available.  This selective bibliography presents over

1,100 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 97: 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 using

Boolean operators.

The HTML document also 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 290 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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Social aspects of Internet penetration in Latin
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 06:16:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 668 (668)


Greetings Scholars,

The February 2000 issue of of the journal Current History contains an

interesting article called "The Hall of Mirrors: The Internet in Latin

America," by Ricardo Gomez of the International Development Research

Center in Ottawa, Canada.  --an important essay to read--

The site of Current History Journal is at <http://www.currenthistory.com>

Please look for Current Issue (February 2000) -BTW, you have to register

there to get the article in full!!

Points Related to the article:

-------------------------------

Latin American Internet users, like those in the developed world, "may be

merely surfing the labyrinth of Babel dreamt by Borges: a library in

which the contents matter far less than the apparent infinity of its

holdings".

"Half a century ago, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges published two

short stories, "The Library of Babel" and "The Aleph". The first one

describes an infinite library containing every book imaginable. The second

speaks of a place in which one can seel all things that exist in all

places, from all possible angles and perspectives, in that single place

and time. Although we cannot quite imagine what Borges would have thought

of the Internet had he lived to experience it, these two images are

increasingly being used in the region to describe the hall of mirrors that

is the Internet today in Latin America".

The author has mentioned, the name of Italian philosopher, Giovanni

Sartori..who has analyzed the banalization of knowledge and culture

through television and claims it is only made worse in cyberspace.

Author Gomez has also discussed the techniques and philosophy of

'Cybereducation', besides Internet Guerrillas in the article.

The author, Ricardo Gomez, has also written on "The Nostalgia of Virtual

Community" published in "Information Technology and People" Journal, vol

11, no. 3.

"The Library of Babel" can be read at

<http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~pwillen/lit/babel.htm>

I hope, you will enjoy the above ideas! Recently, this article is making

news in Latin America..and rest of the World!

Sincerely

Arun Kumar Tripathi



From: Eric Johnson 
Subject: Computers and Writing Faculty Position
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 669 (669)


Computers and Writing Faculty Position

Dakota State University

English: Tenure-Track Faculty Position.  Dakota State University

is seeking a writing specialist who has an interest in and a

knowledge of all or most of the following: Web Publishing (coding

HTML as well as using generators), Electronic (desktop)

Publishing, and Technical Writing -- in particular, creating

computer software documentation.  Duties may include teaching all

levels of composition and rhetoric.  Ph.D. or D.A. in English,

Rhetoric, or Composition required.  Experience teaching computer-

assisted composition beyond graduate assistantship highly

desired. Duties begin August 15, 2000.  Salary competitive.  Rank

and salary based on qualifications and experience.  Visit our web

site at www.dsu.edu/departments/liberal/english

To apply, send a letter of application, resume, graduate

transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and the names and

current phone numbers of at least three references to Dr. Eric

Johnson, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Dakota State University,

Madison, SD  57042-1799; email: Eric.Johnson@dsu.edu; Fax: 605-

256-5021.

Review of applications will begin March 24, 2000, and review will

continue until the position is filled.

Disabled applicants are invited to identify any necessary

accommodations required in the application process. EOE.

     --Eric Johnson

       Dakota State University

       http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Logic-based probability (LBP) in the Metamorphoses
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 670 (670)


Dear Colleagues:

My earlier comparison of Beethoven with Ovid in terms of Logic-Based

Probability (LBP) may have been an understatement.  In looking through the

historical literature, I notice that Ovid  came to manhood simultaneously

with the change of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire under Augustus,

that he lived under Augustus, and that he was sent into exile by Augustus

for a mysterious reason that has been speculated to be political, moral, or

both.  Since Beethoven lived in the tumult of Napoleonic Europe and refused

to play for Napoleon, we are confronted with the scenario of two geniuses

(Beethoven and Ovid) who lived in times of acute political crisis in which

very systems of government changed in forms that seized the emotions, the

very psychological foundations of these geniuses for whom creativity and

the ability to avoid externally imposed mediocrity and patterns was or can

be conjectured to be essential.  It is tempting for some to dispose of such

relationships by noting that some geniuses were sedentary family men living

in relative comfort and with no known stresses.  Perhaps there is more than

one road to genius.  The Beethoven-Ovid road is built on rare and

influential events: cognitive, political, emotional, socioeconomic,

cultural clashes and system-shattering revolutions, and in Beethoven's case

there was also the trauma of the alcoholic father who was nevertheless a

royal musician.  (Ovid's father opposed his going into poetry, which may be

a hint of some deeper conflict.)  These are probability 0 extremely rare

influential LBP events.  They are also events involving boundaries, which

in LBP are also maximally influential events: geographical boundaries of

empires, individual boundaries of the personal lives of geniuses which were

endangered by "benevolent dictators", boundaries between political systems

and concepts.   Do we not have the beginnings of a handle here on

conceptual as well as physical boundaries?   The fact that they are

intertwined may provide us with a Rosetta Stone as well.  So many

conceptual boundaries and clashes have no clear linkage to physical

boundaries and clashes.  Here they do.

In one of my earlier descriptions of LBP's ability to handle rare events, I

mentioned assassinations.  A few days before the birth of Ovid's brother,

Julius Caesar was assassinated ninety miles away.

The very influential events of the world form entities or sets of

interlocking rare-boundary-internal and/or lower dimensional events.  In

this, my early study of the Metamorphoses, I see the Metamorphoses as

unified not by any future continuation or past continuation but by the

expression of massive influence beyond any ordinary measure in the

universe.



From: Stephen Miller 
Subject: Computing reviews
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 06:13:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 671 (671)


Title

Computing reviews

Publ. info. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, [1960]-

This might be a starting place. Long time though since I have combed

through it.

   ---------------------------------------------------------

    Stephen Miller		

    Faculty Office       			

    Faculty of Social Sciences	

    University of Glasgow

    Glasgow G12 8RT		0141 339 8855 extn 0223

    http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/socialsciences/



From: "Fotis Jannidis" 
Subject: Re: 13.0412 summaries of computing work?
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 06:14:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 672 (672)

[deleted quotation]
I am not certain, that I understood your question fully, but if

bibliographies qualify: we

have an cumulative bibliography on computing in literary criticism in

German language:

http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de/bibliographie/cp-bibliographie.html

Fotis Jannidis

________________________________________

Forum Computerphilologie

http://computerphilologie.uni-muenchen.de



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: "The End of Books"
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 673 (673)


Greetings,

Most of the scholars might be interested in the NEW Book, "The End of

Books -- Or Books without End?" written by J. Yellowlees Douglas. She has

also written, "I Have Said Nothing".

-some praises for her new book--

"A classic of hypertext theory and criticism" --Jay David Bolter

"Written in a lively, personable style, The End of Books is essential

reading for anyone interested in literature as it is practiced in the New

Media" --N. Katherine Hayles.

Please visit the below sites for more details about the books and author.

<http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/EndOfBooks.html>

<http://www.eastgate.com/people/Douglas.html>

<http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/q12.html>

<http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~jdouglas/>

She has also contributed one chapter, "The Three Paradoxes of Hypertext:

How Theories of Textuality Shape Interface Design"..Ed. Stephanie B.

Gibson and Ollie Oviedo. "The Emerging Cyberculture: Literacy, Paradigm,

and Paradox. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, (in press)

Sincerely

Arun Tripathi



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: New Extension of Existing Technologies
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 674 (674)


Dear Scholars,

[Following info RE: NEXT 1.0 Conference is fowarded by Arun via

Association of Internet Researchers Community --Hi, in this conference

Monika Fleischmann and Michael Joyce are also speaking..with other great

speakers.]
[deleted quotation]
The Conference themes are -Creative Content for Interactive NewMedia,

Virtual Connected Communities and Storytelling.

Some of the great invited speakers are:-

Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss

<http://viswiz.gmd.de/VMSD/PAGES.en/mia/>

Steve Jones

<http://info.comm.uic.edu/jones/about.htm>

Perry Hoberman --an Virtual Reality artist

<http://www.hoberman.com/perry/>

and

Michael Joyce

<http://www.eastgate.com/people/Joyce.html>

Kind Regards

Arun Tripathi



From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." 
Subject: Job:  NLP Question/Answer Curriculum Developer
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 675 (675)


Ergo Linguistic Technologies is about to expand its question and answer

line of NLP products and are looking for curriculum developers in the areas

of Natural Science, History and Geography.  We would prefer linguists or

language teachers with a secondary background in one of the target areas.

Work may be done as a telecommute.  The work involves developing the

knowledge base for interactive tutors.  To see an example, go to

http://www.ergo-ling.com and review "Roswell Teaches English".  The

immediate task is to create "Roswell Teaches Geography/History/etc."

Complimentary copies of that and other of Ergo's software tools are

available for serious inquiries.

Contact as below for details:

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: Philosophy News Service * richard jones
Subject: [PNS-TOC] *J* Etica & Politica
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 06:35:40 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 676 (676)


The second isue of "Etica & Politica" the electronic journal of the

Philosophy Department of the University of Trieste, is online. Access

is free of charge at:

<http://www.univ.trieste.it/~dipfilo/etica_e_politica/index.htm>

Index

Special issue: 'Computer Ethics'

Guest Editor: Luciano Floridi, University of Oxford.

Articles by

Guest Editor's Preface

Floridi & Sanders - Entropy as Evil in Information Ethics University

of Oxford, UK.

Van den Hoven - Knowledge and Democracy in Cyberspace Erasmus

University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Johnson - Sorting Out the Uniqueness of Computer-Ethical Issues

School of Public Policy of Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta,

Georgia, USA.

Maner - Is Computer Ethics Unique?

Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio

Moor - Can Cyberspace Be Just?

Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA.

Nissenbaum - Can Trust be Secured Online? A theoretical perspective

Princeton University, USA.

The issue contains the following articles in Italian:

Roberto Festa (Universit=E0 di Trieste), Chi ha diritto di parlare di

Aids?

Fabio Franchi (medico ospedaliero, Trieste) & Pierpaolo Marrone

(Universit di Trieste), Sex virus? Implicazioni etiche e politiche

della ricerca sull'Aids

Elisabetta Zannier, Aspetti etici della teoria della reminiscenza

platonica

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: The Library of Babel of Jorge Luis Borges
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 06:36:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 677 (677)


Greetings Lists,

Earlier, I have posted a wrong URL related to the "The Library of Babel"!

Here is the correct site --"The Library of Babel" can be read at

<http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~pwillen1/lit/babel.htm>

Sincerely

Arun Tripathi



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: computing reviews revised
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 678 (678)


Thanks to Stephen Miller and Fotis Jannidis for the references to reviews.

What I had in mind, however, was something of a "higher" level, that is,

narrative reviews of work in various fields of the humanities undertaken

e.g. by a journal on an annual basis, or de facto adumbrated by sessions at

annual conferences. My question (clarified and rephrased!) was, to what

extent are scholarly societies and other academic organisations reviewing

related work in computing?

It should be obvious to anyone that the job of reviewing work in or closely

related to humanities computing is an impossible task for a single

individual or organisation. If it is to be done -- the need is great -- my

guess is that it has to be done at the disciplinary level, and very likely

at a lower level than that because of the number of languages and problems

of physical accessibility. The biggest problem I see is that one cannot

depend on any set of keywords picking out even a high percentage of

relevant items from their titles. Most relevant work is done, I'd guess, by

scholars who use computing for an end defined by the discipline of

application, and so if they mention computing at all, it will only be in

passing. To catch the discussion one has to read the article!

Then there's the problem of summarising where computing is headed, which

means not only reading but inwardly digesting the contents. That's a most

important step -- which, I would think, for each area of study needs to be

taken by a computing humanist in that area.

We often notice, and more often ignore, the rich tradition in which we

work, a tradition that gets richer every year. Some of us occasionally

thrash about trying, mostly in vain, to get a handle on what is happening

beyond the convenient confines of ACH/ALLC and whatever other scholarly

organisations we may belong to. A reasonable guess is that we're missing a

significant amount of work directly relevant to what we do, since

humanities computing is no respecter of disciplinary boundaries. (Loud

cheers!) What's the solution?

So my question: within the national academies, scholarly societies, funding

organisations &al. is a solution in progress, however haphazardly? Will

someday soon a URL take us where we want to go today? If the corporate

scholarly mind is not in fact getting its act together, then perhaps the

various senior people in a position to start something should?

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: Steven Totosy 
Subject: invitation to publish
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 679 (679)


Announcement: New Media Scholarship: An Invitation to Publish Scholarship

in the Humanities and Social Sciences Online in .

The internet and the world wide web are rapidly changing many aspects of

scholarly communication and knowledge dissemination and transfer. These

changes include the publishing industry and the publishing of scholarly

texts. A website with the registered domain name cultureonline.org has been

launched for the webpublishing of books in the humanities and social

sciences and, as webbooks, of PhD dissertations and M.A. theses. All

webbooks published in <http://www.cultureonline.org> receive an

International ISBN number assigned to <http://www.cultureonline.org> by the

National Library of Canada <http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/> (series 1-894569-...).

The URL of the archival site at the National Library will be available for

electronic preservation and archiving following publication in

cultureonline.org. As well, cultureonline.org webbooks will be listed in

the yearly Books in Print, hard cover and online.

For detail about the process and the costs of webbooks in cultureonline.org

please go to <http://www.cultureonline.org>.

The webpresence of and online access to work in the humanities and social

sciences benefits the authors of the webbooks as name recognition and in

the context of communication and dissemination of ideas and knowledge. Most

importantly, New Media Scholarship has more readers and serves the

scholarly community world wide. cultureonline.org is looking forward to

receiving proposals to publish new work by interested scholars. Please pass

the word about this new service to scholars everywhere.

For the publishing and academic credentials of the publisher, Steven

Totosy, please go to <http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/cv99.html>.

Steven Totosy, publisher, <http://www.cultureonline.org>,

Editor, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal

<http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal>

***************************



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: what we need
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 680 (680)


Dear Colleagues:

Various of us have made several attempts to determine how our practice as

computing humanists might be improved if only we had adequate tools. As far

as I know these attempts have not been terribly successful, with the one

exception of the Text Encoding Initiative. In particular, efforts have been

made to sketch out something like a UNIX toolkit for the modern humanities

scholar -- a set of software tools a researcher could use to model his or

her understanding of an analysis.

Allow me to quote to you anonymously a very harsh criticism of these

efforts. My purpose is to elicit defenses of what has been or is being

done, to flush the worthy efforts out of the bushes, as it were, or to

recall them to mind. Of course if you think the criticism essentially or

entirely correct, please say so. If you think it does not go far enough,

then please extend it -- and if you wish anonymity for your stronger

statement, I am certainly happy to arrange for that. We need ad laborem,

not ad hominem strokes!

Here is the lash:
[deleted quotation]
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



From: clare callaghan 
Subject: Re: 13.0420 computing reviews revised
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 681 (681)

[deleted quotation]
Dr. McCarty,

I don't think there is a solution in progress because I don't think there

is widespread institutional support for humanities computing, or even

widespread institutional recognition that it exists.  Individual scholars

are finding each other and developing principles as they go.  Until

humanities computing is accepted as integral to researching, publishing,

and teaching, the academic trinity, individuals will make their ways as

best they can.  This list and its discussions attribute to that.

Helpful individuals do exist, working (in my experience) at UVa, Penn,

Brown, UCSB, UT-Austin, or U-Baltimore, but as for a recognized,

institutionalized approach?  Not at all, with the exception of

Austin's computing concentration within its English department and the

planned master's at Virginia. I wish something were established now,

because I am trying to move into humanities computing.  Having

some established protocols or programs would have helped me significantly

as I thought about my long term professional goals and how best to meet

them.

But really, all that exists are these individuals.  They tend to have

studied a traditional discipline, and serendipitously found computing.

They network, and they know each other, and they're all very helpful when

I write and ask how I too can be part of the humanities computing

community.  But they're comparatively rare, and they're associated with

highly regarded, highly competitive departments and they have what passes

for academic job security nowadays, thus also having the space and support

in which to innovate.

Humanities computing is sneaking into more typical English departments

from the back, usually through computer-mediated first-year composition.

And those kinds of classes are the most likely to be put off on

adjuncts or instructors, not taken by the full time, tenure-eligible

professors.  Institutionally, this says computing is not considered part

of the "serious" side of academia.  Rather, it's something to use to

placate the lowest people in the department, the ones least likely to have

any sway over the department's policies or priorities, or to have the time

to dedicate to such an international effort as you propose.

Without such an effort as you mention, humanities computing seems to me to

be doomed to this "novelty" status.  And that, in turn, would keep

marginalized those people genuinely interested in the field, and

even further restrict institutionalized academic powers to those working

"traditionally," however outmoded such traditions might be.  In time, a

schism would arise among technical skills certifying schools, research

institutions, and the few remaining liberal arts colleges.

Very truly yours,

Clare Callaghan

Adjunct Instructor

University of Baltimore

Loyola College in Maryland

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

clare callaghan

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clare@charm.net

clare@jhu.edu

c-callaghan@sjca.edu

www.charm.net/~clare



From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: Electronic Erdman edition
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 682 (682)


21 February 2000

The editors of the William Blake Archive

<http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/> are very pleased to announce the

publication of our searchable SGML-encoded electronic edition of David

V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake_. The addition

of the electronic Erdman means that the site is now inclusive of an

even greater range of Blake's work than the approximately 3000 digital

images that will eventually form the structured core of the Archive

proper. Based upon the text of the 1988 Newly Revised Doubleday

Edition, the electronic Erdman represents almost 900 pages of printed

material, comprising the complete writings of William Blake together

with David V. Erdman's original textual notes (Harold Bloom's

commentary omitted). The original ASCII text file we encoded for the

electronic edition was generously supplied by Professor Nelson Hilton

(University of Georgia), whose own electronic concordance to Erdman is

a vital online resource for Blakeans.

The Blake Archive's electronic Erdman is tagged in SGML using the Text

Encoding Initiative DTD and is presented online using Inso's DynaWeb

software. But we should note that Erdman's edition is an

extraordinarily rich and complex textual artifact in its own right,

and encoding and rendering it has proven a substantial technical

challenge. For that reason we consider this a beta release, and would

welcome feedback and bug reports from users

(blake@jefferson.village.virginia.edu).

We will be updating our electronic Erdman edition continually in

response to user feedback, correcting any mistakes and adjusting the

formatting. We also anticipate migrating the edition to a later

version of the DynaWeb server, which will support keyword-in-context

searching (analogous to that of a concordance) as well as allow for

greater functional integration between the Erdman edition and the

materials in the Archive proper. We plan to emend the electronic

edition to correct errata in the printed editions of Erdman that have

been discovered by the Santa Cruz Blake Study Group and other

correspondents. Finally we intend to publish a Blake Archive

Supplement to Erdman, which will allow us to add newly discovered

Blake texts to the printed text, thereby making the William Blake

Archive's electronic edition truly the _complete_ writings of Blake.

The addition of our electronic Erdman is the first in a series of

publications slated for this spring and summer. We will soon add two

copies of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ to the Archive, at which

point it will contain fully searchable and scalable electronic

editions of 41 copies of 18 of Blake's 19 illuminated books in the

context of full bibliographic information about each work, careful

diplomatic transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all

images, and extensive bibliographies. Soon after, we plan to publish

collection lists for eight of the most significant collections of

Blake's works. Fully encoded in SGML, these collection lists will be

delivered online using Inso's DynaWeb software and will be fully

searchable. Perhaps most significant will be the publication of

_Jerusalem_, copy E. With this addition, the Archive will contain at

least one copy of each of Blake's works in illuminated printing and

multiple copies of most.

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, Editors

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Technical Editor

The William Blake Archive



From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705"
Subject: Re: 13.0423 what we need: a provocation
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 06:55:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 683 (683)


I absolutely think a tool-box and set of manuals for the

use of those tools should be high up on our list of priorities

for our discipline.  To comment on the "limitations of

the tools we need to outgrow," and to extend a metaphor,

you don't ever really outgrow a hammer and saw even when

you buy a power nailer and a circular saw: you just find

ways to accomplish the tasks you want to do more efficiently

and quickly.  For example, last fall I used SPSS for windows

for the first time.  Now I am sure others have been using that

for years, but for me it was like a revelation: the program was

brilliant and I did in 20 minutes what it used to take days

to do with writing those little programs on SPSS-X.  No way

are we going to outgrow the need for statistical analyses.

Which makes me think: maybe the issue is not so much that we

need a new set of different tools, but that we need sets of

plans, suggestions, patterns and the like for better, more

imaginative use of the tools that are at hand.  After all,

that hammer and saw can be used to build tables, chairs,

dressers, bookshelves, or, as I am going to build right now,

register covers for floor vents.  Malcolm Hayward



From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: 13.0423 what we need: a provocation
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 06:56:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 684 (684)


"Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I'm sorry, but I have no idea what on earth this sentence means or intends to

mean.  What are "sociologically ordinary difficulties" ?  The words don't even

seem made to go in the same phrase.  And what is the  'actual (or even

'virtual') practice    from which ideas are somehow extracted ? (and how does

one extract an idea ??)    If I knew what it meant, I might respond to it.
[deleted quotation]
Where else does one get things except from things that already exist ? I know

the "outside the box/envelope" cliche's but they mean little or nothing.  Does

the author really expect something new under the sun ?



From: CyberForum 
Subject: "Virtual Bodies?" Saturday, Feb. 26, 1:30 PM
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 685 (685)


To: "CyberForum@ArtCenter" 

CyberForum@ArtCenter

Saturday, February 26, 1:30 PM PST

Katherine Hayles and panel meet in 3-D avatar world

Email: cyberforum@artcenter.edu

Web: <http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>

The CyberForum presents real-time online author chats.

On Saturday, February 26th at 1:30 PM PST, the Forum

features Katherine Hayles, author of The Cosmic Web and How

We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics,

Literature, and Informatics.

Chat log with screen grabs from previous meetings of

the Forum are now online at:

<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/html/archive.html>

The Forum features authors drawn from The Digital Dialectic:

New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999) collected and

edited by Peter Lunenfeld.

Forums are open to the public and run one hour

on either Wednesdays or Saturdays.

On Saturday, March 11, at 1:30 PM PST, Carol Gigliotti

will address the Forum. She writes on ethics and virtual

technologies and developed the website/online journal/CD-ROM

"Astrolabe" (www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/Astrolabe/).

CyberForum speakers include:

Carol Gigliotti, March 11, 1:30 PM PST

Katherine Hayles, Feb. 26, 1:30 PM PST

Michael Heim, Feb. 9, 1:30 PM PST

George Landow

Brenda Laurel

Peter Lunenfeld, Feb 2, 1:30 PM PST

Lev Manovich

William J. Mitchell

Email questions to cyberforum@artcenter.edu

For further information and speaker bios,

visit the website:

<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>

To participate: Download the free Eduverse 3D browser from

<http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/awedu_download.html>

Install the software and enter as a tourist in Eduverse.

The left panel of the Eduverse browser shows a list of

worlds. Choose "ACCD" world and follow the other

avatars to the Forum location. The Virtual Worlds Team

at Art Center will be there to guide you.

The CyberForum@ArtCenter is a production of the Virtual

Worlds Team at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,

California, under the direction of Michael Heim (mheim@artcenter.edu)

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From: Einat Amitay 
Subject: [Fwd: Alertbox: Does the Internet Make Us Lonely?]
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 20:49:02 -0800
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 686 (686)


The Alertbox for February 20 is now online at:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000220.html

[An article entitled, "Does the Internet Make Us Lonely?", on a new survey

released by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society.]

Studies of the social impact of the Internet must consider the changing

lifestyle of the new economy and not relate solely to industrial-age

concepts.


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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: the Internet made me do it!
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 687 (687)


In Humanist 13.426 Einat Amitay kindly forwarded notice of the Jakob

Nielsen article entitled, "Does the Internet Make Us Lonely?", commenting

on a preliminary version of the "Study of the Social Consequences of the

Internet" published by the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of

Society, for which see

<http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/Press_Release/internetStudy.html>.

There is much of interest here, but I want to focus on one thing only: what

happens between the carefully planned and executed "Study of the Social

Consequences of the Internet" and the question "Does the Internet Make Us

Lonely?". I am tempted to yell, DON'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION -- because if

you do you, whatever your answer, you accept the assumption in the

question, that "the Internet" can "make us" do or be anything. Ok,

attentions need to be grabbed sometimes, but the question of how a human

invention affects its inventors is an important and complex one, and we're

not helped at all by the invitation to surrender our freedom to something

we've made. This is of course an old story -- the Wheel of Fortune and the

Book of Life are examples Northrop Frye used to cite to make the same

point. In the context of computing (a specific case of the automaton), it's

a particularly important point, yes?

Speaking of social science methods, I wonder also how one gets from

findings such as are reported in the Stanford study to a more than

anecdotal form of the truth behind one's own experiences? Ellen Ullman's

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents (San Francisco: City

Lights Books, 1997) is one way -- making a really quite interesting, even

compelling story from all the messy, intimate bits of a life lived under

heavy influence of computer-mediated communications. (She reports on her

experiences as a consultant who works at home.) Are there any deep studies

of the conduct of long-distance love affairs by the Internet, or better

yet, by that medium in combination with others? It seems to me that if one

studied the highest stress, most hermeneutically intensive, even

tending-to-paranoid human situation involving our cherished medium, one

would get interesting results. I'd assume the method would consist largely

of interviews, but with all that e-text preserved, needing considerable

metatextual commentary, text-analytic work would certainly be prominent.

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: Willard McCarty 
Subject: another go at interpreting semi-coherent grumbles
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 688 (688)


In Humanist 13.427 Norman Hinton declares he is able to make no sense from

the quotation I gave criticising efforts to find out what we computing

humanists need by way of better software. Since I didn't have that trouble,

I'll comment on the passages he identified.
[deleted quotation]
even
[deleted quotation]
What I thought the quoted quotation meant was that the attempts to find out

what we need 'have seriously underestimated the difficulties ordinarily

encountered and dealt with by social scientists when they do this kind of

research' and that this research if properly conducted would consist in

'discovering through disciplined observation of their behaviour what it is

that people in fact need by way of better software'.

I confess that I share the implied respect for social science methods,

which I've also argued elsewhere we really do need to know about and be

trained in if we are going to undertake such studies. In more colloquial

terms, what I think the above is trying to say is, 'find out how to do the

job properly before you do it'. I guess the implied question here is, have

ALL the efforts to find out -- as the quotation sweepingly declares -- been

flawed by lack of such training?
[deleted quotation]
nothing.  Does
[deleted quotation]
I don't know what an "outside the box/envelope" cliche is. What I took this

to mean was, 'a well designed survey/study should be able to separate what

people do in computer-unaided research from what they do when using a

machine' -- so that you are not simply getting back answers whose scope has

been predefined by whatever software the subjects of the study are using.

Does that make sense? Is it in fact true that existing studies are thus flawed?

I know that in the area defined by the overlap of computer science and

sociology, studies of working patterns have been done -- of office-workers

I would assume -- in order to find out about what software would suit the

kind of work being done? I would assume that the practice called 'usability

testing' would bear on the question raised here, though of course usability

has quite another aim.

As well as reactions to the above it might be useful to have some pointers

to central work in the area where CS overlaps with social science methods.

I'd assume that we err as much or more if we uncritically accept those

methods than if we reject them outright or proceed in ignorance of them. I

for one would appreciate having a reference or two to a critical

methodological survey of what happens in the social sciences -- something

that sets out (1) the difficulty of the problems; (2) the aims and

techniques; (3) where and how they go wrong. Does anyone know C. Bell and

H. Roberts, eds., Social Researching (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984)?

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: "Nancy M. Ide" 
Subject: LREC WORKSHOP :  Data Architectures and
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:12:33 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 689 (689)


                             SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                                 LREC WORKSHOP

             DATA ARCHITECTURES AND SOFTWARE SUPPORT FOR LARGE CORPORA

                                 May 30, 2000

                                ATHENS, GREECE

                   http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc/lrec.html

         ******************************************************************

                       SUBMISSION DEADLINE : MARCH 7, 2000

          Several software systems for linguistic annotation, search,

          and retrieval of large corpora have been developed within the

          natural language processing community over the past several

          years, including LT-XML (Edinburgh), GATE (Sheffield), IMS

          Corpus Workbench (Stuttgart), Alembic Workbench (Mitre), MATE

          (Edinburgh/Odense/Stuttgart), Silfide (Loria/CNRS), SARA

          (BNC), and several others. Related to and in support of this

          development, there have also been efforts to develop standards

          for encoding and various kinds of linguistic annotation, as

          well as data architectures (e.g., TIPSTER, TalkBank)

          etc. Still other developments, such as the introduction of XML

          and the powerful XSL transformation language and work on

          semi-structured data (e.g., the work of the Lore group at

          Stanford), have also impacted the ways in which corpora and

          other linguistic resources can be represented, stored, and

          accessed.

          Approaches to the fundamental design of the formats, data, and

          tools are varied among current systems for the annotation and

          exploitation of linguistic corpora. A primary reason for this

          diversity is that most developers are concerned with only one

          aspect of the creation/annotation/exploitation

          process. However, in order to work effectively toward

          commonality, the phases of the process must be considered as a

          whole. This demands bringing together researchers and

          developers from a variety of domains in text, speech, video,

          etc., many of whom have previously had little or no contact.

          This workshop is intended to bring these groups together to

          look broadly at the technical issues that bear on the

          development of software systems for the annotation and

          exploitation of linguistic resources. The goal is to lay the

          groundwork for the definition of a data and system

          architecture to support corpus annotation and exploitation

          that can be widely adopted within the community. Among the

          issues to be addressed are:

             o layered data architectures

             o system architectures for distributed databases

             o support for plurality of annotation schemes

             o impact and use of XML/XSL

             o support for multimedia, including speech and video

             o tools for creation, annotation, query and access of corpora

             o mechanisms for linkage of annotation and primary data

             o applicability of semi-structured data models, search and query

               systems, etc.

             o evaluation/validation of systems and annotations

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Submissions

Papers should be submitted in electronic form (preferably postscript,

but plain ascii, MS Word RTF, or HTML are acceptable) to

ide@cs.vassar.edu by March 7, 2000. Please include the subject line: LREC

WORKSHOP

SUBMISSION :  -- for example, "LREC WORKSHOP

SUBMISSION: SMITH, JONES".

Organizers

         Nancy Ide (contact)

         Department of Computer Science

         Vassar College

         Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA

         Tel : +1 914 437 5988

         Fax : +1 914 437 7498

         ide@vassar.edu

         Henry S. Thompson

         Human Communication Research Centre

         2 Buccleuch Place

         Edinburgh EH8 9LW

         SCOTLAND

         Tel : +44 (131) 650 4440

         Fax : +44 (131) 650 4587

         ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

Program Committee

         Steven Bird, Linguistic Data Consortium

         Patrice Bonhomme, LORIA/CNRS

         Roy Byrd, IBM Corporation

         Jean Carletta, HCRC Edinburgh

         Ulrich Heid, IMS Stuttgart

         Hamish Cunningham, Sheffield

         David Day, Mitre Corporation

         Robert Gaizauskas, Sheffield

         Ralph Grishman, New York University

         Nancy Ide, Vassar College (Chair)

         Masato Ishizaki, JAIST

         Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado at Boulder

         Tony McEnery, Lancaster

         David McKelvie, HCRC Edinburgh

         Laurent Romary, LORIA/CNRS

         Gary Simons, Summer Institute of Linguistics

         Henry Thompson, HCRC Edinburgh

         Yorick Wilks, Sheffield

         Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute

         Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: CONF: Three Presentations on Multimedia
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:13:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 690 (690)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 22, 2000

              Three Presentations on Multimedia Information Systems

               March 3, 2000: University of Maryland, College Park

                  <http://www.clis.umd.edu/info/events/mumis.html>http://www.

<http://www.clis.umd.edu/info/events/mumis.html>http://www.clis.umd.edu/info

/events/mumis.html

                          "Issues in Musical Informatics"

                        "National Gallery of the Spoken Word"

                        "The Shakespeare Electronic Archive:

                    Text, Image and Film in Research and Teaching"

The Digital Library Research Group of the University of Maryland, College

Park,and the College of Library and Information Services present a program

of talks on multimedia information systems on March 3, 2000.

With the ability to digitally process significant amounts of multimedia,

multimedia digital libraries will be increasingly common. Although digital

scholarship in music, history, and literature have been widely separated in

the past, we believe there are many common themes. We hope this

interdisciplinary forum will highlight the possible synergies.

                                        * * *

                       9:30 AM   Issues in Musical Informatics

                    Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University

                           McKeldin Library, Room 4137

Musical codes can be used to support several application domains. Among

them sound, notation, and analysis are the most common and the ones on

which we concentrate. While the information sets needed in all three

domains have some common features, each has unique attributes as well.

Computing in Musicology:

<http://www.ccarh.org/publications/books/cm/>http://www.ccarh.org/publicatio

ns/books/cm/

CCARH: <http://musedata.stanford.edu>http://musedata.stanford.edu

Beyond MIDI:

<http://www.ccarh.org/publications/books/beyondmidi/>http://www.ccarh.org/pu

blications/books/beyondmidi/

Melodic Similarity:

<http://www.ccarh.org/publications/books/cm/vol/11/>http://www.ccarh.org/pub

lications/books/cm/vol/11/

                                        * * *

                  11:00 AM   National Gallery of the Spoken Word

                   Mark L. Kornbluth, Michigan State University

                                  Hornbake 0115

The National Gallery of the Spoken Word (NGSW) will create a significant,

fully searchable, online database of spoken word collections that span the

20th century -- the first large-scale repository of its kind. NGSW will

provide storage for these digital holdings and public exhibit "space" for

the most evocative collections. >From Thomas Edison's first cylinder

recordings, to the voices of Babe Ruth and Florence Nightingale, and Studs

Terkel's timeless interviews, the collections of the NGSW will cover a

variety of interests and topics. The NGSW is designed as an expansive

repository of aural resources. Over time, it will grow to include many more

collections from partnering institutions around the country.

                                        * * *

                   2:00 PM   The Shakespeare Electronic Archive:

                   Text, Image and Film in Research and Teaching

                                Peter Donaldson, MIT

                             McKeldin Library, Room 4137

The Shakespeare Electronic Archive is now working at the Folger and

Shakespeare Institute. I will demonstrate its use and discuss plans for

broader-than- Shakespeare film-text archive. Mr. Donaldson will also

discuss the Archive's plan to create distance collaboration tools to make

the archives useful at all levels.

                                        * * *

                           3:30 PM   Reception hosted by

                 Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

                                 Mckeldin Library

DIRECTIONS:

<http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/PUB/campus_map.html>http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP

/PUB/campus_map.html

McKeldin Library,

<http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/MCK/mckeldin.html>http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/M

CK/mckeldin.html

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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London

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 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: CONFERENCE: Computers & History of Art: Sept
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:50:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 692 (692)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 23, 2000

               Computers & the History of Art: CHArt Conference 2000

              Moving the Image: visual culture and the new millennium

                      National Gallery London: Sept. 1-2, 2000

                         <http://www.chart.ac.uk/cfp2000.html>http://www.char

<http://www.chart.ac.uk/cfp2000.html>http://www.chart.ac.uk/cfp2000.html

                       CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: April 28, 2000
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From: "Nancy M. Ide" 
Subject: SENSEVAL 2
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:50:47 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 693 (693)


                              SENSEVAL 2

                            FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

                     CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Following the success of the first SENSEVAL in 1998, we are now

beginning the planning for SENSEVAL-2.  As before, it will proceed as

an ACL-SIGLEX activity.   The evaluation will take place over a year,

concluding with a workshop in Pisa in Spring 2001.

Last time, there were evaluations for English, French and Italian.

We are keen to encourage evaluations for further languages, so would

particularly like to hear from people who are interested in setting up

evaluations for the language they work in.

If you wish to join the discussion group that works out how the

evaluation should proceed (and were not on the mailing list for the

first SENSEVAL) please let me know and I will add you to the list.

Adam Kilgarriff

SENSEVAL co-ordinator

adam@itri.bton.ac.uk



From: issei2000@uib.no
Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: European Education -
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:52:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 694 (694)


CALL FOR PAPERS

Section V of the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study

of European Ideas (ISSEI)

Bergen, Norway, August 14-18, 2000

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EUROPEAN EDUCATION - DECLINE, MARKET ADAPTATION OR CRITICAL CONTINUITY ?

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Main topics:

1) The perspective of cultural decline and discontinuity in European

education, with a possible "loss of memory"

2) The impact of market adaptation, globalisation and supranational

constructions on educational systems and contents

3) The issue of critical continuity

The international conference "Approaching the Millennium: Lessons From the

Past - Prospects for the Future" is dedicating a section to European

education. About 40 workshops have been established in this section,

thematically ranging from gender issues to innovation strategies, from

multi-cultural aspects to continued education, from the use of new

technologies to post-colonial issues and francophonie.

The section coordinator, Assoc. Prof. Daniel Apollon, invites historians,

philosophers, sociologists and cultural critics as well as specialists in

education and pedagogy to present multidisciplinary contributions.

For complete details, please consult the conference web site:

<http://www.uib.no/issei2000/>http://www.uib.no/issei2000/

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Conference Secretariat, ISSEI 2000

Centre for the Study of European Civilisation

University of Bergen

Haakon Shetligsplass 11

Postboks 7800

5007 Bergen

Norway

E-mail: issei2000@uib.no

Fax: +47 55 58 83 88

URL: <http://www.uib.no/issei2000>http://www.uib.no/issei2000



From: "Price, Dan" 
Subject: The Web and the Future
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 695 (695)


Willard,

I happened to be going through some files today and pulled this one up.  To

tell the truth, I am not sure of the actual response that you and some

others gave.  Perhaps though it might be helpful to post and see if what

people anticipated did in fact occur.  Helpful of course with keeping an

eye poised towards the next five years.

On the other hand, perhaps we are already engaged in this conversation.

--dan

From:    Willard McCarty         (8)

Strolling home today I was mulling over statements I had made in a letter

of recommendation, about what needs to be done in humanities computing. It

struck me that before sending this letter off I should raise the question

on Humanist, and that the discussion might be useful to us all. So, I ask

you, what do you see as the most important things we need to do, say within

the next five years in order to strengthen our field?

WM

Sincerely,

Dan Price, Ph.D.

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Stanford Humanities Review 4.2 &c.
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:54:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 696 (696)


You may remember that I strongly recommended to your attention a back issue

of the printed-and-online journal Stanford Humanities Review,

"Constructions of the Mind: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities",

<http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/toc.html>, but that at the time

the links to individual articles were broken. Thanks to the kind

intervention of a member of this group the problem with these links has

been repaired. I esp recommend to your attention the articles by Philip E

Agre, H M Collins, Douglas R Hofstadter, the interview of Heinz von

Foerster by Stefano Franchi, Gven Gzeldere and Eric Minch and von

Foerster's own keynote address for the International Conference, Systems

and Family Therapy: Ethics, Epistemology, New Methods, held in Paris,

France, October 4th, 1990.

A couple of small quibbles: the links to the images at the top of each

article are still broken, and several titles vary between the table of

contents and the actual articles.

Thanks to the repair work, I have also spotted vol 4.1, "Bridging the Gap:

Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism", which is focused on

Herbert Simon's article, "Literary Criticism: A Cognitive Approach". One is

not surprised to find Hubert Dreyfus's "Simon's Simple Solutions". There is

much else.

Vol 6.1 offers (among other things) "The Origins of Literary Studies  And

Their End?" by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, which bears on the topic of

disciplinarity.

Yours,

WM

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Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities /

King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. /

voice: +44 (0)171 848-2784 /  fax: +44 (0)171 848-2980 /

ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/

maui gratia



From: David Zeitlyn 
Subject: Kaberry's 'Women of Grassfields' now available online
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 19:54:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 697 (697)


I am pleased to announce that, with the kind permission of HMSO, the full

text of Phyllis Kaberry's 'Women of the Grassfields' is now available

online. We hope that this will enable this classic text to be more widely

used in the teaching of anthropology. It has been prepared for online

access as part of the Experience Rich Anthropology Project (funded by HEFCE

under their FDTL programme).

Women of the Grassfields is available via

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/online_pubs.html

The main ERA website is http://www.era.anthropology.ac.uk/

We would welcome suggestions of other useful anthropological texts that are

currently practically inaccessible because of being out-of-print or only

published in the form of Goverment Reports etc.

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 (0)1227 823360 direct)

Tel: +44 (0)1227 823942 (Office)

Fax  +44 (0)1227 827289

http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/



From: Elli Mylonas 
Subject: Research Programmer Job Opening at Brown University
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 698 (698)


[apologies for cross-posting]

POSITION AVAILABLE

Lead Research Programmer/Analyst

Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University

This is a lead technical position in an applied R&D group that is

pioneering new tools and methodologies for the application of advanced

information technology to academic research, teaching, and communication.

Principal responsibilities include providing technical leadership, systems

analysis, and research programming.

Requirements: Ability to develop innovative solutions to academic research

problems, based on knowledge of emerging information technologies and

a deep understanding of the methodologies and needs of academic

disciplines.  Expert knowledge of most of the following: SGML/XML

techniques and tools, hypermedia systems, object-oriented programming,

relational or object-oriented databases, information retrieval,

digital library technologies, and research methods in the humanities

and social sciences.  Should be able to conduct and publish applied

research and development in at least one of the preceding areas.  Degree in

CS or equivalent required.  Advanced degree and research or teaching

experience in an academic discipline preferred.  Willing to work

collaboratively with students and colleagues.

The Scholarly Technology Group conducts applied research in the development

and use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching,

and scholarly communication.  It carries out this mission by exploring new

technologies and practices, developing specialized tools and techniques,

and providing consulting and project management services to academic

projects.  STG focuses on four related areas: hypermedia systems, SGML/XML

textbase development, interactive networked publishing, and the application

of computing methods to academic scholarship. The director of STG is Allen

Renear, and chief scientist is Steven J. DeRose. For more information about

STG see: http://www.stg.brown.edu.

For further information about this position contact:

Elli Mylonas, STG Associate Director for Research and Projects,

(401 863-7231 or Elli_Mylonas@Brown.Edu).

To apply send a cover letter and current c.v. to Human Resources, Box

1879/B00391, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912.

[Human Resources posting at:

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Human_Resources/hrweb/jobs/b00391.htm]

Brown University is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Please post and distribute



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: quotation from Brecht?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 699 (699)


Can anyone identify where in Bertold Brecht's works the following quotation

occurs and give the original German for it?

"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

Thanks.

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: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705"
Subject: Re: 13.0431 how to find out what we need,
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 700 (700)


I'd like to add my hope that those interested in this

topic who are MLA members and who might be attending the

next MLA convention in Washington, DC, Dec. 26-29 2000, will

consider submitting a paper related to the topic and/or

computer-based research and approaches to literary studies.

Proposals for the Computer Studies in Language and Literature

session should go to David Hoover by email: dh3@is.nyu.edu

or david.hoover@nyu.edu.  The deadline for submissions is

March 1 (coming right up pretty soon).  A PROPOSAL of a couple

of hundred words is all that is needed right now.  Thanks.

Malcolm Hayward



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: CONFERENCE: American Institute for
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 701 (701)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

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February 24, 2000

       American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)

               Annual Conference: Philadelphia, PA: June 8-13, 2000

                             <http://aic.stanford.edu>http://aic.stanford.edu

A particularly interesting conference program will be presented at the AIC

conference this summer, with a particular focus on the preservation of

electronic media.

David Green

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From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" 
Subject: Re: 13.0423 what we need: a provocation
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 702 (702)


At 08:17 00/02/21 +0000, you wrote:
[deleted quotation]
The bad news is that getting input from users on new features for software

is notoriously hard work.  Eliciting, from users, a description of a new

kind of software is even less likely to succeed easily.  So I don't have

much hope of survey-driven software development -- even if we get surveys

designed and performed with more sociological acumen than those of which

the lash-wielder complains.  I am more sanguine about the prospects of

success if people who know they want a particular kind of software build

it, and show it to other people to see if they like it.  The results will

have no statistical validity or significance at all.  But they may include

some useful software.

If one has a small group of users willing to work collaboratively, some

of the cost of developing duds and throwing them away can be eliminated:

instead of developing the software, you develop a non-functional mockup

and show that to the prospective users.  Using this method, you don't develop

working software and then find that your user does not want it; instead,

you develop a fully worked out mockup of the user interface, and then

find out that your user has not got a clue what good this is going to do

her.  A few rounds of trial and error and 'Well, then, uh, what DO you

want to see on the entry screen?' interviews later, you may have a mockup

that looks like software those users think they might like to use.  (That's

not the same as software they will like to use, or will use, but it's

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.)  I do not know how to

scale this approach up to handle more than one or two or three users; it

will never look as persuasive as survey results.  But it has a better chance

of producing useful software.

Notice that I am proposing something even more amateurish, in some ways,

than the amateurish surveys which serve as your unnamed interlocutor's

whipping boys:  namely, individuals and small groups just building what they

think will be worth building, on spec.  This is even less likely to

avoid boxing in our imaginations -- except that when we build new tools,

we sometimes find out later what they are good for.  And when we build new

tools for *ourselves*, we build tools that at least one user wants.

The lowest-hanging fruit in the area of software development are people

who want to get some job done, not people who are pretty happy with what

they have now, but would like life to be better.  "Make it possible for

me to edit English, Hebrew, and Arabic on the screen, so I can work on my

edition of the Cairo Geniza" is a good starting point for collaboration

between technical people and humanists.  "Let's develop some software so

we can persuade the foreign-language teachers to use computers in their

instruction" is a lot less promising a starting point.

The reason is not solely that a tightly-focused felt need is more likely

to be readily translatable into a good description of requirements, and

then a good design, than a vague desire for "better software."  It is

not solely that when needs are clearly articulated we have a better chance

of determining whether some software meets them or not. It is that software

which solves real problems for people will be used -- and thus has a

chance of being used in new ways, and revealing new needs -- than software

which no one feels a real need for.

So if we have to have surveys of what users want or need, ask them this

question:  what do you want to do that you cannot do now?

But if surveys are good, prototypes are better.  Show me a prototype of

a tool, and we will have a lot more interesting things to talk about than

surveys and survey results.

-C. M. Sperberg-McQueen


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From: Serge Noiret 
Subject: Re: European Integration Current Contents
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:31:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 703 (703)


European Integration Current Contents, a collaborative project of the

EUI and Harvard Law School Libraries

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/JeanMonnet/TOC/index.html

European Integration Current Contents provides access to the Tables of

Contents of journals relevant to European Integration research. This

current awareness service, updated on a biweekly basis, covers 101

journals received by the European University Institute and Harvard Law

School Libraries.

This project started in the Spring of 1999 as the Harvard Jean Monnet

Tables of Contents Service, including European Integration journals in

the areas of law and human rights and has now been extended, since the

cooperation with the EUI Library, to the areas of economics, history and

political and social sciences. For most journals the coverage goes back

to the beginning of 1998. There is also the possibility to browse the

journals or search the database by author or keywords. The journals

included have been selected by the two libraries on the basis of their

academic quality and of their focus on European Integration and human

rights and for all disciplines. A serious effort has been made to

include non-English language journals in order to reflect the cultural

diversity within Europe.

For Information contact:

Machteld Nijsten - Law Librarian

European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Tel: +39.055.4685259    Fax: +39.055.4685283

e-mail: nijsten@iue.it



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: 2 CLIR Reports: "Collections, Content, and the
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:32:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 704 (704)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 24, 2000

      Two New Reports from Council on Library and Information Resources

(CLIR)

                     "Collections, Content, and the Web"

                   "Enduring Paradigm, New Opportunities:

       The Value of the Archival Perspective in the Digital Environment"

                         Both shortly available at:

              <http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html>http://www.clir.

<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html>http://www.clir.org/pubs/repo

rts/reports.html

Readers will probably have an interest in the latest two reports published

by the Council on Library and Information Resources. The first is a report

on a symposium bringing together the perspectives of museums and libraries

in networking cultural resources. The second is a paper on how archival

experience and perspective can be used by those who design, manage,

disseminate, and preserve digital information.  The reports are on sale and

will shortly be available in html and pdf formats on the CLIR website at

<http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html>http://www.clir.org/pubs/repo

rts/reports.html

David Green

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: UK's Visual Arts Data Service/Technical Advisory
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:33:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 705 (705)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 24, 2000

      UK's Visual Arts Data Service & Technical Advisory Service for Images

                         Publish Guide to Good Practice

                "Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts:

                          Standards and Good Practice"

               <<http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html>http://vad

<<http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html>http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/g

uides/creating_guide.html>
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Dear All,

The Visual Arts Data Service,

(<<http://vads.ahds.ac.uk>http://vads.ahds.ac.uk>http://vads.ahds.ac.uk)

provides, preserves and promotes high quality digital resources in the

visual arts and the Technical Advisory Service for Images

(<<http://www.tasi.ac.uk/>http://www.tasi.ac.uk/>http://www.tasi.ac.uk/)

advises and supports the academic community on the digital creation,

storage and delivery of image-related information.

We are pleased to formally launch the web version of the VADS/TASI Guide to

Good Practice:

*Creating Digital Resources for the Visual Arts: Standards and Good Practice*

<<http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html>http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/g

uides/creating_guide.html>http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/guides/creating_guide.html

The guide is intended primarily to introduce new users of technology to its

applications, and to provide comprehensive guidance on all the following

issues;

            *Creating Digital Images

            *Copyright

            *Data Documentation and Metadata Standards

            *Project Management

            *Resource Delivery and User Issues

            *Storage and Preservation

            *Using specialized formats for the Visual Arts

We hope that it will also provide a useful source of information for those

who are more experienced in generating digital resources. Bibliographic

links and a glossary of terms are also included.

*Permitted Uses*

While we encourage you to read and make use of our Guide fully. Please do

not print out the whole Guide or distribute it to colleagues. It is

intended for individual use.

*Print Publication*

A print publication is soon to follow this electronic version, published by

Oxbow Books; information on how to order the Guide in book form will be

posted on the VADS and TASI sites.

Best Wishes

Catherine Grout (VADS) and Karla Youngs (TASI)


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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Challenge of Image Retrieval (UK)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:33:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 706 (706)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

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February 24, 2000

                     CIR-2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval

                       Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval

                       May 4-5 2000, Brighton, United Kingdom

                         <http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00>http://www.unn.

<http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00>http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

CIR-2000: The Challenge of Image Retrieval

Third UK Conference on Image Retrieval

May 4-5 2000, Brighton, United Kingdom

Venue:

     Old Ship Hotel

     Kings Road

     Brighton

     East Sussex BN1 1NR

CIR moves to Brighton in 2000, with a new format -

separate practitioner and research tracks linked by

common plenary sessions. As in previous years, it aims

to attract high-quality papers covering all aspects of

image and video retrieval from both the UK and overseas.

The main themes of CIR-2000 are video asset management,

image indexing and metadata, and content-based image

retrieval. Our distinguished list of invited speakers

includes:

Professor Howard Besser, University of California at Los

Angeles

Dr Ruud Bolle, IBM Thomas Watson Research Center

Dr Richard Nicol, Head of Research, BT Adastral Park

Professor Mark Overmaars, University of Utrecht

Details of the conference, provisional programme,

registration details and booking form are available at:

     <http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00>http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/cir/cir00

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: CIMI Dublin Core Workshops
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:34:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 707 (707)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 24, 2000

                        CIMI Dublin Core Workshops

                    Helping People Find What They Want:

                  Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums

               <http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html>http://www.cimi

<http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html>http://www.cimi.org/cimi_inst

itute/index.html
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Apologies for cross postings

*********************************************************************

The CIMI Institute is pleased to announce three new venues for its workshop:

Helping People Find What They Want: Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums

Places and Dates:

March 29-30, 2000

Vancouver, BC, Canada

hosted by: Canadian Heritage Information Network

April 27-28, 2000

Amstelveen, the Netherlands

hosted by: ADLIB Information Systems

May 31-June 1, 2000

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

hosted by: Walker Art Center

This two day workshop focuses on information access and management issues

in museums and cultural heritage organizations through the use of the CIMI

recommendations for the Dublin Core metadata standard. This workshop is

designed for museum and cultural heritage professionals, information

managers, systems staff, and administrators looking for ways to better

manage information resources and make them available to the broad World

Wide Web audience. Technical expertise is not required.

Concepts covered by this workshop include:

- Integrated Information Management

- Metadata

- Syntax

- Structure

- Semantics

- Consistent Vocabulary

- Resource Discovery

To find out more about the workshop and to register, click here

<http://www.cimi.org/cimi_institute/index.html>http://www.cimi.org/cimi_inst

itute/index.html

============================================

Angela Spinazze

Programs Manager

CIMI Consortium

<http://www.cimi.org/>http://www.cimi.org/

+1.312.944.6820 (voice)

+1.312.944.6821 (fax)

e-mail: ats@atspin.com

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From: "Paul F. Bergen" 
Subject: Instructional Technology Position at Harvard
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 708 (708)


Instructional Web and Multimedia Specialist

Instructional Computing Group (ICG), FAS Computer Services.

This position works as part of a team to help develop WWW-based

instructional resources that enhance teaching and learning across the

curriculum (see http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/). ICG develops an online

instructional management system available to every undergraduate course at

Harvard and assists individual faculty who want to use computers in their

courses. As part of that mission, this position develops and adapts

interactive Web tools and other Web-based instructional materials. The

position also designs and teaches workshops for faculty and teaching staff,

writes documentation, and works with individual courses and instructors on

a variety of computing needs.

Qualifications include knowledge of Perl, CGI, digital multimedia for the

WWW, JavaScript and Web publishing. Familiarity with SQL-compliant

relational databases desirable. Teaching experience in higher education

desirable. Graduate degree required. 2 years experience providing

instructional computing support for faculty and courses in higher

education. Strong communications skills. Ability to work in teams and

handle multiple tasks.

For more information or to apply, visit:

http://www.jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=4298

-----------------------------------------------------------

Paul F. Bergen

Manager, Instructional Computing Group

Harvard University

121 Science Center

Cambridge, MA 02138

Ph: 617-495-1227

Fax: 617-495-1210

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From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell 
Subject: Re: 13.0439 how to get what we need: build it
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:38:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 709 (709)


At 06:42 00-02-25 +0000, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I do agree. It is an impossible question to ask most people. My experience

is that they don't know what is possible to wish.

Most of the "Internet concept" is (of course you know this already) that

people write their own, often rather small programs they have need for and

then share the programs with others. Many people then say: "Oh, that is

just what I have been looking for!", they run the programs and sometimes

write or suggest improvements. Collaboratively they (or shall I say we)

use and appreciate the great amount of code we have access to in this way.

Why not copy this concept in the Humanities?

I would like a co-ordination of all good ideas I think exist out there,

a place where it is easy to inform about programs and an archive where

it is easy to identity free "Humanistic" software code.


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From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Last and Next 5 years
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:38:48 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 710 (710)

Concerning the very interesting new topic on what the field needed and
needs in 5 years, I would guess just on the basis of looking at the email
of the last few weeks that a shift from the local to global orientation
might be useful.  The use of automated reasoning to answer local questions
is the Bayesian approach, while the Logic-Based Probability approach is
interested in both global and local questions.  To begin using LBP very
effectively, it would be wise to formulate some global questions, for
example about origins of various language families and related
conjectures.  You can see a sample of some global questions on my
University of Vienna Institute for Logic abstracts site.  For those who do
not have the time to look, I would suggest an algorithm that goes something
like this: 1. Is it uniformly distributed?  2. Does it involve a boundary
of an object in space?   3. Does it involve the boundary of an object in
time, including initial and terminal conditions. 4. Does it involve rare
event(s)?   5. Does it involve a central or critical point of an
object?  6.   Does it involve an internal distinguished structure of an
object?   7.  Does it involve a subset of an object?   I would go so far as
to suggest supplementing the Socratic method with these questions, with or
without a computer, although eventually it should not be too hard to build
up enough data and questions and answers for a mechanization.  (I can just
see the Bayesian alternative: "keep on sampling," or "given a sample which
is based on a sample given a second sample which is...,".).


From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: if only we could speak it easily?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:40:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 711 (711)

In Humanist 13.439 Michael Sperberg McQueen responds to the anonymous
critic of surveys:
[deleted quotation]He goes on to recommend the building of prototypes.
Since for us a properly done sociological survey is but a means to an end,
we can easily follow his cogent recommendation in the short term by making
prototyping easier, in the long term by  working on a high-level
programming environment that the ordinary humanist could use him- or herself.
Some years ago I was persuaded by Geoffrey Rockwell that one good way to
help humanists along our path institutionally is to set up prototyping labs
or services from which people with ideas could get prototypes built. I
suppose that this happens informally in a number of places; have these labs
been formally set up anywhere? One could easily imagine a lab staffed by
apprentices from CS programmes who would get very useful training that way.
A good common ground on which the humanities and CS could work out a
working relationship?
THe high-level programming environment I've been tossing about mentally for
the last several months. What I've been imagining is based on something
called Explorer, a piece of scientific visualisation software John Bradley
showed me years ago. It provides a visual interface with Lego-like pieces
one sticks together; data goes in one end of the construct, results come
out at the other end. I am also stimulated to think like this because of
something Antoinette Renouf (Liverpool) has used to illustrate her work on
neologisms in English: a diagram reminding me of an industrial process,
huge amounts of newspaper text going in one end, neologisms coming out the
other. (For her work see <http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/>.) There's much more
to humanities research than that, of course, but we know that mechanical
processes are a part of what we do. What if we had a visually-orientated
"programming" environment of Lego-like primitives we could plug together?
One thing we'd get is a lot of people making things, playing, discovering,
trading instantiated ideas.
As I've suggested before, all this rests on identifying a set of more or
less standard primitives, a modern UNIX toolbox. The research question is,
what are those primitives? One approach to finding out would be a good
sociological study of how we do research, yes? Not asking what we want --
we don't know, we're not good at articulating all those deep-down desires
-- but asking, what do we in fact do?
Yours,
WM
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: being small
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 712 (712)


"Some scientists are skeptical about the potential of big science for

genuine innovation, none more so, to my knowledge, than Freeman Dyson. He

was active in operations research during World War II (the beginnings for

what Pickering 1995 calls "cyborg history," and hence for the "regime" of

big science). He was one of the handful of physicists who brought quantum

electrodynamics into being. He has long urged that the major novelties in

human discovery will not spring out of the great laboratories --

prestigious, well-funded, with their pools of brilliant talent. The really

new ideas will come from the scientific fringes, undernoticed, forced by

the exigencies of weak financing to improvise and to think, rather than to

deploy vast armies and treasure chests of materiel. Small science, he

thinks, will be the source of the rare stunning novelty that changes our

vision of the world. To exaggerate the thesis: big science is bound to be

what Kuhn called normal science, while revolutionary science will, from now

on in, occur on the fringes."

Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, p. 196.

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Article: Research Framework for Libraries, Archives
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:35:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 713 (713)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

Febnruary 24, 2000

       "Scientific, Industrial, and Cultural Heritage: A Shared Approach"

             A research framework for libraries, archives and museums

              prepared for the European Commission by Lorcan Dempsey

                   <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/dempsey/>http://www.aria

<http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/dempsey/>http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue22/

dempsey/

Readers will perhaps be interested in this paper written for the UK's E-Lib

magazine Ariadne, by Lorcan Dempsey, director, of the UK Office for Library

and Information Networking (UKOLN). It's a paper developed for the European

Commission on the issue of how to develop a research framework in which

libraries, archives and museums could work together as they move into a

shared network space.

Part of the point of the paper is nicely expressed in "the Challenge:" The

digital medium is radically new. Although there is continuity of purpose

and value within cultural institutions, these exist alongside a fundamental

examination of roles and practices. The costs of developing necessary roles

and sustainable practices will be high, as will the social and

organizational costs of change and institution building. However the costs

of not doing so will be higher, as the cultural and intellectual legacy to

future generations is entrusted to a house of cards built on a million web

sites.

David Green (with thanks to Alice Grant)



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Anti-Circumvention Comments
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:36:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 714 (714)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

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February 24, 2000

                      Digital Millennium Copyright Act

                 Comments Submitted to Copyright Office on

               "Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on

                Circumvention of Technological Measures that

                    Control Access to Copyrighted Works

              <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html>http://www.loc

<http://www.loc.gov/copyright/1201/anticirc.html>http://www.loc.gov/copyrigh

t/1201/anticirc.html

     Comments available at:

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/>http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyrigh

t/1201/comments/

As this extract from the American Library Association's Washington Office

Newsline states, 233 comments were submitted to the Copyright Office on

Section

1201(a) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
[deleted quotation]
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Public Law 105-304 (1998), added a

new Chapter 12 to title 17 United States Code, which among other things

prohibits circumvention of access control technologies employed by

copyright owners to protect their works.  Specifically, section 1201

provides that "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that

effectively controls access to a work protected under this title." This

prohibition on circumvention becomes effective on October 28, 2000.  In the

meantime, the Copyright Office will conduct a rulemaking proceeding in

which the Register of Copyrights will recommend, and the Librarian of

Congress will determine, whether there are particular classes of

copyrighted works that shall be exempted from the prohibition because

persons who are users of those classes of works "are, or are likely to be

in the succeeding 3-year period, adversely affected by virtue of the

prohibition in their ability to make non-infringing uses of that particular

class of works under this title."

Among other activities, this new rule is likely to affect the community's

"fair use" of material under digital lock-and-key.

The 223 comments are available (in .pdf format) at:

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/>http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyrigh

t/1201/comments/

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Readers might be particularly interested in the comments of:

* The American Association of Museums (Barry G.Szczesny)

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/184.pdf>http://lcweb.loc.gov/c

opyright/1201/comments/184.pdf

* The Association of American Universities/American Council on

Education/National Association of State Universities (John C. Vaughn)

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/161.pdf>http://lcweb.loc.gov/c

opyright/1201/comments/161.pdf

* The American Library Association/American Association of Law

Libraries/Association of Research Libraries/Medical Library

Association/Special Libraries Association:

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/162.pdf>http://lcweb.loc.gov/c

opyright/1201/comments/162.pdf

* The National Association of Independent Schools

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/032.pdf>http://lcweb.loc.gov/c

opyright/1201/comments/032.pdf

* The National Digital Library Program and Motion Picture, Broadcasting,and

Recorded Sound Division,(David A. Francis, Chief), Library of Congress

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/175.pdf>http://lcweb.loc.gov/c

opyright/1201/comments/175.pdf

* Ray Van De Walker

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/001.pdf>http://lcweb.loc.gov/c

opyright/1201/comments/001.pdf

* Sean

Embry

<http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/1201/comments/002.pdf>http://lcweb.loc.gov/c

opyright/1201/comments/002.pdf

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David Green

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[1] Comments Submitted to Copyright Office on Technological

Measures Rulemaking; Thanks to Libraries for Providing Valuable

Survey Data

On February 17, the American Library Association submitted

comments in response to the Copyright Office Notice of Rulemaking.

(See "Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention

of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted

Works" at

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enforcement of technological measures that control access to

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From: Elisabeth Burr 
Subject: Re: 13.0444 the god of small things
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 715 (715)


Thanks Willard for having shared this quote.

If we could really keep this in mind we (I) would

perhaps feel a bit more serene about our position

and not hampered (is this the right word?) by insuffi-

ciencies all the time. And we as humanists really need

time for thinking, trying out, not coming to conclusions

or to seemingly very small ones in order to improvise and

create. At the moment such a view seems very difficult to

pursue because we are trying to (allowing to be asked to)

compete with big science. Perhaps we should step back

and restate our own way with self confidence. This might

be even more important now that we have all these tech-

nologies at our disposals which might make it possible to

realise some of our ideas better than before but our ideas

are becoming more complex, at the same time, i.e. we can

see much more threads (I  think of the Onomasticon, re-

search on the basis of corpora, teaching ecc. for example)

thus we need more time to ponder about them as well. And

revolutionary things, I think, have to do with being creative.

Elisabeth

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From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Metamorphoses algorithm outlined
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 716 (716)


From: osher@ix.netcom.com, Osher Doctorow,

Ph.D., 2-25-00, 4:45PM Pacific USA time

Dear Colleagues:

Here is a slight expansion of the outline of the algorithm which I think

would work for Metamorphoses.

I. Is the event rare?

      A. temporally (birth, death, etc., genius, great invention)

      B. spatially (black holes, neutron stars, large meteors striking

earth, etc.)

      C. conceptually (great compositions including poetry, music,

philosophy, etc.)

II. Does the event occur at the boundary of something

      A. temporally (Renaissance, onset of Industrial Revolution, etc.)

      B. spatially (surface of a person, planet, physical object, etc.)

      C. conceptually (the boundary between psychology and philosophy,

literature and psychology, literature and philosophy, philosophy and

science, philosophy and theology, etc.)

III. Does the event occur at the "center" or "near center" of something

      A.  temporally (the so-called Middle Ages of European history, the

halfway point of a planet's history, etc.)

      B.  spatially (center of gravity, center of mass, centroid, center of

magnetism, center of a city, center of a cell, center of an organ in a

human or animal body, etc.)

      C.  conceptually (the "key part" of a proof in logic or mathematics,

pure or applied, the central point or focus of an argument or play or book,

etc.)

IV.  Does the event occur in a clearly distinguished substructure of something

      A.  temporally (a geologial era, a cosmological era, the Middle Ages,

etc.)

      B.  spatially (a town, a university in a town, an organ in the human

body, a cell in an organ, a gene in a cell, a geophysical stratum-like

structure such as the core of a planet, etc.)

      C.  conceptually (a sub-theorem or lemma in science and logic, a

subset, a major subcategory of an argument, a theorem as a substructure of

a whole theory, etc.)

V.  Is the event lower-dimensional compared to usually observed events in

the space (generally taken to be 3-dimensional space and 1-dimensional

time, also written 3+1 dimensional)

      A.  temporally (a point in time, which has dimension 0 since it has no

length, width, or breadth, etc.)

      B.  spatially (the surface of a physical object (the surface being

2-dimensional), a plane or plane figure or laminae section of a physical

object (also 2-dimensional), a line or line segment or curve (curved line)

- which is 1-dimensional since it only has length, not width or depth

      C.  conceptually (a concept which can be modeled as lower dimensional

than another concept, a concept which can be ordered in some way relative

to other concepts (high influence, medium influence, low influence; high

entropy, medium entropy, low entropy categories; high priority, medium

priority, low priority, etc.)

VI.  Is the event or its associated random variable(s) uniformally

distributed (or, to a discrete approximation, equiprobable) or distributed

with some other finite interval distribution, or is it distributed over the

whole nonnegative real line like the gamma distribution (which includes the

exponential and chi-squared distributions), or is it symmetrically

distributed like the normal/Gaussian distributions.

      A.  temporally

      B.  spatially

      C.  conceptually

VII.  What are the parameters of the event and its

probabilistic/statistical summaries, such as LBP expectation (population

mean), LBP variance, LBP probability (which may involve cumulative

distribution functions cdf, probability density functions pdf, etc.),

derivatives or rates of change related to the event, etc.

VIII.  What can be predicted and/or experimentallyor quasi-experimentally

tested about the event or events related to it?

There may be other major categories of the summary, but these would

certainly be of major importance.  It is recommended that those who are

interested try the outline itself on some passage from the

Metamorphoses.  It does not require mechanization at this exploratory

stage, I would think.

Osher Doctorow



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: the real and the usefully false
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:29:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 717 (717)


Yesterday I encountered this astonishing passage in Steven Pinker's new

book, Words and rules: The ingredients of language (London: Weidenfield and

Nicolson, 1999):
[deleted quotation]
He goes on to say that, "Many people are suspicious of box-and-arrow

diagrams of the mind" but immediately justifies the use of one: "In the

case of language, however, these components pop out as we tease apart the

phenomena...." (p. 22).

Excuse me, I think, they don't, and sentences are NOT put together as

described; there is no such storehouse, nor do we find teams of rules. You

may object to my objection by pointing out that this is a book for a

non-specialist audience, so we should excuse the throng of metaphors

milling about in a curiously industrial setting -- the General Motors model

of mind? "Sure, sure", I imagine him saying, "I know that this is only a

way of talking about what happens." Even so, I am distinctly bothered that

anyone, esp someone wearing the robes of expertise as he does, should

appear to forget that he is proposing a MODEL of what happens. As Nancy

Cartwright has in particular argued (in How the Laws of Physics Lie),

models however good are never true, and often in physics at least they are

very crude indeed -- thus the charming expression, which I am old enough

and American enough to appreciate, "tinkertoy modelling".

The basic problem, it seems to me, is not that he might deceive someone

into thinking that we actually had discovered what happens when we make

sentences (as opposed to coming up with a useful, even powerful way of

thinking about how we make sentences). That is a problem, and surely some

will be thus deceived, and it would have been a simple matter to prevent by

putting in a qualifying phrase here and there. But the bigger problem is

his success-orientated way of thinking, the drive toward solutions at the

expense of better questions -- a drive that is perhaps responsible for the

omission I object to? Perhaps, as a result of his work and that of others

we'll have a really fine linguistic processor that benefits us in all sorts

of ways, but scholarship, understanding won't be as well served.

You may recall Jerry Fodor's review of Pinker's previous book, How the Mind

Works (1988). Whatever you may think of Fodor's style of philosophy, he is

good at pointing out what we don't know, and I find that so much more

exhilirating than the unquestioned mental flowcharts.

Comments?

Yours,

WM

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: CS as experimental science
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:30:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 718 (718)


"Computer science is an empirical discipline. We would have called it an

experimental science, but like astronomy, economics, and geology, some of

its unique forms of observation and experience do not fit a narrow

stereotype of the experimental method. Nonetheless, they are experiments.

Each new machine that is built is an experiment. Actually constructing the

machine poses a question to nature; and we listen for an answer by

observing the machine in operation and analysing it by all analytical and

measurement means available. Each new program that is built is an

experiment. It poses a question to nature, and its behaviour offers clues

to an answer. Neither machines nor programs are black boxes; they are

artefacts that have been designed , both hardware and software, and we can

open them up and look inside. We can relate their structure to their

behaviour and draw many lessons from a single experiment....

"We build computers and programs for many reasons.... But as basic

scientists we build machines and programs as a way of discovering new

phenomena and analysing phenomena we already know about.... [Society] needs

to understand that the phenomena surrounding computers are deep and

obscure, requiring much experimentation to assess their nature...."

Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon, "Computer science as empirical enquiry:

Symbols and search", in Margaret A Boden, ed., The Philosophy of Artificial

Intelligence, Oxford Readings in Philosophy (Oxford, 1990): pp. 105f.

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From: Carolyn Kotlas 
Subject: CIT INFOBITS -- February 2000
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:26:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 719 (719)


CIT INFOBITS	February 2000		No. 20		ISSN 1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the

CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a

number of information technology and instructional technology sources

that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic

dissemination to educators.

.......................................................................

Students' Distress with a Web-Based Distance Education Course

Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe

Short Online Course on Web Searching

Learning Technology Publication

Building Websites for Science Literacy

Cambridge History of English and American Literature Online

Recommended Reading

.......................................................................

STUDENTS' DISTRESS WITH A WEB-BASED DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE

Rob Kling, professor of information systems and information science at

Indiana University at Bloomington School of Library and Information

Science's Center for Social Informatics, studies the social aspect of

computerization. Kling and Noriko Hara (doctoral candidate, Indiana

University Bloomington School of Education) have published a case study

of the problems that arose in a distance-education course. In

"Students' Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course" Hara

and Kling describe two areas that caused frustrations for the students:

technological problems, compounded by no access to technical support;

and the course content and the instructor's practices in managing her

communications with her students. "Unfortunately, a large percentage of

the popular and practitioner articles about computer-mediated distance

education emphasize the potentials of new technology, and understate

the extent to which instructors may need to develop new pedagogies as

well as different approaches to communication practices in their

on-line courses." The authors believe that educators "have much to

learn about the conditions that create the good, the bad, and the ugly

in Internet-enabled text-based distance education," and they offer some

suggestions for how new pedagogies and practices can be implemented to

improve these conditions.

"Students' Distress with a Web-based Distance Education Course" is

available on the Web at http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/wp00-01.html

An interview with Rob Kling (THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION,

February 21, 2000) is available at

http://chronicle.com/free/2000/02/2000022101u.htm

Related article: "As Distance Education Comes of Age, the Challenge Is

Keeping the Students," by Sarah Carr, THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER

EDUCATION, February 11, 2000, p. A39. Online at

http://chronicle.com/free/v46/i23/23a00101.htm

.......................................................................

LOTS OF COPIES KEEPS STUFF SAFE

While the Web can be a far more effective medium for scholarly

communication than paper, so far it lacks the essential property of

permanence. The Stanford Libraries LOCKSS project (Lots of Copies Keeps

Stuff Safe) will provide "persistent access" to online works that is

closely modeled on the paper system. Freely-distributed LOCKSS

software, running on small, cheap microcomputers, will allow libraries

to preserve Web-published academic material. The prototype is currently

being tested at Stanford University, the University of California

Berkeley, Harvard University, Columbia University, and the Los Alamos

National Laboratory.

For more information about LOCKSS, go to http://lockss.stanford.edu/ or

contact Vicky Reich, Assistant Director HighWire Press, Stanford

University Library; email: vreich@stanford.edu

Also of interest: "Digital Preservation: Everything Old is New Again,"

by Andrew K. Pace, COMPUTERS IN LIBRARIES, vol. 20, no. 2, February

2000, p. 55. Online at http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/feb00/pace.htm

.......................................................................

SHORT ONLINE COURSE ON WEB SEARCHING

"So, you're still getting those 1,670,000+ responses to your search

queries on the Web, and you're still too busy to do anything about it,

like reading the lengthy, and sometimes confusing, 'help' screens to

find out how to improve your searching techniques." With "Bare Bones

101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web," users can improve their

Web searching with a minimum investment of time and effort. The

tutorial was created by Ellen Chamberlain, head librarian at the

University of South Carolina at Beaufort, for professors and students

who just want a quick overview to get them started. Lessons include

basic search tips, creating a search strategy, evaluating Web pages,

and overviews of several popular search engines.

"Bare Bones 101" is on the Web at

http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/bones.html

.......................................................................

LEARNING TECHNOLOGY PUBLICATION

LEARNING TECHNOLOGY reports on the activities of the IEEE Computer

Society Learning Technology Task Force, including various

announcements, work in progress, projects, and participation

opportunities. Recent issues included the following articles:

"Teaching Virtual Reality Using Internet Distance Delivery," by

Veronica S. Pantelidis and Lawrence Auld, Co-Directors, Virtual Reality

and Education Laboratory, School of Education, East Carolina University

"Features of Online Discourse for Education," by Anita Pincas, Lecturer

in Education, Institute of Education, London University

"Educational Technologies: A Mythic Quest Beyond Megabytes," by Alan

Altany, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Marshall

University

Learning Technology [ISSN 1438-0625] is published quarterly by the IEEE

Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force (LTTF). It is available

at no cost in HTML and PDF formats at http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/

LTTF has been founded on the premise that emerging technology has the

potential to dramatically improve learning. The purpose of this task

force is to contribute to the field of Learning Technology and to serve

the needs of professionals working in this field. For more information,

link to http://lttf.ieee.org/

The IEEE [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] promotes

the "engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing,

and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies

and sciences for the benefit of humanity and the profession." For more

information, link to http://www.ieee.org/

.......................................................................

BUILDING WEBSITES FOR SCIENCE LITERACY

In "Building Websites for Science Literacy" [ISSUES IN SCIENCE &

TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIANSHIP, no. 25, Winter 2000] Victoria Welborn and

Bryn Kanar (Science Library, University of California, Santa Cruz)

provide guidelines for evaluating Websites and organizing

"webliographies" on scientific topics. The authors' guidelines are

developed from "definitions of science literacy and science information

literacy and illustrated by a sample webliography and a sample search

strategy on the topic of acoustical oceanography." Although targeted

towards reference librarians, the article is of interest to others who

are creating resource guides in the sciences. The article is available

on the Web at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/00-winter/article2.html

Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship [ISSN: 1092-1206] is a

quarterly publication of the Science and Technology Section of ACRL

(Association of College and Research Libraries). The journal is

available on the Web at no charge at http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/

ACRL, a division of the American Library Association, is a professional

association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It

is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and

information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher

education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research.

.......................................................................

CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE ONLINE

Bartleby.com publishes classics of literature, nonfiction, and

reference free of charge for the classroom and home use. They recently

announced the online publication of all eighteen volumes of the

CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. "Originally

published in 1907-1921, the volumes include 303 chapters and more than

11,000 pages, edited and written by a worldwide panel of 171 leading

scholars and thinkers of the early twentieth century." The English

literature chapters begin with Old English poetry and end with the late

Victorian era. Coverage of American literature ranges from colonial and

revolutionary periods through the early twentieth century.

The Cambridge History is on the Web at

http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/

Link to http://www.bartleby.com/ for access to other online literary

works.

.......................................................................

RECOMMENDED READING

EdResource -- an educational and technology listserv dedicated to

exploring resources and condensing and presenting the wealth of

educational information available on the Internet in order to benefit

Web learners, educators, teachers and school administrators. EdResource

is also an active forum for discussing issues related to Internet

learning and education from K-12 through university levels and beyond.

You can browse the message archive at

http://www.egroups.com/group/edresource/

To subscribe, send email to tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Review of "Engineering Cyborg Ideology" by N.
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:26:49 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 720 (720)

Greetings Lists,
Prof. Hayles has written a review OF the book "Cyborg: Engineering the
Body Electric", written by Diane Greco Eastgate Systems, 134 Main St.,
Watertown, MA 02172; Mac and Windows, $49.95
The review can be read at:
<http://WWW.ALTX.COM/EBR/HAYLES.HTM>
Sincerely
Arun Tripathi


From: Eve Trager 
Subject: The Latest Issue of the Journal of Electronic
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:27:23 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 721 (721)

TO SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US
Having survived Y2K with barely a glitch, we are not pushing our
luck. We know that the next problem date is 02/29/00, which would be
our next publication date. Rather than take a chance on your missing
an issue, we are publishing well in advance of that very first leap
day in a century year.
So here is the March 2000 issue of The Journal of Electronic
Publishing for your reading enjoyment: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep
In this issue our JEP authors give us insight into how others see us,
our profession, and our Web sites.
	BioOne:
	Changing the Role of Research Libraries in Scholarly Communication
	http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/alexander.html
Adrian Alexander and Marilu Goodyear report on the short history and
long future of BioOne, a library challenge to traditional publishing.
	Keeping Your Head in a Revolution
	http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/friend.html
Frederick J. Friend, the resident futurist at University College
London, explores new developments in information services and the
untoward results of trying to avoid the current revolution.
	Old Wine in New Bottles:
	Formatting Documents with Editorial Notes
	http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/jaffe.html
Lee David Jaffe tries to put himself in the shoes of the visitors to
his Gulliver's Travels World Wide Web site in deciding how to present
an essay by William Makepeace Thackeray.
	Beyond Hits and Page Views
	http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/peterson.html
Ivars Peterson, online editor at Science News, tells how the
publication uses its Web logs to decide what belongs on the Web site.
	Reprint:
	PubMed Central: A Good Idea
	http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/05-03/turner0503.html
A look at the National Institutes of Health's program to provide a
barrier-free repository of life-sciences research reports.
If you have some thoughts about how we are -- or should be -- viewed,
share them in Potpourri.
	http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/potpourri.html
Enjoy!
            Judith Axler Turner
                   Editor
The Journal of Electronic Publishing
       http://www.press.umich.edu/jep
              (202) 986-3463



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Needs, wants, desires
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 722 (722)


Willard,

I am ever intrigued by how the question of tools circles round to a

question of communities. At least this how I read Michael's recent call

for prototyping as a developmental practice and your own posting on the

nature of inovation and small groups.

If my own limited experience is of some worth, it appears to me that

there are two ancilliary roles at work in any communal labour:

1) One is the function of "going meta" -- the invitation to make explicit

what is implicit. Timing in these matters is everything. Your question,

like the perenial return of spring, captures my attention at a time which

by a certain cosmic serendipityness I have been preparing a prestantion on

the pedagogical uses of TACTWeb and thus led to the work of Barbara

Wildemuth on defining search success and from there to Carmel, Crawford

and Chen's 1992 cognitive study of browsing in hypertext and finally to

the GOMS model outlined by Card, Moran and Newell in their 1983 book _The

Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction. By a second bit of serendiptous

grace, I searched the Humanist archive for postings on GOMS (found, in

keeping with the initial theme of appropriate technology, a delightful

citation of a Guadaloupean proverb by George Lang to the effect that God's

pencil has no eraser. [the joys of partial matches!]). The point of

pursuing these chains here is to underline that the GOMS model is

explained by way of the example of copy editing and would it not be

fitting for the GOMS model to help clarify both the what it is computing

humanists do and what it is they might wish to do. Card, Moran and Newell

base their model on the example of the copy editing behaviour. With this

example they illustrate the working out of Goals, Operators, Methods and

Selection Rules as a way of describing a task. As mechanistic as this

sounds it has value. What I particularly like about the model is the

understanding it displays of regarding the mobility of goals. I invite

anyone interested to run a quick WWW search. There are several

introductory sites re: GOMS.

2) The second function is that of publicist, impressaria, publisher,

reporter, secretary, recorder. I invite readers to recall to what degree

they experience scholarly gatherings that publish papers (or even

abstracts) before a gathering, accomodate remote participation during

proceedings, or provide a digest of the learned exchanges. This not just a

plug for the network environment as a communication milieu with many

portals. It is also a reminder that these ancilliary activities are based

upon skills -- skills that we acquire and skills that we teach in our

interaction with computer technology.


--
Francois Lachance
Post-doctoral Fellow
projet HYPERLISTES project
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hyplist/



From: Einat Amitay 
Subject: search results workshop - 2nd CFP
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 723 (723)


2nd CFP -- Please accept our apology for multiple postings.

=======================

Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link

May 30th 2000

San Antonio, Texas, USA

http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/

A workshop held in conjunction with the

ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/)

=======================

Introduction

The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new

hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the

context of search results.

Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created

on-the-fly. Search results pages are also probably the most frequently

seen hypertext form of writing nowadays. However, the research community

tends to identify the presentation search results with Information

Retrieval research. This workshop will consider search results as a form

of hypertext, encouraging discussion about the nature of this

dynamically created textual point-of-departure.

The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task

of navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new

text to represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of

hypertext representation of search results these tasks are combined to

create a new on-screen text that describes and links other texts or

entities. The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of

creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext

documents in the context of search results. The workshop will focus on

the textual aspects of the problem:

- How texts are read online?

- How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people

who search for information?

- How people navigate through textual search results?

- What are the informative role and value of the newly created

intermediate page?

- Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users?

- Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are

perceived by readers?

- Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation

within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used in

order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming of

links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns in

annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and

positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and

authors' frequent vocabulary choices).

The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines

such as Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR),

Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied

psychology and psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the

most frequently seen hypertext presentation in recent years -- online

search results. It will address the problem of textual presentation and

hypertext representations of search results by looking at evaluations

and studies of hypertext representations, studies about interaction with

texts, how text representations should be designed in terms of language

coherence and on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve

navigation with a smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The

term 'textual representation' relates to how a document or a

group-of-documents is represented in text (short or long texts,

coherently summarised or organised by fixed fields like author, title,

last updated, citations, generating descriptions, extracting passages,

and so on). We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and

integrate our experience about hypertext in order to improve the options

users are presented with while searching for information. The goal of

the workshop is to create an interdisciplinary community that is able to

address issues concerning search results presentation in the context of

an online hypertext system.

The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of

results. It will not look at graphical representations of search results

unless these shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison

between textual and graphical representations of documents. The

following list of suggested topics is only a short one and authors are

encouraged to add more related issues and directions of investigations

that are missing from it.

Topics

Issues of presentation

- Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries,

titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.)

- Grouping of results

- Labelling Groups of documents

- Creating hierarchies of results

- Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results

Issues of results refinement

- Similarities detected between results (represented in text)

- Query refinement (textual options)

Issues of evaluation

- How results are read

- Does presentation change users navigation experience

- Different users - different presentations?

- Large scale studies

- Task-specific studies

Issues of speed and efficiency

Commercial applications

Important Dates

      Submission of papers - 5 April 2000

      Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000

      Workshop - 30 May 2000

Submission

Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted

electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions

are preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt,

...ps or MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages.

Workshop Organiser:

    Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO)

    einat@ics.mq.edu.au

Committee:

    Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University)

    Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft)

    Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University)

    Sue Dumais (Microsoft)

    Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington)

    Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL)

    Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems)

    Christina Haas (English, Kent State University)

    Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University)

    Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University)

    Vibhu Mittal (Just Research)


--
Einat Amitay
einat@ics.mq.edu.au
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat



From: Stephen Ramsay 
Subject: Pinker
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 06:44:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 724 (724)


Willard,

I think that when it comes to Pinker, it's much more than the exigencies

of writing for a non-specialist audience.  Even when he's writing to

specialists (of which I fancy myself one), he still ends up saying that

the thermostat is a conscious being. :)
[deleted quotation]
Stephen Ramsay

Senior Programmer

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Alderman Library, University of Virginia

phone: (804) 924-6011

email: sjr3a@virginia.edu

web:   http://www.iath.virginia.edu/



From: Patrick Durusau 
Subject: Re: the real and usefully false
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 06:45:43 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 725 (725)


Willard,

In your recent remarks on Pinker's book, Words and rules: The ingredients of

langauge, you criticize him not clearly stating that he is describing a

MODEL of

langauge usage and not the mechanisms underlying language. Or as you stated:
[deleted quotation]
I am sure all the easily deceived people appreciate the efforts of this list to

keep them from being lead astray. ;-) What I am uncertain about is how much

effort we should devote to qualifying every positive statement about our

research as a model, hypothesis, etc. Trained specialists in any discipline

know

some issues are uncertain or complex and evaluate them as such. As a lay reader

of the latest advances in astrophysics for example, I assume that some of the

statements are probably not as certain as they might sound. But knowing it is a

lay treatment I realize that it cannot present every possible caveat or caution

and yet hold the interest of a lay audience. (Pinker could answer your direct

criticism by inserting model every 3 or 4th paragraph but that is not your real

objection to the work.)
[deleted quotation]
I am not sure what you are describing as the "success-oriented way of thinking,

the drive toward solutions at the expense of better questions...." Perhaps you

could give examples of "success-oriented way(s) of thinking" versue "better

questions." I am sure we all have what we consider to be "better questions" but

how can I agree or disagree with your assessment unless I know what "better

questions" are at stake?

Patrick


--
Patrick Durusau
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Two additional items for the Metamorphoses
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 726 (726)


Dear Colleagues:

a. I would add two more entries to the Metamorphoses Algorithm (items 9 and

10 below).

b. Since the Metamorphoses are considered to require analysis as a whole in

order to understand them, I would suggest considering logic-based

probability operating on the union (or in propositional terms, the

disjunction) of all the parts or their complements (negations).  Such a

union can be expressed in terms of sets of form A-->B-->C...-->N, etc., or

even forms such as A<-->B which equals A-->B intersected with

B-->A.  Researchers could consider implementing models of this form.  There

might be a remarkable number of different models since so many combinations

are possible, but it would be quite interesting.

9. Maxima (maximum points) and minima (minimum points) and inflection

points (points where curves change from concave up to concave down)

      A. time (maxima and minima of some (random) variable in time, etc.

      B. space (maxima and minima of some (random) variable in space, etc.

      C. conceptual (cognitive highest and lowest points of some (random)

variable)

10.  Percentiles, deciles, etc. (essentially points of equal subdivision of

data or equal subdivisions of areas under curve representing probability

density or cumulative distribution function of random variable).

With 9 and 10, a certain similarity is beginning to emerge with fuzzy set

and fuzzy logic theory.  It is possible to argue that fuzzy sets and fuzzy

logic involve conceptual graphs of high, low, intermediate levels of

(random) variables.  This would make fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic a

subcategory of logic-based probability.  It is not suggested that fuzzy

techniques be abandoned, but it would place things in perspective by

revealing why fuzzy techniques give useful results in many cases - namely,

because they (among other methods) maximize logic-based probability.



From: CyberForum 
Subject: Brenda Laurel in 3-D at CyberForum@ArtCenter on
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 08:33:49 -0800
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 727 (727)


To: "CyberForum@ArtCenter" 

CyberForum@ArtCenter

Wednesday, March 1, 1:30 PM PST

Brenda Laurel and panel meet in 3-D avatar world

Email: cyberforum@artcenter.edu

Web: <http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>

The CyberForum presents real-time online author chats.

On Wednesday, March 1, at 1:30 PM PST, the Forum

features Brenda Laurel, Ph.D., author of Computers as Theatre

and director / co-producer of the Placeholder Virtual

Reality project. She was also one of the founders and

VP/Design of a spin-off company from Interval - Purple Moon,

which was recently acquired by Mattel.

Chat log with screen grabs from previous meetings of

the Forum are online at:

<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/html/archive.html>

The Forum features authors drawn from The Digital Dialectic:

New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999) collected and

edited by Peter Lunenfeld.

Forums are open to the public and run one hour

on either Wednesdays or Saturdays.

On Saturday, March 11, at 1:30 PM PST, Carol Gigliotti

will address the Forum. She writes on ethics and virtual

technologies and developed the website/online journal/CD-ROM

"Astrolabe" (<http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/Astrolabe/>

CyberForum speakers include:

Carol Gigliotti, March 11, 1:30 PM PST

Katherine Hayles, Feb. 26, 1:30 PM PST

Michael Heim, Feb. 9, 1:30 PM PST

George Landow

Brenda Laurel

Peter Lunenfeld, Feb 2, 1:30 PM PST

Lev Manovich

William J. Mitchell

Email questions to cyberforum@artcenter.edu

For further information and speaker bios,

visit the website:

<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>

To participate: Download the free Eduverse 3D browser from

<http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/awedu_download.html>

Install the software and enter as a tourist in Eduverse.

The left panel of the Eduverse browser shows a list of

worlds. Choose "ACCD" world and follow the other

avatars to the Forum location. The Virtual Worlds Team

at Art Center will be there to guide you.

The CyberForum@ArtCenter is a production of the Virtual

Worlds Team at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,

California, under the direction of Michael Heim (mheim@artcenter.edu)



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: TWO DIGITAL IMAGING WORKSHOP SERIES: ITHACA & LOS
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:13:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 728 (728)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

February 29, 2000

             TWO DIGITAL IMAGING WORKSHOP SERIES: ITHACA & LOS ANGELES

      Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives

                         Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

      June 19-23; July 31-August 4, September 25-29, and October 23-27, 2000

             <http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/>http://ww

<http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/>http://www.library.co

rnell.edu/preservation/workshop/

      3 Day UCLA Extension Course in Document Imaging - Document Management:

           Los Angeles: March 30-April 1; June 22-24; Sept. 15-17, 2000

                  <http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.Ar

<http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com

/abpapers.html
[deleted quotation]
Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives

First Session: June 19-23, 2000, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Offered by the Cornell University Library, Department of Preservation and

Conservation, this new workshop series aims to promote critical thinking in

the technical realm of digital imaging projects and programs. This

week-long workshop will be held four times in 2000 (June 19-23, July

31-August 4, September 25-29, and October 23-27). Each session is limited

to 16 individuals. Registration is now open for all four sessions. The

workshop is partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

More information about the workshop including an online application form is

available at:

<http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/workshop/>http://www.library.co

rnell.edu/preservation/workshop/

CONTENT

The workshop will be structured around nine key areas: selection,

digitization, quality control, metadata creation, image processing, systems

building, access, preservation, and management. The principal text that

will accompany this workshop, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging

for Libraries and Archives by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (Research

Libraries Group, 2000) addresses all of these issues.

The majority of the workshop time will be spent in collaborative problem

solving and information sharing. A prerequisite for attendance will be a

Web-accessible, self-directed tutorial that will introduce vocabulary and

key concepts, and cover the core components of a technical infrastructure

to support digital imaging projects and programs.

Completion of the tutorial will assure that workshop participants possess

the same base-level knowledge prior to coming to Cornell, enabling them to

focus on issues and learning processes best addressed in a limited

enrollment seminar. The tutorial will become accessible in April 2000.

Beyond the time spent in Ithaca, the workshop will promote continuing

education through awareness of additional resources and training

opportunities and by encouraging professional links among the participants.

The workshop outline will be available in April 2000.

=============================================================================
[deleted quotation]
*****

3 Day UCLA Extension Course in Document Imaging - Document Management:

Spring, Summer, Fall 2000

*****

For those persons who cannot attend the class, all of the class materials

are available free at

<http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com/abpapers.html>http://www.ArchiveBuilders.com

/abpapers.html

All the materials can now be downloaded as a single PDF file and printed

with one click.  Other options and formats are also available.

Three days,  Spring 2000: Thursday, March 30, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Friday,

March 31, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Saturday, April 1, 2000, 8:00 AM to 6:00

PM, at the Downtown LA World Trade Center, 350 S. Figueroa Street, Suite

100, Los Angeles, CA 90071 (213) 628-9709,  Summer 2000: Thursday, June 22,

8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Friday, June 23, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Saturday, June

24, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, at the World Trade Center, Fall 2000: Friday,

September 15, 8:00 AM to 6:00, Saturday, September 16, 8:00 AM to 6:00, and

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: quality-control in humanities computing
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 729 (729)


Allow me to pose the following hypothetical situation called to mind by

recent involvement in reviewing paper proposals. It is NOT a situation I

have faced in quite the form described, but it does illustrate a problem I

think we face.

A paper is submitted to a humanities computing conference by person Z for

review, in which method X is applied to subject area Y. The reviewer, who

is sufficiently familiar with Y to know good work from bad, can see that

the results of Z's analysis do not by remotest stretch justify acceptance

of the paper. Z's articulation of method X is, however, very interesting --

unquestionably enough to justify acceptance. Let us say for the purpose of

argument that if Z were to submit this paper to a conference in subject Y

it would certainly be rejected; perhaps Z knows this. The conference

considering the paper is, however, a humanities computing conference. What

does the reviewer do?

On the one hand, unquestioning acceptance would mean putting incompetent

work into circulation, with potential loss of prestige for the conference

and a false boost to a questionable career; making a habit of this, one

fears, could make the conference into a dumping ground for bad scholarship.

On the other hand, taking a hard line would mean loss to the conference of

work precisely in its area (methodology) on grounds beyond the official

bounds of its competence; one could argue that if the method were very

good, the chances of admitting a flood of such papers would be nil in any

case. Is there a middle ground?

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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Linking Minds and Machines and An American
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:10:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 730 (730)


Greetings Scholars,

[I would like to forward the following NETFUTURE Newsletter, written and

edited by Stephen Talbott..which contains Note on Linking Minds and

Machines --a speech by Frederick Brooks and a note on collective action

and community are different things, with other interesting items to read.

Thanks and courtesy to Stephen Talbott.]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

                                   NETFUTURE

                      Technology and Human Responsibility

==========================================================================

Issue #16      A Publication of The Nature Institute        April 22, 1996

==========================================================================

               Editor:  Stephen L. Talbott (stevet@oreilly.com)

             On the Web: http://www.oreilly.com/~stevet/netfuture/

       You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes.

NETFUTURE is a reader-supported publication.

##########################################################################

####  Don't forget the $5000 SPIDER OR FLY? deadline: April 30, 1996  ####

####          http://www.ora.com/staff/stevet/netfuture/sof           ####

##########################################################################

CONTENTS:

---------

talk.netfuture? (Sebastian Mendler)

Linking minds and machines

     Note on a speech by Frederick Brooks, and a comment

An American philosopher and Internet chat groups

     Collective action and community are different things

Web called 'ultimate act of intellectual colonialism'

     It's English or nothing

Are the spiders crawling down your back? (Kirk McElhearn)

     Alta Vista shivers

There is no planned obsolescence of software (Chris Howard)

     Is the editor a conspiracy theorist?

Hardware vs. software upgrades: different issues (Mike Fischbein)

     We don't know how to make reliable software

About this newsletter

==========================================================================

                               TALK.NETFUTURE?

                    Sebastian Mendler (smendler@well.com)

How about you keep the newsletter as a newsletter, but set up a separate

mailing list/newsgroup called NETFUTURE-D or something similar, where the

issues raised could be discussed?  You could mirror the discussion to a

Web page -- with a little work, you might even be able to link the

discussions to the places cited in the original text (true hypertext!)

Just my .02.  I enjoy the newsletter; keep up  the good work.

//skip

                        *   *   *   *   *  *  *  *  *

Skip --

I'm open to the possibilities.  Someone else would have to take the

initiative to manage the thing, however.

SLT

==========================================================================

                          LINKING MINDS AND MACHINES

Interesting article in the March, 1996 issue of Communications of the ACM.

It's the 1994 acceptance speech by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., the recipient

of the first annual "ACM Allen Newell Award" for career contributions

bridging computer science and other disciplines.  Fredericks is Professor

of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina.  The speech was

delivered at SIGGRAPH '94.

Worrying about how the U.S. is becoming a "nation of consumption" given

over to entertainment and recreation, Brooks has quite a lot to say about

the failings of television and its effects upon our lives.  Then he goes

on to chide his audience:

     Well, what has all of this to do with SIGGRAPH?  Quite a bit; SIGGRAPH

     also worships TV and its fame.  Nowhere is this more evident than in

     the Electronic Theatre.  Year by year we increasingly choose what to

     honor by the standards of the TV culture.  It is increasingly an

     Electronic *theater*, rather than a showcase of computer graphics.  We

     are treated to luminous dancers, bogus lip-synched music, and cheap

     distortions of 2D video images of the real world.

     Every year there are wonderful exceptions, from "Luxo, Jr." to the

     "Devil's Mine Ride," but I am struck that so often I can only marvel at

     what has been accomplished, rather than delighting in it.

Earlier in his presentation, Brooks spoke about artificial intelligence,

remarking that "the field has accomplished surprisingly little for the

time and the investment.  One need look only at the present state of

speech recognition and of handwriting recognition to see how far there is

to go, despite how much work has been done."

He also noted how the developers of expert systems suffered a "rude

awakening:  somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 to 3,000 rules, the

rule bases become crashingly difficult to maintain as the world changes

...... So today we have a useful expert system technology, with many

examples of systems with a few hundred rules, but not the infinitely

extendable tool originally dreamed of."

Brooks argues that intelligence amplifying (IA) machines can always beat

artificial intelligence (AI) machines.  That is, "a machine *and* a mind

can beat a mind-imitating machine working by itself."

Personally, I'd put that a little differently.  A machine and a mind can

routinely perform machine-like tasks better than a machine alone.

(Actually, the case should be put more strongly; without minds, there are

no machines.)  It's not so clear, however, that a machine and a mind

routinely perform mind-like tasks better than a mind alone.  The presence

of the machine easily degrades mental performance.  For example, if one of

the mind's distinctive tasks is to recognize new paradigmatic

possibilities within a particular field of study, then the machine (with

its highly sophisticated programming based upon existing paradigms) can be

a difficult obstacle for the imagination to overcome.

What may be obscuring the distinction between these two cases is our

increasing willingness to convert social functions, commercial and

otherwise, into machine-like tasks.

SLT

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               AN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER AND INTERNET CHAT GROUPS

Two interesting items crossed my desk at the same time, and make for a

curious juxtaposition.  One is from Peter Friedman, former Apple executive

and now CEO of LiveWorld Productions, which is making a business out of

professionally managed Internet talk shows (chat rooms).  Interviewed for

Online Business Today (vol 2, no. 4), Friedman displayed an exuberant, if

naive, optimism about how the Net brings people together:

     What do I like about the Internet? That it can bring people together.

     It will enable people, especially children to see and participate in

     and shape the world without the barriers of the past. I like

     chats---you meet people and if the chats are managed well, you learn

     things.

     Some have said that computers and the Internet are the next steps in

     the dehumanization of the world. That's not true.  The Internet heralds

     a stage of technology, perhaps the first in one hundred years, that

     actually brings people together; families, friends, new friends.

The other item was an article about John Dewey in the *New York Review of

Books* (May 9, 1996).  My early and minimal brushes with Dewey's work

never endeared the man to me, but this article quotes him regarding

earlier technologies that helped to "bring people together," and I

couldn't help hearing his remarks in the context of our own day.  It is

easy to forget, amid all the claims for revolutionary technological

breakthroughs, that technology has carried us consistently in certain

directions for several hundred years.

Here's the text, authored by Michael J. Sandel.  The Dewey quotations are

from *The Public and Its Problems*.

     As Dewey wrote, "The machine age in developing the Great Society has

     invaded and partially disintegrated the small communities of former

     times without generating a Great Community."  The erosion of

     traditional forms of community and authority at the hands of commerce

     and industry seemed at first a source of individual liberation.  But

     Americans soon discovered that the loss of community had very different

     effects.  Although the new forms of communication and technology

     brought a new, more extensive interdependence, they did not bring a

     sense of engagement in common purposes and pursuits.  "Vast currents

     are running which bring men together," Dewey wrote, but these currents

     did nothing to build a new kind of political community.  As Dewey

     stressed, "No amount of aggregated collective action of itself

     constitutes community."  In spite of the increasing use of railroads,

     telegraph wires, and the increasingly complex division of labor, or

     perhaps because of them, "the Public seems to be lost."  The new

     national economy had "no political agencies worthy of it," leaving the

     democratic public atomized, inchoate, and unorganized.

But we never seem to require much convincing that the next technological

advance will somehow neutralize or reverse the tendencies seen in

conjunction with earlier technologies.

==========================================================================

            WEB CALLED `ULTIMATE ACT OF INTELLECTUAL COLONIALISM'

The following short note came from the New York Times, via Edupage:

Anatoly Voronov, the director of Glasnet, an Internet service provider in

Russia, says:  "It is just incredible when I hear people talking about how

open the Web is.  It is the ultimate act of intellectual colonialism.  The

product comes from America so we either must adapt to English or stop

using it.  That is the right of any business.  But if you're talking about

a technology that is supposed to open the world to hundreds of millions of

people you are joking.  This just makes the world into new sorts of haves

and have nots."  (New York Times 14 Apr 96 Sec.4 p1)

==========================================================================

                     ARE SPIDERS CRAWLING DOWN YOUR BACK?

                        Kirk McElhearn (kirk@lenet.fr)

Alta Vista is a repository of, more or less, everything that goes through

the Net, with the exception of e-mail.  It is an extremely powerful

indexing engine which contains over 20,000,000 web pages and a database of

11 billion words, as well as a dynamically updated the base of newsgroup

articles. But, a lot of e-mail is there.  Any mailing lists that are

archived will be indexed by their spiders.  So that only leaves private e-

mail.  Which is not really that private.

When I subscribe to a mailing list, no one asks me if I have given up the

rights to use my posts for any reason.  Although my words are public (but

only in a limited sense, that is, to those who are also subscribed) I

might not want them to be at the disposition of just any robot around.

After all, Digital never asked me if they could use my material to show

off their computers (because the goal of the operation is just that:

advertising for the powerful computers that Digital makes).  And what

about my rights?  Here in France, everyone has a legal right to verify and

modify any information concerning them that is kept on any database.  I

wonder how Digital would react if I asked them to remove some of my posts

from their database.  Or if I wanted to exercise my right to the

copyrights on those words.

Many people compare electronic information, and communication, to books,

saying that books are permanent, and electronic information is not.  I

think that this is an example of just how permanent such information can

be.  Not only is it still floating around somewhere, but it is indexed in

a database where someone can easily go fishing for it.

The danger of this is obvious.  Let us say that I have been posting to the

alt.sex.minerals newsgroup, talking about how I like to do it with pumice.

In ten years, if my wife wants a divorce, she can hire a bot to go

snooping around and find that post, along with others, and get child

support, keep me away from the kids; the whole nine yards.

Or what about some young hacker, who later grows up and is elected to

congress.  The other party may find it useful to find out if he was

spouting anarchist ideas in his youth.  He will not be able to say he did

not inhale.

Or what about someone trying out netSex on IRC.  Do those words get

recorded too?  Just think of the gold mine of information for

blackmailers, if they can find out the real name behind the persona, that

is available all too easily.

Many of us have ideas that we later renounce, but when the words are there

in black and bits, it is hard to place the necessary distance between the

us-then and the us-now.  Okay, I am probably ashamed of some of the things

I did when I was a teenager, but I would not like to have to defend them

now.

It seems difficult to control this kind of snooping.  Companies will make

money from our words just as they always have.  And the search engine is

useful to those who are searching for information.  But the danger is

real, and it is right around the corner.  I am not a Luddite clamoring for

a return to the dark ages; I think the Internet will change the way our

future happens.  But we must be aware of the dangers, and react

accordingly.

The first thing, is to demand that we be able to strike from the record

anything that we no longer want available.  We should have the right to

filter what is made available in this manner.  No one has the right to

exploit our words without our permission.  While Alta Vista is not

financially exploiting them, it is using them to advertise, which comes

down to the same thing.

The second thing is to be aware that someone is listening.  That whatever

we say on the Net will be stored someplace.  If Digital can do it, I am

sure they would sell the necessary equipment to any government agency that

asks for it (which they have probably already done).  Alta Vista is more

cost-effective than wiretaps.

The final thing is to fight for encryption.  The only way to make sure

that confidential, or personal e-mail is safe from wandering eyes is to

encrypt it.  Of course, this is not possible in every part of the world.

Countries such as Iran and France can put you in jail for using

encryption.  But this right needs to be fought for, and now.

Don't forget, the walls have ears.

Kirk McElhearn

kirk@lenet.fr

Translations from French to English, English to French

Traductions francais-anglais, anglais-francais

==========================================================================

                 THERE IS NO PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE OF SOFTWARE

                      Chris Howard (choward@iastate.edu)

      Response to "Advertising and the pressure to upgrade" (NF-15)

Dear Editor,

In your reply to Mike Fischbein you say:

     A few decades ago a furor over "planned obsolescence" (particularly in

     automobiles) helped to kick off the consumer activist movement.  Our

     discussion about employees resisting automatic software upgrades makes

     me wonder whether the forces of planned obsolescence haven't largely

     re-gathered themselves and snuck up on us from behind (encouraged, no

     doubt, by our own cooperation).  What is the high-tech industry if not

     a massive, concerted experiment in accelerating planned obsolescence to

     the extreme?

Is this really what you meant to say?  Are you a conspiracy theorist?  I

think the thing tends to be market driven:  sell new upgrade, make more

money. But saying it is a "massive, concerted experiment" seems to be a

bit much.  Do you think Bill Gates and other software moguls get together

on midnight conference calls and "concert" their upgrade strategies?  Do

you think they build in obsolescence? Built in degradation of software

features exists in some cases, usually based on licensing and time limits.

But I haven't seen anything that makes me think MicrosoftWord erodes over

time, forcing me to purchase it again  (which is what happens with cars).

I agree with Mike.   And I think your reply missed the mark.


--
Chris Howard
choward@iastate.edu
                        *   *   *   *   *  *  *  *  *
Chris Howard --
Why does "massive, concerted experiment" suggest to you a conspiracy
theory?  Especially when the immediately preceding phrase ("encouraged, no
doubt, by our own cooperation") is intended to prevent any such reading?
The experiment I had in mind was one in which most all of us participate
in our own ways.  (You may have noted that nearly everything I've said in
this forum has aimed for that sort of universality.)
Granted, the analogy was a moderately loose one.  Software isn't rendered
obsolete in exactly the way cars are.  But you've heard a fairly forceful
statement here by someone (Kevin Jones) who has found it difficult to
ignore the pressure to upgrade -- which sounds very much like "the
pressure to consider the old software obsolete."
Certainly, as you say, the thing is market-driven.  Which is to say that
your, my, Kevin Jones' -- and Bill Gates' -- complicity in this market
reality is very much at the heart of the experiment to which I referred.
I don't know how much more massive such an experiment could possibly get.
In my own view, what links the experiment to the idea of planned
obsolescence has a lot to do with how far the broad thrust of
technological development now runs on by itself, without conscious
societal effort to subordinate it to worthy ends.  The questions is much
more likely to be "will it sell?" or "will it entertain me?" than "is it
healthy?" or "what social tendencies will it serve?"  I am therefore much
less inclined than Mike Fischbein (following article) to see technical
"improvements" as actually being improvements -- that is, as improving the
human lot.  The life that shapes itself around gadgets can all too easily
be a hollow one.  The heaping of (gratuitous) new capability upon
(gratuitous) new capability can, in this light, be seen as a primary
vehicle for a kind of built-in, guaranteed, fast-paced obsolescence -- as
long as we all go on accepting the gratuitousness.
SLT
==========================================================================
               HARDWARE VS. SOFTWARE UPGRADES: DIFFERENT ISSUES
                    Mike Fischbein (mfischbe@fir.fbc.com)
      Response to "Advertising and the pressure to upgrade" (NF-15)
An interesting point, but I believe it is a partially (only partially)
flawed analogy.  I assume you mean computers when you talk about "high-
tech;" I don't see airlines retiring usable 737s, carpenters tearing apart
old furniture to use better glues, and so on.
The flawed part comes when we examine the computer goods closest to this
question:  the hardware.  Only rarely is hardware made so that it doesn't
work as well after, say, five or even ten years as it did when new.  As I
recall, people were never disturbed about manufacturers coming out with
improved products; it was about design decisions or intentional mis-
features that would render a given article useless sooner than following
reasonable design and manufacturing standards.  My 11-year old Macintosh
still works; my sister uses it for short MacWrite letters.  Last year, on
my annual Naval Reserve training, I worked in a government office that ran
mostly on 80286 based Zeniths running DOS 3.3.  They worked just fine.
In short, while neither of those examples would be purchased new today,
when they were built they were built with a reasonable degree of
conscience, care and skill.
The less flawed part of the analogy comes when we look at the other half
of the computer equation, software.
Now, it's *partially* flawed because, while I believe the effects of
planned obsolescence are there, the intent is not.  I believe that most
programmers are trying to do a good job, but programming is harder than
most people (even programmers!) realize.  The result is the current
plethora of poor and mediocre quality software.
Back to the automotive analogy.  If cars were either very expensive or
just weren't built right (*couldn't* be built right) and had frequent
failures, doors dropping off, windows cracking, engines catching fire,
etc., and this was true of nearly all brands, people wouldn't be surprised
at these things happening.  Nor would they object to replacing these
fragile objects once or twice a year.  Of course, if someone (Henry Ford,
say), figured out how build a reasonably priced car that wouldn't fall
apart, that someone could sell a lot of cars.  Even if they were all the
same color.
The problem is, to date, we haven't figured out how to generate quality
software on demand, nor how to convince the general market to use the
quality software that is available.  As I allude to in my earlier
submission, the mass market computer field is driven far more by
advertising than by any technical argument.  Looking for objective
technical rationale in the "upgrade, upgrade, upgrade" push is doomed --
it isn't a technical push, save for those very few who are working at the
real limits of today's technology (and that group isn't complaining --
they're working hard at advancing the state of the art).
No one is forcing an upgrade upon the vast majority of computer users out
there.  Oh, Microsoft would really like you to keep contributing to their
coffers, but if the operating system and applications you used yesterday
met your needs then, why do they not meet them now?  Bravo to resisting
"automatic" upgrades:  figure out what the gain may be before leaping.
mike
--
Mike Fischbein   mfischbe@fir.fbc.com   CS First Boston
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From: Gary Chapman 
Subject: L.A. Times column, 2/28/00 -- PFIR
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:07:18 -0600
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 731 (731)

Reply-to:      gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu
Friends,
Below is my Los Angeles Times column for today, Monday, February 28,
2000. As always, please feel free to pass this on, but please retain
the copyright notice.
We're doing fine here, although a little exhausted after a three-day
weekend workshop on "Responsible Use of the Internet" for 13 high
school students and 12 graduate students. This is a year-long project
we're doing at the LBJ School that we hope will produce a Web site to
teach young people how to use the Internet ethically and responsibly.
More on this as the project develops.
Carol is headed for the Persian Gulf this Saturday, to work on a
magazine story she's doing about horse racing in the U.A.E. She'll be
there for three weeks. We'll hook up together in Muscat, Oman, on
March 12th and I'll be there for about a week. I plan on doing some
scuba diving in the Arabian Sea and we're going on a Bedouin-guided
trek in the Wahibi Sands desert. Should be fun!
Hope everyone is doing well. We send our best, as always.
-- Gary
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Efforts Urging Responsibility on Net Call for a Pause to Reflect,
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It's commonplace now to hear about how different "Internet time" is
from merely ordinary time -- Swatch, the Swiss watch company, even
sells a wristwatch that displays "Internet time."
Internet time is said to be dramatically speeded up compared with
ordinary time. A few months in Internet time is equivalent to a year
or more of ordinary time.
The chief characteristic of Internet time is a headlong rush into the
future, with no time available for contemplation, reflection or
pondering alternative futures.
But some computer experts are beginning to question whether the
widespread acceptance of the Internet's acceleration of everything in
life is wise or good for society.
So late last year, computer scientists Peter Neumann and Lauren
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Responsibility (http://www.pfir.org) because, as Weinstein explains,
"Things need to slow down somewhat. All this is happening in the
absence of any thoughtful technical, legal or regulatory framework."
And the blockage of Web sites this month due to denial-of-service
attacks -- which brought down Yahoo, Amazon.com, E-Trade, CNN and
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visibility and urgency.
After the attacks, Weinstein wrote, "For now, it might be advisable
for everyone to remember that the Internet, for all its wonders, is in
many ways very fragile. We must not allow ourselves to get into a
position where being cut off from a site for a few hours -- or even
longer -- puts people or property at risk. Our lives should not
revolve around guaranteed 24/7 access to EBay, or Yahoo, or ANY site
on the public Internet, regardless of its importance."
Neumann says, "This craze to get on the Internet, irrespective of
whether it's secure or not, is ridiculous."
Weinstein notes that the Internet was designed for collaboration, not
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more secure, but for the foreseeable future the public needs to
understand the network's vulnerabilities and capabilities, and there's
little financial incentive for companies to educate people in this
way. That's what PFIR is all about, he said.
Neumann and Weinstein are not just curmudgeons.
Neumann, a researcher with SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., is
the longtime moderator of the Risks Forum on the Internet, the premier
place for technical experts to share information about the perils of
using computers and networks.
And Weinstein, of Vortex Technologies in Woodland Hills, is the
moderator of the Privacy Forum, the most-respected and
longest-running conversation on the Internet about privacy and
technology. His experience with the Internet goes back to the days of
the ARPAnet, in the 1970s.
Weinstein and Neumann have pointed out that with the current rush to
get nearly everything we do onto the Internet, and as quickly as
possible, long-established principles of safety, security and system
reliability are being compromised. And there's insufficient reflection
about the possible impacts.
"Do people really stop and think about what it might mean to vote on
the Internet?" asks Weinstein. "Or about the vulnerability of their
health information?" Once data are revealed from a system, he says,
"you can't put it back in the bottle."
Neumann concurs.
"Privacy is an issue that's just being trampled on."
Weinstein says that it's equally ominous that legislatures or
policymakers may, in a rush, adopt Internet-related laws and
regulations that are not well designed.
Neither Weinstein nor Neumann is exactly sure what PFIR is, for now.
Weinstein says they're in a "request for comments" phase. The use of
this term is an appeal to the kind of people who helped develop the
Internet and who may be increasingly alarmed by what it's turning
into.
"We're interested in ideas about how we can get across critical
information about the Internet to citizens and policymakers. The key
thing is to keep important information about system security,
vulnerability, risks, privacy and other issues in the public eye,"
Neumann said.
"We intend to take a hard, objective, nonpartisan look at problems
that have yet to be addressed."
Neumann said that he thinks PFIR will not be a grass-roots
organization, such as Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility (CPSR) in Palo Alto, "but we will need grass-roots
support."
Both Weinstein and Neumann are pursuing this without any
compensation, but they are open to financial support "from
institutions that have no desire to shape the message," Neumann said.
There have been quite a few efforts in the past to develop a form of
"civil society" for the computing and networking field -- a form of
dialogue and influence that is independent of both private sector
enterprise and the government.
Unfortunately, not many of these efforts have been wildly successful.
CPSR is still around but not very influential, unfortunately. The
Electronic Frontier Foundation is in the same straits. The Internet
Society has been flourishing but has yet to tackle the kinds of issues
that might divide their professional constituency.
The most successful examples of a "third way" have been the loose
collaborative efforts of the technical professionals who built the
Internet itself, and the ongoing work of the Open Source software
movement.
Neumann and Weinstein appear to be mapping PFIR to these models, which
they not only understand but deeply respect. The open question is
whether an international class of selfless technical experts can turn
their attention to policy issues, including some in which their
employers will have specific interests.
If that happens, if Weinstein and Neumann are successful, we may be
able to keep the Internet aligned with the public interest.
Gary Chapman is director of The 21st Century Project at the
University of Texas in Austin. He can be reached at
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From: Terry Kuny 
Subject: [CFP] Information Doors - Where Information Search and Hypertext
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 10:01:21 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 732 (732)


                Link

To: DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA

Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link

May 30th 2000  San Antonio, Texas, USA

<http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/>http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat

/info_doors/

A workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext conference

(www.ht00.org/)

Introduction

The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new

hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the

context

of search results.

Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly.

Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertext form

of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the

presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop

will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion

about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure.

The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of

navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to

represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext

representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new

on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The

purpose of

this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly

for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results.

The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem:

- How texts are read online?

- How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people

    who search for information?

- How people navigate through textual search results?

- What are the informative role and value of the newly created

    intermediate page?

- Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users?

- Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are

    perceived by readers?

- Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation

    within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used

    in order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming

    of links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns

    in annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and

    positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and

    authors' frequent vocabulary choices).

The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as

Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language

Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and

psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen

hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results.

It will address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext

representations of search results by looking at evaluations and studies of

hypertext representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text

representations should be designed in terms of language coherence and

on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve navigation with a

smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The term 'textual

representation' relates to how a document or a group-of-documents is

represented in text (short or long texts, coherently summarised or

organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated, citations,

generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on).

We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our

experience about hypertext in order to improve the options users are

presented with while searching for information. The goal of the workshop is

to create an

interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search

results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system.

The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results.

It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these

shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and

graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics

is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and

directions of investigations that are missing from it.

Topics

Issues of presentation

- Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries,

    titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.)

- Grouping of results

- Labelling Groups of documents

- Creating hierarchies of results

- Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results

Issues of results refinement

- Similarities detected between results (represented in text)

- Query refinement (textual options)

Issues of evaluation

- How results are read

- Does presentation change users navigation experience

- Different users - different presentations?

- Large scale studies

- Task-specific studies

Issues of speed and efficiency

Commercial applications

Important Dates

Submission of papers -        5 April 2000

Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000

Workshop -                   30 May 2000

Submission

Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted

electronically via email (sent to einat@ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are

preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or

MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages.

Workshop Organiser:

Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO)

einat@ics.mq.edu.au

Committee:

Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University)

Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft)

Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University)

Sue Dumais (Microsoft)

Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington)

Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL)

Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems)

Christina Haas (English, Kent State University)

Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University)

Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University)

Vibhu Mittal (Just Research)

Einat Amitay

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From: Michael Fraser 
Subject: Re: 13.0455 quality-control in humanities
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:57:32 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 733 (733)


Willard,

Yes, I agree that this situation more than occasionally occurs. One could

(almost flippantly) say, depends on what you think the purpose of

humanities computing is. However, that won't help much except to say that

one might respond by recommending some changes to the proposed paper to

emphasise the methodology given that at the humanities computing

conference there will be few specialists in Y present but that method X

will appeal across the disciplines so represented.

At school, when undertaking maths problems, did you get marks awarded for

showing the working out of the answer even though the answer was wrong?

Humanities Computing conferences and journals do, for the most part,

concentrate on process rather than results. I have often wondered whether

some of the more 'statistical' articles in LLC have ever been submitted

(and accepted/rejected) by, for example, journals more firmly in biblical

or classical studies.

Best wishes, Mike



From: Jan-Gunnar Tingsell 
Subject: Re: 13.0455 quality-control in humanities
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 19:59:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 734 (734)

[deleted quotation]
Willard,

This is just a reply to you about your message about quality-control in

humanities computing. You may quote it if you want. It is interesting you

raised this question, as I have been thinking of it a great deal.

As a reviewer for some years I have met problems similar to what you

described. There seems to be many proposals of very low scientifical

and methological quality, BUT some of them would be of great interest

to discuss from a humanities computing point of view. One or two I

have suggested as poster sessions, but some of them don't fit into

this kind of demonstration. Then I have suggested them to be refused.

Is it possible during the conference to set up some kind of seminars

where it is possible to discuss things of interest but without the

stamp of "quality control". I think this could be a forum for researchers

as well as young students to get input from scholars' competence which

isn't availible at their home departments. My interpretation of the

situation is that, when someone wants to discuss use of computers

in the projects or dissertation writing, they can receive very little

help. Can we (ALLC/ACH) be of some help for them?

          /Jan-Gunnar.


--
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Centre for Humanities Computing tel: +46 (0)31  773 4553
Gteborg University                     fax: +46 (0)31  773 4455
URL: http://www.hum.gu.se/hfds/


From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 13.0455 quality-control in humanities
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:01:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 735 (735)

Willard,
[deleted quotation]No.
There is however the ability to pass on reviewers comments to the
submitter. Of course this is a practice that is usually associated with
the publication of monographs and articles. Given the ability to automate
the tracking of submissions and the document management associated with
them, should be no problem to adopt such feedback practices to conferences
and colloquia. Indeed I recall a presentation of such a software suit at
the Beyond Print conference a couple (or more) of years ago.
Many conferences also create spaces for "posters." This would be one venue
to accomodate interesting but incomplete scholarship. Hey, a gutsy
entrepreneur might even offer a "salon des refuses" by posting a list of
submissions that didn't make the final program due to space and time
limitations. Folks could then access an url and/or contact these
submitters. It is a nice way of recognizing effort without inadvertantly
censoring or burying intellectual work. Of course, a submitter could
request that the fate of the submission not become public knowledge. No
coercion.
Quality remains uncompromised. Access to feedback is widened.
Where was that moral and professional conundrum?
   --
Francois Lachance
Post-doctoral Fellow
projet HYPERLISTES project
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hyplist/


From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705"
Subject: Re: 13.0455 quality-control in humanities
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:01:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 736 (736)

Willard poses, as always, a very interesting question
regarding the evaluation of conference submissions.  In
journal editing we've got the possibility of asking the
author to "revise and resubmit," but of course the time-frame
of conference proposals don't allow such a luxury and no
session organizer, I think, would want to get into all of
that.  Yet when I attend sessions, I think I am more interested
in what sorts of ideas are generated rather than in acquiring
some finished knowledge.  I'd rather come away saying, "That
opens up some new areas," than saying "That finishes up that issue."
So I'd say "accept" with the recognition that conference attendees
will be able to do their own winnowing.  Malcolm Hayward


From: "Price, Dan" 
Subject: RE: 13.0455 quality-control in humanities
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:02:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 737 (737)

Well, how about being straight forward to give your analysis--the
understanding of topic seems to be flawed while the real interest is in the
application of the method.
Then one could  continue on to suggest a simple bit of editing to refocus
the paper into a more acceptable designation?  One could always encourage
the use of the phrase "a hypothetical analysis," even in the title of the
presentation and a reworking of the first few paragraphs as well as the
conclusion.
--dan
Sincerely,
Dan Price, Ph.D.
Professor,  Center for Distance Learning
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From: Richard Giordano 
Subject: Re: 13.0455 quality-control in humanities
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 20:02:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 738 (738)

I don't see the problem.  Give the person explicit direction on what's
wrong and how the work can be improved (perhaps, for example, the paper
needs to be recast from a different perspective) and encourage the person
to resubmit.  Don't tell the person what to write, but help the person
understand what needs to be done to improve the argument.  For conference
papers, there's always next year; for journal articles, authors very much
depend on advice from peer reviewers.



From: "Jennifer de Beer" 
Subject: OTA Guide to Creating and Documenting Electronic
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 739 (739)


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           OTA Guide to Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts

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The Oxford Text Archive is pleased to announce the web publication of

"Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts", a new guide to take users

through the basic steps involved in creating and documenting an

electronic text or similar digital resource.  The guide is available

at:

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/

A printed version 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/

The guide is intended as a reference work for individuals and

organizations involved with, or planning, the digitization of texts or

similar material. As electronic texts are not limited to a specific

discipline, genre, period, or language, the guide aims to recommend

good practice and standards that are relevant to a variety of

projects.  The authors have tended to concentrate on those types of

electronic text that, to a greater or lesser extent, represent a

transcription of a non-electronic source, rather than the category of

electronic texts which are primarily composed of digitized images of a

source text (e.g. digital facsimile editions). Many of the guidelines

are, however, more widely applicable.

The guide includes a glossary and a bibliography of recommended

reading, and offers guidance about:

Document Analysis

Digitization - Scanning, OCR, and Re-keying

Document Markup

Important Global Standards

Documentation and Metadata

The guide is the first of two created by the Oxford Text Archive 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. The series aims to provide

guidance about applying recognized good practice and standards to the

creation and use of digital resources in the arts and humanities.

Oxford Text Archive

web: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

email: info@ota.ahds.ac.uk

========

Jennifer de Beer

Cape Library Cooperative (CALICO) & INFOLIT

c/o the Adamastor Trust

Cape Town, South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)21 686-5070     Fax: +27 (0)21 689-7465

E-mail: jennifer@adamastor.ac.za

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CALICO:  http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Calico/portal.htm

INFOLIT: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Infolit/default.htm

POINT TO PONDER:

Complex machines are an emergent life form

                         The Post-Human Manifesto 8.13



From: "David L. Hoover" 
Subject: CFP: Computer Studies, Lang.& Lit.: What Counts &
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:23:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 740 (740)


Why?(3/1; MLA'00)

Deadline Extended to March 15, 2000

The MLA Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and

Literature announces a call papers for the 2000 MLA Convention in

Washington, D.C.

The session title is "Computer Studies in Language and Literature:

What Counts and Why."

The MLA call is as follows: "Current studies in stylistics, authorship,

linguistics, pedagogy, quantitative and qualitative analysis, etc., with

special emphasis on new directions, discontents, and the state of the

art."

We are interested in broadening the range of papers in our sessions,

and are particularly interested in papers that propose new directions

of research or address the historically relatively low interest in

sessions that involve computer studies in language and literature.

Web-based and hypertext studies (web-based corpora,

concordances, text-analyses, and so forth) are also welcome, as long

as they use the computer to study language or literature rather than

just to present it.

Note: All session participants must be MLA members by April 1,

2000.

If you are laboring in these vineyards, please join us. The session will

be followed by a business meeting, in which a new committee

member will be elected.

As an additional incentive, the three people whose submissions are

chosen will receive a copy of David Hoover's 1999 book,

_Language and Style in The Inheritors_.

E-mail submissions to david.hoover@nyu.edu by March 15.

David L. Hoover, Associate Chair & Webmaster, NYU Eng. Dept. 212-998-8832

      david.hoover@nyu.edu      http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/

           "If a dog runs at you, whistle for him." -Thoreau



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Translating and the Computer 22
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:24:02 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 741 (741)

[deleted quotation]
*************************************************************

                22nd Conference

        "Translating and the Computer"

             16-17 November 2000

      One Great George Street, London, SW1

*************************************************************

The annual conference "Translating and the Computer" has been an

important forum for Machine Translation and Translation Aids users over

the past 21 years. The conference is one of the few international events

which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such

has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including

translators, business managers, researchers and language experts.

Against the background of an increasingly multilingual society and the

all-encompassing impact of information technology, this year's

conference will address the latest developments in translation (and

translation-related) software.

This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the

conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user

aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on

research and development issues. Presentations accompanied by

demonstrations are especially welcome.

TOPICS

The range of conference topics includes (but is not limited to)

* use of Machine Translation (MT) systems

* machine-aided translation and translation aids

* memory based translation

* controlled languages and their use in MT

* speech translation

* terminology

* localisation

* translation aids for minority languages

* multilingual document management/workflow

* experience of companies using translation software

* translating and the computer: the new millennium challenges

* the Internet and translation aids

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract (between 500 and

1000 words) of the paper they would like to present. Extended abstracts

should be sent by post, fax or email before 22 May 2000 to:

Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser

ASLIB, The Association for Information Management

Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7903 0000      Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 0011

Email nicole.adamides@aslib.co.uk  WWW: http://www.aslib.co.uk

The full-length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the

conference proceedings.



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: TOOLS USA 2000 Call for contributions
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:24:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 742 (742)

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Dear Colleague:

This is the abbreviated call for contributions for TOOLS USA 2000.

The full information is at

                http://www.tools-conferences.com/usa

Please post or forward this information to any other colleague who

think might be interested.

With best regards,

-- TOOLS Conference organization

*************************************************************************

                TOOLS USA 2000

             "Software Serving Society"

        Santa Barbara, California

              July 30 - August 3, 2000

http://www.toolsconferences.com/usa

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS (deadline 10 March 2000)

TOOLS is the major international conference series devoted to

applications object technology, component technology and other

advanced approaches to software development.

TOOLS USA 2000 will be held in Santa Barbara, CA at the Fess Parker

Double Tree Resort, one of the most beautiful resorts on the West Coast

and will continue the commitment to excellence of earlier TOOLS conferences

in Europe, Australia, Asia and the USA since 1989.

The proceedings will be published world-wide by the IEEE Computer

Society.

PAPERS

------

TOOLS USA 2000 is now soliciting papers on all aspects of

object and component technology. All submitted papers will be refereed

and assessed for technical quality and usefulness to practitioners and

applied researchers.

TOOLS USA particularly welcomes papers that present general

findings based upon industrial experience. Such papers will be judged

by the quality of their contribution to industrial best-practice.

TUTORIALS, WORKSHOPS AND PANELS

-------------------------------

Tutorials, workshops, and panels  form an important part of the TOOLS

conferences. TOOLS USA 2000 is welcoming proposals for tutorials,

workshops and panels on topics related to the theme of the conference.

FOR MORE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT THE CONFERENCE

WEBSITE AT http://www.tools-conferences.com/usa



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: TSD 2000 - Second Announcement and Call For Papers
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:27:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 743 (743)

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   TSD 2000 - SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

****************************************************

Third International Workshop on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE

(TSD 2000)

Brno, Czech Republic, 13-16 September 2000

TSD Series

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between

researchers in both spoken and written language processing

from the former East Block countries and their Western colleagues.

Proceedings of TSD form a book (currently published

by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial

Intelligence series).

TOPICS

Topics of the TSD 2000 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;

multi-lingual issues, especially multi-lingual dialogue systems;

information retrieval and text/topic summarization;

speech modeling;

speech segmentation;

speech recognition;

text-to-speech synthesis;

dialogue systems;

development of dialogue strategies;

prosody in dialogues;

user modeling;

knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems;

assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;

applied systems and software.

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ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the workshop should be addressed to:

Dana Komarkova

TSD 2000 c/o Faculty of Informatics

Masaryk University

Botanick 68a

CZ-602 00 Brno

Czech Republic

telephone: ++420 5 41 512 359

fax: ++420 5 41 212 568

e-mail: tsd2000@fi.muni.cz

The official TSD 2000 homepage is: http://www.fi.muni.cz/tsd2000/

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ANLP/NAACL2000 Student Research Workshop
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:28:18 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 744 (744)

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: ANLP-NAACL 2000 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP

This year, student members will be presenting their exciting work in

progress at the newly designed Student Research Workshop.  If you've ever

wanted to provide encouragement and scientific guidance to upcoming

researchers, this is your opportunity.  Registration for the workshop is

included in your conference registration fee, and we encourage everyone to

attend and participate.  The workshop will take place on Sunday, April 30,

and will run all day.

Our review committee has selected eight student papers for presentation at

the workshop based on their scholarship, originality, and technical merit.

These papers (listed below) cover many areas of NLP, including:

- text planning and natural language generation

- corpus-based and statistical text processing

- information extraction and information retrieval

- machine translation

- robust parsing and syntactic error detection

- word sense disambiguation and semantic annotation

- discourse and aggregation

In addition to audience comments, a panel of established scientists, each an

expert in areas relevant to the student presentations, will be chosen to

provide the students with in-depth feedback and suggestions on future

directions, similar to the highly acclaimed Doctoral Consortia at other

conferences.  This new format is intended to provide students with

invaluable exposure to outside perspectives on their work, and will also

allow them to put their work into perspective based on feedback from the

panel.  If you would like to be considered to serve on the scientific panel,

please contact the workshop co-chairs at .

PLEASE NOTE: pre-registration for the workshop is strongly encouraged.

Please indicate your desire to attend by checking the appropriate box on the

conference registration form. Registered participants will receive detailed

information about the schedule and location of the workshop at a later date.

Up-to-date information is also available on the workshop home page

<http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/dbyron/naacl2000>.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ICoS-2 2nd CfP
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:29:17 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 745 (745)

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                         2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

                        second workshop on

                INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                              ICoS-2

                 Dagstuhl, Germany, July 29-30, 2000

            http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~kohlhase/event/icos2/

                (Submission deadline: April 15, 2000)

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. 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. Most

importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have 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 Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to

bring researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics,

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science,and Logics together, in

order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural

language semantics.

ICoS-1 took place in Amsterdam on August 15, 1999 with an attendence

of over 50 researchers. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-1

will be published in the Journal of Language and Computation.

ICoS-2 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational

Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational

semantics.

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FURTHER INFORMATION

-------------------

If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers

Johan Bos and Michael Kohlhase via icos2@ags.uni-sb.de.

For actual information concerning ICoS-2 please consult

      http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~kohlhase/event/icos2/



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: AMICO Membership Announcement
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 746 (746)

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AMICO Press Release

February 11, 2000

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Announces=20

Three New Members for Start of the New Year

AMICO Headquarters; Pittsburgh, PA

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is pleased to welcome the Dallas

Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Museum of the Americas

Foundation to our growing Consortium.  These three new Members further

increase the depth and variety of the AMICO Library, enhance its usefulness

as an educational tool, and add strength to the institutional knowledge

sharing of the Consortium.  "With AMICO membership now over thirty

institutions we are hitting our stride as an organization and as a tool for

humanities studies," states AMICO Executive Director, Jennifer Trant.

"Dallas and Denver bring significant collections and the MOA Foundation

adds a new dimension to the AMICO Library reaching into the Caribbean,

Mexico, and Latin America," Ms. Trant adds.

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), located in Dallas, Texas, houses an

impressive encyclopedic collection of nearly 25,000 objects - from the arts

of Africa, ancient America, Asia, and the Pacific, to European and American

decorative arts and paintings and sculpture by old master, impressionist,

modern, and contemporary artists. Additionally, the DMA has been a leader

in providing public access to its collection records via the GTE

Collections Information Center.  As DMA Director John R. Lane notes,

"Joining AMICO will be a great way to provide that information more widely,

as well as enhance the content of the Center for our visitors through AMICO

Library access."

Colorado's Denver Art Museum (DAM) has the largest and most comprehensive

collection of world art between Kansas City and the West Coast, with over

40,000 works of art.  The varied holdings include a particular strength in

the Native Arts with more than 17,000 objects from the indigenous peoples

of North America, a collecting commitment to the area of architecture,

design, and graphics, and many standards that capture the spirit of the

American West.  DAM also is a rich repository of Asian art, locally and

world-renowned Modern and contemporary works, over 5,000 objects from the

pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial periods, and fine selections of European

and American masters.  Lewis Sharp, DAM's Director, hopes this

collaboration with AMICO will "broaden exposure of DAM's collection to new

users and help us further our educational mission."

The Washington, DC-based Museum of the Americas Foundation was established

in 1998 through the shared work of the Organization of American States, the

Inter-American Development Bank, and the Smithsonian Institution with the

ambitious mission to create an inclusive museum devoted to the art and

culture of the Western Hemisphere.  The Foundation will work closely with

the Smithsonian Institution as well as museums throughout North America,

the Caribbean, and South and Central America to bring public attention to

the existing, rich collections that chronicle cultural achievement in the

Western Hemisphere.  "The MOA is scheduled to open in 2007, but with our

online presence and our contributions to AMICO, we have a great opportunity

to build awareness and provide valuable resources virtually to our

potential audiences," observes Christopher C. Addison, President of the

Foundation.

The AMICO Library, officially launched July 1st, 1999, has made multimedia

documentation of artworks from the collections of leading museums across

North America available to universities, colleges, schools, and public

libraries. The 1999-2000 edition of the AMICO Library documents over 50,000

different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary

installations.  More than simply an image database, works in the AMICO

Library are fully documented and may also include curatorial text about the

artwork, detailed provenance information, multiple views of the work

itself, and other related multimedia.  As Jennifer Trant, AMICO Executive

Director, notes, "subscribers find the AMICO Library of interest because it

combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence

and academic weight of traditional library reference sources."=20

The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to institutional

subscribers, including universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and

museums.  Designated users can include faculty, students, teachers, staff,

and researchers. Educational institutions may subscribe to the AMICO

Library by contacting one of its distributors.  These include the Research

Libraries Group (RLG) and the Ohio Library and Information Network

(OhioLINK).  A subscription to the AMICO Library provides a one-year

license to use works from the compiled AMICO Library for a broad range of

educational purposes.  Interested subscribers may preview a Thumbnail

Catalog of the AMICO Library and get further information at

http://www.amico.org.

The AMICO Library is a product of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO),

an independent non-profit corporation, with 501 (c) 3 designation from the

IRS.  The Consortium is today made up of 31 major museums.  It's an

innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares,

shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections

and enables its educational use.

Current List of AMICO Members:

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Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Art Gallery of Ontario

Art Institute of Chicago

Asia Society Gallery

Center for Creative Photography

Cleveland Museum of Art

Dallas Museum of Art

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College

Denver Art Museum

Detroit Institute of Arts

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library

George Eastman House

J. Paul Getty Museum

The Library of Congress

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Montr=E9al Museum of Fine Arts

Mus=E9e d'art contemporain de Montr=E9al

Museum of the Americas Foundation

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

National Gallery of Canada

Philadelphia Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Jose Museum of Art

Smithsonian American Art Museum=20

Walker Art Center

Whitney Museum of American Art

=20

Contact Information:

AMICO			=09

Jennifer Trant, Executive Director

Art Museum Image Consortium			Phone (412) 422 8533=09

2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D			Fax (412) 422 8594

Pittsburgh, PA 15217				Email: jtrant@amico.org

http://www.amico.org

----------------------------

Kelly Richmond

Communications Director

AMICO-Art Museum Image Consortium

2008 Murray Ave, Suite D

Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA

Phone: +1 412 422 8533

Fax: +1 412 422 8594

kelly@amico.org

http://www.amico.org



From: "John Humphrey" 
Subject: RE: The University Industrial Complex?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:22:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 747 (747)


If you have not seen it, the recent article [Eyal Press and Jennifer

Washburn, "The Kept University," THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, vol. 285, no. 3

(March 2000): 39-54] touches on issues relevant to humanities and computing.

[Please note that this article can be found online, at

<http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/2000/03/press.htm>,

the online version, Atlantic Unbound, at

<http://www.theatlantic.com/>. --WM]

John Fredrick Humphrey, Ph.D.

Xavier University of Louisiana

Department of Philosophy

P. O. Box 43 A

7325 Palmetto Street

New Orleans, LA 70125



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ACL Archives Now On-line
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:30:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 748 (748)

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The ACL Archives are now online at http://www.aclweb.org/archive/

The Archives contain various official documents of the ACL, guidelines

for ACL officials, useful information on organizing conferences and

lists of current and past officers of the ACL.

ACL officers and other ACL members can help keep this repository up to

date by submitting documents of an archival nature to

archivist@aclweb.org

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: mille grazie
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 749 (749)


Dear Colleagues:

No one but myself and its author can see the elegance of the newly

redesigned and adapted perl code that I use for processing Humanist

messages; all you may be able to detect is my slightly less pressurised

manner. The covert improvement is due not so much to the charm that the

elegence of this design has over me, more to the simple fact that

processing the messages now takes so much less effort than before. So, I

wish publically to thank Malgosia Askanas (of the Spoon Collective), who

first volunteered to improve my situation, then actually did so. Many hours

of programming were involved.

Some of you are old enough in the seminar to remember that the original

code was written by Michael Sperberg-McQueen, to help us out of a pickle

(the Pickle of Too Many Messages, or so was claimed in those heady, naive

days) by allowing me to group messages together thematically. Then, when I

moved to London, John Bradley rewrote the code so that it would work better

here, and so it did. The need to make the changes that provoked Malgosia's

redesign was caused by the move of the processing site to IATH (Virginia),

whose collaboration with us at King's College London is also most

gratefully acknowledged.

"Do what you do only out of love."

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: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ELRA News
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 750 (750)

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___________________________________________________________

                                ELRA

                European Language Resources Association

                               ELRA News

___________________________________________________________

                     *** ELRA NEW RESOURCES ***

We are happy to announce new resources available via ELRA

ELRA-W0020 ICE-GB (British English component of the

International Corpus of English)

ELRA-S0077 Telephone Speech Data Collection for Czech

ELRA-S0078 Finnish Speechdat(II) FDB-1000

ELRA-S0079 Finnish Speechdat(II) FDB-4000

ELRA-S0080 Finnish-Swedish Speechdat(II) FDB-1000

A description of each database is given below.

_______________________________________

ELRA-W0020 ICE-GB (British English component of

the International Corpus of English)

_______________________________________

ICE-GB is the British component of the International Corpus

of English (ICE). ICE began in 1990 with the primary aim

of providing material for comparative studies of varieties of

English throughout the world. Twenty centres around the

world are preparing corpora of their own national or regional

variety of English.

ICE-GB is fully grammatically analysed. Like all the ICE

corpora, ICE-GB consists of a million words of spoken and

written English and adheres to the common corpus design.

200 written and 300 spoken texts make up the million words.

Every text is grammatically annotated, allowing complex and

detailed searches across the whole corpus.

ICE-GB contains 83,394 parse trees, including 59,640 in

the spoken part of the corpus.

ICE-GB has been fully checked. It was checked by linguists

at several stages in its completion, using both a traditional

=91post-checking=92 strategy and also by cross-sectional

error-based searches.

ICE-GB is distributed with the retrieval software ICECUP

(the International Corpus of English Corpus Utility Program).

ICECUP supports a variety of query types, including the use

of the parse analyses to construct Fuzzy Tree Fragments to

search the corpus.

_______________________________________

ELRA-S0077 Telephone Speech Data Collection for Czech

_______________________________________

This database contains speech collected in Czech Republic

during summer 1999. The collection was performed at the

Institute of Radioelectronics of Brno University of

Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer

Sciences (VUT Brno) and at the Department of Circuit

Theory of Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of

Electrical Engineering (CVUT Prague) upon demand of

Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Munich. This database

comprises telephone recordings from 1227 speakers (590

males and 637 females) recorded directly over the fixed

telephone network using an ISDN interface.

Speech files are stored as sequences of 8bit 8 kHz A-law

uncompressed speech samples. Each prompted utterance

is stored within a separate file. Each speech file has an

accompanying ASCII SAM label file according to the

specifications of the SpeechDat project

(URL http//www.speechdat.com).

Corpus contents connected digits (prompt sheet number,

telephone number, credit card number); sequences of

isolated digits (5 digits); answers to yes/no questions;

common application words and phrases.

The following age distribution has been obtained 36

speakers are below 16 years old, 537 speakers are between

16 and 30, 306 speakers are between 31 and 45, 259

speakers are between 46 and 60, 88 speakers are over 60,

and 1 speaker whose age is unknown.

The transcription included in this database is an

orthographic, lexical transcription with a few details that

represent audible acoustic events (speech and non speech)

present in the corresponding waveform files. SpeechDat

conventions were used in this database.

______________________________________

ELRA-S0078 Finnish Speechdat(II) FDB-1000

ELRA-S0079 Finnish Speechdat(II) FDB-4000

_______________________________________

The Finnish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 and FDB-4000

databases comprise respectively 1000 and 4000 Finnish

speakers recorded over the Finnish fixed telephone network.

The SpeechDat database has been collected and annotated

by the Tampere University of Technology's Digital Media

Institute. 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.

Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz

A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file.

Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file

which contains the relevant descriptive information.

Each speaker uttered the following items: 1 isolated digit; 1

sequence of 10 isolated digits; 4 numbers 1 sheet number

(5 digits), 1 telephone number (9-10 digits), 1 credit card

number (16 digits), 1 PIN code (6 digits); 1 currency money

amount; 1 natural number; 3 dates 1 spontaneous date

(birthdate), 1 prompted date, 1 relative or general date

expression; 2 time phrases 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1

time phrase; 3 spelled words 1 spontaneous own forename,

1 city name, 1 phonetically rich word; 5 directory assistance

names 1 spontaneous own forename, 1 spontaneous city of

growing up, 1 frequent city name, 1 frequent company name,

1 common forename surname; 2 yes/no questions 1

predominantly yes question, 1 predominantly no question;

3 application words; 1 word spotting phrase using an

embedded application word; 4 phonetically rich words; 9

phonetically rich sentences.

A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in

SAMPA is also included.

______________________________________

ELRA-S0080 Finnish-Swedish Speechdat(II) FDB-1000

______________________________________

The Finnish-Swedish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 comprises

1000 Finnish speakers uttering speechdat items in the variant

of Swedish spoken in Finland, recorded over the Finnish

fixed telephone network. The SpeechDat database has been

collected and annotated by the Tampere University of

Technology's Digital Media Institute. The FDB-1000

database is partitioned into 4 CDs, 3 CDs comprise 300

speakers sessions, the 4th comprises 100 speakers.

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.

Speech samples are stored as sequences of 8-bit 8 kHz

A-law. Each prompted utterance is stored in a separate file.

Each signal file is accompanied by an ASCII SAM label file

which contains the relevant descriptive information.

Each speaker uttered the following items: 1 isolated digit; 1

sequence of 10 isolated digits; 4 numbers 1 sheet number

(5 digits), 1 telephone number (9-10 digits), 1 credit card

number (16 digits), 1 PIN code (6 digits); 1 currency money

amount; 1 natural number; 3 dates 1 spontaneous date

(birthdate), 1 prompted date, 1 relative or general date

expression; 2 time phrases 1 time of day (spontaneous), 1

time phrase; 3 spelled words 1 spontaneous own forename,

1 city name, 1 phonetically rich word; 5 directory assistance

names 1 spontaneous own forename, 1 spontaneous city of

growing up, 1 frequent city name, 1 frequent company name,

1 common forename surname; 2 yes/no questions 1

predominantly yes question, 1 predominantly no question;

6 application words; 1 word spotting phrase using an

embedded application word; 4 phonetically rich words; 9

phonetically rich sentences

The following age distribution has been obtained 178

speakers are below 16 years old, 412 speakers are between

16 and 30, 216 speakers are between 31 and 45, 160

speakers are between 46 and 60, and 34 speakers are over 60.

A pronunciation lexicon with a phonemic transcription in

SAMPA is also included.

=

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

       or http//www.elda.fr



From: "Nigel Williamson" 
Subject: DRH2000 Call for Papers Extension to 20th March
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:29:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 751 (751)


Dear All,

Apologies for cross posting.

I have received several requests for a short period of grace for the

deadline for the call for papers for the DRH2000 conference.  We have

therefore decided to offer a general extension to everyone until 20th March

2000.  All papers should be submitted via the web site

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000 and if you have any queries about the

conference please contact me at drh2000@shef.ac.uk.  The call for papers

follows.

Yours

Nigel Williamson

DRH2000 Local Organiser

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000

Email: drh2000@shef.ac.uk  TEL: 0114 222 3111

----------------------------------------------

CALL FOR PAPERS DRH2000

----------------------------------------------

Format

The academic programme of the conference will comprise academic papers,

panel discussions, and poster presentations. A number of associated

workshops are also planned together with an exhibition of products and

services. The conference is known for its friendly atmosphere and welcomes

developers and users of digital resources from, amongst others,

universities, libraries, museums, galleries, and publishers. The conference

social programme will, we hope, encourage informal discussion and the chance

to make lasting contacts between members of the different groups

represented.

Themes

The Conference Programme Committee seeks proposals for papers, panel

sessions, and posters relating to any of the following themes:

Creation: the process of creating digital resources whether textual, visual,

time-based or multimedia; encoding standards; digitization techniques and

problems; funding resource creation.

Delivery and Use: policies and strategies for electronic delivery: both

commercial and non-commercial; mining for resource discovery including

cataloguing, metadata and search techniques; intellectual property rights;

cost-recovery, and charging mechanisms.

Integration: the process and result of integrating digital resources into

humanities teaching or research; organisation and management issues in the

digital library; providing support for the use of digital resources and

determining user needs.

Impact: methods for evaluating digital technologies; tracking effective

change in scholarly research and student learning; the impact of digitized

heritage in the public arena.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN COMPUTER CONVERSATION AT
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:30:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 752 (752)


BELLAGIO: CALL2
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                        SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

         Apologies if you receive this from more than one source

               THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION

               Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy

                           3-5 July, 2000

Everything is on the website, including registration information

on line, hotels (from simple to sumptious), the glorious site etc.

The key date is 8 April when abstracts are due. Hotel accomodation

should be booked as soon as possible.

   www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/

Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted):

Dr B Alabiso, Microsoft, USA

Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia

Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK

Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE

Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA

Prof. D. Traum, U Maryland, USA

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.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: 2nd CFP: TAPD2000, 2nd Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:31:15 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 753 (753)


and Deduction
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                           2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

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                                TAPD 2000

          2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'

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                           September 19-21 2000

                               Vigo, Spain

                    Sponsored by University of Vigo

                          with the support of

                          Caixa Vigo e Ourense

                 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/

Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in

Vigo (Spain) in September, 2000. The conference will be previous to

SEPLN 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference

of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing.

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From: Gregory Crane 
Subject: job at Perseus
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:27:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 754 (754)


Here is a job posting (as listed on the MLA job web site).

JOB AT THE PERSEUS PROJECT AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY

Post-doctoral Fellow

The Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts University is seeking a

full-time Post-doctoral Fellow with a strong background in either early

modern English or eighteenth and nineteenth-century London. The successful

candidate will participate in a multi-disciplinary research project

exploring innovative ways of structuring traditional source materials for

electronic publication. Strong technical skills are required: a working

knowledge of UNIX/LINUX is preferred, but applicant should be familiar with

multiple operating systems; programming skills are preferred, but the

applicant must be willing to learn these skills on the job. The researcher

must be committed to using technology to bridge the gap between teaching

and research and to exploiting media such as the Web to reach beyond

academia. Duties will include structuring data, developing curricula for

NEH-sponsored teacher workshops, and presenting the results of such work in

papers and presentations. Position begins July 1, 2000 and continues for

two years. This position is full-time and includes benefits. Tufts is an

equal opportunity employer. Please send cover letter and 2 page CV with

three references to: Lisa M. Cerrato Managing Editor Perseus Project Tufts

University Eaton Hall 124 Medford, MA 02155

PLEASE REPOST AS APPROPRIATE

Gregory Crane

Professor of Classics

Winnick Family Chair in Technology and Entrepreneurship

Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Project

Eaton 124

Tufts University

Medford MA 02155

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/About/grc.html



From: Charles Ess 
Subject: Job announcement
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:27:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 755 (755)


Colleagues

Please cross-post as appropriate.

The position involves an emphasis on interdisciplinary teaching - but we're

looking for someone, all other things being equal, with strengths in history

and philosophy of science.

Drury University invites applications for a tenure track position in

Interdisciplinary Studies at the Assistant Professor level beginning,

August, 2000.  Qualifications: Ph.D. or A.B.D., teaching experience,

especially in interdisciplinary programs, desired.  Discipline of Ph.D.

open.  Program offers a global studies minor and is integrated by attention

to writing and oral communication skills, values analysis, creativity,

critical thinking and global awareness.  Screening will begin March 1, 2000

and will continue until the position is filled.  Send letter of application,

curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference to: Prof. Ted Vaggalis,

Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies Search Committee, Drury University, 900 N.

Benton Avenue, Springfield, MO 65802.

Drury University is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Thanks in advance -

Charles Ess

Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion Department,

Drury University

900 N. Benton Ave.                   Voice: 417-873-7230

Springfield, MO  65802  USA            FAX: 417-873-7435

Home page:  http://www.drury.edu/Departments/phil-relg/ess.html

Co-chair, CATaC 2000: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac00/

"Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and

decision difficult." Hippocrates (460-379 B.C.E.), _Aphorisms_, 1.



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/NLP
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:31:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 756 (756)

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                        University of Sheffield

                    Department of Computer Science

                    RESEARCH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

This department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate research

students to

begin studies in October 2000 or before. Successful applicants will read for

an M.Phil  or Ph.D.

The department has research groups in:

        Natural Language Processing

          Verification and Testing

          Communications and Distributed Systems

          Speech and Hearing

          Computer Graphics

          Machine Learning

          Neurocomputing and Robotics

UK, EU and overseas  candidates with research interests in any relevant

area are encouraged to apply.

Candidates for all awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant

discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree

by September 1999. Part-time registration is a possibility.

A number of EPSRC awards are available, which are available for UK students'

fees and support and, on a fees-only basis, for EU students.

More details of our research, and application forms, are on our

world-wide-web site:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk.

Hard copy application forms and further particulars are available from the

Research  Admissions Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of

Sheffield,  Regent Court, 211

Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP.

All applicants should quote reference number ST051.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to:

Professor Yorick Wilks: +44 114 222 1804, yorick@dcs.shef.ac.uk



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: The Golden Age of Hypertext is gone!!
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:36:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 757 (757)


Dear Prof. McCarty,

Hi, I thought this might interest you.."Ten years ago, Robert Coover

helped usher in the artistic and technological revolution of literary

hypertext. But, in the below essay, he is talking of the Golden age of

hypertext is over!! What will be next? Steven Johnson in his essay, also

asked, "Why the web isn't growing smarter with old age?"

Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age by Robert Coover can be

found at: <http://www.feedmag.com/document/do291_master.html>

DIGITAL THINKING: Page Versus Pixel can be found at

<http://www.feedmag.com/95.05dialog1.html>

Written on the Web: Carolyn Guyer examines the state of hypertext fiction at

<http://www.feedmag.com/95.09guyer/95.09guyer.html>

Lost In The Labyrinth by Chase Madar can be found at

<http://www.feedmag.com/essays/es277_master.html>

Regarding Jorge Luis Borges: Is there a real author buried beneath the

hype! A tribute to give a master of enigmatic understatement.

The Iron Curtain: Dan Halpern on phantom formations and the future of

Eastern European Literature..can be found at

<http://www.feedmag.com/book/halpern_essay.html>

Jorge Luis Borges ON "The Garden of Forking Paths" ..in the words of

Borges, "..No one realized that the book and the labyrinth were one and

the same.." Was Borges ahead of time? The greatest inspiration and

motivation for Borges' work was a phenomenon that was not invented until

four years after his death in 1986: The World Wide Web, now someone is

calling as World Wide Wait or Worth Wiles Webs.

I hope, you would like the above references!!

Kind Regards

Arun Tripathi



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: About phenomenology & Don Ihde
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 20:37:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 758 (758)


Good Morning, Dr. McCarty,

You might be interested in the books of Don Ihde. He is an expert

expositor of phenomenology and a noted writer on postmodernism. Don Ihde

has also reviewed the book of Michael Heim and David Hillel Gelernter.

Prof. Ihde has reviewed the book, "Electric Language: A Philosophical

Study of Word Processing", co-written by Heim & Gelernter.

He wrote about, "Expanding Hermeneutics". He has also written several

books namely "Experimentation Phenomenology: An Introduction", "Instrumental

Realism" and "Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction", with other several

books.

References:-

-----------

a.) Review of Electronic Language by Don Ihde

<http://www.mheim.com/books/review-el/review2-el/review2-el-ihde.htm>

b.) Expanding Hermeneutics by Don Ihde

<http://www.sunysb.edu/philosophy/faculty/papers/Expherm.htm>

c.) Experimental Phenomenology: An Introduction, Don Ihde

<http://www.sunypress.edu/sunyp/backads/html/ihdeexperimental.html>

d.) Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction, Don Ihde

<http://www.paragonhouse.com/item_1557782733.htm>

Sincerely

Arun Tripathi



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Colloquium on formal methods, experimental practice
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 759 (759)


PLEASE CIRCULATE

------------------------------

Humanities computing: formal methods, experimental practice

King's College London

Blackwell Room (Department of Music)

Strand

13 May 1999

This one-day colloquium centres on the question of how we might best

conceptualise the application of computing to the humanities. Because, as

in the sciences, computing humanists use equipment to study data, the

colloquium asks where among the sciences we might look for the most helpful

models. Is humanities computing more like a theoretical or an experimental

science?

If its end is articulation of stable formal methods, through algorithms and

structures in metadata, then perhaps humanities computing is potentially

akin to computer science at its theoretical end, offering us eventually

what we might call a 'calculus for the arts and letters'. If, however, it

is a pragmatic, heuristic practice, sometimes working with but not

necessarily dependent on theory, then it would seem more like an

experimental science as this has come to be undestood in recent years. The

colloquium brings together a philosopher of science, a sociologist of

science, a literary critic, a theoretician and philologist and a director

of a humanities computing research institute to discuss the habits of mind

and work that we might use to form a coherent picture of the emerging field.

Participants and titles

HASOK CHANG, Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science, Department of Science

and Technology Studies, University College London. "What philosophy tells

us about experimental science"

HARRY COLLINS, Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Centre for

the Study of Knowledge Expertise and Science, University of Cardiff.

"Formalising humanities or unformalising science?"

JEROME MCGANN, John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of

Virginia. "Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine.

Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading"

TITO ORLANDI, Professore Ordinario di Lingua e Letteratura Copta, Direttore

del Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizio per l'Automazione nelle

Discipline Umanistiche dell'Universit degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza.

"Ideas for a Theoretical Foundation of Humanities Computing"

JOHN UNSWORTH, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Institute

for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.

"Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in

common, and how might our tools reflect this?"

For schedule and additional information see:

<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/99-00/seminar_hc.html>

To register contact:



- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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: Stevan Harnad 
Subject: HighWire Press's Free Online Archive
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 760 (760)


      James Robinson, News Service (650) 723-5675; e-mail:

      jamesrob@stanford.edu

      HighWire Press publishers offer more than 137,000 free online

      articles

      http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

      Stanford University's HighWire Press announced Thursday that

      publishers of the journals it hosts now provide free online access

      to the full text of more than 137,000 articles. As a result,

      HighWire Press is now home to the second-largest free full-text

      science archive in the world  and the largest in the life sciences

      with three entirely free journals, 51 journals offering free back

      issues and 32 offering free trial access.

      HighWire Press the online journal-production division of the

      Stanford University Libraries provides free and subscription-based

      access-technology services to more than 180 high-impact journals

      and more than 600,000 articles, mostly in the fields of science,

      technology and medicine.

      "We are extremely pleased with the trend to allow free access on

      the part of the publishers we serve, which are largely

      not-for-profit scholarly societies and publishers," said Michael A.

      Keller, Stanford University Librarian and publisher of HighWire

      Press.

      "Although it is a decision made by each society, based on the

      business plan for each journal, we applaud their willingness to

      make the back files more accessible to the public.  It helps

      fulfill HighWire's mission to support and improve scholarly

      communication that is, to make the fruits of scholarly research as

      broadly available as possible.

      "Further, we think that providing back issues without restriction

      helps assure institutional subscribers  libraries, universities and

      laboratories  that they need not rely absolutely on the printed

      versions of the journals as backup to online subscriptions."

      John Sack, associate publisher and director of HighWire Press,

      added, "The HighWire program works because we and the societies

      share the same basic goal of advancing scholarship through

      dissemination of peer-reviewed, research-based articles. Open

      access to back issues works economically for the publishers because

      the need for current issues [rather than back issues] drives their

      subscriptions and technically  because HighWire's access control

      software is extremely flexible, and our bandwidth is quite high."

      In addition to the free back issues, the participating publishers

      offer "toll-free linking" of articles, in which a reader who

      subscribes (either individually or through an institution) to one

      journal can click on a reference in an article to another article

      from another journal and read the full text of the linked article,

      whether or not that reader has subscription rights to that second

      journal.

      This powerful service to the reader means that a further 70,000

      articles published online through HighWire can be available free in

      appropriate contexts. It also greatly facilitates the scholar's

      research productivity by enabling a seamless investigation through

      the trail of citation and evidence.

      HighWire became home to the largest free full-text life science

      archives after several key developments following publishers'

      decisions: the loading of the 1990-1995 content of Proceedings of

      the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which added nearly 15,000

      freely available articles; the annual New Year's release to the

      public of the previous volume of the Journal of Biological

      Chemistry nearly 5,300 articles for the 1999 volume; and a decision

      by the American Physiological Society (APS) to provide free access

      to back issues of all its online publications. APS's decision added

      more than 5,000 articles to those already free at HighWire-operated

      sites.

      According to Martin Frank, executive director of the APS, "We have

      long supported the idea of disseminating science as widely and

      freely as possible. Giving the world access to our 13

      subscription-based journals after 12 months allows us to do just

      that. Access to all issues of APS's Advances in Physiology

      Education will continue to be available to the world at no charge."

      Robert Simoni, professor of biological sciences at Stanford and an

      editor of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), said: "We at

      ASBMB, publisher of the JBC, are delighted that HighWire has

      fostered and facilitated this remarkable innovation [of easily

      freeing back content] and helped us meet our society's commitment

      to barrier-free access to research information. Journals in the

      HighWire group now release their back issue papers free in order to

      better serve both the authors and readers.  HighWire and its

      publishers now provide the largest repository of free research

      information in the life sciences in the world."

      JBC and PNAS began the program of free back issues along with

      Rockefeller University Press' three journals  the Journal of Cell

      Biology, the Journal of Experimental Medicine and the Journal of

      General Physiology  when they discussed a common concern about

      educational uses of the research literature and recognized that the

      electronic technology gave them a no-cost opportunity to serve

      those readers.  PNAS now also has more than 26,000 articles free

      from its 1990-1999 archive. Rockefeller University Press journals

      now make several thousand articles free as well.

      Subsequently, 17 publishers of more than 50 journals have joined

      the program. Some of the largest participants include the entirely

      free British Medical Journal, with more than 22,000 free articles

      from 1994-2000, and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM),

      with nearly 26,000 free articles from its 10 journals for

      1995-1999.

      "ASM has made the decision to provide free online access to journal

      content that is one year old or older on a continuously moving

      12-month window," said Samuel Kaplan, chair of the ASM Publications

      Board. "We believe this to be the best way of insuring the greatest

      possible access to the science published in our journals. ASM views

      this to be a major part of its mission. Also, we know that our

      journals have a lasting 'shelf life' for print subscribers, so it's

      gratifying to know that we now provide an online back-volume

      archive to subscribers and non-subscribers alike. ASM is pleased

      that this 'milestone' of 130,000 such articles has been achieved

      and are proud to have played a role in this achievement."

      Other journals and publishers participating in the program include

      the four journals of the American Society for Pharmacology and

      Experimental Therapeutics, Drug Metabolism and Disposition, the

      Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Molecular

      Pharmacology and Pharmacological Reviews; the Journal of

      Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience; the Journal of

      Clinical Investigation from the American Society for Clinical

      Investigation; the two journals of the American Society of Plant

      Physiologists, The Plant Cell andPlant Physiology; Clinical

      Chemistry from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry;

      Molecular Biology of the Cell from the American Society for Cell

      Biology; the Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry from the

      Histochemical Society; the Biophysical Journal from the Biophysical

      Society; the five journals of the American Heart Association,

      Circulation, Circulation Research, Hypertension, Stroke and

      Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; Blood from the

      American Society of Hematology; Thorax, the Journal of Neurology,

      Neurosurgery & Psychiatry and Archives of Disease in Childhood from

      the BMJ Publishing Group; the American Journal of Clinical

      Nutrition from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition; and

      Genes & Development, Genome Research and Learning & Memory from

      Cold Spring Harbor Labs Press. A complete list of journals offering

      free back issues and free trials is on the HighWire Press website

      at http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl.

      Stanford's HighWire Press makes it easy for publishers to offer

      their content without charge to users. "It really takes only a few

      minutes for us to implement a publisher's decision to make content

      free on an immediate basis, or delayed by a number of months or a

      volume," Sack said. As a result, several other societies and

      publishers are considering making their back content free under

      this program.

      Additional information about HighWire is found at

      http://highwire.stanford.edu. This page also includes links to all

      journals placed online by HighWire for their publishers, links to

      the 10 largest archives of free science articles and links to the

      500 most-frequently cited journals' online sites.



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: CORRECTED announcement of the Colloquium
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 761 (761)


Following is a corrected version of the announcement for the colloquium

I've organised. Mea maxima culpa for setting back the universal clock one

year! Many thanks to Dr Donald Weinshank for pointing out the error.

WM

PLEASE CIRCULATE

------------------------------

Humanities computing: formal methods, experimental practice

King's College London

Blackwell Room (Department of Music)

13 May 2000

This one-day colloquium centres on the question of how we might best

conceptualise the application of computing to the humanities. Because, as

in the sciences, computing humanists use equipment to study data, the

colloquium asks where among the sciences we might look for the most helpful

models. Is humanities computing more like a theoretical or an experimental

science?

If its end is articulation of stable formal methods, through algorithms and

structures in metadata, then perhaps humanities computing is potentially

akin to computer science at its theoretical end, offering us eventually

what we might call a 'calculus for the arts and letters'. If, however, it

is a pragmatic, heuristic practice, sometimes working with but not

necessarily dependent on theory, then it would seem more like an

experimental science as this has come to be undestood in recent years. The

colloquium brings together a philosopher of science, a sociologist of

science, a literary critic, a theoretician and philologist and a director

of a humanities computing research institute to discuss the habits of mind

and work that we might use to form a coherent picture of the emerging field.

Participants and titles

HASOK CHANG, Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science, Department of Science

and Technology Studies, University College London. "What philosophy tells

us about experimental science"

HARRY COLLINS, Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Centre for

the Study of Knowledge Expertise and Science, University of Cardiff.

"Formalising humanities or unformalising science?"

JEROME MCGANN, John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of

Virginia. "Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine.

Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading"

TITO ORLANDI, Professore Ordinario di Lingua e Letteratura Copta, Direttore

del Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizio per l'Automazione nelle

Discipline Umanistiche dell'Universit degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza.

"Ideas for a Theoretical Foundation of Humanities Computing"

JOHN UNSWORTH, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Institute

for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.

"Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in

common, and how might our tools reflect this?"

For schedule and additional information see:

<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/99-00/seminar_hc.html>

To register contact:



- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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: Willard McCarty 
Subject: CORRECTED announcement of the Colloquium
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 762 (762)


Following is a corrected version of the announcement for the colloquium

I've organised. Mea maxima culpa for setting back the universal clock one

year! Many thanks to Dr Donald Weinshank for pointing out the error.

WM

PLEASE CIRCULATE

------------------------------

Humanities computing: formal methods, experimental practice

King's College London

Blackwell Room (Department of Music)

13 May 1999

This one-day colloquium centres on the question of how we might best

conceptualise the application of computing to the humanities. Because, as

in the sciences, computing humanists use equipment to study data, the

colloquium asks where among the sciences we might look for the most helpful

models. Is humanities computing more like a theoretical or an experimental

science?

If its end is articulation of stable formal methods, through algorithms and

structures in metadata, then perhaps humanities computing is potentially

akin to computer science at its theoretical end, offering us eventually

what we might call a 'calculus for the arts and letters'. If, however, it

is a pragmatic, heuristic practice, sometimes working with but not

necessarily dependent on theory, then it would seem more like an

experimental science as this has come to be undestood in recent years. The

colloquium brings together a philosopher of science, a sociologist of

science, a literary critic, a theoretician and philologist and a director

of a humanities computing research institute to discuss the habits of mind

and work that we might use to form a coherent picture of the emerging field.

Participants and titles

HASOK CHANG, Lecturer in the Philosophy of Science, Department of Science

and Technology Studies, University College London. "What philosophy tells

us about experimental science"

HARRY COLLINS, Distinguished Research Professor and Director, Centre for

the Study of Knowledge Expertise and Science, University of Cardiff.

"Formalising humanities or unformalising science?"

JEROME MCGANN, John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of

Virginia. "Dialogue and Interpretation at the Interface of Man and Machine.

Reflections on Textuality and a Proposal for an Experiment in Machine Reading"

TITO ORLANDI, Professore Ordinario di Lingua e Letteratura Copta, Direttore

del Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizio per l'Automazione nelle

Discipline Umanistiche dell'Universit degli Studi di Roma - La Sapienza.

"Ideas for a Theoretical Foundation of Humanities Computing"

JOHN UNSWORTH, Associate Professor of English, Director of the Institute

for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.

"Scholarly Primitives: what methods do humanities researchers have in

common, and how might our tools reflect this?"

For schedule and additional information see:

<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/99-00/seminar_hc.html>

To register contact:



- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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: Einat Amitay 
Subject: about conventions, norms, traditions, patterns and rules....
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 07:49:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 763 (763)


Hi all,

I am looking for references and would like to ask for your help.

For my thesis I'm trying to collect as many citations as possible that relate

to convention, norm, tradition, patterns and rules and where these apply to

language and social behaviour. The main idea behind what I do is that people

follow conventions in language even when the form or genre of the language is

very recent (web - hypertext).

So far I have quite a nice collection ranging from Saussure to Gideon Toury,

Vygotsky to Lawrence Lessig, Josh Cohen to Itamar Even-Zohar, etc. (I know

some ideas are considered -- historically -- greater than others - but I do

want a good range of fields, interests and opinions). I would consider ANY

citation, even remotely related, and will post a summary back to the list

after putting them all together.

Thanks for your help

+:o)

einat


--
Einat Amitay
einat@ics.mq.edu.au
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat


From: Richard Giordano 
Subject: Formal methods and experimental practice.
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 07:50:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 764 (764)

Is there a difference between a formal method and a structured method?
Are the use of structured methods more appropriate in this regard?
Why is scientific investigation privileged?  Are methods of design and
investigation in technology as appropriate as science?
/rich



From: "Jennifer de Beer" 
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Electronic Publishing 2000 - Conference announ
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 765 (765)


C A L L F O R P A P E R S

ICCC/IFIP

Fourth International Conference on

Electronic Publishing

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk, Russia

August 17-19, 2000

Kaliningrad State University

The 4th conference will continue the traditions of the previous

conferences which took place in Great Britain, 1997, in Hungary, 1998,

and in Sweden, 1999. It will be held in Kaliningrad, one of the most

dynamic regions of Russia, which has a status of a special economic

zone.

The conference will concentrate on electronic publishing for both

specialists and the general public.

We welcome speakers on non-technical and technical problems.

Non-technical problems: socio-economic aspects of electronic

publishing in modern society including presentations of projects on

electronic libraries, archives, information systems etc., as well as

their implementation in educational, cultural and health care

institutions. It will also include other interesting papers within the

named frame without any restriction.

Technical problems: prospective technologies of electronic publishing,

file formats, protocols, networking, retrieval techniques etc.

Conference Objectives:

Exchange of international experience for scientific and practical

purposes focusing on both technical and non-technical problems of IT

in international communication, including demonstration of models and

electronic publishing projects, etc. Co-ordination of activities.

[material deleted]

Further developments and news of the conference will be announced at

the conference

web-site: http://www.albertina.ru/elpub2000 .

========

Jennifer de Beer

Cape Library Cooperative (CALICO) & INFOLIT

c/o the Adamastor Trust

Cape Town, South Africa

Tel: +27 (0)21 686-5070     Fax: +27 (0)21 689-7465

E-mail: jennifer@adamastor.ac.za

Regional Research Update: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/rru/index.htm

CALICO:  http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Calico/portal.htm

INFOLIT: http://www.adamastor.ac.za/Academic/Infolit/default.htm

POINT TO PONDER:

Complex machines are an emergent life form

                         The Post-Human Manifesto 8.13



From: "Melissa Terras"
Subject: New Discussion List: VISTA
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 766 (766)


(Apologies for Cross Posting!)

This new mailbase discussion list is devoted to three dimensional

visualisation, reconstruction and presentation standards in Archaeology and

the Humanities. As digital technology advances, landscape, monument, and

artefact reconstruction and visualisation techniques allow for more and

more sophisticated forms of representation. Unlike other types of

reconstruction, (for example, pottery, fresco or even drawing) there are no

agreed strategies for immediately allowing the viewer to discern what parts

of a digital representation are founded on metric data, how reliable or

complete that data is, and which parts of a presentation are speculative.

The object of this list is to allow academics, researchers, and other

interested parties to discuss the feasibility, suitability, and nature of

any form of standards or conventions.

VISTA can be accessed at http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/vista/

and you can join the list at http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/vista/join.html

Thanks,

The VISTA co-ordinators,

Stuart Jeffrey 

William Kilbride 

Melissa Terras 



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: --New Book on Ethics--
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 07:44:01 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 767 (767)


Greetings humanist community,

** This might interest you..I found via Web **

A book --"Ethics in an Age of Technology: Gifford Lectures, Volume Two"

[Harpercollins, 1999] by written Ian G. Barbour.  --Ian Barbour has

retired from Carleton College where he was professor of physics, professor

of religion, and Bean Professor of Science, Technology, and Society. He

has also written one book, "Myths, Models, and Paradigms". The Gifford

Lectures have challenged the greatest thinkers to relate the worlds of

religion, philosophy, and science.

best regards

Arun Tripathi



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Hamlet on the Holodeck Review by John McLaughlin
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 07:46:09 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 768 (768)


Greetings Humanists,

I thought this might interest you --following URL, which contains a

magnificent review of the book "Hamlet On The Holedeck: The Future of

Narrative In Cyberspace" eloquently done Prof. by John McLaughlin for

_Kairos_ Journal.

You can visit the site at:

<http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/4.1/reviews/john/hamdeck.htm>

_Kairos_ is an electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed

resource for teachers, educators, and tutors at the college and university

level.

For those, who don't know..the book, "Hamlet on the Holdeck" is written by

Prof. Janet H. Murray, is the Director of PAINT [Program in Advanced

Interactive Narrative Technology]

The "HOH" web resource page is available at

<http://web.mit.edu/jhmurray/www/HOH.html>

Best Regards

Arun Tripathi

Research Scholar

UNI DO, Germany

Online Facilitator

EdResource Moderator

Appointed Officer: WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Info Committee

National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network

<http://www.americatakingaction.com/board/arun.htm>



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Media Arts Research Studies & Communication, Art & Technology
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 07:47:29 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 769 (769)


Greetings Scholars,

During my cyber-explorations, I found this..though this might interest

you..A Project at MARS --CAT: Communication, Art & Technology Network

which is authored by Dr. Monika Fleischmann & Dr. Wolfgang Strauss. For

more information about the CAT network -Please visit the site at:

<http://imk.gmd.de/mars/cat> And, Media Arts Research Studies is available

at: <http://imk.gmd.de/mars/>

Please do not forget to visit of **Memoria Futura** site at:

<http://imk.gmd.de/mars/cat/memoria>

There you will find, "James O'Donnell, saying, "I study the past, but I

plan to live in the future" and "Umberto Eco, saying, "The things that

cannot be theoretically expressed, one must tell a story about".

Read about the ongoing documentation of the symposium : MEMORIA FUTURA

at <http://imk.gmd.de/mars/cat/memoria>

Actually, MEMORIA FUTURA, is an exquisite example of the book, "Avatars of

the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace", written by James J. O'Donnell.

Contact Person: Dr. Monika Fleischmann, e-mail: 

Thank you for listening!

Kind Regards

Arun Tripathi



From: James.Inman@furman.edu
Subject: Kairos Reference and Invitation
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 770 (770)


Hey, all----

I was pleased to see Arun-Kumar's reference to John McLaughlin's book

review in Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments,

and I'm writing to share with listmembers opportunities for publishing in

Kairos.

As many of you know, Kairos (http://english.ttu.edu/kairos) is an

electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed resource for

teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university

level, including rhetoric, composition, technical writing, business

writing, professional communication, creative writing, and literature.  We

are also expanding our focus to include K-12 language arts education more

prominently.

Here are sections in the journal, with a summary of their publishing

interests and contact information for each (if you visit the journal's

site, you'll see examples of all of these):

Features:

Hypertextual scholarship of the highest caliber, fully developed and

clearly defined scholarly engagements of key issues relating to the

teaching, researching, and tutoring of writing.  Douglas Eyman and I serve

as journal Co-Editors---please contact us at kairosed@cfcc.net to learn

more and to submit possible webtexts.

CoverWeb:

A multivocal examination of a single issue, bringing into conversation a

series of focused hypertexts.  Contact CoverWeb Editor Joel English

(jaenglis@odu.edu) for more information about upcoming themes and to talk

about contributing.  Idea: perhaps someone might propose a CoverWeb on

humanities computing?

Reviews:

Reviews of books, software, technologies, and anything else relating to the

journal's general publishing program.  Contact Reviews Co-Editors Rich Rice

(rarice@bsu.edu) and Jennifer Stimson (j0stim01@louisville.edu) to learn

more.  Idea:  HUMANIST's recent discussion of software options for rhetoric

and composition classes would be an excellent beginning for a series of

reviews.

News:

News updates from around the world, conference reviews, calls for papers,

research in progress, electronic list conversations, and more.  Contact

News Editor Trish Harris (mirthgirl@mindspring.com) to talk about ways to

contribute.  Idea:  perhaps someone might suggest a particularly important

HUMANIST discussion for re-publication or share news about developing

research projects?

Response:

Classroom spotlights, InterMOOs with Kairos authors and other notable

scholars, interactive forums on key issues.  Contact Response Editor

Jennifer Bowie (jebowie@ttacs.ttu.edu) to learn more.  Idea:  perhaps

several scholars from HUMANIST might share some of the outstanding work

they're doing in their classrooms?

With any other questions, feedback, or ideas, please write to

kairosed@cfcc.net.  Douglas and I would be delighted to talk more with you

about Kairos.

Best wishes---

James

James A. Inman

Co-Editor and Co-Publisher, Kairos

Director, Center for Collaborative Learning and Communication, Furman

University



From: Scott Stebelman 
Subject: Symposium Announcement
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 20:15:51 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 771 (771)


In response to the escalating inflation of library materials, and to

increase faculty awareness of alternative modes of scholarly

communication, the Gelman Library of George Washington University is

sponsoring a symposium entitled "Who Will Control Scholarly Communication

in the 21st Century? Threats and Opportunities for the Academy." The

symposium, which is part of the President's Millennium Seminar Series,

will be held on March 30, from 1:00-3:00, in the Dorothy Betts Marvin

Theatre, George Washington University, 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC.

Speakers include:

Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren

Member of House Judiciary Committee and sponsor of several bills related

to the Internet, access, and privacy.

Professor David Morrison

James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Duke University and

Chair of the Mathematics arXiv

Professor Neil Fraistat

Professor of English at the University of Maryland and a founder and

General Editor of the Romantic Circles Website

Professor Michael Lovaglia

Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Iowa and founder of

the Internet journal, Current Research in Social Psychology

Dr. Donald Lehman

Vice-President for Academic Affairs

The George Washington University

This event is open to the public and does not require registration. For

more information, contact:

Scott Stebelman

Group Leader for Education and Instruction

Gelman Library

George Washington University

Washington, D.C. 20052

202/994-1342

scottlib@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: CONFERENCE: CIDOC/CHIN
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 20:18:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 772 (772)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 9, 2000

                   The International Committee for Documentation

            of the International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC) and

              Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) announce

                          CIDOC / CHIN 2000 CONFERENCE

                      August 22-26, 2000: Ottawa, Canada

                           <http://www.chin.gc.ca/cidoc>http://www.chin.gc.ca

<http://www.chin.gc.ca/cidoc>http://www.chin.gc.ca/cidoc

                       Pre-Conference Workshops (August 23):

                       Management of a Digitization Project

                     Implementing the Dublin Core in Museums

     <http://www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Cidoc/English/sessions.html#Workshops>h

<http://www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Cidoc/English/sessions.html#Workshops>http:

//www.chin.gc.ca/Resources/Cidoc/English/sessions.html#Workshops
[deleted quotation]
The CIDOC/CHIN conference will be held August 22-26, 2000 (please note slight

change in dates) at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa, Canada.

We invite you to submit your proposals for sessions related to the overall

theme

of the conference, ideas for papers and panel discussions, or for the overall

CIDOC / CHIN 2000 conference, including events. On-line submission forms

are now

available at the conference Web site

(<http://www.chin.gc.ca/cidoc>http://www.chin.gc.ca/cidoc).

Please visit the conference web site for program information. If you have any

questions, please contact Kati Geber at kgeber@chin.gc.ca.

We look forward to your participation with enthusiasm!

Patricia Young

CIDOC Chair

----------------------

Le congrs CIDOC/RCIP aura lieu du 22 au 26 aot 2000 (veuillez constater la

petite modification de dates)  l?Htel Westin  Ottawa, Canada.

Nous vous invitons  soumettre des propositions pour les sances, ayant

trait au

thme gnral de la confrence, des ides pour des allocutions et des

discussions, ou pour la confrence du CIDOC/RCIP 2000 en gnral, y compris

les

activits spciales. Les formulaires en direct sont maintenant disponibles

dans

le site Internet du congrs (www.rcip.gc.ca/cidoc).

Si vous dsirez obtenir de plus amples renseignements, veuillez visiter le

site

Internet du congrs. Pour toute question, n?hsitez pas  communiquer avec

Kati

Geber  kgeber@rcip.gc.ca .

Nous attendons votre participation avec enthousiasme !

Patricia Young

Prsidente du CIDOC

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Seminar: "Politics of Culture"; Conference: Webwise:
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 20:19:30 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 773 (773)


Libraries and Museums in the Digital World

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 9, 2000

                    "The Politics of Culture and Technology"

                  Tuesday, March 14, 2000: 3:30 to 5:00pm

                     401 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

                        <http://www.culturalpolicy.org>http://www.culturalpol

<http://www.culturalpolicy.org>http://www.culturalpolicy.org

      WEBWISE: A Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World

            March 15-17, 2000: Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C.

                 <http://cecssrv1.cecs.missouri.edu/webwise/>http://cecssrv1.

<http://cecssrv1.cecs.missouri.edu/webwise/>http://cecssrv1.cecs.missouri.ed

u/webwise/

                                   *  *  *

                    The Center for Arts and Culture Presents

                    "The Politics of Culture and Technology"

                  Tuesday, March 14, 2000: 3:30 to 5:00pm

                     401 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

                        <http://www.culturalpolicy.org>http://www.culturalpol

<http://www.culturalpolicy.org>http://www.culturalpolicy.org
[deleted quotation]
The Center for Arts and Culture, America's first independent think tank for

arts and culture, announces it's Calling the Question program: "The Politics

of Culture and Technology".  Free and open to the public, the program will

be on Tuesday, March 14, 2000 from 3:30 to 5:00pm in the National Building

Museum auditorium, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20001.  A reception

celebrating the publication of the Center's new book, The Politics of

Culture: Policy Perspecitves for Individuals, Institutions and Communities,

will follow the program and is also free and open to the public. Please

call (202) 783-5277 to reserve, seating is limited.

The cultural sector is embracing new technologies along with the rest of the

world.  What are the implications of this revolution for American culture

and how will these shape public policies about the arts and humanities in

the new century?

MODERATOR

James Allen Smith, President of the Center for Arts and Culture

PANELISTS:

* Adam Clayton Powell III, Vice President for Technology and Programs, The

Freedom Forum;

* Lori Perine, Senior Policy Advisor for Computing Information and

Communications, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy;

* Jerry Berman, Executive Director, Center for Policy and Technology; and

* Patricia Auferheide, Associate Professor in the School of Communications

at American University.

In the Washington Post on February 29, 2000, Richard Morin and Claudia Deane

noted that the Center's new book "will get Washington to think as seriously

about the nation's cultural life as it does about Bosnia or tax policy."

Available from The New Press, The Politics of Culture features fresh

research and thought-provoking commentary, providing a compelling outline

for the future of American public policy as it intersects with arts and

culture.

For more information please contact Malissa Bennett at (202) 783-5277 or by

email at mbennett@culturalpolicy.org.  Visit the Center's website at

<http://www.culturalpolicy.org>http://www.culturalpolicy.org .

          ===========================================================

      WEBWISE: A Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World

          Sponsored by The Institute of Museum and Library Services

     & The University of Missouri Columbia Department of Computer Science

            March 15-17, 2000: Renaissance Hotel, Washington, D.C.

                 <http://cecssrv1.cecs.missouri.edu/webwise/>http://cecssrv1.

<http://cecssrv1.cecs.missouri.edu/webwise/>http://cecssrv1.cecs.missouri.ed

u/webwise/

In cooperation with the University of Missouri Columbia, the Institute of

Museum and Library Services is hosting a conferenceon libraries and museums

in the digital world March 15-17, 2000, in Washington, D.C. The purpose of

the conference is to highlight the rich variety of museum and library

resources that can be made accessible through digitization and to explore

the challenges and opportunities of providing wide public access to these

collections. Sessions will focus on:

* partnerships that can be facilitated by Federal support (including state

and local, inter-institutional, and public-private),

* involvement of learners in the process, and

* management and preservation of digital collections.

Speakers will include digital collection managers, library and museum

leaders in this growing field, and corporate as well as foundation

representatives who are supporting digitization projects. The conference

report will inform IMLS planning for digital library funding.

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Seminar: Publishing in 21st Century
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 20:20:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 774 (774)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 9, 2000

          University of Virginia & Library of Congress Sixth Annual Seminar

              PUBLISHING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY

              April 13-15, 2000:  Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                 <http://uvace.virginia.edu/cup/publishing/media.htm>http://u

<http://uvace.virginia.edu/cup/publishing/media.htm>http://uvace.virginia.ed

u/cup/publishing/media.htm

                            $675 ($745 after March 15)

This two-day seminar addresses the power shifts, technological redirection,

and business redefinitions that comprise electronic publishing in the third

millennium. In both plenary and small group breakout sessions, participants

will learn how to make tradition and innovation coexist in the business of

publishing from the visionaries who have been at the forefront of

electronic publication.

Topics covered include:

*  power shifts: redefining the industry

*  best practices in strategic and tactical decision making

*  digital rights management

*  creating the most effective Web sites

*  code once, use many times: the promise of SGML and XML

*  copyright issues in a digital environment

*  e-Publishing: the new software systems

*  the new aggregators: Internet libraries

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

All book and journal publishers, including trade, educational, textbook,

association/nonprofit, business-to-business, government/service, and those in

related fields who are expanding into digital and Internet publication.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

The registration fee for the seminar is $745. An early bird fee of $675 is

available if registration is received on or before March 15, 2000. The

registration fee includes admission to all seminar activities, materials,

the keynote address, and the welcome reception at the Library of Congress

on Thursday, lunch in the Montpelier Room on Friday, continental breakfast

and all refreshment breaks on Friday and Saturday.  You can register online

or by mail/fax.

Seminar enrollment is limited, and early registration is advised. Selection

will be made on a first-come first-served basis. A registration form is

available online. Please note that although the registration fee is $745,

an early bird fee of $675 is available to those who register on or before

March 15, 2000, after which the registration fee reverts to $745.

Registration for this seminar must be made in advance by completing the

registration form and mailing it with your remittance payable to the

University of Virginia. Mail to the University of Virginia Continuing

Education, Center for University Programs, P.O. Box 3697, Charlottesville,

VA 22903. If paying by credit card, you may register by calling

800/346-3882, or FAX your registration to 804/982-5297. Space is limited,

and early registration is strongly recommended.

THE SPEAKERS

Keynote: Jason Epstein, Editorial Director and Senior Vice President,

Random House, Inc.

POWER SHIFTS: REDEFINING THE INDUSTRY

Mark Bayer, Senior Vice President and General Manager,  R.R. Donnelly

Laura Fillmore, President, Open Book Systems (OBS)

Scott Lubeck, Vice President and Managing Director, Westview Press, Perseus

Group

Barbara Kline Pope, Director, National Academy Press

BEST PRACTICES IN STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL DECISION MAKING

Moderator: Paul Hilts, Technology Editor, Publishers Weekly

Panelists:

Michael Jensen, Director of Publishing Technologies, National Academy Press

Carter Glass, Manager of Electronic Publications, American Geophysical Union

DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

Carol Risher, Vice President, Copyright & New Technology, AAP

Matthew P. Moynahan, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Reciprocal

Publishing

CREATING THE MOST EFFECTIVE WEB SITES

Laura Fillmore, President, Open Book Systems (OBS)

CODE ONCE, USE MANY TIMES: THE PROMISE OF SGML AND XML

David Seaman, Director, Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia

COPYRIGHT ISSUES IN A DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT

Mary Levering, Associate Register for National Copyright Programs, U.S.

Copyright Office

Susan Chertkof Munsat, Esq., Lichtman, Trister, Singer & Ross

E-PUBLISHING: THE NEW SOFTWARE SYSTEMS

William Kasdorf, President, Impressions Book & Journal Services

Len Kawell, President, Glassbook, Inc.

Susanne Peterson, Business Development Manager, e-Books, Microsoft Corp.

Steve Potash, President, Overdrive Systems

Bob Stein, Chairman & CEO, Night Kitchen

THE NEW AGGREGATORS: INTERNET LIBRARIES

Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Vice President, Research & Information Systems,

netLibrary

Kevin Guthrie, President, JSTOR

Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Principal, Rhind-Tutt Associates

John Unsworth, Director, Institute for Advanced Technologies in the

Humanities,

University of Virginia

Robert Zich, fmr Director of Electronic Programs, Library of Congress

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From: rosemary clarke 
Subject: Launch of SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 775 (775)


SOSIG (pronounced sausage!) is the social science, business and law hub of 

the Resource Discovery Network. It was launched in February.

SOSIG is a free, fully-searchable catalogue of international Internet 

resources to support learning, teaching and research in the social 

sciences. It provides links to resources which have been selected, 

evaluated and catalogued by teams of academics and librarians across the 

country. There are 16 broad subject sections including business and 

management, law and geography which can be browsed through or searched 

using a search engine.

It also includes Grapevine: a source of research, training and development 

opportunities in the social sciences where details of conferences and 

courses, university departments, CV's and research profiles can be mounted 

by registered users. After registering, a user can set up a personal 

profile and be informed of new resources being added on specified subjects.

There are links to other subject gateways from the following URL:

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/pinakes/pinakes.html

SOSIG is a service of the Resource Discovery Network 

(http://www.rdn.ac.uk/) a federation of subject-based services ("hubs") 

which have been established in five areas - the biological and medical 

sciences; engineering, computing and mathematics; the humanities; the 

physical sciences and the social sciences, business and law. Each of the 

hubs will launch new services during the coming year.

The RDN is co-ordinated by the Network Centre, the RDNC, which is 

responsible for the overall development of the service. It is based at both 

King's College London and UKOLN (The UK Office for Library and Information 

Networking, University of Bath) and is funded by the Joint Information 

Systems Committee (JISC), the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) and 

the Economic and Social Research Council.

For more information on this service contact

Justine Kitchen, Information and Training Manager, Resource Discovery

Network Centre

Tel: 020 7848 2934  Fax: 020 7848 2939

Email: justine.kitchen@rdn.ac.uk

Rosemary Clarke

----------------------

Rosemary Clarke

Information Specialist( Library - Law)

King's College London Library

The Strand

WC2R 2LS

Tel: 0171-848 1255

rosemary.clarke@kcl.ac.uk



From: Tony Meadow 
Subject: Re: 13.0474 conventions? formal methods/scientific practice?
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 22:28:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 776 (776)


Einat,
[deleted quotation]
You might want to look into ethnomethodology, a school of sociology that

was current some years ago when I was an undergraduate. As I recall, they

were concerned with the social construction of everyday life, with the

learned but unspoken assumptions about the structure of everyday life and

so on. The one name that I remember (perhaps not correctly) is Samson

Garfinkel who was then at UCLA.

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



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: science
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 22:29:03 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 777 (777)


In Humanist 13.474, Richard Giordano asks in response to the announcement

of the Colloquium at King's College London in 13.470,
[deleted quotation]
Since I don't know what a "structured method" is, I cannot even take a run

at the first two questions, but perhaps others would like to. I'd need the

idea of "investigation in technology" explained to me, if this is different

from applied science or the research end of engineering, and would need to

know "appropriate for what?" But I'd like to comment on the privileging of

scientific investigation, since this very much bears on the Colloquium and

at least some of the thinking behind it.

One of our speakers, Harry Collins, has worked hard and effectively at

doing just the opposite, i.e. to quote from his very fine book Changing

Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice (Chicago, 1992),

its purpose is "to bring science to the same epistemological level as other

knowledge making activities" (p. 185) by showing the social processes

involved. The phrase "social construction" is enough to start a fight these

days in some circles and so is perilous to use, but at least generically

that's what Collins is involved with in his studies of scientific practice,

along with several others. I recommend Ian Hacking's The Social

Construction of What? (Harvard, 1999) for guidance through the trenches of

the culture wars. His book Representing and Intervening (Cambridge, 1983)

furnishes a powerful philosophical argument that focuses on experiment, and

so helps to make the sciences much more readily accessible as imaginative,

creative disciplines. Forgive me for thumping once more Peter Galison's

Image and Logic for the focus on "all that grubby, unplatonic equipment",

from which he pulls a thrilling intellectual history which tells not an

insignificant part of our story.

If drawing attention to the sciences is to privilege them, then mea culpa.

One of the motivations behind the Colloquium is to explore the possibility

that we might have friends among the philosophers, historians and

sociologists of science, that there just might be some useful analytic

tools we could adapt to our purposes. I still think it's an interesting

question why we don't have a philosophy or sociology or history of the

humanities in anything like the same sense. Perhaps now that research in

the humanities is externalised via the computer, there is an intellectual

object to be studied, and so we will be studied. I sure hope so.

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: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence by Eric
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:18:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 778 (778)


Paulos

Greetings humanist groups,

Hello, Eric Paulos will be speaking at Seminar on People, Computers and

Design of Stanford University Program in Human-Computer Interaction ON

"Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence" NOT at UC Berkeley..Actually

he is working at University of California, Berkeley.
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Kind Regards

Arun Kumar Tripathi



From: CyberForum 
Subject: "Web Ethics" chat in CyberForum@ArtCenter
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:22:07 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 779 (779)


To: "CyberForum@ArtCenter" 

CyberForum@ArtCenter

Wednesday, March 11, 1:30 PM PST

Carol Gigliotti and panel meet in 3-D avatar world

Email: cyberforum@artcenter.edu

Web: <http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>

The CyberForum presents real-time online author chats.

On Saturday, March 11, at 1:30 PM PST, Carol Gigliotti, Ph.D.,

discusses "Web Ethics." Carol Gigliotti is an educator

who analyzes the ethics of Internet technology. She developed

the website/online journal/CD-ROM "Astrolabe" and she writes

about the values underlying the Web. Please join Carol and

the panel for a free-flowing discussion.

Chat log with screen grabs from previous meetings of

the Forum are online at:

<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/html/archive.html>

The Forum features authors drawn from The Digital Dialectic:

New Essays on New Media (MIT Press, 1999) collected and

edited by Peter Lunenfeld.

Forums are open to the public and run one hour

on either Wednesdays or Saturdays.

CyberForum speakers include:

Carol Gigliotti, March 11, 1:30 PM PST

Lev Manovich , March 25, 1:30 PM PST

William J. Mitchell, April 5, 1:30 PM PST

Brenda Laurel, March 1, 1:30 PM PST

Katherine Hayles, Feb. 26, 1:30 PM PST

Michael Heim, Feb. 9, 1:30 PM PST

Peter Lunenfeld, Feb 2, 1:30 PM PST

Email questions to cyberforum@artcenter.edu

For further information and speaker bios,

visit the website:

<http://www.mheim.com/cyberforum/index.html>

To participate: Download the free Eduverse 3D browser from

<http://www.activeworlds.com/edu/awedu_download.html>

Install the software and enter as a tourist in Eduverse.

The left panel of the Eduverse browser shows a list of

worlds. Choose "ACCD" world and follow the other

avatars to the Forum location. The Virtual Worlds Team

at Art Center will be there to guide you.

The CyberForum@ArtCenter is a production of the Virtual

Worlds Team at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,

California, under the direction of Michael Heim (mheim@artcenter.edu)



From: "Art, Photo and Film Editorial" 
Subject: Ars Electronica, Object to Be Destroyed, Photographer of
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:23:16 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 780 (780)


This message is one of a series of periodic mailings about newly released

books in art, film, and photography.  You have received this mailing

because you have either purchased a book or added yourself to the mailing

list.

Follow the URLs below to our catalog for contents, abstracts, and ordering

information.

This month, check the MIT Press web site (http://mitpress.mit.edu) for

books and discussion on the art of the future.

Ars Electronica

Facing the Future

edited by Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/DRUAHF99>

For the past two decades the Austrian-based Ars Electronica, Festival for

Art, Technology, and Society has played a pivotal role in the development

of electronic media. Linking artistic practice and critical theory, the

annual festival and symposium bring together scientists, philosophers,

sociologists, and artists in an ongoing discourse on the effects of

digital media on creativity--and on culture itself.

Since Ars Electronicas inception, the evolution of the artistic,

historical, and theoretical works presented has been documented in a

series of publications that remain crucial to any understanding of media

art. Drawing on the abundant and inventive resources of those

publications and on Ars Electronicas archives, this anthology collects

the essential works that form the core of a contemporary art long

dismissed as too technical or inaccessible.

Object to Be Destroyed

The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark

Pamela M. Lee

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/LEEBHF99>

        

In this first critical account of Gordon Matta-Clarks work, Pamela M.

Lee considers it in the context of the art of the 1970s-particularly

site-specific, conceptual, and minimalist practices--and its

confrontation with issues of community, property, the alienation of urban

space, the "right to the city," and the ideologies of progress that have

defined modern building programs.

7 x 9, 240 pp., 99 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-12220-0

Germaine Krull

Photographer of Modernity

Kim Sichel

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SICGHF99>

Germaine Krull (1897-1985) led an extraordinary life that spanned nine

decades and four continents. She witnessed many of the high points of

modernism and recorded some of the major upheavals of the twentieth

century. Her photographs include avant-garde montages, ironic studies of

female nudes, press propaganda shots, as well as some of the most

successful commercial and fashion images of her day.  Kim Sichels study

of this remarkable artist reveals a life of deep convictions, implausible

transformations, complex emotional relationships, and inspired

achievements.

9 1/2 x 12 1/4, 363 pp., 191 illus., 148 duotone, cloth ISBN 0-262-19401-5

If you would prefer not to receive mailings in the future, please send a

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: "Socrates in the Labyrinth
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:25:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 781 (781)


--Hypertext-Argument-Philosophy"

Greetings humanist groups,

As a net messenger and working globally as an educator with different

scholars and teachers round the globe and..it is a real pleasure to do the

virtual data-mining on the various aspects of..education, philosophy,

cyberspace, hypertext, media, education technology, arts/history..etc..

-SO, here is once again..Arun Tripathi with his treasure trove..

Recently, "the Father of Hypertext", Prof. Michael Joyce has given

a "gentle title" to me as 'Global Research Assistant to the Hypertext

Community'. What a great honour!! I love this and bow to this!

This time, in my "treasure trove" is one Diamond ** David Kolb **

David Kolb, is Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy in the Dept. of

Philosophy and Religion at Bates College. For more details about this

Living Legend, please visit at: <http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/>

He is the author of "The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger and

After", "Postmodern Sophistications" and most terrific book, he has

written on "Socrates in the Labyrinth" --a collection of hypertext essays

about non-linear writing in philosophy. Socrates in the Labyrinth is a

wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought,

and argument.

--Prof. David Kolb has also asked some questions in his explosive essay--

I) Does hypertext present alternatives to the logical structures of

if-then, claim and support?

II) Is hypertext a mere expository tool, that cannot alter the essence of

discussion and proof? OR Is the hypertext essentially unsuited to rigorous

argument?

Socrates in the Labyrinth is one the first works of hypertext non-fiction

to examine and exploit the techniques of hypertext rhetoric....Socrates in

the Labyrinth was created using Storyspace, which is a Hypertext tool for

writers and readers..is a hypertext writing environment..

"Socrates in the Labyrinth --Hypertext-Argument-Philosophy"

<http://www.eastgate.com/catalog/Socrates.html>

Prof. Charles Ess has written a  review of "Socrates in the Labyrinth

--Hypertext-Argument-Philosophy"

<http://www.eastgate.com/reviews/Ess.html>

In the words of Charles Ess, "..Kolb is one of the very few philosophers

whose own work on postmodern makes him eminently well-qualified to

consider the various postmodern views which tend to drive hypertext

theory".

An excellent Hypertext site by George Landow

Cyberspace, hypertext & critical theory

<http://landow.stg.brown.edu/cpace/cspaceov.html>

David Kolb, "Postmodern Sophistications: Philosophy, Architecture, and

Tradition, xii, 216 pp..1990

David Kolb, "The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger, and After,

1986

SOCRATES IN THE LABYRINTH BY David Kolb at

<http://www.ucm.es/info/especulo/hipertul/socrates2.html>

An Anthology on Hegel's Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on

Hegel's Philosophy of Religion, edited by David Kolb

Among his other writings, include Hegel's theories of architecture.

ONE THING, please DO NOT FORGET to VISIT his INTERNET TEACHING TECHNIQUES

site at <http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/teaching.html>

He has also written a hyper-essay called Socrates Apology..can also be

read at <http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/seulmonde/Apology.html>

His GRAND bibliography for some other essays is available at

<http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb/essays.html>

Please make a visit at his "Land of The Bates Hypertext Archive" at:

<http://www.bates.edu/Faculty/Philosophy%20and%20Religion/Philosophy/htarchi

ve/hypertext.archive.html>

Hoping most educators might take great benefits from the research works of

David Kolb and -if any educator wanted to know more about this Living

Legend and his tremendous works, then please mail me.

Thanking you!

My best regards

Arun Tripathi

Research Scholar

UNI DO, Germany

Appointed Officer: WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Info Committee

National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network

<http://www.americatakingaction.com/board/arun.htm>

Short Online Bio of Arun at: <http://www.iteachnet.com/resume/akumar.html>

Arun Tripathi's Global Education Links at:

<http://www.angelfire.com/ks/learning/index.html>

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Intellectual Property on the Pacific Rim
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:20:04 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 782 (782)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 9, 2000

         Whittier Law School 17th Annual International Law Symposium

                 "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON THE PACIFIC RIM:

                 ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, AND THE UNITED STATES"

             March 17, 2000: Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, CA

                         <http://www.law.whittier.edu>http://www.law.whittier

<http://www.law.whittier.edu>http://www.law.whittier.edu
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WHITTIER LAW SCHOOL 17TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL LAW SYMPOSIUM

"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ON THE PACIFIC RIM:

ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, AND THE UNITED STATES"

Friday, March 17, 2000

Whittier Law School, 3333 Harbor Blvd., Costa Mesa, CA 92626

Sponsored by the Whitter Law School Center for Intellectual Property

Law and by a grant from the law firm of Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear,

Newport Beach, California

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From: Shneiderman, Ben 
Subject: visualisation seminar
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:21:06 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 783 (783)


To: 

Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 8:28 AM
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achieve
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coupling
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and
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Pathfinder
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spaces,
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From: "Areti Damala" 
Subject: MA in humanities computing
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 784 (784)


[Dear Colleagues:

The following request was sent to me but needs wider circulation. Please

respond directly to Areti Damala with your suggestions as to programmes of

study that might fit either of the two topics. Thanks. --WM]

I am interested in carrying out a master of sciences dissertation on one of

the two following topics

1)Computing on the history of art teaching

2)The new multimedia "language" in museum function

I am already following a master of sciences program at the University of

Crete with an emphasis on the use of mark-up languages in archeological

studies.

I would like to have a second master in an Institute that upon completion

of this master of sciences dissertation would support a PhD with a similar

topic.

Please, if you have any suggestions e-mail me some url's.

Thank you all in advance

Areti Damala



From: Michael Fraser 
Subject: The Don Fowler Memorial Fund
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 785 (785)


Dear Colleagues,

I am forwarding the enclosed announcement about the Don Fowler

Memorial Fund on behalf of Peta Fowler. I am sure it will be of interest

to many of you.

I am happy to pass on any enquries about the fund to the relevant

person(s).

Sincerely,

Dr Michael Fraser

University of Oxford

mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk

--------------

The Don Fowler Memorial Fund

On 15 October 1999, the world of classical scholarship lost one of its

most exciting and colourful figures with the tragically early death, at

the age of 46, of Don Fowler. It is to honour Don's memory, and to further

his wide-ranging and interdisciplinary approach to classical scholarship

and teaching, that his family, friends, colleagues, and students have

instituted an annual lecture. Rather than suggesting that the lecture

should be given within the range of subjects in which Don was interested,

we have decided to entitle it 'New Approaches to Latin Literature'. Don

would be the last person to want his legacy fossilised, and this year's

new approach might not be so new in five years' time. Don himself

constantly changed and grew intellectually and he would have wished that

the subjects which he loved should also change and grow.

In order to establish this lecture, support from a wide range of

organisations and individuals is needed. Substantial funding will be

required if the lecture is to have the stature and impact which Don

deserves. It is intended to invite as lecturers not only professors of

long standing, name and reputation, but young and rising scholars - the

group that Don himself delighted to foster. Any surplus moneys would be

applied primarily to the advancement of Latin studies within Oxford

University and of Classics within Jesus College.

Jesus College is very happy to provide the necessary administrative

support for the appeal for this Memorial Fund. Anyone who would like to

contribute to this endeavour should send a cheque made payable to Jesus

College, Oxford, to the Estates Bursar, Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW

indicating that it is a contribution to the Don Fowler Memorial Fund.

American donors may make tax-deductible donations via Americans for Oxford

Inc. If you would like to give through that medium, the donation should be

sent to Mr John R. Price, Chairman, Americans for Oxford, Inc., 198

Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (with a copy to Susan Van Liew,

Director - Finance & Administration, Oxford University Development (NA)

Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Tel: 212 726 6408). Please

indicate that the donation is for Jesus College Oxford - the Don Fowler

Memorial Fund.



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: science
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 786 (786)


In Humanist 13.478, Willard McCarty mentions that we might have friends

among the philosophers, historians and sociologists of science and

indicates his hope that humanities will be studied via a philosophy or

sociology or history of the humanities now that research in the humanities

is externalised via the computer.

It is my conjecture that love, friendship, hope, kindness, responsibility,

knowledge are eternal, and so there probably will be some day an

interdisciplinary study of humanities, science, philosophy, sociology and

anthropology, history.  I think that the universe distinguishes between

positive events which benefit it and its subsystems and negative events

which detract from these, and I have elsewhere called this the

Nonnegativity/Positivity and Asymmetric System conjectures and argued that

they follow from LBP.  Nothing benefits the universe more, I think, than

great literature, music, art, and the emotions that I have mentioned.  They

touch the heart of the universe as much as the heart of humanity.  The

closest that we can come in academia to this is the interdisciplinary

study, to cross the boundaries of ourselves and others out of hope,

responsibility, friendship, kindness, love, knowledge.  We keep our minds

open in this endeavor, changing our own ideas as much as we change

others.  We create, discover, invent, intuit, synthesize, analyze, think

and feel more than within our narrow boundaries or even the narrow

boundaries of our departments and of publishing versus perishing.  We will

discover that in science and philosophy, in sociology and anthropology and

history, the same factors are at work and are central.  In a sense, only

the details differ.  The computer can help us immensely to cross these

boundaries, but we must explore ourselves as well because the computer has

never felt the emotions and the motivations and, if Professor Sir Roger

Penrose is correct, never will.

As for myself, I must give at least half the credit for anything that I

have discovered to the interdisciplinary dialogue which I have had for over

30 years with my wife, Dr. Marleen Josie Doctorow, a clinical psychologist

and partisan of Shakespeare.  But that is a story for another time.

Yours truly and sincerely,

Osher Doctorow



From: Stephen Talbott 
Subject: Review: Albert Borgmann on the Technological Paradigm
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:44:41 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 787 (787)


                                  NETFUTURE

                     Technology and Human Responsibility

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Issue #64       Copyright 1998 Bridge Communications      January 20, 1998

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               Editor:  Stephen L. Talbott (stevet@oreilly.com)

      On the Web: http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/stevet/netfuture/

      You may redistribute this newsletter for noncommercial purposes.

CONTENTS:

*** Editor's Note

*** Quotes and Provocations

         Chains of Logic

         Is Technology Good for Society? (Your Answer, Please)

         Consulting as a Respectable Business

         Technology and Chaos

*** How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1) (Steve Talbott)

         Albert Borgmann on the technological paradigm

*** About this newsletter

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*** Editor's Note (14 lines)

The review in this issue of Albert Borgmann's book, *Technology and the

Character of Contemporary Life*, may be the most important thing I have

ever passed along in NETFUTURE.  While recognized by philosophers of

technology as perhaps the preeminent American treatise on the

technological society, Borgmann's book has nevertheless been -- within my

own woefully restricted horizons -- the best-kept secret of the past

fourteen years.  It not only carries out, in the most thorough-going way,

a razor-sharp critique of the "device paradigm" currently ruling our

society, but it also strengthens one's hope for the future.  My two-part

review of the book will be concluded in the next issue.

SLT

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Is Technology Good for Society? (Your Answer, Please)

-----------------------------------------------------

In reading through an old issue of *Daedalus*, I came across this remark

by Joseph Weizenbaum (addressed to a doctor as part of an informal

discussion):

     You were taught what to do if a patient were to walk into your office

     and say, "Doctor, I want you to amputate my little finger, and how much

     do you charge for that?"  You would not do what the technologist does,

     that is, ask..."What are the specifications?  Do I have the resources?

     Do I have the competence?" and if all these questions are answered

     appropriately, say that you will perform the amputation.  Instead, you

     take ... responsibility for finding as best you can what the problem

     is.  You may decide that what is really necessary is aspirin or

     bedrest, or an amputation of the foot, and you will behave accordingly,

     quite independent of how much the patient is willing to pay you to cut

     off his little finger.  That is what you were taught as a physician.

     That is precisely the opposite of what happens in almost all

     engineering practice.  ("Some Issues of Technology", *Daedalus*,

     winter, 1980, p. 23)

A doctor, of course, acts within a world of concern that includes the

health and welfare of the patient.  This lends an inescapably moral

quality to the treatment.

Not everyone would agree with Weizenbaum's indictment of the engineering

profession.  I would like to ask NETFUTURE readers in the high-tech

industry the following questions (which bear, not just on engineers, but

on the industry as a whole):

*   In your experience, does the high-tech industry operate within a

      context of moral concern for the health and welfare of its customers

      and the society of end users?

*   If so, how primary is the concern, and via what pathways and practices

      does it effectively find its way into industry performance?

I'd be interested in collecting your responses and sharing them with

readers.  The wider the range of respondents, the better, so please

forward this invitation, as appropriate, to other relevant forums.

(Thanks to Nancy Phillips for passing along the old issue of *Daedalus*.)

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Technology and Chaos

--------------------

"Nature in its pristine state," writes Albert Borgmann, "now consists of

islands in an ocean of technology."  There was a time when every shrine,

every temple, every city marked off a sacred and inhabitable district,

redeeming it from the surrounding primordial wildness, or "chaos".  But

now there has been a reversal:

     Whereas in the mythic experience the erection of a sanctuary

     established a cosmos and habitat in the chaos of wilderness, the

     wilderness now appears as a sacred place in the disorientation and

     distraction of the encompassing technology.  (*Technology and the

     Character of Contemporary Life*, p. 190)

The technologies we employed to vanquish wilderness have now established

the rule, you might say, of a new chaos, from which we must wrest a truly

human habitation.

The reversal is profound.  A wilderness that is threatened can no longer

stand as the ultimate challenge and threat.  "Respect for the wilderness

will never again be nourished by its formerly indomitable wildness.  On

the contrary.  The wilderness now touches us deeply in being so fragile

and vulnerable (p. 194).

Borgmann does not disparage technology as such.  It teaches us to respect

wilderness "not for its power but for its beauty."  The power -- raging

storms, wild animals, impassable slopes, torrential floods -- can be

overcome by technology.  But technology is powerless to convert the beauty

of wilderness into just another consumable commodity.  It can make the

attempt only by

     killing the wilderness or keeping it at bay.  Technology kills the

     wilderness when it develops it through roads, lifts, motels, and

     camping areas.  It keeps the wilderness at bay when, without affecting

     untouched areas permanently, it insulates us from the engagement with

     the many dimensions and features of the land, as it does through rides

     in jet boats or helicopters.  Here we can see that technology with its

     seemingly infinite resourcefulness in procuring anything and everything

     does have a clear limit.  It can procure something that engages us

     fully and in its own right only at the price of gutting or removing it.

     Thus the wilderness teaches us not only to accept technology but also

     to limit it.  (p. 195)

Both the acceptance and the limitation, Borgmann argues, can be principled

and sensible.  At one extreme, we would not turn people loose in the

wilderness with only a coat and loaf of bread.  The hiker can make good

use of high-tech, lightweight gear.  At the other extreme, we cannot

reasonably allow motor vehicles into wilderness areas and expect the

wilderness to remain as wilderness.

     To require that people (or at most horses and mules) carry in whatever

     is needed and leave no trash or scars is a rule that balances the

     mature acceptance of technology with the openness to pristine nature in

     its deep texture.  Thus we become free for the wilderness without

     courting the danger of disburdenment and disengagement.  The burdens of

     one's gear and of a climb are the ways in which the wilderness

     discloses itself.  They are onerous, to be sure, and taxing.  And so

     they call forth a discipline which is sensibly marked off not only

     against the strain of labor and the pleasures of consumption but also

     against the immature pursuit of pretechnological tasks. (p. 195)

Wilderness, according to Borgmann, is just one example of the "focal

things" that alone teach us to set proper bounds to technology.  See the

review of his book, below.

SLT

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*** How Technology Co-opted the Good (Part 1) (266 lines)
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Notes concerning the book, *Technology and the Character of Contemporary

Life: A Philosophical Inquiry*, by Albert Borgmann (Chicago: University of

Chicago Press, 1984).  Paperback, 302 pages.

Borgmann's book was published in 1984.  I am reviewing it now because I

have just recently discovered it -- and because it offers as revelatory a

treatment of technological society as I have yet found.

The Pursuit of Consumption

--------------------------

The social role of any given technology is often analyzed as a means-end

relation; the technological device is the means, and what we produce with

it reflects our ends.  This is useful as far as it goes.  but Borgmann

takes us to a deeper level, where we see that the relatively strict

separation of means from end is one of the decisive and damaging features

of our technological society.

Deeply meaningful human activity is activity in which ends and means

*cannot* always be neatly distinguished.  When a musician practices, is he

simply developing the means to perform, or is he also gaining some of the

joy of performance?  When a family camps out, is the campfire merely a

means for producing warmth and light, or is the pleasure of building it

part of the whole reason for camping?  Is a woodcarver's goal nothing but

the production of finished figures, or does he also aim at the expressive

satisfaction of the carving itself?

The technological device, Borgmann argues, embodies negative answers to

questions like these.  A home's central heating system *is* only for the

production of warmth, and a CD player is only for the final production of

music.  The social context and disciplined engagement of the music-making

is now separated from the enjoyment of the music.  In general, "what

distinguishes a device is its sharp internal division into a machinery and

a commodity procured by that machinery" (p. 33).

     Machinery is a means, of course, and it is a mere means.  But the

     import of that mereness is often overlooked both by the critics and the

     defenders of technology.  Since machinery is merely a means, so the

     proponent of technology reasons, it will serve whatever ends and not

     constrain our choice of ends.  [But] this view overlooks the fact that

     the rise of mere means is a revolutionary event and transforms from the

     ground up what now can count as an end.  (p. 63)

Radically different machineries -- for example, a player piano, record

player, tape recorder, and CD player -- can produce the same result, which

is largely indifferent to the various machineries.  By contrast, the

*activity* of music-making is substantially defined by the particular

context through which the music comes about, and is therefore inseparable

from the context.

Borgmann shows how the machinery of a device is progressively hidden from

view in technology's background, while the now decontextualized commodity

produced by the device occupies the foreground.  This separation

encourages us toward the unrooted, trivial, and distracting pursuit of

consumption, wherein our activity loses all depth and focus.  Carrying the

trend to its logical extreme, we would seek our commodious pleasures

altogether without context, via direct stimulation of the brain -- a

notion more realistic and closer to acceptance today than when Borgmann

wrote his book.  In sum,

     Central heating plants, cars, and T.V. dinners are technological

     devices that have the function of procuring or making available a

     commodity such as warmth, transportation, or food.  A commodity is

     available when it is at our disposal without burdening us in any way,

     i.e., when it is commodiously present, instantaneously, ubiquitously,

     safely, and easily.  Availability in this sense requires that the

     machinery of a device be unobtrusive, i.e., concealed, dependable, and

     foolproof.

Borgmann distinguishes technological devices from the "focal things and

practices" that can "center and illuminate our lives."  Music (produced

and enjoyed in a social, historical, and disciplined context), the

experience of wilderness, and the culture of the table (where the

production and handling of food, the decorous ordering of the table, and

the social and conversational tradition all play a role) are examples of

such focal practices.  In general, focal things are

     concrete, tangible, and deep, admitting of no functional equivalents;

     they have a tradition, structure, and rhythm of their own.  They are

     unprocurable and finally beyond our control.  They engage us in the

     fullness of our capacities.  (p. 219)

But the distinction between commodity and focal practice is increasingly

glossed over today:

     There is a widespread and easy acceptance of equivalence between

     commodities and [focal] things even where the experiential differences

     are palpable.  People who have traveled through Glacier Park in an

     air-conditioned motor home, listening to soft background music and

     having a cup of coffee, would probably answer affirmatively and without

     qualification when asked if they knew the park, had been in the park,

     or had been through the park.  Such people have not felt the wind of

     the mountains, have not smelled the pines, have not heard the red-

     tailed hawk, have not sensed the slopes in their legs and lungs, have

     not experienced the cycle of day and night in the wilderness.  The

     experience has not been richer than one gained from a well-made film

     viewed in suburban Chicago.

"It is," Borgmann claims from beginning to end, "the pervasive

transformation of things into devices that is changing our commerce with

reality from engagement to ... disengagement" (p. 61).  He argues time and

again that no escape from the distraction and fatuity of consumerism is to

be had by working within the current technological paradigm -- for

example, by defending "values" and trying to employ technology as a means

for achieving worthwhile values.  This is to continue accepting the

artificial separation of means and ends that must be overcome if we are to

rediscover focal things and practices.  What is required is that we take

up with the world and with technology in an entirely different and more

conscious manner.

Digital Watches, Skyscrapers, and Televisions

---------------------------------------------

Borgmann is not altogether pessimistic about the possibilities.  But

before looking at the sources of his hope, I would like to characterize

what he calls the "device paradigm" a little more closely.

If you showed a modern, spring-driven watch to Bacon, Descartes, or

Newton, they would have little difficulty in understanding its workings.

But show them a digital watch and they would, as Borgmann points out, be

stumped.  They could understand it only after pursuing graduate studies in

modern logic, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and engineering.  Yet they

could learn how to *use* such a watch even more easily than a spring-

driven one.

Further, the digital watch is more convenient, giving us the time "in

digits, with more precision, more variety, greater completeness, and with

less bulk, without the need to wind it up, to turn it past 31 November, or

to take account of leap years" (p. 149).  The convenience is purchased at

the price of a less accessible machinery.

This pattern holds even for such "devices" as food and skyscrapers.  When,

for example, food is reconceived as an end product compounded of certain

textures, tastes, colors, smells, and nutritive substances, it can be

engineered and consumed as a commodity with little relation to the land

and cultivation or to the skills and social ordering of kitchen and table.

Technologically transformed wine

     no longer bespeaks the peculiar weather of the year in which it grew

     since technology is at pains to provide assured, i.e., uniform,

     quality.  It no longer speaks of a particular place since it is a blend

     of raw materials from different places.  (p. 49)

Or take the skyscraper:

     It makes space available in an abstract three-dimensional grid into

     which one inserts oneself through an equally abstract transportation

     system.  As always, there are echoes of pretechnological experiences in

     these devices.  Thus a higher location in a high-rise is better and

     more prestigious as though, being up there, one had mastered a mountain

     or were lord over those below.  But in fact one has no real sense of

     position or location; one is not oriented to those around one in the

     other apartments or offices, and one is not related to a center because

     skyscrapers, as a rule, have none. (p. 67)

The same spatial indifference also holds true of the skyscraper's relation

to its setting.  Nothing much about the building changes as you move

between locations thousands of miles apart.

Borgmann points out that while "the machinery of technology can still be

obtrusive and disruptive, as in strip mining or highway construction," it

shapes our lives most profoundly where it is concealed behind readily

available commodities.

     An affluent suburb is seemingly the incarnation of the pastoral garden

     that [some observers] see threatened by the incursion of the machine.

     And yet such a suburb is technological through and through.  It is a

     pretty display of commodities resting on a concealed machinery.  There

     is warmth, food, cleanliness, entertainment, lawns, shrubs, and

     flowers, all of it procured by underground utilities, cables, station

     wagons, chemical fertilizers and weed killers, riding lawn mowers, seed

     tapes, and underground sprinklers.  The advanced technological setting

     is characterized not by the violence of machinery but by the

     disengagement and distraction of commodities.

Borgmann offers many other examples of the same pattern.  Insurance

disburdens us (through a mostly hidden "machinery" of contracts, legal

provisions, and organizational structures) of the difficult and sometimes

unpleasant relations between neighbors in times of trouble; it reduces the

uncertainties of neighborly obligation to the certainty of a cash payment

that puts an end to all further obligation.

Or take personal transport:  when we walk or run, our breathing, our

muscles, our senses are challenged and engaged by the environment through

which we move.  At the opposite pole, busy executives go to a health club

and walk a treadmill to nowhere (gaining commoditized "health factors")

while occupying their minds with business literature.

It is the glory of technology, Borgmann argues, that it "meliorates

dangerous, injurious, and back-breaking work" (p. 118).  But much of this

potential has already been achieved, and it has gotten us into a bad

habit:  we continue to think of all forms of disengagement as if they were

liberation.  Commenting on the view that carrying water is insufferable

drudgery, Borgmann grants that, if the purpose of carrying water is merely

to obtain a commodity, then the concealed modern plumbing system is vastly

superior to the old-fashioned well.  But then he cites the Old Testament

figure of Rebecca:

     As [Daniel] Boorstin reminds us, Rebecca, going to the well, not only

     found water there but also companionship, news of the village, and her

     fiance.  These strands of her life were woven into a fabric technology

     has divided and privatized into commodities.  (p. 119)

Borgmann does not suggest that we should resist modern water supplies.

But he does prevent us from exaggerating their liberating qualities.  And

he urges us to consider how we can replace the lost engagement with nature

and community.

Work and Play

-------------

The labor/leisure distinction peculiar to our day "represents the split of

the technological device into machinery and commodity writ large" (p. 34).

Borgmann wonderfully traces the split's implications for work, whereby

work became a mere means of production.  The result was disruption of the

household, the establishment of factories and a proletariat, and the

destruction of village life.  The tasks "that once gave the family weight

and structure" were taken over by the machinery of technology, and parents

were reduced to overseeing the consumption of commodities within the home

-- an insufficient basis for earning the child's respect (pp. 137-38).

But the device paradigm is perhaps most vividly displayed in the

complement of work:  our use of leisure time.  Here the television must

loom large in any account.  It "remains the purest, that is, the clearest

and most attenuated, presentation of the promise of technology.  It

appears to free us from the fetters of time, space, and ignorance and to

lay before us the riches of the world in their most glamorous form.  In

light of this cosmopolitan brilliance, all local and personal

accomplishments must seem crude and homely" (p. 142).

Few take pride in the quality of the television programs they watch.

Further,

     We feel uneasiness about our passivity and guilt and sorrow at the loss

     of our traditions or alternatives.  There is a realization that we are

     letting great things and practices drift into oblivion and that

     television fails to respond to our best aspirations and fails to engage

     the fullness of our powers.  These impressions generally agree with

     more systematic findings that show television is "not rated

     particularly highly as a general way of spending time, and in fact was

     evaluated below average compared to other free-time activities."  (p.

     143)

And yet, we cannot abandon television, because it "embodies too vividly

the dream of which we cannot let go."

     It provides a center for our leisure and an authority for the

     appreciation of commodities.  It is also a palliative that cloaks the

     vacuity and relaxes the tension of the technological condition.  So it

     is normally not enough to reject or constrain television.  One must

     recognize and reform the larger pattern if one is to reform its center.

               *   *   *   *   *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *

Borgmann not only offers as penetrating an analysis of technological

society as I have seen; he also limns as substantial a hope for its reform

as I have ever dared to imagine.  I'll take up this side of his thought in

the next issue.

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Subject: science, formal methods &c
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 789 (789)


Following is an exchange of letters between Richard Giordano and myself on

the topic introduced by my announcement of the Colloquium "Humanities

computing: formal methods, experimental practice" here at King's College

London 13 May. Comments are of course most welcome. --WM
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From: Einat Amitay 
Subject: conventions - the list....
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 790 (790)


Hi all,

So --- this is my list... It has many directions and I guess some of you

would only relate to some of the texts and the people. I've tried to

include as many online references as possible - so you could look things

up yourselves.

Thanks to all the people who mailed me with suggestions:

Willard McCarty

Gisela Redeker

Guillermo Soto V.

Jon Awbrey

Penny Lee

Eve V. Clark

Eva Schultze-Berndt

Craig Hamilton

Tahir Wood

Tony Meadow

Graeme Hirst

Jozsef Toth

Patrick John Coppock

Yvan Beaulieu

And for my thoughts about convention: .. it is not surprising that the

the word convention means both agreement and assembly at the same

time...

Have fun reading this scattered list and any comments / corrections /

additions are welcome!

+:o)

einat

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Harry Collins

Collins H.M. Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific

Practice (Chicago, 1992).

Collins H.M. (1995).humans, machines, and the structure of knowledge.

Stanford Humanities Review, 4:2. Online:

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/collins.html

"... normal action is usually 'rule following' and sometimes 'rule

establishing'. ... We know that normal action is rule-following because

we nearly always know when we have broken the rules."

Marshall MacLuhan

Marshall McLuhan: Is It Natural That One Medium Should Appropriate and

Exploit Another?

[Essay from McLuhan: Hot and Cool, ed. George Stearn (1967)]

http://www.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/lore/um/exploit.html

"All media testing has been done within the parameters of older media --

especially of speech and print."

Kurt Lewin - beyond language proper to social behavior

http://www.utexas.edu/coc/journalism/SOURCE/j363/lewin.html

Roger Fidler's "Mediamorphosis" (Pine Forge, 1997)

Herbert H. Clark

Clark, H.H. (1996). Using language. Cambridge University Press.

Clark, H.H. (1997?). [ something like: Commonalities, communities, and

conventions ] In: Gumperz & Levinson (eds) Rethinking relativity.

Cambridge University Press.

http://matia.stanford.edu/~herb/

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/clarke.htm

rhetorical tradition:

Quintilian and Demetrio;

the ars dictaminis in the Middle Ages, etc.

http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/figures/quintilian.html

http://www.msu.edu/user/lewisbr4/980/hypertext.html

http://www.msu.edu/user/lewisbr4/980/institutes.html

http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/idxref/8/0,5716,318383,00.html

Appendix Probi? It's a beautiful normative book that shows you the "bad"

latin people were using  instead of the cultivated high one, when the

work was written.

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/appendix_probi.html

Patrick John Coppock - TextNorm>CoDiVE

(http://www.hf.ntnu.no/anv/WWWpages/Project/web/Report_ToC.html)

Benjamin Lee Whorf

http://cis.csuohio.edu/~somos/whorf.html

Penny Lee. The Whorf Theory Complex; A critical reconstruction

Clark, E. V.  1993.  The lexicon in acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge

University press.

Lewis, D. K.  1969.  Convention: a philosophical study.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0337/authors/lewis-biblio.html

Eva Schultze-Berndt -- (Structuralist grammarians and cognitive

linguists have sometimes talked about grammar in terms of patterns and

habits. )

Eva Schultze-Berndt, Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut,

Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum

Langacker, Ronald W., 1990. Concept, Image, and Symbol. The cognitive

basis of grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

..... I conceive the grammar of a language as merely providing the speaker

with an inventory of symbolic resources, among them schematic templates

representing established patterns in the assembly of complex symbolic

structures. Speakers employ these symbolic units as standards of

comparison in assessing the conventionality of novel expressions and

usages, whether of their own creation or supplied by other speakers.

(Langacker (1990: 16)

Hockett, Charles F., 1958. A course in Modern Linguistics. New York: The

MacMillan Company.

A language is a complex system of habits (p. 137)

An act of speech, or utterance, is not a habit, but a historical event,

though it partly conforms to, reflects, and is controlled by the habits.

Acts of speech, like other historical events, are directly observable.

Habits are not directly observable; they must be inferred from observed

events... (p. 141)

Bloomfield, Leonard, 1970 [1933]. Language. London: George Allen & Unwin

...

Fillmore, Charles J., 1988. "The mechanisms of 'Construction

Grammar'."Berkeley Linguistic Society 14: 35-55.

Fillmore, Charles J., Paul Kay & Mary C. O'Connor, 1988. "Regularity and

idiomaticity in grammatical constructions: The case of Let Alone."

Language 64: 501-538.

Frei, Henri, 1962. "L'unit linguistique complexe." Lingua 11:128-140.

Goldberg, Adele, 1995. Constructions. A Construction Grammar Approach to

Argument Structure. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Langacker, Ronald W., 1987. Foundations of Cognitive Grammar. Vol. I.

Theoretical Prerequisites. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Functionalists and Structuralists

http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/structure.htm

Michael Halliday

(compared with Saussure's view) http://www.allgaeu.org/fak/halliday.htm

MM Bakhtin

http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/bakhtin.htm

VN Voloshinov

http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/volosinov.htm

Teun A. van Dijk

http://www.hum.uva.nl/teun/

http://lisa.tolk.su.se/lic/LIC990329p5.htm

Walter Kintsch

http://psych.colorado.edu/~wkintsch/

http://lisa.tolk.su.se/lic/LIC990329p5.htm

Barnes, B. (1981). On the conventional character of knowledge and

cognition. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 11, 303-333.

Gazdar, G. (1977). Conversational analysis and convention:

Sociolinguistics. Analytic Sociology, 1(1), D8-F9. [ 1]

Schwartz, H. (1989). The life history of a social norm. In D.T. Helm,

W.T. Anderson, A.J. Meehan, and A.W. Rawls (Eds.) The interactional

order: New directions in the study of social order (pp. 162-185). New

York, NY: Irvington Publishers.

Wieder, D.L., and Wright, C. (1982). Norms, conformity and deviance. In

Rosenberg, Stebbins, and Turoweta (Eds.) The sociology of deviance (pp.

258-287). New York, NY: St. Martins Press.

Wootton, A.J. (1986). Rules in action: Orderly features of actions that

formulate rules. In J. Cook-Gumperz, W. Corsaro, and J. Streeck (Eds.)

Children's worlds in children's language (pp. 147-168). Berlin, BRD:

Mouton de Gruyter.

Harold Garfinkel -- Ethnomethodology

http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~mizukawa/EM/EMindex.html

Garfinkel, H. (???). A manual for the study of naturally organized

ordinary activities. 3 vols. London, UK: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Philip E. Agre

http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/

http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/accountable.html

Judith Martin -- "Miss Manners"

http://www.businessweek.com/1997/07/b351438.htm

Virginia Shea -- "Netiquette"

http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

Ludwig Wittgenstein

http://www.ags.uci.edu/~bcarver/ludwig.html

Wittgenstein L. (1987). Philosophical Investigations. G. E. Anscombe &

R. Rhees (Editors), Prentice Hall. (par. 227):

"Would it make sense to say 'If he did something DIFFERENT every day we

should not say he was obeying a rule'? That makes NO sense." (the

capitals are terms W. put in italics + between par 190 and 242-3, you'll

find a discussion of W. on 'following a rule').

"Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip where the two play "Calvin ball", a game

where you make the rules as you go along...

http://www.calvinandhobbes.com/html/meet.html

http://members.aol.com/alienroz/calvin_and.html

Gideon Toury

http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/~toury/works/

Toury G. (1995). The Nature and Role of Norms in Translation. In

"Descriptive Translation Studies and Beyond". Amsterdam-Philadelphia:

John Benjamins, 1995, 53-69.

http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/~toury/works/gt-norms.htm

Toury G. (1998). A Handful of Paragraphs on 'Translation' and 'Norms'.

In: Christina Schffner, ed. Translation and Norms. Clevedon etc.:

Multilingual Matters, 1998. 10-32. [also available as Vol 5, Nos 1&2 of

Current Issues in Language & Society]

http://spinoza.tau.ac.il/~toury/works/gt-tr&no.htm

Lawrence Lessig

The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach

http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Working_Papers/97_Lessig_1/index.htm

Graham Greenleaf

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/unswlj/thematic/1998/vol21no2/greenleaf.html

Itamar Even-Zohar

Polysystem Theory -- A revised version of "Polysystem Theory," in

Polysystem Studies [= Poetics Today, 11:1] 1990, pp. 9-26. First version

was published in Poetics Today 1979 I, 1-2:287-310.

http://www.tau.ac.il:81/~itamarez/papers/ps-th-r.htm

Peter Suber -- The Reflexivity of Change: The Case of Language Norms

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/freiburg.htm

Kimberly Fisher

Fisher, K. (1997). Locating Frames in the Discursive Universe.

Sociological Research Online, 2:3

http://www.socresonline.org.uk/socresonline/2/3/4.html

Erving Goffman

http://stanley.feldberg.brandeis.edu/~teuber/goffmanbio.html

Sentence conventions -

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/lunsford/weblinks/sentenceconventions.htm

Mark Bernstein - Patterns of Hypertext

http://www.eastgate.com/patterns/Print.html

Lewis Carroll

Fit the Second - The Bellman's Speech

"What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators,

Tropics, Zones, and Meridian Lines?"

So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply

"They are merely conventional signs!

http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/the-hunting-of-the-snark/cha

pter-02.html

Fidler R.F. (1997). Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media. Pine Forge

Press, Thousand Oaks, CA.

http://www.mediainfo.com/ephome/news/newshtm/stop/st121196.htm

"The wealth of communication technologies we now take for granted would

not have been possible if the birth of each new medium had resulted in

the simultaneous death of an older medium."

Sapir, E. (1929): 'The Status of Linguistics as a Science'. In E. Sapir

(1958): Culture, Language and Personality (ed. D. G. Mandelbaum).

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press

"We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because

the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of

interpretation. (Sapir 1958 [1929], p. 69)"

Lev Vygotsky

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathed/vygotsky.html

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~ALock/virtual/trishvyg.htm

http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/vygotsky.html

http://www.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html#vygotsky

John B. Van Huyck et al.

"Convention generalizes precedent to situations where one lacks shared

experience, but knows that everyone involved is a member of the same

community. An observable regularity in the behavior of members of a

community in a recurrent situation is a convention if it is customary,

expected, and mutually consistent..."

http://econlab10.tamu.edu/JVH_gtee/C2.HTM

http://econlab10.tamu.edu/JVH_gtee/cc2.htm

related:

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~aeg/cija/cija.html

Other Links:

http://www.ditext.com/chrucky/chru-5.html

http://g.oswego.edu/dl/pd-FAQ/pd-FAQ.html

http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/patterns/word.html

http://www.percep.demon.co.uk/atitle.htm

http://automatix.inesc.pt/rct/show.php3?id=103

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~mphil/davidson.htm

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~aeg/cija/cija.html

http://www.agm.net/holly/holly_dissert.html


--
Einat Amitay
einat@ics.mq.edu.au
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: HELLO: 13.0481 MA in humanities computing?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 791 (791)


Dear Areti Damala,

Hi, I would like to mention some references related to your requests

below..

The Humanist Advanced Technology and Information Institute (Archaeology

Computer Lab) at: <http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/Labs/Archaeol_Lab.html>

Faculty of Arts, PROJECTS & CENTES at:

<http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/centres.htm>

Department of Archaeology Site at:

<http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Archaeology/>

Department of History of Art Site at:

<http://www.arthist.arts.gla.ac.uk/>

I hope, this will help you in some way..more in next mails.

Net Messenger

Arun Tripathi

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
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From: "Patricia J. Moran" 
Subject: sources for education in women's volunteer orgs
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 792 (792)


I am not looking for only computer sources on

these two subjects; anything anyone knows about

either would help me very much.  I am writing a

dissertation on informal/nonformal education in

women's volunteer associations.  The two

problematic terms I've struggled with are "Bundu

societies" (Sierra Leone, etc.) and "Mahila

Samitis."  The

latter is, I think, a word-for-word translation of

"Women's Institutes" (called the WI in England,

Wales, Canada, and Lesotho). Any knowledge of

on-line bibliographies would be treasured.

Patricia J. Moran, Ph.D. student (Florida State

University); adjunct faculty member, Troy State

University-Florida Region.  Thank you, in advance,

for any answers.



From: Sarah Porter 
Subject: IT posts at Oxford University
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 793 (793)


                NEW JOBS AT OXFORD'S HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT

We are pleased to announce two exciting new positions for imaginative

IT developers, involving hands-on experience and state-of- the-art

technologies, and located in the intellectually challenging

environment of Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit.

If you feel that there is more to life than payroll and e-commerce,

enjoy the challenge of working in a small research-oriented team, and

would like to apply your technical expertise to support research and

teaching in the Humanities at one of the world's most famous

Universities then we'd like to hear from you.

You must be a graduate, with demonstrable experience of relevant

technologies, and you must be a good team-worker, a good communicator,

and ready to learn. We promise to stretch your understanding and give

you valuable practical experience with a wide range of new technologies.

The two jobs currently advertised are both available for one year in

the first instance on Research Grade RS1A (16286-24479) and located in

Central Oxford. Detailed job descriptions for each post are available

from http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ and are briefly summarized below:

1. HCDT Project Officer

     -  project developer to work on an exciting range of teaching and

        research projects

     -  experience of HTML and Javascript, PERL and/or ASP essential

     -  develop new skills as part of a small team

2. HCU/TEI Development Officer

     -  software developer with expertise in open software tools,

        XML and web technologies

     -  will provide support for Oxford's Text Encoding Initiative

        activities

     -  initially to work on the EU-funded MASTER project

                          INTERESTED?

If you'd like to discuss either post informally, please email

humanities@oucs.ox.ac.uk. If you'd like to apply, please request an

application form from :

          Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services,

                13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK.

          tel: +44[0]1865-273230 fax: +44 [0]1865-273275

                 e-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 14 April 2000,

and we hope to interview during the first week of May.

                             ***

The Humanities Computing Unit, based at Oxford University Computing

Services, brings together a number of local, national and international

facilities providing support for Humanities Computing at Oxford. These

include the Centre for Humanities Computing; the Humanities Computing

Development Team; the Humbul Humanities Hub; the Oxford Text Archive and a

range of other projects. Its activities and strategies are described at

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk.



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: TCON2000 Presentations: Preview (fwd)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:05:13 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 794 (794)


Willard,

This is longish description of presentations at an upcoming online

conference. It does however capture some of the threads that have been

woven in postings to Humanist. Edit at will. It, like your upcoming

methodology colloquium in May, establishes what the administration types

call a "best practice". Lots of material circulates in adavance of the

meetings.
[deleted quotation]


From: James.Inman@furman.edu
Subject: Furman Symposium: Final Announcement
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 20:06:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 795 (795)


Hey, all----

I wanted to post one last announcement about Furman University's upcoming

National Symposium on "New Information Technologies."  The event's official

website is http://www.furman.edu/symposium, and it will be held May 5-7,

2000, in Greenville, South Carolina.

We decided to cap the symposium at 200 people to keep it intimate, and

we're already getting near that total, but a number of computers and

writing scholars are attending and giving presentations, so I thought it

might be useful to send this one last reminder.  If you're interested in

attending, please try to register soon-----we'll reach our maximum well

before the conference begins.

If you have any questions, please let me know----I'd be happy to talk more

with you off-list.

Thanks, and best wishes---

James

James A. Inman

Director, Center for Collaborative Learning and Communication

Furman University



From: History of Science and Technology Editorial
Subject: THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [With Web
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 796 (796)




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he taught by his own example that science is an exciting adventure in

which having fun and satisfying one's curiosity are important parts of

even the most "technical" enterprise.  This CD-ROM captures Edgerton's

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From: "Patricia J. Moran" 
Subject: Re: 13.0491 education in women's volunteer organisations?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 797 (797)


   I am not looking for only computer sources on

   these two subjects; anything anyone knows about

   either would help me very much.  I am writing a

   dissertation on informal/nonformal education in

   women's volunteer associations.  The two

   problematic terms I've struggled with are "Bundu

   societies" (Sierra Leone, etc.) and "Mahila

   Samitis."  The

   latter is, I think, a word-for-word translation of

   "Women's Institutes" (called the WI in England,

   Wales, Canada, and Lesotho). Any knowledge of

   on-line bibliographies would be treasured.

   Patricia J. Moran, Ph.D. student (Florida State

   University); adjunct faculty member, Troy State

   University-Florida Region.  Thank you, in advance,

   for any answers.
[deleted quotation]
You might also try the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter

Day Saints (LDS) Mormons.  They are the oldest organized Women's Group in the

U.S.

and they have been very active in women's education.

David Reed



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Museums, Libraries & Archives: UCLA/Getty Summer
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:33:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 798 (798)


Institute for Knowledge Sharing

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 16, 2000

                              Preliminary Announcement

                           Museums, Libraries & Archives:

                      Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing

                  Los Angeles: Mon July 31 - Fri August 4, 2000

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Building on the success of the first UCLA/Getty Summer Institute in 1999,

this five-day course will provide a forum for intensive exploration of

theoretical and practical applications in the field of information

management and knowledge-sharing by museums, libraries, archives, and other

cultural heritage institutions. Sessions will take place on both the UCLA

campus and at the Getty Center.

Direct any questions to:

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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: MUSIC IR 2000: International Symposium on Music
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 08:34:59 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 799 (799)


Information Retrieval

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

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March 17, 2000

       MUSIC IR 2000: International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval

                      October 23-25: Plymouth, Massachusetts

                         <http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000>http://ciir.cs.u

<http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000>http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000

                            Keynote Speaker: Marvin Minsky

                          Call for Papers DEADLINE: June 15
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Colleague--

Below is an announcement of MUSIC IR 2000, the International Symposium on

Music Information Retrieval, to be held this October in Plymouth, Mass. For

details, including a two-page color brochure in .pdf form, see the

Symposium Web site:

<http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000/>http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/music2000/

Please forward this message to anyone you think would be interested. With

Marvin Minsky as keynote speaker and a panel with live piano music, we

anticipate a very unusual and interesting program. We hope you'll participate.

--Don Byrd, and J. Stephen Downie, on behalf of the MUSIC IR 2000 Organizing

Commitee

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From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." 
Subject: Question and Answer NLP Devices
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 800 (800)


I am currently trying to put together a focused and complete list of

Question and Answer dialog systems that exist as for sale products on the

web or as stand alone products.  The list I am compiling will include

products that can be purchased or downloaded as well as much larger

projects that require a long term commitment of resources for both the

developer and the client.  The list should include search engine projects

such as "Ask Jeeves" or those efforts that are proposing even more targeted

question and answer systems than that company.  Though I am primarily

interested in working, ready to go products, promised products are also of

interest.  Also early stage start ups (e.g. ThrowNet.com) will be included

as well.  Please send your responses to me privately and I will post a

summary to the list.  University research may also be included, but I am

primarily interested in work being done by the private sector.

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: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: A Renaissance Conjecture
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 801 (801)


Dear Colleagues:

I have noticed that Willard McCarty asks fascinating questions without much

of a pause, and this partly inspires me to suggest the following

Renaissance Conjecture: A Renaissance occurs in the humanities and/or

science when a society including its leaders repeatedly ("continually")

distributes a list of open questions to the public.   This conjecture has

several subtle points that might not be immediately realized.  For one

thing, if it is true, then I am not sure that we are in a Renaissance,

since I do not know of any leaders of any society who are distributing a

list of open questions to the public.   It is not fair to include indirect

reference to issues or direct reference to goals, e.g., by politicians.  A

goal is not an open question.  Secondly, I am not sure that the Italian

Renaissance would qualify, but I suspect that it would because the Catholic

Church at that time was in considerable open communication with the public

and was leading the way.  Thirdly, regardless of whether or not the

"original Renaissance" qualifies by this conjecture, it is fascinating to

notice that a few people do give lists of open questions to the public in

every century.  For example, early in the twentieth century, the pioneering

German mathematician David Hilbert gave his list of open questions/problems

to the public which have largely been the foundation of 20th century

mathematics.  Oddly enough, the eminent Swiss physicists C. Piron and Jauch

made the greatest advances in classical quantum logic in the twentieth

century by proving that "yes/no" answers/questions/experiments underlie

classical quantum mechanics and have various mathematical properties.  In

modern times, number theory in mathematics has published lists of open

questions, including the famous Fermat's last theorem which was recently

solved by a Canadian.  However, these are relatively rare.  Even the

Internet, which has so much capability for research, only rarely gives

lists of open questions, usually in only a few fields.

I will close this communication with a question which I asked my students

when teaching mathematics and/or physics at Universities, High Schools,

Middle Schools/Grammar Schools, and even Elementary schools: what are the

20 main open questions in mathematics, or in physics, of the last 5

years?   Nobody had the slightest idea.  I would recommend asking the same

question in both sciences and humanities because it seems to me that if we

do not know the questions, we cannot begin giving the answers.  (Don't

worry, I will eventually give you some of the questions.  In particular, in

mathematics, look under the topics non-smooth analysis and rare

events/large deviations for a starting point.)

Osher



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: March 2000 Issue of D-Lib magazine
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 802 (802)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

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March 17, 2000

                March 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine Available

                             <http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/

Table of contents:

<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/03contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/m

arch00/03contents.html.

Articles Include:

* Search Middleware and the Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol

* Meeting the Challenge of Film Research in the Electronic Age

* Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 1

* The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study
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Greetings:

The March 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine

<http://www.dlib.org/>http://www.dlib.org/ is now

available.  The table of contents is at

<http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march00/03contents.html>http://www.dlib.org/dlib/m

arch00/03contents.html. This month's issue

features four stories, seven 'In Brief' items, and a generous selection

of 'Clips and Pointers'.  The Featured Collection for the March issue is

the American Memory Historical Collections from the National Digital

Library.

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The stories in the March 2000 issue of D-Lib Magazine are:

Search Middleware and the Simple Digital Library Interoperability

Protocol:

Andreas Paepcke, Stanford University; Robert Brandriff, California

Digital Library; Greg Janee, University of California at Santa Barbara;

Ray Larson, University of California at Berkeley; Bertram Ludaescher,

San Diego Supercomputer Center; Sergey Melnik and Sriram Raghavan,

Stanford University

Meeting the Challenge of Film Research in the Electronic Age

Catherine Owen, Tony Pearson, and Stephen Arnold, Performing Arts Data

Service, University of Glasgow

Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 1

Reagan Moore, Chaitan Baru, Arcot Rajasekar, Bertram Ludascher, Richard

Marciano, Michael Wan, Wayne Schroeder, and Amarnath Gupta, San Diego

Supercomputer Center

The Virtual Union Catalog: A Comparative Study

Karen Coyle, California Digital Library

The 'In Brief' items are:

New Millennium, New SOSIG

Justine Kitchen, Resource Discovery Network Centre

XMLMARC Conversion Software Released

Dick R. Miller, Stanford University

Oxord English Dictionary Goes Online

Juliet New, Oxford English Dictionary

New Media Scholarship

Steven Totosy, University of Alberta

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Nabil R. Adam, Rutgers University

JISC Content Developments

Alicia Wise, King's College London

The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Announces Three New Members for

Start of the New Year

Kelly Richmond, AMICO

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From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: at last
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 803 (803)


At last, a high-capacity, low-cost storage solution sure to be within reach

of even the most woefully underfunded humanities computing ventures:

http://www.villa-bosch.de/eml/english/research/optimem/optimem.html

(Skeptical? Well, so are the folks at Slashdot:

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/03/18/1218250.shtml  ;-)

Matt



From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Heroic Age
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 804 (804)


As the editor of an issue of the Heroic Age, an on-line journal dedicated

to the early literature, history and culture of British and Northern

Europe, I invite submissions for a gathering of essays on BEOWULF. Your

approach should be from either an anthropological perspective or from a

socially developed angle of cultural studies. Your subject could be on any

aspect of the poem reflected upon in social terms.

Please send ideas, abstracts, extended essay proposals to me by September

15, 2000. The issue in question will appear as the Winter issue, 2001. I

especially encourage work from graduate students and newer scholars.

Contact information: John M. Hill, 5611 Greentree Road, Bethesda, Md.,

USA

      jhill@nadn.navy.mil or jdomars@aol.com



From: Karen Wikander 
Subject: OTA Resource Development Officer
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 805 (805)


OTA Resource Development Officer

The Humanities Computing Unit, based at Oxford University Computing

Services, brings together a number of local, national and international

facilities providing support for Humanities Computing at Oxford. As part of

the HCU, The Oxford Text Archive (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/), is one of the

world's oldest and best-known electronic text centres, and since 1996 the

OTA has been working as the electronic text Service Provider for the UK's

national Arts and Humanities Data Service.

The OTA is now seeking to recruit a computer-literate graduate, with a

background in the humanities. Candidates should enjoy working with

bibliographic reference sources, as the first task to be undertaken will

involve performing quality assurance checks on the metadata relating to the

OTA's holdings. There will be opportunities to learn about the creation,

distribution, and delivery of digital resources, and to participate fully in

the work of the OTA. This post will provide an excellent start to a career

in humanities computing, information management, or electronic publishing.

Applications from persons writing-up or having recently completed a PhD

thesis are particularly welcome.

More information about the posts is available from the HCU web site at

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jobs/  To apply, please obtain further details and

an application form from:

Mrs Nicky Tomlin

Oxford University Computing Services

13 Banbury Road

Oxford OX2 6NN, UK

Tel: +44 [0]1865-273230

Fax: +44 [0]1865-273275

E-mail: nicky.tomlin@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Completed application forms must be received by 7th April 2000.

*******************************************

Karen Wikander

Oxford University Faculty of English//Oxford Text Archive

13 Banbury Road, Oxford   OX2 6NN  UK

Phone: +44 (0)1865 283299

Email: karen.wikander@oucs.ox.ac.uk

Web: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk

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From: "Stephen N. Matsuba" 
Subject: RE: 13.0496 a conjecture
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 806 (806)


Osher Doctorow wrote:
[deleted quotation]
To ask such a question of the humanities, I believe, is to ask something

that is far too broad since it encompasses so many disciplines.  As someone

working in literary and linguistic studies, my list of questions in my area

would include the following:

1) What is the nature of language?

2) What is a text?

3) What does it mean to "read a text"?

4) What are we really saying when we present an analysis of a literary text?

5) How do we distinguish between a "valid" critical stance and a "non-valid"

one?

6) What is the relationship between the reader and the text?

7) What is the relationship between the author and the reader?

Regards

Stephen

===========================================================

Is't real that I see? (Shakespeare)

===========================================================

Stephen N. Matsuba

e-mail

smatsuba@home.com

Web

http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~smatsuba

http://www.vrmldream.com

===========================================================



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ESSLLI workshop call
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:01:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 807 (807)

[deleted quotation]
                        ESSLLI 2000 Workshop on

                

                  PATHS AND TELICITY IN EVENT STRUCTURE

                          August 6 - 10, 2000

                      A workshop held as part of the

         Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information

                            ESSLLI-2000

                  August 6 - 18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain

                     **  FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS  **

                      Submission Deadline: April 15, 2000

ORGANIZER: Hana Filip, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

                

DESCRIPTION:

The workshop focuses on the structuring of eventuality types

by means of Paths, with special reference to the sources of

telicity effects that are related to Paths in the concrete

spatial domain, but also in a variety of other domains: cp.

"John ran along/toward/into the house", "The train squealed

into/out of the station", "John hammered the metal flat".

The structure of eventuality types and spatial relations are clearly

central to our understanding of categories encoded in linguistic

expressions and to our understanding of human cognition.  Several

research domains--linguistics, cognitive science, artificial

intelligence and psychology--have focused on different

aspects of these topics.  While significant breakthroughs have

been achieved in all these domains, the theoretical structures

proposed tend to share little in common.  One of the goals of this

workshop is to bring to the fore the connections among them,

and ultimately to show how a synthesis of the relevant results

can be useful in the formulation of linguistic hypotheses in

the domain event structure and telicity, and in providing empirical

motivation for them.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working

on linguistic, logical, computational and/or psychological

aspects of the workshop topic, and submissions from all these areas

of research are welcome.

Topics of the workshop will include (but are not limited to)

the following four main areas:

(1) the ingredients of a general semantic framework for the

representation of eventuality types involving Paths in a variety

of dimensions, and for the calculation of the telic and atelic

interpretation of sentences in which Paths of various types

are crucially implicated;

        

(2) representational issues at the level of event structure,

and the mapping between event structure and syntax;

the treatment of mismatches between semantic and syntactic categories

(in terms of general compositional rules vs. other kinds of mechanism,

such as telicity shifts and coercion, underspecification at the level

of verbal and/or phrasal meanings);

(3) mathematical, logical and computational aspects of modelling of

spatial relations (e.g., the axis and vector grammars, and their suitability

for describing directional expressions in human language);

(4) the possibility of identifying universals of basic spatial terms

that may pre-linguistically available to human beings and that are

subject to modification by linguistic (and extra-lingustics) experience.

SUBMISSION:

All researchers, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are

invited to submit an abstract by April 15, 2000.  Electronic submissions are

highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript).  Abstracts

should not exceed 2 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in 10-12 points,

with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted abstracts should

be anonymous and be accompanied by the following details:

   - Title

   - Authors' names and affiliation

   - Address

   - E-mail addresses

Submissions should be sent before April 15, 2000 to the following

address:

Hana Filip

Department of Linguistics

Northwestern University

2016 Sheridan Road

Evanston, IL 60208-4090

USA

        

Tel: 847-491-7020

Fax: 847-491-3770

e-mail: filip@babel.ling.nwu.edu	

        

If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of the

paper to the above address. Informal enquiries by e-mail to

the organizer are most welcome.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit full papers by

June 1, 2000. Papers should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages,

typeset in 10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins.

The papers will be made available in a summer school reader.

If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, they may be

published in an edited volume.

IMPORTANT DATES:

     April 15, 2000: Deadline for abstract submissions

     May 1,    2000: Notification of acceptance

     June 1,   2000: Final version of paper due

     August 6, 2000: Start of workshop

FURTHER INFORMATION:

To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CONF: Cross Language Evaluation Forum - Call for
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:02:28 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 808 (808)


Participation
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           CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM

              CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

A Cross-Language System Evaluation activity is now being launched

in Europe. The activity is sponsored by the DELOS Network of

Excellence for Digital Libraries in collaboration with the US National

Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the TREC

Conferences.

The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) will run three main

evaluation tracks in 2000, testing multilingual, bilingual and monolingual

(non-English) information retrieval systems. There will also be a special

sub-task for domain-specific cross-language evaluation.

For further information, see <http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/CLEF>.

The results of the activity will be presented during a two-day Workshop

on Multilingual Information Access, 21-22 September in Lisbon, Portugal,

immediately after the fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries

(ECDL2000: see <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000>).

Those intending to participate in CLEF 2000 are requested to send an

e-mail to Carol Peters (carol@iei.pi.cnr.it), as soon as possible,

indicating in which task(s) they intend to participate.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Data Release - 1 April 2000

Topic Release - 8 May 2000

Receipt of results from participants - 1 July 2000

Release of relevance assessments and individual results - 15 August 2000

Submission of paper for Working Notes - 5 September 2000

Workshop - 21-22 September 2000

-------------------------------------------

Carol Peters

Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

(or IEI-CNR)

Area della Ricerca di Pisa

Via Alfieri, 1

56010 Ghezzano, PISA, Italy

Tel: +39 050 315 2897

Fax: +39 050 315 2810

E-mail:carol@iei.pi.cnr.it

http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/Personal/carol.html

=================================================

Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique

European Language Resources Association (ELRA)  &

European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA)

(Agence Europe'enne 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.elda.fr/

*** See the Language Resources and Evaluation

Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site:

http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html   ***



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:07:56 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 809 (809)

[deleted quotation]
SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

On its 30th Anniversary

SANTIAGO DE CUBA

JANUARY 23-26, 2001

The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of

the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to

announce on the occasion of its 30 Anniversary, the Seventh

International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held

in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd through the 26th, 2001. This

interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes

from the points of view of Applied Linguistics, Computational

Linguistics, Medicine, Voice Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and

Folklore.

The Symposium will be also sponsored by:

.... University of Oriente, Cuba

.... Higher Institute for Medical Sciences,

    Santiago de Cuba

.... Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais',

    Santiago de Cuba

.... Information for Development Agency,

    Cuba

.... University of Twente, The Netherlands

.... National Council of Scientific Research,

     Italy

.... University of Leon, Spain

.... University of Malaga, Spain

.... University of Granada, Spain

.... Humboldt University, Germany

Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the

following disciplines:

1. Applied Linguistics:

- Spanish and foreign language teaching

- Spanish as a second language

- Phonetics and Phonology

- Lexicology and Lexicography

- Morphology and Syntax

- Sociolinguistics

- Psycholinguistics

- Textual Linguistics and

    Pragmalinguistics

- Terminology

- Translations

2. Computational Linguistics:

- Software related to linguistic research

- Automated grammatical tagging of texts

- Automated dictionaries

- Software related to the teaching of mother

    tongues and foreign languages

- Related issues

3. Voice Processing:

- Research related to Cry Analysis

- Applications of analysis, synthesis

    and voice-recognition

- Artificial intelligence and voice

    processing

4. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social

Communication in general:

- Logopedy and Phoniatry

- Neurology

- Otorhinolaringology

- Stomatology

- Child Psychiatry

- Pediatrics

- Cronobiology

5. Mass Media:

- Linguistic research related to the

    speech of journalists, actors and

    radio and television announcers.

- Textual Analysis of radio and

    television programs, and of print

    and electronic media articles

6. Ethnology and Folklore:

- Research related to Social Communication

Activities that will take place within the event are:

- Pre-Symposium seminars

- Discussion of papers in commissions

- Master conferences

- Workshops

- Posters

PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS

The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by

prestigious specialists to be announced. The seminars will take place

Monday, January 22nd of 2001 and will focus on the following subjects:

- Spanish as a second language

- Latest trends in Computational Linguistics

Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want

to take part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD will be charged for each

seminar.

Participation certificates will be available.

WORKSHOP

A workshop entitled 'Applied Linguistics in the Spanish-speaking World'

will be held on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Center of

Applied Linguistics.

MASTER LECTURES

        

During the symposium four master lectures will be delivered by:

- Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, Professor

    and Researcher, Twente University,

    Enschede, Holland.

- Dr. Hiroto Ueda, Professor and

    Researcher, Department of Spanish,

   Tokyo University, Japan.

- Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professor

    and Researcher, Faculty of Humanities,

    University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba,

    Cuba.

- Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, Professor

    and Researcher, Vigo University, Spain.

ABSTRACTS

The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2000. They

should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by

the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th,

2000.

PAPERS

To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of

the Symposium's documentation, accepted papers must be sent before

September 1st, 2000, with the following requirements:

1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages

including graphics, footnotes and

bibliography.

2. It should be written using Word 6.0

or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the

Symposium's Executive Secretary either

via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing

a 3=BD-inch diskette.

3. Each page must be written in an A4

(mail type) format with left, right,

top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm.

4. The paper must be written in one

of the event's official languages:

Spanish, English or French.

Instructions for paper submission:

1. Write down the authors' names,

one under the other, at the left

top of the first page, all in Arial

bold capital letters, 10 points (Word 6.0

or 7.0). Under the authors' names should

appear in bold (only initials capital

letters) the institution, city, country

and e-mail address if available.

2. In a separate line, at the center,

the title of the paper must be written

in Arial bold, Italics, 11 points size

letters.

3. The text will follow -not in bold-

with the same Arial letter, 10 points

size and leaving one space between lines.

4. Paragraphs will have no indentation.

Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3

points.

5. Section titles will be written in

Arial bold, and sub-sections titles

will be written in Arial Italic.

6. Footnotes will appear at the end

of each page in Arial 9 points size

letters.

Presentation time will be 15 minutes

and 5 minutes for discussion.

Authors must advise in advance if

they will need a tape recorder,

video set, computer or other kind

of equipment for presentation.

POSTERS

Posters should be 1 meter wide and 1.2 meter high. Authors will be

responsible of displaying them in the morning of the presentation.

Abstract submission should include the word POSTERS. For proceedings,

follow instructions above. Notice: unlike full papers, posters will not

exceed 3 pages.

All mail or inquiries should be addressed to:

Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez

Secretaria Ejecutiva

Comite Organizador

VII Simposio Internacional

de Comunicacion Social

Centro de Linguistica Aplicada

Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre

Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400

Telephones: (53-226) 42760 or

(53-226) 41081

Fax: (53-226) 41579

E-mail: leonel@lingapli.ciges.inf.cu

http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html

OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:

Spanish, English and French

REGISTRATION FEE

Speakers  and  Delegates	160.00 USD

Companions			80.00 USD

Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the

Proceedings, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's

certificate, welcome cocktail, concert and tours. Companions will have

access to all of the above, except copies of the proceedings.

ACCOMODATION

The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star

hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event.

IMPORTANT REMINDERS

- Abstract Submission deadline:

    July 1st, 2000

- Notification on paper's approval

    by Scientific Committee:

    by July 30, 2000

- Delivery of papers either by

    e-mail or by mail using 3=BD-inch

    diskette:

    September 1st, 2000

- Pre-Symposium seminars:

    January 22nd, 2001

- 7th International Symposium

    on Social Communication:

    January 23rd through 26th, 2001

OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST

Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second

largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban

history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province

with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra

Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography

and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most

important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing

Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer

visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the

city's beauty and charm.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

President of Honor:

Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin

Minister of Science, Technology

and the Environment

Republic of Cuba

Aida Almaguer Furnaguera

Representative of the Ministry

of Science, Technology and the

Environment

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Gerardo Garcia Cabrera

President of Information

for Development Agency

Ministry of Science,

Technology and the Environment

Havana

Cuba

Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez

Member of the Academy

of Science of Cuba

Center of Applied Linguistics

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Leonel Ruiz Miyares

Director of Center of

Applied Linguistics

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Eloina Miyares Bermudez

Executive Secretary of the

Seventh International

Symposium on Social Communication

Center of Applied Linguistics

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Marcos Cortina V.

Rector University of Oriente

Ministry of Higher Education

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Nayra Pujals

Rector Higher Institute

for Medical Sciences

Ministry of Public Health

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Cesar Torres

Rector Pedagogical University

'Frank Pais'

Ministry of Education

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Anton Nijholt

Professor and Researcher

Twente University

Enschede, Holland

Kathleen Wermke

Professor and Researcher

Humboldt University

Berlin, Germany

Renate Siegmund

Professor and Researcher

Humboldt University

Berlin, Germany

Mercedes Cathcart Roca

Professor and Researcher

Faculty of Humanities

University of Oriente

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Daniela Ratti

Researcher

National Council of

Scientific Research

Genoa, Italy

Lucia Marconi

Researcher

National Council of

Scientific Research

Genoa, Italy

Claudia Rolando

Researcher

National Council of

Scientific Research

Genoa, Italy

Jose Ramon Morala Rodriguez

Professor and Researcher

University of Leon

Spain

Gloria Corpas Pastor

Professor and Researcher

University of Malaga

Spain

Daniel Madrid

Vicedean of International

Relations

Faculty of Education

University of Granada

Spain

Ercilia Estrada Estrada

Scientific Council

Center of Applied Linguistics

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Nancy Alamo Suarez

Researcher

Center of Applied Linguistics

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Humberto Oca=F1a Dayar

Professor and Researcher

Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais'

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

Miladys Diodene Adame

Ministry of Education

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON

SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

REGISTRATION FORM

Mr./Ms. ___________________

Organization: _____________

Title: ____________________

Business address: ______________

City: _______ Telefax: _________

Phone: ___________

E-Mail:_________________________

Home address: __________________

City: ________ Telephone: ______

I wish to participate in

Pre-Symposium seminars (optional)

___Spanish as a second language

___Latest trends in Computational

Linguistics

Paper title: _________________

Date: ________________

Signature: ___________



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Cards on the Table
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 810 (810)


Dear Colleagues:

Stephen N. Matsuba of the University of Waterloo replied to my recent

indirect call for listing 20 main open questions in each (academic)

discipline with some interesting points and a list of 7 questions in

literary and linguistic studies (see volume 13, no. 501).

I will match him by listing 7 main open questions in mathematics in the

last 5 years, as I do below.  I will list another 7 as soon as somebody

lists 7 others in another or the same field.

1. rare events/large deviations, 2. nonsmooth analysis (broken graphs,

graphs with holes in them, graphs with sharp point turns, etc.), 3.

solutions/approximations of Navier-Stokes equations in

hydrodynamics/aerodynamics, 4. solutions of Schrodinger equation, 5.

solutions of Einstein field equations, 6. topological control theory, 7.

algebra of nonnegative semigroups and non-Hilbert Banach spaces.

By the way, Waterloo University, McGill University, and Montreal/Quebec are

3 of the best universities of Canada, which in my humble opinion puts them

somewhere between Harvard-Yale-Princeton and Oxford-Cambridge-London on the

scale of great universities.  I mention this because I have a conjecture

concerning the greatness of universities being positively correlated with

their age with obviously a fair number of exceptions.  I may say something

about this later if I can avoid insulting half the researchers in the world.

Yours,

Osher



From: pat gudridge 
Subject: Foucault and Loyola?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:12:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 811 (811)


It must be the case that Michel Foucault wrote about Ignatius Loyola, and in

particular about the Spiritual Exercises, at length somewhere.  I have not

been able to find the reference.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Pat Gudridge (pgudridg@law.miami.edu)



From: "alessandroponti@libero.it"
Subject: Cicero, de finibus?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:13:19 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 812 (812)


I'm looking for an Italian or English translation of Cicero's "De

finibus bonorum et malorum". Could someone send me one by e-mail?



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: NEH Applications to the Division of Preservation and Access
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:43:22 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 813 (813)

[deleted quotation]
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is a grant-making agency

of the U.S. federal government that supports 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 funds projects that will

create, preserve and increase the availability of resources important

for research, education, and public programming in the humanities.

Awards are provided 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. The guidelines

and instructions can be downloaded from the NEH Web site at:

                  http://www.neh.gov/pdf/guidelines/preservation.pdf

A list of recent awards is also available at:

                http://www.neh.gov/grants/recent_awards.html09

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



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Job in  SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:44:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 814 (814)

[deleted quotation]
Job posting

We are looking for a dynamic research scientist with expertise in

    SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING

to help start a new research project at the recently formed Institute for

Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Marina del

Rey, CA.

The system being built incorporates speech processing, dialogue, agent-based

reasoning, virtual reality, and sophisticated immersive multimedia displays

in a large-scale new project that has links to research at several USC

centers including the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the

Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC).

The candidate should have a Ph.D. in either Speech Recognition or Natural

Language Processing (with emphasis on discourse) and strong abilities in

the both areas.  The successful candidate may choose to join the Computer

Science faculty of USC as well, and eventually supervise graduate students

in addition to performing the research.

Please contact both

William Swartout                Eduard Hovy

USC/ICT                         USC/ISI

13274 Fiji Way                  4676 Admiralty Way

Marina Del Rey, CA 90292        Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695

tel: 310-574-5705               tel: 310-448-8731

email: swartout@ict.usc.edu     email: hovy@isi.edu

=========================================

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Eduard Hovy

email: hovy@isi.edu          USC Information Sciences Institute

tel: 310-448-8731            4676 Admiralty Way

fax: 310-823-6714            Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695

project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html



From: Eric Johnson 
Subject: Computers and Writing Faculty Position
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:45:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 815 (815)


REVISED POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Computers and Writing Faculty Position

Dakota State University

English: Tenure-Track Faculty Position. Dakota State

University is seeking a writing specialist who has an

interest in and a knowledge of computer-based writing.

An interest in any of the following is a plus:  Web

Publishing (coding HTML as well as using generators),

Electronic (desktop) Publishing, and Technical Writing

-- in particular, creating computer software

documentation.  Duties may include teaching all levels

of composition and rhetoric.  Ph.D. or D.A. in English,

Rhetoric, or Composition desired; ABD considered.

Experience teaching computer-assisted composition

beyond graduate assistantship highly desired. Duties

begin August 15, 2000.  Salary competitive.  Rank and

salary based on qualifications and experience.  Visit

our web site at www.dsu.edu/departments/liberal/english

To apply, send a letter of application, resume,

graduate transcripts, three letters of recommendation,

and the names and current phone numbers of at least

three references to Dr. Eric Johnson, Dean, College of

Liberal Arts, Dakota State University, Madison, SD

57042-1799; email: Eric.Johnson@dsu.edu;

Fax: 605-256-5021.

Review of applications will begin April 7, 2000, and

review will continue until the position is filled.

Disabled applicants are invited to identify any

necessary accommodations required in the application

process. EOE.



From: Larry Sanger 
Subject: Open content encyclopedia
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:09:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 816 (816)


Larry Sanger

Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia

=====

Open content encyclopedia calls for submissions about classics

A major new encyclopedia project, Nupedia.com, requests expert

help in constructing an "open content" encyclopedia, planned to

become the largest general encyclopedia in history.  The project

has significant financial support, and its leaders and owners

are committed to a years-long, intensive effort -- to founding

an open, public institution.

If you are an expert in any subject, your participation in the

project will be welcome.  We are in need of well-qualified

writers, editors, and peer reviewers, and will be doing searches

for subject area editors.  Moreover, if you are a good writer

and researcher, you may be interested in contributing short

biographies, descriptions of cities, and other brief entries.

What does it mean to say the encyclopedia is "open content"?

This means that anyone can use content taken from Nupedia

articles for almost any purpose, both for-profit or non-profit,

so long as Nupedia is credited as the source and so long as the

distributor of the information does not attempt to restrict

others from distributing the same information.  Nupedia will be

"open content" in the same way that Linux and the Open Directory

Project (dmoz.com) are "open source."  As has been the case with

those projects, we plan to attract a huge body of talented

contributors.

Since making our initial press release earlier this month, over 800

people from around the world have signed up as Nupedia members,

including some very highly-qualified people (including Ph.D.'s

in very many relevant subject areas).

Because Nupedia will be open content, it will be in a

freely-distributable public resource created by an international

public effort.  It is not an exaggeration to say that your

contributions would help to provide an international public a

free education.  We believe Nupedia is, thus, a project worthy

of your attention.

If you want to join us or stay apprised of the progress of

Nupedia, please take a minute to go to the Nupedia website at

http://www.nupedia.com/ and become a member.  (Becoming a member

is quick, easy, and free.)

Thank you very much for your attention.

Larry Sanger, Ph.D. expected May 2000 Philosophy, Ohio State

Editor-in-Chief, Nupedia.com

San Diego, California

P.S. If you wish to help promote this project -- something we

would greatly appreciate -- please do forward this announcement

to any *appropriate* forums and to colleagues you think may be

interested (including your local/departmental mailing lists and

newsgroups).  Or, if you would rather that Nupedia make the

announcement on a forum you frequent, please just give us a

pointer to the forum and we can take it from there.



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Reminder: Computational Linguistics Special Issue
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:10:50 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 817 (817)

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                                Call for Papers

Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution

Guest editors:  Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin

Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena

of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike.  The

correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the

understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural

Language Processing.

After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence

in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many

researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has

been reported.  Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT

and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment

of anaphora.  The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has

further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched

approaches.  In addition, application-driven research in areas such as

automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently

identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and

coreference resolution.  Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular

importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications

such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing

attention.  The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has

been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC

coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops,

conferences, etc.).

Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this

special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely,

collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.

Topics

The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel

and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution.

The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited

to:

    o  new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms,

    o  factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors,

    o  techniques in ellipsis resolution,

    o  use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution,

    o  use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution,

    o  applications of anaphora/coreference resolution,

    o  applications of ellipsis resolution,

    o  multilingual anaphora resolution,

    o  evaluation issues,

    o  use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.

In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related

to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:

    o  Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora

       resolution?

    o  When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit

       "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"?

    o  What is the case for languages other than English?

    o  What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"

       factors?  How should weights best be determined?  What empirical

       data can be brought to bear on this?

    o  What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple

       factors?  Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting

       the antecedent?

    o  Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts?

    o  Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora

       automatically?

    o  Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements

       from an anaphora resolution module?  What kind(s) of compromises

       might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would

       awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for

       particular type(s) of input text?

    o  Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic

       reconstruction?

    o  Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of

       the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided

       structure?

Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both

theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should

construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora.

Submissions and Reviewing

The submission deadline is 1 April 2000.  Authors can submit either

electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style

details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to:

    Ruslan Mitkov   (R.Mitkov@wlv.ac.uk)

    School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences

    University of Wolverhampton

    Stafford St.

    Wolverhampton WV1 1SB

    United Kingdom

Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and

details of the author (following the format given at

http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.

Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor

of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special

issue.  In addition to the guest editors,

    Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton),

    Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and

    Shalom Lappin (University of London),

the guest editorial board includes the following members:

    Nicholas Asher (University of Texas),

    Amit Bagga (GE CRD),

    Claire Cardie (Cornell University),

    David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern),

    Eugene Charniak (Brown University),

    Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp),

    Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC),

    Dan Hardt (Villanova University),

    Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto),

    Jerry Hobbs (SRI International),

    Aravind Joshi (University of  Pennsylvania),

    Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe),

    Andrew Kehler (SRI International),

    Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University),

    Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh),

    Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille),

    Stuart Shieber (Harvard University),

    Candy Sidner (Lotus Research),

    Marilyn Walker (AT&T).

This call for paper is also available at

http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html



From: "Alan Burk" 
Subject: Announcement - Summer Institute 2000 - Creating
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:53:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 818 (818)


Electronic Texts and Images

This message has been cross-posted; please excuse any duplication.

Alan Burk

Electronic Text Centre at the University of New Brunswick Libraries

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   Announcing the Fourth Summer Institute at the University of New

            Brunswick / Fredericton / New Brunswick / Canada

             http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2000/

   *************************************************************

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 20 - 25, 2000

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.

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 98 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. A

reception and tour of the newly renovated Old Government House on Sunday

August 20th, from 3:00 - 6:00 will give participants a chance to explore and

be introduced to one of the oldest and most historic sites in Fredericton.

Located on the bank of the St. John River, this excursion will also give

those in attendance an opportunity to see one of the most picturesque

sections of downtown Fredericton. Also, a steak and lobster barbeque on

Wednesday will be open to those in the class. 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/Aug2000/

The Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in downtown Fredericton is offering special room

rates at:

$85.00 + tax (Canadian) Single Room

$91.00 + 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 21 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:

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/Aug2000/register.html

or fill out our email version:

        Introduction To Electronic Texts and Images

                 August 20th to 25th, 2000

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Summer Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:54:34 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 819 (819)

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Summer Seminars at Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit

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Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit is pleased to announce a

week-long series of seminars on humanities computing, to be held in

Oxford from the 10th to 14th July 2000.

The seminars will cater for beginners as well as experienced

practitioners. If you want to see how new technologies can help you in

your work, to explore new research tools, or to find out about the

latest approaches in text encoding, you will find these seminars

useful.

There are seven seminars, each lasting a full day:

* an introduction to humanities computing

* making the most of the Internet

* creating and documenting digital texts

* creating and sharing databases online

* multimedia tools and techniques

* working with XML

* creating and managing digital libraries

The seminar website at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/Summer/ includes full

details of the topics to be covered on each day.  Each seminar will

give you the opportunity to consult with experts about your research

projects, and will also combine practical hands-on sessions with

formal presentations. All teaching will be carried out by members of

the Humanities Computing Unit.

Who Should Come?

You should come if you work, or plan to work, with digital texts or

images, especially in a research context. You should be familiar with

the concepts of HTML, and with using the Internet. You will leave with

a clear sense of the principles and processes of electronic text and

multimedia creation and delivery, and be able to identify those areas

where you need to learn more.

How Much Will It Cost?

Each seminar costs 60GBP (45GBP for members of Oxford University). You can

book for any combination of individual seminars, and a discount is

available if you attend for the full week. (250GBP, or 190GBP for members

of Oxford University).

Interested?

Booking information and further details are available online, at

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/Summer/

or contact Jenny Newman, Humanities Computing Unit, OUCS,  13 Banbury

Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Tel: +44 (0)1865 273221; fax: +44 (0)1865 273275;

email: Jenny.Newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Colloquium, Oxford Union 28th April
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:59:12 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 820 (820)

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Beyond Control or Through the Looking Glass? Threats and Liberties in the

Electronic Age

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/ [INCLUDES ON-LINE BOOKING FORM]

Friday 28 April 2000

The Oxford Union Debating Chamber

Organised by: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford

Sponsored by: Guardian Unlimited

**** NEWS ****

We are pleased to announce that this event is now being sponsored by

Guardian Unlimited, the internet network from the Guardian and Observer

(http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/). Simon Waldman, Head of Guardian

Unlimited, will be chairing the afternoon debate. In addition, two more

speakers have now been added to the programme:

Avedon Carol, a founder member of Feminists

Against Censorship, and author of 'Nudes, Prudes and

Attitudes: Pornography and Censorship';

and

Peter Sommer, Senior Research Fellow, Computer Security Research

Centre, London School of Economics; Special Advisor to the Commons Trade &

Industry Select Committee on E-Crime.

***** FULL INFORMATION BELOW ********

Beyond Control or Through the Looking Glass? Threats and Liberties in the

Electronic Age

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/

Friday 28 April 2000

The Oxford Union Debating Chamber

Organised by: Humanities Computing Unit, University of Oxford

Sponsored by: Guardian Unlimited (http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/)

Access, Culture, Museums, Libraries, Internet, Censorship, Policing,

Control, Civil Liberties

Overview

--------

We are constantly being told that the new technologies, and particularly

the Internet will bring unparalleled benefits to society by increasing

access to all manner of resources, educational, cultural, and

entertainment. Yet at the same time we read of Internet scare stories

about the availability of pornography, racist material, and information

inciting violence. How can we square this circle? Is the Internet 'Beyond

Control', or are we 'Through the Looking Glass' into a wonderland of

strange and new adventures.

Set in the historical Debating Chamber of the Oxford Union, distinguished

speakers will present their views and debate the future shape of our

culture's landscape. The format of Beyond Control will be a mixture of

presentations, open discussion, and debates. We will aim to stimulate

discussion between the speakers and encourage the audience to participate

fully.

The list of invited speakers is growing all the time, and at the

moment we are pleased to announce the following.

Morning Session: Accessing Cultural Networks

Speakers will *include*:

* Prof Bruce Royan, Chief Executive, Scottish Cultural Resources

Access Network - 'Surfing the heritage:

the internet and wider access to cultural resources'

* Dr Suzanne Keene, Head of Collections Management, Science Museum -

'Museums: does the virtual benefit the actual?'

* Chris Batt, Chief Network Adviser, Library and Information Commission -

'The People's Network: The Final Frontier'

Followed by an open debate on the motion:

'This House believes that this House is doomed'

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* Peter Sommer, Senior Research Fellow, Computer Security Research

Centre, London School of Economics - 'Is Internet Crime that New?'

* Avedon Carol, a founder member of Feminists Against Censorship -

'Porn & the Net: An explosion of fantasy, a new danger, or just more of

the same old same old?'

***** LUNCH (Not Provided) *****

Afternoon Session: Policing the Internet (co-organised with CR & CL UK)

'This house believes that any attempt by Government to police the Internet

is both unworkable and a severe threat to civil liberties'

An in-depth debate on Government policies on policing the internet - how

essential are these? Can they work? How much of a threat do they pose to

civil liberties? The debate will be led by two speakers for, and two

speakers against a motion presented to the house, followed by open

discussion and a vote. This session will be chaired by Simon Waldman,

Head of Guardian Unlimited. The invited presenters are:

* Prof Nadine Strossen, New York Law School, & President of the American

Civil Liberties Union

* Mr Yaman Akdeniz, Director of Cyber-Rights & Cyber Liberties (UK)

                  ----- vs -----

* Mr John Abbott, Director General of the National Criminal Intelligence

Service

* Mr David Kerr, CEO, Internet Watch Foundation

Who Should Come to 'Beyond Control'?

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Anyone interested in the potential benefits and problems the Internet

poses for increasing access to resources, be they cultural, or ephemeral.

The colloquium will be of interest to:

* museums * libraries * academics * publishers * students * IT and

Information specialists * the general public * civil liberty experts *

criminologists * Internet providers * and so on ...

Venue: The Debating Chamber of the Oxford Union

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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/).

Background

----------

For the last five 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

1999 we brought together a number of illustrious speakers in the Oxford

Union to look 'Beyond Art' which discussed how technology asserts itself

on the creative arts (selected papers can be found

at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/beyond/).

More information about the Humanities Computing Unit is available from

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk

Price

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Costs per place are as follows:

           40.00 - educational/non-profit

          100.00 - commercial

            5.00 - student/unwaged

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 2000 to:

Jenny Newman

Humanities Computing Unit

OUCS, 13 Banbury Road

Oxford OX2 6NN.

Tel. +44 (0)1865 273221

Fax. +44 (0)1865 273275

Email: jenny.newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk

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I WOULD LIKE TO APPLY FOR A PLACE ON THE HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT'S

'BEYOND CONTROL'  ONE-DAY COLLOQUIUM ON APRIL 28th 2000

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/Unwaged rate] MADE PAYABLE TO 'OXFORD

UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICES'.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:00:10 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 821 (821)

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                          ESSLLI 2000

    12th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information

                       6-18th August 2000

                       Birmingham, England

A two week summer school which offers 42 courses at various levels and six

workshops in the areas of Logic, Computation, and Language. 77 lecturers

from all over the world. A phenomenally low registration fee and

accommodation costs. Bursaries for participants from non-OECD

countries available.

Visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli for the full programme,

descriptions of lecture courses and a registration form.=20

REGISTER NOW! Early registration deadline for reduced registration fee

of 95 Pounds is MAY 31, 2000. After this the registration fee will be

150 Pounds.

Applications for bursaries need to be received by MAY 31, 2000.

Please mail esslli@cs.bham.ac.uk for any queries.

LECTURERS AND WORKSHOP ORGANISERS:

Jose JFAlio Alferes, Lisboa              Agnes Kurucz, London

Carlos Areces, Amsterdam  Marta Kwiatkowska, Birmingham

Brandon Bennett, Leeds   Rob Malouf, Groningen

Jean-Yves Beziau, Petropolis  Carlos MartEDn-Vide, Tarragona

Patrick Blackburn, Saarbruecken  Maarten Marx, Amsterdam

Hendrik Blockeel, Heverlee  Ralph Matthes, Muenchen

Paolo Bouquet, Trento   Mary McGee Wood, Manchester

Krysia Broda, London   Detmar Meurers, Tuebingen

Greg Carlson, Rochester   Wilfried Meyer-Viol, London

Ann Copestake, Stanford   Angelo Montanari, Udine

Richard Crouch, Xerox PARC  Christof Monz, Amsterdam

James Cussens, York   Andrew Moshier, Orange

Anuj Dawar, Cambridge   Stephen Muggleton, York

Denys Duchier, Saarbruecken  Stephan Oepen, Saarbruecken

Gisbert Fanselow, Potsdam  Marc Pauly, Amsterdam

Caroline Fery, Potsdam   David Pearce, Saarbruecken

Hana Filip, Evanston   Alberto Pettorossi, Roma

Dan Flickinger, Stanford   Paul Piwek, Brighton

Dov Gabbay, London   Alberto Policriti, Udine

Bart Geurts, Nijmegen   Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester

Anastasia Giannakidou, Groningen Maurizio Proietti, Roma

Valentin Goranko, Johannesburg  Christian Retore, Rennes

Fritz Hamm, Tuebingen   Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld

Erhard Hinrichs, Tuebingen  Mark Ryan, Birmingham

Martin Hofmann, Edinburgh  Luciano Serafini, Povo

Kenneth Holmqvist, Lund   Aaron Sloman, Birmingham

Richard Hudson, London   Mike Squire, Warwick

Mateja Jamnik, Birmingham  Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam

Neil D Jones, Copenhagen  Josef van Genabith, Dublin

Reinhard Kahle, Tuebingen  Robert van Rooy, Amsterdam

Sara Kalvala, Warwick   Yde Venema, Amsterdam

Ruth Kempson, London   Andrei Voronkov, Manchester

Manfred Kerber, Birmingham  Shuly Wintner, Philadelphia

Valia Kordoni, Tuebingen          Frank Wolter, Leipzig

Emiel Krahmer, Eindhoven         John H Woods, Lethbridge

Bob Krovetz, Princeton           Michael Zakharyaschev, Leeds

Geert-Jan Kruijff, Prague        Thomas E Zimmermann, Frankfurt

Peter Kuehnlein, Bielefeld



From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 13.0505 open questions in the disciplines
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:51:38 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 822 (822)


I took Matsuba's list somewhat differently--namely, as an attempt to show

that it is inherently impossible to provide a list of unsolved questions

in the study of literature because of the very nature of the

discipline. None of the questions that he listed can be "solved", in the

sense that one can solve a problem in the sciences.

Charles Faulhaber	The Bancroft Library	UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

(510) 642-3782		FAX (510) 642-7589    cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
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From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Open Questions in disciplines
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:52:09 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 823 (823)


Dear Colleagues:

I have a few additions to yesterday's remarks.  First of all, I should have

phrased the open questions in the form: how do you solve, or what are the

characteristics of, etc.

Secondly, I should have "raised" by 7 as I think they say in the cinema, so

I list below 7 more main open questions in mathematics of the last 5

years.  To avoid repeating "what are the characteristics of...?" just affix

this or "how do you solve...? or appropriate expressions of similar type to

the numbered items.

8. 2-time scale mathematics (applied, e.g., to geophysical research, neural

networks, theoretical physics), 9. quantum and molecular computers, 10

geometric-algebraic physical mathematics including Clifford algebras,

octonions, division algebras, quaternions, etc., applicable to quantum

theory and relativity, 11. mathematics of genetic engineering, 12. Lie

groups and algebras (applicable almost everywhere in physical sciences and

mathematics), 13. mathematical logic including

belief/fuzzy/possibility/probability etc., 14. fractals/chaos/dynamic

systems (weather modeling, geographical modeling, biological modeling, etc.

- generally irregularly shaped boundaries).



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: contingencies of disciplines and scholarly forms
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 824 (824)


Simon Goldhill, "Wipe your glosses". In Glenn W. Most, ed., Commentaries --

Kommentare. Aporemata: Kritische Studien zur Philologiegeschichte, vol 4.

Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999.

In this recent essay on the commentary in classics, Goldhill raises two

interrelated questions of interest for this seminar. The first is the

relationship between one's conception of language and the form of the

commentary (or, as he says, between styles of glossing and styles of

knowing), the second is the socio-historical contingency of these styles,

a.k.a. disciplines.

In addition to concentrating on the epistemological fashions in classics,

Goldhill provides a number of useful references to studies of the same in

other fields, including German archaeology, philology, anthropology,

psychoanalysis (pp. 382, 410-11). I pass the reference along because I

think that studies of this kind are quite important to our developing

argument for humanities computing. They help to undermine the disciplinary

walls in the common way that social constructivist arguments work (see Ian

Hacking's recent book, The Social Construction of What?) -- by showing us

that the situation we're in need not be as it is. We're alerted to the fact

that the disciplinary situation was made by people like us and so can be

remade by people like us. For all the practical value that these walls

have, they lead to a narrowness of mind that seems to me one of our

chiefest impediments. As a number of people have pointed out, an

interdiscipline cannot be resolved into its disciplinary components; if you

think in those terms, the crucial interaction is lost. What our field has

to offer intellectually becomes invisible.

Goldhill's essay is among several that discuss styles of glossing and

knowing -- among others Daniel Boyarin's on Midrash -- which wonderfully

gets down to some philosophical bedrock -- Marschies on Origin, Wagner on

Lao Tzu, Sluiter on didactics, Vallance on Galen, Krause on the art

historical scene and the late Don Fowler on criticism and commentaries in

the electronic age. Many of the particulars in these essays are relevant

only to specialists in the various conventional disciplines. Nevertheless,

reading across the collection (letting go, with however much regret, of the

passages in classical Chinese, Greek, Arabic etc) one sees how, as Goldhill

puts it, commentaries have been shaped by conceptions of language and

culture, and how in turn they have been used to close down as well as open

up meaning. How the mechanical details of the commentary form(s) show

epistemological roots and have had far-reaching consequences.

Why, I wonder, do discussions of this sort seem to me like our kind of

thing? We come on the scene not just with a kit-bag full of nifty tricks

("click here and X happens") but with the non-submissive, non-trivial

question of how these tricks should be deployed ("what do you want to

happen?"). With a critical focus on the artisanship of knowing. Do we feel

at home with these discussions because deconstruction makes way for

reconstruction, and both are preoccupied with how our forms of knowing

actually work?

Comments?

Yours,

WM

-----

Dr Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities /

King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS U.K. /

voice: +44 (0)171 848-2784 /  fax: +44 (0)171 848-2980 /

ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/

maui gratia



From: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" 
Subject: call for participation:  Extreme Markup Languages
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:56:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 825 (825)


This conference (the successor to the technical tracks at the old

SGML'XX conferences, and to the Markup Technologies 'XX conference)

may be of interest to readers of this list.

Note that although the registration fee will be set at an, ah,

industrial, rather than academic financial level, speakers will

receive complimentary registrations.  (And tutorial instructors

get an even better deal than that.  Hint, hint.)

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      *************    Call for Participation    **************

      ***********  Extreme Markup Languages 2000   ************

      ---------------------------------------------------------

Extreme is a new, highly technical conference concentrating on the

evolving abstractions that underlie modern information management

solutions, how those abstractions enhance human productivity, and how

they are being applied.  Abstract and concrete information models,

systems built on them, software to exploit them, SGML, XML, XSL,

XLink, schemas, topic maps, query languages, and other markup-related

topics are in scope for this conference.

Extreme will be a 3.6-day technical conference preceded by two days of

tutorials.

WHEN:      August 13-18, 2000

WHERE:     Montreal, Canada

SPONSOR:   Graphic Communications Association (GCA)

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INFORMATION: For updated information on the program and

             plans for the conference, see http://www.gca.org

             For participation details, see

               http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme

Extreme Markup Languages is the successor conference to all of the

following GCA conferences:

    * Markup Technologies      * XML Developers Conference

    * Metastructures           * International Markup

    * HyTime                   * SGML'XX

Principals of those conferences have now joined forces to offer a

single unabashedly hard-core conference as a gathering place for the

technically-oriented members of the information interchange community;

a place for these people to meet and refresh each other with ideas

advice, and camaraderie.  The conference is agnostic with respect to

commercial and political persuasion.  It is passionate about providing a

forum where technical ideas can be communicated and explained.


--
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* C. M. Sperberg-McQueen                           *
* Research Staff, World Wide Web Consortium        *
* Route 1, Box 380A, Española NM 87532-9765 *
* (that's Espanola with an n-tilde)                *
* cmsmcq@acm.org, fax: +1 (505) 747-1424           *
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Conferences/Workshops: Museums & Web; Preservation 2000;
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:57:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 826 (826)

Creating Electronic Texts & Images
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 23, 2000
                             MUSEUMS and the WEB 2000
                                 April 16-19, 2000
                             Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
                               Papers now Online at:
                         <http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000>http://www.archimus
<http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000>http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000
                     Hotel Reservation Deadline: Fri March 24
                       Creating Electronic Texts and Images
           Fourth Summer Institute at the University of New Brunswick
                       David Seaman, University of Virginia
             August 20 - 25, 2000: Fredericton, New Brunswick, CANADA
                 <http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2000/>http://www
<http://www.hil.unb.ca/Texts/SGML_course/Aug2000/>http://www.hil.unb.ca/Text
s/SGML_course/Aug2000/
                                 PRESERVATION 2000:
                  An International Conference on the Preservation
                 and Long Term Accessibility of Digital Materials
                        December 7-8, 2000: York, ENGLAND
                   <http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/conference.htm>http://www.l
<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/conference.htm>http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/
conference.htm
                         PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE MAY 30
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: WORKSHOPS: Introduction to Still & Moving Image Metadata
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:59:11 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 827 (827)

for the Visual &  Performing Arts
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 24, 2000
INTRODUCTION TO STILL & MOVING IMAGE METADATA FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
                         Two One-Day Workshops Presented by:
          Performing Arts Data Service (PADS
<http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk)>http://www.pads.ahds.ac.uk)
        Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI
<http://www.tasi.ac.uk)>http://www.tasi.ac.uk)
               Visual Arts Data Service (VADS
<http://vads.ahds.ac.uk)>http://vads.ahds.ac.uk)
                              May 31: London, England
                            June 30: Glasgow, Scotland
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Ninth WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE (WWW9): May 15-19, Amsterdam
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:59:57 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 828 (828)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 22, 2000
             The Ninth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9)
                         The Web: The Next Generation
                            May 15-19: Amsterdam
                               <http://www9.org/>http://www9.org/
                 Culture Track:
<http://www9.org/w9-culture.html>http://www9.org/w9-culture.html
This year's International World Wide Web Conference (WWW9) will be held in
Amsterdam, on May 15-19, 2000.  A Culture Track of panels and
presentations, organized by the European Commission's MEDICI initiative, is
co-organized by MEDICI's Alfredo Ronchi and by Judy Gradwohl of the
Smithsonian Institution.
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From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Digital Library Conferences; NINCH CONFERENCE CALENDAR
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:01:00 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 829 (829)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
March 23, 2000
                          DIGITAL LIBRARY CONFERENCES
                           NINCH COMMUNITY CALENDAR
                             Consult & Contribute:
                <http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html>http://www.ninch
<http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/calendar.html>http://www.ninch.org/CALENDAR/c
alendar.html
Below are reminders of three upcoming digital library conferences. Remember
to consult and contribute to the NINCH Community Calendar for events that
help in the building of a networked cultural heritage.
David Green
===========
                     IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries
                           May 22-24: Bethesda, MD
                       <http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/>http://cimic.rutgers.e
<http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/>http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~adl/ "Special
emphasis will be given towards reports on experiences and open problems
with available running systems or technology for digital libraries. ADL
2000 will continue to provide a forum for discussing applications of DL
concepts and techniques in the areas of:
"Digital Earth | Digital Sky | Digital Law | Digital Art | Digital Music  |
Integrating Digital Technology into Traditional Libraries | Socio-Economic
Impacts | Geospatial Information | Medical Applications | Social and
Natural Sciences
                         *     *     *     *                         ACM
Digital Libraries 2000                        June 2-7 San Antonio, Texas
                             <http://www.dl00.org/>http://www.dl00.org/
                         *     *     *     *
             Fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries -
ECDL2000                       Sept. 18-20: Lisbon, Portugal
                     <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/>http://www.bn.pt/
<http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/>http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/
                   DEADLINE FOR PAPER & PANEL PROPOSALS: MAY 1
                 <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/call.htm>http://www.bn
<http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000/call.htm>http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/e
cdl2000/call.htm
"One major goal of the ECDL series of conferences is to bring together
researchers, industrial members, professionals, and user communities,
promoting it as a reference forum for discussion of new emerging issues,
requirements, proposals, politics and solutions. In this sense, ECDL2000
intends to contribute to bring into focus this complex scenario, promoting
opportunities for the exchange of ideas and knowledge between all the
different perspectives relevant for digital libraries. [materials deleted]



From: NINCH-ANNOUNCE 
Subject: Report Still Available: A Strategic Framework for
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 830 (830)


Creating and Preserving Digital

Resources

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

March 23, 2000

A Strategic Framework for Creating and Preserving Digital Resources

<http://www.ninch.org/BOOKS/strategic-order.html>http://www.ninch.org/BOOKS/

strategic-order.html

eLib Supporting Study P3

Neil Beagrie and Daniel Greenstein,

Library Information Technology Centre, South Bank University, London 1998

ISBN 1 900508 47 8 78 pages $31.50

U.S readers may be interested in this report, still available through NINCH.

David Green

===========

The Electronic Libraries programme (eLib) publication of the digital

preservation study undertaken by the AHDS Executive on behalf of the

Digital Archiving Working Party of the UK's Joint Information Systems

Committee, British Library, and National Preservation Office is now

available. The study outlines a strategic policy framework for creating and

preserving digital collections and recommends good practice to those

involved in the creation, management, or long-term preservation of digital

information which will form our cultural and intellectual heritage in the

"digital age". Included in the report are six case studies based on a

series of fifteen interviews with organizations and individuals involved in

major data creation projects and digital preservation worldwide.

High Praise for this Report:

"The study presents thirteen recommendations in the areas of long-term

digital preservation, standards, the policy framework, and future research.

Six case studies highlight some of the real-life considerations concerning

digital preservation. At a time when content providers and libraries are

racing headlong toward digitization of information resources, this study

provides critical guidance."

Scout Report, Volume 5, Number 2, 8 May 1998

"This study...has received international recognition and will almost

certainly continue to be a key strategic document for those concerned with

preserving digital materials"

NPO Journal Issue 4 May 99, 12-3

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From: Michael Stolz 
Subject: MHG font for Mac?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:53:14 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 831 (831)


Dear colleagues,

is there anyone who would know where to get a font of middle high German

characters for Macintosh computers?

With many thanks in advance

Michael Stolz

************************************

Dr. Michael Stolz

Universitt Bern, Institut fr Germanistik

Lnggass-Str. 49, CH-3000 Bern 9, Schweiz

Tel.: + 41 31 631 36 17

Fax: + 41 31 631 37 88

************************************



From: Han Baltussen 
Subject: Re: 13.0506 Cicero, de finibus?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 10:53:52 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 832 (832)


Loeb Classical Library has an English translation by Rackham 1951

HB



From: "Fotis Jannidis" 
Subject: Re: 13.0512 open questions in the disciplines
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:51:21 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 833 (833)

[deleted quotation]
I agree: 'solution' is too definitive. But the discipline of literary

studies has some key

concepts like "author", "reader", "text", "interpretation", "sign". Each of

these concepts

has a history which adds typical arguments and counter arguments to it. Open

questions would be the arguments and counter arguments concerning one of these

concepts which are not resolved in the eyes of the contemporary humanists.

If you take the concept 'author' as an example: the argument against the

'intentional

fallacy' was largely based on a very special model of literary

communication which most

people would have difficulties to share nowadays, but it also contains the

argument, that

literary texts are formulated in language and language is public, so there

is no need to

refer to inaccessible entities like 'intention'. Every proposal to use the

author concept

nonetheless has to have some argument against this and needs to model the

relation

between public language and  private intention. For some time now the

double verdict

against the author concept (next to Wimsatt, Beardsley also Barthes and a

probably

misunderstood Foucault) seems to be questioned from different sides, some

of them are

using computers to aid there arguments like John Burrows or Colin Martindale.

So I do think that there are open questions and there are no definitive

solutions -  but

there are also a growing number of elements and aspects which every

proposal for a

solution has to include, because the problem has been solved far enough to

see that

these aspects are part of the problem.

Fotis Jannidis



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Older and Better Conjecture
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:51:53 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 834 (834)


From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com,

3-25-00, 10:17PM

Dear Colleagues:

My wife, Marleen, tells me that my conjecture is wrong for the humanities,

that is to say, I am wrong in thinking that the older universities are

better for the humanities.  Others have also indicated something like

this.  Since my wife is almost always correct, I withdraw my conjecture for

the humanities, although I retain it for mathematics and

physics.  Marleen's argument is quite interesting in the direction of new

conjectures.  According to her, universities which are better in physical

sciences often have less money and energy available for non-physical

sciences.  This is some sort of "conservation of money" idea, it seems to

me.  It reminds me of the fact that musical, artistic, and even scientific

geniuses often have arisen in "insane societies".  Perhaps there is

"conservation of sanity"?  Of course, there are other trends to think about

as well.

Yours,

Osher



From: Michael Stolz 
Subject: Copy of Robinson, Digitization of Primary Textual Sources
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 835 (835)


Dear Colleagues,

is the anyone who could sell me a spare copy of the following book (out of

print).

Peter Robinson, The Digitization of Primary Textual Sources, Office for

Humanities Communication, Oxford/ London 1993/94

Is there anyone who would know about a book with an equal topic on

digitizing manuscript images?

With many thanks in advance

Michael

************************************

Dr. Michael Stolz

Universitt Bern, Institut fr Germanistik

Lnggass-Str. 49, CH-3000 Bern 9, Schweiz

Tel.: + 41 31 631 36 17

Fax: + 41 31 631 37 88

************************************



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: coming silences
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 836 (836)


Dear Colleagues:

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be occasionally unable -- never, of

course undesirous -- of getting to an Internet connection. I may, as a

friend always quick with return e-mail once explained, have Internet to the

pillow, but that pillow stays right here in the wilds of Leyton, East

London, and will not embark with me on my travels. Hiatus ("opening, abyss,

open mouth", here used in the plural) may therefore occur. Apologies in

advance for any withdrawal symptoms. You may think this an exaggeration,

but in the early days of Humanist, many a member would complain of same

when a day or so would pass without a message from the seminar. But I

digress and in any case am not permitted nostalgia until 7 May, when we

become 13, and so open volume 14, and are 5/12ths of the way to the real

beginning of the millennium. (No, I'm really not THAT pedantic :-).

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: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Museums and the Web 2000: Papers online
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 837 (837)

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               MUSEUMS and the WEB 2000

                 April 16-19, 2000

             Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

           Papers now Online at

           http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000

The international conference for museums on the web!

ABOUT MW2000

Thousands of cultural heritage institutions are now on the web,

offering programs and sharing information. At Museums and the Web

2000, speakers from around the world will present papers on the

entire process of web implementation. During the 3 days of the

conference, beginners and veterans can explore themes including:

design & development, implementation, evaluation, site promotion,

education, societal issues, research, museology and curation.

Sessions, papers, panels and up-close mini-workshops explore theory

and practice.

The Exhibit Hall features hot tools, techniques and services.

Demonstrations of museum web sites will let you meet and question

designers and implementers of some of the coolest museums on the web.

Full and half day workshops precede the conference on April 16, and

allow in depth exploration of topics and themes.

PAPERS NOW ONLINE!

Speakers at MW2000 submit their papers in advance. More than 45 of

the papers being given at the conference are now online in full text.

See http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/speakers/ All papers will be

published in print/CD-ROM proceedings, distributed to all registrants

at the conference courtesy of BigChalk.com.

Past papers from the Museums and the Web 1997-1999 conferences are

also available. See see http://www.archimuse.com/mw.html

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Writing Diasporas - An international interdisciplinary
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:52:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 838 (838)


conference
[deleted quotation]
Announcement and Call for Papers for an international,

multidisciplinary conference:

                           WRITING DIASPORAS :

Axial Writers, Plural Literacies, Transnational Imagination

                           University of Wales Swansea

                           September 20-23, 2000

..... on the role of travelling and translating writers, artists and

intellectuals in the cultural politics of diasporas and nations.

CLICK for further details at: =

http://www.swan.ac.uk/conferences/transcomm

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP: "Corpora and NLP" SESSION / ACIDCA'2000
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:54:42 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 839 (839)


International Conference
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******************************************************************

                     CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

                    "Corpora and NLP" SESSION  of

               ACIDCA'2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

                <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000>

               Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

*****************************************************************

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP: SEPLN 2000
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:55:39 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 840 (840)


                        Caixavigo e Ourense

           Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

                   http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/

Following the XV SEPLN Conference that took place in Lleida in September 1999,

the XVI SEPLN Conference shall be held in Vigo in September 2000. The event

shall take place after TAPD 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/)

which is a conference centered upon applications of tabulation technologies

for syntactic analysis and deduction.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: TALN 2000 CFP
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:56:54 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 841 (841)

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    *

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                           SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

                                 TALN 2000

                   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

                           Lausanne, Switzerland

                           16-18 October 2000

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ACL2000 Call for Workshops
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:57:36 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 842 (842)

[deleted quotation]
                              ACL 2000

               38th Annual Meeting of the Association for

                      Computational Linguistics

                        3-6 October, 2000

                             Hong Kong

                        

                  http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/

                   Call for Workshop Proposals

Workshop Chair:

Nicoletta Calzolari

Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa

glottolo@ilc.pi.cnr.it

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: 2nd CFP: Terminology Resources and Computation, Due:
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:58:35 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 843 (843)


31/March/2000
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==========================================================

         " Terminology Resources and Computation "

               Held in conjunction with the

2nd Int'l Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

                       (LREC 2000)

                       Athens, Greece

                      29th May 2000

=========================================================

                  -- Call for Papers --

            Paper submission due: March 31, 2000

           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In the knowledge society in 21st century, knowledge and information

have to be utilized by every person.

Terminology has to be one of language resources and their

application is extended from the language engineering application

like information retrieval, machine translation, to the

multi-lingual marketing of enterprise and the education in each

country. Terminology in each domain is growing up every day.

Information and Knowledge management needs the precise conceptual

definition of terminology and harmonization. The technical

processes for terminology study are as follows:

   - To extract terms and additional data from the real usage of

     corpus automatically or semi-automatically,

   - To consistently define while harmonization with already existing

     terms,

   - To test in applications like information retrieval, machine

     translation, and language service,

   - To unify, standardize or harmonize by investigating the major

     usage of terms and social norms,

   - To synchronize by multi-lingual terminology database alignment,

   - To study how to distribute the multi-lingual terminology most

     efficiently,

   - To customize for each application and for each user,

   - To collaborate with terminology organizations at regional and

     international levels.

Papers are solicited in the area of the terminology study, the

current state-of-art in terminology databank, computational method

of terminology extraction, application of terminology, thesaurus,

ontology, and languages in special domain, etc.

## Method of submission ##

Papers should not contain more than 2000 words. The title page must

contain the title of the paper, author information (Full name,

Full address, Telephone number, Fax number, E-mail), paper length

in words, and up to 5 keywords paired with English and your mother

language. The main pages should not contain the author information.

The authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their

papers (ps, rtf, or pdf) or three hard copies.

The final version should not be longer than 4,000 words.

Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final version

will be sent to authors upon notification of acceptance.

Electronic submissions should be made to

        wtrc@korterm.kaist.ac.kr

Three hard copies of paper must be sent directly to the following

address:

     Prof. Key-Sun Choi (WTRC2000 Submission)

     Divsion of Computer Science

     Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

     KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

     373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701 Korea

     TEL +82-42-869-3565

     FAX +82-42-867-3565

## Important dates ##

        Paper submission due: 31/Mar/2000

        Acceptance notice: 15/Apr/2000

        Camera-ready copy: 1/May/2000

## Program committee ##

   . Christian Galinski, InfoTerm, Vienna, Austria (Chair)

   . Key-Sun Choi, Korterm, KAIST, Taejon, Korea (Associate-Chair)

   . Qing Fang, CNIS (China National Institute of Standardization),

     Beijing, China

   . Yuzuru Fujiwara, Japan Terminology Association,Tokyo, Japan

   . Kaguera Kyo, NACSIS, Tokyo, Japan

   . Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

   . Hava?rd Hjulstad, RTT (Nowegian Council for Technical

     Terminology), Oslo, Norway

   . Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, University of Applied Sciences Cologne,

     Koeln, Germany

   . Takehiro Sioda, NHK, Tokyo, Japan

   . Sue-Ellen Wright, Kent State University, Ohio, USA



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CEC2000 - Challenge and Competitions
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:59:26 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 844 (844)

[deleted quotation]
Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to announce opportunities to play challenge matches

against an evolved neural network checkers' playing program and

to participate  several competitions at the  Congress on Evolutionary

Computation,  in San Diego, July 16 - 19, 2000.

1. CHALLENGE MATCHES

Registrants at the Congress will have the opportunity to play

challenge matches against an evolved neural network checkers'

playing program. You will be able to play timed matches with the

program, with the first person to defeat the program, using only

his or her own brain power i.e. no kibitzing and no assistance from

another computer program, wins a prize of $100. Players must be

presenting a paper at CEC2000. For more information please refer to

http://pcgipseca.cee.hw.ac.uk/cec2000/challenges.html

2.  COMPETITIONS

There will be  four competitions at CEC2000.

    1.Reason vs Evolution: Prisoner's Dilemma Competition

    2.Time series prediction competitions

    3.Dow Jones Prediction Competition

    4.Visualization Competition

The rules for each competition, including deadlines and submission

formats can be found at

   http://www.math.iastate.edu/danwell/CEC2000/comp.html

Kind regards

CEC2000 Publicity Chair


----
Ibrahim Kuscu,  MBA, MSc, PhD.
Department of Computing
University of Surrey
Guildford, Surrey                 Tel: +44 1483 879636
GU2 5XH                           Fax: +44 1483 876051
http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/personal/st/I.Kuscu/
   *** Please visit Congress on Evolutionary Computation: ***
          http://pcgipseca.cee.hw.ac.uk/cec2000/



From: "A.H. van der Weel" 
Subject: Re: 13.0514 copy of Robinson, Digitization?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 845 (845)


There are three online resources of a basic nature that come to mind:

"Introduction to Imaging" at

http://www.getty.edu/gri/standard/introimages/index.html;

"Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice" at

http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/documents/creating/

"Image Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet" at

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/scanimage.html

Adriaan van der Weel

"Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty )" wrote:
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--
Adriaan van der Weel
Chairman, Leiden Centre for the Book
Coordinator Electronic Text Centre Leiden
Coordinator Book and Publishing Studies, Dept of English
University of Leiden
PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
Tel. +31 71 5272141/2144. Fax 2149



From: Lorna Hughes 
Subject: Director, Information Technology Services, NYU Libraries
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:35:24 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 846 (846)

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From: Ari Kambouris 
Subject: SGML/Taxonomy opportunity
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:36:20 +0000
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 847 (847)


Position Announcement:

Thinking Pictures is looking for a part-time SGML (or alternately XML)

consultant with a background in the humanist studies and archives to work

on a taxonomy and mark-up system for motion pictures and digital media

works. This position is available beginning May 1 through the summer, or as

appropriate, and could continue on into the academic year, time permitting.

We would be interested in hearing from all levels of students in all

academic areas. A passing familiarity with film and the creation of motion

pictures is desirable, but not required. This opportunity requires a clear

understanding of information architecture, data identification and SGML

tagging.

Thinking Pictures' mission is to create interactive visual content; that

is, visual content that responds automatically to the requirements of the

viewer. Pursuing this goal, the Company has developed a world-wide

reputation for the research and development of interactive software and

database software applications for the digital distribution of content over

narrow and broadband networks for the educational, media, and entertainment

industries.

Thinking Pictures is a leader in the development of network architectures

and tools that allow for the personalization of audio, video, and live

entertainment for delivery over narrow and broadband networks. Since 1993,

the Company has created stand-alone multimedia components that are

integrated through its proprietary Interactive Visual Content Architecture

(IVCA). This comprehensive system facilitates the dynamic presentation of

digital movies to the home, special format indoor/outdoor displays as well

as the computer screen.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.thinkpix.com

or send your CV in text or as a MS-Word attachment to ari@thinkpix.com.

Because of the nature of this project, this position will require on-site

participation.

Please cross-post as deemed suitable.

_________________

Ari Kambouris

Thinking Pictures

http://www.thinkpix.com

75 Ninth Avenue, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10011

212.989.3950 x 17



From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Hamlet on the Holodeck Review by John McLaughlin
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 848 (848)


Greetings Humanists,

I thought this might interest you --following URL, which contains a 

magnificent review of the book "Hamlet On The Holedeck: The Future of

Narrative In Cyberspace" eloquently done Prof. by John McLaughlin for 

_Kairos_ Journal.

You can visit the site at:

<http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/4.1/reviews/john/hamdeck.htm>

_Kairos_ is an electronic journal designed to serve as a peer-reviewed

resource for teachers, educators, and tutors at the college and university

level.

For those, who don't know..the book, "Hamlet on the Holdeck" is written by

Prof. Janet H. Murray, is the Director of PAINT [Program in Advanced

Interactive Narrative Technology] 

The "HOH" web resource page is available at

<http://web.mit.edu/jhmurray/www/HOH.html>

Best Regards

Arun Tripathi

Research Scholar

UNI DO, Germany

Online Facilitator

EdResource Moderator

Appointed Officer: WAOE Multilingual Coordinator on Public Info Committee

National Advisory Board Member for AmericaTakingAction, National Network

<http://www.americatakingaction.com/board/arun.htm>

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From: "Nancy M. Ide" 
Subject: Large Corpora and Annotation Standards
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 849 (849)


                    Large Corpora and Annotation Standards

              http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/ANLP-NAACL2000.html

                   Held in conjunction with ANLP/NAACL'00

                            Seattle, Washington

                             4 May 2000 1-6pm    

            

           This meeting is intended to bring together researchers and

           developers from a variety of domains in text, speech,

           video, etc., to look broadly at the technical issues that

           bear on the development of software systems and standards

           for the annotation and exploitation of linguistic

           resources. The goal is to lay the groundwork for the

           definition of a data and system architecture to support

           corpus annotation and exploitation that can be widely

           adopted within the community.

           Among the issues to be addressed are: 

               -   layered data architectures 

               -   system architectures for distributed databases 

               -   support for plurality of annotation schemes 

               -   impact and use of XML/XSL 

               -   support for multimedia, including speech and video 

               -   tools for creation, annotation, query and access of

                   corpora 

               -   mechanisms for linkage of annotation and primary

                   data 

               -   applicability of semi-structured data models, search

                   and query systems, etc. 

               -   evaluation/validation of systems and annotations 

           The motivation for this meeting is the American National

           Corpus (ANC) effort, which should begin corpus creation

           within the year. We anticipate that the ANC will provide a

           significant resource for natural language processing, and

           we therefore seek to identify state-of-the-art methods for

           its creation, annotation, and exploitation. Also, as a

           national and freely available resource, the data and system

           architecture of the ANC is likely to become a de facto

           standard. We therefore hope to draw together leading

           researchers and developers to establish a basis for the

           design of a system to support the creation and use of the

           ANC.

                                      Provisional Program  

                  Overview of the American National Corpus Effort 

                     Nancy Ide and Catherine Macleod 

                  Searching Linguistically Annotated Corpora 

                     Chris Brew 

                  Considerations for Large Corpus Annotation:

                  Intercoder Reliability 

                     Rebecca Bruce and Janyce Wiebe 

                  The XML Framework and Its Implications for Large

                  Corpus Access 

                     Nancy Ide 

                  The ATLAS System 

                     John Henderson 

                  Annotation Standards and Their Impact on Large

                  Corpus Development 

                     Nicoletta Calzolari 

                  A Framework for Multi-level Linguistic Annotation 

                     Patrice Lopez and Laurent Romary 

                  Discussion : Requirements for the ANC

           A related workshop will be held at the LREC conference on

           May 29-30, 2000. Se http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/anc/lrec.html.

           Organizer: 

           Nancy Ide 

           Professor and Chair

           Department of Computer Science 

           Vassar College 

           Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA 

           Tel: +1 914 437-5988 Fax: +1 914 437-7498 

           ide@cs.vassar.edu

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From: "Jennifer J. Vinopal" 
Subject: Lecture, Fales Library, NYU
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 850 (850)


The Fales Library and the Department of English at New York 

University cordially invite you to attend the annual

FALES LECTURE in ENGLISH and AMERICAN LITERATURE

RICHARD LANHAM, 

Professor of English and Rhetoric, UCLA

Author of The Electric Word

will present

TROPES, SCHEMES AND DIGITAL DESIGN

Wednesday, April 5, 2000 at 6:00 PM

in the Fales Library,

Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, 3rd Floor

70 Washington Square South

New York City

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Fales Library

kellym@elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: [Thoughts & References] ON "Minds, Machines, and Turing"
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 851 (851)


Greetings Scholars,

I tried to write a short overview with my thoughts and references related

to the Minds, Machines and Turing..may be you like this..

Alan Mathison Turing, conceived of the modern computer in 1935. Today all

digital computers are, in essence, "Turing machines". The British mathematician

also pioneered the field of artificial intelligence, or AI, proposing the

famous and widely debated Turing test as a way of determining whether a

suitably programmed computer can think. His forgotten ideas in computer

science..a Well known for the machine, test and thesis that bear his name,

the British genius also anticipated neural network computers and

"hypercomputation"..Few realizing that Turing had already investigated

connectionist networks as early as 1948. 

Researchers such as B. Jack Copeland and Diane Proudfoot are working at

University of Canterburry, New Zealand on Turing Project. Their project

aim to develop and apply Turing's ideas using modern techniques.

Copeland's "Turing's Machines" and "The Essential Turing" are forthcoming

from Oxford University Press, and his "Artificial Intelligence" was

published by Blackwell in 1993. In addition to the logical study of

hypermachines and the simulation of B-type neural networks, both

researchers are also investigating the computer models of biological

growth that Turing was working on at the time of his death..They are also

organizing a conference in London in May 2000 to celebrate the 50th

anniversary of the pilot model of the Automatic Computing Engine, an

electronic computer designed primarily by Turing. 

NOTE: B-type, a kind of neural networks founded by Turing!

References:--

------------

Computing Machinery and Intelligence by A. M. Turing at:

<http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/archives/comp/papers/199807/199807017/doc.html/turing.html>

In the essay, you will read about, The imitation game, Critique of the new

problem, The Machines concerned in the game, Digital computers and

Universality of digital computers..

Time and The Observer: The Where and When of Consciousness in the Brain by

Daniel Dennett, et. al.

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.dennett.html>

Neoconstructivism: A Unifying Constraint for the Cognitive Science

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad82.neoconst.html>

Minds, Machines and Searle

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad98.searle.html>

Computational Hermeneutics

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.dietrich.crit.html>

Lost in the Hermeneutics Hall of Mirrors

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.dyer.crit.html>

Other Bodies, Other Minds: A Machine Incarnation of an Old Philosophical

Problem

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad91.otherminds.html>

The Turing test is not a Trick: Turing Indistinguishability is a

Scientific Criterion

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad92.turing.html>

Virtual Symposium on Virtual Mind

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad92.virtualmind.html>

Computers Don't Follow Instructions by Pat Hayes

<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad93.symb.anal.net.hayes.html>

The Church-Turing Thesis, B. Jack Copeland in The Stanford Encyclopedia of

philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Stanford University, ISSN 1095-5054

It is also available on the net at <http://plato.stanford.edu>

some thoughts on Computers & Human Brain:--

------------------------------------------

Computers are usually sequential binary devices, human brains are often

parallel multidimensional devices which employ fuzzy logic.

The designs of computers are known and so computer functioning can be

measured according to known designs, human brains were designed through

evolution and their designs are not well known corresponding to difficulty

of measurement according to design. There are few evolutionary, genetic,

cultural, and many such infleunces on human brain functioning.

Computers usually process without conflict and new learnings according to

conflict, human brains often process within conflict and gain new

learnings accordingly. Human brains are self aware, computers usually not.

Computer functioning can often be measured w/o the functioning being

hindered, measuring the functioning of a human brain often alters the

functioning of the brain.

We know or can know how computers work, we do not know but are coming to

know (though incompletely) how the human brain works.

Gordon Pask, Heinz von Foerster, and Humberto Matturana, among others have

experimented and written on the subject.

Now, Humberto Maturana in his essay, "Metadesign"..tried to give answers

and explaination to questions like, "Human beings versus Machines, or

machines as instruments of human designs?? The answers to these two

questions would have been obvious some years ago; Human beings, of course,

machines are instruments of human beings! But now days when we speak so

much of progess, science and technology as if progress, science and

technology were in themselves values to be venerated, there are many

people that think that machines as they become more and more complex and

intelligent though human design, may in fact become alive so that they may

supplant us as a natural outcome of that very venerated progess and

expansion of intelligence. Also many people seems to think that evolution

is changing its nature so that technology is becoming the guiding force in

the flow of the cosmic change in relation to us. 

I would like to welcome your ideas, and critiques. Thanks a lot in

advance! May be these above ideas will help you in your teaching!

Sincerely yours

Arun Tripathi

Research Scholar

UNI DO, Germany

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From: Alexander Nakhimovsky 
Subject: Text Analysis Tools for XML documents: a Web application
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:10:45 -0600
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 852 (852)


An announcement: Text Analysis Tools for XML documents: a Web application

The release, last November, of the XSL and XPath Recommendations created a

new range of possibilities for text-analysis tools.  Since January, a

project at Colgate University in the US has been developing a set of tools

with the following design goals:

-- the tools are available over the network as a Web application;

-- the tools are DTD independent: the user interface is constructed

automatically on the basis of the document's DTD;

-- the queries that the tools can process use XPath to express structural

query conditions and Regular Expressions to describe the text patterns of

the query;

-- the tools are extensible: if XSLT cannot do a query, it can be relegated

to an extension function written in a general-purpose programming language

(Java most easily);

-- secondary documents, such as concordances, frequency counts, inverted

indices and so on, are kept as XML documents, optimized for query

processing but also available for printing and display.

We now have an early version of the tools and a tutorial on how to use

them, both to be found at

http://csproj.colgate.edu/TextTools.htm    

Our main purpose in posting this announcement is to get feedback: what

other functionality is needed? how can the user interface be improved?  We

are interested in collaborating with an ongoing project to try out ideas.

There are email addresses at the end of this message.  Eventually, we would

like to make this an open source project.

The tutorial uses a very simple DTD (Jon Bozak's play.dtd), and a single

text, The Merchant of Venice.  However, the program is DTD-independent.

The next version of the tutorial will use TEI Light and provide

instructions on how to use the program with a DTD of your own.

Both the program and the tutorial have been prepared by Karthik Jayaraman,

following initial suggestions by Alexander Nakhimovsky.  Karthik

(kjayaraman@mail.colgate.edu) is a senior undergraduate student, and

Nakhimovsky (sasha@cs.colgate.edu) is a faculty member in the computer

science department at Colgate.  We will be giving a paper on our work at

XML-Europe in Paris in June.  A poster and a software demo will be

presented at the ALLC/ACH meeting in Glasgow.

Alexander Nakhimovsky  tel 315-228-7586

Computer Science Dpt     fax 315-228-7004

Colgate University            sasha@cs.colgate.edu or

Hamilton NY 13346         sasha@mail.colgate.edu



From: John Dawson 
Subject: Re: Text Analysis Tools for XML documents: a Web application
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:03:11 +0100 (BST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 853 (853)


At first sight, very impressive, and very useful.

When searching a speech for a particular word, neither the

immediate results, nor the expanded sources, show which part

of the play they come from.

A couple of comments:

(1)  If I search SPEECH for 'trip' I get one match, a speech by JESSICA.

Clicking on the ellipsis shows the complete scene, but doesn't say which

Act it's in.

(2)  It would be a good idea to highlight the words searched for in the

results (with colour, preferably), as if a complete speech is chosen as

the context, this can be quite long, and difficult to spot the chosen

word.

Thanks.  John

John Dawson   work:  JLD1@cam.ac.uk      home:  JLDawson@talk21.com

                     (01223) 335029             (01462) 893410

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From: Einat Amitay 
Subject: ACM HyperText 2000
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 854 (854)


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       222   000   000   000    | | / _ \\ \/ /| __|

      2   2 0   0 0   0 0   0   | ||  __/ >  < | |_

          2 0   0 0   0 0   0   |_| \___|/_/\_\ \__|

          2 0   0 0   0 0   0

         2  0   0 0   0 0   0

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      22222  000   000   000

        ACM HyperText 2000

        May 30 - June 4

        San Antonio, Texas

        http://www.ht00.org/

The HT 2000 conference is the eleventh ACM conference on hypertext and

hypermedia. The conference will provide a forum where delegates can

present, exchange and discuss original ideas and exciting experiences

relating to hypermedia (objects, links, paths, spaces, time,

collections, navigational aids, etc.) and the use of hypermedia concepts

and technologies in special domains (e.g., authoring, publishing,

human-computer interaction, digital libraries, electronic literature,

computer-supported cooperative work, databases, operating systems,

software engineering, education, and global information systems such as

the WWW, etc.). 

The Hypertext 2000 conference will run back-to-back with the ACM Digital

Libraries conference, starting with Hypertext 2000 from May 30th to June

3rd, and continuing with Digital Libraries from June 2nd to June 7th.

Both conferences are held in the attractive Menger Hotel in San Antonio,

Texas. The conference URLs where you can find details of the entire

programmes can be found at http://www.ht00.org/  and 

http://www.dl00.org/

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: Cybernetic Poet: Ray Kurzweil
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:07:20 +0200 (MET DST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 855 (855)


Greetings,

I have found during my cyberexplorations via HyperText Kitchen..that Ray

Kurzweil has created an interactive, intelligent software suite designed

to act as a Poet's assistant. Ray Kurzweil's "Cybernetic Poet" is now

available as Free download from Kurzweil's Cyberart Technologies Inc..at

<http://www.kurzweilcyberart.com> [please visit this site, WORTH to visit]

According to Kurzweil, "With a little cyberhelp anyone can write creative

adaptations based on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's half-rhymes, William

Butler Yeat's Alliterations; just to name a few," said Kurzweil..--Just

amazing and wonderful..He has also written a Poem, on "The Age of

Intelligent Machines: A (kind of) Turing Test"

I hope, he has also discussed his Cybernetic Poetic philosophy in his

latest book.

Sincerely yours

Arun Tripathi



From: John Clarke 
Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 856 (856)


Thanks to Hedy Sladovich for news of this interview.

=====================================================

from

<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june00/BEOWULF_3-28.html>

PBS ONLINE NEWSHOUR -

THE NEW "BEOWULF"

                                                      

         March 28, 2000

A conversation with a distinguished poet, and to

Elizabeth Farnsworth. 

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From: Francois Lachance 
Subject: voice text and birthdays
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 857 (857)


Willard,

I recently had the occasion to wonder if any persons have been

exprimenting with phonetic transcription and voice synthesis software. I

found a posting in the Humanist archive dating back to 1990. This positng

(3.1170) follows one (3.2269) whose subject line announces the death and

rebirth of Humanist and precedes another (3.1171) about Nexis and Lexis,

commerical databases devoted to the productions of journalism and of legal

studies respectively. Interesting juncture.

If you are interested in poetry and in computers and generally in reading,

you may be interested in a record of the context in which the

question arose: 

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachance/anecdote.htm

Consider it a token of a Happy Birthday wish.


-- 
Francois Lachance
Post-doctoral Fellow
projet HYPERLISTES project
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hyplist/
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From: Steven Totosy 
Subject: announcement for the humanities listserv
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 858 (858)


Announcement: The peer refereed quarterly online journal CLCWeb:

Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal

<http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/clcwebjournal/">

will be relocated from the University of Alberta to Purdue University

Press later on this year. The founding editor of the journal, Steven

Totosy, remains the editor of CLCWeb. Of significance is that Purdue is

publishing CLCWeb in the public domain as it is published now, that is,

in the free access mode. By association, name recognition, and potential

purchases of books based on association, name recognition, and hyperlinks

the Press will benefit from the large web traffic CLCWeb has already

established. As soon as available, the new URL of the journal will be

announced. As well, the University of Alberta will input a pointer on its

server to the new URL and server location of CLCWeb. Colleagues are

invited to submit new work for publication in CLCWeb to Steven Totosy at



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From: Mark Davies 
Subject: Peer evaluation of web-based scholarly materials
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:08:59 -0500
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 859 (859)


We are in the process of revising the promotion and evaluation procedures 

in all of the departments at Illinois State University, and I have been 

asked by a committee to get input from individuals at other institutions 

concerning how non-peer-reviewed, web-based materials could/should be 

evaluated by the institution.

Perhaps I can provide some concrete examples of the type of issues that the 

committee is looking at.  In my case, I have created several online corpora 

that have been used by researchers and students at other 

institutions.  These include a "Polyglot Bible" 

(http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/bible) that allows users to search for a word 

in the entire Gospel of Luke in one of thirty languages and see all of the 

hits, along with (most importantly) the parallel passages for other related 

languages (eg. Gothic, Old English, Icelandic, German, etc), which allows 

cross-linguistic comparison. (A more expanded version of this is also 

available for just Latin, Old Spanish, and Modern Spanish 

(http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/bible/span3.htm), and includes nearly the 

entire Bible).

More important for the type of issues the committee is looking at, I have 

created a searchable, web-based corpus of 3,000,000 words of historical 

Spanish texts (1200s-1900s) (http://mdavies.for.ilstu.edu/corpus), and I 

will soon start work on a web-based 100,000,000 word corpus of historical 

Spanish, based in large part on other available electronic corpora, but 

with enhanced search features and tied in with other linguistic tools (word 

frequencies, dictionaries, bibliographical information, etc).  In each 

case, the materials have been used by many researchers and students at 

other institutions.

In the evaluation of materials such as these, the committee wants to know 

what the procedures and policies are at other institutions.  For example:

1a) In general terms, are materials that are not peer-reviewed at the 

outset (but rather are simple something that a researcher has created and 

puts on the web, and only later receives some type of external validation) 

considered for promotion and evaluation?

1b) If so, at what level are they considered -- that of books, journal 

articles, book reviews, or potentially any of these levels, depending on 

the quality of the materials?

2a) Since they are not peer-reviewed at the outset, is the faculty member 

expected to provide documentation to show how they have been used and 

accepted by peers at other institutions?

2b) If so, what form would this documentation take -- logfiles showing the 

number of hits, email from many different users, comments from a selected 

set of peers, etc.

3) Many of these materials would be used by both researchers _and_ students 

at other institutions -- probably much more than a journal article, which 

would be primarily used by other researchers.  Therefore, how can one avoid 

"double-dipping", by including these materials in both the "scholarly" and 

the "teaching" categories, for those institutions that organize things 

thusly?  In other words, would developers need to document and prove that 

one or the other groups (scholars / students) are the main users of the 

resource?

I would very much appreciate your comments on any of these questions 

(mdavies@ilstu.edu).  Although I will most likely just be summarizing the 

responses for presentation to the committee, please feel free to indicate 

if you would like your comments to be anonymous.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mark Davies

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Dept. of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University

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From: Raquel Wandelli 
Subject: En: mail-listings
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 23:23:29 -0300
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 860 (860)


Greetings colleagues,

I am a member of the Studies Group of Computing, Lingüistic and Literature

in Federal University of the Santa Catarina, Brazil, and I would like to

develop a research about intersubjectivity trhough the Internet.

I think that the Net is not only valid for its database nature, but also

as the way of an exchange of information, and 'spreading the word' about

different cultural events and opinions as well. In regard to this, I am

very much interested in e-lists phenomenon, especially those specialized

for various fields interests such as philosophy, postmodernism,

linguistics,etc.

Does someone of you know how e-mailing lists started? Where can I find

'the history' of mail-listing? If someone already has done research in the

subject or has the knowledge of books dealing with the matter, I would

like to exchange ideas.

thank you,

Raquel Wandelli

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From: "alessandroponti@libero.it" 
Subject: 
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:48:52 +0200
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 861 (861)


I would like to know what Humanists think about W.WELLIVER's book "Dante 

in Hell. The <>". Unfortunately I have not read 

it and I do not know anything more about it. Actually, I only read a 

quotation of it on a commentary of Dante's DVE: <>. What do you think about this strange 

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From: Ann Okerson 
Subject: Questia Press Release
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:42:50 -0400 (EDT)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 862 (862)


More on the e-books front:  a large new vendor positions self to license

academic books.  Limited contact with this vendor suggests a different

approach: targeting content.  Will be worth following their progres.  Ann

Okerson

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4 April 2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY EDITORS			

Questia Reveals Development of Revolutionary Online Research Service

Will deliver on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to

the wealth of human knowledge.

Houston TX (April 4, 2000) - Questia Media, Inc., a new media venture

driven by an extraordinary team of experienced leaders and visionaries,

today revealed the development of a revolutionary online research service

that will deliver on the true promise of the Internet by providing access

to the wealth of human knowledge.  Through ongoing funding projected to

total $210 million during this year and next, Questia is building the

first online service to provide unlimited access to the full text of

hundreds of thousands of books, journals and periodicals, as well as tools

to easily use this information.  For millions of college students, the

Questia service will enable them to research and compose their papers at

any time, from every connected corner of the world.

"Throughout history, many people have struggled with inadequate access to

knowledge," noted Questia founder and CEO Troy Williams.  "Important

events such as Gutenberg's printing press and the emergence of the public

library have made books accessible to larger audiences.  Yet still today,

many people struggle with inadequate access.  Even those with access to

the world's largest libraries cannot avoid the fact that books are finite

resources that are available to only one person at a time - an access

limitation that Questia overcomes."

"Questia is different from most eBusinesses," Williams continued.  "Most

have been merely translating today's brick-and-mortar activities to the

Internet, converting brochures into websites or setting up eCommerce to

sell goods and services online.  But none of this activity really delivers

on the promise of the Internet -- to provide access to the wealth of human

knowledge.  By digitizing the books most needed by college students, by

making them accessible to all students at any time, and by hyperlinking

footnotes and references to the precise page cited, Questia is creating a

revolutionary research tool that enables users to instantaneously follow a

complete train of thought from one book to another.  This has never before

been accomplished in the history of human learning, and it offers the

possibility to truly change how people learn," Williams concluded. Similar

to a traditional library model, emerging Internet-based library and

electronic book services are limited by the actual number of copyrighted

books they purchase - one copy of a book can only be accessed by one

person at a time.  In contrast, Questia will offer a complete research

service with rights secured directly from publishers so that an unlimited

number of people may access a given book at a given time.  Questia expects

to have a robust 50,000 volumes digitized by early 2001 and is projected

to have over 250,000 within three years - that's greater than the number

of volumes in over 80 percent of all academic libraries in the United

States.

Substantial investment in people and dollars

Questia has quietly amassed over $45 million dollars in venture funding

from the venture capital firm TA Associates of Boston and individuals, and

has grown in just a few months to over 200 employees in Houston and New

York.

"The Questia vision is so compelling that we have been able to attract the

very best talent to our team," said Williams.  "Compaq co-founder Rod

Canion, Enron chairman and chief executive officer Ken Lay - both

extraordinary visionaries in their own right - are on our board of

directors and actively participating in our mission.  With the recent

funding from TA Associates, senior managing director Andy McLane also

joins the board.  Moreover, we have built an experienced senior management

team from the publishing, Internet, and computer industries that is

absolutely first-rate.  Finally, we have enrolled important academic and

publishing partners," Williams said.

Williams founded Questia Media, Inc. in 1998 after completing Harvard Law

School.  He formulated the vision, enrolled others, built a prototype of

the service and secured venture funding - much of this from a small

Houston apartment furnished with nothing but a folding table, a PC, and a

five-dollar plastic chair.

Experienced business leaders on the management team include: Tim Harris,

former vice president for Compaq (NYSE: CPQ), as VP of finance, chief

financial officer and chief operating officer; Linda Raglan Cunningham,

former senior vice president for HarperCollins Publishers, as VP of

publishing; Randy Dragon, former vice president of technical operations

for Disney Online (NYSE: DIS), as VP and chief technology officer; Todd

Papke, former vice president of Internet technology for ShopAtHome.com, as

VP of engineering; Kathleen Harrington Clark, former director of

advertising for Compaq, as VP of marketing; David Cabello, former senior

vice president, general counsel and secretary for Compaq, as VP, general

counsel and secretary; Mary Ryder, former vice president of operations for

First Data Corporation/TeleCheck (NYSE; FDC), as VP of customer support;

and Charles Winder, former vice president of operations for Compaq, as VP

of operations.  A roster of brilliant young Internet visionaries with

diverse backgrounds and experiences rounds out the senior management team.

Compelling benefits to students

The Questia service will be live at www.questia.com in early 2001 (near

start of the second semester of the 2000-2001 academic year) with at least

50,000 of the most valued volumes in the liberal arts from the 20th and

21st centuries (not including textbooks).  This initial online collection

will offer access to a range of titles that are today -- for all practical

purposes -- out of reach of many students.  With a monthly subscription

fee and an existing Internet connection, students will be able to search

the online collection, research related references, view the actual pages

of individual titles, and compose and save their papers online.  For

college students doing research papers, the Questia service will become

the indispensable tool for researching and writing. "Today, it is

unthinkable for a student to compose a paper on a typewriter; the PC-based

word processor is the tool of choice.  Very soon, it will be unthinkable

for a student to research and write a paper without using the Questia

service," Williams declared.

Compelling benefits to publishers

For publishers, Questia represents a tremendous opportunity to increase

revenues.

Questia has developed a way for publishers to receive revenue each time a

student accesses even a single page of a title.  This has never been

possible before. Thus, older titles and out-of-print books that have been

read and studied thousands of times over the years in libraries (yet have

not generated new income) will now produce new revenues and become more

valuable assets to publishers.  Moreover, current industry trends show

that traditional individual copy sales of titles benefit from exposure on

the web because consumers are more inclined to buy books they can browse

online.  Questia will make it easier and more convenient for subscribers

to locate, search, and browse an entire library of books, vastly

increasing awareness of previously hard-to-find titles.

In sum, Questia offers publishers a new opportunity to revitalize older

titles and to broaden the audience and gain exposure for newer titles.

Through this, they can gain additional revenues for all titles that would

otherwise have been unrealized.

Compelling benefits to librarians and professors

For librarians and professors, Questia offers a new valuable tool that

facilitates their goal of helping students to find the right information

effectively and efficiently.  The Questia search function alone - to be

offered to all at no charge - allows librarians or professors to find the

exact volumes and pages that can answer a student's question.  Because the

research process is more efficient and less cumbersome, it will mean fewer

dead-end trips to the stacks, thus allowing for more time for the

mentoring and thoughtful interaction that actually foster a love of

discovery and learning.

About Questia

Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc. is building the first online service

to provide unlimited access to the full text of hundreds of thousands of

books, journals and periodicals, as well as tools to easily use this

information.  For millions of college students and researchers, the

Questia service will enable them to efficiently research and compose

papers at any time, from every connected corner of the world.  Based in

Houston, TX with over 200 employees, Questia is delivering on the true

promise of the Internet by providing access to the wealth of human

knowledge.  Information can be found at www.questia.com.

# # #

Questia is a service mark of Questia Media, Inc.

Contacts:

Media:	

John Sweney	

Brookwoods Media Group	

713-934-0529

john.sweney@brookwoods.com

Investors:	

Tim Harris	

Questia Media, Inc.	

713-358-2642

tharris@questia.com               

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From: "David L. Green" 
Subject: Calling the Question Series
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 07:09:52 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 863 (863)


The Center for Arts and Culture, America's first independent think tank for

arts and culture, announces it's Calling the Question program: "E-Culture?".

Free and open to the public, the program will be on Tuesday, April 11, 2000

from 3:30 to 5:00pm in the National Building Museum auditorium, 401 F Street

NW, Washington, DC 20001.  A reception following the program will also have

available for sale copies of the Center's new book, The Politics of Culture:

Policy Perspecitves for Individuals, Institutions and Communities.  Please

call (202) 783-5277 to reserve, seating is limited.

Should culture play by the same rules as commerce in the on-line world?  The

commercial promise of the new information technology is now commonplace.

What are the implications for culture, in both for-profit and non-profit

sectors?  In an on-line environment dominated by market forces, are different rates, rules, and responsibilities necessary when culture is involved?

To discuss these questions, join:

Moderator Michael Shapiro, General Counsel, International Intellectual

Property Institute;  

Donald Druker, Program Officer, Technology Opportunities Program, National

Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S.Department of

Commerce;  

David Eisner, Vice President, America Online Foundation;

William Gilcher, Director of Media Projects, U.S. and Canada,

Goethe-Institut, Washington, D.C.;  

David Green, Executive Director, National Initiative for a Networked

Cultural Heritage.

In the Washington Post on February 29, 2000, Richard Morin and Claudia Deane

noted that the Center's new book "will get Washington to think as seriously

about the nation's cultural life as it does about Bosnia or tax policy."

Available from The New Press, The Politics of Culture features fresh

research and thought-provoking commentary, providing a compelling outline

for the future of American public policy as it intersects with arts and

culture.

For more information please contact Joy Austin at (202) 783-5277 or by email

at jaustin@culturalpolicy.org.  Visit the Center's website at

http://www.culturalpolicy.org . 

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From: Eric Johnson 
Subject: Evaluation of WWW materials
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 864 (864)


Mark Davies said:
[deleted quotation]
   Some of the best sources of online information on a variety of subjects

have been created by faculty.  There ought to be some means of giving the

creators credit toward academic advancement.

   As you note, non-peer-reviewed materials on the web might be considered

as a contribution to scholarship or teaching, but there are strong

objections to doing so since such materials are very different from

traditional scholarship and teaching.  Perhaps the creation of online

materials might be considered as service (a common third category of

evaluation for faculty).

   As far as documentation of use and of acceptance by the scholarly

community, the faculty member might list the sites that contain links to

the material -- along with any annotation (for example, "The best

web-based corpus of words of historical Spanish texts can be found at

http:// ..."). 

   --Eric Johnson

     Professor and Dean

     Dakota State University

     johnsone@jupiter.dsu.edu

     http://www.dsu.edu/~johnsone/

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From: Francois Lachance 
Subject: Function:Procedure::Recursion:Iteration
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 865 (865)


An open invitation opens:

David McKelvie, Human Communciation Research Centre (Edinburgh, UK) has

written that "in functional languages one uses recursion rather than

iteration". 

As Humanist's aniversary approaches, I wonder if some of its subscribers

would venture the expression of thoughts as to how procedural languages

may have influenced the shaping of Humanities Computing.

An opened invitation opens some more::

As Humanist's aniversary has begun to be approached, I have begun to

contemplate if the time is not at hand for ask a peculiar question:

Is it the case that the question "how does the use of computers affect

reading" emerges at a time of scarcity of machines and is it the case that

the opposite question "how does reading affect the use of computers"

emerges at a time when the technology is distributed more widely?  If it

is the case or even if the case is entertained as an enabling fiction,

what type of history can be derived from such an observation? 

To begin again:

Is the nature of loops different in functional and procedure languages?

Does the end end differently when both the affirmation of enabling

fictions and the fictionalization of affirmation is permitted?

To end once more:

what is the mythic dimension of the history of Humanist?


--
Francois
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From: "David L. Green"                   (10)
Subject: Job Announcement: Walker Art Center
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 866 (866)


Come help us invent the future! Join the award-winning New Media Initiatives department at the Walker Art Center as Webmaster/Administrator.  We're only taking applications through May 19th so act now!  Job description follows.  For application informatio

n, visit our website at http://www.walkerart.org/jobs/

WALKER ART CENTER

POSITION AVAILABLE

JOB TITLE  Webmaster/Administrator

DEPARTMENT  New Media Initiatives

REPORTS TO  Website Manager

CLASSIFICATION  Full-time, Exempt

RESPONSIBILITIES  This position will work closely with the Website Manager and the Director of New Media Initiatives to help develop and support  Walker's high-traffic, high-technology site; help design and implement the website architecture; oversee all 

technical aspects of web-based access and delivery systems; and ensure production meets requirements with high performance and high availability.  Responsibilities also include:

** Web Server Administration: installing, maintaining, testing, troubleshooting, and providing security for web server hardware and software; system setup, configuration, operation maintenance, backup/archiving, and software upgrades; performing log analy

sis and coordinating addition/removal of user accounts for our NT, UNIX, Mac, and Linux environments.  This position also has lead responsibility for site quality control including evaluation of links and maintenance programs, and develops strategies for 

performing regular site reviews and maintains cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility so that the website is accessible from a variety of different environments.  The Webmaster/Administrator is responsible for search engine registration and explore

s site ranking and placement optimization techniques.

** Site Architecture/Coding Standards: seeking out innovative solutions to support a growing, constantly improving, award-winning site.  In conjunction with the Website Manager, helps assess the strengths and weaknesses of current web implementation; deve

lops and implements a plan for converting Walker static pages to dynamic, data-driven solutions.  As code librarian, the Webmaster/Administrator develops systems that support and promote site coding and metadata standards. The Webmaster/Administrator keep

s up with Internet literature and emerging trends/technologies, assesses new trends, formulates response strategies, and conducts ongoing experimentation with emerging technologies.

 

** Database Administration/Programming: responsible for InQuery system administration (a search engine for delivering large collections of unstructured, cross-domain digital resources) including the custom routines used for preparing the document reposito

ry.  S/he will help evaluate the sustainability of Walker’s InQuery-based applications and propose alternative document authoring strategies as appropriate. InQuery is the backbone to Walker ArtsConnectEd project (www.artsconnected.org) and an increasingl

y important document repository for other Walker projects. In addition to InQuery, the Walker uses SQLServer and Access to drive a number of ColdFusion applications. The Webmaster/Administrator assists with the development of database driven solutions and

 will be responsible for coding database definitions and application templates.

** Web Technologist: works with and advises Walker web designers/technicians/developers in development of web-based projects.  Provides expertise in content distribution technologies including CGI, Java, streaming audio/video technologies (Real and Quickt

ime), Shockwave, and VRML well enough to choose correctly between the many options for many different types of situations.

  

QUALIFICATIONS  Experience with Unix, NT, Linux server administration, SQL, ColdFusion, and traditional services like telnet, email, listserv, and ftp required.  Must have forms, scripting experience, and knowledge of at least one major structured program

ming language (C/C++, Perl, Java, Unix shell scripting, etc). Demonstrated skills using the latest Internet development and production tools, including but not limited to HTML, XML, and ASP.  Strong understanding of database concepts as well as all design

 and technical disciplines involved in the website production process. Thorough knowledge of web security issues and low level technologies.  Attention to detail and a firm grasp of the technologies is essential.  Network and firewall experience, ability 

to work independently yet work effectively within a team, professionalism, problem-solving ability, and creativity is a plus. Must be knowledgeable about code compatibility issues with different browser types and versions and have experience running Java 

and Javascript on a server to be able to troubleshoot and tune Java-specific performance issues.

SALARY  $40,000 - $60,000 depending on qualifications; excellent benefits.

Send letter of interest, resume, and the names of three professional references to Gary White, Director of Human Resources, Walker Art Center, Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN 55403

CLOSING DATE  May 19, 2000

Posted 4/4/00

Job line:  612.375.7588 (voice) and 612.375.7586 (TDD). 

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From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi 
Subject: (Articles) Designing a Sense of Presence in Virtual Environments
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:20:57 +0200 (MET DST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 867 (867)


Greetings Scholars,

There are interesting articles related to the social embodiment,

telepresence and cyborgs have been published in the Journal of

Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol 3 and Issue 2 of September 1997.

a) Bridging the Gulfs: From Hypertexts to Cyberspace by Thierry Bardini is

available at <http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue2/bardini.html> -The purpose

of the paper is focusing on the two main aspects at the origin of hypertext 

technology and contrast between associationist and connectionist views.

b) The Cyborg's Dilemma: Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments by

Frank Biocca is avilable at <http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue2/biocca2.html> 

This paper brings another issue, of How does the changing representation

of the body in virtual environments affect the mind? The article also

considers how virtual reality interfaces are evolving to embody the user

progressively? The author has also discussed other issues, such as

"Embodiment: Thinking through our Technologically Extended Bodies" and

"Being There: The sens of Physical Presence in Cyberspace".

c) At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Telepresence by Matthew Lombard

is available at <http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue2/lombard.html> This

paper discusses the issues regarding the emerging technologies including

virtual reality, simulation rides. video conferencing, home theater, and

high definition television are designed to provide media users with an

illusion that a mediated experiences is not mediated, a perception defined

here as presence.

d) Telepresence via Television: Two dimensions of Telepresence May Have

Different Connections to Memory and Persuasion by Taeyong Kim and Frank

Biocca is available at <http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/vol3/issue2/kim.html> 

This particular essay has discussed some questions, such as -Is

Telepresence Related to any other cognitive correlates or outcomes,

specially memory and persuasion?, Is Presence a unidimensional construct?

and others!

Sincerely

Arun Tripathi

Research Scholar

University of Dortmund

(UNI DO) 

Germany



From: "Art, Photo and Film Editorial" 
Subject: 
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 20:37:38 GMT
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 868 (868)


This message is one of a series of periodic mailings about newly released

books in art, film, and photography.  You have received this mailing

because you have either purchased a book or added yourself to the mailing

list.

Follow the URLs below to our catalog for contents, abstracts, and ordering

information.

"Ghost in the Shell"

Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000

Robert A. Sobieszek

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SOBGPF99>

"Ghost in the Shell" takes as its premise the idea that the outer person

is a reflection of the inner. Tracing the modern photographic portrait

over the past 150 years, the book reveals the many ways the photographic

arts have investigated, represented, interpreted, and subverted the human

face and, consequently, the human spirit. 

11 x 11, 336 pp., 240 illus., 90 color

paper ISBN 0-262-69228-7, cloth ISBN 0-262-19425-2

Suspensions of Perception

Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture

Jonathan Crary

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/CRASHF99>

Suspensions of Perception is a historical study of human attention and

its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in

which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial

changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second

half of the nineteenth century.

7 x 9, 340 pp., 86 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-03265-1

An October Book

Talking Visions

Multicultural Feminism in a Transnational Age

Ella Shohat, editor

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/SHOTHF99>

This multivoiced collection of essays and images presents the

perspectives of activists, scholars, artists, and curators from a broad

range of constituencies. Challenging traditional disciplinary and

cultural boundaries, the book moves beyond any unified feminist

historical narrative to present a "relational" feminism of diverse

communities, affiliations, and practices. 

7 x 9, 566 pp., 66 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-19426-0

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From: "David L. Green"                    (9)
Subject: LC National Digital Library Program announces release
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 869 (869)


This message is being widely posted

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The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program announces the

release of "Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth and

Early Twentieth Century Perspectives" at

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/prhtml/prhome.html

The collection portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto

Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories

drawn from the General Collections, the Hispanic Division and the

Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. 

The digital collection Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age is one

component of a collaborative project undertaken by the Library of

Congress Hispanic Division and the National Digital Library Program to

recognize the centennial of the Spanish-American War (1898).  The first

product of this collaboration, The World of 1898: The Spanish-American

War, came online in 1998.  Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age now

joins it, while also expanding the continuing commitment of the Library

of Congress to highlight the histories of distinctive American regions

through the online presentation of materials selected from a number of divisions.

Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age encompasses historically

important writings by prominent Puerto Rican political activists and

historians dating from approximately seventy years before the

Spanish-American war (1831) until some thirty years after it (1929). 

Texts from the postwar period include the only English-language works in

the collection.  Among these are soldiers' reminiscences about the

conflict and short histories designed to acquaint an American audience

with Puerto Rico in the earliest years of its affiliation with the

United States.

The collection comprises 16 monographs scanned from printed copies and

39 political pamphlets and 2 monographs and a journal scanned from

microfilm.  The pamphlets are part of the Puerto Rican Memorial

Microfilm Collection, 1846-1907, a collection of 447 pamphlets

microfilmed in 1994 that covers agriculture and botany, economics,

education, government, politics, history, literature, legal materials,

and public health.  Out of sixteen reels in this collection, only reels

13 (addresses, essays, laws, and political parties) and 14 (politics and

government) are featured in Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age.

All pamphlets are in Spanish.  Four of the books are in English and the

rest in Spanish. 

Scanning the Printed Material

Paper-based printed documents in Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern

Age: Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Perspectives were digitized

by Systems Integration Group (SIG) of Lanham, Maryland.  Each item was

reproduced as facsimile page images.  The image capture took place at

the Library of Congress.  In order to preserve the originals, bound

works were scanned face-up in their bindings, one page at a time.  The

master or archival version of the textual pages (containing typography

and line art) is a 300-dots-per-inch (dpi) bitonal image in the TIFF

format, with ITU Group IV compression.  Pages with printed halftone

illustrations, finely detailed line drawings, or pages with significant

color, including book covers, were captured as 8-bit grayscale or 24-bit

color images, as appropriate, and stored in the JFIF image format (with

JPEG compression).  Books containing bitonal text pages and no

illustrations were scanned using the Minolta PS3000.  Books containing

grayscale illustrations were scanned using the Toyo 4x5 inch studio

camera with a Phase One Photophase Plus digital camera back. 

The browser-display images for all document pages are in the GIF format.

The staff produces these images by processing batches of the master or

archival images.  When bitonal images are being processed, gray tones

are added and the resulting image is blurred to mimic grayscale.  Then

the image is reduced in scale to fit the typical display monitor and

sharpened to enhance legibility.  When the source image is grayscale,

only rescaling and sharpening are undertaken to create the GIF image.

Microfilm Scanning

Materials in Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age that were

digitized from microfilm include the pamphlets and the periodical

Repertorio Historico de Puerto-Rico as well as two monographs.  For

optimal capture of detail, the microfilm scanning negative was produced

by Preservation Resources by printing directly from the master

microfilm.  The digital images were captured by Preservation Resources

as 600-dpi bitonal images saved in TIFF format, with ITU Group IV compression.

Preservation Resources also created GIF files for quick online access to

the microfilm items in this collection.  These images were derived from

the bitonal TIFF files or the grayscale TIFF files during the

post-processing phase of production.

Creating the Searchable Text

After the images were approved by the Library, searchable texts were

prepared offsite, by rekeying the documents from the page images.  These

typescript materials were converted to machine-readable form at an

accuracy rate of 99.95% and encoded with Standard Generalized Markup

Language (SGML), according to the American Memory Document Type

Definition (DTD).  This DTD is a markup scheme that conforms to the

guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), the work of a

consortium of scholarly institutions.  The online presentation of the

texts also includes a version in HTML (HyperText Markup Language),

produced by the Library in an automated process.  Because it requires no

special software, the HTML version is easier for most users to access.

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This collection can be found at 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/prhtml/prhome.html

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: BEYOND CONTROL (Oxford Colloquium)- The Internet: Access and Censorship
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:03:50 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 870 (870)

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******** BEYOND CONTROL ********** 28 April ********* OXFORD UNION *******

 

* Is the Internet doing more harm than good?

* Should the Internet be policed?

* What effect is the Internet having on our libraries, museums, and

galleries?

* Is pornography and e-crime really that predominant on the Internet?

These and other questions will be debated at length in the one-day

colloquium:

'Beyond Control: Threats and Liberties in the Electronic Age'

Oxford Union Debating Chamber

28th April, 2000

The colloquium is being organised by the Humanities Computing Unit (part

of Oxford University Computing Services) and sponsored by Guardian

Unlimited.

Full details of how to register can be found at:

http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/beyond/

or contact Jenny Newman (jenny.newman@oucs.ox.ac.uk; tel: +44 1865 273221)

Please note that the final deadline for registration is the 14th

April. BOOK NOW!

***************************************************************************

Dr Stuart D Lee     		| Head of the Centre for Humanities 

                                | Computing (http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/chc/)

Centre for Humanities Computing	| 

Oxford University Computing	| E-mail: Stuart.Lee@oucs.ox.ac.uk  

Services			| Tel: +44 1865 283403 

13 Banbury Road  		| Fax: +44 1865 273275 

Oxford OX2 6NN			| URL: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP: TAPD 2000
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:05:17 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 871 (871)

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                        Final CALL FOR PAPERS

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                              TAPD 2000

        2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction'

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                         September 19-21 2000

                             Vigo, Spain

                  Sponsored by University of Vigo

                        with the support of

                        Caixa Vigo e Ourense

                      Logic Programing Associates

               http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/

Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in

Vigo (Spain) in September, 2000. The conference will be previous to

SEPLN 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference

of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP: ICoS-2
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:07:21 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 872 (872)

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                    * FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *

                      second workshop on

              INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                            ICoS-2

               Dagstuhl, Germany, July 29-30, 2000

          http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~kohlhase/event/icos2/

              (Submission deadline: April 15, 2000)

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP: THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:09:38 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 873 (873)

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            THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT AND FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

       Apologies if you receive this from more than one source

             THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION

             Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy

                         3-5 July, 2000

Everything is on the website, including registration information

on line, hotels (from simple to sumptious), the glorious site etc.

The key date is 8 April when abstracts are due and that is

only a few days away. Hotel accomodation should be booked as soon 

as possible.

 www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP: DAARC 3
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:10:42 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 874 (874)

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                          CALL FOR PAPERS

        (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement)

                    Third International Conference on

              Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution

                            (DAARC2000)

                      Lancaster University, UK

                       November 16 - 18, 2000

                            Sponsored by

               The Linguistics Association of Great Britain

         In association with The University of Lancaster and 

                The North-west Centre for Linguistics

        

Following the success of the second international conference of the

North-west Centre for Linguistics on the theme of Questions, we invite

you to submit a paper for the North-west Centre's Third International

conference. This conference has the theme of Discourse Anaphora and

Anaphor Resolution. This event follows on from two previous conferences

on this topic at Lancaster in 1996 and 1998.

DAARC2000 aims to continue the trend set by the previous DAARC events,

which brought together a wide variety of research on discourse anaphora

and anaphor resolution. Our goal will be to review this diverse field

and consider the many changes that have taken place in it in recent

years. 

The DAARC2000 colloquium will take place on the 16-18th November 2000 at

Lancaster University, UK. We would like to invite anyone currently

researching in the areas of discourse anaphora and anaphor resolution

to submit a paper for DAARC2000. The closing date for submission is

30/6/00. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 31/7/00

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to the DAARC2000

organising committee at the following email address:

a.mcenery@lancaster.ac.uk

If you prefer to send an abstract by surface mail, please send a paper

copy of your abstract to the following address:

Dr Tony McEnery,

DAARC2000,

Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language,

Lancaster University,

Bailrigg,

Lancaster LA1 4YT 

United Kingdom



From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: ACL2000 Call for Tutorial Proposals
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:12:16 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 875 (875)

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                ACL 2000 Call for Tutorial Proposals

 The Program Committee of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association

 for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for the Tutorial

 Program for ACL 2000, to be held in Hong Kong from October 3rd

 through 6th, 2000 (see <http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/>). The

 tutorials for ACL 2000 will be held on 1-2 October 2000.

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: CFP: Workshop on Hybrid Logics
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:13:22 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 876 (876)

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                 Twelfth European Summer School 

               in Logic, Language and Information

                          ESSLLI-2000 

                       August 6-18, 2000    

                   Birmingham, Great Britain

                   WORKSHOP ON HYBRID LOGICS 
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                 (Bringing Them All Together)

                     SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 

[material deleted]

If you're unsure whether your work is of relevant to

the workshop, please check out the newly opened Hybrid Logic Site:

     http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos/hybrid

And do not hesitate to contact the workshop organisers for more

information. We'd be delighted to tell you more. Contact details are

give below.

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CONTACT DETAILS:

Please visit http://www.illc.uva.nl/~carlos/hybrid for further

information.



From: Mirjam Schieveld 
Subject: Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture, and Society Amsterdam 2000
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:29:55 +0200
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 877 (877)


http://www.pscw.uva.nl/InternationalSchool/SummerInstitute/

Dear colleague,

We would like to invite your students to participate in the most important

educational and research institute on sexuality studies, which is annually

held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Summer Institute on Sexuality,

Culture, and Society,organized by the Universiteit of Amsterdam, was begun

in 1995, and has enjoyed four years of unparalleled success. The Institute

is an academic summer program open to students from around the world.

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From: Book Arts Press 
Subject: Etext course at Virginia
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:14:13 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 878 (878)


* * * * * * * *

                [Cross-posted. Please excuse any duplication.]

RARE BOOK SCHOOL (RBS) is pleased to announce its Summer Sessions 2000, a

collection of five-day, non-credit courses on topics concerning rare books,

manuscripts, the history of books and printing, and special collections to be

held at the University of Virginia from 19 June - 30 June and 24 July - 11

August 2000.

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        FOR AN APPLICATION FORM and electronic copies of the complete brochure

and the RBS Expanded Course Descriptions (ECDs), providing additional details

about the courses offered and other information about RBS, visit our Web site

at:

                        http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks

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Subscribers to the Humanist list may find the following Rare Book School

courses to be of particular interest:

14. ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND IMAGES. (Monday-Friday, June 19-23) 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 online texts. For details about last years version of

this course, see <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/rbs/99>. Some experience with

HTML is a prerequisite for admission to the course. Instructor: David Seaman.

DAVID SEAMAN is the founding director of the internationally-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.

25. IMPLEMENTING ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION (SESSION I Monday-Friday, June

26-30). Encoded Archival Description (EAD) provides standardized

machine-readable access to primary resource materials. This course is aimed at

archivists, librarians, and museum personnel who would like an introduction to

EAD that includes an extensive supervised hands-on component. Students will

learn SGML encoding techniques in part using examples selected from among their

own institutions finding aids. Topics: the context out of which EAD emerged;

introduction to the use of SGML authoring tools and browsers; the conversion of

existing finding aids to EAD. Offered again July 31 - August 4. Instructor:

Daniel Pitti.

DANIEL PITTI became Project Director at the University of Virginias Institute

for Advanced Technology in 1997, before which he was Librarian for Advanced

Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Coordinator

of the Encoded Archival Description initiative.

Book Arts Press			Phone: 804/924-8851 

114 Alderman Library		Fax: 804/924-8824

University of Virginia		Email: oldbooks@virginia.edu

Charlottesville, VA  22903		URL: 

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From: Roy Johnson 
Subject: Literature and the Internet
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 15:11:08 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 879 (879)


        For those who might be interested, we have just posted 

        a review of a new book on literature and the Internet.

        Stephanie Browner, Stephen Pulsford, and Richard Sears,

        'Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, 

        Teachers, and Scholars', London/New York: Garland, 

        2000, pp.191, ISBN 0815334532 

        http://www.mantex.co.uk/reviews/browner.htm


-- 
        Dr Roy Johnson    |  MANTEX Information Design            
        roy@mantex.co.uk  |  http://www.mantex.co.uk


From: "David L. Green" 
Subject: FATHOM.COM: A New For-Profit Cultural Heritage Venture Announced by US & UK Partners
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 13:52:47 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 880 (880)

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources 
from across the Community
April 8, 2000
                FATHOM.COM: A New For-Profit Collaborative Venture
                         Announced by US & UK Partners
            "The premier site for knowledge and education on the web"
                http://www.fathom.com/pressreleases/04032000.html
Following up on the notice last week about the ambitions of Questia, is this announcement from six transatlantic nonprofit educational and cultural institutions about a new for-profit venture to distribute educational materials to business and individual 
users.
David Green
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WORLD-RENOWNED ACADEMIC AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS PARTNER FOR FIRST TIME TO CREATE INTERACTIVE KNOWLEDGE COMPANY: FATHOM POISED TO REDEFINE SCOPE OF ONLINE LEARNING
Founding Partners: Columbia University, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Cambridge University Press, The British Library, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and The New          York Public Library
NEW YORK AND LONDON, April 3, 2000 -- Six of the world's leading
educational and cultural institutions announced today that they will
create Fathom, a new company formed to launch the premier site for 
knowledge and education on the web. Fathom will present the best public
content and courses of universities, libraries, and museums on a wide
variety of professional, cultural, and academic subjects. The
consortium's website, Fathom.com, will introduce the first home for
authenticated knowledge on the Internet, serving a worldwide audience of
business and individual users.
Much of Fathom's content has never been available outside of the
participating institutions. Founding partners who will make their
educational and cultural resources available through Fathom include
Columbia University, the London School of Economics and Political
Science, Cambridge University Press, the British Library, the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of Natural History, and The New York Public
Library. Other institutions are expected to join the consortium. During
the year-long development of Fathom, partners have invested invaluable
intellectual assets and substantial financial resources. An experienced
Internet team, headed up by President and CEO Ann Kirschner, Ph.D.,
manages the business, overseen by a distinguished board of directors of
international business executives and by an Academic Council of leading
scholars and researchers. 
"Today, most initiatives by educational institutions are focused on
courses," she continued. "Courses are important, and courses for distance
learning will be one of the offerings provided by some partners through
Fathom. But learning is not limited to the classroom, and the many other
types of content provided through Fathom will provide a more complete and
accessible context for knowledge. We believe that Fathom will define the
transformation of the online learning category into a broader interactive
knowledge marketplace," Dr. Kirschner said.
 
Fathom will include a comprehensive directory of related online courses
offered by universities and cultural institutions, plus textbooks and
other academic titles, specialized periodicals, individual articles and
other publications, CD-ROMs, academic travel, and learning resources.
Users will access online courses through Fathom, with tuition fees,
accreditation, and admission policies set at the discretion of the
offering university or cultural institution. 
Central to Fathom will be a wealth of free content usually only available
on university campuses and at leading museums and libraries. This content
will include multimedia lectures, seminars, databases, publications, and
performances. Working directly with the prominent faculty and curators of
these institutions, Fathom will cover a wide range of subjects such as
business, law, economics, social sciences, medicine, computer science and
technology, the arts, journalism, and physics.
 
Fathom users will explore topics of interest to them professionally and
personally. They will have the opportunity to interact and collaborate
with the leading experts in their field. Fathom's unique architecture
will provide a powerful "search and explore capability" that will allow
users to follow their interests, independently or with expert guidance,
across the widest possible range of subjects. 
"Fathom reaffirms the founding principles of the Internet," said Dr.
Kirschner. "By providing global access to these resources, Fathom holds
the promise of knowledge without boundaries and offers a new medium for
the exchange of ideas. It points ahead to a future where the acquisition
and application of knowledge can be independent of economic status, time
constraints, and geographic location. Fathom and its partners are
committed to creating a dynamic home for knowledge." 
All Fathom original content will be authenticated, meaning that the
knowledge will be attributed to the appropriate educational or cultural
institution and its faculty or professional staff. Fathom's standards of
academic and editorial integrity will be monitored by the Fathom Academic
Council, a panel of selected senior faculty and curators from
participating institutions, which will be chaired by Jonathan Cole,
Ph.D., Provost and Dean of Faculties, Columbia University. 
Examples of Fathom content currently in development include: 
* An oral history research project that includes 7,000 in-depth personal
interviews, conducted over 50 years, with leaders from  business,
politics, and the arts, including, Frank Lloyd Wright,  Dorothy Parker,
Nikita Khrushchev, and Jimmy Stewart (from  Columbia University); 
* Excerpts from the field journals of a preeminent anthropologist of  the
20th century, William Duncan Strong (1899-1962) (from the  Smithsonian
Institution's National Anthropological Archives at the  National Museum
of Natural History); 
* An overview of the provocative new science of astrobiology, which
brings together molecular life sciences, space exploration,  planetary
science and the search for extraterrestrials, by  astronomer and editor
Dr. Simon Mitton (from Cambridge University  Press); 
* A talk on "The Weightless Economy," the shift from a world of
manufacturing to a world of weightless services, by economist  Professor
Danny Quah (from the London School of Economics and  Political Science); 
* Multimedia presentations that bring to life treasured objects, from
the Magna Carta to the Lindisfarne Gospels (from the British  Library);
* A collection of over 54,000 photographic views of New York City  that
mark the development of the city, its architectural  achievements,
transportation system, and ethnic and cultural  diversity (from The New
York Public Library). 
 
Developed by top universities, Fathom will be the leading online
destination for high-quality knowledge and education, a rapidly growing
marketplace.
Significant growth in online education is expected over the next few
years. According to IDC, the size of the U.S. market for distance
learning is already $2 billion and is projected to be $6 billion in 2002
and $9 billion by 2003, a growing component of the $750 billion higher
education market in the U.S. alone. Enrollment in online programs is
expected to increase at an annual rate of 30-35 percent. 
"The fit between the Fathom business model, the vast intellectual capital
of the founding partners, and the talented management team in place at
Fathom is exactly what you want to see when forging a vibrant new space
on the Internet," said Michael M. Crow, Ph.D., Columbia University
Executive Vice Provost. "We see an enormous need developing for this new
interactive knowledge category. Fathom will meet that need with a
combination of the technology we have developed and the best possible
content provided by our distinguished partners." 
In addition to Dr. Crow and Dr. Kirschner, Fathom's international board
of directors will include former chairman of Goldman Sachs Stephen
Friedman, commissioner of the National Basketball Association David
Stern, chairman of Enterprise LSE and former director of Shell
International Keith Mackrell, and chairman and CEO of MBNA Corporation
Alfred Lerner. 
"Fathom embraces the principles upon which the great learning
institutions of the world were founded-to create a community where ideas
flourish, to stimulate intellectual curiosity, and to aid in professional
development. Fathom will harness the power of the Internet to enhance the
learning experience while upholding the highest professional and
scholarly standards," Dr. Kirschner said. 
Columbia University - London School of Economics and Political Science -
Cambridge University Press - The British Library - Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of Natural History - The New York Public
Library 
 
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From: Kathlin Smith 
Subject: 
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 00 15:47:28 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 881 (881)

Report Describes Risk-Assessment Model for Managing Cultural Assets
 Washington, D.C.-The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR),
in cooperation with the Library of Congress (LC), has published Managing
Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective, by Laura Price, of KPMG
LLP, and Abby Smith, of CLIR. The report describes how LC developed and
implemented a plan for greater accountability over its collections.
Libraries acquire their collections to meet the needs of their present
and future users. The collections, and the services that make them
accessible, are essential to fulfilling the library's mission. Most 
libraries have focused more on the costs of acquiring and maintaining 
collections than on their potential as assets that are vital to
institutional productivity. 
This report presents a model for the management of library and archival
collections that defines collections as core assets and seeks to make
them maximally productive while controlling risks to their integrity. The
model is not based on the monetary value of library holdings. Instead, it
focuses on business risk and proposes a framework of controls to minimize
the risks that threaten the viability of those assets. It is not always
evident which investments in collection development, preservation, and
security will best serve the collections at a given time. With this
model, managers can identify priorities for institutional investments in
collections and make more compelling budget justifications for necessary
resources, because the relationship between the library's assets and its
mission work is made explicit to financial decision makers. 
The fact that the language of this model comes from business, and
accounting in particular, is indicative of the new environment in which
all cultural institutions find themselves-one in which business
increasingly sets standards for operations and accountability. To obtain
the necessary resources for mission work, library managers must be able
to express and justify their needs in terms familiar to financial
officers and funding organizations-in terms of business risk.
The risk-assessment methodology described in the report has its origins
in the efforts of the Library of Congress to better manage its finances
and strengthen its core business. Developed to be used in a working
national library, the methodology is now an integral part of LC's annual
audit. However, the fundamental problems that Library staff faced as they
developed the first-ever model to "account" for the well-being of
heritage assets are the same as those facing any library-public, private,
multimedia, or single-format.
The report was developed with the cooperation of the Library of Congress
through a partnership between the Council on Library and Information
Resources and KPMG LLP, an international audit and business advisory
firm. The Public Services-Assurance Practice of KPMG LLP developed the
business risk model for the Library of Congress and co-wrote the report
with CLIR.
Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective is available from
the Council on Library and Information Resources for $15 prepaid,
including postage and handling. Checks should be made payable to CLIR and
mailed to CLIR Publication Orders, 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite
500, Washington, D.C., 20036-2124. Credit card orders may be placed by
calling CLIR at 202-939-4750, sending a fax to 202-939-4765, or sending
e-mail to mailto:info@clir.org. The full text is also available on CLIR's
Web site, http://www.clir.org.
The Council on Library and Information Resources works in partnership
with libraries, archives, and other information providers to advocate
collaborative approaches to preserving the nation's intellectual heritage
and strengthening the many components of its information system. It works
to support institutions as they integrate audiovisual and digital
resources and services into their well-established, print-based
environments. 
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From: "Jennifer J. Vinopal" 
Subject: Position Announcement, NYU Libraries
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 882 (882)


Please address all correspondence regarding the following position to

the address below, not to the poster of this email.

*************************

        Director, Information Technology Services, NYU

        Libraries

Applications are invited for the position of  Director of Information

Technology Services at New York University Libraries. The position

will have oversight of strategic decision-making for meeting

technology needs for all  Division of Libraries services, including

NYU Press and TV and Media Services and will collaborate with NYU

Information Technology Services in choosing technologies and

establishing technical directions.

Reporting directly to the Dean of Libraries, the Libraries Director of

Information Technology Services is part of the Libraries senior

management team.  The position will have line responsibility for

Library Systems, Database Management, Digital Library Development, and

the Electronic Resources Center.  The position has direct oversight

responsibility for planning and managing the Libraries integrated

management system, a GEAC Advance system.  In addition, the position

will have responsibility for coordinating and facilitating related

Libraries information technology activities, including: the technical

development support for Web-based services, technical development

support for Libraries' computer-based instructional and research

services  (e.g., use of electronic texts), computing support for the

NYU Press, and for the transition from analog to digital delivery of

media services by the Libraries Avery Fisher Center and its Campus TV

and Media Services.  

Qualifications include:  A minimum of seven (7) years of related

information technology experience, including both hands-on technology

support and development and at least five (5) years of progressively

responsible management of computing and information technology

services in an  academic, corporate or library setting; demonstrated

leadership capabilities, including successful experience in strategic

planning, complex project management, personnel management, and team

leadership.  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; highly

developed analytical skills and experience in preparing budgets for

information systems; commitment to service, teaching and innovation.

Familiarity with hardware and software applications  in DOS, Windows,

Unix and Mac environments, including network operating systems;

experience with LAN management; familiarity with telecommunications

and Web development and implementation. Desirable qualifications

include: Working knowledge of library automation systems, library

standards (e.g., MARC, Z39.50, SGML, XML), evolving metadata

standards, and digital library developments; experience in a

university library or academic computing environment.  Bachelors

degree required; highly desirable is an advanced academic degree

and/or other evidence of familiarity with end user perspectives in an

academic environment; advanced degree in information systems or

related field also desirable. 

Compensation and benefits: Compensation is competitive and includes

excellent benefits including generous health and retirement annuity

plans, tuition remission for self and eligible family members and 5

weeks vacation/personal leave.

Send letter of application, rsum, and names, addresses, and phone

numbers of three references to: Janet Koztowski, Director of Human

Resources, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South,

New York, NY 10012.  NYU encourages applications from women and

members of minority groups.  Applications received by April 30, 2000,

will be given full consideration. 

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 883 (883)

[deleted quotation]
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

I suppose many subscribers to this list read Wired, but for those us who

don't read it regularly here is an extremely important article that

appears in the April issue.

mw


-- 
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Modern and Classical Languages
Center for Learning and Teaching with Technology
Hartwick College
Oneonta, NY  13820
(607) 431-4615
http://users.hartwick.edu/wolffm0/
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From: Matt Kirschenbaum 
Subject: Re: 13.0531 evaluating WWW materials
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 14:08:11 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 884 (884)


On the original question, the MLA's Draft Guidelines on Evaluating Work with

Digital Media in the Modern Languages may be helpful:

http://www.mla.org/reports/ccet/draft_ccet_guidelines.htm

But I think the issue could also be considered not from the standpoint of

whether non-peer-reviewed materials should or should not count as "research,"

but rather what constitutes peer-review in the first place. In Eric Johnson's

example:
[deleted quotation]
"The best web-based corpus . . . " Is this not a form of peer-review? Is

peer-review necessarily limited to the mechanisms in place on the editorial

board of a journal or university press? Matt



From: cbf@socrates.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: 13.0531 evaluating WWW materials
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:15:42 -0700 (PDT)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 885 (885)


UC Berkeley's Academic Senate adopted language last year that essentially

eliminates the difference in format among faculty research publications:

web, print, CD-ROM will all be considered equally. What did _not_ change

was the evaluation requirement, essentially peer-reviewed vs.

non-peer-reviewed.

I would argue that the web, in particular, allows us to get beyond that

dichotomy because it provides, potentially, the possibility of actually

measuring the impact of a particular web site on its discipline.

Unfortunately, the number of hits is as yet a fairly imprecise measure and

subject to manipulation ("Hey, I'm up for tenure; assign all your students

to look at my web site."). A better measure would be links _into_ a web

site. As Willard pointed out to me the other day, this is how the

Google.com portal works.

In some respects, this is like the traditional citation index that

measures the number of times a given study is cited in other studies.

What peer revieww does, essentially, is certify that three knowledgeable

members of a given discipline have read the piece of work and certified

that it's worthwhile. Considering the amazing amount of fairly useless

work that is published in peer-reviewed journal, such certification is a

fairly slender reed upon which to render academic judgments; but so far

it's the best we have.

[Of course, in the ideal case, peer review often improves the quality of

the piece of work reviewed.]

There is at least one initiative--the name escapes me at the moment--that

is attempting to divorce peer review from publication, sort of a Good

Housekeeping Seal of Approval that could be attached even to a

self-publication. It would be a Good Thing if the members of the

humanities computing community could devise such a system for ourselves

and our colleagues.

Charles Faulhaber	The Bancroft Library	UC Berkeley, CA 94720-6000

(510) 642-3782		FAX (510) 642-7589    cfaulhab@library.berkeley.edu



From: "P. T. Rourke" 
Subject: Evaluating WWW Materials
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:46:52 -0400
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 886 (886)


Sounds interesting as far as you go.
[deleted quotation]
Not from academic experience, but publishing experience, I'd suggest that

it's far too early to come up with a firm policy for web-based materials; it

would be better to just add some wiggle room.  Ultimately a web-based

resource should be evaluated by "published" reviews rather than blind peer

review.  The problem is that there aren't a lot of reviews available of

electronic resources.  When they are available, one hopes that authors will

do their readers and evaluators the favor of linking to them.

So for now evaluation should be on a case-by-case basis.  If the resource is

well-known and well used, the author should be able to get letters of

reference from users with some degree of expertise that can stand in for

published reviews until such time as those become available.  A major

project should have the same cachet as a book or a series editorship; a

minor but well-appreciated project should have about the cachet of a

published paper of the same weight.  And ultimately members of the same

department should have some sense of the scholarly quality of the work

without reference to other's reviews, unless you're talking about a

situation in which e.g. you have one Asian expert or Africanist in a History

department dominated by European historians.
[deleted quotation]
But sometimes services (if you mean what I think you mean, committees and

professional society activities, e.g.) don't have a scholarly component at

all, while a good web resource will.  Perhaps a fourth category is waiting?

Patrick T. Rourke

ptrourke@mediaone.net

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From: "David L. Gants" 
Subject: Linguistic Help
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:14:43 -0500 (EST)
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 887 (887)

[deleted quotation]
Hello, this is a request for information. I'm a Masters student at the

University of Limerick and am interested in conducting a corpus based

comparative analysis of Hiberno (Southern Irish) and British-English. The

study will pertain to spoken discourse as evidenced in radio broadcasts,

taking linguistic features such as tense/aspect into consideration. I would

greatly appreciate if you could refer me to someone who has undertaken a

similar course of research and/or the type of methodological framework used,

e.g. Biber's MF/MD framework. Yours sincerely. David Young. 



From: Paul Brians 
Subject: Teaching Handmaid's Tale?
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:07:47 -0700
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 888 (888)


I am working with a high school teacher who has been challenged before the

school board because she has taught Margaret Atwood's _The Handmaid's

Tale_. She is looking for evidence that the book is widely taught as a

respectable literary text in college courses--and if possible--in high

school courses. I've found a number of syllabi in the Web; but perhaps some

of you have information that would help her.

Please send messages to her directly:Elizabeth Coman

, and cc them to me. Thanks,

Paul Brians, Department of English

Washington State University

Pullman, WA 99164-5020

brians@wsu.edu

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians



From: Catherine Harbor 
Subject: Macaulay and Newspapers
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:38:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 889 (889)


In an unpublished paper I have come across the following:

"The 19th-century historian Macaulay maintained that the only true

history of a country is the newspapers".

No reference is given as a basis for this assertion and I have not been

able to locate an appropriate quotation myself.  Any suggestions

gratefully received.

With thanks,

Catherine Harbor,

Royal Holloway University of London.



From: "m.p.yadav" 
Subject: emotion
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:08:59 +0530
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 890 (890)


Kindly share the following Brain - Imaging experiment with your

colleagues .

Emotion can intensify / sustain only when visual  and verbal  processing

associated with the emotion slows down ( stops / freezes ).

The degree of difficulty of an emotion depends upon the degree of

freezing ( of visuals and words ) required to intensify and sustain that

particular emotion.

Experiment:

Subjects (preferably actors specialising in tragedy / tragic roles )

will be asked to watch a silent video film showing any of the

following:-

(1) Human  suffering.

(2) Animal  suffering.

(3) Suffering  ( Destruction ) of Air / Water / Land / Trees.

Subjects will be asked to intensify and sustain the subjective feeling

of empathy for the sufferer.

Their brains shall be scanned by Brain Imaging Machines ( PET / FMRI ).

The silent video film will be shown at different speeds :

(1) 125% of actual speed.

(2) Actual/real speed.

(3) 75% of actual speed.

(4) 50% of actual speed.

(5) 25% of actual speed.

Two kinds of neural activity will take place :

(A) Neural activity associated with visual processing.

(B) Neural activity associated with subjective feeling of emotion (

empathy )

Results :

(1) Intensity of emotion increases with the decrease in  visual speed.

(2) Intensity of emotion is maximum when  visual speed is minimum ( 25 %

of actual speed ).

(3) The amount of chemical change in the brain ( and rest of the body )

will be found

to increase with the decrease in visual speed.

In the 2nd stage of experiment we shall replace the silent video film

with an Audio tape and repeat the procedure thereby establishing the

link between intensity of emotion and rate of verbal processing.

Kindly share this message with people who could help in getting the

experiment conducted in a Neuroscience laboratory.

Yours Sincerely,

Sushil Yadav

Delhi, India

www.netshooter.com/emotion

www.netshooter.com/emotion

Please note:

(1) If the co-relation is wrong it will be proved wrong experimentally

and the matter will end there.

(2) A thinking mind cannot intensify /sustain any emotion.

While this statement is generally true for all emotions, it is

particularly true for all painful emotions.

(3) Empathy = Sadness + Worry ( for the suffering of others )

  It will be found that empathy activates the same parts of the brain

(neural circuits ) which are activated by sadness and worry. ( The

chemical changes are also the same )

Sadness and worry ( for the suffering of others ) are emotions of  the

highest level.



From: "alessandroponti@libero.it" 
Subject: 
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:19:28 +0200
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 891 (891)


Dear Humanists, 

I am looking for some more addresses of discussion groups in Literature 

-I am very interested in this kind of  immediate cultural exchange-. If 

anyone sent me some, I would really appreciate it. Thank you in advance. 

Alessandro Ponti

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: a modest request
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 892 (892)


Dear Colleagues,

A colleague recently remarked to me that inclusion of HTML in an e-mail

message was "so 90s". This is a request to keep that practice buried in

the last century, please not to let it terrorise your editor, and

perhaps some recipients of Humanist. Due to the growing amount of

information that washes up on our shores -- variously, what is a

valuable find to one is another's flotsam -- we all need to take care

with what we circulate, indeed what we circulate. I continue to pass

along conference announcements as far afield as computational

linguistics because I think that it's good we know about these

activities, if not know them any further. I also continue to delete most

of such messages that come along with URLs, since it seems to me rather

much to burden you with the plain-text versions of announcements you can

more easily read on the Web. If you are an organiser of an event, or

someone who circulates announcements of same, I would ask you to

abbreviate corresponding submissions to Humanist as much as

possible, and to shun the cursed HTML. (Consider how much better it is

if YOU take the snips to your own message rather than leave it to the

sometimes not so tender mercies of a sometimes harried editor. Even the

sweet peaches of Georgia and the music of Hamza el Din cannot fully

sustain him who is vexed by prolix announcements and those barbed with

pointy HTML. Have mercy!

Yours,

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Fwd: misspelling in my recent post on XML text tools
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 893 (893)


[Please note the following correction, kindly sent by the author of the

text to be corrected. --WM]
[deleted quotation]
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London

voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081

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maui gratia



From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Hawaii Intercultural Coursework Development
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:34:25 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 894 (894)


14th Summer Workshop for the

Development of Intercultural

Coursework for Colleges and Universities

organized by

College of Business Administration

University of Hawaii at Manoa

   will be held in

Honolulu, Hawaii

June 21-30, 2000.

Participants are limited to 25.

Tuition fee: $950.00 (nine hundred and fifty US dollars).

Please visit our website for the brochures for this year's program and

application form.

   http://www.cba.hawaii.edu/ciber/icw-2000.htm

Various terms are in common use to describe potential course offerings:

cross-cultural, intercultural, comparative, international perspective,

multicultural, interethnic, global, crossnational, and so forth. The

important underlying commonality is a professor's willingness to integrate

information on culture and cultural diversity when developing course

offerings in the behavioral sciences, social sciences, business,

education, language, and so forth

   D. P. S. Bhawuk

   Associate Professor of Management and Industrial Relations

   College of Business Administration

   University of Hawai'i at Manoa

   2404 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822

   Tel: (808) 956-8732 (w) 955 2052 (h) Fax: 956-2774

   E-Mail: BHAWUK@CBA.HAWAII.EDU



From: CPTS 
Subject: Nature and Technology
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:35:40 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 895 (895)

[deleted quotation]
Centre for Philosophy, Technology and Society

University of Aberdeen

The Old Brewery

Old Aberdeen

e-mail: cpts@abdn.ac.uk

URL: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cpts/cpts.htm



From: Haradda@aol.com
Subject: Re: 13.0539 divers queries & requests
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 896 (896)


In a message dated 4/13/2000 8:30:38 AM Mountain Daylight Time,

willard@lists.village.virginia.edu writes:

<<

   "The 19th-century historian Macaulay maintained that the only true

   history of a country is the newspapers".
[deleted quotation]
I believe that the quote it is from Macaulay's History of England



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: recursion
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 897 (897)


From: Osher Doctorow osher@ix.netcom.com APril

8, 2000 2:03PM

Dear Colleagues:

Franchois Lachance as usual has posed some fascinating open problems (Vol.

13, No. 535).  I will only tackle one here: what type of history can be

derived from observing the effects of machines or their scarcity/abundance

on reading.  We have entered the "causal zone" here, which ties in with

logic, because of the words "effects of" (I will not try to explain my

views on this here, but maybe some day).  I have recently been presenting

some of my theorems related to this to MCRIT-L (Multiple criteria decision

making ...).  It turns out that in logic-based probability (LBP), you can

examine not only what happens when you add more "causing variables"

(independent variables, although the name is confusing) but also what

happens when you add more "caus-ed variables" (dependent variables,

although again the name is unfortunate since statistical

independence/dependence are quite different concepts).  You might be

familiar with this from the difference between multiple regression and

multivariate regression (the latter allows you to add more "dependent

variables"), but be careful because these latter two are (Bayesian)

conditional probability models and so fix the "independent" variables

rather than allow them to vary as does LBP.   So to summarize a partial

answer to Francois' question, we probably derive a logic-based probability

history.  In LBP, rarer events have more influence - for example, genius,

creativity, extremely good fortunate, catastrophes.  When either computers

or reading become very abundant, their influence diminishes

probabilistically according to LBP.  I suppose that an example would be

that when reading was rare, the few readers included the great creative

writers and scientists.  When computers were rare, we saw the greatest

relative contributions from computers.   It is somewhat similar to the

recent importance of technology stocks, where according to the

Guilder-Christensen school (the latter from Harvard Business School),

extremely rare technological innovations (and, in fact, with low

probabilities, so in a sense hard to predict) are the crucial

ingredient.  We are seeing the limitations starting in computers now, as we

approach the silicon limit and need rare innovations in quantum and

molecular computers.

I will close by adding a new conjecture based partly on my 35 book reviews

recently published electronically by Amazon.com: Creative Genius as opposed

to Follower Genius or Ingenious Followers is characterized by frequent

inspiration of the public as well as oneself, simplification including

frequent translation of complex mathematical or other specialized language

into ordinary English (French, German, etc.), communication in the sense of

the first point, and openness to new ideas instead of steadfast defense of

one's own theories in the face of new ideas.   I include these here to keep

the open questions moving "on a roll".

Osher



From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: 13.0529 early b'day greeting voiced
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:38:00 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 898 (898)


RE: Message of Franois Lachance in Humanist 13.529:

This is intended as a response to his wondering, rather than to his

greetings, but I also want to take the opportunity to wish you, Willard, as

the Humanist list's father, a very happy list b-day!

Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
[deleted quotation]
[...]

I have been experimenting such things, with moderate satisfaction, some

months ago.

During a project I was leading for a publishing company, I wanted to know

whether it was possible to have correct voice synthesis of words and

sentence segments (in French) using directly their phonetic transcription

(IPA), which was existing in the book we worked on, intended to be

e-published on cd-rom. The idea was that this should be relatively easy,

and would bring the definite advantage of ensuring a most faithful respect

of the pronunciation (transcription) as given by the book's author,

avoiding the recording of spoken tokens by selected speakers, with all the

associated concerns you can imagine, and possibly also with a gain in file

storage volume, though modern sound compression techniques could make this

aspect less important.

We identified a company (actually a spin-off of a well reputated speech

processing university lab) who had a TTS product using a phonetic

transcription of its dictionary, and asked them if they could transform our

IPA-coded dictionary into the transcription used by their TTS engine. It

turned out that the process worked astonishingly well, even though it also

proved that a finer tweaking than just translating IPA into the TTS engine

phonetic code would be required to obtain 'natural' sounding utterances.


--
__________________________________
Thierry van Steenberghe
Bruxelles / Belgium
mailto:100342.254@compuserve.com


From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: music and a digital Ariel
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:38:27 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 899 (899)

Recently I spent a week with my brother, a musician who lives in Marin
County, California, and whose chief delight is in the electronic
manipulation and simulation of music. Apart from the fun I had playing
ignorantly with his equipment I paid attention to what he and a guitarist
friend of his told me about the current state of the art as people like
them can get access to it. I also read the professional magazines lying
about the sprawling California house, in the light of brilliant sunshine
pouring through the conifers into his almost-as-big-as-my-whole-house
living room. (Ah, California....) What I heard and read about gave me pause
to consider the current state of virtually real music we hear, whether from
a CD or "live" in the concert hall. And to wonder when we'll be wrapping
our minds around musical data.
Apparently many "live" singers now sing into a device that automatically
corrects their pitch. The musicians on stage may be there partly or wholly
for show (e.g. the tired-out Rolling Stones), while back-stage are the
actually performing musicians and a panoply of equipment. Anyone with the
dosh can purchase a device that will process the music from a CD, then
transform the music he or she plays into the style of what the device has
previously heard. Want to sound like Oscar Peterson? No problem....
Musicians, my brother claimed, will hire programmers, who have the skill
and knowledge to construct new sounds for them. They haven't the skill or
time to do that. What particularly intrigued me, however, was the -- what
shall I call it? -- state of mind that composing on the synthesizers
requires. When one has through racks of equipment control of the myriad of
components we can analyse in, say, a note from an acoustic instrument such
as a guitar, then how does one mentally control all of them? My brother
spoke of imagining a "silver cloud" with a sparkling streak down the
middle. I wonder if composers now come upon their own imagery in order to
get their minds around all the possibilities? Beginners, it seems, simply
come upon neat sounds by accident, more or less, then save the lucky finds.
I would be very glad if one of us who understands this stuff were to tell
the rest of us what's happening and what it might have to do with the
chiefly analytic work in the humanities.
Later, while at the University of Georgia, I was treated to a performance
of the Tempest in which Ariel was represented to Prospero as a
computer-generated animation, which was controlled by an actress wearing
motion sensors. The idea behind the performance was brilliant, the
execution less so, but to be fair I think it was not quite entirely
successful because the director was lacking a few (or many?) $100K worth of
computing equipment, the skills of George Lucas's crew -- or better,
whatever it might take to have a 3-dimensional holographic projection in
the air over the stage. Again, once the limits of the physical are gone, in
what terms do we imagine?
Yours,
WM
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From: "Michael S. Hart" 
Subject: Re: 13.0545 quotation from Macaulay
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:13:32 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 900 (900)


On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
[deleted quotation]
I looked in both volumes of: History of England from James II

and didn't see the word "newspaper" or "news-paper" there at all. . . .

Also did searches on "history" but got too many hits to scan them all.

Suggestions for other searches?

Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!!

Michael S. Hart



Project Gutenberg

"Ask Dr. Internet"

Executive Director

Internet User ~#100



From: GBAssoc@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CONTENT:474] 13.0522 text-analysis tools for
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:14:37 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 901 (901)


I checked out the following as suggested in your message. Once it got there

and submitted my inquiry, it said the source could not be found, or words to

that effect.

http://csproj.colgate.edu/TextTools.htm

Gary

Gerald R. Brown

G. Brown & Associates

2700 SW North Dakota St., Suite 180, PMB120 (THIS IS A NEW ADDRESS)

Tigard, OR 97223-3334

503-524-4613/800-835-1148

Solving Investigations Through Forensic Statement Analysis Since 1988

email: gbrown0007@aol.com (regular)

             gbassoc@aol.com (business only)



From: "David L. Green" 
Subject: MoMA & Tate Gallery Announce Joint Commercial Web Venture
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 902 (902)


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT

News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources

from across the Community

April 19

                    Museum of Modern Art and Tate Gallery

                    Announce Joint Commercial Web Venture

           <http://www.moma.org/docs/press/2000/fF_PO02,c8458,.htm>http://www

<http://www.moma.org/docs/press/2000/fF_PO02,c8458,.htm>http://www.moma.org/

docs/press/2000/fF_PO02,c8458,.htm

Following on the heels of recent announcements by Questia and the Fathom

consortium of commercial websites delivering cultural heritage materials,

is an announcement of a joint commercial web-based enterprise between New

Yok's Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Gallery of London.

Here is the MoMA Press Release.

For the NINCH Announcement of the Questia enterprise, see:

<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/2000/0037.html>http://www.cni.org

/Hforums/ninch-announce/2000/0037.html

For the NINCH Announcement of Fathom, see

<http://www.cni.org/Hforums/ninch-announce/2000/0039.html>http://www.cni.org

/Hforums/ninch-announce/2000/0039.html

David Green

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April 17

TWO OF THE WORLD'S PREEMINENT ART INSTITUTIONS--MOMA AND THE TATE

GALLERY--FORM PARTNERSHIP TO  LAUNCH UNPRECEDENTED CULTURAL INTERNET VENTURE

**New Company Will Draw on Museums' Unrivaled Collections and Intellectual

Capital to Expand Global  Audience for Modern Art, Design, and Culture

**Dot.com is the First Project in Wider Collaboration

    Two of the world's most prominent art museums, The Museum of Modern Art,

New York, and The Tate Gallery,  United Kingdom, have formed a partnership

and agreed to create an independent for-profit e-business that

will  establish the premier destination on the Internet for individuals to

access, understand, and purchase the best  in modern art, design, and

culture, MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry and Tate Director Sir Nicholas

Serota  announced today.

    The venture will be a separate entity, managed and staffed independently

from the two institutions. It will  build on a public surge of interest in

the museums' unique holdings, programs and expertise, as demonstrated  by

increasing attendance, both to the museums and their online counterparts,

at www.moma.org, and www.tate.org.uk. The Museum of Modern Art and The Tate

Gallery had a combined attendance of more than 5  million people in the

last year, while the institutions' Web sites received an additional 4

million international visitors. Together, the two museums manage retail

operations with $50 million in annual sales.  The Internet company is the

first project in an expanded association, which is expected to include

membership,  education, retail, and publishing programs as well as staff

exchanges. MoMA and The Tate are currently collaborating on a major

exhibition to be shown in both  venues, as they have done numerous times in

the past. This wider partnership represents a logical evolution  from those

curatorial initiatives.

The newly formed venture, to be headquartered in New York and scheduled

to  launch in late 2000 or early 2001, will draw on the extensive

collection, international reputation, and  intellectual resources of MoMA

and The Tate to provide an accessible, personalized, visually

striking  environment that will offer a global audience the opportunity to

pursue cultural knowledge and enrichment. The  venture's distinctive online

presence will appeal to a wide and diverse audience, including art experts

and  enthusiasts, educators, professionals, artists, and students, as well

as general museum and gallery visitors,  and those simply interested in art

and culture. Investment in the enterprise will allow MoMA and The Tate

to  employ the potential of the Internet to strengthen their positions as

unparalleled institutions of their kind.

    The new undertaking will be organized into areas devoted to content,

commerce, and community. In-depth,  original content will be developed and

licensed by the museums and other arts organizations, outside experts  and

critics, artists, designers, and filmmakers. Exclusive products and

services to be offered in the commerce  portion of the site will include

design objects and furniture, books and media, customized art

tours,  ticketing for arts events, and educational courses. The community

aspect of the site will be realized through chat rooms, virtual tours of

collections and exhibitions, and webcasts of live lectures, symposia,

concerts,  and performances. The site will focus on modern culture and the

most contemporary developments in the visual,  applied, and performing arts

taking place in the United States, the United Kingdom, and around the world.

    MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry states, "The Museum of Modern Art and The

Tate Gallery have long been pioneers in  the museum world, and we look

forward to extending that groundbreaking spirit to the Internet. This

exciting  new venture will allow us to spread our message to a new global

audience interested in art, design, and  culture, and underscores our firm

commitment to fiscal responsibility and long-term financial stability

for  this institution. To have the opportunity to pursue and expand on

these goals in tandem with our close  colleagues at the Tate benefits us all."

    Tate Director Sir Nicholas Serota notes, "The twenty-first century is

all about access. This new venture will  promote deeper access to the best

of visual culture around the world to the benefit of all those who

are  interested and engaged with art." The Museum of Modern Art and The

Tate Gallery are the founding partners of  the independently managed and

staffed corporation. An internationally prominent Board of Directors will

be  assembled, with MoMA and The Tate holding seats. Financing will be

provided by a small group of Trustees, who  have made philanthropic

contributions in order to start the company, as well as venture capital

funds. A  strong management group, drawn from the top talent in the

industry, will build and lead the organization.  Revenue will be primarily

generated through a combination of commerce and advertising, as well as

through  affiliate sales from participating sites, pay-per-view offerings

of featured material, and syndication of original content.

The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art, founded in 1929, has the foremost collection of

twentieth-century art in the world,  including 100,000 paintings,

sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and

drawings, and  design objects. The Museum is poised to enter the

construction phase of a $650 million Building Project, the  most ambitious

in the Museum's history, which will dramatically enlarge the exhibition

space and add new  education, research, and retail facilities to the

Museum's building on West 53 Street in Midtown Manhattan.

The Tate Gallery

The Tate Gallery was founded in 1897 and houses the national collections of

British art from the sixteenth  century to the present day, and of

international modern art. The Tate has galleries in London, (Tate

Britain,  opened March 2000, and Tate Modern, which will open on May 12,

2000) Liverpool, and St. Ives.

    No. 33

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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 13.0547 music: voice, instrument and song
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:11:58 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 903 (903)


Thierry,
[deleted quotation]
The tweaking, did it occur? If it did, did it relate to some form of

transcription to indicate pauses and rhythm? I ask because this has

implications for the elements one would use in the encoding of a spoken

word corpus.

Thank you for taking the time to inform us all of these very interesting

developments.


--
Francois Lachance
Post-doctoral Fellow
projet HYPERLISTES project
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hyplist/


From: "Stephen N. Matsuba" 
Subject: RE: 13.0547 music and a digital Ariel
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:12:43 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 904 (904)

Willard McCarty writes:
[deleted quotation]or better,
[deleted quotation]I do not think that a holographic projection will be where this technology
will have its impact.  I believe that it will come in the form of virtual
reality (I despise this term, but it is a handy shorthand).
My own experience with VR theatre performances has confirmed the potential
to me.  The VRML Dream project sought to present a live performance of
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream with real-time 3-D animation
multicast over the Internet.  The sets, props and all the characters were
optimized VRML models.  A group of actors provided the voices and eight
"puppeteers" controlled the characters' movements.  The voice and the motion
data were digitized, compressed and sent out over the Internet in real time.
Moreover, people could access this multicast with a 28.8K modem connection
and a 150 Mhz Pentium computer.
While the animation was crude (it was a volunteer project with no funding)
with some technical problems, VRML Dream showed us that it could work from
an artistic perspective.  We made the Athenians humans, but the fairies were
a mix of Road Warrior and Arthur Rackin.  The Mechanicals were robots
designed to represent their professions.  Quince looked like a fat hammer.
Flute has a working bellows.  And Bottom was made up of spindles and
loom-like materials.
As real-time graphics technologies improve, we will see human characters
that look like real humans.  Indeed, the Sega Dreamcast and the Sony
Playstation 2 are bringing advanced graphics technology to the household
much faster than anyone had expected.  Eventually, we will be able to watch
Shakespeare with fully rendered 3-D environments and characters that are
indistinguishable from what we see outside our windows.  Moreover if we want
to mix in fairies, donkey-headed men, witches or Hobbits, the technologists
and the artists working in this medium will make it possible.
===========================================================
Is't real that I see? (Shakespeare)
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Stephen N. Matsuba
e-mail
smatsuba@home.com
Web
http://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~smatsuba
http://www.vrmldream.com
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From: Lorna Hughes 
Subject: Humanities Computing Job at NYU
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 905 (905)


Humanities Computing Job at New York University

The Humanities Computing Group (HCG) at New York University works with

faculty, staff and graduate students to support the use of new technologies

in Humanities teaching and research. The HCG serves all humanities

departments and programs at the University as part of the central

Information Technology Services division.

Located in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, the HCG is a

small, energetic group actively involved in a number of exciting new

initiatives, including the establishment of a collaborative research center

for Humanities Computing, Arts Technology and Digital Libraries. We are

also piloting several Internet 2 projects in the Arts and Humanities, and

we will be the local hosts of ACH/ALLC 2001 -  the international conference

of the Association for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for

Literary and Linguistic Computing.

We are pleased to announce that we have a position available in the HCG.

The post is for a Humanities Computing Specialist, with responsibility for

supporting and developing existing Humanities Computing facilities at NYU

as well as developing new projects which will exercise both content and

technology skills. Candidates should be graduates (an advanced degree in

the humanities is preferred) who enjoy working on challenging projects with

a motivated team of individuals in a collegial atmosphere, and should be

interested in investigating applications of new technology in the

Humanities. You will need sound technological knowledge, excellent

communication and interpersonal skills, and should be interested in an

opportunity to learn about the creation of digital projects in the

Humanities. This post would be ideal for candidates who are interested in a

career in Humanities Computing, Digital Libraries or Digital Scholarship.

This is a professional staff position with permanent funding, competitive

wages, and a very generous vacation and benefits package including tuition

waiver for part-time study. A detailed job description is available at

http://www.nyu.edu/its/jobs/humanities.nyu.

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From: Ross Scaife 
Subject: Latin letters (Stoa)
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 906 (906)


[Members of Humanist may know about STOA, <http://www.stoa.org/>, "a

consortium for electronic publication in the humanities" that is involved

with several most worthy projects, to date concentrating in classical

studies. Following is an announcement of an initiative to produce an online

commentary to the letters of Cicero, passed on from the STOA list. Even if,

inexplicably, you are not interested in Cicero, you will likely profit from

watching the online commentary (and other STOA projects) develop. --WM]

Stoa Announcement

(http://www.stoa.org/letters/)

Latin teachers have expressed their need for an easily available and

student-friendly commentary on Cicero's Letters. Under the leadership of

Jacques A. Bailly (jbailly@zoo.uvm.edu, Assistant Professor of Classics,

University of Vermont) we intend to develop a complete on-line guide to reading

and appreciating those writings. We plan to address the interests of both those

who need immediate help with the Latin of the letters and, increasingly as time

passes, also those readers with more involved scholarly concerns.

We anticipate two sorts of contributions:

1. basic commentaries for each letter, providing thorough grammatical

assistance and any cultural information (from gladiators to Epicureans)

necessary to understand the letter under scrutiny;

2. ancillary resources (essays, charts, diagrams, guides) on topics relating to

the letters.

At this point we seek especially contributors who would like to submit their

commentaries on individual letters. The basic commentaries should remain

focused on helping students read the Latin. The ancillary resources should

relate directly to the letters and can take any appropriate form or level of

scholarly complexity. All materials will be subject to editorial approval.

Hypertextual linking will connect the commentaries back into the source texts.

Individual Latin words will be linked via the Perseus morphological parser to

the on-line Lewis and Short. We expect to generate vocabulary lists for each

letter by computational methods. We may provide printer-friendly versions

(perhaps PDF files) for distribution of printed copies to students. Beyond

that, we are still considering what particular models and features will be most

effective in this medium, and we are open to suggestions. We expect to put some

initial examples in place over the next few months.

Finally, though we do want to begin with Cicero, we can foresee the evolution

of this work into a considerably larger project on Latin Letters, one that

encompasses not only Cicero's letters but also those of Petrarch and many other

Latin writers through the ages.

Please check the web site periodically for developments

(http://www.stoa.org/letters/), and contact Jacques A. Bailly

(jbailly@zoo.uvm.edu) to contribute your materials or suggestions.  Also please

feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested.

________________________________

Ross Scaife (scaife@pop.uky.edu)

Classics Department (POT 1015)

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY  40506-0027

web: http://www.uky.edu/~scaife/

vox: 606 257 3629  fax: 606 257 3743

The Stoa Consortium

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Subject: NEW BOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE HUMANITIES FROM THE MIT
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 907 (907)


[....]

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Alicia Juarrero

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From: Ross Scaife 
Subject: The Rattle of Pebbles
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:07:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 908 (908)


Humanists may want to read this on the NYRB site:

Jason Epstein: The Rattle of Pebbles

Today the book business stands at the edge of a vast transformation, one

that promises much opportunity for innovation: much trial, much error, and

much improvement. Long before another half-century passes, the industry as

I have known it for the past fifty years will have been altered almost

beyond recognition. In the 1920s a brilliant generation of young American

publishers fell heir to the cultural transformation that became known as

modernism and nurtured it with taste, energy, and passion. As Einstein's

generation introduced once and for all the themes of modern physics and as

Czanne, Picasso, and their contemporaries had done the same for painting,

the writers of the early twentieth century had created once and for all the

vocabulary and themes of modern literature. Much elaboration would follow,

but the fundamental work had been done and could not be done again. My

career in publishing has traced the long, downward, but by no means barren

slope from that Parnassian moment.  (etc. - it's a fairly lengthy piece

with plenty of ruminations on new technologies esp starting about p. 8)

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?20000427055F

________________________________

Ross Scaife (scaife@pop.uky.edu)

Classics Department (POT 1015)

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY  40506-0027

web: http://www.uky.edu/~scaife/

vox: 606 257 3629  fax: 606 257 3743

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From: The William Blake Archive
Subject: Blake Archive's April Update
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:08:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 909 (909)


17 April 2000

The William Blake Archive <http://www.iath.virginia.edu/blake/> is

pleased to announce that it has received a two-year Preservation and

Access Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The editors

and staff are most grateful for the support it provides as we begin to

expand the Archive over the next few years to include Blake's drawings,

paintings, and engravings.

We are also very pleased to announce the publication of new electronic

editions of _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ copies H and I, both in

the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. Printed in 1790 and 1827

respectively, they join copies of _Marriage_ in the Archive from other

printings: copies C (1790), D (1795), and F (c. 1794). Copy G, from a c.

1818 printing, and copy K (plates 21-24) and copies L and M (separate

printings of "A Song of Liberty") from a 1790 printing are forthcoming.

The electronic editions have newly edited SGML-encoded texts and new

images scanned and color-corrected from first-generation 4 x 5 inch

transparencies; texts and images are fully searchable and supported by

the Inote and ImageSizer applications described in our previous updates.

With the publication of these two titles, the Archive now contains fully

searchable and scalable electronic editions of 41 copies of 18 of

Blake's 19 illuminated books in the context of full bibliographic

information about each work, careful diplomatic transcriptions of all

texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive

bibliographies. They also join our searchable SGML-encoded electronic

edition of David V. Erdman's _Complete Poetry and Prose of William

Blake_. With the forthcoming publication of _Jerusalem_ copy E, the

Archive will contain at least one copy of each of Blake's works in

illuminated printing and multiple copies of most.

_Marriage_ copy H, perhaps the most illuminated of Blake's illuminated

books, appears initially to have relied on colored inks rather than

watercolor washes for its coloring. It was produced with copy B in 1790,

with plates printed in various shades of red, olive, and green inks on

both sides of the leaves. The impressions forming copy B (Bodleian

Library, Oxford University) are uncolored, and those forming copy H may

also have been left in this state originally. But copy H was sold to the

painter John Linnell, Blake's young patron, in 1821 for two pounds and

two shillings (less than half of what he was asking for books of similar

size and number of pages), and apparently at that time Blake extensively

reworked the pages by coloring the illustrations, adding gold leaf

(e.g., title page), streaking the background of the texts in yellows and

blues, and, what is most unusual, going over the texts in various

colored inks, letter by letter, line by line. The results are pages

among the most colorful that Blake ever produced and texts among the

most challenging editorially, with many key words and phrases visually

highlighted (e.g., "Contraries" and "Human existence" of plate 3 set off

by dark ink in lines rewritten in red ink). Such detailed refinishing

also resulted in a book with stylistic features characteristic of

productions both early (facing pages and plates printed without borders)

and late (elaborate coloring and page numbers).

One stylistic element characteristic of illuminated books produced c.

1818 and later is the frameline, usually one thin line in red or black

ink drawn a few centimeters around the image. Copy H has no framelines,

probably because they would prove visually jarring for pages that face

one another. But they are used to superb effect in _Marriage_ copy I,

where they set off each page as a miniature painting. Copy I, printed

and colored in 1827 for Thomas Wainewright, was one of the last

illuminated books produced by Blake. It was printed in orangish-red ink

on one side of J. Whatman paper dated 1825, numbered 1-27, and finished

in gold, watercolors, and pen and ink to match Wainewright's copy of

_Songs_ (copy X). It was produced in the same style Blake used in c.

1818, 1821-22, and 1825-26. Works from these sessions include _The Book

of Thel_ copy O and _Songs of Innocence and of Experience_ copies Z and

AA, which are in the Archive, and _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_ copy

G, _Jerusalem_ copy E, _America, a Prophecy_ copy O, _Europe, a

Prophecy_ copy K, and _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ copy P, all

of which will enter the Archive within the year. Printing plates in full

(i.e., with their plate borders), a feature of this late production

style, can make pages appear slightly larger and introduce compositional

elements missing in copies printed earlier. For _Marriage_ copy I, as

well as copy G, the inclusion of the plate borders introduced the outer

lines forming rocks and cavern shapes on plates 10, 11, 15, and 20,

images named in the text but pictured only in these last two copies.

Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi, Editors

Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, Technical Editor

The William Blake Archive



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Subject: DLF Report: "Systems of Knowledge Organization for
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:09:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 910 (910)


Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional Authority Files."

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April 20, 2000

               Council on Library & Information Resources Releases

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               Beyond Traditional Authority Files," by Gail Hodge

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Systems of Knowledge Organization for Digital Libraries: Beyond Traditional

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Knowledge organization systems serve as bridges between a user's

information needs and the material in a collection. Examples of such

systems include term lists, such as dictionaries; classification schemes,

such as Library of Congress Subject Headings; and relationship lists, such

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The author also discusses how knowledge organization systems can be used to

provide disparate communities with access to digital library resources.

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From: "Michael S. Hart" 
Subject: Re: 13.0545 quotation from Macaulay
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:13:32 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 911 (911)

[deleted quotation]
   I looked in both volumes of: History of England from James II

   and didn't see the word "newspaper" or "news-paper" there at all. . . .

   Also did searches on "history" but got too many hits to scan them all.

   Suggestions for other searches? >>

This was what I was thinking of  but it doesn't quite say what I thought that

it said when I responded previously.

David Reed

History of England from James II [Volume 1]

by Thomas Babington Macaulay

CHAPTER III.

Newspapers

No part of the load which the old mails carried out was more

important than the newsletters. In 1685 nothing like the London

daily paper of our time existed, or could exist. Neither the

necessary capital nor the necessary skill was to be found.

Freedom too was wanting, a want as fatal as that of either

capital or skill. The press was not indeed at that moment under a

general censorship. The licensing act, which had been passed soon

after the Restoration, had expired in 1679. Any person might

therefore print, at his own risk, a history, a sermon, or a poem,

without the previous approbation of any officer; but the Judges

were unanimously of opinion that this liberty did not extend to

Gazettes, and that, by the common law of England, no man, not

authorised by the crown, had a right to publish political

news.162 While the Whig party was still formidable, the

government thought it expedient occasionally to connive at the

violation of this rule. During the great battle of the Exclusion

Bill, many newspapers were suffered to appear, the Protestant

Intelligence, the Current Intelligence, the Domestic

Intelligence, the True News, the London Mercury.163 None of these

was published oftener than twice a week. None exceeded in size a

single small leaf. The quantity of matter which one of them

contained in a year was not more than is often found in two

numbers of the Times. After the defeat of the Whigs it was no

longer necessary for the King to be sparing in the use of that

which all his Judges had pronounced to be his undoubted

prerogative. At the close of his reign no newspaper was suffered

to appear without his. allowance: and  his allowance was given

exclusively to the London Gazette. The London Gazette came out

only on Mondays and Thursdays. The contents generally were a

royal proclamation, two or three Tory addresses, notices of two

or three promotions, an account of a skirmish between the

imperial troops and the Janissaries on the Danube, a description

of a highwayman, an announcement of a grand cockfight between two

persons of honour, and an advertisement offering a reward for a

strayed dog. The whole made up two pages of moderate size.

Whatever was communicated respecting matters of the highest

moment was communicated in the most meagre and formal style.

Sometimes, indeed, when the government was disposed to gratify

the public curiosity respecting an important transaction, a

broadside was put forth giving fuller details than could be found

in the Gazette: but neither the Gazette nor any supplementary

broadside printed by authority ever contained any intelligence

which it did not suit the purposes of the Court to publish. The

most important parliamentary debates, the most important state

trials recorded in our history, were passed over in profound

silence.164 In the capital the coffee houses supplied in some

measure the place of a journal. Thither the Londoners flocked, as

the Athenians of old flocked to the market place, to hear whether

there was any news. There men might learn how brutally a Whig,

had been treated the day before in Westminster Hall, what

horrible accounts the letters from Edinburgh gave of the

torturing of Covenanters, how grossly the Navy Board had cheated

the crown in the Victualling of the fleet, and what grave charges

the Lord Privy Seal had brought against the Treasury in the

matter of the hearth money. But people who lived at a distance

from the great theatre of political contention could be kept

regularly informed of what was passing there only by means of

newsletters. To prepare such letters became a calling in London,

as it now is among the natives of India. The newswriter rambled

from coffee room to coffee room, collecting reports, squeezed

himself into the Sessions House at the Old Bailey if there was an

interesting trial, nay perhaps obtained admission to the gallery

of Whitehall, and noticed how the King and Duke looked. In this

way he gathered materials for weekly epistles destined to

enlighten some county town or some bench of rustic magistrates.

Such were the sources from which the inhabitants of the largest

provincial cities, and the great body of the gentry and clergy,

learned almost all that they knew of the history of their own

time. We must suppose that at Cambridge there were as many

persons curious to know what was passing in the world as at

almost any place in the kingdom, out of London. Yet at Cambridge,

during a great part of the reign of Charles the Second, the

Doctors of Laws and the Masters of Arts had no regular supply of

news except through the London Gazette. At length the services of

one of the collectors of intelligence in the capital were

employed. That was a memorable day on which the first newsletter

from London was laid on the table of the only coffee room in

Cambridge.165 At the seat of a man of fortune in the country the

newsletter was impatiently expected. Within a week after it had

arrived it had been thumbed by twenty families. It furnished the

neighboring squires with matter for talk over their October, and

the neighboring rectors with topics for sharp sermons against

Whiggery or Popery. Many of these curious journals might

doubtless still be detected by a diligent search in the archives

of old families. Some are to be found in our public libraries;

and one series, which is not the least valuable part of the

literary treasures collected by Sir James Mackintosh, will be

occasionally quoted in the course of this work.166

166  I take this opportunity of expressing my warm gratitude to

the family of my dear and honoured friend sir James Mackintosh

for confiding to me the materials collected by him at a time when

he meditated a work similar to that which I have undertaken. I

have never seen, and I do not believe that there anywhere exists,

within the same compass, so noble a collection of extracts from

public and private archives The judgment with which Sir James in

great masses of the rudest ore of history, selected what was

valuable, and rejected what was worthless, can be fully

appreciated only by one who has toiled after him in the same

mine.



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: games?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 912 (912)


Some years ago a bright high school student talked to me about getting a

recommendation for a scholarship. What he had to show was a

dungeons-and-dragons game he had written. The aspect of his work that

particularly interested me was the moral basis of the game. Essentially

what he had done was to project his own situation, as a young man in a

difficult world, into the format of a game. We had a very memorable

conversation about modelling moral strength as if it were some kind of

fuel, I brought up the story of Malcom X and so forth.

What happened to the fellow I have no idea (may he be doing well!), but the

conversation did lead me to think about the use of computer games as

teaching devices -- not just the sugar-coated pill sort of thing, but more

essentially the application of mechanical modelling to moral and

intellectual problems. Of course teaching games have been considered

before, and good work has been done on computer -- e.g. very early, the

brilliant "Would-Be Gentleman", by Carolyn Lougee (now Carolyn Lougee

Chappell), currently chair of History at Stanford,

<http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/faculty/chappell/>. As I recall

Would-Be Gentleman, however, it did not focus on the modelling, rather

directly on the subject. What I have in mind is the situation in which the

game would raise questions about how we know what we think we know.

Two questions, then:

(1) Can we reach the Sega-generation effectively through games? If so, what

is to be considered?

(2) Who is doing this already and doing it well?

Yours,

WM

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voice: +44 (0)171 848 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 848 5081

 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>

maui gratia



From: pat gudridge 
Subject: games and teaching
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:44:52 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 913 (913)


Dear Professor McCarty:

I can't answer either of your questions, but it seems to me that there's a

prior question.  How can those of us who are already teaching and writing,

and whose education mostly took place before visual presentation of

information escaped the limits of television and movies, acquire enough of a

sense of game dynamics to be able to make use of the new medium?  We could,

I suppose, devote time to Tomb Raider or whatever.  But it must be the case

that someone has tried to explore, in some traditional analytic way, the

computer/video game form.  So too, someone must already have moved beyond

user manuals, and considered in depth the differences presentation graphics

make -- perhaps especially when created and displayed "live" in the

classroom -- for argument and analysis.  I suspect that where we are headed

-- fast -- is interactive, joint student-faculty use of presentation

software, some of it no doubt in game format.

Pat Gudridge



From: "Mary Dee Harris" 
Subject: Re: 13.0554 come out to play?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:45:18 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 914 (914)


When my son was a teenager, he and a group of friends played Dungeons and

Dragons every Saturday at one house or another.  It was fascinating to watch

them develop over the years from the early days when they followed the

pre-defined games through the years when they imitated those original games,

and later when they became quite innovative in their game designs.  They

took turns at being Dungeon Master who leads the game and each boy had his

own style.  But they all seem to try out real world roles in various ways.

One interesting point that I noticed when they were about 14 or 15 was that

each boy had at least one female character in his repertoire -- not as

physically strong but smart and beautiful, reflecting the fact (in my

opinion) that all the boys had educated talented mothers.

Clearly these boys who started out rather geeky and turned out to be

charming young men, learned from their role playing.  They were able to try

on different personae and test themselves in many situations.  I felt that

it was a valuable tool for their character development!

My son is now 30 and the father of a beautiful baby daughter but still plays

computer role playing games (when he can find the time).  I'm sure that he

expects his daughter to grow up to be smart and beautiful and talented!

Mary Dee



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Re: 13.0554 come out to play?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 20:48:44 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 915 (915)


From: Osher Doctorow, osher@ix.netcom.com, April 25, 2000, 1:37PM

Dear Colleagues:

Willard's question is quite interesting.  I'll try to say something about

what Doctorow Consultants is doing about it if I can find out what happened

to the Hawaiian internet conference.  Did I have the wrong year, or the

wrong date?  I'll be back "after a word from the sponsor."

Cheers

Osher



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: searching by colour
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 916 (916)


A colleague here at King's has alerted me to a brilliant innovation in

bibliographic referencing recently put into practice at the library of the

New England School of Law. Apparently, so many people were asking for books

of which they only could remember the colour that the Library devised an

index to help. See and search for yourself, at

<http://38.232.116.10/screens/well_its_red.html>.

Yours,

WM

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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



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Subject: 
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 917 (917)

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transform our
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engine. It
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it also
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engine
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utterances.
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Francois,

Yes, some first tweaking was actually performed on a selected part of our 

corpus, with the intention to demonstrate its feasibility and evaluate its 

potential. If this first tweaking indeed evidenced an improvement, the 

result was still not satisfactory enough that the utterances would sound 

'natural', and a further tweaking would have been desirable. However, we 

could not proceed as this part of the project was still going on when the 

whole project was suspended for external reasons, provisionnally do we hope.

Now, as far as the tweaking process itself is concerned,  there was no 

modification of the transcriptions, as far as I know. The speech synthesis 

specialists at the TTS company did carry the operation using their own 

(graphical) tools that allow to stretch/compress parts of the synthesised 

'speech' (thus effectively modifying pauses and rythm) and to modify the 

pitch of selected (di)phones (thus improving the syllabic stress and the 

intonation, for example).

In my opinion, the process seemed quite promising, and work should have 

continued on the selected corpus to understand exactly what had to be done 

and then maybe try to devise an automatisable procedure that would allow 

the whole corpus to be first batch-tweaked (probably effectively modifying 

the transcriptions) to a state where only minor hand-tweaking should be 

applied to a reduced number of entries.


--
__________________________________
Thierry van Steenberghe
Bruxelles / Belgium
mailto:100342.254@compuserve.com
__________________________________



From: "Michael S. Hart" 
Subject: Re: 13.0555 Macaulay quotation
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 918 (918)


On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Humanist Discussion Group wrote:
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Scare me to death about my search engine!

I did a number of searches before I realized"

The word "Newspapers" appears in the table of contents for Chapter III,

but the quote below starts with the mention of "newsletters". . . .

But the header "Newspapers" does not appear IN Chapter III, only in

the table of contents. . .and the quote is not the first part of

Chapter III. . .made me wonder if my search engine had totally lost it,

until I started searching for portions of the quotation.

Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!!

Michael S. Hart



Project Gutenberg

"Ask Dr. Internet"

Executive Director

Internet User ~#100
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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: searching by colour
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 919 (919)


A colleague here at King's has alerted me to a brilliant innovation in

bibliographic referencing recently put into practice at the library of the

New England School of Law. Apparently, so many people were asking for books

of which they only could remember the colour that the Library devised an

index to help. See and search for yourself, at

<http://38.232.116.10/screens/well_its_red.html>.

Yours,

WM

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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: Tim Crawford 
Subject: Fwd: Revised "MUSIC IR 2000 announcement"
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 920 (920)

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From: "Tarvers, Josephine K." 
Subject: RE: 13.0557 games, learning and teaching
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:28:10 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 921 (921)


Dear Colleagues,

Being new to this group, I don't know if I'm repeating well-known

information or not, but Janet Murray does talk about how we become familiar

with, socialized to, and immersed in role-playing games in her book _Hamlet

on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace_ (Free Press, 1997).

Apropos of what Mary Dee Harris mentioned, Murray talks particularly about

how female roles can be created, how the scripts for these roles can unleash

or constrain desire--and therefore why they are powerful. The chapters on

"Immersion" and "Agency" seem particularly suited to the current thread of

discussion.

FWIW,

Jo

------------

Jo Koster Tarvers, Ph.D.

Department of English

Winthrop University

Rock Hill, SC 29733-0001

(803) 323-4557; fax (803) 323-4837

tarversj@winthrop.edu 

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/tarversj

<http://faculty.winthrop.edu/tarversj>

"The only things certain in life are death and taxes; too bad they don't

come in that order."--Broom Hilda



From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: 13.0554 Come out to play?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:29:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 922 (922)


Dear Colleagues:

Willard has pointed out under this topic that games would raise the

question about how we know what we think we know, and that there are two

questions: 1. Can we reach the Sega-generation effectively through

games?   If so, what is to be considered?  2. Who is doing this already and

doing it well?

I have located the online conference which Doctorow Consultants contributed

to: TCC 2000, Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, April

12-14, at <http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu>http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu.  I

mentioned this earlier under the same topic.  Our presentation, "Internet

Flashcards: Communication and Access," by Osher Doctorow, Marleen Doctorow

[mispelled by the internet (odd !) as Marlene], and Sam Hopper, details

some of the work on a type of game situation that Doctorow Consultants have

been working on.  Colleagues are urged to access that presentation, and if

they have trouble downloading it without passwords or whatever, I'll try

see what I can do.

I can only touch the boundaries of the subject here, especially with regard

to answering the questions above.  However, I have thought of an analogy

which I like very much.  Suppose that you are trying to teach student S to

play the violin (or piano, for those so inclined).  If you teach S to play

the violin by practicing concerto grosso's  or sympthonies or operas, you

will usually fail.  The reason is not that practice and complex problems

and active games are bad, but that you forgot to teach S how to move S's

fingers and hands on the violin or piano before going on to the harder

things.  This seems so elementary as to be almost trivial.

Yet we in universities and lower schools have been assigning students

garage-fulls of homework, challenging problems, and even full blown

projects to work on as a group or individually, in almost every

subject.  We compromise and make some of these problems relatively easy,

but if we eliminate the students who cheat, who ask friends for answers,

who ask parents and tutors for answers, who find answers on the internet

and in libraries without having the faintest idea what the answers mean,

there is almost nobody left (well, maybe the children of a few instructors

and one or two Einsteins).   We attempt to create SYMPHONY or CONCERTO

GROSSO GAMES.   We should be attempting to create FINGER/HAND EXERCISE

GAMES, or in most subjects DEFINITION/THEOREM/THEORY/PRINCIPLE GAMES.  Only

AFTER students have mastered the latter games should we ask them to move on

to symphony games, even if it takes us an extra term or two in every subject.

Internet flash cards make learning definitions, theorems, theory,

principles, axioms relatively painless, and they can be used in a somewhat

gamelike context, but when the bottom line is reached, there is no

substitute for the student actually reading and learning the flash cards on

the internet, which is hard work that does not involve fun at most

points.  Fun can come later, in symphonies.  There is a point, hopefully

early enough in a child's development, where the parent must decide whether

to almost literally sit on the child or not to get the child to do the work

of learning the flash cards corresponding to finger/hand exercises.   They

might find that they have already got a child on their hands who will not

tolerate the frustration of doing this.  The parent must then decide

whether to get therapeutic help or not, and by this I literally mean

psychology, educational therapy, or even hypnosis.   I would ask parents a

question (and instructors are parents too, quite often): would you rather

have your child grow up uneducated (poorly educated) or as a last resort

hypnotized?  Marleen would phrase this more mildly, but I think that if you

cannot commit yourself to hypnotize your child in order to focus their

concentration and eliminate distractions from their friends and develop

good study habits and read flash cards, then you are in big trouble.   If

parents cannot answer this question, then games will not help to reach

children.  If parents answer "yes," then after the students learn their

flash cards, their hand/finger exercises, they can go on to games more

reminiscent of concerto grossos and symphonies.  This is what Doctorow

Consultants has been working on.

Cheers

Osher



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Colloquium at King's College London 13/5/00
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:26:53 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 923 (923)


Reminder notice

PLEASE POST / CIRCULATE

                      Humanities computing:

            formal methods, experimental practice

Presenters: Tito Orlandi (Rome), Harry Collins (Cardiff), Hasok Chang

(University College London), Jerome McGann (Virginia) and John Unsworth

(Virginia)

                 King's College London

                 Saturday, 13 May 2000

                 Blackwell Room, Department of Music

                 Strand

                 London WC2R 2 LS

This one-day colloquium centres on the question of how we might best

conceptualise the application of computing to the humanities. Because, as

in the sciences, computing humanists use equipment to study data, the

colloquium asks where among the sciences we might look for the most helpful

models. Is humanities computing more like a theoretical or an experimental

science?

For more information, including registration, see :

<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/seminar/99-00/seminar_hc.html>

-----

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King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS / U.K. /

voice: +44 (0)171 848-2784 /  fax: +44 (0)171 848-2980 /

ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/

maui gratias agere



From: Michael Fraser 
Subject: Don Fowler's Memorial Meeting, 6 May
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 21:27:34 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 924 (924)


This is a reminder that Don Fowler's memorial meeting will take place on

Saturday 6 May 2000, 2.30pm at the Examination Schools, High Street,

Oxford. Refreshments will be served in Jesus College afterwards. All are

warmly invited to attend.

The Don Fowler Memorial Fund, instituted in order to fund an annual

lecture on 'New Approches to Latin Literature', is still open for

contributions of any amount. Donations may be sent to the Estates Bursar,

Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW (made payable to 'Jesus College, Oxford')

or, if within North America, to Mr John R. Price, Chairman, Americans for

Oxford, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (indicating that the

donation is for Jesus College Oxford - the Don Fowler Memorial Fund).

I am happy to pass on any enquiries about the Meeting or the Fund.

Michael Fraser

mike.fraser@oucs.ox.ac.uk



From: "Malcolm Hayward, English, IUP, Indiana PA 15705"
Subject: GEMCS Call: Deadline Extended to May 15: One GREAT Conference
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 925 (925)

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From: Geoffrey Rockwell 
Subject: Call for Papers
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 926 (926)


Dear all,

I am sending this on behalf of my colleagues.

Geoffrey Rockwell

_____________

Proposal for a special edition of the journal TEXT Technology:

"Exploring 'Webtextuality:'  What Makes the World Wide Web a Unique Textual

Object?"

As the World Wide Web has become the most prevalent form of digital

publication and expression over the past five years, the question "What is

a World Wide Web text?" has become proportionately problematic. TEXT

Technology is, therefore, interested in publishing an interdisciplinary

consideration of the present meanings and problems associated with

"webtextuality" in a special issue dedicated to this matter.

In particular, TEXT Technology hopes to receive articles that attempt to

define webtextuality by placing it in dialogue with other forms of

electronic and traditional text production and analysis.

Each submission should in some way address the unique ways

that the World Wide Web is used to create, analyze, store or translate

texts and meaning. Essays should also specifically address the ways that

new textual forms made available by the World Wide Web modify, challenge,

or integrate versions of "traditional" and electronic text types

including, but not limited to, verbal texts, visual texts, animation and

oral/aural texts.

Interested authors--both academic and professional--should submit 2-page

abstracts by May 15th. Completed manuscripts are due September 15th.

Please direct all correspondence regarding this special edition to:

Sean Williams, Contributing Editor

sean@clemson.edu

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dr. Sean D. Williams sean@clemson.edu

Department of English

Clemson University 864/656-6411



From: "P. T. Rourke" 
Subject: Re: 13.0564 have we been had?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 10:27:47 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 927 (927)


Well, actually, the perpetrator went to so much work to make it believable

(I counted a couple of hundred entries; it looks like the values for the

ISBN field have been replaced with color information) that the hoax is in

effect a functioning demonstration.  I don't know library cataloguing

systems well enough, but if one could add a color field to the physical

description section (where size and page numbers are listed), one could do

this.  The question is whether it would be worth doing.

All in all, a pretty constructive hoax if you ask me.

Patrick Rourke

Massachusetts (nothing to do with NE School of Law or the hoax under

examination)
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From: Patricia Galloway 
Subject: Re: 13.0564 have we been had?
Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 10:28:20 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 928 (928)


I have to say that the hoax may have been a very good idea--our

librarians here, with a small and very focused collection, while

entertained and not taking it seriously as something we could do,

nevertheless could see the utility of such a search possibility,

particularly when combined with a fragmentary title and particularly for

our largely lay public constituency. It may be that only academics find

such confusion before the deluge of material available funny enough to

make a joke of it.

Pat Galloway


--
Patricia Galloway
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
P.O. Box 571, Jackson, MS 39205-0571
voice 601-359-6863



From: Ask the Philosopher 
Subject: Re: 13.0554 come out to play?
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 929 (929)


[Questions quoted below. --WM]

Answers:

1.Yes.

2. The SIM line of games, i.e. Sim City, Sim Ant, Sim

Civilization, Sim Family...and so on...

Here is their web site:

http://www.simcity.com/home.shtml

However, I think the first question should be

rephrased:

how can the digital generation reach us?  They know

all about how to mine the internet for information

resources, they quickly pick up computer

languages--html, javascript, etc, etc.. and they have

no fear of making and learning from mistakes.

How can they get across to us linear, bit-by-bit

learners and thinkers with our fear of making silly

errors?

Sheldon Richmond

--- Humanist Discussion Group

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: where meaning is
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 930 (930)


Simon Goldhill, in his recent article "Wipe your glosses" (in Glenn Most's

Commentary / Kommentare), notes that the form of a commentary implies a

theory of language, in particular addressing the question of where meaning

lies. I would suppose from his excellent book, Artificial Experts: Social

Knowledge and Intelligent Machines (MIT 1990) that Harry Collins would

argue for the "social embeddedness" of meaning, as he does for knowledge. I

recall, when I was a (thoroughly) pre-pubescent lad, being scolded by an

exceedingly repressed and repressive aunt for sitting with my female

cousin, a year older than myself, in the same chair. We had been buddies

since babyhood. The aunt said only, "you shouldn't do that!", and I felt

that I had been burnt with acid -- an immediate, vividly physical reaction.

The question of how I got her meaning, or at least its emotional vitriol,

has puzzled me ever since. I keep swatting away pat answers, and when I do

text-analysis essentially the same question returns to haunt me. What

theory of language would help us?

Social embeddedness would seem to lead outward from "knowledge bases" and

other constructed "frames" (to use the AI term) to computer-mediated

communication -- the tutorial/seminar writ large and widely distributed.

Among the interesting experiments in online publishing these days are those

which exploit the mutability of an e-publication to introduce degrees of

interactiveness. The channel from expert to colleagues (and to the wider

public) becomes two-way. Shaping the result so that the effect is

constructive is, of course, a major problem, but we do seem to have the

beginnings of a means to tap into socially-embedded meaning as never before.

Making coffee sometimes will lead to things other than coffee, such as the

above train of thought, and now I go downstairs to get the second cup.

Comments would be most welcome, even those that point to the wreckage of

said train on rocks below, but I'd be most glad for ideas on the

implications CMC might have in the design of our analytic tools.

Yours,

WM

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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London

voice: +44 (0)20 7848 2784 fax: +44 (0)20 7848 5081

 <http://ilex.cc.kcl.ac.uk/wlm/>

maui gratias agere



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X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 931 (931)

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From: "Norman D. Hinton" 
Subject: Re: 13.0569 being had, liking it, but an impractical idea
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 08:12:05 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 933 (933)


Having a list of books by color reminds me of one of my graduate

teachers, Ruth Wallerstein.  Professor Wallerstein had an encyclopedic

memory -- except for authors and titles.  And she didn't like hauling

her note cards to lectures.  So it was quite normal, in Miss

Wallerstein's class, to hear her say "There's a recent book on John

Donne that's absolutely central to this discussion, and you'll need to

consult it for just about any paper you want to write for this course

It's blue and somewhere near the top shelf...."

Librarians' dislike of this had nothing whatever to do with her

teaching.  And I don't see that it would take more than one keypress to

enter the information if there's a slot for color in the DB.



From: "P. T. Rourke" 
Subject: Being had: Color catalogue not that impractical
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 08:12:59 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 934 (934)

[deleted quotation]
This is a good argument.  One would have to have a different catalogue entry

for each copy a library has of a given book, with the color information

indicated for each (of course, libraries are supposed to have different

catalogue entries for each edition, aren't they?).  It's also logistically

difficult to achieve - one would in effect have to catalogue each book

again.  Perhaps one could have the circulation desk enter color information

for each book as it is checked out, and the color database would be

populated gradually.
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Certainly color blind patrons simply would not use the color information in

the catalogue, as those who can't decode OCLC numbers mean don't use them.

Certainly no one is so foolish as to imagine that a color catalog could be

anything but an additional resource, supplemental to all the other resources

and catalogs available to patrons.  So I don't see that such a scheme would

create any problems for color-blind patrons that they don't already have.

I also don't see that questions about red books that aren't really red, or

the like, would be any different from questions about books for which the

patron provides the wrong title or author, etc.  If the "red book that's

really not" doesn't show up in a subject search cross-referenced by color,

then that's that.  The "it's red" question isn't enough, it would have to be

"it's red, and about torts reform" which should give almost the same

narrowness to a search as "it's by Davis, and about torts reform."  Such a

catalogue would provide an additional solution, not an additional problem.

Patrick Rourke

Massachusetts



From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: how people remember things
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 08:13:30 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 935 (935)


I would suppose that research has been done into how people actually

remember things and so I wonder, in the faked but useful light of the

recall-by-colour scheme, how much of that might now be relevant to the

design of automated systems. I'd suppose further that work on the "art of

memory" might be relevant too.

Spatial memory has always, I would guess, been central to those who use an

open-stacks library (including their own). Few have the keen spatial memory

of a now retired friend, professor of Chinese and Mongolian at Toronto, who

remembered where even the thinnest pamphlets were in his office library by

their exact location, through an immediate and quite physical sense, but

we've all depended on that kind of memory to some degree. As we all know

too, location on the page is a common way of recalling a passage within a

book. Sometimes I'm helped by the book's own physical "memory" -- the

tendency of a book that's been opened to a particular place to fall open to

that place again. Colour, yes, too, as well as the thickness of the book

and other visual cues help me find it sometimes.

What particularly intrigues me are those times when I cannot say, even

silently to myself, what the characteristics of the book I am remembering

are, yet I know with certainty that there's a particular book I need, and

its particularity is defined by a strong yet inarticulate sense. Passages

trigger associations, these spread, a sense develops, perhaps?

A kind of memory record I've found very useful is the one implemented by

amazon.com, the list of those items which others who bought the current

item also have bought. The list can help one get a grip on subject- or

style-relations; I've used it with CDs to develop my musical interests in

particular directions. The mechanism is, I'd suppose, a simple one, and

could be implemented by libraries -- "Those who borrowed this book also

borrowed...". Has anyone tried such a thing? The other, sometimes spooky

mechanism amazon.com uses, the list of recommended items based on your own

buying habits, could also easily be implemented for libraries. New things

we can do with computerised records.

Yours,

WM

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From: Willard McCarty 
Subject: Literature and Visual Technologies
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 936 (936)


            Literature and Visual Technologies

An international conference at St John's College Oxford

18-19 September 2000

For over a century, literature has been assailed by an explosion of visual

media, from the stereotype and the zooprixiscope, through cinema and

television, to contemporary digital innovations. How has literature adapted

to this century of spectacle? To what extent are modernism and

postmodernism formal and stylistic reactions to the challenges posed by

these new technologies of the visible?

Keynote speakers: Colin MacCabe, Annette Mitchelson and Laura Marcus.

Please send 250-word abstracts to Dr Julian Murphet, St John's College,

Oxford OX1 3JP by 30 May. Informal enquiries to katy.mullin@btinternet.com

or lydia.rainford@hertford.ox.ac.uk.

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From: Patricia Galloway 
Subject: Re: 13.0571 colour catalogue & arts of memory
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 06:32:16 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 937 (937)


It might be worth considering the items that work in memory in terms of

evolutionary history--i.e., the fact that the olfactory sense is

supposed to be the most "ancient" (exploited by Proust as a metaphor for

deep memory); surely in our history as barely bipedal hunters color and

spatiality were important long before words were...

Pat Galloway


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From: "Osher Doctorow" 
Subject: Re: 13.0571 colour catalogue & arts of memory
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 06:33:17 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 938 (938)

From: Osher Doctorow, osher@ix.netcom.com, May 2, 2000, 6:15AM
Dear Colleagues:
There are so many ideas involved in your writings that I can only refer to
one of them, Willard's comments.
I find books in the UCLA Engineering-Math Library by some sort of sixth
sense or by semi-semi-ordinary methods, depending on how hard it is to find
the book and how important it is to me to find it.  I would include color
under the semi-ordinary methods.
I'll have to think about how to describe the sixth sense.  More later, I
hope.
Cheers
Osher



From: martin kesselman 
Subject: Rutgers opening
Date: 
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 939 (939)


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From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Games and Modularity
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 06:37:07 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 940 (940)


The intrinsic reward of graduation to various levels is an aspect of video

and computer games which be adpoted to many pedagogical situations. One

can imagine a game that helps with Latin drill. The game can render

feedback on progress through a route traced on map, say from Gaul to

Rome. Alternatively, one's progress in throught declensions and

conjugations can be reflected in the erection of say Hadrian's wall.

With open source code, the very building of such an interface becomes a

game. Each generation of Latinists and programers can contribute

enhancements and extensions.

Of course the institutional incentive may not be present to encourage such

modularity.

Certain colleagues practice a more modest sense of playfulness by

embedding comments in HTML files to be seen only by those with enough wit

to view the source. Others instill an appreciation for detail by purposely

sprinkling their file names with the numeral zero and the letter o. Others

introduce at least one faulty link in a listing of resources just to see

if their students at least activate the link (if not consult the

resource). Another presents Web materials with certain sections having

text and background set to the same colour and hence viewable only by

accessing the source, viewing with a text-only browser or highlighting the

section with the cursor. Like the above example, all of these operate on

the principle of gratifing a learner's sense of accomplishment -- little

bursts of eureka.

In a sense planning a good game approach to the electronic medium is like

lecturing with notecards that can be pulled magically from any pocket. The

old roll top desk with its many compartments is also another good metaphor

to keep in mind. However whatever the way one partitions the mental space

of the pedagogical experience, a place for the show and tell is essential

for at some abstract level all games are about performing actions and

about stories nattering about the quality of the performance.

There are games that are played solitaire but they too have their social

value.


--
Francois Lachance


From: Wendell Piez 
Subject: Re: 13.0557 games, learning and teaching
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 06:37:55 +0100
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 941 (941)

Willard and HUMANISTS:
Mary Dee's post prompts me to come out of the closet. I must be that rare
creature: one of the last to learn to write on a typewriter; one of the
first to play RPGs (role-playing games). I started in 1977, not long after
the first edition of TSR's Dungeons and Dragons was published (in a small
boxed set with those funny plastic polyhedral dice), and designed and
played fiercely for three years.
Things I learned as a role-playing gamer:
* The rules are critical to the modeling. The modeling is critical to what
we called "realism" (the achievement of transparency in the medium; the
suspension of disbelief). But if the narrative is compelling enough, any
rules will do.
* There are always two discussions. 1: the game play ("Blast him with that
fireball?") 2: the meta-game play ("Do fireballs do double damage against
Ice Giants?") Early on, endless time and effort was spent analyzing and
hassling over the rules. This itself was critically important, possibly the
main point of the practice -- we were learning, not just to inhabit a
model, but how to amend it gracefully. Too complex a model (a set of rules)
and the meta-discussion become all-consuming, the thing came crashing down
.... graph paper and cold tea. Too simple a model, and the game failed to
engage. The intricacies were part of the challenge. At best, the
complexities and nuances emerged from the application of simple principles
consistently observed.
* The illusion of freedom is more important to a player than freedom
itself. A good DM [Dungeon Master] surrounds the players with situations
where their decisions actually have consequences (usually dire), and yet
shelters them by bringing everything along a central track to final victory
or defeat -- which of them it is, a direct consequence of earlier choices.
Suspense is a balance achieved within that context, between action and
doubt. A good DM is willing to be surprised, but seems never to be. The
critical thing is not the rules, but the implicit contract underneath them.
The best rule we ever made was "the players do not have a right to know all
the rules of play. That's the DM's job" (that cut out a great deal of
ungamely haggling). Having a DM capable of stepping up fairly to that
responsibility, being interested yet above it all, was part of the idea.
* But the biggest lessons are outside the game.
Although I wrote some of my first computer programs in support of this
activity (and it was very clear to me, even writing in BASIC on a system
with 4K RAM, that the two emerged from and led back into the same
imaginative space) -- I don't think this is about technology, except in the
deeper sense that any discipline is a technology. It most assuredly has to
do with learning and teaching: but I'll leave you to ponder that (as I know
you will).
Regards,
Wendell
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From: Gary Chapman 
Subject: Chapman: shortage of skilled teachers
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 09:38:27 -0600
X-Humanist: Vol. 13 Num. 942 (942)


Reply-to:      gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu

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DIGITAL NATION

Monday, May 1, 2000

Problem of Technology Gap Starts With Shortage of Skilled Teachers

By Gary Chapman

Copyright 2000, The Los Angeles Times, All Rights Reserved

President Clinton has put the "digital divide" at the top of his deck

this past month, pushing the issue into headlines and editorials all

over the country. But there is still a great deal of confusion,

contradiction and muddled thinking in how politicians and the

technology industry are talking about bringing more Americans into the

"new economy."

The president convened a White House summit on the new economy in

April that was attended by 125 national leaders and experts. He

followed that with his national digital-divide tour. He visited both

East Palo Alto, the persistent and by-now-familiar symbol of the

digital divide, and a Navajo Indian reservation. Then he urged

executives at an industry convention in Chicago to do something about

the technology gap.

Clinton announced $2.25 billion in proposed federal programs and tax

breaks to expand technology access and skills in low-income

communities. A dozen or so high-tech companies pledged an additional

$200 million in programs aimed at employing more minorities, women and

disabled workers.

The White House has tied the issue of the digital divide to the

high-tech industry's growing anxiety about the nationwide shortage of

skilled technology workers. In East Palo Alto, the president held up a

copy of a local newspaper's classified ads section and said there were

10,000 jobs in it that could be filled by local residents if they had

the right training.

This is a predictable, if limited, approach to the problem of the

digital divide. It helps focus the technology industry's attention by

attempting to link the industry's No. 1 problem -- the shortage of

workers and the resultant high salaries for technical talent -- to the

employment deficits in low-income neighborhoods.

In other words, the president is trying to show an otherwise

preoccupied industry that its self-interest is attached to closing the

digital divide.

But both the White House and the technology industry need to grapple

with some significant holes in their thinking.

Before we can start to turn out more skilled technology workers, for

example, we need more people who can train those workers.

Barbara Simons, president of the Assn. for Computing Machinery, told

the participants at the White House summit last month that when

teachers acquire advanced technology training, they often leave

teaching for higher-paying jobs in the industry itself. This was

confirmed recently in a report by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley

organization.

"Systems administrators can get starting salaries of $80,000 per year

in the valley now," Simons said. "And many of these people have no

degree in computer science." That figure is often double or more the

salary of public school teachers, and there's far more money to be

made after just a few years in the private sector.

The lack of qualified teachers in high-tech subjects is reaching

crisis proportions in schools, from K-12 to top-tier university

research programs. Some experts refer to this as the "seed corn"

problem. That is, if we eat our seed corn -- meaning the people who

will train the future generation of technologists -- we may stifle

economic growth altogether.

There are many obstacles to a solution. Teachers unions, for example,

have opposed salary differentials for teachers in public schools. But

the most fundamental obstacle is that most schools and universities

simply can't pay salaries competitive with the private sector.

This problem is compounded by the technology industry's campaign to

keep the Internet a tax-free zone. If e-commerce grows as expected and

remains tax-free, public revenues will decline and the prospect of

improving schools and raising teacher salaries will become even more

remote.

The technology industry is sending mixed signals about the kinds of

workers it needs. Top-level managers consistently say they want

workers with generic skills such as problem-solving, communication,

ability for teamwork and independent initiative.

But the classified ads tell a different story: There, employers say

they want people with specific technical skills and experience. The

employment ads are a blizzard of technical acronyms and jargon that

must be discouraging to young job-seekers.

Technical workers also know they are largely self-taught. Young

computer experts even complain that school programs get in the way of

what they need and want to know.

Judith Lambrecht, a business professor at the University of

Minnesota, agrees that most formal training programs are not very

helpful. "Students who just get the basics, and that's all, never

really link it to real-world problems. This is what people have when

they're self-taught," she said.

The best training programs get students into internships, real-world

exercises and problem-solving and foster students' ability to tinker

with software and hardware, she said.

But for most schools, there's an imperative pointing to "efficiency,

credits and serving lots of students at once," Lambrecht says. "That's

why teaching devolves into such systematic, mindless learning," she

says, exactly the opposite of what attracts or prepares students.

Finally, there's a spectacular gulf between how people learn

technology skills and the current enthusiasm for standardized tests.

Both Al Gore and George W. Bush have endorsed standardized tests for

school accountability. Bush has staked his reputation for educational

improvement in Texas on the state's public school exam.

But there is little or no connection between such tests and acquiring

technology skills. Indeed, some Texas schools have de-emphasized

computer use because the technology is a distraction from preparing

their students for the state test.

Lambrecht says the best practices for technology training and

standardized testing "are diametrically opposed."

"It's hard to do project-based learning and get predictable

outcomes," she says.

Standardized testing turns out students who are more or less the same,

shaped by the questions on the test, whereas the tech industry wants

innovators, tinkerers and people who think "outside the box."

Controversies about educational philosophies and approaches are not

new in the U.S. and probably will never go away. But it's certainly

time for the technology industry and politicians to get beyond empty,

uninformed and contradictory placebos and photo ops with poor people,

and to start to engage the hard problems we need to solve.

Gary Chapman is director of the 21st Century Project at the

University of Texas at Austin. He can be reached at

gary.chapman@mail.utexas.edu.

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